The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-10-17
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From the Missouri Democrat.
THE TWO CLERKS.
BY BETTE Isle.

81 say, Nate, l am tired of farming
1t $ too hard work, then a fellow never
knows what's going to come of it. Now,
Just you take look over that wheat field;
Is 1t not enough, sir, to raise man s
dander and make him forswear rural felic.
lty to the eud of his days? Did | not
toll over that precious place of Vegetation,
last fall, till my back was nearly broke,
bending over the plow handles, and these
delicate hands of mine were as hard and
bllstered inside as canal digger's? Did
not my broad fair brow in which, you
know, my mamma takes heaps of pride,
lose all its sunny brightness and grow
brown as Turks, under the scorching
beams of September's sun; aud now,
what does it all come to! To midge and
rust, sir-that's all The whole field is
pronounced not worth harvesting
So said the handsome Charles Harvey,
as he sat whiting stick to the point,
on the top of a gate, overlooking a fifty
acre field of wheat completely spoiled by
the wheat midge. Charley was fine
looking fellow every way-energetic, in
dustrious, perservering and good looking.
If he had a fault in the world, it was that
he could never say no. His conscien-
tiousness was not bold enough. He
would, to please friend, do what he
thought was not exactly right sometimes.
His father was well-to-do farmer, and
as Charley was the Oldest boy, had hoped
that he would take to farming, and live
on, in the trade of his fathers, and that
he might be respectable in his calling,
and take his place--''a man among men. "
He sent him to college, and gave him
every advantage that was possible.
Charley had been at home year, and
his father had given him the possession
of part of the farm. Al! he could raise
was to be his own as a starting fund in
life.
Nate Williams was poor man $ son,
equally as good looking, talented, and
fully as generous and noble hearted, but
the school of poverty had taught him self,
reliance He was forced to say no.
They had been college chums-Nate wor-
king his own way by teaching and other,
wise-and being a fine athletic fellow, he
had come to the country to spend few
days at hard work, make Charley visit,
and then he was going into a elerkship
in the city, hoping in time to work him,
self into some business firm and become
merchant. Such are the two young
men we introduce to you, dear reader.
"Oh. wcll,' replied Nate, "this is
only once in life time; every trade is
liable to its mishaps.'
81 know that, but just you hold on q
minute Charley mixed up all the idi.
ems and vul l,arities of language with his
anglo-saxon tongue, as if he had never
studied kirkham, or Green, or had new.
er practiced elocution.) "Did not the
drouth kill all the wheat last year; and
the potatoes too, and the hard winter
make clean sweep of that blessed orch.
ard, which you and enjoyed so much
two years ago? Didn't the hay come uI
minus, and nothing stands plus bu. rag.
weed and mulleny l tell you Nate,
can I stand it. | am tired Of farming; its
drudge, drudge, summer and winter,
through heat and cold-no rest--no stop
And then when you get like Tautalus,
with your lips just touching the running
st, cam of profit. a long rain, short show
er, hurricane, heal storm, frost, 1
drouth, midge, rust, caterpillar, ;
grasshopper, a blight, curculio, or tho
devil knows what all, sends the stream
purling away beyond your reach, aggra
waiting your eyes and ears, as well as your
parched tongue and knocking all your cal
culations into the middle of next year
and SO it goes. Father has not laid up /
red cent these five years"
"Maybe he has not laid it up; bu
Charley, he has laid it out, His farm
somehow supports large family, SENDS
them to school, builds new houses ant
barns, adorns and beauties and makes
home paradise; and what more need
man want? Your father said last eve
ming that he did not owe dollar"
.9rhat's all true enough--that' a kline
of poetry, altar the hard work is all dom
but its too slow for me- | think tina
young gentleman of about my size, 0
good family, and unexceptionable goot
moral character that writes good hand
and can get good recommendations as
salesman or accountant, may be fount
about month from this time, installed