The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-30

\ products find a ready market in Kan sas, Texas, New Mexico and the entire western country and the demand in- creases far beyond the supply. The city is environed with fruit farms and market gardens and each year they are carried farther into the country Oswego is notably &
 HORSE FANCYING AND BREEDING point, the single breeding stables of MT. J. NJ. Grant embraces S40,Q worth of standard bred, thorougbrs W and draught horses, represented r ss z, "Rounds' Sprague" and splend s - sire with a record of 2:24l. This hor"oe comes down through a royal line W breeding on his dams side from tne great "Mambrino Chie" and Is said ales !. inherit, in high degree, the remark sA ble trotting qualities of his illustrio;. sire. In this same stud Is an0th superbly bred and fashioned horse equally fine relationships, name an, number Aladdin" (22S5), reco'm 2;4l trial 2:29. He is & son of tn world famous Rysdyk's "Hambletoi W ian, ,"the sire of more fast trotters thsac' any other horse the world has evet produced, and, believe, the only SO re of that famous sire in Kansas. Mtxp Grant favored me with the inspectiogh n of another beautiful horse "Brownne ell," 6064, record 2:22 and & grandso'ar of George Wilkes" In this fine cogo' lection of horses remember the handl some Kentucky coach horse "Abdal- 1 l~L ha al fr,aV fasttf black Percheron "Maliga," 4457 ; I "Chartes," 1887, an imported dapple gray Norman, "Black Monarch" | 36ll, pure bred Clyde, some fine young stallions and Allies and above all, the courtesy and chivalrous def erence ot the owner and manager of this rare company of horses, a man to be honored and remembered, quite as much for his enthusiastic devotion to | noble calling as for social gifts and graces that stamp him always and everywhere as gentleman. This favored city has other stables we'll stocked, I am told, by horses of superior merit and high breed- ing and owned and managed by horsemen ito the manor born" in this vocation.
 is only a step in Oswego-all around these homes of fine horses are hun- dreds of other homes-elegant, taste l ful, tree -embowered homes stocked with strong, earnest, sterling capable and progressive men, fair women and finely trained children, lovers and patrons of books, music, the drama and all the finer kindlier arts, and just over at the other end of the city is the
 oswEGO COLLEGE FOR YouNG LADIES with its elegant buildings charmingly set in charming campus and corps of teachers Gall ladies) whom every body delights to honor and a young ladies' school at once the pride and glory of the city. The public schools, too, of which heard no end of praise, are second to none in all this com monwealth of model schools, and Oswego looks, to my woman's eyes, very like city budding into the rich and precious bloom of AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER, a sort of southeastern Kansas Athens, where courts of love and beauty are yet to be adorned by the highest graces of culture and character. One of the best evidences of enlightened local enterprise, is the liberal local patronage of popular academic edu- cation. Another sign of good public taste and enterprise is RIVERSIDE PARK, suburban tract of fifty acres, em- bracing beautiful native woodlands on the bluff and river, with no end of wild, picturesque natural attractions to which it's 100 lady owners and managers will add such tasteful em- bellishments of art as will make 1t peerless among western parks. l fancy that Oswego Is yet to be known | as THE CITY OF PARKS for the gentlemen, not to be outdone by their sisters, are improving a beautiful central park with fine taste and will make 1t place of resort for the delightful open air evening con- certs which are given through the warm season by
 THE oSwEGO CoRNET BAND under the leadership of Prot. Swan, one of the foremost musical compos- 1 CTS and directors in the country and, withal, cornetist Of national fame, 1 who has in training here a band of rare excellence and promise. The preserves of
 THE oswEGo GUN GLIB, 1000 acres in extent and located 6 mile distant from the city, embracing | Horse Shoe lake, a section of the Neo- |