Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-08-04

chise, grant, bond, mortgage and other
wise give land, right of way, easement,
conveyance and general hospitality to
railroads, yet in the meantime driving
into town on three wheels with the
tarred axle of the fourth one riding on q
tamarac pole.
Every industry has preceded the civil
izing influence of practical roadbuild-
ing The time has come for emanci.
patton. We have really overdone the
building Of railroads, and constructed
them through space, hoping that agri-
culture would overtake the buffet car,
but it cannot, because its wagon roads
are impossible except to Seraphim.
Men OF prominence throughout the
country have been receiving for some
time well penned letters from the type
writer of Albert A. Pope, of Boston, who
has discovered, no doubt, that the reason
we crowd into the cities to live is because
we can get from one store to another
without getting mired.
1t is now proposed to make road de-
partment in the exposition at Chicago,
wherein may be seen all manner of
roads, roadbuilding material, tools, ma
chinery, etc., from a right of way with
a rut in the center of it to sprinkling
cart that will wait for the man with the
fresh duck vest and the linen trousers
and newly polished boots before it will
squirt.
As originally designed, the roadmak-
ing machinery and material, as well as
cross sections of roads, were to be so
scattered over the ground, being in four
teen groups, that the visitor must look
through five immense buildings, cover
ing 70 $40 acres of ground, in order to
see what the world is doing in the way
Of making roads.
We have very often home grown
products, l know as a farmer, which
would yield something if we could take
q profitable load to our nearest town,
but where we can only draw 500 pounds
and take off wheel en- route we find
that we had better lose the goods than
try to marked them under such circuni-
stances. Referring to home grown
horses, will add that we need, if we
could afford it, q strain of the better
class of blood, such as the Percheron,
the Norman, and well known English
families dating back to William the
Conqueror.
was never more mortified than last
week. / had endeavored on my stud
farm at Buck Shoals to rear a new and
attractive mule, and in May we were
blessed with little bunny mule of the
clay bank variety, sired by Kentucky
papa and damned on the place.
For years ! have not been cursed By
pride. Since the artist has been practic-
ing on me with view to some day illus
trating a book called "Life Among the
Lowly; or, Eighty Years on the Door
for Mephistopheles," l can truly say that
| am not proud, but week ago went
to town with the mother of the new
mule Marguerite, as I deemed it time to
wean her. So left Marguerite moored
to the well curb and l drove on to Ashe-
vile to market a bunch of fat pine.
The day was beautiful. The odor of
clover and the sweet, seductive smell Of
the azalia seemed to lift me off the seat.
A small black hornet also assisted in the
great work.
"Oh, joy! oh, joyr l said; "what a
gladstone day. Is it not indeed plumb
honey?" as we say in Hooper township.
The air was impregnated with ozone,
and now and then we could hear the
neigh of my palfrey neighing.
She neighed for her absent child with
a mothers neigh. The fact that bitter
things had been said about her and
social ostracism had come with the little
stranger did not steel her warm mother
heart toward the little one. True, she
could not remember any of her folks
who ran so freely to ears as Marguerite
did, but she rocked not.
When I had marketed my fat pine
kindling wood at the Kenilworth inn and
bought hay with the money, for have
to buy hay in order to feed my stock on
the farm, so that they can cultivate my
farm, so that / can look forward to the
time when can buy more hay to feed
my team, so that they will feel strong
and well enough to cultivate the soil, so