The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-08-28
NOTES FROM WATERLOO.

w ATERLOO, aug. 10, IOOS.
Well, Mr.. Editor, after long siege of
worse than ''durance vile," and the
sound of my pursuers has died away in
the distance, and the smoke and sound
of their artillery are seen and heard
no more, and am again permitted to
emerge from my place of secret retreat,
and again enjoy the light of the sun,
and all the congregated beauties of such
sublimely grand scenery, and pleasant
breezes that this glorious month of Au-
gust is so profusely lavishing on the
happy people of Kansas, you may rest
assured that Citizen is glad he is alive.
And hope and think that my months
confinement has made me wiser man.
And now Mr.. Editor, / want to say this
through the EMPORIA NEWS, that the
notice | took in former article of mine,
of some of the good people of Water
loo, was not intended to engender wrath
or any pugilistic demonstrations what
ever. l simply thought it would please
them for me to talk little about what
they talked so much about themselves !:
but what intended as eulogy some of
them construed otherwise, and some of
their '.howlings" for my scalp since my
last communication in THE News, have
been hideous. In consequence of these
demonstrations of wrath / have been
compelled to shut myself up in utter
seclusion for over month bat as most
evils have their good also, / have come
out wise enough not to joke on facts
in future. Since my assailants have
Quoted down | have been going about
and feasting on the beauties of nature,
and specializing on the glorious future
which awaits the Ueaven-tavorcd peo-
pie of Kansas.
l find the people, with a few excep-
tons, busiiy enga gcd in the various
branches of husbandry improving their
farms, fences and buildings, and some
are putting up new buildings, some of
which would compare favorably with
those of much older settled States. Oc-
casionally l scare up a customer who
seems to be laboring under hallucina-
ton of some brooding evil. Those most
malignant of diseases, grasshoppers,
or $50" OH the brain have evidently been
more than their craniums could endure,
and have left them fit subjects for all inn
aginary diseases. These characters
should never be allowed to mar the
peace or check the progress of more
calculating minds. We should ever
bear in mind that this class of people
l mean crOakers-are only occupying
the space which they were destined to
fill from the beginning, and that is sim
ply the space they occupy. This class
wander around, Jack O. the lantern"
like, always seeking darkness, and flee
at the least appearance of light. This
class say 1--WE will all starve here" So
we would if we were all like them.
They look at the dark side of all sub
iects, and generally exaggerate them.
In fact am of the opinion that among
the worst enemies Kansas has, are some
of her own citizens. They are not per-
haps Intentionally so, yet their contin-
ual croakin9s can have no other effect
than that produced by real or nom
resident enemy. And some of our Kan
sas editors, too, come in for large share
of the odium of the enterprising citi-
zens of Kansas, and deserve just what
they are receiving: very limited sup
ply of patronage. No citizen should
become a patron of any paper which
gives publicity, editorial or otherwise,
| to articles derogatory to the interests of
our State, and especially the agricultur-
al interests. We don't claim to be res
| idents of Paradise, but we do claim the
honor of living in one of the pleasant
est, and destined to be one of the greatest
States of this Union. But in common
with Otner states ana other countries
we have our troubles and difficulties,
our wet seasons and our dry seasons,
our ups and our downs, and yet this is
no more than people have to contend
with be they where they may. And
those who don't like Kansas would
croak were they bestowed a throne in
the most congenial climate on Gods
green earth. 1t is true our corn crops
are little light in some localities this
year, but it is not a drop in the bucket
compared with their great eastern fail
ures, and our great surplus from last
year would have been sufficient to have
carried US through had we raised no
corn the present year. But there are
but few farmers who have not grown
feed enough the present year, by exer-
cising due economy in cutting up corn
and cutting prairie hay, without falling