The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-11-21
The "Great I Am" of the Miner

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the farm and the threshing ma
chine as we would probably make
more at t.than running a news
paper. That is where two great
heads differ, and there is no ques-
ton but what the ex-book agent
has a great head, and also that he
is polished and highly educated,
having just lately arrived from the
city. We know that the smell of
new mown hay still fingers in our
hair and the sound of COWS coming
home at eventide is sweeter music
than the hum and whirr of the new
cylinder press, which he didn't
get. We have been promised a
job with a threshing machine and
may yet live to see the day when
the ex-book agent may be looking
for the same Job-as he has not
made howlingsuccess in the news
paper business.
We are not ashamed of ourfarm
experience, some of them were the
happiest days, and some were hard
and filled with hard work, some
thing that is not relished by the
man of many headings. Since we
have taken hold of the Leader, we
have in our verdant and farmer
ways managed to make both ends
meet and pay all obligations in
cash, don't know whether the II
Am" knows what that means or
not, but 1t means to us good, hard
money. W. somehow, in our YER
dant ways tell the truth, but we are
no George Washington like the
other fellow. The capacity of the
man of many papers is only limi-
ted by his gall and veracity, the
former he has as much of as a gov
eminent mule, and not very much
of the latter. But all of this has
nothing to do with running a news
paper in our verdant way, but the
way the subscribers r coming in
the last week we must have found
our calling. The Miner man would
do we'll to take something for that
sudden dropping of circulation, as
when we we're on the farm a critter
afflicted hathaway sure died, and
the other night there was sure a
sudden stoppage.
There is one thing more,-when
we are compelled to retire to the
farm, which the man of many pa
pers says is our forte, we shall
leave behind us a good many warm
friends who will wish us we'll. We
know that we have been a thorn in
the flesh of the polished gentlemen
from the city; he hated to see our
verdant ways at the old settlers re-
union while he was SO busy that
he had to stay down in the register
of deeds Office the whole afternoon;
we knew it hurt, but in our far
mer ways it was not our fault that
he did not hear the speech that he
said was disgusting, we we're there
but with verdant ways, we were not
educated up to that point where
we can comment on a speech with
out hearing it. It takes an educa-
ted man to do that, and the speak
er was considered a friend; and
it takes an education to tell one of
your creditors to go to the hot
place and then have to take 1t back;
hut with our farmer ways we pay
the cash and thus escape the Ia
king back of words spoken.
We are not going to apologize
for our ways, the Lord knows that
we can't help. We never had a
chance to go to a large city and
become highly educated and pol
ished and pa and ma said that we
could not become a book agent,
even if we did run away from
home. It was not our fault that
we staid on the farm and didn't
get that polish that rightfully be-
longs to the profesh.
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