Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-09-08

wis IarIn, auu that ne Is sturdy yeO-
man. He starts out with his plow to turn
up the burrows in the glad earth. How
beautifully The poets sing about all this,
and how nice il sounds ii the poetry is
good! | think. there is a charm bout
a poetic lie that does not exist in prose.
| For delicate invalid, acourse OF treat
ment consisting of holding a pillow for fiji
teerl hours day, through rocky field,
would be likely to make another man of
him in a short time, 1t might possibly
be Il dead man, but still il would be an
other man. hcld q pillow oncesnd help
ed to break mp piece OF. new land.
Through the Kindness offriends was
takeli into Il machine shop and rebuilt
lover as welia as the machinist could do
the job. have never seemed to feel eX-
actly right since, but don't suppose |
tonght to blame the man. He said my
arms were both pulled out Of the sockets
and was all stretched out of shape, and
he did MS well as anybody could for me.
LshaH not hold q plow again as long as
l hoM my reason, and when that leaks
ont OF me it will not .matter much. what
l hold or what holds me.
When farmer wants little play, in
stead 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 vari-
ETY. TO il. Amateur billiards always re-
minis Lac OF the itch, there is so much
scratch to it, but building stone wall is
diversified /; something to do all the time,
like catching fleas.
No one can realize the charm of dig
lging round Il big rock, and getting a
drag, or getting crowbar. under it; and
| lifting anu straining on it, enough to
strain the whole Atlantic Ocean, and the
stone roll back, barking shin or other,
wise bruising you, while you plunge for
| ward with fore enough to drive your
head into the ground. | say no one can
realize the charm of this unless he has
sat on fence, as l have, and seen 1t
done. 1a0 ak4 -
The bug problem to the farmer is a
stupendous one. 1t amounts to more to
II small farmer than it does to the biggest
hotel proprietor in the country. A good,
smart chainbermaid and a bottle of
double b poison will fix Il bed so that
You can plant a man at nine o'clock ut
night, and have to l.aul him out of bed
with a steam tug Ill the morning, he will
sleep so sOundly.
The pOtato-bug is native of the west.
He originated in the canyons of COlora-
do, and may be called an Off-shOot of
that sections. The state is rammed tull
and loaded down with them. They for
merly lived or wild plants, but one OF
them Went up to Denver ON little pleas
ure trip, and ut the hotel there he had
some tried 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 go
east, and they simply packed up Il few
collars and Il change OF clothing, and
started. The potato-bug dawns on the
tar mer very rapidly; he sees his potatoes
nicely up, stheir green tops reminding
him that potatoes in the fall, at Il dollar IL
bushel, are better than serpent's tooth
or a thlnkless child. and he goes to bed
dreaming of wealth pouring OH him in
burrows. and the next morning he visits
his field and secs some red spots OH the
poiaIo-yines, about us big rs pin-headS.
die notices that they give rather genteel
look to the leaf In a day or two he sees
the sc red spots begin TO glow, and then
to crawl, and III thIee or tour days he
goes out, and is SO surprised ut what he
sees that you could not paint his look
OF astOni>hment, nor even prime it over
one coat with less than Il bucket of paint.
lie sees that the pOtato-bug has arrived,
aud has brought his whole family and his
wife 500 friends. lie is there with all
MS tools and implements OF labor. lie
sees bug about as large us the letter o.
when Il drops from the lips of il small
10y. us he incautiously sits down OIL an
adult bull-thistle. He sees this bug laid
OFF in stripes endwise, like the marks OF a
gridiron OH slice of broiled liver lie
sees llatewllat the bug-lack iii size he
gins in quantity. He is there and keeps
coming. He has as much mouth in pro-
portion TO his length us the Amazon riv-
err or Soltlene. He can beat horsefiy
laying eggs, and have seen him do the
job ut the rate OF twelve miles an hour.
The only sure way TO get rid of the
potato bug istol move. off somewhere
else. There are a number of methods
that work sOmewhatly. One man set up
a steam trip hammer on his farm, and
hired a half-grown Sunday school to
catch the bugs and run them under the
hammer. After trying this week he
found that us the nights grew longer the
| bugs gained OIL him, and he gave it ND.
Next to English sparrows, there is moth
Ing that increases faster than potato-buys,
unless tits the interest on an unpaid note.
A farmer told me that he tried Paris
green OIL his bugs. He said he'd be
hanged if he didn't use up about bar
rel of the stuff, and the bugs ate it all up,
| and in two or three days they set up II
store in the corner of the field and adj
yertised that they would sell Paris green
ut retail cheaper than he could buy it at
wholesale. He said he lost his confidence
then in Paris green, and gained a CORES
pOnding amount of confidence in, the
Ebugs. .,,s,
/ The farmer is independent. He can
stay OH his farm from one years end 20
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 of his toll depend the ma
tion's strength and prosperity. He truly
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow,
and unless he is bald-headed, he seldom
has brow in proportion to the sweat.
| Nearly all our great men were raised
on farm, and it is their especial delight
in their speeches to mention the fact, and
remention it, and afterward -allude to it,
and tell how happy they were, and how
they love the Old place with its old farm
house. and how they look back on their
bOyhood days and wish they had never
lett the farm. and long now to return to
it and pass the remainder of their days,
and resign $4,000 office and settle down
and be happy again. sesadq .fed,fk 8
have listened to these speeches and
read them, and have spent two large for
tunes in trying TO find a solitary case
where one of these men ever left Il farm
and got rich, either by stealing or in any
other honest way. and then went back
on the dear old farm to live; ard up to
| the first day of July have been unable