Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-03-09

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| . passle Of slim tailed. yeller COWS from
Nov Jersey and aims to handle cream
and diversified farming. Last year th'
cuss sent load Of cream over and trieC
| 70 sell y at the new crematory while the
| funeral and hollecorst was goin' on.
may be sort Of a chump, myself, but
read my paper and don't get left like
that 'iA l'' - ta
What are the prospects for farmer,
10 your State :"
s1s'sWell, they are pore Never was &C
| pore, IN fact, sence I've ben there
Folks wonder why boys leaves the farm
ny boys left so as to get protected, they
| suid, aud SO they went into clothing.
store que Of 'em, and one went into
hAs aMaT- and lone is talkin' protection in
{! the Ilee ,slat0re this winter. They said
\ shsss sla' vas gitiia' % b. like lshin
and hunhn, we'll enough Cor man lat
has means and leisure, but they couldn't
make a liyin' at they said. Another
boy is in drug store. and the man that
hires him says he is royal feller."
"Kind of a castor royal feller." said /.
with shrek of laughter.
He waited until had laughed all
wanted to and then he said:
"Pve always holered for high tariff
in order TO hyst the public debt, but
now that we've got the national debt
coopered I wish they'd take little hack
at mine. I've put in fifty years farmin'.
| never drank Ticker in any form. Pve
worked from ten to eighteen hours day,
been economical in cloze and never went
to show more'n dozen times 10 my
life, raised family and learned upward
of two hundred calves to drink out of
tin-pail without blowing all their vittles
up my sleeve. My wife works along
side O me SEWN new seats on the boys
pants, skimmin' milk and even helpin'
me load hay For forty years we toiled
along together and hardly got time to
look into each others faces or dard to
stop and get acquainted with each other.
Then her health failed. Ketched cold
in the spring house, prob'ly skimmin'
milk and washin' pans and scaldin' pals
and spankin' butter. Anyhow, she took
in breath one day while the doctor and
me was watchin' her, and she says to
me, Henry, says she, I've got chance
to rest and she put one tired, worn
out hand on top of the other tired, worn
out hand, and | knew she'd gone where
they don't work all day and do chores all
night"
II took time to kiss her then, I'd
beon too busy for good while previous
to that, aud then | called in tho boys.
After the funeral it was too much for
them to stay around and eat the kind of
cooking we had TO put up with, and no.
body spoke up around the house as We
used to. The boys quit whistin' around
the barn and talked kind of low by them
selves about goin' to town and gettin'
lob ~ ssa i.H
They're all gono 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 long while without say
ing anything.
II don't blame the boys for going in
to something else longs other things
pays better but say--and say what |
know---that the man who holds the pros
perity of this country in bis hands, the
man that actually makes money for
other people to spend, the man that eats
three good, simple, square meals day
and goes to bed at o'clock, 80 that fu-
ture generations with good blood and
cool brains can 60 from his farm to the
Senate and Congress and the White
Rouse-he is the man that gets left at
last to run his farm, with nobody to
help bin but hired man and high
protective tariff. The farms in our State
is mortgaged for over soven hundred
millions dollars Ten Of our Western
States--I soc by tho papers has got
about three billion and half mortgages
on their farms, and that don't count the
chattels mortgages filed with the town
clerks on farm machinery, stock, wag-
gins and even crops, by gosh that
amt two inches high under the snow.
That's what the prospects is for farmers
now. The Government is righ, but the
men that made it, tho men that fought
peraric fires and perarie wolves and In
jins and potato-bugs and blizzards, and
has paid the war debt and pensions and
everything else and hollered for the
Union and the Republican party and
high tariff and anything else that they
was told to, is left high and dry this cold
winter with mortgage Of seven bill
lions and half on the farms they have
earned and saved 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
ber of Congress"
THAT looks well on paper, but what
does it really amount to? Soon as a
farmer boy gifts in place like that he
forgets the soil that produced him and
hold his head as high as holly-hock.
He bellers for protection to Everybody
but the farmer, and while he sails round
in highty-tighty room with fire in it
night and day, his father on the farm
has to kindle his own fire in the morn
ing with elm slivvers, and he has to
wear his sons lawn-tennis suit next to
him or freeze to death, and he has to
milk in an old gray shawl that has held
that member of Congress- when he was
baby, by CORY and the old lady has
to sojourn through the winter 10 the
fannels that Silas wore at the riggatter
before he went to Congress.
80 l say, aud | think that Congress
agrees with me, Damn farmer, any
howl"
He then went away.
BILL NYE.
"What do you mean BY iostling against