Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-09

N-NA Va N-A hNNA
vi'tles up my sleeve. My wife worked
alongside o. me SEWN new seats on the
bows pants. skimmju' milk and even
helping me load hay For forty years
we toilcl along together and hardly got
time TO look into each others faces or
dared 10 stop aud Get acquainted with
each Other. Ihcn her health failed.
ketchcd cold i'm the spring house. prob 81
~, >kimmn milk and WaShn pans
and scald n pals and 50 aukin' butter.
ANYHOW she t3ok in a .oug breath one
dav while tic doctor and me was watch
in her, and she SAYS To me, Henry,
SAYS She. Il We got "a chance 10 rest, and
she put one tired, worn ont hand on top
of the other tired wcrn-out hand, and |
knew she'd cone where they don t work
all day and do chores AL night.
II took time to kiss her then. I'd
been too busy for "a 90 I'll while previous
10 thai and then ! called IN the boys.
After the funeral it was too much for
them to stay around and eat the X nd
of cpokin' we hai 10 put mp with. nd
nobody spoke up around the house rs
we used 20. The boys quit whiStlin'
around the barn and talked k nd Of
low by themselves about goin' TO town
and gettn' a job.
'Incy' re al gone now and the snow
is four feet deep ON mothers grave up
there in the old burryin' ground''
Then both If us looked ont Of the car
window quite a long while without say
anything.
Il don't blame the boys for going
into something else longs other things
pay, better but | say and ! say what |
know-that the man who holds the
prosperity of thi, country in his hands,
the man that actually ma cs money for
other people to spend, the man that
eats three good, simple square meals a
day and goes 10 bed at nine o'clock,
SO that future generations with
good blood and cool bra rs can
20 from his farm TO the senate and
Congress and the White House-he IS
the man that get left at last to run his
farm, with nobody to help him but a
hired man. he farms in our state is
mOrtgaged for over seven hundred mil
lion dollars. Ten OF our western states
! see " the papers has got about
three billion and "a half mortgages on
Their farms, and that don't count
the chattel mortgages filed with
the town clerks ON farm ma.
chinery, stock Vaughn, and even
crops, 10y gosh. that amt two inches
high under the snow. That what the
prospects is for farmers now. The
government is rich. but .hc men that
made it, the men that fought perarie
res and perarie wolves and lniins and
potato bugs and Billiards. and has paid
the war debt and pensions and every
thing else and hollered for the union is
left high and dry this cold winter with
a mortgage of seven billion, and a half
on the farms they have earned and
saved "A thousand times over"
Yes but look at the glory of send
ing from the farm the future president.
the future senator and the future mem
Der OF congress-
That looks well on paper. but what
does II really amount to- Soon as a
farm boy gifts in a place Ike that he for
gets the soil that PRODUCED him and
holds his mead a. high as a holly-hock.
nd while he sails round in "A
highty-t ghty room W TIA a fire in il
night and day, his father on the farm
has 10 K ndle his own lire i'm the - orn-
ing with elm slivvers, and he has to