The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-02

inst where to SO. ] suppose they VIA
hnvr automobiles after . WINE; a.,
ape spsNe.r went or Mr.. D2nley. "ot
me .emntlEts5 Of age7. There's q
r,rard tho-ghL The cWpti----
''V-ha. "a be moan by that?i
.sT-hv--e-.so much Of that u meta-
pho you see. The main idea IL that
/ ne lot OF the working man Is hopeless.
sTbe Man With the Hoe was q poor
wretch bent with tOil-a farmer whose
SWhy didn't he get one Of 'fhe farm
hands 10 do the hOeing2' ~
ale probably was farm hand him-
self working for q plttanee"
''Well, he ought to have been giad ne
was working, think. The idea! WHAT
did he want? A steam hoe!
.No, my dear: but the idea y what
| did life hold for him7 OF Wnat wa
no thinking as he stood there leaning on
the hoe-that humble Implement VI
toll?" :, -. a.,
ner. I'm not bit sorry for that man:
ne had nice open air work and ne coulo
] Ttop 10 rest when he wanted TO ana
I nrobalbiy HIS wife brought him his dim
1er every noon time. and he had MOTH
INC TO do but to hoe. And he WASH
even doing that"
.Wait I'M you read the poem, Hon
ora. Markham calls him brother to the
70 what tor?"
,'The OK, YOU see, Is the beast OF bur-
den, When the poet spoke OF the laoor.
er as the brother to the OF ne placed
him as low in the intellectual scale az
It was possible 70 get him he. ASKS
who blew out tho
"So-nol who blew out the light
within this brainl" asks Markham.
1T was Just metaphor-a figure OF
f, speech ~
/ ''Why didn't he say.whathe mean'tF
Poets never do that, my dear"
"WeT, what did he mean?"
"That the Worldngman was miser-
able creature. whose life was ike an
Don't he believe in men working"
"Yes-but--
81 suppose he likes tramps, then.
Those men that sit around the parks:
The Man With the Tomato can Woulo
| be his idea Of the ideal man. -,
Poets look at these things amer
"WeIl. think It is silly to pity man
because he has a job Think OF all
the men that can't get work. Suppose
YOU didn't work? Where would we be!"
'Its the idea of man earning his
bread by the sweat Of his brow : the
curse Of laboring for hire-for-"
"Why. this man with the hoe probably
! had good. steady place on the farm.
PERHAPS he owned 1t. He probably had
stopped to figure out his crop. Maybe
his wife took bOarders, and they mad
plenty Of money" IA,
when you read It, my dear you VIII
be able to - -,
start 10 Itealize the cook and call her
sThe Girl with the Frying PAM or The
Woman With the Rolling Pin
"Rcally, my dear, think you Will be
able TO talk before the club II you keep
cts the very same thing. The cook
Is a laborlng woman, but she's a great
| deal more freer than I am. She has
no social obligations and no calls TO
make or receive. She doesn't have to
spend her time dressing and talking TO
| folks when she doesn't want TO- she
has a comfortable home, and Just as
good things to eat as we have. she mas
two days off every week. Suppose l
begin to weep over her SAD conalLion'
and called her sister 10 the OK. Why
she'd leave the very first thing"
''But a poet would mover write about
%Well, a good cook Is a lot better than
an old farmer. who only hoes and looks
pathetic, Any one could hoe. Why, ]
believe could almost hoe"
~ haven't a hoe, my dear"
"That's another thing. Suppose the
man didn't have a hoe? He'd been
worse OF, wouldn't he. A hoe repre-
cents capital. Do you know, John Dob-
ley, II gets silIier every minute, to think
OF all the sympathy you're Wasting on
that man. 1t Is The Man without the
Hoe you should be sorry Ior.
"You are getting me around TO your
way OF thinking. Honora. recall now
the story OF q rich man who said that
ne started in business picking rags.
but for week or two he nearly starved
because he had no money 10 buy rag
pick with"
"What did he do?"
ape borrowed money enough. be-
lleye and twenty-five years after ne
told the trouble he had getting some
ON to lend him the money The funniest
part Of II was that he said he had never
paid It back"
II wonder If that man really owned
the hoe. or hao borrowed 1t.
perhaps that is what he is thinking
"He was probably too mean to buy
hoe Of his own. You know, John,
think that man was no good"
'Honora, your logic IL so convincing
that I am beginning TO agTee with you
mai THE Man With the Hoe was con-
siderable OF gold brick.