Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-08-29

our log school house. set our teacher
ut work, and boarded him around the
nelghborhood. The religious life OF
the pioneer was free from Sectarianism,
the itinerant minister doing his mas
ter's work was always welcome to
home and hearthstone. and the school
house was always open TO him regard
less of his creed. He baptised. mar
rled and buried and asked no ques-
ton and got but few fees.
The different schools of medicine
let the pioneer kindly alone. The
Boneset. Norwood, Pennyroyal and
Catnip that hung on tho chimney
breast, or the rafters In the roof, were
common enough but II when called In
the hard worked, poorly paid, patient
and jolly doctor. we did not question
pathy, or his diploma, it may have
been parchment, or paper from col
lege on earth, or no mans land, but we
were sure his pills would be big enough
and we could safely trust his Jalap,
aud Cream of Tarter, his Calomel, and
Quinine.
Questions of domestic economy, and
home Discipline, that do worry the best
OF US now days, gave the pioneer but
little trouble. no dispute could be got
ten up over the pattern of the parlor
carpet, for they hadn't any, or If they
had it was of rags. The fashion
plates did not reach the woods in those
days, and James bonnet and Charles
coat were warm, regardless of style,
until they were worn out, and then
they were made over for the young
children.
Who called first, and who called
last, and who owed calls were not de-
batable question with our mothers.
they visited when they had time and
wanted to, and when they did not
they stayed at home.
Insurance agents did not worry the
pioneer, his log house was fire proof.
Patent right peddlers hunted him not,
for necessity made him his own inven-
tor. Lightning rod agents, smoothed
tongued and oily, let him alone as
lightning had no terrors' for him. The
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had not been born to trouble the souls
of our mothers. Melliflous melodeons
were not set up in the parlor on trial.
The robins and the frogs. the orioles
and the owls, made music enough for
him. The height and color, the arch
i:ecture and structure of the first house
gave US no uneasincss. it was built Of
logs anyway. IL we were inclined TO
be extravagant. we painted the door
and window castings red, making the
paint of buttermilk and brickdust.
Farmers planted these colonies, all
of them, and organized their govern
ments. They were farmers of Yer
mont. Farmers who captured the
Fortress Ticonderoga, and accepted it's
equalization in the name of the great
Jehovah, and the continental congress
and thus gave over the first fortified
post to the cnu.e of the revolution.
They were farmers who checked Brit.
ish power at Saratoga, and broke it in
pieces like potters vessel at York
town.
They were farmers who recognized
the several states. and the several gov
the principles of equality and affilia-
ton. In every state. and in the whole
union they constitute the broad elec-
toral faculty, and by the preponderat-
ing suffrage, the vast and complex
machine is perpetually kept sustained
and kept in regular motion, and opera
ton. That it is in the main well ad-
ninistered that it might be better
administered, our perpetual and in
tense mission for cha nsa fnliy rrnvas
That 1t is administered no better, re-
suits from whatl From the fault of
the electoral body. The more intelli-
gent and patriotic they become the
more effective will be their control,
and the wiser their directions of the
government. is there not room? Nay
is there not need for more activity,
energy, and efficiency, on their part,
for their own security and welfare.
In the federal government commerce
has its minister. and each department
the law its organ and representative,
and the arts their commissioner and
bureau, but the vast interest of agri-
culture has only q single desk, and a
subordinate clerk, in the basement of
the patent Office. 1t is scarcely better
in the states, an empty character of
incorporation, with a scanty endow.
ment, constitutes substantially all that
has been done for agriculture. Gen
tlemen, l like not that It should be so,
our nation is sailing forward in high
career exposed to sharks and dangers.
Mr.. Cornelius Trudent.
Was heh standing. classical student
He was dignified. proper and prudent
But he never had MIXED COW.
One day on a rural excursion.
He mentioned by way OF diversion,
His palate would have no aversion,
To drink OF warm milk from a cow.
The boys with dire mischief infested,
The company progress arrested.