Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

“Ko,” the honest farmer remarked, m terras of the deepest dejection, “the big crops don’t do us a hit of good. What’s the use? Corn only thirty cents. and everything’s dead set agin the farmer. Only thirty cents for corn ! Why, by gum, it won’t nay our taxes, let alone buy us clothes. It won’t ouy us enough salt to put up a barrel of oork. Corn only thirty cents! By jooks, it’s a living, cold-blooded swindle on the .''armor, that’s what it is. It ain’t worth raising corn nt such price as that. It’s mean, low robbery.” Within the next ten days that man had sold so much more of his corn than he intended, that he found ho had to buy corn to feed through the winter with. The price nearly knocked him down. “What!” he yelled, thirty <\ ts for corn I Land alive —thirty cents I Why, I don’t want to buy your farm —I only want to buy some corn! Thirty cents for corn! ’Why, I believe there’s nobody left in the world but a set of graspin’, blood-suckin’ old misers. Why, good land, you don’t want to be able to buy a national bank with one com Thirty cents for com I Well, I’ll let mV cattle an’ horses ran on corn stalks all winter before I’ilpay any such price for com ns that. Why, the country’s just .flooded with corn, anti thirty cents a bushel is a blamed robbery, and I don’t see how nny man can have the face to ask such a price.” A Bad Plax.—A true wife will no cherish her husband’s weaknessess by working upon them to her own advantage. She should not irritate him. If irritation should occur, women must expect to hear from most men a strength and vehemence of language far more than the occasion requires. Mild as well as stem men are prone to this ex aggeration of language; let not a woman be tempted ever to say anything sarcastic or violent in retaliation. The bitterest repentence must needs follow such indulgence if she does. Men frequently forget what they have themselves said, but seldom what is uttered by their wives. They are grateful, too, for forbearance in such cases, for while asserting most loudly that they are right, they *e often conscious tl: at they are wrong. Which is oddest, the one who asks an odd question or the one who answers it*. The one who asks it, because he is the querist. ».