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down to As. Peace reigned. It was an armed
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peace, so to speak.
other jobs came his way and before he
went to college Clark had seen a good deal
of unprogressve farming and something of
store Clerking. AS a very little fellow he had
been Knocked about from pillar to post,
mothcress. Later, on this farm and that he
had known what II to get up in the
night to begin his days work, finishing his
chores late the next night and often going
hungry to bed. Still later he took things
into his own hands. One of the things he
did to change his name James Beau
champ Clark he was chrstened. but when
he n youth his letters addressed to j. e.
Clark sometimes went astray. So he thought
the matter over and finally decided on Champ
Clark.
When Clark went to Bethany College in
West Virginia he walked. His baggage was
not heavy nor his purse. He had fifty dollars
and no time to earn more. lie had already
been n student at Pennsylvania, and when
he arrived at Bethany he thought he had
better take the junior and senior years
in one to save time and money. He did, and
lived corn beef and cabbage most of
the winter. He had other things to eat
but the point is that he not only worked
his way through college, but conducted his
own commissary and kitchen. He won such
at % he president of Marshall College,
the State Normal School at Huntingdon, w.
Va.-the youngest college president in the
country. Today there are people who de-
scribe him as the most scholarly and widest
read man in public lfe-which is saying n
great deal and maybe too much.
Missouri Forever
BY and by he went to the Cincinnati Law
School and graduated dead broke. The dead
broke part of it was no fault of his for
Clark was always helping somebody else
along and remembering people who, though
poor had been kind to him in his boyhood
and youth. He went to Kansas, where he
earned $25 by writing a speech for another
man, and with this money moved on to Mis-
souri, There he found David A. Ball. a bril-
liant lawyer, who looked the giant over and
said: CLARK, I've got a little law practice,
not much but you can have n share of it,
Let's join forces. You can do the fighting for
the firm, while I'll furnish the experience"
AS time went on he gained experience both
in law and in politics. He first went to Con-
gress in 1898. In 1904 he was permanent
chairman Of the Democratic National Con-
vention held in st. Louis.
Perhaps the best known story he has ever
told was related for the benefit of a young
hepuDllcan VINO had been peStering the Mis-
souri, Congressman with an inhnitude OF
questions. Champ got up and said:
There a young Eastern fellow who
went out West for the sport of the thing.
lie rambled up and down through the coun-
try until he came to a lonesome camp I'm a
mountain range. He was after sport and he
told the fellows he found there what ne
wanted He didn't want any tame sort of
sport-what he wanted was grizzly bear
He asked If there any such game in that
neck of the woods The miners told him that
grizzlies were plentiful that they came If
you whisted for them. The next morning
the young man went about two miles from
camp looking for grizzly. Two days later
the miners found his body and brought IL in
They buried 1t and wrote the headstone:
He whisted for a grizzly and a grizzly
came"
Outside his love for his family, his chief
affection is for Missouri. once in Kansas
he was taken sick. The doctors said he had
only bare chance of pulling through. IAN
right" said Clark, put me on a train and
start me back for Missouri. Going back
there ought to cure any man who has a
chance to live" Clark was on his feet again
in a few days.