Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.

Sights and Scenes of q Two Weeks Tramp
ing Tour Through Green County
Plenty of Room for Road Reform
Networks of OH Pipes-Fox Chasing.
NINETY miles of walking over Green county
hills might seem. at first glance, more
bitter pill than q DOCTORS prescription, but the
bill is easier paid and the results surer. The
last sheet of manuscript was revised and the
publishers address penned on the express
package with q nervous hand. The reaction
from prolonged strain drives me to the family
physician.
sit isn't pills you need" he advises. "You
have overdrawn your vitality and need to 60 to
some quiet place for couple of weeks where
you will have entertaining company and live In
the open air most of the time. Don't take
note book and pencil along; exercise until you
are tired and go to bed early"
Hard conditions to fill, these. with January
weather to do it IN, but the solution of the
problem comes in the shape Of generous inVl-
tation to rusticate and evangelize. Come stay
with me during my protracted meeting" writes
a country ministerial friend. You needn't
preach and you will get enough interested In
the meeting to drive away eDnui, while my
horse is lame and want TO see all the people
within five miles of the church and will give
You all the walking you can relish"
Arctic overshoes, leather leggins, water
proof coat and away we 90 to test the value of
snoe-leather friction. II is the getting there"
which hurts worse than the going aIteE que Is
tne tnere; cry f,s san nan sccussohsu @ varv fsy
nrovided ne can eet hack To the Starting point
the same day by raIl: but mt him on a horse
and Jog him ten miles up hill and down over
loosen feeling from all the rest of creation that
is very gruesome until he gets used to it.
I'eryoooy o"ns tne noao'
IF EyER you want striking illustration OF
thing that nobody owns take a section of
c-a., nor,t, ro.o 1Uhar f,rmar wants To
oouHsy 'oAu. "nen
puiid new 1ence ne lets the OLD one sbanu anu
sets the new posts foot or two out into the
road. saw a log stable that had been built
directly in the middle Of the road. and the
,vaoo, tr.c, b.d 20 rur, 90 o,oss 70 tbe corner
OF IL tnat IL TOOK pretty gooo oriFer " a'o,u
pumping sne huo " nis wneei ,l" 1s
y. -. eN-e sAas "as s'u.A " - =. iii
- .,. - - 70 bo
su,n n.s "oou,pno ous " 's,, an his
t;n,hars .ud I..ns ,h. n,ins IL .ha conntv road.
IT, ,.o III S,.SS suoHns " - T,ovino ma.
oh;nas Ia s.ahia r,.nn1a be c.n litter the
-. - - s..as S;s ,,,.oa +bo biooar
nisn""J "i'n ~ ,ion. VI o P, = :
farmer ne Is. when ne trims MS orcnafu' ne
piles the brush there.
1t ia the general impression that if the pub
lie roads belono 70 .rvona in nartfcnIar in
Green countv il must he To the oil men. He
tears 1t up or throws down rail- FENCES anu
changes it to the meadows at his own sweet
will. just outside Mount Morris one section
of the road looks like a gridiron of q giant.
Steam pipes. water pipes, gas pipes and oil
pipes make perfect criss.cross Of tubing. In
some places the heat from the steam has dried
5ns gr0Ina aq oIa tn as cbictsn. @o and roll sand
richad hetIyeen frost beds The lets of gas
that are Ieft burn1ng at Intervals to prevent
the nine freezing keen mn a summer temper
atnre and the grass crows around these spots
as green and Iuxuriant as in June. The pump
station at Mount Morris has an oasis of this
sort of az eiohtb of an acre or so which would
III ;tS vardanr ba.nty 70 the naIace Of the
C,ar
So
Th.vI;va a, tb. pa.t
m
RUT it is not only in roads there Is lacK Oh
propress: one does not need to read books of
fo,t-lors 10 lam how neonls liysd 100 wears
80 Tn I.., oan,rrr :. Ioo,+sd bnt N miles
from flttsourg. In tramping from moun'
rloiiis w " n.aiuoae' ,,..,s H.. 1900,
% -. 80 hoo+s Nv h.nd from
Iand4twisted Wased ends to- yellow Stitches in
the tops, as though no labor-saving machinery
had ever been invented. But the boots viii
last until lSOO, whereas tne macnine snoes
wore were DaoIy rackeo Dy tne IzmIS Linlp an y
AT the mouse Wnicn we maue ouf Ies ious ~
ing piace, ooaruIus 9t sLounu III III 1.d ~ ~
old people sat Dy tne nrelgnt anu snoAeu ~ sns 5
long evenings away tneIe wa n.y. oisn ~. y. !,
lamp apout nne mouse enSeps ING me hsr, 20 fssd
.sa wnien S.oI ehe' 'hafnra dav,;@by we were shown
our oedroom wltnout tne Iornat NY oi i nn,,e
sui up tne nIe' suEsGs.eut III 49, ~ S~r,,.h
man %nen NE saw Us njcIocT IL in the mnrni5o
70 nho cnail oy t1e had ~ ' to dress N
tney raped US OUT anu we nsu ~ ~ 10 .oII
sense OF Ieenng anu 70 ous W ,h tne o;o =, Sn.
complete our mornings toilet oy tne ne; aia , OF
Tin WashpasIn anu na.eI '9 In S o1 a,o,,,
Ina. nau n;ra ms tam1aratnre of the frost,
atmospnere: Inc oripPlnss lroLe In, IN on,,Id ~ y.
reached. And yet one of these old farmer
would have poon-hood atttne suggeSLon Oh an!
more comIortaole way VI uoiG ,ha conom,nif, IIa
tbat boasted snare bed,' with a nre in thi
room. There was another good old lady whit
had fireplace in her spare bedroom. but thu
| chimney smoked SO that there hadn't been
fire in 1t since the wal"
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Women Still Do the Milking.
s,uiad for+b a,ot
h hoM tnis fehueHsou' We 'a" 80 90
day to do from . to 10 miles walking PEI
diem. James Whitcomb Riley would have
fonnd tbese people. like 'Ras Wilson-worthy
t.S. .e.o,,,o .ho,r .-a .sso commonu ~ IT,
MS respec' nee"uSo Suo' "te ~
the course OF our Lramplns we u 40 SS. $50 oso