Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-12-20

what | hold or what holds me.
When farmer wants a little play, instead
of putting out his croquet set, he turns to and
builds piece of stone wall. Building stone
wall is more exciting than playing billiards,
for there is more variety to it. Amateur bll-
liards always reminds me of the itch, there is
so much scratch to it, but building stone wall
is diversified something to do all the time,
like catching Aeas.
/. No one can realize the charm Of digging
around big rock, and getting chain under
it, and twitching it onto drag, or of getting
crowbar under it; and lifting and straining
on it, enough to strain the whole Atlantic
Ocean, and then of having the bar slip, and
the stone roll back, barking shin or other.
wise bruising you, while you plunge forward
with force enough todrive your head into the
ground. say no one can realize the charm
of this unless he has sat on the fence as |
have, and seen it DONE
The bug problem to the farmer is stupen,
dous one. 1t amounts to more to a small
farm than it does to the biggest hotel proprie-
tor in the country. A good smart chamber.
maid and bottle of double B poison will fix
a bed so that you can plant man at nine
o'clock at night, and have to haul him out OF
bed with steam tug in the morning, he will
sleep 80 soundly.
The potato bug is native of the West.
He originated in the caions of Colorado, and
may be called an offshoot of that section. The
State is rammed full and loaded down with
them. They formerly lived on wild plants,
but one of them went up to Denver on little
pleasure trip, and at the hotel there he had
some fried potatoes, and they struck him as
being about the best thing to quiet hunger
he had ever lighted on. He went home and
advised his brethren to 60 East, and they
simply packed up a few collars and change
of clothing, and started. The potato bug
dawns upon the farmer very rapidly; he sees
his potatoes nicely up, their green tops re-
minding him that potatoes in the fall, at a
dollar bushel, are better than serpent's
tooth, or thankless child, and goes to bed
dreaming of wealth pouring in upon him in
burrows, and the next morning he visits bis
field and sees some red spots on the potato
vines, about as big as pin heads, He notices
that they give rather genteel look to the
leaf. In day or two he sees those red drops
begin to grow, and then to crawl, and in three
or four days he goes out, and is so surprised
at what he sees that you could not paint his
look of astonisbment, nor even prime it over
one coat with less than bucket of paint.
he sees that the potato bug has arrived, and
has brought his whole family and his wlfe's
five hundred friends. He is there with all
his tools and implements of labor. He sees a
bug about as large as the letter ., when it
drops from the lips of a small boy, as he in
cautiously sits down on bull thistle. He
sees this bug laid of in stripes endwise, like
the marks of a grid iron on slice of broiled
liver. He sees that what the bug lacks in
size be gains in quantity. He is there and
keeps coming. He has as much mouth in pro-
portion to his length as the Amazon river or
Soldene. He can beat horsefy laying eggs,
and have seen him do the job at the rate OF
twelve miles an hour.
The only sure way to get rid of the potato
bug is to move OFF somewhere else. There
are number of methods that work some
whatly. One man set up steam trip'ham'
mer on his farm, and hired halfgrown
Sunday school to catch the bugs and run
them under the hammer. After trying this
a week he found that as the nights grew Ion
ger the bugs gained on him, and he gave it
up. Next to English sparrows, there is moth
ing that increases faster than potatobugs
unless 'ts the interest on an unpaid note
A farmer told me that he used Paris green
on his bugs. He said he'd be hanged if he
didn't use up about barrel of the stuff and
the bugs ate it all up, and in two or three
days they set up store in the corner of the
field and advertised that they would sell Par
is green at retail cheaper than he could buy
it at wholesale. He said he lost conidsncs
then in Paris green, and gained correspond
ing amount of confidence in the bugs.
The farmer is independent He can stay
on his farm from one years end to the other
and raise all he needs to sustain life and be
under obligations to no one. He can have
the pleasure of feeling that on the fruits oi
his toll depend the Nations strength and
prosperity. He truly earns his bread by the
sweat of bis brow, and unless he is d-head'
ed, he seldom has brow ip proportion to the
sweat.
Nearly all our great men were raised on
farm, and it is their special delight in their
speeches to mention the fact, and rementlon
it, and afterwards allude to it, and tell how
happy they were, and how they look on their
boyhood days and wish they had never left
the farm, and long nov to return to it and pass
the remainder of their days, and resign d
$1,000 Office and settle down and be happy
again.
1 have listened to these speeches and read
them, and have spent two large fortunes IN
trying to find solitary case where one Of
these men ever left a farm and got rich, either
by stealing or in any other honest way, and
then went back On the dear old farm to live
and up to the first day Of July | have been
unable to find one.
now have two of the smartest detective:
in the country looking after such man, and
in my humble opinion they will find Charley
Ross several times before they 6Ed my man
GEO. A. QUIMBY, in the Boston Weekly Globe
say An Irishman, addicted to telling strange
stories, said he saw man beheaded, with HI:
hands tied behind him, who directly picked
up his head and put it on his shoulders in thi
right place. ~,
"Ha ha! hal" said bystander, show
could he pick up his head when his hands
were tied behind him ?"
"And shure what purity fool ye are! said
Pat "and couldn't he pick it up with biz
teeth? TO ould Nick wild yer botheraton !
DO you want to kill the child !" ex'
claimed gentleman, as hesaw Detroit bsG;!
tip the baby out of its carriage on the walk
"No, not quite" replied the boy, "but if car
get him to bawling, mother will take care o.
him while go and wade in the ditch with
Johnny Bracer!'