Evening star., 1923-10-28
Capital Sidelights
By WILL r. KESNEDY.

u BY WILL r. KENNEDY.
How he secured an overwhelming
| majority In a mining camp In Nc
Dowell county, w. Va. where the
population was 80 per cent colored.
ana where the democrats usually had
a hard time finding enough demo-
cratic voters to serve as election
officers. is told by Representative T.
J. Lilly, an incoming democrat from
Hinton, w. Va. During the cam
paign last fall. when he reached the
camp the colored people were holding
q revival meeting. When Lilly en-
tered the church the preacher In
vited him to make an address after
the religious services. His account
of what followed is:
u asked them what subject they
preferred for me to talk upon. They
| the colored people are terribly afraid
of the Ku Klux Klan, especially the
colored people who emigrate from
the south, SO ! made a. speech Of ten
| or fifteen minutes, putting In my time
critic 'xing the Klan: To my surprise
carried that precinct"
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The new senator from Nebraska.
Ralph 3. Howell, recalls that when
he was fourteen years old. his imag-
ination was fired by the idea of
! making money as a book salesman.
II had heard of a young man who
was putting himself through col
lege in this way" Senator Howell
says.
my ambition did not appeal
m IN fo hut he
close OF the next school year. when
was fifteen years old, through the
influence of my mother, he consented
to making a trial. I secured some
territory, about twenty miles away.
Past Century" by Attorney General
Devons. 1t was an interesting vol
ume and I had its incidents at my
tongues end.
my frst attempt was upon a
young miss about eighteen years OF
age, who was teaching at a country
school. She was evidently impressed
by my flowing descriptions and put
down her name for one volume. to be
delivered thirty days later. I remem-
Der this success quite intoxicated me
and ] felt very warm friendship
for the young lady. Encouraged by
the results Of my first effort, I work :
ed increasingly for the next two or
three weeks and sold some thirty
Though 1 thought myself successful.
1 had no desire to make book selling
business, as 1t was not to my
liking. Finally, the time came TO
deliver the books and / received two
First, the young school teacher
did not seem to remember me when
called, and. furthermore, she said
she didn't have any money and
couldn't take the book; at least. SO
q
sense of surprise and disappointment.
| but I reasoned that IL she did not
have the money, that was all there
was to it. The rest of the day /
called upon six other subscribers,
but only succeeded in delivering one
book.
That I was a detected boy that
night goes without saying. Upon
going to bed l tossed restlessly,
disturbed by a feeling OF failure.
But the next morning, as awoke,
l remember came to the conclusion
that had just got to make these
people take the books. so 1 promptly
started of to call or the school
teacher again, who received me with
stony stare. However, I was not
| morning until she dismissed school,
and then walked with her to her
boarding place. where the kindly
farmers wife invited me to stay for
dinner. and when the meal was over
got my money, which she had bor-
parting shot: You are the last book
agent ever need bother me-" As ]
look back over my career, l feel that
this apparently trfiing incident con-
events OF my life. At least. 1 have
never forgotten its lessons, and the
effect was magical even at that time,
for by some hook or crook I deliv-
cred all but FIVE OF those books. and
got the money"
While most everybody knows
that Massachusetts, furnished two
Presidents before these days Of CAL
vim Coolidge-John Adams, who
signed the Declaration of Independ-
ence and proposed George Washing.
ton for general of the American Army
and whose last act In Office was to
appoint John Marshall first Chief
Justice OF the Supreme Court Of the
! Adams, who was elected President
by the national House Of Representa-
tives. and who died in the Capitol
building-it is not as generally
known that Massachusetts, had an
within one vote of being President.
This was Abbott Lawrence. for whom
the city of Lawrence, Mass, was
named and who founded the Law
renee Scientific School in Cambridge.
In the whig convention which
named Zachary. Taylor as candidate
for President, the contesting candi-
dates for the vice presidential NOM
inatfon were Lawrence and Millard
Fillmore Of New York. Only one
vote separated these candidates.
Lawrence then withdrew, and after
the election of Taylor and Fillmore,
President Taylor died in Office, being
succeeded by Fillmore Lawrence
served for three years as United
States minister to Great Britain.
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Here is another rfree seed" story.
This one Is told by Representative
Frank Murphy of Steubenville. Ohio.
He received. a letter of appreciation
from q poor woman in a small min
ing town in his district. She said:
IF this government did nothing but
send out flower seeds in order that
their beautiful growth might cover
has not been established in vain.
Dishwashing is not half SO bad II
q few. posies look up at you and
SMILE" .....
This correspondent tells how she
got a sermon out Of a flower: 81
was as blue as the darkest navy. 1
walked out in the yard feeling like
nothing could make me smile again.
In my old. dirty cellar window, in
side the glass, miniature morning
glory had blossomed. 1t was as
clean and fresh and wholesome as
some carefully nurtured hothouse
plant, and just as glad that it was
alive. 1 thought If anything SO pure
and lovely could look happy and
preach sermon in that dirty win
dow, should be ashamed Of myself
to lament. So you see you may be
distributing flower sermons" .
Many members Of Congress who re-