Show HES ABOUT GAPE COD Bill Nye Writes of Buzzards Bay and Boston A BOSTON HERDIC DRIVER A Few Agricultural Notes Gathered From Great Minds and Heard on 4 the Outside t For Tan SUNDAY HERALD By special crt cr-t rangement with the author CITE COD Mass Barnstable county which is coextensive with Cape Cod is the I easternmost county of Massachusetts and has an area of i90 miles It consists of a peninsula which is sixty miles long terminating term-inating in Cape Cod It is bounded on the east and south by the Atlantic ocean and I on the west by Buzzards bay and the Cleveland boom which juts up against it The soil is mostly light and sandy producing produc-ing the resinous germ of the John pine and the bright red boxberry Dairy products corn and wool flourish her to some extent and the little Farmers Alliance at Buzzards Buz-zards bay of which Mr Jefferson Mr Cleveland and Mr Gilder are members meeting on the first and third Tuesdays of each month furnishes a moat entertaining place to go for an evening There you will hear of the ravages of the curculio and what the prospects are for ensilage en-silage and persiflage this fall Mr Jefferson Jeffer-son keeps 1000 head of cows on his Louisiana 1 Louis-iana place and it is said raises his calve on condensed milk Ho loves dearly to fool I with agriculture Ho says that he is very ye fond of the country and enjoys heartily the processes of vegetable growth A papen read by him at the Buzzards Bay Chapter iso 83 of the Farmers Alliance on The Propagation Growth and Decay of the tbI Dried Apple Among the Pie Eating Dynasties Dynas-ties of the Old World is said to havo been full of bon mote statistics and unusual words On rainy days when Mr Jefferson cant work on the farm ho may often be seen in an oilskin coat J1IGGING FOR ANGLE WORMS while near by you will see Mr Cleveland with an old peach can almost filled with these delicious insects The two start off together and are often gone all day fishing fishieie in Buzzards bay Buttermilk bay or some of their tributaries Trout came down into the salt water for the shrimps ana also I judge for the breeze and change of scene so that otten the brook trout and tho sea base mackerel weak fish blue fish etc are caught in the same waters All sorts of I sea food from the largo aromatic codfish of I commerce to the kippered herring of the workaday world are found here in the front dooryard of the great comedian I loAMITTAicg I 1k I 11 ARMI I Ir ALIANt t AERE H l I f 1 1I 1 I H I Jl 12 J J1 JtUlll f L r J f rn JlJi < 1 1 t ffi J i I tl lbif Iii 11 j q t 1dL J If 1 qlIJ o mot WHAT I COCLD HEAR ON THE OUTSIDE It ii rather low of course to accept of a mans hospitality and then speak lightly of his agriculture but I must say that those members of the Buzzards Bay Farmers Alliance Chapter S32 whom I met includ ing those I have named and also Mr Booth nnd the Elder Couldock did not fool mo with their farmer talk for a single moment I did know something about farming so I was not permitted to join the Alliance I was permitted however to look over some of tho papers prepared by these gentlemen und I say that if such men are to wield the I balance of power ia Ib92 the underpinning of our national fabric will become very porous por-ous indeed Mr Clevelands paper on HOT to Air an Asparagus Bed showed that the most profound statesmanship may be connected very often with the most pitiable ignorance regarding farm work People never do have to air an asparagus bed Mr Booth who has been visiting here this summer and who knows very little regarding re-garding agriculture was admitted by card while 1 was shut out He followed Mr I Clevelands I paper with a discussion regard UIK olnu HUU Ul rlppUctiOn ot Ma ounaise Dressing in the Cultivation of Asparagus As-paragus When people talk that way nbout growing simple garden truck and are given a life membership in the Alliance whilst one liko myself who farmed it successfully suc-cessfully as long as his wifes money held out and who therefore ought to know something regarding agriculture is not permitted per-mitted to join the debate It naturally HAS A TEXDEXCT TO EMBITTER ONE Mr Gilder read a paper regarding the Rotation of Crops and described a new machine by the use of which he thought that crops could be given a rotary motion From this the discussion became general and gradually drifted into literature and the use of fresh liver and cods heads for crabbing purposes Tim use of iambic ver eification and the chub rod took up the attention at-tention of tho Alliance for the rest of the evening From what I could hear on the outside I judge that these men knew moro I regarding the uses and abuses of agriculture agricul-ture than do the Sockless Simpson and the I umbrageous Peffer Mr Couldock showed how the farmer suffered how he was trodden into the earth and ill treated till his life was not worth living He said that it is a dogs life Ho I showed that the farmer is reviled secretlv by the politician and hoodwinked at the I polls ground down by the money lender and L skinned by the merchant ridiculed by the I comic papers and lied about by the uncomio I papers flayed by the lawyers and then bar becued by the fruit tree peddler buncoed I by the bunco steerer gouged by the green goods man ignored by congress cursed by the consumer skun by the wealthy and I peppersauced by the poor peeled by tho penniless and tobaccosauced by the usurious usuri-ous dogged by the sheriff and taxed to his grave that he may prosper the interests of the nonresident Mr Couldock then read t a paper on How to Keep Boys on the < Farm t Buzzards bar is only a short ride from Boston A bright correspondent of the press is at tho station I did not know it when I went there Ho was disguised I i think as a baggageman for I saw no ono but the regular station men when Mr Rob son and I got off but tho paper next day bad a graphic account of all we said and did both when we landed at Buzzards hay and when we left the day afterward I do not know who he was but ho was a success from a newspaper standpoint He was graphic and described how my clothes teemed to fit me better than I could have done it myself Far better in fact for I might have been prejudiced He was not r He just laid aside all feeling and hewed to the line let the chips fall where they may Just as the Prince of Wales would do y I did not succeed in drawing out I 1 MR CLEVELAND KEGARDIXG HIS CANniDACT c but ho said naively as ho turned aside to s1J item his bait that his health was tiptop I lJpt said he as he unfastened his e hook from the wainscoting of my trousers is one thing which I like about me While not in any sense a candidate you may say In a general way that my health is right goodWhat What I admire about Mr Cleveland said Mr Jefferson the following day is that he is a just man Even his enemies must admit that When we go out fishing and return at night Mr Cleveland will not accept more than his just share of the catch I do not say that Mr Blame would expect ex-pect to catch chubs und pumpkin seeds ally da all-y and then expect to offset them against brook trout but at tho same time I think that he might consider that his conversational conversa-tional powers would offset his suckers while Mr Cleveland does not try io so work his diplomatic gifts as to keep him in grub He is a man who wants to give substantial justice to every body and of course this does not suit those who never tried it Mr Cleveland and his wife make good neighbors here and he has never borrowed anything yet that he has not returned I help him in haying and he helps me in harvest Wo exchange works I let him havo my autobiography to read and hens loa he-ns me some of his most spicy old messages mes-sages to congress Property has greatly appreciated in this country since the arrival of the Clevelands Jeffersons and Gilders From 32 per aero paid by Mr Charles Jefferson the price has gone up to 5250 and S300 and even to a price per front foot But fortunately the specu lator will not get a chance at it for the colony col-ony holds enough of it to keep tbe semibar t barism of a boom out of it What can bo sadder than tho slealtby footfall of a 52 boom in the soothing silence of the primeval prime-val forest What can be more sacrilegious than the fizzle of a soda fountain or a LieU tious value where nature has held the age on the false and tho artificial for many cen tu tics The tendency for tho past few years among those who havo leisure and oven moderate means is TO FOSTER THE GROWTH OF COTTAGE LIFE and to the detriment of tho great overgrown i I over-grown summer hotel with its waste of piazzas and I raw material its tiddledowinks greatness its James Crow aristocracy its noise and newness salt air and starvation its fussy invalids and footpad waiters Why not have even a 550 log cabin in the hills or a wall tent by tho wailing sea in preference to all this I have a wall tent this summer which is i much larger than any room I over had at a seaside hotel and I have a prospect on the outside that money could not buy We hay also in the North Carolina mountains a style of refrigerator for meats that would surprise and amuse the uninitiated It consists of a rectangular cage covered with mosquito wire and attached to a rope We put a pulley up in a high pine tree and run the ropo over it Then we attach the re I frigerator put in our meats and pull the whole thing up in tho tree It keeps sweet and improves for a week or ten days The reader will be tempted te disboliove this unless he has lived in a mountain country and tried it Looking over tho United States it is i wonderful how nealth and pleasure resorts have built up within a few years From the east to tho west from the north to the south the coast and the hills are freckled with cottages and inns for those who have learned that a change of air is better than the entire pharmacopoeia Nantasket beach the Coney island of Boston is a beautiful stretch of shoro giv ing upon Boston harbor 1 saw a wagon load of young men on the Jerusalem road who had been up to Nantasket and improved im-proved their health so much that they spoke about it in high terms to every one they met even stopping a good many carriages to tell joyfully and yet with illguided elocution elo-cution and confused rhetoric how the sea air had benofitted them The following day hay followed up their dietetic course with twelve hours gentle exercise in macadamiz ing the roads of Cobasset returning at night with a healthy glow and in charge of I an officer Boston does not seem so deathly quiet in midsummer as New York While the hot weather reduces the speed of pedestrians o n Washington street somewhat I SUCCEEDED IN GETTING A SHOULDER KNOCKED OFF BEFORE BREAKFAST as I was hurrying down to the common for a brisk walk and also to see the parched and feverish frog pond hoping that at that hour I might find it moist with mayhaps a frog in it Boston used to bo called Shawmut by tho entomological red brother It was afterwards after-wards called Tremont pronounced Trcm r mont This pronunciation when it gets as far as Pittsburg becomes Trccmont and at Chicago Tremont It really means trimountain because It was located on the tops of three hills = 5 r Y MAKING SOME IMPKOTEMEXTS IS HIS ESCAPE The herdio is afavorite relaxation in Bos I ton among the middle classes I have fought with cabmen in w all countries but never got hold of ono that I could whip till I came to I Boston this time You always know when you get into a herdio that you will not only have a pleasant little choppy rido but that I you will know exactly how much to pay when you get through Unfortunately I paused to pick up my 1 valise which had fallen off the perch of the driver He should have gotten it himself because he was the one who dropped it but I he had a skittish horse and so 1 got it But of course we stopped while I did so When wo came to settle he charged me double I price because we had stopped on tho way I saw that he was a consumptive and I knowing also that he had a skittish horse J raised myself to my full height a thing that II 1 very rarely do and told him that I would give him only the price of a single trip Ho then struck at me with his whin which I fortunately hit me so that I had the oppor j I tunity to catch it by the lash and quickly j jerking j it he meantime I retaining his hold j I upon it I pulled him from his perch and j maddened by a cup of chocolate which I had I j just drank at tho tavern and the fumes of which had risen to my brain I struck him j repeatedly with my clenched hand one I knuckle of which I allowed II to protrude in away a-way calculated to give him greatpain at least if it hurt him as much as it did me I had just nolished him off and made good my escape when a policeman less than a block away closed tho Atlantic MnnUilu in I which he was reading a continued story I and started after me I thought I had already I al-ready made good iny escape hut at this 1 time I decided to make some more improvements I improve-ments on it which I did and soon might have been seen payly perched on the after I deck of Mr Robsons steam yacht the Why and with the wind on my quarter was I speeding swiftly toward Cohasset It is very seldom that I imbrue mv hands in the warm streaming blood of a fellow 1 being but when 1 do there is generally i good stiff market for mourning goods among his immediate relatives for a week or so afterward |