The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-08
Editorial Correspondence.
Cleveland Ohio.

was tempted
to say fellow liars because / am con
stantly led to believe the feelings
Eastis that "Dakotan' and "liar' are
synomous. When | tell a person
that the farmers in South Dakota
have long ago had all their wheat in
the ground and are now planting corn,
said person smiles an i%ncredulous
smile and says eyes, yes" when he
really feels like telling you that you
are a liar of the most horrible kind.
In the city to-day saw a large gang
of workman relaying the water main
on one of the principal business
streets. They were lowering it to a
depth of seven and one half feet. 1t
was five feet under the pavement but
ltroze mp during the late rather chill
lywinter in this locality. Frost was
found to-day at Il depth of six feet
on one Of the streets in the city
Twenty five per cent of the winter
wheat crop in Ohio is a dead loss,
and liz many parts of the state the
farmers arc blowing up their wheat
fields and seeding to something else.
In the face of these facts, so indica-
tive of rather a cold climate, people
ask every day of me if many folks
froze to death in our section during
the winter Just past. | tell 'em yes
and lots of 'em, but that no one cares,
because it is so cold all summer the
bodies never thaw out and we Just
stick 'em in the ground up to their
knees and utilize EN- for fence posts.
Since my last letter to YOU from
Sioux City | have travelled not a
little, visited strange places, seen
many new faces and had what a fash
ionable young boarding school miss
would call "a perfectly lovely time"
l have seen everything from the 16o
acre wheat field in Dakota to the
big corn fields of Iowa and the one
acre onion fields Of the suburbs Of
this city; have gazcd with rapture
upon the immense panorama of the
battle ofSGeuysburg, at Chicago to
the fat woman at the dime museum
and the girl who plays the piano with
her toes Speaking of the panorama
of Gettysburg, which has been on
exhibition at Chicago for about two
years, reminds me to say that no one
visiting Chicago should fail to see it.
1t is more Ike a mammoth painting
hundreds Of feet in length, and al.
ranged in a large circular building
built expressly forit. No description
t can gjme an adequate idea of its
beauty. One can gaze upon 1t Tor
hoars aud then leave the scene with
regret, so lite-like is the painting.
BY looking upon it one a obtain =
better idea of all the horrible scenes
of a terrible battle than in reading
f a library of wal histories and looking
: upon all the pictures of battles ever
$ made. This painting would reach
around the opera house and lap
| hundred feet, and reach 10 the roof
F, In another letter | may write some
interesting facts in regard to it:
. execution, etc, but will not stop to dc
: so now. In the meantime let nc
t reader of the GRAPHIC fail to visit
t the building when in Chicago. /
will well repay a journey of hundreds
Of miles just to look upon the picture
| saw Taylor Of the Alexandria Her
? aid ct the Gault House in Chicago
1t seemed good to see the feHow
He had come that far with Mrs. Tav
V lor and the children who were OF
|. their way to their old home in Obi,
o | must tell YOU of something yer,
funny that happened at the Gaul
S House while | was there. A sun
S burned granger walked in n even
ing about supper time, came up t.
the office counter where | stood chat
ting with the clerk, laid n big blacl
@ valice upon the counter. and with
q hand unaccustomed to public writin.
n scrawled with great exertion an,
C many outward movements of hi
!, tongue the name of Lorenzo Crumle
4 upon the register. "Will you hav
n some supper Mr.. Crumlet'' asked TIL
q polite clerk, oval, no, | guess not
returned the rustic stranger. eth
Il folks at home put up a good bit Q
n grub, and thar's enough lett in TIL
ie yer carpet-bag fura supper, | reckon
If The clerk smiled and tipped a win
Ie to me, and the co%untryman was show
to his room with his carpet ba!
What followed in his room we CO
lie only guess at, hut il is to be presume
he had prepared himself for 4 bi
meal when he caught sight Of IL
~ .rules for gents always fonn
ct tackled upon the doors and read thel
d for he had not been absent from IL