Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-06-20

Brought up In my youth upon n farm, have
always taken deep interest IN the work of
filling the soil. aud neither passing through
he forests Of corn on the. vast prairies OF hi
nois or Indiana, or the extensive wheat fields
of Michigan and Minnesota, or the grass land
Of Massachusetts and Vermont, could but ask
myself, are all on. farmers iasaasY
There is undoubtedly more or less insanity
lurking in every individual; that at sometime
will develop itself It exhibits itself in diff
Iferent ways with different persons. Some are
insane upon one subject and some upon 9TH
ers, and there are many whose whole reason
is dethroned, and for safety they are confined
in our asylums, where they cannot injure
themselves or their friends Whenever we
meet man with one idea uppermost in his
mind, whether i'm politics or religion, who ON
all occasions. in season and out of season, is
forcing that idea upon others, we can but feel
that that man is insane, his mind is not well
balanced, his head is not level. Wepity those
who have spent their lives and fortunes in en-
|deavoring TO invent perpetual motion, or some
|othcr impossible thing, and maRY guardians
have been appointed over such men, for the
reason they were not capable of caring for
themselves. An insane man thinks every one
SAhZ1 Dhb uEuflhSu Hllil liltlBlicS
hat he is the only sober one in the commu-
nifty. II may be considered "a broad assertion
when we say that all men are insane, but do
lot propose to inflict an argument upon you
10 prove its truth from a scientific standpoint,
Ind will only speak of one class, who above
Ill others have exhibited insanity, and see
wherein, and in what form it has shown itself,
and that class are our farmers.
When meet those who have been swindled
4 by patentright agents, lightning rod scoun-
slrels, and others who travel up and down this
#earth, class of smooth tongued gentry, who
by foul means, get farmers TO sign notes for
large amounts without their knowing what
they are doing. do not callthese men insane
they must be classed under another head, and
should the State establish an institution for the
greatest fools, it would soon be filled up with
this class of idiots, and If our farmers will not
1 earn from the experience of the past to keep
their names from any and all papers presented
by strangers, / am fearful the instructors in
the institution would have a life long task be-
fore them to beat that one idea into their
heads. Another class of greater fools are
those who cannot say NO, when some spccula-
tor, verging on the brink of bankruptcy, comes
W OiI llOI6.
They come like the thief in the night They
will assure you that there will be no risk.
They are amply able to meet it when due, but
p you win only si9n. it would be a great ac-
Pronunciation. You don't like TO offend him,
Eou put your name upon his paper, ana you
soon find that you have accommodated his
creditors, although it strips you OF all your
hard earnings so in your old age you can sit
under the roof of the poor house, and when too
late, find out what a fool you were to rob your
family of their home. and all the comforts of
life, while he whom you wished to accommo-
date, is rolling in the wealth that he took good
care should be hid away from his creditors
until he procured his full discharge in bank
ruptcy.
But did not intend to devote so much time
to this class of idiots The fools are not all
lead yet, and presume you may have some
N this part Of the State, and should there be
any, my advice would be don't sign, become
pound to no man and unto but one woman
Wherein have our farmers exhibited their
insanity? a few years ago you could travel
rom one end of the county to the other, and
IN every hand could be seen forests Of bare
'oles, like a cedar swamp Invested of its foil |
Ige, and one might yell enquire "Why are all
hose trees left standings" AMI the answer
would be. these are hop yards" During the |
var, hops like everything else, advanced in |
'rce One man made Il good thing on hops |
hen all the farmers had hops on tho brain
An insane hop mania swept over the land
wamps were cleared up to procure poles, and
very one imagined himself immensely
1ealthy. BY the time their dry houses were
ullt and their land planted with poles the
rice went down as every sane man must have
nown that this hop mania would cause an
yer production, and hops would hardly be
'orth the picking. and then the other end of
l1s insane see-saw goes up, and up comes all
nc hop poles, and to-day they stand stacked as
lonumcnts of the farmers folly, ana now the
COR victims cXclaim 't don't pay to raise
2ps."
Then comes some great professor and gives
on the analysis of cheese, and people are Just
to learn how important an article
leese is for food. They will picture out to
on the time when the whole human family
ill subsi5t wholly upon cheese, and imme- /,
lately all the insane farmers get together and
solve that they will build cheese factory
hey do not stop to consider whether they i
ossess all the requisites that will guarantee y
them success Possibly they have been
'eeding cattle for market and their farms are ,
ocked with Short-horns or Herefords and ,
ost likely not one farmer in the whole town {
IS that class of cows from which cheese can Y
made with profit. But no matter, all their
rplus funds are used to build the factory. ,
ley commence operations. and when too late
ey md thousands of factories have been Il
1lt all over the country; the market becomes =
ef stocked, people are still eating something
side cheese. Your cheese does not bring =
ough to pay for the milking. This spasm il =
er. reason begins to reign. You abandon !,
ut enterprise until at least you have stocked .
ur farms with class of COWS especially :,
apted to the production of cheese. :,
Many of the older persons present can re
ember the Multecauls days. when mulber =
trees were being sold at fabulous prices and ),
worms were to become as plenty as potato
GO are at the present time, and people rush
lhto the worm business. They had silk on ;,
brain. Every one became insane and i'm :,
med that soon they would become million :,
'es by the production of silk, and not until :,
who were carried away by the excitement =,
It their property, sacrificed their all upon :,
SILK worm swindlc. Did they recover their =,
lson? "
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men up comes shrewd Vermont Yankee. | W
I'll sheep all creased and taIred, and he h,
Veled about the country exhibiting this q,
nderful sheep, and people again became in ei
he. All rushed into the sheep business. | m
cry farmer must have flock of greasy me. M
os, no matter whether his pastures were an
or dry. 1.-THE government must have th
oil to clothe its soldiers, and what trcmen. be
IS feeces these little greasy, dirty animals DC
produce" So high did this excitementrm
t bucks were sold for thousands of dollars