| Show dla dialogue Dia logne between two farmers on the thit s drouth brambier brumbler Gr ambler I 1 never did seethe see the like wha what t is the use of trying old rules the roost and here are all of my crops just like tinder I 1 have about gin up I 1 don dont tsee see any use of praying rig or believing such weather for faith if I 1 don dont I 1 t guess providence has gone off and left us in the lurch constant you wicked man to talk so in truth if you are in that way of thinking I 1 reckon you will catch it by andrye and bye even dryer and hotter than it is here what right have you to criticise criticism critic ise the supreme being as if lie he did not understand himself do you know so much bett better r than that he that you would be willing to take the superintendence for a while G well neighbor you are a pretty apologist for providence butI but I 1 should like ilke diketo to know if you can tell what mortal good gool this dry time does why dont it rain why dont it ought to rain my aly cabbages say they want it to rain and have not they a right to expect it on 04 saturday it clouded up every sign was good it lightened thundered and then all blew over and here we are monday morning as dry as eyer ever and only a little cooler I 1 am sick of it C neighbor grumbler I 1 am no learned man but I 1 can mention some reasons why a drouth is a good thing notwithstanding your crops are as dry as tinder and y your our cabbages will not head now perhaps one reason why you and I 1 hav 1 e got this hard time is to wean us a little from this eve everlasting evir lasting blasting talk about corn and potatoes and wheat and money as it if they were the only things in the world I 1 tell you it is good for us to to be checked off a little we need it I 1 do and from your style of talking you do too I 1 should judge do we suppose god built this great globe merely to be a potatoe hill if we do the sooner that range range of ideas is brought to a period the better whether by drouth or potato rots rot or whatever way lie he pleases we grub and grovel so much in the earth that it seems as if the old dame had some spirit in her and she scowled her face in very dry wrinkles as much as to say 1 I 1 wont serve you churls any longer you behave so ill I 1 will put you on short abort allowance until you come to your senses ama again what are you always grumbling and so scolding 0 o I 1 ding and fretting and worry worrying ing about you are a perfect set of ingrates in grates I 1 will give you some reason to scold once in your life when it rains it is so wet you are all afraid all the crops will mildew and you cannot get your hay and when it is s dry you are all on another string and you vex yourselves with a thousand imaginary evils that never come 21 now f for 0 r my part I 1 think there is where mother eart earth h has hag us neighbor grumbler G you are a cute ones ona one but I 1 have not yet heard beard what the use of this thin ere drouth is and that is just what I 1 should like fike to know about j this time of day C friend G you know as much about it as I 1 do I 1 dont prele d to know that is my point that we must go in these things by faith not by sight bight not by kno knowledge medoe Medge ilow flow should I 1 know p puny uny lilliputian n as I 1 am on this great ball of earth swinging at the rate of thirty three miles a second round the sun and the sun round somebody else and somebody else round hercules and so on and so on I 1 dont pretend to stand as god almighty s interpreter but I 1 can just make a little fuess guess you know that will do no mischief anyhow I 1 kind of reckon this is one of natures nature 3 FALLOW YEARS ohio wants to rest in 1854 it has had a pretty hard time rais rals raising ing wheat and corn and grass and an it peaches and trees and cattle catlie and has got rather run down iler her constitution is a very fine buckeye then there is such a thing as being led zed up so with pennsylvania so with new N L york and most of the states stales the powers of nature the tho goddesses of if stream and soil and oak trees and wheat fields say to themselves well it is of no use these persevering yankees will bleed us to death we may inay as well hold on a little as tobe all run out so soon now this year vear we will stop their proceedings and let the salt salti and alkalis and phosphates have time to get up their steam again and by another year they can have a good crop but if we let them spin this rig and arid have no check they will run ohio and indiana ac as low as chind china where there is not in the earth to raise a stalwart two legged man but only a sort of apper counterfeit of humanity in which the acoustic nerve has got so low that they think gongs are music there it is this is the FALLOW vear YEAR providence says to the fields this is the jubilee year you may rest you need not break your backs carrying stacks of corn and wheat and should rincy big loads of hay shay and great oxen and providence says to the skies you need not cry yourselves to death this year but hold up a while and have a goo good d laughing time with the HIP sun run and arid moo moonane moon nand and stars without any fit of sulks and Provid providence ellee ettee baysy bayst tu to the brooks and rivers do not always be tumbling dawn and breaking your necks just be quiet for a season arid and take things easy and not be in such suph an everlasting hurry flurry and worry with running down hill instead of walking as the geneel gait i n 3 and says to the little apaches ches and 0 to o sm ill lii pointed s ani end the wizened up plumbs and ard pear fearnow pe arnow not nov this ye yar ar y you ou may do as you yu yiu need not crack your cheeks open tor for or atiat tyrant imn min if vou you dont want to for whitt what will yhu yon get for it if you do but be lis ins its jiwa and andi swallowed up no just be c 01 ol ical and dry arid and bmw grav just as much ai you ou please and j 1st ast istas as little litter and just jast as slow and let kiihn w ih chit it nil till his llis scolding scolding and fretting will vill not iii ke a bit of dlf dif difference farence with your conduct let every little fairy in the ih e melon meion patches arid and we the orchards and the pai terres of flowers declare its independence this summer of oe its cruel lord and say let me alone this year thus thui good farmers let a part of their jarms farms lie fallow some seasons and good providence in the asame came way takes things into its wise control and when man would push ahead too fast fat and too far it says et t the united states slates lie fallow this summer and convalesce 11 G well there is something in what you have said a pretty bright idea a 8 fact but I 1 dorit dont see yet as it does mankind much good to have droutha drout hs for they are as cross about it as if they thought they had been personally abused and providence had insulted them by not making the ears ears ot of the corn longer and the pears and apples bigger cheeked checked che eked come 1 nelah neighbor 7 C you must con confess resso that this year has not been favorable to gratitude or contentment but it has been a succession of hope hope scold scold and I 1 wish it would rain and why dont it rain and I 1 do not believe it ever will rain rain C then it is all the worse for mankind is all I 1 have to say if the they y wi will 11 not take the hinty hints hint r uch such a gentle one as they have got this year that they are men and not gods in the world perhaps they will get one next year which they will understand for provdenci has in its great bundle other rods which will tingle even worse but then the farmers will learn by these great droutha many lessons they will like naughty boys at school cry and scold and pout awhile but they will study their book better in the end they will acquire the european habit babit of irrigation irrigations and practice better farming and gardening they will feel their deper dependence dence more on a higher power than their own and not abuse nature natures as if they had a right to meet her with a pistol and say stand and deliver like highwaymen i gawa men instead of being suppliants for her fa favors v rs and nd grateful when slid gives them be sides neighbor grumbler the joke of 0 the whole thing is that with all our own complaints we have havil enough and to spare there you have at this moment wheat to sell if you would sell it there are millions nann millions of bushels I 1 of wheat and corn in ohio this blessed year and if we farmers do not hoard board it up to get a higher pric price and thus grind the faces of the poor and stin stint t the little children childrs n of their bread and butter all will have enough not withstand 1 ing the drouth of 1854 so let us go home and get our grain and sell it at an all honest price drice prices and not try to cheat gods children of the grain all 1 the fall and winter after murmuring all the spring and summer slimmer because gods providence did not make our crop fifty bushels to the acre instead of fifteen or twenty five let us keep it too out of the handl handi of speculators and let war prices go to general kresach ati asky or some other crack jaw russians where they be jong long and last and riot not least let us not hive up all ail a 11 the small silver change so that there will be none in market 1 exeunt farmer grumbler with an accelerated pace and farmer constant with hig his hi usual heavy but honest gait cincinnati columbian |
