Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-09-08

Few joys, indeed, are thine,
Thou thrice bestricken, madly
Mournful. melancholy mule.
And he alone who strews
Thy pathway with his cold remains
Can give thee recompense
OF fostering and injurious woe.
He who hath sought 10 steer
Thy timber, yielding tail
Feminist thy crupper band
Hath given thee joy. and be alone.
It's true, he may have shot
Athwart the zodiac, and looking
Ger the outer walls upon
The New Jerusalem.
Have uttered vain regrets,
Thou reckest not. oh, orphan mule,
For it hath given thee JOY and
Bound about thy bursting heart
And held thy tottering reason
To its throne.
Sing on, oh. mule. and MARBLE
In the twilight gray,
Cnchidden by the heartless throng.
Sing of thy parents on thy fathers side,
Yearn for the days now past and gone,
For he who pens these halting,
Limping lines to thee
Doth bid thee yearn and yearn and yearn.
The above lines were written while
recovering from an injury received while
trying to thread the tale of one of these
little creatures through split stick in
the fall of rs Though the writer was
1acked with pain, the poem seems to
breathe spirit of forgiveness and I'M
tutored poesy and trust and passion, as
we'll as the massive poetic feet which
characterize some of the earlier works 81
Thomas Brewer Peacock, of Topeka,
Kan.
i employ on my farm, also, small
o. cd h.,
has kindly agreed 10 illustrate. They
are having a sitting now as write.
These docile creatures are entirely I'M
der my control, and though much larger
than the average North Carolina steer of
trade they are thoroughly subservient
to my will, and my admirers need not
fear that anything will happen to me
that would deprive them of me, for
often enter their cage and fool with them
b. the hour, at times inserting my head
il their extended jaws as far as it will
go and then rudely removing it. Their
names are Brin and Bolly.
Crops here are not above the average
this year. Rabbits are eating many of
my vegetables, and that. together with a
prolonged visit from the artist who is
sketching my steers, will make times
pretty hard here during the winter.
Hay is rather a light crop here every
year, and grass of all kinds does poorly.
Very few lawns of any merit are seen in
the state, owing to the extreme thinness
of the soil and its tendency to wash into
Eeighboring state.
I used bonedust in my farming this
year, and the crop will pay the drayage
on this bonedust, leaving perhaps eight
cen or twenty cents for future use. use
only the best bonedust, if possible, no
matter what the cost. 1t will pay in t.
en1. Nothing is gained by buying the
bonedust Of inferior people.
Commuters between New York and
Philadelphia will find a good bone works
between Jersey City and Newark. 1t is
on the left hand side as you but you
can go right to it if you wish to do so.
Apples are looking well, especially the
Early Horse apple, the Low Flat Early
Dutch Drum Head apple, the Isabella
apple, the Limbertwig apple, the Late
Wormless apple, the Dead Red or League
apple with ligaunl UitR works in it, the
Winter Death Rate Seeding apple and
the Trunk Line apple, all are looking
very well indeed.
Flowing for winter grains is now go
ing forward, especially on some of the
more erect farms. Rye will be sown /
large quantities here next year. A North
Carolina farm looks best with vegetables
at the base, then grain of some kind, and
then at the top border of peavines
running around the upper edge of the
farm, together with molding of some
kind to hang pictures on. Some of these
farms look well when draped with some
thing pretty, and on cold nights | hang
dark drdp de tat portiere over my
farm, or sometimes a Rice curtain, to
keep the moths out of my water1nelons
Willing hands are now working IN
the roads of Buncombe county, and Or
ders are issued that the dead along the