The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-08-31

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0vYnASD, August, Is.
"a A.l;c;oua law had We ali become
80 hecsnee ne had nothing to do, and
,s,tly hecanse ve did not desire to &C
.c,.,sI;.h .nvthinp-that had the accu
IN. sn.e, v,sited "a. and inquired Of US
q 1hat uses We had put our talent it is
# re could have reused enough
..s--v a arswer him at all. "I.ying
..".;ss,~ an onr h.cka. !" WA not lust the
.hy.c - vsre doing. either. and perhaps
"a nav better be understood BY our lady
G;.,d: 10 announcine that we were in
rhror;c c:;mn. about the head, boudour
.iiprers on tbs feet snd Bsrton's Anato-
~ ~ n elsnchoiv in one of our hands
"a ~ ether holding a turban fast to
M heeds 10 shov our respect to our
f~--.r condition of feminine pride, which
AZ rot sermit crimpine pins to be seen
M snvbodv but the maids and husbands.
IA an dav long. with the ex-
stir, 6;ver,;on of listening for the bells
-I;S r.rr ~, n meela. and of attending
.n ,h.;r c.l7 nth an aI.critv which would
=. snrnr;sine to any one who did not
Ino~ he Richmond conditions to which
,h;. s.,nosnhere reduces everybody who
H-c.th... Z
All the veek Ions we were pro6ieatcs
of time. and wasted the hours as reckless
" m II there was to be no "rolling to.
1ether like a scroll" of this fiat earth.
lyon know that this pretty. but not very
cheering prophecy was made before the
world was declared to be round. Had
il been a modern sentiment it would have
been expressed in a less poetic manner. }
Saturday always fetched ripple to our
surface ike the results OF a subsoil pillow,
aud our spirits rose, our muscles became
~ctives our crimps blew out, and We were
alive again.
To be- sure. now and then 4 lady, whose
nervous energy was more than common,
had some false crimps sewcd to her tur-
band, and although she looked compare
lively pretty. we were too indolent to be
reused into envy, and so it did not pay
to stir. All the masculines, with one ex-
ception, being either married mer or
mere strips Of boys, were, ofcourse lazy.
They cat, slept and fished. Happily they
did not catch anything, and they would
have been very uncomfortable If they
hsd. because the fish might have been a
serious thing to their torpid muscles.
Fishing where there i, no danger Of a
nibble is such delicious thing in q To-
eality whore returning health and ma.
lures efforts to restore rounded contours
and return to your original dimples pre-
occupies your energies exclusively. Our
fisherman throw ont . "craxy bait" lie
back under the dropping bows of the
treea, which sway Just enough in the lag
gard breeze to fan away the flies and cool
their brows, and happy in the conscious
ness that they are in the woods and are
fishing for something or other which they
hopeSand not without reason-will new
or trouble their hooks.
In the capital of Siberia that city which
is not freouented by American ideas,
they have an ordinance that no bells shall
shall be worn by horses within the limits
of Irtusk, because their Jingle will make
such q noise that the pedestrians cannot
hear . sleigh approaching, and will be in
danger of being run over at the cross
ings. With remotely similar sentiment
N belied, the fishermen in these wilds
fasten their lines to q tree 80 that they
hall not know when the aquatic mouth
opens to the bait.
It would be frivolty even to endeavor
70 be Interesting to ANYBODY during the
week. To be sure, now and then, poet
ic creature alluded in a delicate tone of
voice to the "fimsy fiounces of fog
which were worn by the mountains on
the green borders Of their robes" or the
"ro1nd, laughing moon" was apostro-
phised in q sentence which was too sick
" for complete period, and died instant
". This condition pervaded all women,
and all men. with one exception. which
I have not mentioned, and he ia neither
man nor bow, but
= A WIDOWED.
His habit has been to devote himself
10 each Available lady 1.-THE assortment of
.vsilables was limited 10 tbreel In repu.
lar order and giving himself up to one
for a few hours. and then to the other.
with thr most scrupulous and cooscaen.
tious attention to fairness in the division
of his smiles.