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Show rtJIY VIRGINIA r'AR.WERS AUK POOR A western farmer wondering why uio Virginia farmers- were so poor, paused by ther ondsldo one ady and i easoncd it out. T ho averago Virginia lurmur gets up early ln tho mori. ing with the alarm of a Conumnut. ciock, buttons his Chicago suspeuueis to Detroit overalls, puts on a pair ot cow hido boots mndo lu Clovclaud, v ashes lu n Plttsbdrg basin, uses uucinntti soap, drya on a cotton towl nmde lu Now Hampshire, sits down to u Grand Rapids table, eats breakfast toon from Unttlo Crook, hot biscuits mado from Minnesota rlour, KausaB uty bacon nud Indiana grits fried lu umuha laid, cooked on a St. Louis utovo, buys Irish potatoes grown lu xilchlgan, and canned fruits put up in California eensoncd with Rhode iBiund spices, (ills his plpu with Kentucky Ken-tucky tobacco, puts on his old tint mauo lu Philadelphia, harnesses his juissourl mule, ted Iowa corn with a isovv York harness and plows his farm covered with a Massachusetts mortgugo with an Indiana plow. And ut night, "ijy golly," ho crnwls un-ucr un-ucr u sow Jersey blanket, and Is kept awake by a Virginia dog, the only homo product on tho place, and wonders won-ders why ho keeps poor. f |