The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-21
The Farmers Hired Man.

AhO oihOA AhAlCu MAIL
I'm kinder lookin' around the mar
ket for hired man." he exclaimed as
ne stopped al one of the stands and
nibbed at an onion. 81 kinder need
one, but yet kinder hope shan't be
able to find him.
'How's thatPn
"Wall, there amt no profit in hired
man no more. No, sir, he's no good
any longer"
What's the reason?'
''Oh, dozen reasons. First and
foremost, times have changed, and the
hired man has changed with EN-. All!
sir, IL makes me sad when think of
The hired men we had before the war
great big fellers with the strength of
an OK and the vim of locomotive.
didn't have to holler my lungs out to
git one OF 'em out Of bed at 8 o'clock
in the morning, and it was all | could
do to coax 'em to go to bed at 10
O'Clock at night. I'm afraid that we
shant never see no more hired men
with keepin' around for their board"
THAT sad"
IT'S sad, and more, too. Now, as
/ said, want hired man. Pm will
ing to pay 81 or Sl2 month for
smart one. Some farmers want man
to work all day and all night, but that
amt me. have never asked one TO
git out of bed before O'clock never.
allus give my man three-quarters Eof
an hour at noon, unless the hogs git
ont or cattle break in or a shower is
coming up. After man has worked
right along for nine hours his system
wants at least half an hour to brace up
in. They don't quit work on some
farms till O'Clock. but I'm no such
slave-driyer. - naif-past | tell my
man TO k-ock off. All he has TO do
after .nat is to feed the stock, cut a lit.
"e wood, NOW some grass for the horses
milk four cows, fill up tho water
trough, start q smudge in the smoke
house and pull a few weeds in the gar
den. | never had bired man who
didn't grow fat on my work, and they
allus left me feeling that they hadn't
half earned their wages"
he stopped long enough to wipe a
tear from his eye, and then went on:
'And now look at the hired man to-
day! He wears white shirts and collars.
He won't eat with a knife. lie wants
napkins when he eats, and if we don't
hang up clean towel once week he
wipes on his handkerchief. Call him
at 3 and he gets up at 6. He wants
whole hour at noon, and after supper
he trots of TO singing school on sits
down to a newspaper. Fifteen years
ago il my hired man WAS sick for half |
a day could dock him. II he died |
could take out months wages for the |
trouble. He was glad to git store or
ders for his pay, and he would wash in |
the rain barrel and wipe on the clothes
line. There's been change, sir an
awful change, and if reaction don't |
set in pretty soon YOU will witness the
downfall OF agriculture III this country"
Then you won't hire another?"
"Wall, / can't Just say Work is
pressing, but I'm going
slow, Before | hire him | wan, 10
know whether he's man WHOM pass
his plate for more meat and taters, and
whether we've got 20 use starch in do
ing up his shirts. The las. man had
took me TO task for not holding family
prayers twice day, and after | had
done SO for three months found ii was
only game of his to beat me out of
half an hour day. He thought he
had pretty soft thing, and he looked |
mighty lonesome when | cut Old Hun |
ired down to two lines and got through |
with the Lords Prayer in forty sec
Dnds. DetrOH Free Press