The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-11

don. They are willing. but their farm
ing lacks technique. Such a hand was
allotted 10 Farmer John Bailey. This
is how Bailey tells it:
ASKED him if he knew anythin'
about horses. an he pulled the cowlick
on his forehead the way those felleFs do
an said, No, sir So i shows him how
to hitch up. An next rlornin' after
he'd ct about hull COW an a washtub
o. coffee, 7 says that he'd better hitch
up for ploughin'.
After a while, seems he didn't show
up, I went out to look There was the
mare, snortin' an froze In her tracks.
Looked all right, too. an thought
twas jest orn'riness, till started TO
ease her collar. Blamed # he hadn't
got the collar on wrong side up, an the
names were stickin' every which way.
Then I showed him how to milk.
started him on old Spot, that's pretty
near dried up anyhow, SOS new hand
wouldn't hurt much. He seemed to get
the hang real well an went off an
left him. Pretty soon they was a yell
down in the barnyard. There was old
Spot, that never kicked before in her
life, lammin' out with both her hind
legs, an there was that blame little
Britisher trying to milk her on the
right side.
He was hangin' on real gritty. an.
she was fghtin hard. Finally, she lit
out with both her hind legs to once an
set down on him an the pail an the
stool. But he got up an cussed like an
American citizen, an / see there was
hope for him. And he's got to be real
handy"
John Bailey belongs to the civil war
generation of Long Island. Asked how
he reconciIed his liking for his new
hired man with his feeling about the
British, he said:
WAL, I figured it like this: There's
eighty million Americans and there's
some bad people among 'eml, as know
from experience. The Lord makes a
mistake once in a while. They tell me
there's about half that many British
ers, an maybe the Lord made q mis-
take or two there; but few good ones
with EN-
Fourth of July-last Fourth, the one
hundred and twenty-eighth anniversa-
ry of deliverance from the British-the
old meeting house at Wading River
saw an awful sight It was built in the
twenties Of the last century, that meet
ing house. The men who raised it and
the men who paid them had fought In
two wars against Great Britain. Every
Sunday for going on ninety years It has
ECHOED prayers for deliverance from
perfldious Albion. That being so, the
spectacle upon which It looked last
Fourth Of July completely shivered its
venerable timbers.
There were twenty Britishers shoop-
ing round the country looking over the
land, and there was a native, who has
a Stony Point fiintlock at home, aiding
and abeting them and treating them to
beer! They trod unframed on the sa-
cred soil watered by the blood of rs;
they poked that soil with English
blackthorn sticks to see how far down
1t went to hard pan. The English
help were putting in their first holt-
day looking at prospective purchases.
The weather slate which fell off the
steepie Of the old meeting house two.
nights later were supposed to have
been Jared loose by the nder-storn
which happened that night, None Of
the neighbors understood, But it was
the old meeting house trying to shake
itself to pieces before II became q party
to the iniquity.
Land values have gone up on the
east end of Long Island. Every one IS
laying for chance at a Britisher who
wants to buy. This has pretty thor
oughly disguised a syndicate which had
just about closed deal for q lot Of
cheap land, when In came the British
ers and UP went prices,
1t looks now as though the English
would hang on and win out. There are
sixty of them here and more coming
They will grub out the oaks in the
cut-over forest land; they will take up
the abandoned farms with the colonial
houses, they will drop into the shoes.
of the old people whose children refuse
to farm. In colonial houses where
orce flintlock hung on the wall. there
will hang-oh, shades Of washington!
there will hang revered and honored
portraits of successor Of George III,
For the most intensely anti-Britishs
part of the United States bids fair to,
become the most British.New York
Sun.