The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-30
BEHIND THE SCENES At
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Little STORES OF the Solons That
DO Not Get Into the Congress
sionaI Record.

Speaker clark is ruling on uel
cate point or presidential messag
is being read by the reading clerf
or anything is being said from tn
House rostrum that appears to b
interesting, a certain elderly con
gresham, big in stature, with
broad face filled with kindly lines
leaves his seat and stations himsel
very close to the reading clerk
desk and stands there solitary an'
conspicuous figure, holding to hi
right ear a short, round, lardrub
her contraption.
Again this elderly member mag
tie seen at his desk, wearing a wire
framework affair about his head
from which runs a tube TO little
box on top of the dest resembling
storage baueIy. With th latter
equipment he will watch a talking
colleague ana manifest every eNi-
eeuce Of being highly interested in
What is beint said, that is, i what
is being said really is OF nomen.
ror this parsi uarly elderly mem-
Der is not aroused by everything
that is said OF shouted in the Ma
tional House of Representatives.
THE stranger ia the Ellcry
whose curiosity may be awakened
either by the demeanor OF .>e old
gentleman or his unusual efforts
10 hear, will learn upon inquiry that
he Served in forty-two battles"
according to the congressto 1ai di-
rectory; that he enlisted April 16,
1851, as a private in the vo'VuteeF
army of the North and was nustei ]
ed out a brigadier general, October
S. 1865; that he is a lawyer, jour
rails. and scholar of seven aud sew
enty winters, and, ineident.F, that
he is Isaac R. Sherwood, democrat, |
of Toledo, Ohio.
There probably is no more stall
writ figure. physically and mental
Is smong the Northern democrats
in the House than this yeuerated, (
veteran of the Civil |
war who commanded his regiment I
ia all the fierce engagements OF the |
Atlantic campaign, and, more, who (
was made a brevet brigadier genelai |
ty President Lincoln in February,
1885, for long and faithful service
aud for gallantry especially in the
battles of Resaca, Franklin and
Nashville And he is naturally an
authority on Civil war history.
Eulogizes ForIner Enemy
his all leads up to the statement
that General Sherwood is as gaiIan
today as he was on Franklin
bloody field and also that he love
music and fine horses. The gen
erat drives "a pair of beauties, a
his bays, with their black points
are frequently called. In the mem
orial services held in the House the
other day in honor of the late Gen.
George Washington Gordon, distin-
guished son of the South and for
mer member of Congress from
Tennessee. the first speaker in those
services was General Sherwood
the man who met Gordon in more
than one hapless conflict, and who
Knew the measure of the dead Con-
federate full we'll. An eloquent pan
egyric, in which the yalor and the
hardihood of the Tennessecan was
praised without stint, was delivered
by General Sherwood In this ad-
dress, the following bit of blended
history and personal Renaissance
was given by the Ohioan, suggest
ing his love for music
There is a peculiarly about the
Civil war that attaches to no other
war, 1t was the only war in all
history where the soldiers on both
sides sang patriotic and heroic songs
on The march and around biyouac
fires AZ night During the whole
Of the war of the American Revolu-
ton, lasting seven years. there was
not r. patriotic song written. The
nearest they came to # was Yankee
Doodle" the words of which are
sfily and without patriotic import
but the music was adapted to this
fife and drum
In the war of 1912 there was no
patriotic song written or sung
by our soldiers, The Star Spanglet
Banner by Francis Scott Key, il
1874, was written near the close o
the war He was on British man
o'-war and saw the bombardmen
of Fort Henry at night and say
through the night that our fla
was still there This grand Ma
tional anthem was set TO music an
first sung by Baltimore theate
The music OF The Star Spangle
Banner was from 'Auacreon
Heaven. d melody written by job
Stafford Smith Of London, Englan'
in 1873
Many Songs Composed,
But in our Civil war, on bot
sides OF the battle line, over 10
war SONGS were inspired and sur
by our soldiers One Of the gran
est lyrics Of the war was write
by James r. Randall OF Marylan
He was q stripping almost when