The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-03-15
Bill Nye Oh a Tour.
HE MEETS A TRAVELLER AND DIS
CCSsES FARMING.

CCSSES FARMING.
On board a Western train the
other day held in my bosom for
over IS miles the elbnw OF large
man whose name do not know.
lie was not a railroad hog or /
would have resented il. He was
bai't wide and he couldn't help
il. 50 | ;orsare him.
He had laIge. gentle, kindly
eve. and when he desired to spit
he vent TO The car door, opened
il and decorated The entire onI-
side of The train, forgetting that
our speed would help 10 give
scope to his remarks.
Naturally as he sat there hy
my side, holding on tightly 10
his ticket and evidently afraid
that The conductor would forget
10 ,me and get it. began 10
figure ont in my mind what might
be his business. He had pounded
one thumb so That the nail WAS
black whore the blood had set
tied under it. This might hap
pen TO shoemaker carpenter. Il
blacksmith, or almost any one
else. So II didn't help me out
much. though it locked to me as
though il might have been done
BY trying 10 drive fence nail
through 4 leilier hingr with The
back of N Ak, and nobody bnt
farmer would try 10 dn that
Following up ihe ciew, / disrnv-
cred that be had mix on his
boots, and then | knew | was
right. The man who milks be
fore daylight in darI: barn. when
the thermometer is $50 below,
and who hits his huo; and misses
the pail by reason Of he cold and
uncertain light md the prudish-
ness OF The COW, is q marked man.
He cannot conceal The fact that
he is a farmer unless he removes ,
thai badge. So | siarfen out on
that theory and remarked thai
this would pass for !, pretty hard
winter Oh stock.
The thought was moi original
with me, for | have heard il ex-
pressed by others. either in ihis
country or in Europe. He said |
il would.
NY cattle have gone through
lnow!ul o. hay since October
aud Il tons o brand. Hay don't |
seem 10 have The goodness To il
thet it he'd last year, and with
their new process griss. mills they
jerk all the juice ont o. braBd'
SOS yen might as as well feed
cows with excelsior and uphoisier
your horses with hemlOck bark
as tn buy brand"
"What are the prospects oc far
mers in ruur State ~
well, they are pore. Never
was so pore. in fact, since Eve
been there. Folks wonder why
why boys leave the farm. Ny
boys left it so as TO get protected,
they said, and SO tliey went inio
a clothing store, one of 'em. and
one went INTO hardware and one
is talkin' proiectionin he legs
Iature this winter. They said
that farinln' was gettin' TO be like
fishin aud huH,in, well enough
for a man that has means and
leisure, but they couldn't make
3 Twin at ii, they said. Ano,her
boy is in a drug store, and the
man that hires him says he is a
royal feller."
kind of a castor royal feller,'
/ said, with a shrek of laughter.
he waited until had lansl:e,l
all 1 wanied 10. and then he said:
I've always io!;ered for high
tariff in order 10 hyst the public
deh:. but nav hal we've got lie
national debt coopered, | wish
they'd lake iittle hack al mine.
I've pu, in so years farmin.
never drank Ticker i'm an, fern.
I've worked from 1910 IS hours
a day; been economical in rioze
and never went 10 show mort'n
dozen times in my life; raised
q family aud learned upwards of
200 raives Ia drink oni oi' IL tin
pale without blowing all their
ririuals up NV sleeves. Nv wife
worked alongside u me SEWN
new seats on the boys pants.
ski:nin' milk and even heipin ms.
io load hay. For 40 wears we
toi:el along together and hardly
got lime TO look Into each others
faces or dared Ia stop and gel az
Qua!n;etl with each other. Then
her health failed. ketcaed cold
in HE sprinelouse, prob'iy skim
min milk and wasliin' pans and
seal lin pals and Spankiu' bnIler.
Anyhow, she took in lnhg
breath one day while the doctor
ami me was waiciiIn' her. aud she
saws TO me. Henry, says she.
I've got a chance 10 rest, ard
size pu, one lired. worn oui hand
on icp of lIe other Tired. worn
oat hand, and | knew he'd gone