Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-11

CORRESPONDENTS.
CHICAGO, August Sd.
Aessrs. Editors -
"Gin a body meet a body
Coming thre' the rye,
Gin a body ~

"Gin a body meet body
Coming rhro' the rye,
Gin a body x
If you know the rest you know what l
was mentally hummiEe, out on Rock prairie,
as mounted upon the "Valley Chief Self
Raking Reaper" I drove around twelve
acre field OF rye. Twas quite transition
from the carriage to the reaper; from
span of sleek, agile ponies, that bro't
Us from Evansville to Emerald Grove
in an hour, and seemed just as capable and
aesireas of breaking oaE necEs at the end of
fhe route as at the beginning to the ponde-
rous farm horses; but the contrast made it all
the more enjoyable. The tall, yellow grain
bowed before the keen blade and laid itself
down upon the platform until by another
evolution the rake swept it off into heaps,
ready for the fingers of the binders. The
sun shore; the birds sang, and the huge
horses kept steadily On their way, although
never once needed the farmers Injunction
to fuse the whip oni that off horse" adding,
rather apologetically y, che's Lazy" By the
way why do. men invariably call tired horses
and sick horses lazy7 Is it an, excuse to ap-
ply the whip?
| Rock Prairie is beautiful and a fine farm
| ing country, as every one must real ize who
surveys it in harvest time. For descrip
ton of the ''crops" allow me to give you
| brief summary, derived from remarks which
| heard upon the subject. Cats are "struck
with the rust, barley and rye considerably
''crinkled," wheat "stout and heavy" corn
Coming on fast" Here | leave it to those
versed in farmers technicalties to- say
| whether Rock Prairie crops are failure
or success, as my own understanding is
utterly at fault.
Lombardy popalars seem to be the pecu-
liarity of all prairies, or at least the passion
ofprairie inhabitants bounding every farm,
often in place of the line fence" huddled
IN groves at the rear or side Ct every dwell
ling, marking the horizon everywhere they
stand like a tall woman without boops
stiff and ungainly, gathering their skirts
closely about their spindle-like bodies
casting no shade, infested by worms, the
very personitication OF gloom and loneli-
ness. Away with them from our flower
decked prairies; transport them across the
ocean to gloomy castle grounds, where they
will be meet companions for the owls and
| ghosts.
To dine in GAINESVILLE and sup in Chicago
is nothing wonderful in these days, when
marvels are made commonplace; though the
Pacific railroad is yet full of interest and
one can but experience g. new and pleasant
sensation in eating California fruit, and
such TFas-my pleasure on arriving in the
Garden City; great, purple pIums, sweet
and juicy, and pears as yellow rs the pre-
| cious sands of their oWngclden state. Then
| too in eating fruit, the mere transportation
of which cost 5000 per car lead, one feels
something akin to that eastern Queen, who
in her reckless extravaganza diss solved
priceless jewel and drank it in her wine.
There is a wonderful menagerie in Chica-
go now, yesterday l went to see the Behe-
moth: but saw only its stuffed skin. Now
if were that Behemoth's 81 est, l would
return from my heaven of fathcmless mud
thrust the straw from my desecrated cuticle
reanimate it myself and proclaim the per-
iidy of showmen, il tones not to be mis-
taken. MARION.