Mower County transcript., 1903-10-21

selfish to hav the care of children. They
get to liv in flats that ,:are no homes at
all, they want luxury and club life and
dissipation and high life and idleness
and time for gaddin' and readin' novels
and sassiety functions and I'll be
switched if some of 'em amt too lazy
even to comb their own hair. As hav
hitherto asseverated, this tendency to
havin' no children is a stabber to our
best civilization. We must hav more
children in our refined, well.to do
homes. Farmer Ben insists on it,
What an abortion on civilization is
livin' in the big cities. My paper1says
that there are 100000 rooms in the New
York tenement houses which do not
open directly into the outer air or into
rooms capable Of suitable ventilation
and there are $500 cellar twin rooms
also in addition. Just think of bein'
eooped up in foul places to liv in and
sleep in and call 'em home, with no
sunshine from one century to another,
with no sky to look to and no green
grass all summer and no backyard.
Why, when I think of how folks could
liv on the prairies of Minnesota, when
! think of how Farmer Ben has alwus
had fresh air and plenty of room and
the sun shinin' in all day long and
windows open into the sweet air all
night and then to think of how millions
Of folks are shut up in these stinky,
dark, unventilated apartments and
tenements in the big cities, 1 can hard
ly stand it to think of such hard life.
Life in the big cities amt what it's
cracked up to be with the best of it.
You amt apt to know your next door
neighbor and houses are so close you
can hear your naybors snore and gossip,
and the whirl and rush and jostle is too
much for moderate folks. And to
think that you hav to feel like lone
rat on an island without one in thous.
and noddin' to you and sayin,' How do,
when in the country everybody knows
you. Do you spose any st. Paul banker
would pat Farmer Ben Oh the back the
way Shaw does?
Another of these get-rich- quick
Texas oil schemes has busted and lots
of southern Minnesota and northern
Iowa fellows hav parted with their
good hard money and never will see it
agen and they are the ones that will
complain of hard times for the next
year or two and whine because they
are in hard luck. l am informed that
capital in towns pretty close in to Aus
tin on all sides are caught in this oil
stock up into the thousands and tens
It was such sure thing that nobody
could fail to double their money every
six months and now the crash has come
and the innocents are watchin' at the
hold for the money to come out and it
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see how many are caught by these
schemes. see that the big trusts down
east are in trouble because they can't
get any more suckers to sell their in.
tlated stocks to and they're lawin' it
and callin' each other thieves and rob.
bers in court and when the rogues fall
out some of the truth gets out too
The idee of takin' two or three million
OF real assets and blowin' it up with
wind and issuin' fifty million stock ano
sellin' it out to suckers and then try
to earn big dividends on the imitation
amt accordin' to the first principles o1
financial management. Farmer Ben
cross my heart, amt got one penny il
minin' or oil or any other wild cat pro
jects. He's content with the old farm
and the garden and the COW and chick
ems for regular and sure returns.
One of the thrashers was tellin' M
the other day that nobody would be
lieve how many differin' kinds o1
stackin' there was in sight right arounl
this county and the thrashers are til,
chaps that know it. when they come K
put the bundles thro the cylinder
Some Of the stacks come out as dry az
bone and some Of 'em are put up 81
poorly that they amt much better thar
II the grain was left out in the shock
/ tell you it don't pay to hurry stackin
so that it amt put up right and it ain
wise to throw up grain in haste will
the idee that it's goin' to be thrashee
.Out in a few days. You never can tel
what is comm in the way of weather
Why can't folks learn to stack right?
alwus had good luck with mine dow
on the old farm and I had one rule E
keep the centre solid and high AM
alWus let bundles slope down on th
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