A Farmer Talks

Webster, September 12th. Editor Deanoerat: Well, my frlend, the liveliest topfc of Interest jnst now among us grang era Is the phenomenal boom in om commodities. We care not whethei thia is the outeome of the electlon oí BUly .McBryan or the defeat of t'othei fellow. We are in a very happj state of felieity, thank you. l'am grievan-ces, whatever they were, ars relegated to innocuous deauetude anï It is an usufruct fact we are generally in a hilarlous state of mimi. Xoiv, where wefellows are tickled all througn and get into our jumping moccasons, yon kids down on the Hiuon, in the University burrough, have rëason to get down on your marrow bones and g-lre thanks top. Why, jnst hink of it: Wheat bursting out the bin boards with its dollar aroma; onts on the fly; rye gettiOg a dou'ble on itself in six months; hay on the i.uht of us, hay on the left, ready to maren straight into the jaws of the COO imported lambkins from the Black Ilills country. Pigs galore, bosses taking ten-cent jumps every other day as stockers; tutter kiting around at 20 cents; eggs iiearing the mark, regardless of moulting time impartiftlly dropping botii feathers and hen fruit together. Why, we bayseeds have a w.hole Klondyke and Mic-hipicoten bonanza at our doors, all withoiu frosted nose or toes. Beally now, Charley, if you want to put the devil Tjehind you (office ini]). I mean), and take a day's outing and have a good time, get a day off and ■ out aonong us rurals. We wil! you full of $-1 beans, 10-ceni pork, 75-cent murphys, cow fluid and anti-oleomargarine lutorlcator, until you will rcsemWe a bloated nionoi)olist as seen by the business eye of i :. (!. W. Peters. In your inner a usinas you wili eoadude there are some blessings equal to the free and unllmited coi hold on, I Avas thinking of one of you fellows' campaign speeches and inadvertently brancned sideways, for which I hereby accept forgivenesk I ain more than glad the columns of The Democrat are to be open to us agrieulturists on all questlons. Why, ir is .lust the thing. shows we are beginning to meet the reeognition we deserve, and I teil you it wil! be a big thing for it.s promoters, most as good as free sil there I aiu agaiu. [t's all them campaign talks getting in thi'ir imiings on me unawares. ■lus!; now there are but few questions of calorie signifleance agitating us. Have we not the great and good Pingree not only looking alter our potato patches, rom Johnson Burpows' railroad fares and Billy Judson, with Waldron stirring up the Scotch blood of the Campbells with anonyraous paper pellets, and Nordman and Reeres looking up Sawyer's legislatire festiTities. I conelude we are in good shape wirh the watch dogs on the alert, so we, the Minmon farmers, will .lust slap in the wheat, shuck the corn, pull the beans, dear out those Canada thistles, wild Iettuce and brush along the roadside and flelds wliich, while politleally saving the country, we let get a start; and cultívate eloser sociaj relations with our nedghbors, bearing in juiml that we live in God's country and his iroducts that are toaned Cot use will never want eonsumers.