The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-07-05
RISING sun. CECIL COUNTY. MD. FRIDAY. JULY

| ltulH lHaU NOBODY ever TOOK mucn In
terest in place which was hired.
"Well soon slick it up and make
things boom!" said Perkins, rubbing
his hands. You'll have a fowe,
garden on the lawn, Anna, and
shall raise peas and cucumbers and
celery, andy George! Wen send
some in to Brown! Brown has
laughed at the idea of nay turning
farmer, and 1 shall make him laugh
on the other side of his facet"
1t was early in April when Mr.. Per.
) kins took possession of his estate
/ and he set at once to work to get
things in trim.
! He bought horse and hired an
Irishman, and the two set about
ploughing the ground for the early
vegetables. But the horse did not be.
lieve in early vegetables He pre-.
ferred to stand still and chew his bit
and stamp his forefeet viciously and
let the pillow rest in the furrow. Per.
kins eXerted his powers of persua-
sion, but all in vain. The horse only
! planted his feet more firmly and de.
+ tried the whip. The Irishman tried
profanity. The animal was proof
against both. Perkins took him by
the bit and offered to help him by
pulling with all his might at his head
The horse declined the offer with
! thanks
The sun was hot, mosquitoes were
| plentiful and attended strictly tc
business. The neighbors gathered TO
see the circus, and brought their dogs
with them. All of them-except the
dogs-gave some advice. A good deal
of it was tried and proved Intellectual
At last Perkins got mad and INDUCED
in some forcible remarks. Mrs Per,
i kins, with the baby in her arms, ap.
! peared on the scene, and asked Per-
llins what he thought of himself for
| giving way so, and she asked him
where he expected to go when he
died, both of which conundrums
only made him the madden.
prick his hind leg with penknife, 81
said an old teamster, who was pass
ing by with load of fence-rails, and
climbed over the fence to see what
was going on. ''Never knowed that
to fail to start EN-"
And Perkins pricked the hind leg,
as directed. The effect was electrical
| The horse elevated his heels, gave ii
snort, and plunged off down the field
and Perkins went up in the air as if
shot from pop-gun, and came down
in a ditch n rod off, and was hauled
ont by the crowd. half suffocated with
the muddy water. The horse kept
right on till he came to n stone wall
where he left the pillow and struck a
Decline for the barn of his former
owner, where he brought up all right
in due time, sweaty, but triumphant.
Perkins gave his original propr;-
etor $40 to take him back, and hired
his blowing done. He considered it
cheaper
He bought some books on farming.
and worked by their instructions. He
did not take any stock in the advice
of the old hayseedy fellows who lived
around in that vicinity; he believed
in science.
lie planted his early beans and peas
and corn, and every day he went to
see if they were coming up. At last
he was rewarded by seeing the first
day the ground began to crack open
and rise up, and 10, the beans APP
peared!
But what was Perkins consterna-
ton to perceive that the beans them
selves-the beans he had planted
had come right out of the ground on
top of the shoots!
He told his wife about 1t. with great
distress of mind.
1T must be that 1 put too much
phosphate in the hill, and it has
blown them right out of the earth.
Now, those beans should have STAYED
in the ground for the plants to have
rooted in and got their nourishment
from. That's the natural way of
things And all can do is to set 'en,
out right side down; but it'll be n
tormented hard job"
"I'll help you" said the dutiful
wife. '"We'll take it early in the
morning, while it is cool, and before
anybody gets around. | wouldn't LET
Patrick know anything about it, If |
were you, for it might make him
have less respect for you. He would
think that you did not know how to
plant things"
So, in the early morning, Mr.. Per-
kins and his wife went out into the
field and began transplanting the
beans and sticking the bean end down
into the ground.
OF course, one can never do ANY,
thing privately if one tries, and old
Farmer Jones cut across lots, from
driving oxen off to pasture, and came
down upon Perkins and his wife be-
fore they saw him.
what in natur' are you two ado.
ing? asked he, turning over his quid
and adding fresh morscl of tobacco
to it, by way of assisting his under
standing.
"My-er-my beans had little too
much phosphate in the hills,n STAN
mered Perkins, land they came M
wrong end first, and we thought we'd
set 'em down right"
Land of Goshen!" said Farmer
Jones. strange that folks can be
so t'arnal green! Why, beans alters
come up that way. Where have yon
been all your life that you dom
know beans?"
Mr.. Perkins never liked TO hear any,
thing about beans afterward; but ali
the old residents OF the Walnut Dell