The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-04-09
BY MORTIMER c. BROWN.


~ And chase pillow all day, around
al A forty acre lot
kf And, when it strikes against stone,
VA Drawn by the horses stout,
N To have the handles prance around
9 And punch your dayilghts out.
VIA How sweet at noon to lie at ease
& Beneath some spreading tree,
4 And hold secret session
lN With an ardent humble bee,
.of And when your rheumatism makes
M Your legs refuse to 60,
How sweet to lie upon your back
fu And watch your mortgage grow.
And when the busy cares of day
Have faded with the light,
We How sweet to lie in peaceful sleep
M Throughout the dewy night,
And to hear the partner of your joys,
At the fir 1T faint tinge of dawn,
Shout, Gene. old granger, hump
yourself
The cows are in the corn"
3 THE FRUIT CROP.
~ The total destruction of the fruit
crop last year has caused much anxi-
ETY. amongst fruit growers and eater s
Curing the four weeks just ende d.
March gave us such a succession Of
light frosts as to excite material in
terest in the orchard and truck patch.
While tender garden truck and fruit
in low lying places may have been
slightly damaged it may be safely as
ssumed that the main crop of the
epuntry has not been materially
'injured. Some of the earliest
varieties of peaches have been thin.
ned Out, but what is lost in quantity
ill probably be made up in size. AS
B rule peaches are left much too thick
on the trees and the result is two
bushels of little wizened, ,hotSy balls,
Instead of one bushel or less of fine
fruit. 1t takes more nerve than pos
sessed by the average fruit grower to
70 through the orchard and thin out
The fruit just as it begins to set, but
Unless this is done or nature inter
ieres with frost or high wind, the
esop is generally larger than the tree
Y IN properly develop.
If the pruning of fruit trees has
been delayed it should now receive
attention, as the sap is in full flow
and will soon heal up the sores made
by the knife.
Dewberr:es promise to be the best
crop for many years, as they are max
ipg vigorous growth and are COW
cred with blossoms.
Il FARMERS NOT THE ONLY FOOLS.
All the year round says the Rural
New Yorker the papers delight to d.
late on the multitudinous tricks played
by dishonest city vagabonds on far
mere, appearing half to condone the
rascality for the amusement afforded
by the dizziness of the culprits and the
losses of the victims. True, farmers
do occasionally suffer from urban
in tricks and trade, but for
81 they lose through The Vaccinations
Of sharpers, wide awake city y orkmen,
clerks, tradesmen, merchants and cap
italists, whose wits are sharpened
by the daily papers aud con-
Stant attrition with each other, lose
tens or even hundreds. Who blindly
intrust their hard earned savings to
confidence schemes that
promise bewildering profits and
flourish for season like the sunflower
Then vanish like the Arab with the
plunder of their dupes? Not the I'M
farmer, but the willy city
fellow.
I, VINO recklessly invest millions in
the South sea bubbles of the Wards
and Iveses and other precious "Na-
poleons of Finance" Not innocent
Ha, seed, Mossback and Wayback, but
keen-eyed, hawk beaked Shylock, bent
beneath hoary ages of inherited craft
In shekel grubbing and boarding
!. thin-lipped Gradgrind |
With a joyless lifetime's experience in
sxtracting lucre alike from the
OF poverty and the thrift
lessness of wealth without too great a
risk to his own neck or liberty, and
sleek, rotund moneybags, many of
whose inherited or accumulated mil
ions are often dissipated in wildcat
- iemes.
1 Why then smoker or sneer at the
petty greed or gullibility of country
Iolks while indulgently tolerant of the
monstrous greed and gullibility of city |
people? Like every form of crime and
rascality, swindiing finds far richer
and easier opportunities in towns and
cities than in country places.
y SALT INDUSTRY IN TEXAS.
About three months ago l advised |
he use of Texas salt in meat curing |