The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-07-27
Dii.L air ON THE TARIFF.

4 On board a Western train the other da.
| | held In my bosom for over seventy .fiy
miles the elbow Of large man who's
name do not know. He was not rail
road hog or would have resented 1t. II
was built Wide and he conldn't help II, ..
/ forgave him.
| lie had large, geatle, kindly eye, aue
when he desired TO spit he went 20 the cai
dooropened it,and decorated the entire out
eide OF the train, forgetting that our speee
would help To give scope to his remarks.
Naturally ,as he sat there by my side hold
Ing on tightly TO his ticket and evidently
afraid that the conductor would forget ID
come and get i'll began to figure on. In my
mind what might be his business. lie haa
pounded one thumb 80 that the nail was
klaek where the blood had aettIed under II
This might happen to shoemaker, car.
penler.a biacksmith.o: almost any one else.
So Il didn't help me ont much. though It
looked 10 me n though It might have been
done by trying to drive fence nail through
4 leather hinge with the back Of an a., and
nobody but farmer would Try TO do that.
Following up the e.ew,I discovered that
he had milk on his boots. and then knew
was right. The man WHO mills before
daylight In dark barn when the thermom.
eter Is 2g' below zcro,and who hits his boot
by reason Of the uncertain light and the
prudlahness Of the COW, Is a marked man.
lie cannot conceal the fact that he d a
farmer unless he removes this badge. So
started out on the theory, and remarked
that this would pass for pretty hard win
ter on stock.
The thought was not original with me.
for have heard It expressed by others
either In this country or Europe. lie aald
II would.
aMy cattle has gone through snowfui
o. hay senee October and eleven ton o.
brand Hay don't seem 10 have the good.
ness 10 II tibet Il he'd last year and with their
new process griss mills they jerk all the
juice out o. brand. sos you might as well
feed COWS with excelsior and uphoistcr your
horses with henlock bark ~ to buy brand"
"Weli. why do you run 20 much to stock
Why don't you try diversified farming and
rotation of crops I"
"Well,prob'iy you got that ldeein the pa
pers. A man that earns big wages writing |
Farm Hints for agricultural papers can
make more money with a soft leadpeneil |
and two or three season.eraeked idees like |
shai'n can .arrylngo ofem out on the farm. |
We used to have afcilow in the drug store
Ia our town that wrote such good pieces for
he R#raf Teymoatey. and made up such |
good condition powder ont OF his own head |
that two years ago We asked him 10 write
! uessay for the annual meeting OF the |
Buckwhea, Yruss,an to use his own judg. |
mept about choice of subject. And what
70 you pose he had selected for nessav
tssas took the whole forenoon 10 read ~
"NhaG subjectyou mean r.
meYea.r
@6ive itup!'
AwelI. he'dwrote out that whole blamed
waa on the subject Of The In.
of Dehorning Hydraulic Rams
How's that r.
That's pretty fair
sWcfi, iarmlaa i like runnlp' paper In
regard 70 some things. Every ieller in the
world win take and turn in and tell you how
70 do ltseyen II he don't know blame thing
about II There ain't man In the United
States to-day that don't secretly think he
could run airy one II his other business
busted on him, whether he knows the diff
ference between a new milch cow and
horse haytakc or not. We had one Of these
embroidered night.shirt farmers come from
town betteT'n three years ago. Been
toilct-soap man and done well, and so he
came put and bought farm that had moth
Ing to Il but fauey house and barn. lot
of medder In the front yard,and Southern
aspect. The farm was no good. You
couldn't raise disturbance on It. Well,
what does he do Goes and gifts passle OF
slim-tailed yellcr cows from New Jersey
and aims to handle cream and diversified
farming. Last year the cuss ssht a load of
cream ever and tried to sell il at the new
crematory while The funeral and hollercost
was goin' on. / may be sort of a chump
myselt,but read my paper and don't get
left like that"
"what are the prospects for farmers in
your state r.
aWell they are pore. Never was so pore,
In fac, ,sence I've ben there. Folks wonder
why boys leayes the farm. My boys left so
as to get protected, they said, and so they
went into clothing store, one of 'em, and
one went into hardware, and one Is talkin'
protection in the Legislature this winter.
They said that farmin' was gettin' to be like
fishin' and huntin', well enough for man
that has means and leisure, but they
couldn't make livin' at il, they said. An
other boy Is in a drug store, and the man
that hires him says he is royal feller.
aKind of castor royal felier,'' cried
with shrek of laughter.
lie waited until had laughed all want-
ed to,and then he said s:
aI've always hollered for high tariff in
order to hyst the public debt, but now that
we've goi the National debt coopered ]
wish they'd take little hack at mine. I've
put in fifty years farmin'. ] never drank
Ticker in any form. I've worked from ten
to eighteen hours day been economical
in clozs and meyer went TO show more'n
dozen times in my life raised family
and learned upwards of two hundred calves
to drink out OF Tin pail without blowing
their vittles up my sleeve. My wife work
ed alongside o. me sewin' new seats on the
boys pants,skimmin' milk and even helpin'