The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-07

In end Arouse N poeeo0o 9oeoos tooooo.
When two iIlustrious Greeleyitss
meet on the public highway one gem
orally says to the other, What d. yer
know ?" and the invariable reply II,
pa! dunno; heard anything about the
railroad ?" Yes; they're going to
let US raise another crop through here
before they want the right Of way.
Have you seen anything Of the sur
veyors?" Whereupon the party thus
interrogated scans the horizon and the
sky, and then gases intently upon tbs
ground, ~ II uncertain whether the
next surveying corps will come from
the region If the rising sun, from be-
yond the clouds or from the myster-
ious depths below.
Frank Peck has gone East again,
and il 10 rumored by those who best
know the young mans habits that
these Eastern trips mean business, and
that one Of these times he will return
with far more baggage than he started
with. 1t may be dam-selW.
Arbor day was not celebrated in
District No. IL, for divers reasons !;
therefore there will b no magic
growth of forest trees on the school
DIeulISeB tllIS yC1I- xuC 0CuOOl CuhI-
| dren spent the day in April-foOling
themselves and the community at
large.
A great deal Of wheat is injured in
this locality, and the prospect in gen.
eral is none Of the brightest.
Singing school closed last week, and
Miss Powell babe her class goodbye
for the present. All parties interested
were highly satisfied with her mode of
conducting the school, and hope to be
able to secure her services again next
winter. She will reside in Clay Cen
ter this summer.
Our road overseer has been at work
for the past week, endeavoring to make
| the roads to town ways Of pleasant.
ness" All the leading questions Of the
day have been debated in the breath
ing spells by the parties warned out.
Some have planted their early pota-
toes, and fear they have caught their
death cold sleeping out these cold
nights.
The young men in Greeley go to zee
the girls In squads Of four and five on
Sunday nights, doubtless for mutual
aid and protection, for we have some
| SHdTp girls III OIecicyl. Aucy uiScih
their horses all around the house 90
that n stranger unacquainted with the
custom of the neighbOrhoOd might
think there was camp-neeting going
on, or land league organization form
ing. They don't generally 60 home un-
til the old folks get up to do the wash
ing on Monday morning.
These are trying times for the farmer.
In the morning the sun shines brightly
and ne wipes the sweat from his brow
as he puts on his summer garments
by noon current Of air il moving from
the northwest ut the rate Of sixty miles
an hour, aud he creeps into his over
coat by night-fall he is equipped in
overshoes and mittens, with fair
show for good skating soon.
When the days labors are at an end,
the horny-fisted granger goes to
rest, but even here the nightmare
seizes him, and he fancies that the rab-
bits have eaten up his early peas, that
his onions, hitherto tower of strength
in themselves, have succumbed to the
fierce onslaughts of his poultry, while
his late cabbages, with heads as big AS
an editors, have been eaten up by his
neighbours milk cows. At this stage
of the proceedings he generally wakes
up and murmurs U. II. A. BRICK.