Mower County transcript., 1908-09-23
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

LULUMN
In this ring ridden age it does a fel-
low good to see victory once in a
while for the clean and independent Of
ficials. The machine gang in York
state hate Gov. Cummins like poison
and tried to lay him out for renomina-
ton but they got licked to finish and
the first ballot of 867 for him out of
total of 1000 was made unanimous. | ne
machine and buns and sports on one
side and the people on the other squar
ed off and when the people really wake
up there is trouble for the bosses. Ihe
whole trouble with Hughes has been
that he enforced the laws as he found
'em without fear or favor. Sometimes
fellow gets discouraged to see. the
rotten politix of money and shown
worthless carpetbaggers and buns to
the front in control while the people
stand back meekly and let the rotten.
ness 90 on, 1 calkerlate that all along
the line the time is comm when the
demands of the people will prevail
I see that the hard times down in
New York is regular bonanza to the
high bloods in the way of health. The
financial tightness has compelled EN-
to live more savingly and they hav had
to lop off whole lot of their extravag-
ances and the fggers show that actu-
ally they are healthier and weller and
amt dyin' off so fast. The men hav
had to quit lots of their wine parties
and late hours and dissipatin' and ir-
regularities and tho women hav had 10
help to do their house work when a
bunch of servants had to be discharged
and the outcome Is better sleep and
better health. So it's big blessin' If
only they will stick to the reform when
money begins to flow into their Golfers
agen. 1t amt all honey bein' rich so
you don't hav to do any work but can
just loaf. A home amt home that
is full of outsiders that you depend on
and you hav no privacy but just sit
around dumpy and dull and dyspeptic
and inactive and torpid. It's a sight
better to liv frugal and plain and reg
ular.
They're up agenst the pretty school
nam prop in Chicago agen. There
can't be any denyin' of the fact that
pretty school MANS arc superior to
homely ones. Boys like something
that Is fresh and sweet and attractive
to show 'em how to study and learn
and the boards who hav control OF
schools might as we'll recognize it.
Homely, slouchy, untidy teachers amt
in it with prepossess,n' ones who take
pride in their personal looks and hav
drawin' personality that captures. 1t
amt alWus how much teacher knows
that makes the best. Lots know more
than they can tell. Some that don't
kaow so much book larnin' can tell so
sweetly and charmingly and plainly
and understandingly that knowledge
just rolls into the minds of their pupils
in great wads. You've got to open
up the mind and interest and attention
and heart of the pupils before you can
move 'em and that is where youth and
beauty and spirituality and neatness
and personal magnetism count big.
l amt doctor or the seventh son of
a doctor but it does seem to nee a mark
of ignorance or something else to pro-
nounce so many deaths as the result of
heart failure. What else could be the
casse9 Don't everybody's heart fail
'em when they turn up their toes? 1
should spose that in this enlightened
age something more definite could be
given. My paper says that down in Con-
nectlcut they hav law that requires
something more specific as cause of
death and if a physicians stlicate
comes in that death was caused by
heart failure it's returned for correc-
ton and more definite cause. Even if
heart trouble causes death doctor
ought to know enuf to particularize.
A mans heart fails when he's hung.
a suicide dies Of heart failure. [ take
it for granted that alwus when the
heart fails life becomes extinct. If
was official never would issue per-
NIT for buryin' or removal that was
based on just heart failure as the cause
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