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the farming community, but no man ever questioned 

 the honesty of his purposes. Ten years of turmoil 

 supervened. Linwood never knew him more. Gin- 

 cinnatus had been called from the plow to fight the 

 battles of his countrymen, and he was mortally 

 wounded in their service. 



The election and re-election to the House of 

 Representatives; his powerful influence upon im- 

 portant legislation; the inevitable neglect of lands 

 and cattle; the death of the mother of his children; 

 the grim struggle politically and financially; the 

 election to the Senate of the United States; con- 

 tinuous business depression requiring the sale of 

 his Shorthorns and the farm at bottom prices all 

 these followed in fast succession, and at last the 

 inevitable turn of the wheel that left him once more 

 in private life. 



Too honest to accumulate money in politics, too 

 proud to ask for help in the hour of adversity, too 

 brave ever to show the white feather, he came 

 back from Washington to the west at my solicita- 

 tion broken in purse and spirit to begin anew 

 his old-time relationship with the stockmen of the 

 nation; so that we found him in his declining years 

 on the rostrum, or judging and assisting in the 

 management of shows, prominent in state and 



