Mower County transcript., 1908-06-24
FARMER BEN'S ~
COLUMN.

Over to the Soldiers Home at Santa
Monica, CAL, there are over 1900 OF
the old boys and it used to be the GUS
tom to clear the .d,nin' room Of its 700
boarders in seven minits SO as to Civ
way to. the next mess. 1t is asseverated
that under this rule indigestion was one
of the prodominatin' ailments OF the
veterans A new order of eatin' what
was Civ out as the forty-bite system,
has been tried these late months and the
showdown scheme from rapid mastlca
ton has ben productive OF noticeable
Improvement in the health OF the po-
pu]ation of the institution. 1t looks
to reason. This gulpin' down food IKE
hogs swallow swill amt accordln, 10
natur. Racin' thru meals is the worst
racin' vet. Folks get quick to lndl-
gostjon and dysgepsy and headaches
and all sorts Of ills. My only wonder
is that lots of gulp folks stomlcks STAND
what they got as long as they 90:
alvus take plenty Of time to mastlcate
nv vittles and it is time We'll put IN.
IT. alwus seemed so strange that folks
will put up with the dog nuisance as
they do. There amt a bigger nuisance
or danger on the face of the earth than
a lot of useless dogs runnin' at large.
Up to st. Paul Is persons hav ben bit by
mad dogs in the last month, and l6o
Minnesota people hav ben treated dur
in last year for hydrophoby in the "a
steur shop. Down at Danville, Penn :,
last week old man died from a mad
dog bite. SO it goes. Our laws ought
to be fixed so the owner was respons-
ible for damage done by dog and then
summary measures should be taken to
rid the world of SO per cent of the men,
aces. My paper says that rabies has
ben cleaned out of Great Britain by ex-
termination of all Sdogs at large. l
spose that countin' in runaways land
scares and sheep KILN and injury and
rabies expense and sufferin' and nervous
production the worthless dogs o1 MIN
nesota cost millions every year
Q g g ....
This is the time Of year When pity
the town boys. They've got thru school
term and they've got nothln' steady 10
do and they are just adrift to Loaf and
learn evil. 1t amt so with the farmers
boys. They hav regular work ana
chores to keep 'em busy and that's what
makes EN- so differin' from the toWnles.
Their steady work makes 'em strong
and independent and steady and cap
able and experienced. That's why the
farmers boys usually take the cake
away from the city kids. There's moth
in that the country boy should be SO
happy over as bein' kept steady to work
at right kinds. When he grows up he's
then GOT the habit. Town girls don't
seem so bad off in vacation. They got
considerable to do round the house in
well regulated homes and they amt SO
much adrift as the boys with nothin tc
do, When get spare hundred thous
and it's goin to be invested in gettin
work for town boys in vacation.
Jim Hill was down in New Yorh
last week on his annual trip to Labra
dor to cool off and he jollied up thu
magnates by the prospects OF goot
crop up IN the northwest and good pri
ces in sight. These will give plenty o.
railroad business and plenty OF money
for a good trade and so he's on the OF
timist tack just now. It's the Ole
story of prosperity for the farm pros
perity for everybody. The promise O.
the fields is the promise of business re
yival and full dinner pals and biz
freight receipts for railroads and i
the fields fail everything is in tn
dump, no start for money movin' AM
the wheels of manufactur and com
merce all still. No wonder the farme
gets jollied up when the truth has t
be spoken. They are really prett,
much the whole thing when it come
to dig right down to the foundation Q
our pre- gress. It'll be a poor spell TO
the country when the farmers DON
thrive.
Whoop. Here goes up Farmer Ben
hat. 7O2 ballots for Taft out of to
tai of $50 on the first try at the Chica
90 convention. And with James Sher
man of New York for Taft's runnin
mate it'll be whirl Of victory for th
CO. P. tell you there's big round
in up of all sections Of the party il
this ticket. Taft stands for the con
tinuance of the Roosevelt policies an
if it want for these the G. O. +. w0ul
be sore mouthcd over the way q lot
the standpats hav toadied to the trust,
Sherman repre- sents the conservative