The Nevada County picayune., 1922-01-19

fields 10 make a man grabbed and mean There is no reason why they should not treat their wives and chil- drcn with infinite kindness. They should give their sons and daughters every advantage in their power. In the air of kindness children will grow about you like flowers. and will he q
 joy and comfort to you in your old age. Don't huddle them like cattle in a two l by four room, in a poisoned atmos- phere with the windows nailed down, where they will roast and nothing will be left of them but the rind, and when one of them dies put a piece in the paper commencing with, Whereas, it has pleased divine Providence to re- move from our midst" Build sleep
 ing porches; comfort is health.
 No doubt I would have been on the farm today, if I had not been com and dreadful with cultivatng the soil. l never had chance to go to school 1 like the boys have now. All the edu- cation got dug it out of the old blue back spelling book between chills, and when I got as far as Baker I took out: didn't know there were any more books. l wanted to go to city where I could be a doctor, a lawyer. q merchant, or even preacher. anything to get away from the farm. But l have long since found out that an edu- cation can be used profitably on q farm. Don't think it is thrown away on you unless you become minister, lawyer, doctor or q statesman. It k one of the best fertilizers you can Use on the farm.
 Most farmers think that they are in some mysterious way oppressed and devoured by railroads and corpora tions. The trouble with them, they raise too much cain and cotton and not enough corn. Of course the railroads are indebted to the farmer for their prosperity, and the farmer is indebted to the railroads The railroads can prosper only where the country through (which they run prospers. They have brought the markets of the world To the farmers doors. What would farm products he worth if it was not for the railroads? I can remember when we hauled our farm products hun. dred miles in wagons Those were the days when WIG. received tWehaE cents i l b5Shel for corn. twenty-five cents q 1 hushel for potatoes, two and three cents per pound for pork. and five cents l n dozen for eggs. Now since the com 1 ing of the railroads, we receive fifty cents q dozen for eggs. twenty cents per pound for pork and two dollars I quart for corn, and still some farmers think the railroads are robbiug them.
 There has been a general depression i'll 1 all kinds of business for the past year. and the farmers suffered least of all. Their lands are just as rich as ever. and by thrift and diversified crops they managed to get by The merchants are the ones that suffered the most, and some of them have passed into the oblivion of bankruptcy. As a class the tillers of the soil are the only solvent and happy people. So why worry. We have the best country in the world. | there any reason that we should not he prospcrouS and happy: \ great many people say that the scarcity of money is the cause of hard times
 Well. don't know about that Just lask your banker and he will tell you that his vaults arc full of money
 There ie no scarcity of money. brt q scarcity of business. All the money iS held in the nervous clutches of fear
 We have lost confidence in one another
 You can't borrow drink of Ticker
 from your neighbors. Presidents ol
 banks. even those belonging to thu
 church. run off with funds We paid
 the government last year over nint
 millions of dollars in the way of prohi
 bition enforcement taxes. for watching
 ourselves. What good has it done? II
 has not slackened the mule power on, kick. Drunkenness has increased over one hundred per cent in the largej cities with inc cnmnlry nrecincts L.