The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-03-29
A sA1lsF4cToRY EXPERIMENT

A nosiItizx9abnoIld f IL ID oM w FARMER
Thorleyc, Of Ditebap End and anot at
all an easy sort of man Gas you would
havelseAnHbST one look at his7red face
and hard mouthp eitheFit6 persuade or
Scs0tGnfVince.,,1 He farmed his own land
5brgesMSAed ,histewn beer, and Thought En- Eng
lsnd2thy finest country in the dworld,
and himself one of the finest fellows
1HltY W l. 'bTaH djZio
Whenever Fl rm Ifsa'' 2rThiOafiey was tod
any any thing, that be had notheard before,
acknowledgement pretty often" fordhe
nadine been-twenty miles VfrotnJ Ids
native village iRrRisi life, he GENERALLY
Tcaatt short all Arguments, by saying
4gy4rgsafly ,thatrhe didn't belieys aywoTd
OF it," and .Hay odneIwhO contradicted
him after that Was-sure to have pretty
hard timee33oafo i1t4 roI239M TOy6M
I Railways were the old farmers es-i
peefal hoErtror, ohbtS ofiy becahse they
hweres new tn7enttnn0 hut because the
only Journey by, railroad that he had
ever made (Which was to q town about
Fifteen miles off had commenced with
,acvefss 4a13zlthg and Ndisagf6eaHes adj
venture which he had, neyego been cable
{ to understand. His own, version Of the
festory was that he had got into the train
and fGn6 naslSeP just aso It. started, and
found 4Wheno hee Yoke again: that be
had been all the, way, e. QarlkeestQn and
BACK without knowing any thing about
kit,r 800 shat me had all his i6urReyite do
soyers again. .nBpt Ethe reaEfect,of5t the
matter, was that the old fellow bad got
into a carriage that was not coupled TO
E4Re fgraiH, 'diid had gone to-sleep there
! Ednite eonfertab1yi-od6. Ont o. MO"
Z 1T happened that one, summer there
! came. to lodge at the farm young man
fWho had travelled and Had read a good
} EdeaL too. When. he first came he had
been study ling very hard, and locked g
4 pale and thin beside the burly, red fac
2 Cd, broad-skfrted farmer, in hiss grea'
! ktnpLb6ots. that old Thor1ef was Fathei
! disposed, to- set; him deWn as a. milk
9 sop" But the young fellows stories, O
!. what he had read and what had seen II
1 foreign lands were so entertaining, tina
Farmer Thorley (xho never read an.
= -thing but the county hewspapersl sool
Ifbefari to thihk better of him; and al
n though he always expressed great stir
q prise at.anyrOae caring to7vande1' ahdl
: In A'the- Publishing n foreign counties
) instead OF, staying comfortably at HON
!. in Old England. he meyer failed to III
m ten with all his ears when his Lodge
: began 70 talk, ......,.,.. $50,
?. AtAast tfhappened that th studer
: vas sitting one evening on Tie bene
,rI IN front or the door, trying to explai
re- IS little Dolly ThorleyT Che farmer
Youngest chiid) how it was that II
. earth tdrned round. when up came tt
: old man himself. just, In time 10 cato
= the last words OF FRed Aason's exp
s. sition. ah ~ .e'E-'1i'- Il ~
ae l-"Heyk what be: tnatea i.thndrt ten
r the little swench, peesteF?De cried b
I'd .Did thee say as tbs earth tsrT0'
10 any one coatradictel him He RENAL
be ed 2grinfly. silsnt FOR a motnent a
,, then, striding into-the house, came o
With a, large jugot water. .ofs)oN p
=. II book ZEE here, young man. "a
he grufRy. when a man eontrAdis
/ . ne, he's got tolproye his words No
Ter bark W. i be gDiR2 to put that jug
: the7 top o this hers gate-Post- =
- neither you nor !. nor ybody else
= 20, nigh it till Tomorrow Inorn ing, .
70 then. IT, the earth 6nes turn refund.
you. say, it'll upset the Jug ,.rr..--r
he And away went Mr., rThorley ipto
=. house With a hoarse, chpekle, fell
- confident that he had caught this you
= man IN a trap, . T.
re- '7oBdFhe aid not feel quite 50 triunl