The Newtown bee., 1898-06-24

departed, the minister went out TO see
how satisfactorily the planting had been
done, but as he could see no potatoes, he
thought the work had been greatly neg
lected, 40 he picked up basket Of seed
potatoes which he found near by, and
proceeded to work with great diligence.
A day or two later the farmer came back
for his forgotten basket, and found it
empty. Having made Inquiries of the
minister as to the possible cause of their
disappearance, the parson said, why, L
thought as you did not plant the pota-
toes | would, therefore | scattered them
out in the orchard, so that it would be
nice and shady for them to grow under
the trees, and L have done more farming
still; l sowed bag of oats near them,
thinking that the grass would be SO nice
for them to run up on"
A person who is born and bred in the
country knows little better how to ap-
pear in the city, than a city person knows
how to appear in the country. A coun-
tryman who visits New York for the first
time will attract great deal of atten-
tion. He wants to stop and see all the
idea that he can walk in the midst of the
''road on Broadway" and wonders what
is going on, as there are so many teams
out. AS he sees the mass of humanity
ON both sides of the street, he turns to
his wife and says, "Oh, Jerushs just look
at the folks, wonder what's going on"
'tWhy, Joshua, it must be lection" says
his wife. Joshua, determined to pre-
serve his country politeness, thinks be
must speak to every one he meets, and so
he keeps his head bobbing like leaf in
the wind. As he views the New York
Tribune Building, he thinks, "Why !!
What high house.' 81
It mus be admitted that the city at
fords more ample means for general in
formation than the country. The news
papers coming from the press from morn
iug until night, fall into the hands of
greedy politicians and day Iaborers. But
we fiud that the affairs of oor own and of
foreign countries are not so well
understood by these news skim
ming readers, as if there were fewer
papers TO read, or more time devoted to
one reliable paper The old farmer who
comes in from doing his chores at night,
and takes off his heavy cow-hide boots
and settles himself in chair, and adj
iusts his spectacles on his great Roman
nose and says, 'sSamantha, please hand
me that newspaper" can discuss the
Cuban situation and the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, with the best informed person in
New York. Because, way up there in
his country home, he gets all the news,
spread over the numerous daily sheets,
in condensed form in his weekly, at
one tenth the cost and at as small a per-
cent of time and labor. Country people
do not skim news and then throw il away,
but they feast on it, and digest it TO the
strengthening OF the mind and to the
broadening of their ideas. After the
farmers have read all the news bearing
upon inportants subjects. and have it
firmly fixed in their minds, they go out
into the field to work, and, as the pillow
goes along tearing up the earth, they be-
come SO deeply engrossed in the war
question that, at times, they even forget
to guide their horses. They ponder over
the brave deeds of certain gen erals, and
over the maneuvers of all countries en-
volved, until their ideas, concerning the
war, are so strongly rooted that they are
unable to be shaken. Then, after the