Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-03-09

ing. Last year the cuss sent load
OF cream over and tried to sell it at
the new creamatoy while the funcr.
al and hollcrcost was goin' OH. L
may bc a sort Of chump mysell,
but read my paper and don't get
left like that"
"Wnat are the prospects for farm
ers in your State?'
well, they arc pore. Never was
so pore, in fact, since I've ben there.
Folks wonder why boys leaves tho
farm. My boys left so rs TO get pro
tcctcd, they said, and so they went
into clothing store, one of 'eni, and
one went into hardware, and one is
talliin protection in tho Legislature
this winter. They said that farmiu'
was gittin' to be like fisilin' and
huntin', well enough for man that
has means and leisure, but, they
couldn't make u Twin ut it they said.
Another boy is i'll drug store. and
the man that hires him says lie is a
royal Teller"
kind of n castor royal fcller,"
said, with shrek of laughter.
He waited until l had laughed all
[ wanted to, and then he said:
I've always hollered for high tar
III i'll ordor to hyatt tho public debt,
but now that we've got the rational
debt coopercd L wish They'll take n
little hack Mt mine. Two put in fifty
years farmin'. mover 'l&lnl, ticker
IN any form. I've worked from ten
to eightcon hours day, been eco
noIuical i'll clozo and never went to n
show more'n dozen times in my
life, raised family and learned up
ward oil two hundred calves to drink
out of " tin pail without blowing all
their vittle up my sleeve. My wife
worked alongside o. me SEWN new
seats on tho boys pants, sl,imlnin
milk and even helpin me load hay.
For forty years we toiled along to.
Gctler and hardly got time to Look
into each others fuces or dared to
stop and get acquainted with ench
o her. Then her health failed. Ketch-
ed cold III tho spriug house prob'ly
skin'nin' milk and washn' pauB and
scai'lim prils and spaAkin' butter.
Anyhow, She took in II long breath
one Gay while the doctor and mo was
wal chin her, and she says TO me.
Henry, says she, I've got ii chance
To rest, aud she put one tired, worn
out hand on top ri the other tired.
worn out hnni, aud | liucw she'd
gone where they don't work ali ,lny
hni do chores AL night L took time
10 kiss her then. I'd been too busy
for good while previous to that.
and then | called i'll tue boys. After
the funeral it was too much for them
to stay around and eat tho kind OF
cooliln' we had to pat up with. and
nobody spoke up around the house
as we used TO. The boys quit
whiStlin' around the barn and talked
kind OF low by themselves about 90.
in tn town and gettin' job
"Thcy're all gone now and the
snow is four feet deep on mothers
grave up there in the old berryin'
ground"
Then both of us looked out of the
car window quite IL long whilo with
out saying anything.
Il don't blame the boys for goin'
into something else longs other
things pays better; but l say-.nd
say what 1 know-tlia. tho man who
holds the prosperity Of this country
ill his hands, tho man that nctua. ly
makes money for other pcorls to
spend, the man that cats three good,
SIMPLE, square meals a day and goes
to bed ut 8 o'clock. SO that future
generations with good blood and
cool brains can go from his farm to
the Senate and Congress and the
+ White House-he is the man that
gets left at last to run his farm, with
nobody to help him but hired man
and high protective tariff. The
farms i'll our State is mortgaged for
over seven hundred million dollars.
Ten of our Western States-I see by
the papers-has got about three bill.
lion aud n half mortgages on their