Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-20
A WOMAN ON A FARM.
How Alliance Congressman Clovers
Wife Has Saved His Fortune.
HE WASN'T MUCH OF 4 SUCCESS
And Took to Calamity Howling While She
Looked After tho Debts.
SHE RAISED $4,000 IN MORTGAGES


WINFIELD, KAN, March 18.-f the
Honorable B. h. Glover succeeds in getting
reelected to Congress he will find at tho
close of his second term that the 5000
mortgage on his /, ,600-acre farm in Cowley
county has been cancelled and comforta-
BILE bank account to his credit His salary
as Congressman will not do it, but the rep
resentative he left behind him in the per-
son of Mrs Glover is responsible for the
happy change in the financial situation of
the erstwhile calamity howier.
Mrs Clover at the present time is about
the most widely-talked-of woman in the
State of Kansas She is the pet Of the
Third Congressional district, and If uni
versal suffrage comes with the other politi-
cal changes in this State she will certainly
be urged for the Gubernatorial chair. Con-
gresham Glover came to Kansas in the
spring of 1871 and settled in Cowley
county. In the early days he proved him
self an expert land grabber, and succeeded
in freezing out his neighbors until he has
secured some 1000 acres Of the best land in
Kansas.
Wholesale Farming 1t . Loss.
Then Mr.. Glover began farming on large
scale and made dismal failure of the ven-
ture. His magnificent farm went to rack,
the plows and reapers were left to make
ropsting places for the birds and the
elements played sad havoc with them.
Neighbors Of the Congressman even declared
that his corn cribs were so poorly con-
structed that the rain beat down and ruined
his crop before the expected rise in the mar
ket ever came and everything about the old
homestead was going to the dogs When
two of his grown sons left for Oklahoma af-
fairs were in such . bad way that Mr..
Glover concluded that the iniquitous Legis-
lature was responsible for it all and he left
the Republican party and joined the ALI
ance. He was elected President Of this Or
ganization. but still continued to manage
the farm, which had been plastered with
mortgages for all it would stand.
Mrs Clover up to this time had contented
herself With looking after the chickens and
chickens and the best garden in the country,
but, although he appeared industrious
enough, the farm itself would not meet the
interest on the mortgages, and the taxes. It
was at this time that the Cowley county
farmer received the Alliance nomination for
Congress.
She Would Do tho Farming.
His wife encouraged his ambition and an
nounced her willingness to look after it
'sYou can take il" said MI. Glover, "and
do the best you know how. IT things get
very much worse we will let them foreclose
and We will move to town"
Mrs Glover does not look like farmers
wife. She is always nattily dressed, has a
much better education than her husband and
is q leader in the society Of her neighbor-
hood. Mrs. Glover is . tride taller than her
husband He is portly, she is spare. Mr..
Glover is q slow thinker and slow talker.
Mrs. Glover thinks quick and acts promptly.
When Mr. Glover entered upon his canvass
the crops were all in the ground hut had not
been cultivated With the assistance of the
younger son, who remained at home, and
two hired hands, Mrs Clover undertook to
and harvest the crop. The wheat
yield and tho corn crop were fair and 1t was
carefully harvested and housed
Out OF Debt In Another Year.
Mrs. Glover expended her surplus in i'm
proving the farm and building outhouses for
the agricultural implements. It was the
of the farm in 1891 that told on
the financial standing of the Clovers Mrs.
Glover planted the crops and cultivated
them, harvested and sold them. In addition
to paying the taxes and interest on the
Mrs. Clover paid all the mort
gage Indebtedness except 81, 900, which bore
an easy rate of interest, and which can easily
be paid within anything like successful
crop year in 1892
Mrs. Glover did not wish to accompany
her husband to Washington. She confded
to one of her neighbors that MI. Glover had
sent her s, 900 out of his salary, which had
been applied to meeting their Indebtedness
Mrs Clover never asks for credit with the
merchants of this town, and has settled bills
Of long standing. In her purchases she is
hardly what the merchants call q 'shrewd
trader" 3" as she does not haggle over prices
or question the veracity of the store clerks.