Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-06-09
COUNTRY PEOPLE sGREE.
That IL, Regarding the Weather
The Financial Problem

ALTON, VA, June S.-(Special) -There
is one thing on which country people
generally agree, and that is the weather.
Meet a neighbor. and say:
Warm weather this morning"
He will reply; "Yes, right hot. How's
ang'
Or friend on horseback halls: Good
morning! Milder to-day"
80, yes; mIlder. How re your folks?'
Later on, at the post-oitice: Hot YEA
Their. Captain"
Hot as blazes-some air stirring"
"Yes, slr--little breeze"
And so il goes all day. The beneficial
effects OF a rain after dryness never fails
to strike the rural heart with the same
responsive chord. Nothing is more cheer
ing than to hear the farmers greeting OF:
Fine, growing weather Squire"
ayes, sir; corn just a-cracklnr
These humid compliments are In ex-
change to-day. After the fine showers or
yesterday we can almost hear the vege-
tation quickening. There ought 10 be a
sympathetic connection between money
and what makes money-for after all. the
crop basis Is the money-leyer-but they
are as diverse as the two poles OF a
galvanic-battery. There is really nothing
upon which men are 50 divided In opin-
ion at this time as the money question.
And the singular thing about II is that
men are wranglng over "sound money"
and free silver" and the rest OF Il who
never had any money in their lives, and
would not take care Of IL II they had IL.
THE ALI-ADSORBING TOPIC.
These gather in little homespun knots
on the depot platform or at the cross
roads store, and discuss bimetallsm az
IL they expected 10 control the national
| currency Tony Thriftless IL really so
busy settling the gold and silver ques-
| ton that he has just got his corn planted.
| He has a hne crop OF weeds. though,
| where he interviewed his iron plow six
weeks ago, and IL IL doubtful II he knows
where his other metal tools are. Perhaps
! Mrs. Thriftlsss does. IL is going 10 be a
| bard case II the new woman-whatever
| that nOndescript creation Of Victor HUI
| COS prophecy will be-cannot manage
money matters as well as the inanciers
in this end Of mans century seems to be
| doing. Nor can one blame farmers and
/ other laborers for such interest in
| finances when the whole country Is torn
with internecine strife We mountaineers
don't see so many dollars that We need
be choice as to how a dollar looks but.
| Of course, we do not want the iron cur
| rency Of ancient Gaul In this effete
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| OF that In small change TO a strawberry
festival But 70 make a dollar a dollar
at all times and in all places-gold. sill
yer, or paper-and let II stay 80. would
| seem 10 be an easy solution. regardless
| Of loss TO "siiyer-men" or gold-bugs."
/ A distressing outcome OF all these pancs
| and depressions is that the innocent suf-
| fer with others. The American farmer is
more careful Of his expenditures and
| less self-gratfyng i'm his tastes than
the town wage-earner; and in his family
| even the children are taught the i'm
| portance of saving without being ayari-
cious or niggardly. Quite often the city
| mechanic spends enough at a Saturday
| nights market for feastlng on Sunday
| to keep a countrymans family a week,
| and wastes sufficient in an ordinary life
| time to make him comfortable in his
| old age. In monetary depreciatiOns the
| onus of loss falls upon the farmer in
| land-values, and also In the decrease or
| landowners. There are more tenants ana
| less buyers.
PERSONAL NOTES.
| There are not very many boarders as
| yet at either hotel
| Mr. l.. c. Williams. Of Orange. Va,
| has arrived at the Mountain Top and
| taken charge as chief-cierk.
Miss Bessie Brown returned 10 Rich
mond Wednesday. accompanied by Miss
| Hall, Of THE Farm"
The children Of the Alton chapel Sunday
| school were given O. delightful festival
| last Saturday by the teachers
| Miss Connie SPOTS. OF the Royal
| h.. irfa In IL