Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1905 — The Old Nan on the Corner. [ARTICLE]

The Old Nan on the Corner.

Your’old Unole Rubs Landis, whose first name is 0. B. and his last one M. 0., has been doing another of his old tim6 stunts on the Delphi Journal, under the old time heading of “The Old Man on the Corn er Unole Rube is now a real horny handed o!d farmer onoe more and living on his recently bought fine farm a mile and a half from Delphi, fie feels too good to contain himself to get back on a farm again, and we dont blame him. He has a two and a half column artiole, and all oho long pean of praise over the joys of the farmers’ lif J ; especially as he remembers them as a boy. It is all mighty good reading but we only have room for the.opening paragraphs, here given: It has keen a long time einoe I have talked through this column. It was not beoause I did not want to talk but beoause I have not had the time —affairs have orowled so thick and fast on the heels of each ®ther that there has scarcely been time to sleep, let alone w rite articles for newspapers. I’m living in the country now ent on a farm. It has been the ambition of my life to do this. I was born that way, in the oonntry. Take the boys who have run bare looted on the meadows, who have fought bumble bees and waded in the “crick” with no one to molest or make afraid, unless they go wrong they never oease longing to get back into the old atmosphere. That is the way it has been with me. Some of those early days were hard days, those days when we gathered, sheaves, bshind the eradle and the old iron harvester, tod mowed away hay in a barn where there appeared to be no air and "raked away” from the tail •nd of the threshing machine and shucked corn, end wormed tobacco and hauled fodder with snow on it »nd so forh aud so on. I say some s? tliem were hard days and while they were passing there were some muttering? and dreams of the oity, and vows of gettiog away, but once away the advantage of it all stood jut so boldly that t jere is not an ftonr coir associated with those days that I do not treasure, and, m m way reverence. And, I have always felt thait the trees were my friends and the rivers and springs aud field?, and I have wanted to Mve with them and I am going to do it, that’s all. l#lbs. of granulated sugar for SI.OO at the Clearance Bale at the Chioago Bargain Store.