The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-23

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nave already stated / am innocent of
bringing this financial distress on the
country as the child unborn. I know
lou OF farmers who car say the same
thing.
Then why should u seed supply,
poor as it is, have to be shut off in
oroer to bring about prosperity and
pIentyf OF course we are ignorant OF
craftsmanship. Craftsmanship and a
thorough familiarity with it are gifts.
we a only know what ails the coun-
try through the ~eloquence of statesmen
who come and speak at the school
house In the fail Of the year. They be-
seech us to he ~ ire polls instead of
ploWlng, and then forget to vote them
selves, being two busy asking others to
exercise the divine right of suffrage
two or three times a da. to exercise it
themselves.
We are really the victims of too
many unfeaty statesmen. As farmers
we are led to believe that hard times
demand a change Of administration,
and misfortune is hailed with delight
by this class of educators because it in
Jurles the administration at the time
In power. Men are selfish and IN
reasonable; hence the farmer who
don't know what is going on till too
late Is made a sufferer.
There are five hundred indictments
IN the Federal Court at Asheville, N.
O., for the manufacture of illicit whis-
key, Every one of those five hundred
men states that he vi rote the Repub-
lican ticket next time having been de-
ceived this trip by statesmen who told
him that with a Democratic President
he would not be disturbed at all and
that the market would greatly i'm.
prove.
What can one do when statesmen do
such things9 1 have to be very guarded
here, in a monarchy, not to brag too
much about the divine right of suffrage,
for Z. P. O'Connor and some more of
my acquaintance have been consider
ably in America, and are familiar with
our patriotism and the quotations of
some per pat.
Referring to affairs of state brings
me to speak of Windsor castle. Wind
scr is a corruption of Wind shore, I
believe, and is 45 minutes from Pad
dingtOn station. From Waterloo
| cEo tiOp r. 10 ono hour Re- bo forpoor
way, in leaving London you pass Ken
sal Green, and at a station called
Slough you take a branch road to
Windsor. Stoke Pogis is near Slough,
and is worth visiting, for the manor
was at one time owned by William
Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
1t is also where the tranquil life of
the poet Gray was mostly spent. The
church yard here is the one set forth
in his elegy, and there the rude fore
fathers of the hamlet sleep.
Windsor is a village of 20, 600 people.
and though only 45 minutes from Lon
don, lots are cheaper than they would
have been a few years ago at that dis
lance out of Wichita, Kan.
Windsor castle stands on the site of
the original building made of wood and
erected by Edward the Confessor. 1t
was, however, built by contract and
very faulty in construction. It was
succeeded by a stone structure erected
by William the Conqueror, who had a
larger family and turned up his nose
at a story and q half house with no
Underpinning to it. William the Con-
quOrer, it is said, was the first man in
the history Of England to successfully
manage a crew of builders. Bright
and early he would come over to the
works and bring his battleax with him.
When the contractor sought TO cell the
library with Gull lumber or to putty up
a fireplace that had been put in the
wrong end of the chimney, William
the Conqueror would call him aside
and cut off his head with a bright new
battleAx.
Quite a number of cloisters are con
nected with the castle as it now ap-
pears, but they are not used. In build
ing last year 1 had contemplated hav-
ing some cloiSters also, as I thought
they would be a novelty, but my
architect was from Nova Scotia and
did not know how to build one.
The history of England has been
almost made here in this castle since
the time of William the G. -Equorer, for
it has been the abode OF her Eovereigns
up to this moment and ever since that
that time. The building consists Of
TWO quadrAnges fanked by thirteen