The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-10-21

CSOPJAASAII 4oSOp Dy EOgar W. Nye
We KEEP summer boarders the past
season, " said Orlando McCusick, of East
hortrlght, to me yestt rdaY, as we sat in
the spring house and drank cold milk
from a large yellow bowl with white
stripes around it; eve KEEP boarders
from town all summer in the Catskills.
and that is why I don't fgger on doing
OF 1t next year. You fellers that writes
the pieces and make. the pictures of us
folks that keeps the boarders has got the
laugh on US as a general thing, but l
would like to be interviewed a little for
the press, SOS that / can be set right be
fore the American people"
Well, if you will state the case f. irly
and honestly 1 will Try to give you a
chance"
I'm the first place." said Orlando, tax
ing off his boot and removing his Jack
knife, which had worked its way through
his pocket and down h s leg, :hen squint-
ing along the new "t8p" with one eve to
see how it was wearing before he put it
on. II did not know how healthy it
was here till l read in srsilrosd pamphlet
l guess it is what you call
it, where it says that the relation
of temperature to oxygen in a Ger
tain quantity of air is of the highest
Importance. In a cubic foot, it says, of
air at 3 1000 feet elevation, with a tempera-
ture of 80 degrees, there is as much oxy-
gen as in a like amount of air at sea level
with a temperature of IS degrees. An
other important fact that should not be
lost sight Of this able teller says, 'by
those affected by pulmonary diseases is
Rhaf 4hron IN e0y,p +;voo, - -..ol 1900
is consumed in activity as in repose.
(Hence the hornets nests introduced bv
me this season. Then in climates made
stimulating by increased electric tension
and cold, activity must DE TO lowed by an
increased endosemOSe of oxygen"
$50 you decided to select and furnish
endoSemoSe of oxygen to sufferers?'
Eyes. / went into it with no notions
of making a pile of money, but I argued
that these folks would give anything for
health. We folks are apt to argy that
people from town are all we'll off and
liberal, and that if they can come out and
get all the buttermilk and straw rides
they want, and a little flush of color and
mo a wood tick on the back of their
neck, they don't reck a pesky reck what
it costs. That is only occasionally so.
Ask any doctor you know of if the aver
age nan won't give anything to save his
life, and then when it's saved put his
property into his womern's name. That's
human. You know the good book says
a pure man from New York is the noblest
work of God"
We'll, when did this 6esire to endos-
NOSE your fellow man first break out on
your
About a year and a half ago it begun
to rankle in my mind. l read up every
thing 1 could get hold of regarding the
longevity and such things to be had here.
In the winter I cent in a fair, honest ad-
vertisement regardir g my place and
Judas II. PriestI Before 1 could say
scat in the spring here come letters by
the dozen, mostly from school teachers at
first that had a good command of Ian
guage, but did not come. l afterward
learned that these letters were
frequently wrote by folks that was
not able to go into the country,
but wrote these letters for men
tai improvement, hoping also that some
one in the country might want them for
the refinement they would engender in
the family.
81 took ore young wOmern from town
once, and allow d her 25 per cent. off for
her reinil g influence. Her name was
Etiquette McCracken. She knew very
little in the first place, and had added TO
it a good deal by storing up in her mind
a lot of membranous theoI les and dam
aged facts that ought to been looked over
and disinfected. She was the most hope
less case l ever have saw, Nj. Nye.
She was a metropolitan ass. You know
that a town gTeenhorn is the greenest
greenhorn in the world, because he can't
be showed anything. He knows it all.
Well, Etiquette McCracken very nigh
paralyzed what few manners my children
had. She pointed at things at table and
said she wanted some O. that, and she
had sort of a starved way of eating I'D a
sho't breath and seemed all the time ap
prehensive. She pr,bably ct off the top
of a hour barrel at home. She came and
stayed all summer at our house, with q
wardrobe which was in a shawl strap
wrapped up in a programme of one Of
them big theatres on BOwery street. ]
guess she led a gay life in the city. She
said she did. She said if her set was al
our house they would make 1t ring with
laughter. [ said if they did I'd wiring
their cussed necks with laughter. why +,
she says, don't you like merriment {?
Yes 1 says, Il like merriment well
enough, but the crackle of a vacant mind
rafting around in a big farm house makes
me a fend and humans me, a-d l gnaw
up two or three people a day till 1 get
over it, 1 says"
"Wel, what became of Miss Nc
Cracker p
"Oh, she went up to her room in Sep
TENDER, dressed herself in a long linen
buster, did some laundry work and the
next day, with her little shawl strap, she
lit out for the city, where she was engaged
to marry a very wealthy old man whose
mind had been crowded out by m intel,
~Iectual tumor, but who had a kind heart
and had pestered her to death for years
to marry him and inherit his wealth. ]
sfterward learned that IN this matter she