Show A MISERABLE TOILER yesterday an old man upon whom the toil of fifty years had set its heavy hand was plodding through the streets of ogden As he walked he guided from house to hause a lean span of ponies which drew small wagon load of produce and at each gate he solicited the purchase of his lettuce turnips potatoes and beete but his effort was vain every housekeeper was supplied or elac would wait for tho appearance of the chinese vender of similar food supplies the old granger grew dis heartened and eat down under the shade of a locust tree to bemoan lus fate and declaim against the heath eners cral appearance queer tion and odd inflection were grotesque but his sentiments were enough to restrain the mirth of all hia hearers for five years he has been struggling to deem a tract lie has toiled night and day winter and summer privations almost able ilia sole support has been his little farm at first he carried water in barrels for a distance of two to irrigate hie scanty and unpromising crops each year a beneficial change has to uio eoll but alie area winch he has brought under cultivation has in creased in a corresponding degree eo that the labor has not diminished this year for the first time he has found himself approaching a state of comparative plenty if only the results of his painful toil could be marketed he would be fed and clothed like civilized being he felt that inthia great fortune should come to him he would not decrease the vigo hia would work detill that were poes fibble to make am sandy homestead a garden spot but he hae failed his aspect is uncouth ilia tone ie harsh his worde are unpolished his produce 13 not tied oto wall mod bundles and so the housewife rejects hia of hamble merchandise diee he dads that the are the only vegetable lera nho meet with any popular favor and so be trails eflowly back with 1 produce wilting like himself and hia poor hopes the old mans experience is a homely one it is only a single case of misfortune and yet there icema a great injustice somewhere he is an americal Ameri cao citizen reeking in his plodding way build up a home and add his mite to the general of this country while hia successful rivals are acl fish aliens who are robbing the land for the enhancement of foreign welfare will not the good people of ogden patronize him and his class in preference to the heath eners |