Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-31

we had none then at Valley Groye-two
or three times month, maybe to get .
paper which came once a week, and an
occasional letter, for which q dime or
so was raid, according to weight, ana
when the old stage coach went dashlng
along tine road, bringing terror TO all
who CHANGED TO meet it. Now the iron
horse brings the passengers, and papers,
and letters daily, and the coaeh mas
gone to Montanr or Arizona, where we
know our ld-fashioned farmers Will not
follow.
EVEN ONE WEEKLY PAPER
was not taken by more than one half
the farmers forty years ago. The farmer
who does not now take half dozen
had best retire-to the mountains OF
West Virginia-we had almost said, but
lust remember that we were born and
raised in West Virginia, and as the
readers of the REGISTER are not con
fined to our State others might tnink
that we were casting a slur on the
western part of the old dominion. w nat
we would like to do would be to induce
our farmers to take the paper, or move
out and let somebody in who VIII. Inc
farmer must
KEEP ABREAST OF THE TIMES
or 90 down, and with the modern day
connoiseurs come the work above re-
ferred to. One sled may not be hard to
keep in repair or to look after, but When
we have wagon or two, a carriage anu
buggy, with enough OF machinery anu
farm implements to fill an OLD store
room OF forty years ago, we must eA-
pect a great deal OF accompanying
s.tinkering" work, and besides the Time
taken up in this way the hall dozen pa
ners must be read. Formerly the
! farmer doZed over his paper alter sup
per each day fora few minutes, now,
with the number OF papers demanding
! his attention, the evening ana the
morning do not suffice, but tue wet
! days have to bedevOted TO this duty as
well as enjoyment. 1
We NAV be wandering from our text,
which was to speak OF the amount VI
work which the farm now demands,
and for which the farmer receives no
direct pay, and which makes II nara
for him to make both ends meet otten-
times, and makes it almost Impossible
to make any Roadway at 1t, even IN pay
ing for farm if be happens to be IN
| debt for the payment of 1t; and, indeed,
impossible for young man unalded. III
this section, to buy and pay for farm,
with our present modes OF culture.
This is why so many of our best boys go
west. Ii is the boys who have vim ana
go-ahead about them who go west:
| This is a good thing for the west and
helps 10 to make it the pushing, 60
ahead country that it is, while We are
slow, plodding, and reckon, sure. AT
least it would seem that we are sure 10
remain behind in the race for wealth
and enjoyment.
The farmers are the last TO move, as
the price of land is the last property 10
| fall in time Of panic or financial con-
yulsion, and the last to rise when the
manic is over, SO that the farmer is the
last 10 feel the effects of, and fall in with
any change or modern Improvement
and such is the rush now that he may
be and is often left in the race. Partic-
ularly is this so in politics. What then
is to be done? no personal illusions.
TAKE THE PAPERS.
Yes. and we must say again, join the
grange or some farmer organization ana
| get IDEAS from one anOlueI Ill assem- "'''' ;
together. All other classes are constant
IN meeting with one another and inter
changing ideas. People in town, vii
lage and city are constantly meeting
each other in the street and in each
others houses, and they can do without
the organization or assembling them
selves together; yet there is just where
this element of strength i'll society Is
mostly used, while the farmer, on &C.
count of his isolation, needs it the most
and uses it least.
"FOrget not the assembling OF your
selves together" is Scriptural injunc-
ton given to the whole world by one
who was commanded to go into all the
world and preach the Gospel to every
creature. What may he called the best
members Of society out in the country
assemble in the church, but their farm
ing interests cannot or should not oG
discussed. Some other place is needed
O-F- = - ~ called
tries the farmers are driven to do some
thing and practice cooperation in farm
ing, which we will be compelled to dc
here, or something else, in the near flu
ture. j. ID. w.
For nervous debility take PEEUNA.