The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-02-28

'ut two of the varieties would cling 10
he tree in this windy country. The
Wine Sap" varieties and the Ben
Adam" are The ones. We stopped at
he mansion, and were referred to the
foreman, who did not need any more
bands, and when they do they
only pay from five to seven dollars per
week, and you pay for your board, and
you eat in gang, and you work in
gang. On this day out we met about
twenty "Guests without baggage"
of the covered wagon tramp,
who is about as numerous. Some of
them started from Ohio thirty years
ago, and they have driven that old
wagon through every mud hole in the
Northwest. They are now Oh the road
to Arkansas. The old jayhawker sits
with his head ducked outside the cover,
his sharp eyes sre on the ert. and he
squirts his tobacco juice as he pushes
on to the evening bivouac. He will
stop somewhere and make another
crap" another child will be dropped |
into the towsy headed mothers lap,
and he will resume his journey toward |
the little mound that will mark his |
last encampment.
This is early in December, the |
weather is fine, and the farmers are
marketing their corn at 3Oc per bu
and bushel is always 20 lbs of course.
These towns all have steam shelters
and elevators. They weigh the load,
open the draw in the floor, dump it
into the shelter, elevate it and shoot it
into the Car, and they can do it about
as quick as I can write it. Most of the
corn here goes west. The cobs are
hauled away for fuel, and you must
know that there is a large pile of fuel
in hundred acres of cobs, when the
ears are yard long and as thick as
your arm. There is no scarcity of fuel.
In all these towns you will see wood
on the market at SIS solid cord, for best
hickory, and coal is as plenty and
cheap AZ in Ohio. The corn is not all
sold, for many cattle and hogs are fed.
The cattle business is conducted about
this way. A couple of herders will
gather up the calves and cattle of a
neighborhood in the Spring, drive
them off southwest to range previ
Ously spied out, and take care of them
till Fall for about SO cents head per
month, then they are driven back
rounded up with corn, and sent to
market. While on the corn question
L will tell the boys that have heard
some very tall husking stories. One
man in Miami Co. husked 40 'bu. in
10 hours. Another in johnson Co
offers to wager $500 that he can hush
200 bu. in II hours. Now, 200 time.
10 lbs. are seven tons. What do yor
think of it?
SO we come on back. AS we were
going down in the cars, we were sup
posed to be a real estate dealer. A!
we walk back, we are supposed to be
horse thief, and our inquiry for worl
is regarded as blind. Being told by
one of these suspicious squatter SOW
ereigns that the prominent mouno
ahead was Old John Browns Lookout
we go up there and look around. Ex
cept where the timber belt of tn,
Marias De Cygne river obstructed tn,
view, the old sentinel could discern
horseman twenty miles away. Wha
charming view of country it affords
, now! Fine farms, herds of cattle
moving trains of cars, towns and vii
lagos, school hou ,es and churches, ar
. in full view. To the northeast j
D Paola, to the southwest is Ossawotamie
: and that large structure that seems al
most within stones throw is tn
State Lunatic Asylum. We will no
stop to moralize on the consistency O
the location but stand with me her
: on this mound, and let us drink thi
toast in silence. Right over there i
D Missouri, and we can almost see tn
Border Rutfians" emerging from tn
u woods. We can almost see the schoo
house of our boyhood, where our goo,
old Abolition father, with his good oil,
Abolition neighbors used to meet c
: Winter nights, and abolish slavery
and theoretically, load up their Ion
- range fanatical fusees, and blaze ava
at those "'ounds of 'ell," until ou
youthful hair wOulG stand on end, an
we would flee in terror from the imae
mary troop of horned devils that wer
4 charging down upon us, clamoring fo
the blood of the son of an Abolitioni Isl
e We think of the war, and of the ur
;, numbered in the silent bivouac; W
count the names of those who have be
Y come great through its oppertunitie
:. and calamities-but why should we tr
i to pen the memories as they al
l. crowded upon the canvas of this rust
@ ing panorama, why wish again to loo
- within the chambers of our life Ion
Il since passed through and closed benin
If US. The past has vanished away. an
9 with it the old man who swept thi
landscape DER. The Border Ruffiau
d is the respectable Missourian, and th
:. Jayhawker" the prosperous Kanss
q farmer. The same sun that shone O
i. the blood drenched earth, lights u
=, this lovely. peaceful scene. And "
o. eXclaim, our God is not God of battl
y but the same from First to Everlastin,
h He was not in the strife. His su
if shone upon All, bat he Was not in IL
e Rams Horns. We walk down frol
n from this elevation, realizing the un
it versal greatness and goodness and mi
nificence and mercy of our God, an
=, we pray forgiveness for ever havir
= associated His great name with r
70 venge, and blood and carnage. th
- mans weakness and wickedness ha,
|, brought upon the earth.
70 0. w. FOLSOM.
!" Given Away.
ie We cannot help noticing the liber
81 offer made to all invalids and suffere