"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.".
W, FLETCHER ATJSBOJf, Edit.ju. '
U. V. VV. AUSUCJN, fcL-SiKt6 AUsAGka.
VOL III-
TLYMO DI'H, C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1891.
KO. 18.
Published by-Hoanoke Publishing Co,
THB M-MS ROSE.
Cnder a rose tree, dolni In it sbado,
An Angel lay; to rest aim from bis task
bright fair spirit he, whom Heaven bad
To aurse the buds and bathe them in the dew.
A meddling leaf played on the sleeper's brow
- And Woke him from his nap. Abovehim hung
A ro that nodded in tha breeze and ahook
Hor perfume 'round him. .
v wnuwum vuiiareu t luua ue opoite s air
.. queen K -
Of all the Bowers, and far more fair than nil
Thy subjects are, thy bloom and breath haro
won -- , - "
An angel's heart I Ask what tbou wilt, sweet
lore,
And ere the gun's light fingered ray can filch
The dew pearls from thy breast, I swear, lis
thine t - -
A Lt.V J At. - 1 ,
! Aathusshe spoke: "And is your love so deep ?
1'U sound It's depth and try your loving prom
-.r ' toe;
X ask a grace give me but one more grace I"
'A wondering look leaped from the angel's eye:
"Another grace t What other could I give
Which thou hast not? Stay, lot me think-tako
- this-." "
And as he spoke he wove a veil of moss
This modest grace which now I give to thee
Completes thy charms, and not alone for me;
If angels love thee, so let mortals too; "
Then o'er the blushing rose the veil he threw.
Joseph Whttton, in Leisure Hours.
TIIE SOUL OF THE CAT.
BY FRED A. WTLSOX.
- Te Sam Lmg was a lonely one. ITo
had friends, of course, in plenty, od ,N
relative, too, for that matter, but Ling '
bad his own views on matrimony, and ho
uiun jt Deueve anyuoay couia do nappy
without a wife, - It was strange why ho
should bate V ddanly taken on that be
lief, for hadn't he lived 15 years away
if ow his own tlowery Land 1 - Of courso
he had. ' " -' i
s its came first to the Golden Hills and
htrto ; ' work in tlie mines, but he
couldn't stand it, for he used to feel tho
strange white devils at night, punching
him in the back. So he gave his claim
. in tha Golden Hills to a relative, and
traveled across the continent to New
York, curled up like a little mink on tho
, Beat of the smoking car. " . 1
-AAV .voo iuic ivi a nuuv uuu viici iivj
started in to sell soar) to the lauudrvmen. .
uuui, tiuiwij, ue eiiuuii oi inn aiiu'J'
t ican man's cash to rent a store. He put
out his red sign, with the fluttering red
, streamers on it to keep ' the evil ones
away, and he became a merchant. JEvery
night for years he had crawled into his
littta hnnlr ru : tjlincif rvfT nt tla lfint- rt
the store, and after comforting himself
with the opium he loved, so well he had
: f alien asleep, to dream of pretty Chinese
girts tottering on piuk clouds, across the
water and stretching out their arms to
him. ; -y,
lie often' thought of China and tho
, home life there, and he used to count the
mnnpv in hia trunk pni wnnHor u-ltPit Iia
would have enough to go back and buy
' a koonfoo's rank and wear a cap wit'i
the red button of the third decree. Then
he thought he woutd buy with some of
his money the preMe8t girl in the prov
ince, and she would have, feet eo small
that she couldn't walk at all unless she
' had a strong servant holding each hand.
He often played the lottery in tho hope
that he would win, and he burned prayer
sticks before his kat god that he might
have luck, but he might just as well hare
saved the 'sticks,- for lock never camo.
So persistently did he lose that mora than '
once he was tempted to let ono of the
burning prayer sticks fall over against
the god and burn it, but he was afraid
lest the deceit should be discovered, anil
the god seek just revenge. .
One day. there came into his store a
white girl who lived on the top floor of
the tenement around the corner. She
had hair like the wong sink gold he used
to dig out of the Golden Hills. ;
' "Say, John," she said, "me mother's
run out o! sope, an' she's up to her neck,
in washinY - Gimme a barl" ,
Ling was smitten with a great love,
lie remembered having seen this girl go
past his store many times, but he never
had such a chance as this to speak to her.
. "You momruee want sope ?" he asked.
"She washee?" ,
"Yes; I want er bar, an' I want it
quick." " . .;,; - '
"Alia lito, " said Ling, and he clattered
i i. I j l j n,l
irauiuu uiu narrow oouutor uuu fuiiuu
1 out from a shelf two bars of soap.
"You takkee' two," he said. "NoT
o'gaht'sin, you . takkee; you sabe?" and
he pushed the soap and the five pennies
she had laid down away from .him. Then
: he went on : "I lakkee you you heap
nice! . Lat you name ?"v t
"Gee,- what grafts said 'the . girl j
"so I get de sope for nuttin, do I, John?
Well, meYiame's Maggie Sullivan, if yer
want ter know. "x r
Ling looked at her with admiring eyes.
Then he pointed to the soap and pennies,
and said simply t
"You takkee. I heap lakkee you, sabe?
-You clum 'glain?" ) :
. 'Yes, t sabe, John," said the girl, "an5
I'll come again." . ' . .
go she went out, and Line went to the
door and looked after her until she had
disappeared around the corner. Then he
went back behind the narrow counter and
sat down on a stool. He rested 'his el
bows on a pile of paper, sunk his chin in
his hands, and thought very haul. . Ilia
thinking amounted to'soniething, for lie
went to the little cubby room curtained
off atthe back of thestore, and Out of tho
big camphor wood chest he pulled sonia
carefully folded clotlios. !Jo u.is a wyw
mil wUt'n he came out into tho store
s..miii. ftij.l a couil- ol hU countrymen;w!ia
had dropped in to have a friendly chat
and a smoke began to chaff him. r
- His old cloth blouse, with the shiny
place on the loose back where his well
oiled aueue had hung, lay. in a heap on
the floor with his old pow tail and coarse
trousers ; instead he wore clothes of bro
caded dark blue silk, and his sandals
were like those of a koonfoo. A cold
wind was blowing up the street It
made him shiver, but ho stood his ground
and watched for the coming of Maggio
Sullivan.
Every day for a week he watched un
til on the eighth day he saw her running
by with a shawl over her head and a
pitcher in her hand, "ni lo," he cried,
hi Io, Maggie S'i'm'n youcom'ni chue?"
"Hello, John; how's things? Til see
yer when I get th old man's beer," and
she dashed on, while uiug went in and
waited. ,
.. After awhile she came in with a rush
"You .lakkee .China candy 7" begau
Ling before sh? could say any thing. Heap
goodl" and he shoved a queer little Ikjx
full of koung toward her. . "I lakke";
you," he continued, while he picked a"
the gilt buttons on his blouse. "I bling
you nice cl'ose,: heap nice, you sabe?
Makkee you nice cl'ose, you dless heap
nice, sabe? You mally me, you hat
heap money." " " v. '.:
"Marry you, John? Well, I guess not
Me old woman would pull the pigtail out
of your head if she heard you makin' any
breaks like that." ' -
"You cral-me bimebyt"said Ling, as
though he felt sure he would win. . , .
"So long, John I" she said, as she went
out munching the candy. That was tha
first of the queer courtship. It struck
Maggie seriously, as though &he thought
che might do worse.?. ; r ". ?
"I don't know bat what I'll marry the.
chink, " she said to herself. "Til get all
ther clothes and money" I want, an' I'ii
bo boss, you can bet 1" f
There was a cat that used to sleep un
der Ling's counter. ' She grew fat on
,the scraps of chow-chopsuey which fell
from the table, and altogether lived a
1 fe of peace." But the day Ling proposed
to Maggie Sullivan the cat's manner
changed.' Instead of sleeping under the
counter all the day she took to walking on
the counter, mewing uneasily in a wil
. mg voice, which filled the room with a
distressful sound. : 7
Then she would pause in her walk,
and sitting on her haunches glare at ling
with staring eyes. Once or twice ho
drove her away, but she came back aaC
glared until her eyes turned from greoe
to purple. Once lie struck her with hit
bamboo t'ung, and she retreated . to s
high shelf and watched him.
, " The evil one possesses her, " said Ling,
and he burned more prayer sticks befoio
his kashat Joss, but thej wailing of the. .
cat never ceased. She crept under LingV
bed that night and scratched at the mat
ting on the floor; she paraded the little
roomand her big shiningeyes seemed to
' Ihiht up the dark place.1 From that night
the cat was never at rest, and Ling became
so stricken with a. silent terror that he
would go out into tho street rather thau
cross her path.
- lie forgot about the cat a couple cf
days later, when Majjgie Sullivan came
in. She was better dressed than udual.
"Hello, John," she began, "I had a 1
row with the old woman, and I've dim
out I'm dead sick of gittin jumped on.
Now, if you want'er marry me on ther
square, I'm with you, but I don't want
any funny business in mine !
"You mally me?" asked Ling, while a
smile crept over his face. "Alice lite, I
mally you." : ,
"But Jll tell you, John," the girl went
on, "you've got to cut that pigtail ofi
and wear citizen's clothes. You got to
be pretty near a white man. You got to
be as white as clothes can make you, ''
an you got to treat me white too, or I'll
shake you 1" '
Ling didn't want to lose his queue, and
he fought against what he considered a
sacrilege, but he found Maggie relentless.
"I curl him up so," he said as he
twisted it about his head, " 'n puttej on
hlat, so," and' he pulled an old slouch
hat down ovor his head, "'n nobloJysiea
hlira, ha?"
No, even that wouldn't do, andMa jgia
went away saying : "I'm going up to a
lady friend's o' mine ter stay ter nite,
John, an' I'll see you to-morrer and if
ther pig tail don't go I don't git married, .
see?" . . ,r '
Ling didn't quite see, but he thought a
lot He thought Maggie was tho prettiest
girl he had ever seen. There was noth
ing ch'an about her. She had fine blue
eyes, a trim figure, and a shock of golden
hair that . attracted "the Chinaman.'
The old cat jumped on the counter and
yowled f and stared at him, and he
went out taget away from those green
eyes. He went to the Joss houso and'
burned 80 cents' worth of prayer sti- k
and paper. He made uphh mind quick
ly after that, almost ran down the dark,
creaking steps, and across the way to
where the tai'tau'-lo lived and did busi
ness. -.. , ' .
"Take off thb thing 1" he said when
he sat down on the stool id front of the
little razors and scissors. , .
."What!" said the barber, "are you
crazy,' or have the foreign devils got you
too?" - . '.;' -1- .. ' .
'. "Cut it off, I tell you f Are you not I
here to do such wi k as this ?
"Ne, that i3- "wrong.' I "knevv your
mother.'. What would she say if I did it'i
Heft curst s wou'nl come to. mi, as"well a
to-'yovs, unworthy- sou. ,7
L'-ivj rtaut while Lis couraie lasted.
lie went to a rvwangtung
Jived near Pell street and had no queue.
; "Cut this tiling offl" he "said; he did
not need to beg this time.
, "Ha, ha!" laughed the Kwang tung
man, "you are going to be one of us;
good!" and he picked up a big pair of
shears. Snip! and Ling's . queue way
gone, cut close to his head. Out Ling
ran, leaving his queue behind him. H
Went into his store and sat down to,
think, when up jumped the cat Hol
ey es were yellow . this time, and slu1
howled mournfully.
" Get away, you evil thing! " and he
pushed her off with a stick. He did not
sleep that night ; he dreamed strange
tilings and saw strange sights ; he thought
of his home in far off China, and of hia
mother and the little Chinese maidens
whom he had known before he came to
the new country. He smoked and saw
faces in the clouds. In the morning hi
eyes were heavy and red with opium,
and he let his hired man do all the work.
He lay in his cubby bunk and smoked
theopium " until he heard a voice. : It
sounded as if it came from a great dis
tance. It said : -' ,
; "Hello, where's the boss? In the back
room? All right!"
V The curtains were pulled back and
Maggie Sullivan came In. '
"Hittin ther pipe, eh? Well, thafs bad
for the blood. How's yer pig tail ? " .
"I cut him. He glone, " said Ling,
half stupidly. . . " -
"That's good. I knew you'd como
srouud. The Chinks a tiers do. Git up
if J"J? zgoW ter git nyirried. " .
Ling had a vague idea' uTHiTh?- was
very happy. The opium had brought a
peaceful feeling, but he was rather
stupid.. Maggie sat on the edge of tho
bunk and the cat walked across the roc-m
with stately tread, glaring at her. Sh
paused at her feet, and at one bound was
on her lap. "Hello, pussy! " she saidj
putting her face .down and stroking (ho
fur. Like a flash a paw shot out; 'five
hooked, sharp claws were unsheathed
and dragged across the girl's cheek. Sho
gave a frightened scream, and when
Ling looked he saw three red lines down
her face, from which the blood was drip
ping. And the cat walked across the
floor witli the same stately tread. .
"I've got a nice looking face now!"
on id Maggie, "and I think I'll have that
eat killed." -i - . ' .
"-"Less," said Ling, "kill hlim," and he
rose dreamily and tried to drive the cat
out, but she wouldn't go.' He gave it up
and cursed the spirit which possessed the
cat Some enemy of mine has died,"
he thought, "and his soul has gone into
the cat." Maggie washed the blood
from her face and put on three long strips
of plaster, and then they went around to
the Five Points Mission, where they were,
married. -1 Tlie minister, Mr. Bough ton,
asked them both a great many questions,
and satisfied himself that every tiling was
all right."' Bcfdre he dismissed them ho
said he hoped Maggis would be happy.
; "I hope so, Bir," said she, "an' they say
the Chinks are good to their wimmon. "
; They went bock to the store then.
There was a letter on the counter near
the scales. It had come from China and
was for Yee Sam Ling. The cat sat near
it and would not move.' Ling pushed
her away with a stick, but she came back.
He was afraid to put his handout for t'-e
letter, so he pulled it toward him v ith
his pipe, ilt was from his native town.
"Your good mother Is dead," it said;
"the scourge devil carried her away.
It -was her will that you - return and
marry the girl sho has betrothed to you. "
The letter fell from Ling's hands; ho
looked up and saw tho cat still staring
at him. " '
"My mother's soul is there to curse
me," he whispered to himself, backing
toward the door. ; c-J
"It is she ! She has come across the
big water . because I did not return,'
and he kept stepping backward. .
"The curse has come upon me!" And
he felt for h's queue. Then he looked at
Maggie and saw tlie marks of the claws.
With a shriek he opened the door and
rushed out.
. "John's gone plumb crazy!" said Mag
gie to the attendant - "It's the opium, I
guess. It knocks 'em all when they go
the habit" " V "
Ling never .. came back,- so Maggie
patched a truce with her mother and
went back to the tenement.' Nobody but
the minister knows she is Mrs. Yee Sam
Ling, and the new sign which swings
over tlie door of the little store tellsevery
one who looks up at it that Sun Quourr
sells Chinese groceries there. Sun Quong
was the attendant
' Money In Milk. - V
- As long as the farms re large and land
cheap the pasturing of cattle will proba
bly be preferred to soiling. Soiling per
mits of more stock being kept, and less
area of land is required, but when the
pasture is used the profit therefrom must
be determined by the conditions of
climate soil, crops, and location. One
point "in favor of the pasture is that tlie
cows harvest the crop of grass and bring
it to the barn, whero digestion con verts, j
it at once into milk or manure, wituout
tlie. necessity of .labor o,r storage. Thi '
fact has been the- strongest iucou.ive to .
tho-uaojof tlurpasture, wuetiuT tug m
terest on th value of .the pfisture be iu
eluded in the cost of tho milk or not, :u
the land doe mtt lose any of its. vahTe iu
aoine sections, but hu-reasesthotigh tht
tuilk carries away a portion of its fertil
ily d lily. ; .:; ' " " - '
At-vVw two..
iru
quart, and cue average proportions or
solids in the milk is IS per cent. If 10 J
pounds of milk be Bold it is equivalent to
a fraction of over eight pounds of solids.
At two cents per quart the 100 pounds
(about 50 quarts) will bring fl.or 12$
cents per pound for the solids. At four
cents per quart each pound of solid mat
ter brings 25 cents per pound. A large
proportion of the solid matter (from three
to four per, cent) is butter fat, which
costs the farmer nothing, as it does not
come from tlie soil. The substances taken
from the soil, if the milk sells at four
cents per quart, deducting three pounds
of butter fat from 12 pounds of the solids,
increases the price of tlie seven pounds
of solids, not butter fat, 23 per cent more.
If the farmer will commingle the fat and
water of the milk, which does 'not come
from the soil, he will be aware of the fact
that he derives a very large sum for thi
solid matter taken from the soil, while
his customers can readily discern that to
them milk is a costly luxury, and at four
cents per quart is higher in price than
butter at SO cents per pound, in propor
tion to solid matter contained therein. -Dairying
is a business that paysjtha
farmer better than any other because it
enables him to secure a high price for
substances that sell in bulk. Milk i
largely composed of water . and it is sold
by liquid measure, the water costing him
nothing at alL There is also a large ac
cumulation of manure, which is alsc
brought from the pasture. - Where the
farmer buys feed and allows his cows
extra rations he secures manure in such
form also, and should return to the pas
ture all that is taken from it The rain
rood " is ' concentrated, but the milk is
bulky ; tho consequence being that when
food is brought to assist . the pasture in
providing for the cows the farm is sura
to increase in fertility.
Electric coal, cutters are rapidly ."re
placing hand labor in many mines. Not
only,- is it possible to do the work more
cheaply, but there is a decided saving of
coal, due to the- small height of the
"undercut - , - . - K ,
, i Affection blinds the judgment and we
can. not expect an equitable reward whero
tho judge is made a party. '
Not Scriptural St. Paul's epistles to
Minneapolis, .
It seoms hard to believe that a short
man is well brought up. Y mkers States
man. ,.
Snodgrass (after Snively finishes a fish
story) Well, I like a liar! Snively You
-egotist. The Epoch. ,. , .... " "
. A Kentucky Estimate. Jinipson
What Is meant by the horn of plenty i
Grogly About a quart.
The excuso of every man who docs no!
mind his own business is that he is trying
to do good. Atchison Globe.
. " These are "jewels of my own setting, "
quoth the speckled hen, as, she gathered
her chickens about her. Buffalo En
quirer. .. . ; .
"Do you shave yourself all the time?"
asked the barber. "No, I stop occasion
ally for meals," said Jimpian savagely,
Truth. '.-. .,
Fishing. He What kind of men do
you think make the test husbands 't
She Bachelors and widowers. Brook
lyn Life.
: The last one a man tells he is making
money is his wife, but" she is tlie first
one he tells when he is losing it Atchi
son Globe. . , -V
"What -do you think" of my angel
cake?" she asked. "It's too heavy to
fly, " lie replied. This was the beginning
of the end. ?
"Did you ever go up in a balloon ?"
"Once." "What were your sensa
tions?" "Oh, same as usual. r: I wanted
tlie earth." ' -
When you see a rattlesnake with 10
rattles and a button, you touch the but
ton and the snake wiU do the rest To
4eka Journal. '
The Cat May Enjor the Picnic.
"Metaphorically speaking, you can
never tell how the cat will jump in that
household." ;
"If it was a sensible cat it would jump
out of the window, I should thiuk, when
they start one of their - little family ar-"
guments. " Epoch.
Wouldn't Promise tor Sni-e.
Minister (in Chicago) Will you tafca
this woman to be your "wedded wife, and
keep her ? -
Bridegroom Hold upM I'll keep her if
I can, remember, but six others have
failed, you know. Won't promise for
Bure! Epoch.
An Bsy Explanation.
-I don't see how you manage to keep
wafniin this house in cold weather,'"
said a visitor to a Dakota farmer.
"Oh, that's all right," replied the agri
lulturist, "tlie house lias a blanket mort
gage on it " Epoch. ; -
t- , ' j " .
: Prosperity to often has the same effect
on,the Christian that a calm sou h.s on a,
lOutch mariner, who frequently, it is said,
in those circumstances, ties up the rud
der and goes to sleep. Bishop Home.
, Iu almost all the manufacturing towns
of Europe, during the 'hist half century,
CL-bJots have bee'a oneno.1 for apprentices
IltUk; industrial nruo . '
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN.
CONTINUED FUOii LAST WE4K-
. This part of West Virginia is full of Sul
phur springs, " which ever since the days
before . the war, have been great health
resorts.1 Close after the health seekers are
the pleasure seekers, for there can be-no
more charming places of their kind, tban
these among the Alleghanies, with the Infi
nite variety of soenery, and pure air which
sends in fresh vigor at eyeiy breath.
Through the tunnel, down the Great
Kanawha rlvar, which the railroad follows
many miles, now on one side now, the otherr
clinging to. the narrow ledge cut oat of the
precipitous clifis, the jouruey is of lade
scribable beauty. The river takes; all the
bright colors in Us wild rush down the
mountains, from the dazzling white of the
cascades aud rapids, tbe green of inter
mingling breakers hurled back from some
savage rock, to the colorless transparency
where it pauses before tho next mad break.
Tho greater mountains are stern und silent
and the meaning of. the Everlasting Hills
becomes vividly dUtinct. When the train
stops, the. valley is musical with liquid
sound.;: now the deep notes of a heavy
waterfall, or the rippling tinkle of the
rapids. - ". '.,., . ' ' : -. '.'
Tbe valley begins to thow signs of life.
Coal Bhafu' are let Into the mountains at
all heights, and tracks lead . to an over
hanging scaffoldiug, where coal is damped
into barges, or carp. VThe coal -uififcS-JC.'Jjjer of the great chaos must not he very
come innumerable, the river is now smooth
enough to be put to work, coking furnaces
are frequent, villages spring up, and there
is a busy thriving people. The houses
are generally poor, but stalwart" looking
men and women are numerous. The people
look as if all hid something to do. There
is an inexhaustible supply of coal underly
ing the country, and fine land for fariuiug
in the valleys. West Virginia onght to be
a great and prosperous State, As the road
goes down the Kanawha, tbe mouulaius
become lower and softer iu outline, and
when the Ohio river is reached near Hunt-
mgton they are high rounded hills. The
Ohio is nearly ochre colored und a broad
swift river with coal mines pouring their
wealth into its commerce, and stern, wheel
steamers with two smoke stacks plying up
and down. All that country is veiy inter..
cstiug. The people look healthy and vig
orous, and they move with energy. The
hustling which is so often beard of among
Americans has begum We are running
just on the Kentucky side between that
State and Ohio, and follow the Ohio river
to Cincinnati. About 8 p. m., the F. F. T.
glided into the city of Cincinnati, innu
merable electric lights sbiuiug below,
around and above us, and with, a sharp
descent down an inclined plane, stopped
jn the big Union depot. This was about
700 miles from hichmond, making 900
miles from home.
Ou Wednesday morning four long trams
lay abreast of each other waiting for the
minute to go. Anxious" hurrying people of
all sorts and condition of men and wo.
men mingle out and n iu apparent confu
sion, luere Is uo belter place lor seeing
different varieties of people than iu a big
railroad station. The poor and the rich,
the man who struts along as if it was all
made for him and was waiting his move
ments, aud the ucrvous traveller, who
thinks that the train will hide from him or
leave him if possible, the groups of friend
and the forlorn, the perfect specimens of
health and beauty, the sick aud miserable,
mid the lou3 eudgraut from distant lands,
all are there. They meet for a moment
and are hurried 'huad reds of miles apart
Just think of the thousands moving every
day,' and the thousands of places to and
from which they are going and one can see
the difference between such places and
where the people are always the saute.
Tiikiug the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chica
go and St. Louir, or the C. C. C & St. L.,
or the tt'g 4 as it is aiwj called, I left for
Chicago. For only a few miles we wmt
in Ohio, then into Indiana,- The scenery
as it flew by was very bold and prominent
uear Cincinnati. 1 heu the country be
came more and more level : until the last
knod fktteued into plains. The farms are
beautiful, cora and small grain afid pas
tores near aud then forest or well kept
groves. Towns were frequent. and flouri
shlug, and en, the outskirts lying in the
hade were groups of tramps. Frequently
they boarded tbe tiaiu and they were an
quietly as pes t. le "fired off." One gang
khowtd light and tbe ' conductor had to
khoot Lis pistol into them several times.
This is said to be a dahy occurrence. About
midday the train siopptd at Indianapolis,
President Hamsou'a home. Tlie Capitol
s'iauds out prominently aud U a very flne4
builditg. This is a chy of -.nearly 100,000
inhabitants, aud bciug a rilro centre.
looks ou the maprUke the hub of a wt-eef
with spokes extending iu every disccti'Tu.
These central etmtcsare fully developed, rail-
- . . .
roads" erossinff "ud recrosssna;, runniuir
tT.n"wLcve, mere numtivus th:u court y
roads with us. . " -
The com and' EnialUgrum crops are in
greatest abundance. -There are baud red
of miles of waving corn like a green ocean,
catohkg every breath of air on its quiver
lug surlkoc, now broken as a yellow field of
wheat or oafs, or a flourishing town flies
by. All the farming is done by machinery.
There are no com rows visible aud tbr
corn is almost sowed, it is so thick, . six or
seven stalks being in a place. Mowing ma-'
chines and threshers were at work in the
wheat fields, and in the pastnrei fat c&tlle
were feeding. There are herdly any trees
now, except some around the farm houses.
The Kankakee swamp lies between Indiana.
polis and Chicago. v It has been nuderdrain.
cd, I learned, by the State and is now a vast
corn field 200 milts square, valued at if 300
per acre. Jast think of the com on it
at 20 barrels to the a ore, which is its' regu
lar : yield, " The country ' is level, , but
eapily drained by tiling and there are tile
factories 'in many places, wuere the tiles
lie in great piles along the .railroad. The
country grows into closely connected towrs '
as the great city of Chicago is approached
Twenty miles away you see beginningspfv
the city, and'tho road now lies . along the
Southern shore of Lake - Michigan. Far
away out cf sight calmly stretches its sky .
blue. waters, almost level with the plain we
were speeding through. Eleven miles on
is Jackson park where the Colmubian Ex.
position is to be held, now it is surrounded
with a high wall, but visitors are allowed
inside. . Everything incomplete, aud thn
tremendous preparations and getnui; iu
interostiug, ''TZ,'
Z: T he city of Pullman, oVneCIJy by
Geo. M. Pullman the car maunfiictur?
comes next. He owns even the-houses his
operators live In, charges heavy rent: -and
runs great stores, at which all hands are
obliged to deuL. Some of these houses are
verv fine and lareo. , ..
.Far out of Chicago for many miles . ther
oouutry is d ividea into lowu lots, and afUtr
the fair they expect a tremendous boom,' or
rather they are booming now ou tbe pros
pect. They are encroaching on the lake by
buildings land out as far as ther are al.
lowed, for it is '.cheaper to make land up
from considerable depth, thau to buy ou
the edge of this immense city Surrouud& l
by buch avast aud rich country, poariug lu
-treasurers mto it iu thousands of ways, and
being the f e.oud city in the Hutted ouuu.
the future oi unicago wiu uesomeiumg uu
preoedented in tho wrld. Evorythit. is
new .and on a huge scale, tBtiWttawJiri
hold of even crime,- A mau told me tlwr
were thirty murders committed in the ten
days previous, but to be sum the - weatht r -was
hot ; When there is a lire, the jkswss.
papers seed their reporters ou tbe Uiu-idug
walls to sketch and describe tbe terrUM '
sceues touie.. .cveryming must ou;rat,
and there Is an eternal drive after every
pursuit in all directions. There are aoui
very pretty squares, where uiany pcftple.
congregate to get fresh air,, which I'" pctoil
onny transfer to the Chicago &. mu ,
rt eaiern., xu iuo utpui ui. mgui wiycii
is a Union depot of many roads, tu biifu-un
of necme were coming ana going uat, Mrr
one man a drop of water, oaly. ; lie iuut '
and officials along the line will guido l?.n
the right way; 1 heard of one traveilrjf.
who became so confused that be could p.t ...
tvlx wnere ua woo gvui ur . wuaw laii'j
was. You have to sign tbeee Ion g tic h c t x( .
as they are a contract also on your part,
and the officials mav require you to ulruti-.
fy yourself by writing your uantrs T uuJ .by
anv other wav thev can thiuk of.
From Cincinnati to Chicago is 30(5 nuleK,
making about 1200 milas from Flyum' !..
About half houis ride on an m'idn
through part of the city transferred uiu- t
nuULuti ttiS wmww ...... i j
others was my next train, tlie CUk-u,, A ,
North Western, for St Paul. Aaer hv.
ing Indiana, Illinois in the N.-.V, pu t i
crossed, ana Wisconsin tne nexi mh; uii
reaching Minuesota near StPanl. Vtyiu
ChicHgo au tne transconunenuu to kh van
through cars, a distance of about 2.V0O
milov ldid not take one of tbtsa li.l
reach in St Paul. It was late iu tha even-
ing now, and the crisp air from ibu ps -.i.tir
and leaving behind Chicago, a sonof wt-hieru
limifmode it very cxhilaratiug. MilfH
naKHA l before we cleared the citv ou tliir hiJ.
but with our rapid speed it was nui very
i-loog before the great fields of y;b. at and
Corn, pastures reselling lurlner-Ujiin t lie eye
could see. with here and Jwsre a p:Hp rous
farm house, closing up its evuiii a :'.r,
made a peac ful summer eveuiug k etie.
The sleeper-Was a Wagner aaar. lui-t vry
different from the Pullmaum the khioLui
room er several brigandtsu 1h kiu gvu.
tlomtn, one from Texas and oth is Iroiu
the wild-west places, ulio hut - u t :,i'.tr
several years separation. . They auuU in
quiries after mutual friends. WueTt'rf
jantt -vvnv oian i vou at ow n wim
killed such abd such time by' liere
Bill ' "John ki!;ed him." "L
thought Bill always got the drop "o ht
did. till some body got him ' i hut's tLo
way with all them fellowi, Hett u gol
partner sometime.
T"h whole list was dead, voum' i or
missing. They have great oontctupt lor
Underfoot, and their language is hoi . jivi
to put one to flight. Tha Texftu
large Bartby man with dark Ma fjuuinl
long curly b ack: moustache.
about fifty year old, might havcb1 ci li.tm
ome iu bin youth, but tiaiu ' uiut a roa :.i
life had hardened his fttce loo uiutii. i I
owued a larg ranohe and wus woilli yoii
deal of moBwy. lie was gnmg t I'.iirC",
Dak . to look af'.er proper iy. e .i and
smoked till late the ViscOushi cvj'ui.iy
Lwas beaatifnl I know, but cjcH.
click of tho mil t, Luraioni id iu n n.it i
jiildopivii; rhythm wts all c.'.':d '.-.I '-t
tbe ruh ihiwuf'b d;irk.