Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-18
while he's gone

That IS why farmers SONS aspire W
become bartenders. My boy Henry
will graduate ia June if nothing hap
mems. and will march from the cnrri-
culum TO the mint julep works in spite
Of his mother, for he says shat there's
where you find your statesmen now.
There's where the laws are made and
unmade. He can mix good beverage
now. for he did so while at home, by
means of which he secured the use OF
my horse and buggy during our busy
time.
For seven or eight years the tariff has
been used to scare the farmer into SELL
Jag his chickens for eight cents and
having a little extra for his winter IN
dergarments. For nearly eight years
Presidential conventions have talked
one way and Congress the other.
Why?
Because the members Of a national
convention are not responsible, while the
members of Congress are. Platforms are
made to secure votes, but tariff legisla-
ton has got to fit every locality and
every Congressional district. So, as a
farmer, l am without hope In THIS
world on that matter. / am betting what
money had left in hollow black gum
tree when the bank failed that there are
harder times ahead than 1893 has shown
NOT harder times for banks perhaps,
but for people who want clothes and
food.
Those who hope that Congress will
afford relief this year had better return
to their FORCES and their farms and look
10 heaven for comfort. With the coun-
try running behind $4,000, 600 per
month and a swelling army OF unem-
ployed on every corner. it is evident that
in the last national campaign those VINO
promised prosperity were unable TO de-
liver the goods. Are they any better
prepared to do it now than they were
then? =,
That's the way Henry and argued all
summer. When l was in England, /
said to the son of Charles Dickens, who
is a business man of perhaps so years.
I'VE are liable some day TO be free
trade country, they tell me-" / said
this to make England feel friendly to-
ward US.
POSSIBLY you may" he said, "but I'll
bet Won new chimney pot hat that
England will be high protection coun-
try before America is for free trade"
However, do not care two cents one
way or the other. II it could be settled
and then q law passed that whoever
agitated the question or even hereafter
mentioned the matter should be taken
ont behind the barn and shot, would
vote for that measure. As it is now, l
| do not know what crops to raise next
year, and everybody Is unsettled. Moth
ing pays dividends any more. Who is
going to win the confidence Of stocking
! leg depositors when there is no invest
ment that pays? How will you get me
10 ransaek my hollow gum tree when
railroads are In the hands Of receivers
and even the whisky business has big
still in il?
Last year my hens produced, even at
low prices, S1O7. 35 worth Of eggs. This
year pens very dnll, with a prospect Of
40 per cent. falling off, so that there is
a lack OF confidence even among the
hens. / have tried in every way to
show them that we are on the eve OF a
great revival Of trade, but they look at
me askance and refuse to place their
eggs 10 circulation.
Ash write this another letter from
Henry says that the farmer will be the
first one to reap a benefit from tariff
| legislation, and that we must have more
| confidence In each other. He incloses
note at 90 days which he asks me TO in
| dorse with him to aid in the purchase
Of a costume for o masked ball.
He is a great favorte there where he
! Is, and I'll bet that the town will seem
dull after be graduates. l tried to get
! him to help US get in our alfalfa last
summer ahead of big thunder storm,
for he has big muscle on his arm that
! looks like tumor, and he has a CORFU
! gated stomach like Sandow, the ath-
| lete, who couldn't pay his board, so /
| reckoned Henry would be good hand TO
| pitch hay into the top OF the barn, but
! be said he was training and so could
not do anything that wasn't prescribed
by the coacher Of the team.
One evening when he was showing
his biceps tumor TO some girls here al
the farm and telling them about bis
corrugated Sandow stomach 1 slipped
behind him with q hipfock and grape
vine twist which 1 learned while lum-
bering on the Kennebec years ago and
laid Henry down In patch Of blue
grass on his back. knew could do
it, for his legs have been neglected
while be has run q good deal to,chest
and cowlick.
His mother thinks that he will make
a great man, but l have got q colored
boy named Bud Watson, who works for
Sill per moLth, and be is worth two OF
Henry at anything / ever put him at.
OF course I don't claim that Henry is
totally WORTHLESS, but be is 4 nondivi-
deud declaring block Of stock that ]
stand ready to swap. for range cattle or
night blooming Angora goats.
Still be was q great comfort here al
home during the dry spell, for when
everything was scorched and withered
and dry there stood Henry, just as fresh
as he could be all the time.