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

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Ny-E AND THE BEAR.
a climate that you don't want to put more con-
fdence in than you would in a New York
bunco man. We have Just got through six
days spell o mean temperature" with a
daily range from 20 to los or thereabouts with
a relative Humidity of 80. i don't know
what that is, hut | don't like it. | have five
bushels of roasted apples under one tree, and
no demand for roasted apples either. OF
course this is only exceptional" weather. but
have had so much exceptional weather since
came here that am blamed tired of it.
Do you intend to live permanently in North
Carolina, and, if so, would You object TO hav-
ing me live in the same county? OF course !
have entirely reformed; besides, have never
been in the legislature of this state, and there
fore still look my friends in the eye without
/ quailing.
am in scare of good, reliable, kindly dis
posed, all round climate, and like to live
among people who don't put on too many friils
/ want to live where | can have some real
grass mot the alleged sort without squirting
water on il for eight or nine months in the
year want some big trees and some singing
brooks with rel fish in them. Is Buncombe
county that sort OF place, and about what does
il cost an acre:
come to you with these questions because
feel that ! can believe you, while would look
on the information of a real estate agent with
great allowance.
What sort of fruit do they grow around Ashe-
vile! am SORT OF horticultural crank. and
! always grow fruit, though it costs me twenty
five dollars a blshel.
succeeded last winter in growing thirteen
oranges here. The ''hoodlums" got ten OF them
one night. The other three were nice looking
oranges but they had no juice il them.
shall be very glad TO hear from you when
you have time 10 write. Sincerely as ever,
l have eradicated the name of the
town at which the above letter is dated,
| also the name of the writer, because l
did not wish to publish an unkiud allu-
sion to the state, which is generally re-
garded as very attractive one. would
hate to build up any locality of my COM
mon country at the expense of another.
The inquirer is anxious to know of the
horticultural and piscatorial merits of
Buncombe county, also regarding prices,
pOmOlOgy, etc, etc. Several of these
questions l have never answered public
ly, and so a few moments may be pleas
antly spent il their discussion, if l may
be allowed to do the heft of it myself
with the read er at a safe distance.
came here early in the spring of the
present year, partly because Mr. Wander
bit, who is building a place near by,
was not much acquainted and desired a
| bright young person, whom he knew and
in whom he felt an interest, to drop in
of an evening and play Pedro with him
| also desired to benefit my lungs, one of
whom had be gun TO droop little, max
ing me walk one sided, l thought. |
had, besides, some symptoms Of collapse
from grip, govt and SO forth. The ply
stefan, therefore, recommended that |
try dry, bracing air of $500 or 5000
feet elevation but in a mild isothermal
| belt
As soon as | had, after some trouble,
ascertained the meaning Of the term
isotrermal | began to look about me for
belt of that kind. | at once, almost,
struck upon a region of country about
Ashevilie and in Buncombe county,
though Henderson county offers also
very excellent opportunities for those
who need to build up their health with
the kindly assistance of nature. l pre-
| sumo that if Vanderbilt had not made
such fuss about it / would have gone
to Henderson county. Property is cheap
er there, and yet the climate lasts Just as
long as it does here. But, as say,
| came here preferring to be among my
own folks, as you might say, and where
George and ! could take off our lime
spattered overalls at eventide and play
cinch, rather than go to strange neigh
borhood.
North Carolina is essentially fruit
growing country. Wild fruit l have
never seen so plentiful. On the noun
tain four years ago myself and large,
hot-breathed mamma bear ate persim
mons off the same bush for little time,
but ! found another tree where the per-
| simmons, it seemed to me, were better
and less puckerful, so icent to ii. Be
sides l hate to have strangers watch me
whilst eat
Berries grow wild here by the thou
sands of bushels. This year l never saw
50 many berries in my life before as there
are here, though neighbors tell me it is
an unusual year. 1t is strange how the
unusual year Iursues me wherever ] go.
| was in California year ago and it had
rained till the entire state was mighty
lagoon, and Mr.. Hearst told me it was
an unusual year with them. Generally
| they did not have but eight feet of rain
| fall. That year it was nine. But he
said it would lie very good for cereals.
In Oregon the railroad north from San
Francisco had not been in operation for
nvar Savanty laws owing tn blockade