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INTTPrSTIWI * w iv r v rrioji/voif of f&vr-SAS W~,y [BBTffj arms of old friends and have merely to take up the social threads where they dropped them be fore at the expiration of their official residence in the capital. .No senatorial election, it seems, could give a greater measure of satisfaction to such a large circle of people in Washington as that which re turned to congress the former governor of Colo rado, John Franklin Shafroth, who has held every office within tlie gift of the people of his. state. During itis congressional service some years ago Mr. and Mrs. Shafroth made a host of warm personal friends, who will hail their return with delight. Mrs. Shafroth is described by her friends ns a model mother, and, to bear out this asser tion, they point to > the three sturdy grown-up sons, all of whom idolize their parents. Mrs. Shafroth is a genuine home lover and a domestic genius, delighting in her home and all its details, especially in cookery, for she loves to try her hand at all sorts of new recipes and ex periments. She is an artist in the culinary line, but she is also a woman of varied accomplish ments and wide interests. She belongs to a number of'clubs in Denver, of which the Round Table lias perhaps held her membership the longwt, since she has been en rolled as an active member for more than nine teen years. This club meets every Friday morn ing and its members actually study. History, literature, the classics, philosophy and all of the ‘current topics of the day are embraced in their '-research. .No drones or inactive members are '•encouraged to remain. i Mrs. Shafroth was born and reared in Fayette, Tioward county, Mo., and, after completing her high school course became a student of and aft erward a graduate of the Howard Payne college of Fayette, Mo. For several years prior to her marriage she taught In the high school of her home town. Mr. Shafroth is also a native of Fayette. Mo., and their marriage occurred there. She is eligible to D. A. R. membership, through Virginia and Tennessee ancestry. like Mrs. Shafroth, Mrs. Ollie James is no stranger to Washington society, for she has spent several years at the capital during her husband’s congressional service. Mrs. Janies was Miss Ruth Thomas of Marion, Ky., the home town of Senator James, and was born at Franklin. Ky. She ts the daughter of a Methodist minister. Her earlier education was obtained in privato schools, after which she attended the Kentucky college, a co-educational institution, now out of existence. Her marriage to Senator James occurred about ten years ago, in December, at her home in Mar ion. Ky. Mis. Janies Is in every sense of the •word a thorough home lover. She belongs to no nor societies of any description and de votes practically all of her time to domestic life. Mrs. James is greatly Interested in charitable projects particularly those which dea'l with the sick and afflicted, and she hopes to engage in philanthropic work among the institutions of the capital. She is a woman whose life is well round ed out. for she does many things well and knows ■whereof she speaks with regard to a diversity of accomplishments of a practical as well as an or namental nature. She has made a study of scien tific homekeeping, could make her own dresses, if she chose, and, in fact, lias the science of house keeping reduced to an art. When asked about club work she exclaimed: “Not a one! Why, I don’t even play bridge! I suppose T am the only woman in Washington who has not learned to do so, but you really would not expect a minister’s daughter to be expert in that line, would you?" t Mrs James is also devoted to children and a close student of various movements in progress jj vi their welfare. She is an advocate of higher education for girls, but says that if she were plan ning the education of a girl she would assuredly advise a technical course in addition to the academic, if the girl had sufficient mental endow ment. to take it, thus supplying the knowledge to meet any emergency which liCn might unfold. The more varied tlie knowledge and training the better fitted the girl Is for domestic life, as well as for the social and business world. Mrs. Harry Lane, wife of the new senator from Oregon, has the distinction of being one of the few women of Washington who are registered voters. She is an enthusiastic suffragist, though in an unobtrusive way, and is particularly jubi lant over the fact that her home state has joined the baud which allows women the privilege of the ballot. » Mrs. Lane came to Washington as an absolute stranger, and Is becoming more and more delight ed with the city and its people as she gets better acquainted with them. She is a typical American home-maker; but, while the details of housekeep ing and the care of her family have absorbed the greater part of her life, she has always been deeply interested in the uplift and social welfaro of girls and women. Indeed,' it was the great advantages which woman suffrage hopes to con fer upon the working classes that first drew her attention to that movement. While never an active club member, Mrs. Lane has been much absorbed in club work as well as charitable work, and will in all probaßHfty take up some of it in the capital She is a woman whose life lias been devoted to worth-while pro jects. In her home city every movement that has had the betterment of women and children for its primal object has enjoyed her indorsement and support. And no little of the success which attended Dr. Lane’s occupancy of his varoius pub lic offices is due to his wife's interest and co operation. As proof of her success as wife and mother, her family are her stanchest admirers. Mrs. Lane was Miss Lola Bailey, and was born in Milwaukee, Ore., about six miles from Port land. She and Dr. were childhood sweet hearts, and w-ere married in Portland about thirty years ago. They have two grown daughters, one of whom. Mrs. N. Macbride, resides in New Orleans, while Miss Harriet is with her parents. She bids fffir to become very popular, particularly among the college girls of society. Being a “Tri Delta" she is already finding hosts of congenial fraternal spirits in Washington and Baltimore. Dr. Lane is classed as one of the ‘baby sen ators.” in addition to belonging to the same family as the secretary of the interior, he is a grandson of Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran on the presidential ticket with Breckenridge and who also wore a senatprial toga, besides being terri torial governor of Oregon and the delegate to congress. Dr. I-ane has filled the office of mayor of Port land and also that of superintendent of the state insane asylum. He succeeds Jonathan Bourne and shares the honors of the medical profession with Senator Gallinger, who for years has been tlie only doctor with a seat tn the upper house. The girlish wife of the successor to Joseph W. Bailey of Texas has the distinction of being the youngest of all of the wives in the senatorial circle. Though the very dignified and sedate mother of a lively little daughter of two years, Mrs. Morris Sheppard is but twenty-two years old. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. San derson of Texarkana, the home town of her hus hand, where she was born. Texarkana, as every one knows, is a dual township, as is expressed in its name. Mrs. Sheppard was born on the Arkan sas side. While she had always known her hus band, since he was a friend of her father, their romance had its beginuing in Washington while THE COCHRAN JOURNAL, COCHRAN, GEORGIA. -&'* '■*■* ' v - y ?*• ,? / / > "i. vl’ ' •< , ' Uj t- •' V« ' ‘ s OZj&Oir she was completing her studies in a seminary here. Her earlier education was obtained in the local schools at home, for the higher branches she en tered the Randolph Macon Woman’s College of Lynchburg, Va., where she spent two years, after which she came to the Washington seminary. Despite her extreme youth Mrs. Sheppard pos sesses a lengthy list of accomplishments. She is expert in fine needlework and hand embroidery, as her baby’s little garments bear positive testi mony. She is a pianist of no smali ability, and also a vocalist, planning to continue the study of voice culture in the future. She is also a con stant reader and a profound student of politics, which, she declares, she finds most fascinating. Her interest in political matters was naturally much enlarged In the senator’s recent campaign, during a goodly part of which she accompanied him. Besides being sufficiently Interested to investi gate the new methods advocated for improvement in homekeeping, pure food and home manage ment, Mrs. Sheppard has recently become a mem ber of the D. A. R. She is a member of the Con gressional club and also of the Democratic league.! Another senatorial hostess who is no stranger to Washington is Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, whose husband has been in congress lor the past fourteen years. Mrs. Ransdell comes of a distinguished southern family, and was Miss Olive Irene Poweil before her marriage, which occurred November 15, ISSS, at her birthplace. Lake Providence, La. She is a member of the D. A. R. through the records of her great-great-grandfather, Gen. Evan Shelby, and his son, Capt. Moses Shelby. Her grandfather. M. de Lafayette Shelby, fought in the battle of New Orleans in 1814 and five of his sons served through the Civil war. M. de Lafay ette Shelby was named for the famous French general by his intimate friend and companion, Capt. Moses Shelby, one of the neroes of Kings Mountain. She is an ardent advocate of univer sal peace and a member of the D. A. R. interna tional peace arbitration committee of her native state. Mrs. William Howard Thompson of Kansas brings to Washington a personality which radiates the wholesome energy and animation of the west. She is virtually a stranger, though she has visited the capital before in her travels. Though protesting that she, has never been much of a "joiner," Mrs. Thompson has a rather generous collection of club organization member ships. Mrs. Thompson was Miss Bertha Felt, daughter of the lieutenant governor of Kansas. She was i born in Washawa, lowa, and was married almost out of high school, for she was graduated in June and married in August. SJjnee then Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have resided in Topeka and Gar den City, Kan. They have three children. Thel ma Bertha, aged eighteen; Wilbert Felt, aged fourteen, both of whom are at school in Topeka, and a baby boy of two years, William Howard! Jr., who is with his parents and who, with the little daughter of Senator Sheppard, is the young est of the senatorial children. HANDLING COLTS DURING HOT WEATHER IBy J M. BELL.) Try to be patient with your colt, Mr. Farmer. Remember that he is green —yes, as green a 3 the grass he eats so peacefully when you turn him out to graze, and the harness no longer chafes his soft young body. All farmers know that a four-year colt will stand more than a three-year old. Bone and muscle are better ma tured and generally of better size; therefore, he is better able to stand a day’s work. But when it comes to that no green, unbroken colt should be expected to do a full day's work in the team of well seasoned farm or road horses. So many good colts have been aged and made dull by this foolish habit of letting them run absolutely unbrok en into the spring when they are three or four years old, and then catching them and putting them at hard, steady work just as the busy season comes on, when time is precious, when the A Vigorous, Well-Developed One-Year- Old Colt—A Good Example for the Genera! Farmer to Raise. crops need work, when the flies are rampant, and when neither the mas ter’s nor the colt’s tempers are at their best. Imagine a farmer starting out to mow hay with a green or half-broken colt hitched alongside of a mule or a steady farm horse to a mowing ma chine, double row cultivator, corn planter, plow or harrow! All implements need a steady, well broken team and the same time a good driver, who in order to do his best ERADICATION OF MORNING GLORIES Cutting Tops Does Little Good and Plow Serves to Spread the Roots. On our lowland farms we find four varieties of morning glories. The field morning glory resembles the cult tivated kind, and unlike the bind-weed, grows only from the seed, so the only remedy is to prevent the seeding. The field bind-weed is a morning glory with small flowers and vine-like stems that entwine closely about any thing they reach. The numerous roots send out plants from every eye. These roots being spread by the plow or cultivator, form new plants, until in a short time the corn field is completely covered. They start so early in the spring that before the corn is large enougn to cultivate the rows are so hidden that they must be cleaned out with a hoe before cultivation is begun. Another variety called hedge bind weed, pea vine, morning glory has large funnel-shaped flowers and a more slender vine than the other va rieties. In the central states we find still another of the prolific pests. This is the wild sweet-potato or man-of-the earth vine. Its roots resemble in shape the cultivated sweet potato, but are much longer and penetrate far below the plowing depth's. Cutting the tops does little good, and cutting the roots only multiplies the number of vines, as all pieces of roots grow the same as the edible sweet po tato. The plow only serves as a means of spreading and transplanting the pieces of roots which grow new plants. Cov ering with salt or injecting sulphuric acid into the roots are as effective as any remedy for the weed, which, for tunately, is not so common as the oth er varieties of the morning glory. Hogs are very fond of the roots, and are a great help in clearing up badly infested ground. Plowing dur ing July and August prevents the plants from growing again in the same season, and will make them much less plentiful next year. Lambs also like the vines wonder fully well, and few will be left in the fall if they are turned on before the bind-weeds go to seed. A Promising Youngster. | work, has little time for else than quietly handling his team and imple ment at one and the same time. This man will not get much satis faction out of a day’s work if he has to worry with a green, restive colt, who, chafing at the unexpected misery of heavy work in hot weather, starts up a little too soon or not soon, enough, protests at having to walk in a straight line at a slow gait, etc. It is not possible that he will balk, kick or rear upon what might be con | sidered a very slight provocation, or . no provocation at al! to a broken mid dle-aged farm horse. In that section of Virginia known as : The Valley," famous for its notably | heavy draft, horses, and their rule is ■ to break these big colts at two years , old, never working them over half a i day at a time, and beginning the pro ! cess in the late winter and early ! spring. The first work to a wagon in a steady team and with a quiet teamster, , generally a white man who is used to ; the daily handling horses. The writer visited that section re cently and while the quest of a well known horse breeder, saw four full blooded Peroherons working to a ma nure spreader, a nine-year-old mare under the saddle, a three-year-old stal lion in the off lead and a young mare under the line. The average weight of these splen did horses was about 1,800 pounds each, but the remarkable part of the business was that these two young, vigorous stallions were working quiet ly with mares. Their teamster had them under perfect control, but they had been worked the same as the two-year-olds, and had become used to farm labor by degrees. Of course advice is cheap and farm ers get lots of it, and in the matter of working colts aud green horses in the summer time they have heard it all — fitting on the harness, scraping the col lars at niglit, washing off the shoul ders, and sparing the lash. I have only to say this, and I speak from experience: if the farmer does not go easy with the three and four year-olds at this season they will be old and sluggish before their time. Our experience with bind weeds is that spring plowing and persistent use of the cultivator only serve to spread the roots over greater areas. The lowlands where the bind-wed flourishes are also suitable for alfalfa. VVe find that between the cuttings of alfalfa the bind-weed has no opportu nity to seed, and in a few years a plant can hardly be found in an alfalfa field. The bind weed, when once establish ed in a field, is there to stay or put up a strenuous fight, and no half-way methods will accomplish anything in the way of getting rid of this pest. When plowing or cultivating through small spots of morning glory, it pays to clean the plow or cultivator of all roots to prevent the spreading of the growth of new plants. The use of the disk harrows and disk cultivators will help to prevent the spread of this pest. CHECK ROW CORN PLANTER ESSENTIAL if Seed Is Substantially Same Size Machine Will Drop Same Number of Kernels. tßy WALTER B. LEUTZ.) On all farms where the fields are of sufficient size the check row corn planter is almost a necessity. If the seed is substantially of the same size and shape the machine will drop pre cisely the same number of kernels to the hill. If on the other hand, the grain from the tips and butts of the ears is included the number of kernels in the hill will vary considerable. The distance between the hills and the number of plants to the hill will vary more or less according to the va riety that is planted and the climate of the locality in which the field is being planted. Under ordinary conditions I believe in planting four kernels to the hill and planting the hills about three feet six inches apart both ways. As a general rule nothing is gained by planting the field until the cold spring rains are over. None but good seed that possesses a strong germinating power should be planted. Increases Purchasing Power. Intelligence in buying dairy feeds in creases the purchasing power of the dollar.