Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-03

etediiicI anu swap CONTINGENCIES WIN the
wind tossed waves. Mr.. Fee, of the
Northern Pacific, said il was an unusual
winter with them.
In London, in the previous year, as l
strolled along the lambrequin of Ira
falgar square with nice new English
umbrella over my head, a bright and
CHEEKY voice at my side said something re-
garding the dampness, and little shape
ly hand took my umbrella and held it for
me as pair of merry, bright brown
eyes looked up laughingly into mine. l
presume that, according to the methods
OF studying American society adopted
by Mr.. Kipling and Mr.. Aide, should
pause here to criticise the rather flippant
and coarse custom among ladies of Lon
don OF addressing gentlemen ON the
street, who are thinking If something
else. But was not writing a book on
England after eating breakfast, buying
an umbrella and coming home, as some
authors does.
Excuse me-" l said, taking out new
card case that bought on the Rue de
Pinktum, Paris, France, and presenting
my card. Il do not recall your ace.
ethi a pam AhiCliNdil. passing s-4IOuEn
your town and pricing a lot here and
there Would you mind exchanging
cards." The voice did not have card
with it, but spoke of the backward
spring. said, Yes, it was rather cool
and wet for July" Yes" said the mu-
steal voice; this with us is very IN
usual year" | then did very rude
thing. Very likely it hurt me in Eng
land. langrily wrenched my umbrella
from the little white hand, and dashing
away down the alley at frightful pace
was soon lost to view.
Pomolosy is that science which treats
OF the variety, growth, decay, disease
and culture of fruit. Here the apple is
the most successful fruit, barring the
grape. The Limbertwig is good apple
to grow here for foreign consumption,
home consumption being unknown here
| have done very well with small fruits
here, and my wife has put down enough
for two families for eight years to come
All kinds of berries are to be had at FIVE
cents per big, honest quart, and with
sugar at twenty pounds or Whereabouts
for dollar it seems almost a sin not to
fruit for the approaching unusual winter.
We have had a garden here this sea-
son and II has been so far a great sue
cess. | wished to give employment also
to my children, thus teaching them to
earn money for themselves, SO that they
will not have dissipated my large fortune
before the grass is knee high on my new
made grave; a grave, l may add, that
will have been made unpleasantly sloppy
by nations tears.
So we had = colored man and brother,
with iron gray cotswold hair and ?
year-old roam heifer, plow up a space of
ground, after had warned him not to
injure the stumps which grow here in
great profusion. paid HIM and then l
got my own valet to remove the stone
abutment on which the garden stood
He took out several cords of micacious
granite and had left soil enough to Just
comfortably start young orchard. Then
General West said that we would need
something in the way of gentle tonic 10
the soil, so We got quite a lot of bone
dust. We bought II at Asheville and it
was carried by US to Charleston. Our
station is flag station only and we have
ice brought out from Asheville too. 1t
sometimes goes by to Savannah, but it is
brought back, for the road is the soul of
honor. Ice that has been to Savannah
and back these days has that tired feel
ing we so often read of in some of our
most successful advertisements.
We got some bone dust and mixed it
with the soil at the rate of eleven pounds
bone dust to eight pounds Of soil We
We're told afterward that We should
have used more soil, but everybody l
knew was using his soil and so had to
take what l could get. We planted po-
tatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, melons, let
tuce, radlshes, peas and beans.
| got a good man TO hoe them Then
the children watched them grow, now
and then pulling up a hill of potatoes to
see if they We're large enough to sell to
their misguided father. So far eighty
cents worth of vegetables have been sold
to me at high price, the most of which
sum has been used in the purchase of
firecrackers.
You ask if intend to live here per
manently. do not vet know. Land in
the country is $40 and $50 per acre, and,
as you may readily judge, II is not worth
that for agricultural purposes. Is it
worth that alone for building sites?
That depends on what may be your lot
in life. If you can afford to support
farm here, you will like agriculture in
Buncombe county, but the poor farmer
who has neglected to marry wealthy
wife till it is too late, will have great
difficulty in dying of govt.
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