The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-01-28
A CHILD or MISFORTUNE.
His sorrowfuI Story Retold by Prof
David Swing.



details OF hope and final failure, this
unfortunate man wiped not a few tears
from his eyes, and Ind not his lips opened
az once 70 divert me with more scenes
from his evsntfubaife should soon have
sought for my own pocket handkerchief
and have joined him In 8 wstsry express
sion of emotion. He kindly diverted the
minds Of both OF IA by advancing TO tell
hts third sorrow.
read good books and consulted learned
men until became satisfied In my own
mind that in the shape of corn and
beans land would yield the greatest re-
wards OF capital aud labor. Boston an.
thorities advised me TO plant beans.
Irish scientists inclined towards potatoes.
Kentucky advised me TO plant corn and
extract It's juice as being more nutri-
tious than milk and as having ten.
dency 20 promote sloquence and give
tone 20 mankind. combined the ad-
vice Of Now England and the blue grass
region, and plant a my twenty acres in
both corn and beans. In each hill 4
placed -four grains OF corn and four
beans. The question what 10 plant had
displaced the inquiry how to plant. had
kept me in ignorance of the agricultural
truth that tho corn should have had the
start OF month in this race Of cellular
tissues. In boyhood had attended
many races, and as at those meetings an
equal send.off was always desirable, my
feeling about corn and beans symps-
thized with that equitable form OF con
test and II WAS my wish that my
corn and beans should start neck
and-neck. Both products OF the soil
soon appeared above ground and In
about ten days the beans had, loyer-like,
begun 70 lean fondly upon the straight.
brave corn, and TO put gentle arms around
their companions- All went we'll until the
iast days OF June. The Kentucky plant
was about three feet high, and each Bos-
ton vine had made several trips around
the delicate waist of its particular corn
stalk. The sun had been warming the
ground for many days, and my pillow and
hce had made the soil porousas asponge.
And at this juncture there fell in the
night very heavy and hot shower. As
my hfftA hlJ bNh ihJ hooAb WIS HohA'ehJ
full OF blossedness and satisfaction.
arose in the night and read the poem about
tho pattesing rain upon the roof In the
morning 40 wild was my delight that de-
termined not TO look at my rich fields
until at noon. when a long morning of
full sunshine would have made more visi-
bic the change wrought by the shower.
AZ IL o'clock / walked forth aud leaned
upon the gate. And now, dear fellow NOR
tai ron will pity me; you will feel for
your brother when toll you the entire
field WIS covered With the dead and the dy-
ing. The corn and beans lay PROSTATE,
dead yellow mass. climbed over the
gate, having forgotten TO open IL, and in
a few moments learned thecause OF the
calamity. The corn, under tho impulse
OF the hot shower and the hot sun, had
moved upward so rapidly that IL had
pulled every bean ont OF tho ground, aud
then the beans, dying up in the hot sun,
had choked all the corn to death. Not
single stalk OF maize had escaped this af-
fectionats int fatal embrace. All WAS
iesolation except the part that was al
leacel-