Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-02
Price Four Cents.

without back and leaned against the wall With his overcoat off, I saw he was dressed in 0 suit of brown jeans, consisting of pants and ttwammus." The ttwammus'' reached just to the top of the trousers, and fitted tight around the waists and was loose across the breast. The old gentleman gave me his views on the political situation, and did it
 very glibly and intelligently. 'sI am," said he, "a Greenbacker clean through. I will have nothing to do with either of the old parties. One harps about the solid South and the other bloody shirt. for the reason that they dare not discuss the real issues be- fore the people," He then gave me what he considered to be the issue that puget to go before the people, which was simply the | Greenback doctrine of finance.
 I asked him for some "reminiscences of Horace Greeley as a boy at home, but he knew but little about his childhood Horace had left home quite young, and he saw him
 only at long intervals. When Horace came to the Greeley homestead, where Barnes Greeley now lives, he was about nineteen years old. 'sHe had a black sore on his shin, D | said MT. Greeley, and he devoted most of his time to doctoring that. It was gretty bad l sore, and Horace was afraid of it. I remem- Der he attempted to help us on the farm, but he was very awkard. He was about as awk- | ard and useless on the farm as I would be in a printing office. No, indeed what Horace Greeley knew about farming at that time was | mighty little"
 ''Did he ever know much about farm ing?"
 ''He was a book farmer. He had studied
 the subject great deal and was enthusiast. He raised some very fine crops on his ce1e- | brated farm, but they all cost him far more 1 than they were worth, as everybody knows" l Horaces visits home were very rare He | may have returned twice. I was told that he l came home to attend the funeral of his moth-
 CT, who died some fifteen years ago. His 1 father, whose first name was Ezekiel died l twelve years ago.
 Barnes Greeley related this incident to me: | When Lincoln was elected I took a notion
 that I would like to have the appointment of
 mail agent on one of our local roads. The
 salary was $1 GOO @ year, which was big
 thing for me. I knew Horace could get me | the appointment. spent some money trav- | cling around and getting recommendations, | and succeeded in getting what I thought
 was sufficient. I had letters from a number | of leading business men along the route, as | well Eas from party men, and theseI forwarded
 to Horace, with letter asking him to help l me. What do you suppose he did? He
 wrote back, returning my recommendations, l with the information, penned in his own
 hand, that he could get the appointment for
 me without the slightest trouble, but he didn t
 want to do it. He wanted me to stick to the
 farm. He said I was the only boy at home, and he thought it best that I should stay
 there. I wrote back and explained to him
 that I could be at home quite frequently 1;
 that at that time the salary of $1, GOO year
 would help me very considerably; that anoth-
 CT party had offered to take the position for | $500 year. l wound up by urging him to
 help me to the appointment. His reply was
 this: If another man offers to do this ser
 vice for $500, and you expect $1,O00, that is
 an excellent reason why you should not have
 it. If you had it the government would be
 losing $50oa year. In the same letter he
 made me this proposition: Stay on the | old farm, and if do not raise more corn this
 year on two acres than you do on ten acres.
 I will give you $10O.' Not being ill posi-
 tion to better myself, I stayed on the farm
 and accepted his proposition. I picked out
 ten acres of as good ground as I had and
 planted it in corn. He planted two acres.
 When we measured up in the fall, had beat
 en him just twenty-five bushels of ears, and
 he sent me his check for $10O."