Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1892 — Farmer Hardesty’s Hard Luck. [ARTICLE]

Farmer Hardesty’s Hard Luck.

IndlanapelU Journal. Trustee—Brother Hardesty, how much are you going to give for the support of the church this year? Farmer Hardesty—Nothin.’ “Haven’t you had good crops this season?” “Yas. Purty good.” “Had any sickness in your family?” "No.” “Lost any of your live stock?” “No.” ~ “Has anything disastrous happened to your barns or farming implements?” .... “Nothin’.” L—l.. __ "Then it strikes me, Brother Hardesty, you are not showing a proper spirit of thankfulness for the prosperity that has " “Prosperty? Say, we’ve had a cholera scare, hain't we?” “Yes, but the pestilence has not come, and that is all the more reason why you should ” “Hasn’t come? I’m not talkin' about the cholera. I’m talkin' about the scare. 9r.t that fourteen-acre field over yander?” T *‘Yw' *' - - - ~ .. “Wplh I planted it in cowcumbers for the New York market. Fourteon acres o’ cowcumbers! An' they ain t wuth pickin’! That’s what ails me this year, Brother Ashcraft. I hain't got no grudge, but I don’t feel under no obligations, by gum!”