The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-20
THE ADVENT OF REFORM.
Would Come with His Induction
Into Office

Into Office.
Il Il don't deny it" said the expensive,
T. dressed young man. I'm like all
ne rest. l want an appointment. I've
come to claim my reward for the serv.
ices rendered in the election"
ibid you help much?" inquired tn,
man at the door of the agricultural de,
paFtment, in doubtful tone.
RI contributed seven dollars to the
campaign fund, l had been rejected
b'I three or four clubs previously. and
wpen man came around and offered
toNpropose Inc for the Mckinley club ]
gave him the seven dollars and told him
to go ahead. That is how | came to be
in politics."
Il suppose that what you want is a
place in the diplomatic service"
mo. l never studied up on diplo.
macy much. think | shall go into the
agricultural department. | know al!
about farming. 1 have prepared my
self especially for that branch of the
government service
you don't look it,"
/
would come here and get an Office went
straight to see practical farmer whom
l met during my vacation last summer.
He is man of exceptional intelligence,
and seemed to take great pleasure in
giving me information. I asked him
to tell me all about farming. and he
stopped in the middle of his work and
took an hour and a half explaining it
nc me. He made me tell him what |
wanted the knowledge for and he made
some very valuable suggestions"
80 you're all prepared to start in
to reform the department, are you?''
Not all at once. But one of the first
things | will have to do is to call the at
tention of the secretary of agriculture
to a mistake that he made. He said
that the farmer of this country is rails
ing too much corn. AS matter of fact,
contrasting is still one of our coming in
dustries, for the reason that smokers
are beginning to get some idea of
how to get the most enjoyment from
the weed, and the manufacture of corn
cob pipes is inevitably destined to be
one of the greatest industries of our
continent"
You have a good memory. haven't
you?" said the auditor, admiringly.
Il seldom forget anything that is
really useful" was the response, in a
tone of pride. "One of the great faults
of the agricultural department as pre-
Vi Luz +aI =.
to encourage the culture of egg-plants
for the use of poultry farmers, and it
was the most shorU-sighted indlf-
ference which now causes the bivaIvcs
in the Chesapeake to be starving for
the lack of a few oyster plants"
Your friend in the country didn't
call your attention to the fact that
good way to mend WORKOUT land is to
SOW a patch of rag-weed on it, did he ~
queried the Waterman.
mo; but that's a good suggestion.
and I'll make note of il. He laid great
stress on the fact that, with all these
new electric railroads coming into use.
farmers are so lacking in enterprise a.
10 totally neglect the cultivation of
wire grass. You have. of course. OBJ
served how often the farmer is depict
ed as going around with one or both
Of mis- suspenders loose? What is the
reason of that? The simple circum-
stance that he has never been aroused
to the Importance of raising button
wood trees. What he wants is an adj
that will stir him up to a
realization that patience and precau-
ton must be shown in agriculture, the
same as in any other business. The
day when a man would stick a few
seeds in the ground and 90 away on a
visit to his relations while they grew
is past. The threatened disappearance
of our forests is n warning that as civ
ilizatiOn advances the area in which
things grew wild decreases, and they
must be tended. The American farm
er can never hope TO succeed if he goes
on neglecting to raise chick-weed for
the chickens. milk-wced for the cows
and buriock for the birds. Washing
ton Star