Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-15

OuJ vi blh pan NIiIphb bAph an olA AAiNAA
vittles up my sleeve. My wife worked
alongside o me SEWN new seats on the
bows pants, skimmin' milk and even
helping me load hay. For forty years
we toilei along together and hardly got
time to look into each others faces or
dared 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 a long breath one
day while the doctor and me was watch
in her, and she says to me, Henry
saws she, Il We got a chance to rest, and
she put one tired, worn out hand on top
of the other tired vorn-out hand, and
knew she'd gone where they don't work
all day and do chores all night.
Il took time 10 kiss her then. I'd
been too busy for coed while previous
to that and then | called in the boys.
After the funeral il was too much for
them to stay around and eat the k nd
of cookin' we ha ! to put up with, nd
nobody spoke M around the house as
we used 20. The boys quit whistlin'
around tn. Barn and talked k nd Of
low by themselves about goin' to town
and gettin' job.
They're all gone now and the snow
is four feet deep on mothers grave up
there in the old burryin' ground"
Then both of us looked out OF the car
window quite a long while without say
anything.
II don't blame the boys for going
into something else longs other things
pays better; but say and | say what
know-that the man who holds the
prosperity of this country in his hands,
the man that actually ma es money for
other people To spend, the man that
eats three good, simple square meals q
day and goes TO bed at nine o'clock,
so that future generations with
good blood and cool bra ms can
90 from his farm to The senate and
Congress and the White House he is
the man that get eff ut last to run his
farm, with nobody 10 help him but Il
hired man. he farms in our state is
mortgagcd ,or over seven hundred mil
lion dollars. Ten of our western states
II see " the papers has got about
three billion ami q half mortgages on
their farms. and that don't co mt
the chattel mortgages fled with
the town CLERKS on farm ma.
chinery. stock waggins and even
crops, by gosh! that amt two inches
high under the snow. That's what the
prospects is for farmers now Tho
government is rich, but :hc men that
made it, the men that fought per3re
res and perarie wolves and !njns 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 billions and 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 it really amount to- Soon as a
farm boy gifts in place like that he for
gets the soil that produced him and
holds his head as high as a holly-hock.
and while he sails round in a
highly Eighty room with fire in it
night and day, his father on the farm
has to kindle his own fire in the = orn-
ing with elm slivvers, and he has to