Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Native Fodder. [ARTICLE]

Native Fodder.

Hon. David T. Little, of Illinois, says the Washington Post, is a constant habitue of Chamberlain’s when in Washington. He is taking life easy now and living on the fat of the land. He has a farm out In Illinois which raises the finest corn, hogs anti cattle In the country. He has got tired of the un-American and imported custom of course dinners, and entered his emphatic protest against it last week. He says It is a fashionable plan to starve a man to death. So he sent out to his farm for 150 pounds of pork sparerlbs, sides, backbone and tenderloin, chickens, turkeys, sweet and Irish potatoes, celery and “flxins,” and had John Chamberlain cook half of them into a dinner. Then he Invited all his Union cronies and gave them a good, square meal. Two days later he had the rest cooked and Invited all his old Confederate friends In. He didn’t care to mix them, for there is no telling what brave men will'do when they get a good meal under their belts. There were Joe Blackburn and half a dqzen more oldtimers of the same sort, and everything was brought In and put on the table at once, in the good, old-fash-ioned way, so they could tell what there was to eat and plan their campaign accordingly. And the way they ate was a caution. It seemed as though none of them had had a square meal for three months. The sparerib and turkey and chicken and “fixins” simply disappeared like a snowbank in July. Senator Blackburn was telling a friend about it afterward. “I was having a good time,” said he, “with my face up against as fine a bit of backbone as ever I tasted, with the dish right in front of me, when in slid a little scrimp of a fellow from Missouri, named Vest, who just fell on that dish of backbone and I didn’t get another smell of it the whole evening.” Vest tells another story, but it doesn’ t matter.—[Courier-Journal.