The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-01
Letters from the People.
A Democratic PHILOSOPHERS I'm Deep
Water.

Democratic Pmiosopher hh U0eP
Mr.. Editor: | have hearn tell
that "truth smashed to earth will git
up and git" and |, to tell the truth,
/ have bourne this thing as long as |
am goin' to, 'thout saying a word.
My wife, Diantha Jane, says to me,
"to shut up, and say never a word
about it for spring will come some
time" Well, | won't! that's all.
Here | have been confined to my bed
for five long weeks awaiting for my
shirt to git dry. ! told Diantha in
the fust place it was 'rong time to
wash it lust before the big fall rains,
but she would wait no longer, and so
this misfortune has overtaken me in
the midst of my joy. Twice, yes,
twice my spirits rose mountains high
for we had two sort of fair days, and
it seemed as though | should have the
blest privilege of agin Citing into that
shirt, and no longer have to make the
neighbors (kind neighbors who came
to see me every day., believe | was
sick. And then to think that this all
comes of that mean Arbor day biz
ness. Long, long they have told me
how by cutting off the trees how the
rain had stopped coming and how the
streams had dried up, and how as our
grandfathers used to catch trout as
long as mans arm-now they were
none longer than finger. They said
we must sit out more trees and plant
forests; and so at it they went. They
formed company or somethln' OF
that kind and they wanted my son,
Benjamin Soloman, to jine them.
They wanted him for president, or
corporal, or somethin', but plainly
told him to keep intirely out OF any
such thing, to do nothin' to tempt the
Lord out of his ordinary way of doing
dizziness. Says l unto him, ''you go
and sit out a lot of them are trees and
whittier the good Lord wants it to
rain or no, down it will come; so l
say unto you, Benjamin Solomon,
don't do anything to call down his
rath or rain agin his WILL" Well they
sot out four trees at the lower village
and seven at the upper one, and now
they see, when it is everlastingly to
late, what they done. | don't pity
them mite, but | have considerable
compassion for myself. 1t might be
well enough if the rain was Citing a
little short, by clearing up so much
land, and the Creator of all things
had not or did not know just how
much rain to sprinkle down on us, jist
to sit out few trees, jist enough to
make him give down little, but they
have been and gone and overdid the
thing. There is no whoa, and at this
rate that shirt will never git dry.
Well, says 1, to Benjamin Soloman
Zone day after / had called him into
my bed room) says 1, Benjamin Sol
ONION, something has got to be did to
avert this great evil and wet rain
which has come upon US. Now says
l by sitting out trees has changed the
whole course of mater, jist as the cut
ting them down stopped the rain fall
ing, regardless of the will of our
Heavenly father, whom | and your
mother, and your uncle James, and
your great-uncle Theopholus, and
your grandfather, on the Stigmore
side, all believed that he would do
things better if men would let him
have it his own way, but they won't.
So now we must do somethin' to
counteract what they have done.
Says l, "You go over to neighbor
Tomkins and borrow his best axe and
come home and go to clearin' off the
land" and so at it he went. First
choping has been done on this place
for years. | never believed in clear
ing off the land and stopin the rain
falling. Diantha Jane has usually
picked up her wood where she could
find it, owing to my scruples about
dry weather. Well, Benjamin Solo
man has gone right at it. A right
smart boy is that, Benjamin Soloman
of mine. Everybody says he is a
"chip of the old block" "just like
his father" He has cut down the
cherry trees and the culrant bushes
and old Jacks hitching post. Jist
what the result will be l can't say
but think it will stop it soon, and if
they ever git that cussed tariff off,
shall try to git me another shirt.
j. STIGMoRE.
"John, show this gentleman the
| door y said the lady eff the hnusp