The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-07-17
GEMS FROM GORDON.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., !
July Is. 1855.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
July Is, 1885. /
Leaving lola Thursday evening, / ar
rived here Sunday morning at O'Clock
in time TO get the dust shaken off and
join an excursion down the Potomac tc
Marshal Hal, a historic locality on the
opposite side of, the river, and about
two miles further down from Mt. Yer.
non. Had a pleasant trip all the way
from lola. 1t rained all day Friday
while coming through Missouri. A
gentle northwest breeze prevailed
during the remainder of the trip; in
fact, so gentle while travelling through
West Virginia as to make over coats
comfortable.
Crops, If anything, throughout Mis-
souri, look better and more advanced
than in Kansas. We passed through
southern Illinois and Indiana in the
night, and saw little of the crops.
West Virginia | can hardly pass on the
condition of her crops, for the reason
that her people farm on rocky clay
hillsides, so steep that the incline of
the roofs of ordinary Kansas BUILDINGS
would be nowhere compared with these
mclines. How they manage to farm
these hillsides is mystery to a nerson
who has lived in Kansas most of hi
life. Now and then one secs small
f1ocks of sheep browsing on the hill
sides where they are too steep for any
person. They maintain a foot hold
Mter the lashlon of Capt. Ewing's n.
u. sheep, by placing their noses in a
WeIge SNAPPED creylce between the
rocks and cropping off stray spear of
grass; ana while thus engaged thew
.ahe step nrst with one hind leg and
then the other; having thus secured a
IootlDg they move their mouth and
nose along with their fore feet to q new
location. BY this combined foot and
hlouih movement they manage to exc
out miserable existence, where two
or three generations of Kansas sheen
WOULD perish in the attempt to learn
the combined movement.
Ihey say there is some good FARMING |
land in the valleys of West Virginia.
put have not seen it; and 1t appeared
10 me We travelled all over and under
tne state IN coming from Parkelsburp
70 washington over the b. & O, rail.
toau, SO numerous are the curves or
Turns ana tunnels of the railroad. On
the whole, with all her floods and
storms OF this year, Kansas compares
more than favorably with what I saw
while on the way here. can very
readily understand since making two
TRIPS here what caused Kansas 10 in.
crease her population over go 600 from
1870 to 1880. '000 iioiii
fortune favored ME with conn.n;on-
aple ana social fellow travellers during |
most OF my trip. From Sedalia N;S. d
souri,, to.St. Louis / was seated alonr
shde OF Prof. u. p. ShuIl. of IIIinoiS
VINO mas been engaged as princinaI 81
tne Wichita, Kansas. high school for
tne coming year. From St. Tomis To- ,
: = TII;,n;u we were agaiu seated with G
h,t h fnna gehifs< not professor. G
AZ 1Ia.tn an ~ g 3eodenware factory
~ na1tahoogaT>YenD. He gave ms
sonhe interesting information regard
Ins lhe relations of white and colored
l - rate OF wages paid, and industri-
~ seasus OF the south. From him we a
-. t.at IL Is principally northern q
,aPI.al invested IN southern manufac.
.oi,es, lhaS The stockholders. officers 4
,hd ioremen are mostly northern men.
nat the rafeof wages paid for labor in
ne south is Is to25 per cent lower tbsn
: pald for the same Kind of labor of |;
ne north; that this reduction or differs p
nee IN wages results from the colored
nan OF the south being able and wifi.
llg 10 work and live this much eheaper
nan the white laboring man Of The
'orth. From him also learned that b
many branches of manufaetures i'm ,
: