The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-01-18


decline il still, ana If | Lad been IN
viJed 70 lie feast should ba1e replied
non possum. | can ct crow. bat not
poeeum. \ buzzar4 would be Us p3..;l-
be. for one is 4 day ecayan-er aud tile
other hunts for carrion by might. Not
tong ago Mr. Hale told ne 1T Rising
FaWn that his boy caught three Oh three
successive nights hy setting his steel
trap on dead hog III tie woods. anu
MIR. Young told me yesterday that the
last one his dog treed VAS in the car
caSS of dead horse. Now. if 'posSum
is kept up III coop or pen for month
and fed on decent food his oily car
cass might be ttten for 4 scalawag or
Il hungry darky. Colonel Gambler in his
letter sings the praises and the oily juices
Of the north Georgia 'possum but turns
up his nose at the piney woods breed.
i he difference is that dead dogs and
hogs and mules are far between in the
piney woods, and the 'possums can't get
enough carrion to get fat. But 'poesum
IS just now the political fad, and a poll
tician will eat anything for Office except
crow They don't like that. nr. Miller
used to say tnat he could eat crow. but
he didn't banker after it, We college
boys used to have 'possum supperS away
in the night. but Hareel. who furnished
them. kept them up and stall fed them.
The chief satisfaction, however was in
breaking the rules and lodging the pro-
fosso,., ond tutors I'm V-a,.rcn and
chess Hovard nse1 +o oiva miln:,rbt
SINNERS ana nnIl nm the 'nossum ANA
tatcrs in 4 basket liz a rope ana take ii
IN al a thirl-story window.
WaI tbe nation has qot ! SLOGAN. too.
.,,l.o I'M TIaZyoii ara stiil III de,y NJ
shmttIncocl,s and tfa came ! Iono ana
,,,,na,+o;n C,,ba i; ! frn;t tha+ Is abonr
r;rn An onrht ~ ia nnI}ad hnfora !
-. N th1 .,ro,7,,l. h,lt H,1v,ii i ~
|,,no,, D = c,oT7,1 C,',l, = 1oo ,,,iIoe r,.,,e,
ana i near bv and should lie purchased
iltst ike we Eourut Florida from Spafu.
but Hawaii i 1000 miles from our Pa
c;fc coast. ana all Tie islands rut To-
~ntha,. have nor as 1n5I..If ,rn4 ~, y single
cnnnt- in Tpvas gLav say we want II
fo, cooIirc s+,t-op Iyo bo1o i now
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tha ,yhola r,7ot of annexation Fl i nar-
enral iof, fdr ] fav man gb.v HIN ri,-
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SltdilieIS ~ 90 10 ~
states mas h"t li'sH.iS, - eI"l1'iS'
SlhpoatS, ''n' : - 80 80 80
III I4l' - AeelS. iioN i ~ ~ ~
"dp3n ndS more VT h'sis 'iio'I lHih
/ tHe CllIleu o'a'ss 'liu : -" ~
/ khoWleugeu hilsl ItsS - l.-e Ielllc
| ocean but we can oedl 1ilehl an ~
! brag ana buster ana Jihsolsm. we are
! very Ike the average young man WHO
! lives on his father s reputation. we -
! back a century or so ana pahk on 'he
| CONSTITUTION ana tle asp IN the da99
/ of PauI Jones ana Decatur. nose were
/ glorious victories, put we were nGhllil2
| on the defensive then, ana our great
! leaders, poth on l3hd ana sed' were
Southtrh h!en-1 doi 1oHeh vas IIoill
! Virginia ana Decatur was rom Mary
lana. ana old John ADAMS dldh IKE
/ either OF them.
, but almost every 'IiIi5 tudI coAleeI -
i congress Low = poiIdGdl JooptI! -1l'
/ the pension IraudS VIII 20 on. 1hey
! grow bigger ana bl23er aS lne years roIi
on. 1he htfy thousand pension lawyers
up north must De kept la1, ana they are
! organized ana Know now 10 cohtroI con
sressmen. Len dollars from each one
will place half million IN ashngton
and that VIII purchase nifty votes at
$4,000 a vote. They defy Commission
er Evans and all his efforts to purge tha
rolls VIII be IN VAIN lckedness IN hlgh
| places stlI prevails, ana the wonder -
that the nation survives It's corruption.
card some preachers discussing It on