The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-26
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it, as they please.
But the best they'll findnit is so:ne words
ike unto these:
Horn or besile, ,l,oagla or trmpeSt, on q FIR.
msr's iaai nay Ji'a,
Rat for. Srst-cl,,ss raiaat:es, treSi a moagags
gass~f them al.
tn my weddin' day my father touched
me Kindly on the arm,
And handed me the papers for an eighty
acre farm,
With the stock an tools an bnildln's for
an independent start,
Saving Here's a wedding present from
my muscle and my heart
And. except the admonitions yoa have
taken from my tongue,
And the reasonable lickin's that you had
when you was young,
And your food an clothes aud sehooliH'
tnot so much as eeuld wish,
For I had number eatin' from some'a'
scanty DISH
Aud the honest love you capture when
yau first sat on my knee,
This il all have To give yon-so eNpeci
no more from me-"
Psopls'd said couldn't marry the sweet
girl tried To court,
Till we Smilingly Submitted n minority
report
Then they laid their theories over. with {
quickness queer TO .,
Aud said they knew we'd marry, bat ws
never could agree
I.ni We did not frame and.hang up all lh'
nelghbors had to say,
B1t ran our little heaven ia our own pc
cnliar way
We started of quite jolly. wondrouS ml
Of health and cheer.
And general understanding that th'
road was pretty clear.
So We lived snd toiled and prospered; and
the little family party
Tha. came on from Heaven In visit u,
were bright and hale and hearty;
Aud to-day we might ha' been there had
only just have known
How To lay my road doWn solid, aud lei
well enough alone.
But sson commenced a-kicking iu tht
traces. confess
There WAS too much land that joined m'
Ihat didn't vet possess,
WhsA on,,a he gets Iand-hnngry, strang'
ho~ r,svenous one can be
if.4Sn't long bsIors | wanted all thu
ground that co uId see,
81 bought another eighty (nnl forebod
ing any hArRl,)
And for that and some down money pn
mortgage on my farm.
Then I bought another forty. hired som'
cash to Tx up new,
And 10 buy a covered carriage aad o
course The mortgage gre,
Now my wife was square agains. this III
but right that you should know,
sFh"osh I'm very far from saving that
think it'I always 50 y
But she went Is, hearty with me- workin:
hard frcn day To day,
For we knew that lite was business, nov
We had that debt to paw
Ws worked tbrougI spring and winter
through summer and through fall
Bat that mortgage work d the bardes
and tie stezdiest Of US all:
It>worked on nights and Sunday4: i
worked each holiday
Il s-t'Ie,l dowr among us, AMI IL neve
went away.
Wh4tev~rwe kept from It seemed Amos
as bad a. theft
IL walehe.i rs every minnie, an / it ruled
right and left
The rust anil blight were wit IA Us some
times. and sometimes net.
The DARK brOwe1, scewling mortgage wa
forever on Tie spot.
The weevil and cut-worm they went a.
well as came
The nI1ngIze stat forever, eating hearty
All th6 same
At every door.
Anl happiness and sunshine made thei
home with us no moie,
I'll viii, failing craps AMI ii kness WI
got sale upou tie graJe,
AMI tlIoie cans dark day Oh "a wheI
tue iIiSFtSl WISH pdtu
And there came sharp forecI eure, ant
kind 0, lost my hold.
And grew weary and tie farm was cheap
ly sold.
Til children left and scatteic.f when tht J
hardly yet ~ere grown;
NJ, VIZ she pined an PEI eIishsd, an
fonRd myself alone.
WHAT sire died of was "a mystery an
the doctor.' never knew
Bat knew she died Of mortgage a
Wells I wanted to.
Tito 'ru-e a hidden s,rrow were " THU
the DOCTORS art.
They'd ha' fund mort -ag lying q
that womAn's broken II Il.
. Twe I II. mt kinds Of p.ople lhe dew
most assails
One i. the mtn who con fners tie othel
be who fails
But still think the last kind are soonei
to give up,
A al 10 hi.is their sorry faces bshil d til
sIaln fui cup;
L ke soIae old King or other, whose ne m
I've soneh ,w lost,
They stra,gi.t,say tear Lib .ir oyer out, JIM
when thsy nesd 'em noss.
WLel pnce h ii di4eu sed that IL Q lei
conl.i not pay,
I tried to "a ,idate it in \ rather G. mn.o
way
used :" mes IN private fellow fnar
cier,
And we won d Or ak ours lives wonh te
thousand dollars clear
As easy way to prosper as ever has bee
found,
Bur ones \ heap sight ps orer when b
gets back to tle ground.