The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-01-10

practically aids materially in main
tanning these roads, and as the law is a
county or to ~n affair, buying @ Iegis-
lature and thus repeating it is out of
the question, Thus the d~owntrodden
farmer is greatly pleased and may be
heard softly chuckling to himself as he
follows the pillow by day, Or at evening
with a shingle, scrapes the rich mold
from the inner a Of his trousers
below the knee, where he has Inter
fered."
Marion, O., is a good town, but Goes
really need q new depot. At present
the depot consists of Jim Fisk's old
private car. The waiting room is the
body Of the car, and tickets are sold in
the buffers pantry. If the Worlds
Fair should give the railroad company
a good summer in 1898, it may put an
addition to the depot. Very likely it
will be a caboose, which will be used
for hauling baggage and connected
with the old depot by a vestibule.
rhe comparison between the depot
at Indi annapolis and that at Marion is
very striking. Indianapolis has one
Of she lightest, cheeriest, most com
modious depots in the Union, I think,
while the one at Marion is 80 small
that you have to go to the ticket win
dow and ask the price of your ticket
and then go outside to get the money
out of your pocket.
at Ashtabula, o., we found the old
home Of Ben Wade. Ben Wade was
very bald, and yet he had many ad-
mirers both in the State and out of it.
On the evening Of Mr.. WINDOWS
sudden death at the great dinner at
Delmonico's wei got to discussing Wade
before going into dinner, and to sort of
cheer me up he spoke Of Wade's great
ness and badness, as if they went in
pairs, which i8 really not SO by a good
deal.
"One day, said Mr.. Window, Wade
had made a particularly brilliant
speech and was welcomed by the great
general mass of people, and Ohio peo-
pie in. particular. One old lady es
pecially said: Mr.. Wade, I have
come over 400 miles to hear that
speech, and I am tickled plum to death
with the way you socked it to 'em. l
want to shake hands with you, and l
also want, as a special, favor, to carry !
home a lock of your haIr,'
Certainly says Wade, stepping |
forward with gallantry and shaking
her V 81 My by the hand, 1 will shake
han with you with much pleasure
and jerking Of his wig he told her to
help herself"
Joshua r. Giddings, with Wade, also
lived in the county seat, which is near
the city of Ashtabula. The city has
tried six years to get the courthouse,
but failed, and so there Is a feud over
it. A country without a feud is rather
a dull place to live in. 1 am getting
ready to have one in my beautiful
North Carolina home, but so far can
not find a worthy man who will attend
to the f0Id while I write it up for the
press. Possibly the man who Quilt my
house will do.
Ashtabula has IL, 900 people, and is
very prosperous.
GaspIpe, the great penman and
author of "How to avoid bad breaks
in Good Society" lives here. He came
very near e~stranging my wife and my
self. I used one of his ready written
proposals of marriage, and she having
studied the same with the idea of
famliarizing herself with the ann
of rejecting any such thing without
causing needless pain, recognized the
the composition, also the shading on
the back strokeof B; but l got a chance
to write one myself afterward, which
was so earnest, yet full of wit and
command of language, that | gave her
my hand in marriage and endowed her
with all my worldly goods, including
8 good shotgun.
Mr.. Gaspipo is a good nan to prepare
forms Of correspondence, even TO a
letter from a defeated candidate for
mayor to his wife's mother, in which
he expresses the opinion that the sue
~cessful party will be SO lacking in
Judgment during his term that the op-
position will easily win, at which time,
should he be successful and build an
addition to the house, he would be glad
to have a visit from her.
The author of the Spencerian system
of peamanship was of this country and
does not even regret it yet.
Ashtabula is remembered chiefly be
cause it was the scene OF a most ter
rible railroad disaster, in which over
200 people lost their lives, in 1876, but
she should be best known as the big