The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-09
YOUNGsTOwS, OHIO,
August 3, lSS3.

Heelit IKE an age. IL may De lnal
our corn crop has suffered materially
from the dry hot breezes that have
prevailed to some extent in Central
Kansas, but am quite sure that ouF
country IL far ahead Of anything ]
have seen on the general average OF
crops. After n thorough canvass Oi
the situation I'm regard 10 the wheat
crop Of the United States, the St Louis
Republican regards Kansas as the
head and Illinois the tail. II Illinois
Is the tail, I do not know what TO say
of Ohio, for there is scarcely any
wheat at all in this part Of the State.
When left home Oh the 18th Of last
month, / regarded the corn crop oi
Saline county as almost perfect and
after passing through Missouri. Illi-
nOis, Indiana, Ohio and part Of Penn
sylvania, / placed Kansas corn, ~
compared with tie crop in these
states, az 100 per cent. The crop in
Missouri was hOTrid and could not be
placed higher than - per cent, thou
sands of acres having been wholly
ruined by tile high waters. In Illi-
nOis aud Indiana the crop was better,
but had suffered terribly from wet,
cool weather and would not grade
higher than 80 per cent. It was ir-
regular and streaked like a piece Of
break fast bacon and reminded me Of
the uuderpinniug Of a stOrk. In this
a.H =
worthless. I met an old farmer this
morning that was all broken up over
the condition Of his corn and refused
To be c.Imforted. On investigation
fngnd his entire crop Of corn was only
four acres.
We have had some very heavy rains
and with them some lively blowing,
but
NaW the clouds have passed sway
Aud al g. loFrly ~ the morning.
Bot the oafs they say De dat a. hay
Ia places like % had been siorminE.
10 did ram like ~ She night they feil
And till noon the day following after,
But really never thought
That cats, rye or aughi,
Would tutnble tii the gr0unl got soiter.
If the weather is favorable oats will
be ripe by the 18th Of this month. A
few fields have just commenced 10
turn, hut are not yet 80 yellow as the
corn in the adjacent fields.
When ] returned from the "wah, y
turned my hack upon my native
heath and pitched my tent In Brook
field, a little town on the Western
Reserve, In the summer of 1865, ] saw
this country at its best. saw its
green meadows, iis fields Of waving
grain, iis beautiful homes whose door
yards were fierked with flowers and
adorned with shrubbery. / saw coal
miners hy hundreds replete with
wealth accumulated while mining coal
at s. and 81 per day, spending their
earnings literally in the village
saw business men rushing t0 and fro,
and all was lifc, energy and enterprise
The country was lovely and, com
pared with the desolatinm Of the
south. was gnrgeously grand and
beautiful and impair ted 10 me an enthu.
siasm that inspired the following lines:
Earth may have iairer sp Is than this
ln tr0pic climes sra-girt isle,
Bot not Tor inc my greatest bliss
d here away my days 10 while.
"a change has come DER the spirit
Of my dreams" The country has
tie coal business has ceased to be prof
table 10 any one. Many of the coal
hanks are exhausted and As we pass by
the numerous tenement houses where
eighteen years ago all was life and in
dustry, and the air was filed with
joyous shouts from a multitude of
children, we simply see a deserted viii
lage with broken windows and creak-
ing doors. / visited the town OF
BroOkileld, my old home, and found
grass and weeds foot high between
the boards of the sidewalks The
town looked gloomy and desOlate with
now and then a solitary male figure
passing leisurely across the green" !"
I found the place that cost me Sl4O0
In 1876, without a teneineBt, and had
so for a year or more. IL is for sale at
$500. I found the town Of Miles that
once had a population of 500 with
oEe-third Of her houses empty. James
Ward, the great iron king who gave
Niles all the life and prosperity that
she ever enjoyed, and furnished EN-
plOyment for GO0 men, has failed for
SGn, 900. Ills assets will pay about
one mill on the dollar. Mr.. Ward II
non est. ] visited an old friend in the
country whose dOmicile'was surround
ell so closely 10y the cOnical shaped
lir trees, and dclOud-splitting Lombard
les, that ray of sunlight was
stranger. This place crushed my
usually sunny and hopeful sririt, and
gave me tlie "hluesn walked out on
the back pOreh in search Of something
pleasant aud cheerful. | saw glim-
mering through the grnaning trees"
back ON the rear Of the grounds.
a little city an silcnt and lone,
Where the young aud the gay AMI The best,
Ia polished white mansions of stone,
Hal each found place % rcst.
/ thought Of the terrible day when
Gabriel, swifler than the flight Of
thought flies acTnss the cOncave Of
heaven, pruclaimiug with n voice that
appals creation, "arise We dead and
come to Judgement I saw with my
spiritual eyes, as 10 were, that slumber-
ing group break the seals Of the sep
ulcheT, arise. shake oil the habiliments
of the tomb and march around 10 the
front gale in single Tile. ] saw the old
patriarclal Yankee that headed the
grim aud gliastly prOcessiun, resting
his hideous anatomy upon the gate
aud crying Justify To hisgreat great
great-grandsOn tO know what sll this
racket was shout When told it was
prolonged blast from that historic
trumpet 60 call the slurnbering hosts
from the wild surf of the ocean Ia the
more fearful. Judgement seat, he
Thought Of his Wootlen nutmegs and
bogus hams, aud his knees began to
tremble, aud lac cried aloud tu the
mountains and rocks tO fall upon him
aud hide from the face Of Him that
sitteth ou the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb. But the noun
tains and rocks seldom ever fall. Ma
son, consideration Of this subject
RdmOn ishes us to repent ROic The
prOinontory Of your ersnium has al
ready passed up through the capillary
foliage and reminds one of miniature
mountain peak towering above the
boundaries Of the timber line.
J. w. DAILY.
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