Mower County transcript., 1903-10-07

FARMER BEh'S COLUMN.
A good many Years ago now, Elder
Parker was down and preached in the
school house niEh the old farm and
spoke on the jby Of the harvest. !
didn't catch on very great at the time
for harvestin' to the active, hustlin'
farmer amt very joyous SO far as the
work goes. But 1 tell you there's lots
Of comfort after all in reapin' after
you've work ed hard all summer. Since
we've quit the farm and are on a little
place higher town where we'can hav a
garden and keep acow and horse and
. pastur 1 declare there's a good deal Of
JOY Of harvest. 1t beats all how much
comfort we take in gatherin' in all our
stuff for fall and winter use. Every
day it don't rain somethin' is pilin' up.
Our apples are all on the shelf and
we've got enough to last till after New
Years if they keep. Our onions are
all topped and put up dry. Corn is in
the shock and just now it's taters and
mangels and pumpkins and small
truck. Those lazybones up town that
never hav a garden never can know of
the joyous expectation when you tackle
every hill Of potatoes to see if it's a hill
of big ones or small. + like to see a
big pile of yellow pumpkins out in the
yard in the autumn and plenty of corn
in the shock and crib, and chickens and
a cow and horse round your home and
all thro the summer there's the joy Of
gatherin' in the harvest, watchin' it
grow and pickin' it fresh when the
naybor's chickens will let it alone and
usin' truck that is fresh and crisp and
hav your own pure milk and butte r
and your own horse to drive and your
own way all round. The man that.
amt had the joy Of harvest amt half
lived. .r#
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Speakin' Of Elder Parker, he was a
nice man and no mistake, He used to
say that a man was truly and rightly
known by his actions and not by his
words and he appealed to mans COM
mon sense. He. want stuck up and
didn't speak a bit nicer to Sol Snow
and OrmanZo Allen than to Farmer
Ben. I amt much use fer preachers
that are stuckup2 and don't know any;
body outside Of their own pack. The
fellers that stand off from folks with
sanctimonious, holier than thou sort of
manner couldn't bulge ordinary folks
to brace up and do better if they tried
a million years. The winners are the
preachers that get rite down to you and
shake with you and are just common
folks. That's the kind that gets the
yellow legged chickens at Farmer. Ben's
house and wouldn't Civ gunny sack
for half dozen of these smarty ones,
that hav ball bearin' jaws waggin' big
words out of their mouths and Civ the
impression of what big thing they
can do. That Chicago preacher that
fills his church crowded every Sunday
evening by servin' a lunch is on the
right track. He argues that a cup of
hot chocolate and a. sandwich is open
door to mans ears and heart and it
is served up in such nice way in the
church parlors that it amt offendin'.
Just think of nice sandwich and
chafin' dish lunch served up by clean
girls as drawin' card to meetin'. Com
mon folks are onto this racket. NV
wife discovered good many years ago
that she could work me best for some
thing she wanted after she had put up
fine meal of her prime victuals.
There's many a wanderer round these
towns Sunday evenings that could be
caught with a nice lunch as the prelude
to a straight discourse on better things
than whiskey and selfishin' and vile
ness. Al, r&' 1.yE .s5e
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| wonder If that yarn is true about
inventin' spankin' machine over to
the Red Wing trainin' school for treat
ment of refractory boys and girls to
supersede the primitive hand power
spanker. There's fortune in such a
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and just enough. 1t has a regulatin'
attachment SO that the power can be
turned on moderate or severer accord
in to the needs Of the customer. Why
wouldn't it be a good idee for some
progressive man in Austin to buy one
y of these spanker machines and take in
business at SO much operation?
believe that if it was properly patroniz-5