The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-30
IL. G.. AND LONG JoEHN.

tor, Prospects were Spoiled q AateDspl-
isisg 10 Grow silk cn sheep.
IFrom the Chicago Republican, Sept. 16thJ
A representative Of the Republican, armed
with a step-ladder, called at he fremont
House yesterday, his object being to inter
view Long John Wentworth upon political
questions. and especially upon Mr. Greelty,
the Presidency, and the wool crop. Mr..
Went@orth invited the reporter to he seated
" ben the following conversation ems ueG
Repol;er.-GOUd morning, MIR. Went
worth | regret to see you uuwei!.
Mr.. Wcntworth.--G Good morning sir
Yes have been suffering from me linear
feet cf lumLago, but expect to be hearty
again in day or two.
R.-Mr Wentworth, what do you think
Of Horace Greeley?
AT these words a change oversPread Mr..
Wcntwurih's countenauce. which grew dark
with anger Raising himself On his elbow
with oue prodigous effort, he replied, al
though his frame was racked with agony,
.'H-n Mr.. Greeley ~
The effort was too much, and he sauk
fainting on his couch. After some moments
had elapsed be resumed, il q voice vi deep
emotion:
.sIf there is in America a hell hound,
slave, and a swinder worthy Of the galOws,
dler is Horace Greeley"
R.-Yuu astouish NE, sir. ] understood
only few days since that at a bAlquet in
this very hotel, where the bran bread spar
kl1d on the board and the mi k~tuast cirCied
mcrrily around. yourself and Mr.. Griuneii
dominated The ChapPaquan mower and ed
ilUr for the Presidency. Is not that tue
Mr.. W.-It is, unhappily, too true.
Then Nby this vlgur Of expression Z
Is it as the politician or as The agricutuiist?
MIR, W.-As both, Of course. The man
who
WOULD LIE TO YAM
or commit an assault upon sheep would
make worse President than Grant himself,
and he is bad one.
R-So Logan says, anyway. / gather
frorn your conversation that Mr.. Greeley has
disappointed you. In what respect. pray
Mr.. Wentworth then made the follow ing
statement, W hich we give verbatim, retrctch
ing any vigorous redundancies better suited
for the columns Of the Sunday Times than
for our rurer paper:
"A few days ago Mr. Greeley came 10
this city, and was met at breakfast 10y my
self and Grinnel We paid for that L"aEy
lunatic's cake-n.k- | mean. lis
hack hire didn't cost him cent, and we
thought ourselves REIN bursed by his words
of wisdom On the crisis and the crops. l
shall alude byand-by to his political raw
ings just now l only refer to the farming
phase Of Lis insanity. | sat at the mans
feet ike Paul at the feet OF GanIaiei. |
acted on his theories, and in one short week
l was ruined man. You ask me, how so ?
Go and lock at Summit Farm. L. looks ike
the alkaline desert-a bowling wilderness
dotted with skeletons! Greeley said |,
what do you think Ct my meIjuo sheep 2
Il have-that is. | bad Two hundred If
them. worth $l75 apiece } 'Meriuo.' said
Greeley mildly, why the devil DON'T you
cultivate sik-beariDg shoep2 Merjuo is
played ont. | have tried thousands Of times
to get my sheep to produce mc,iEo under
clothing; | have trieG irTlgatIug, mUchng,
top-dressIng, sUb-soiI plouglIng, WOOD ashes,
muck, loan, guauo-a.i Of 10 avail. They
will lay nuthiDg but raw wool. N Ky, raw
wool costs 90 cents a pound, ana then to
this you add interest, wages, insurance.
manufacturing, bad debts, &c, you see that
you cannot compete in the breeding cf me>
rino underwear with the pauper nations OF
Europe. On tho other hand silk is heavily
protected, aud the production this year is
limited. In Assam the crop has proceed Il
failure, OlcjRg to tie frost and harvest will
not yield more than thirty bushels to the
acre. Silk, will, therefore, al vance in price.
In 1882 you could buy a wooden dress for
$3.50. In 1871 a silk dress costs $500. II
stands to reason, therefore. that by making
your sheep spawn silk yOu Will make S5 81
times more prcft' | was thuuderstfuck
with this. and could only stammer How 2
The hOary-headed fraud answered by
grating, Of course. Those sheep eau spIu
cocoons like si.kworms if they only give
their minds to L. and the man who denies
it is liar and a horse thief. Little sheep
that can spin and went spin must be made
to spin.
The fact is, Wentworth you overfeed
your sheep and they never feel the spur of
necessity. Vary their diet. give them no
vegetable food, tut give them say a peck Of
silkworms day, mixed with coloring mat
ter, as cochIueal, maddcr. indigo, or lamp
black, according to the hue Of silk which
you want to rear Food makes blood. bloc!
makes LIE, and now eau a mcriuu sheep pro
ouce wool without lie how have life With
ont food What are worms but lood?'
Sir, was convinced Of the correctness of
the views held by this sloveniy scouudrel
| went 10 Summit, aud to sum il up locked
those devoted sheep up IN 4 barn. gave
them TWO hundred Pecks Of siikw0Ims which
cost NE $50 peck, and went away for
drive with Charley FarweI, my old friend,
telling my farmer not t. let the sheep out
on any account. Political matters kept my
mind 80 occupied for several days that /
forgot all abou. the sheep. until yesterday
when what | had done flashed across my
mind. l mounted my horse and spurred
him like the wind to my farm, but was
too late. When | got there the cupboard
was bare. I'll be id, sir, if the sheep
hadn't all died, and was $47 coo out on
the transaction. IL Il of lot the veucia-
BILE murderer knows about farming Farm
the DEVILS grandmother"
Here MIR. Wentworth paused, overcome
by his emotous, and it was some time era
he could proceed, in a broken voice, as fol-
lows:
''Mislortunes, d-n it. never come siugly.
He lad
BLIGHTED MY MUTTON CHtP,
now he went fer my unoffeUdiug root cr,ps
had a tl-lI Mn ~ t.,...l