Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-04-19
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1873.


TO pay any thing back ; you skin II year |
after year, and cry out against the sea.
sons; you denounce every man you deal |
with asa sharper or swindler because
you do not get the prices for your pro-
ducts that other people do; and yet you
do not seem TO know that the reason is
your products are poor III quality, aud
put on the market, 10 miserable shape
your stock has been running down ever
since your father died you haven't
built teDce aud scarcely repaired an old
one your manure has not been hauled
out aud judiciously used on the farm
your pigs have bothered your neighb0rs
more than they have benefited ynn
your cattle have become breachy, aud |
have bad to shut them up in my stable in
order 10 keep them out Of my grain you
have distributed from your fence corners
more weed.seed than any farmer know
| Of, an 1 thus give your tidy neiyhbors
more trouble than your favOrs to them
would compensate. In short, it il time
tor you to move. You oaght to have a
virgin farm! 1t will lake YOU but u few
years to strip it of it's fertility; then
you'll huve to move again, aud keep
moving. You belong to very large
class of farmers who are a curse to anv
country. The fact il, you are not, never
was, aud never will be farmer n the
right sense of that word You are only
a guerrilla. You live by robbery-rub-
cry OF the soil. Aud it is not right,
neighbor Simpson You had better seek
some other vocation now that you've
got the cash TO start with. You like
horses you know horses you can talk
horse from daylight till dark you had
better, 20 into some smart town, aud
starta livery stable. You'll make mon.
ey by IL you'll never make money farm.
ing you'll grow poorer aud poorer the
longer you attempt it,"
just then Sally Simpson clapped her
hands, and said That's so, iather =
haven't l told you so? Mother and |
have often talked it over Mr.. Crumheil,
you are just as right as right can be
and father knows it, too if he would on
ly say so. know you too well (and
you've done too mary kindness for us
ever, to forget them) TO believe that you
have talked to father in the way you
have out of any unkind feeling. Ii il
, true, every word OF il. father, and you
ought u thank neighbor Crumble for
talking just as he thinks I do, and
don't think any the less of him either!
+ Then Sally burst into tears, aud Mrs
Simpson drew a long breath, aud sigheC
in way that endorsed all Sally had sale
T and Simpson got up aud came over t,
!, me aud said "Crumble, do believ,
you're right. Ionly wish you had talke,
: 10 me in that style ten years sooner.
, shau't make bit OF difference in ou
good feeling towards each other, ole
fellow and I'll never forget how you
= once saved my boy. .-----"
! "rhere, there Simpson enough o
that It's all right. Ii can do anything
- for you b fore youg let me know" an,
I he shook my hand with Il strong grip a
8 Ipassed out of the back door.
} RUNoRs. Madam Rumor is a very unr,
:. liable orea,u ure, yet she has more believ
e ers than the Christian religion. He
/, faintest whispers are TO tens of thousand
ii the trumpet blasts Of truth. 1t is strang
= but as true as it is strang that the moi
| exlravagant and unreasonable her r.
= ports the greater is the confidence place
|
d sands who believe every bad report, an
II shake their heads with grave suspicio
10 over every good one. They are quick I
r place rascaily and hypocrisy 10 the Gre
rs it OF their neighbors, but are slow to Ca
;e Gel them when facts disprove them
ID We see this illustrated daily. The tong,
ne Of idle gossip arts a base sander abo,
(! some public character. Ii is caught u
and retailed as truth. Not parLicl"
ID evidence goes with il, yet it is believe
u. and when evidence to di iprove it folio,
IL people handle il cautiously, and loo
in over it for some flaw or contradictiu
IL hoping to fii.d some plausible ground .
ly which TO reject 1t, and thus confirm the
of worst suspicious. True, this publ
or character may have stood before the pu
TO lie gaze score of years without BILE
lsh or fault but single breath
to slander, destroys in an hour the col
We denoc which years OF honorable toll ha
e's inspired
nd This is wrongl A good reputati
ut should be q shield to the man or won
ed who wears it. 1t should enttle them
tn the fullest measure of public conften
es until rumor assumes the form OF fac
!" We should not call upon them
In prove = negative, but demand fr,
the aocuser and positive proot II
are what is charged rs true. Nor should
ms specialize journals circulate this mise
ou ble gossip that is born Of envy or n
y f; ice. A single line in type may effect
'ur injury that can never be repaired. b
tie. ter ignore all runors that affect perso
&C. character than to be a party to a wrol
T. II q rnmor is true you can af,rd To W
lid tor It's confirmation. II il is false,
l should never be strengthened by "
The voice or influence
GU '-----------------
VITO Is SHE.-There is IA s .nator in w,
"a ington who has been utterly ruined, polite
nu and worse by his wife. We shall not
ldy mention his name She admitted that his
Ian liIlca ruin was due 10 her. She must 81
I'd In society. lie could not afford 1t hone;
,o. | but she must have house costing $4,000
80. Men asked how hu could do all this
his limited income, and the answer desiro
pod him. There began 10 be whispers that
&C. this show, superinduced by the insane 50
een ty ambitions of his wife meant corruption,
the suspicion was laiihfult ThAt pOlil