Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-28
Pat on Ohio.

Now the reader will please jump into
the buggy, in his mind That Is the best
way uf taking buggy ride when ITS mud
dy. In a jiffy wen he oft To the lilliputa-
tan village of Glenford. We start from
Newark pretty little city, because we
missed railroad onnections last night and
have an appointment 10 fill at 1880 this
morning The air is fresh ana the long
straaks of gold aud silver on the eastern
sky are Gods bulletin of a newborn Sab
bath The driver cracks his whip, for
IS miles OF bad road lie before US. The
horses bound forward and the mud splashe3
backward until we look ike leopard5
from the jungle5 Of Asia.
We notice that the topography l. grow
ing more hilly ns we proceed southeast
ward Perry county, Ohio, is about as
hilly as Butler county, Pennsylvania. As
you travel from Columbus towards the
Ohio river the territory grows more broken
and hilly In other directions the land is
even, and in some places, almost as level
as a table As one skins over this prairie
in car, the long line Of level farms, rich
in barns and sheds and orchards and corn
shocks and hay stacks is only interesting
us long as it is novel and that is not long.
There is n palling sameneas in the scene.
Ones eyes yearn for the luxury of hill,
and he grows so weary of the scene that
he is ready to bury himself in Bellamy 5
Looking Backward and wonders if the
most ap proved socialism will not snpern-
duce 4 sameneas in social life as liresome
a8 this samcneas in the landscape. On
these praires miss many of the upstairs
and downstairs neighbors of my home. |
mean the birds and flowers of sylvan Penn
sylyania You wouldn't catch such "A
bright, hardy and Independent flower as
the arbutus blossom on these huge flats
Plains are good enough for the soft, sal
low faced buttrrcup and the amphibioua
cat tail. but not for dear arbutus, sweet
emblem of innocence and indcpen dcncc.
Perhaps the paucity of wild flowers is due
to the scarcity of wooded land The grand
old forests Of Ohio are fast going the way
of the mound builders. Some farms ar L
so denudcd of timber that they cannot
maintain their own fences Once many
walnut trees dotted the forests; now only
decaying stumps mark the spots where they
stood. Along the streams and in moist
places stately sycamores raise their huge
smooth trunks and stretch out their
notified aud ashV arms Ia sunshine and
breeze and winged life Bat even these
old droids are banished by the orthodox az.
crooked and muddy, and, in both respects,
AN exception to most of the roads over
which ! lately rode. In the level parts of
the state the highways run due north and
south. east and west Sometimes d stream,
which had obtained squatter5 rights long
before "A highway WAS thought of in Ohio,
compelled the surveyor to depart with the
line oi his new road from the cardinal
points OF the compass. However, the peo.
pie along such road build their houses,
to use their own words, square with the
world anyhow" Ii road trends say to
the southeast your farmer win set his
house with the compass and not with the
road. Oh! these Buckeyes have an eye To
the eternal fitness OF things They are
just as fastidious and precise in dealing
out names. For instance, flcatown Is ON
Hog Run! What could be a more appro-
pirate name for town. The deleacy Of