The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-07-27
THE FARM.
The Story Of Ny Farmer Boy.
CONTINUED from last week.

that got from those hundred boys. |
If you should drop into my old office
seme Saturday afternoon when it is
raining and we haven't much to do,
will show you letters that money |
could not buy One little fellow down
there at Brighton wrote me and said:
My dear friend-I received the dol |
lar bill you sent me for which |
thank you. am little orphan boy
nine years old live with my uncle
and aunt who are very kind to me.
This is the first dollar l have ever
owned in all my life and ! am going
to keep it just as long as | live
for a nest egg
! wrote that little fellow as nice a
letter as | knew how to write him.
Told him hoped he would grow up
to be good man and that wanted
to hear from him until he was fully
grown, and one day while was
making talk over at Bunker Hill
little fellow scrambled up on the
platform and coming up to me said,
Don't You know me?" why yes,
where did see you before" why,
! am that little nest egg fellow from
Brighton" Uaughter,)
And then about the boy that won
the bicycle. | was sure when found
his history that he would be a rich
mans son, but want to promise you
tonight that when l found the his
tory of the boy who won the 500
bicycle he turned ont TO be little
bit of poor scrap of boy that
lived away out on Brush Mound, and
he had raised little garden on a
little thin piece of ground that would
hardly be fit to raise cucumbers on
And, when | found the history of
that boy, | found that he had car
ried water all summer long in an old
powder can to water that corn, and
when / took him UP on the platform
that night and stood him up on my
table in the presence of twenty-five
hundred farmers and introduced him
to them as the champion farmer boy
OF that county, want to say that
your governor here in Chicago never
received a heartier ovation that he
did. and he never deserved it any
more either. (Applause.)
When went to ST. Louis during
the Worlds Fair with the agricultural
department of the state of Illinois,
Governor Yates told me that the one
condition upon which ! might go was
that / would take my farmer boys
with me. Well, that was the only
condition that L would go on, and so
i. g0t up $500 worth of premiums
and sent out list of those prem
iums to 10000 farmer boys in the
state of Illinois and eight thousand
of them responded, packed their corn
and sent 1t to me at Carlinville, and
there we put il up on racks to dry,
and after it was dry every ear was
wrapped in nice piece of paper and
then packed With deft fingers and
sent to st. Louis. And there we built
large pyramids of ten ears of corn,
and deity stretched little string
of green ribbon over each one of
them and put on the name OF the boy
who had raised it. Then ] thought
/ would like to have photograph OF
il. You know when we hear of any
body we like TO see the color of his
hair and see what he looks alike.
So | sent ont to the boys and asked
them to send me their photographs
TO put upon their corn. Six hundred
boys sent me their pictures, and /
tackled the picture onto the boys
corn and there was the whole story
OF his summer work.
One morning when ! was at st.
Louis, got telephone message
from the eastern part of the state.
1t said, rs this Mr. Orwell at the
other end of the phone" said
yes He said, you have my boys
corn at St Louis, and yesterday we
took the little fellow around and
tucked him under the bluegrass at
the brow of the hill. | wonder II you
would like to have his picture with
his CORN" And | told him ! should,
and when the picture came | got on
a street car and took 1t down to
Crawford's dry goods store and got
a nice little frame for it, and then
took ii to the ribbon counter and
told the girl the story of the boy,
and told her would come back In
about an hour and asked her to fix
Il up just as nice as she could. When
came back she had fixed 1t up very
prettily and took the photograph
out with me and set II up by the
boys corn without word on the
picture, and | promise You now, as
sat in my office, which was within
ten feet of the boys corn, that II
there was one there were ten thous-
and old farmers, who, as they came
t.tt...~ a.u,,, thoca aialae and came