Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30


son keeps ], 600 head of cows on his Louis
lana place. and it is said raises his calves on
condensed milk. He loves dearly to fool
| with agriculture.
FISHING ON RAINY DAYS.
On rainy days, when Mr.. Jefferson can
not work on the farm, he may often be seen
in an oilskin coat digging for angleworms,
while near by you will see Mr.. Cleveland
with an old peach can almost filled with
these delicious insects The two start off
together, and are often gone all day fishing
in Buzzard's Bay, Buttermilk Bay or some
oftheir tributaries. Trout came down into
the salt water for the shrimps and also, I
judge, for the breeze and change of scene,
so that often the brook trout and sea bass,
/ mackerel, weakfish, bluefsh, etc. are caught
in the same waters. All sorts of sea food,
merce to the kippered herring of the work.
aday world, are found here in the front
dooryard of the great comedian.
1t is rather low of course to accept of q
mans hospitality and then speak lightly of
his agriculture, but must say that those
members ,of the Buzzard's Bay Farmers
Alliance, Chap ter s32, whom met, includ-
ing those have named, and also Mr.. Booth
and the Elder Couldock, did not fool me
with their farmer talk for a single moment.
did not know something about farming, so
I was not permitted to join the Alliance. I
was permitted, however, to look over some
of the papers prepared by these gentlemen,
and say that if such men are to WELD the
balance of power in '92 the underpinning of
our national fabric will become very porous
indeed.
GIVING ASPARAGUS AN AIRING.
Mr.. Cleveland's paper on Chow to Air an
Asparagus Bed" showed that the most pro-
found craftsmanship may be connected very
often with the most pitiable Ignorance re-
garding farm work. People never do have
to air an asparagus bed. Mr.. Booth, who
has been visiting here this summer and
who knows very little regarding agricul-
ture, was admitted by card, while I was
shut out. He followed Mr.. Cleveland's
paper with discussion regarding "Spring
and Fall Application of Mayonnaise Dress
ing in the Cultivation of Asparagus.
When people talk that way about growing
simple garden truck and are given life
membership in the Alliance, while one like
myself, who farmed it successfully as long
as his wife's money held out, and who,
therefore, ought to know something regard
ing agriculture, is not permitted to join the
debate, it naturally has tendency to en-
bitter one.
Mr.. Glider read paper regarding the
Rotation of Crops" and described new
machine by the use of which he thought
that crops could be given rotary motion.
From this the discussion became general,
and gradually drifted into literature and
the use of fresh liver and Gods heads for
Grabbing purposes. The use of iambic versi-
fcation and the club rod took up the at
tention of the Alliance for the rest of the
evening. From what I could hear on the
outside, I judge that these men knew no
more regarding the uses and abuses of agri-
culture than do the Sockless Simpson and
the outrageous PETER.
SOME TRIALS OF THE FARMER
Mr.. Couldock showed how the farmer
suffered, how he was trodden into the earth
and ill treated till his lite was not worth
living He said that it is dogs life. He
showed that the farmer is reviled secretly
by the politician and hoodwinked at the
polls, ground down by the money lender
and skinned by the merchant, ridiculed by
the comic papers and lied about by the un-
comic papers, hayed by the lawyers and
then barbecued by the fruit tree peddler,
bunkoed by the bunko steerer, gouged by
the green goods man, ignored by Congress,
cursed by the consumer, skun by the
wealthy and peppersauced by the poor,
peeled by the penniless and tobaccosauced
BY the usurious, logged by the Sheriff and
taxed to his grave, that he may prosper the
interests of the nonresident. Mr.. Couldock
then read paper on GLOW to Keep Boys
on the Farm"
Buzzard's Bay is only short ride from
Boston. A bright correspondent Of the
press is at the station. did not know it
when I went there. He was disguised,
think, as a baggageman, for l saw no one
but the regular station men when Mr.. Rob-
son and got off, but the paper the next
day had a graphic account of all we said
and did, both when we landed at Buzzard's s
Bay and when we left the day afterward I
do not know who he was, but he was
success from newspaper standpoint. He
was graphic, and described how my clothes
seemed to fit me better than I could have
done it myself Far better, in fact, for I
might have been prejudiced. He was not.
He Just laid aside all feeling and hewed to
the line, let the chips fall where they may.
Just as the Prince of Wales would do.
GROVER ON HIS HEALTH.
I did not succeed in drawing out Mr..
Cleveland regarding his candidacy, but he
said naively, as he turned aside to spit on
his bait, that his health was tiptop.
'That," said he, as he unfastened his
hook from the wainscoting of my trousers,
sis one thing which like about me- While
not in any sense q candidate, you may
say in general way that my health is right
good"
''what admire about Mr. Cleveland, %
said Mr.. Jefferson the following day, sis.