The Osceola times., 1888-01-07
IComaapicatsd !
CABooL, Mo-, Dec. 20, 1887.

EpiroR TINES Dear Sir: l see
in your issue of Dec. "a, a notice of
Mrs. Barney's return to Osceola, and
that other families, from their graph
ic description Of this barren country
had been induced to move to Csbool,
and suppose that my family is in
cluded by you in the number. l de-
sire to e1culpate Bro. Barney from
all blame, il blame there be in this
matter. l csme to this country and
looked at it before removed my
family from Mississippi county, and
must say that ! was we'll pleased
with the country on my first trip and
ses no reason as yet why l should
be displeased. We have beautiful
hills and valleys, purling brooks Of
clear Running water, whose swift pas.
sage over the rocks is like tinkling
bells to the ear OF . man who has
dwslt 20 long in the river bottoms.
The hills and valleys abound in pas
,srags, Of nice, rich grass for black
cattle; and small farms dot the coun-
try here and there, on which is raised
corn, wheat, hay, potatoes, cabbage,
onions, and al kinds of small vege.
tables, aud of fruit, apples, peaches,
plums, pears, Strawberries, rsspber-
riss, currsnts, gooscberries, and as
fine grapes a. you ever saw. Of game
Ne have quail, turkey, coon, opos,
sum, deer and rabbit, but no mos
quitoes; think of this next summer,
whom these pests assail you. We
have . better and finer looking class
of stock here than you have in Ar.
kansas, (the editor would here say
he has seen specimens, brought here
recently, direct from Cabool,) and
the farmers lay in a good supply Of
the good things Of this life, Of their
own production, and not obtained by
tbs uAe of the cha;tel mortgage, and
fron yeI's end to years end, but
BY their free and independent efforts.
This country is not an Eldorado but
for a man of small means it is a good
country, and not At all barren, but
blossoms like 4 rose. The air 10 pure
healthy and fresh, and you conaot
help but enjoy breashingit. l do not
expect TO come back to live, but hope
to pay ,ny many friends . visit, and
would be pleased to welcome The
editor of the TINES and family on a
visit 70 this country whom the long
hot summer days come. Be sure
and send the Times regularly for we
look for it - for an old friend; and
give me space In your columns for
this letter, Your friend,
J. II. WALLER.
Thanks, friend John, for the invi.
tation to spend the long, hot sum mer
days among the thrice heated rocky
hills Of Csbool. The editor of this
paper was born and raised among
the bills Of Missouri, and knows
something about them. Everything
said in . poetical strain about hills
and valeS purling brooklets and
tinkling bells has 4 peculiar fascina-
tion to new comers and those on the
look out for new homes. We un-
derstand al, that sort Of thing, and
As you say, it is a good country for
. man Of small means, land you
might have added, large means, and
the larger the bettsr), TO live, and
spend his email means in, chr
When it gives out then, like the
rest OF the folks who after acquiring
the means in the rich valley Of the
Mississippi, and so to the hills to
spend 1t R1Rerally return when the
struggle Is scquir. more begins, and
conclude that the music of the fes-
tive mosquito accompanied by the
jingle Of Uncle Sans silver dollars,
has . thousand times more melody
than the purling brooks and tinkling
bells Of the hills; to say nothing of
reed ticks and chigcrs which keeps