The Farmer's Friend


  A GREAT Philanthropist who had thought of himself in connection 
with the Presidency and had introduced a bill into Congress 
requiring the Government to loan every voter all the money that he 
needed, on his personal security, was explaining to a Sunday-school 
at a railway station how much he had done for the country, when an 
angel looked down from Heaven and wept.

  "For example," said the Great Philanthropist, watching the 
teardrops pattering in the dust, "these early rains are of 
incalculable advantage to the farmer."