The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-06
Sing on. oh. mule, and warble
In the twilight gray,
Unchidden by the heartless IN

Oncniudeu by the heartiess 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 re-
covering from an injury received while
trying 10 thread the tale of one of these
little creatures through split stick in the
fall of rs. Though the writer was packed
with pain, the poem seems to breathe a
spirit of forgiveness and untutored poesy
and trust and passion. as well as the
massive poetic feet which characterize
some of the earlier works of Thomas
Brewer Peacock, Of Topeka, Kan.
employ on my farm, also; a small pair
OF variegated steers, which the artist has
kindly agreed TO illustrate. They are hav-
ing sitting now as / write.
These docile creatures are entirely under
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 by the hour, at
times inserting my head in 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 pro-
!onged visit from the artist who is sketch
ing my steers, will make times pretty hard
here during the winter.
Hay is rather 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 a
neighboring state.
l used bonedust in my farming this
md In will
on this bonedust, leaving perhaps Is or
20 cents for future use. / use only the
best bonedust, if possible, no matter what
the cost. 1t will pay in the end. Moth
ing is gained by buying the bonedust of
inferior people.
Philadelphia will find 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
Worthless apple, the Dead Red or League
apple with Hgnum rita 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 going
forward, especially on some of the more
..
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 a border of pea vines
running around the upper edge of the
farm, together with a moulding 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 drap de tat portiere over my farm, or
sometimes a rice curtain, to keep the moths
out of my watermelons.
Willing hands are now working on the
roads of Buncombe county, and orders are
issued that the dead along the road who
have persisted from internal injuries or
corduroy dislocations, conclusions, etc,
shall be buried at the expense of the state.
Our principal roads are soon to be mac
adamiZed, and the legislature will be
memorialized. This will be of untold ben
eft to both. The condition of this county
is rapidly approaching completion, and
Will one day add TO those already past,
thus gathering in its wonderful career all
those which is held forth to be, as the
good book has said, For the night cometh
when no man shall roll together as scroll,
falling some on good ground and some on
the just as well as the unjust" and, as
Isaiah would say, if do not forget the ex-
act wording, go forth as the cedars of
Lebanon or great rock in a weary land to
cry out, fear not and flourish from the ris-
ing of the sun even unto the third and
fourth generations of just men made per-
feet
The above suggests to me a note just re-
ceived from correspondent of mine who
has been writing to me regularly for over
two years, though | have not answered
any of his letters because they were too
deep for me. Profound thought on relig-
ious or political matters the doctors have
warned me against, as either one carried
to excess causes the formation of large
Jumps in the brain. and at times is apt to
promote fungus growth in the north side
of the brain cell.
Two weeks ago got letter from this
man, but could not seem to quite cope
with it., being rather superficial in my
reasoning, and better fitted, perhaps, for
watching p. 4. Barnum's tomb than for