The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

70 cr1flease the rather 1Ippant and coarse
custom among ladies Of London OF sd
thlnklng Of something else. But / am not
snTlng book on England after eating
oEeakIast, buying an umbrella and coming
nome, rs some authors does.
Excuse me- said. taxing out a new
card case that ! bought on the Rue de
flnktuEn, Paris, France, and presenting
ny card. Il do not recall your face
am q plain American, passing through
your town and pricing 10. here and there.
ould yoa mind exchanging cards ?" The
voice did not have card with IL, but spoke
OF the backward spring Il said, ~ es, u
vas rather cool and wet for July" Yes
sala the musical voice, this with Us Is
very unusual ye2rn then did very rude
thing. Very likely il hurt me In England.
1 ngrliy wrenched my umbrellas from the
little white hand, and dashing away down
TO view
PoEnology is that science which treats Of
the variety. growth, decay, disease and
calture OF fruit. Here the apple IS the
most successful frat, barring the crane.
he LlmbertElg Is good apple TO grow
here for foreign consumption, home con-
SUMPTION 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 10 De had a. I've cents per
big, honest quart. and with sugar AZ TWEEN
~ pounds or Whereabouts for a dollar il
seems almost sin not 10 put up or down.
whichever IS correct, fruit for the ap-
preaching unusual winter.
We have had garden here this season
and il has been so far great success.
wished 10 give employment also 10 nv
children. thus teaching them TO earn
money for themselves, SO that they viii
not have dissipated my large fortune be-
fore the grass Is knee high on my new
made grave; a grave, | may add, that viii
have been made unpleasanfly sloppy by
nations tears
So We had = colored man and brother,
with iron-gray cotswold hair and 2-yesr-
old roam heifsr. pillow up space OF ground,
after had warned him not TO injure the
stumps which grew here in great profE-
SON. paid him and then / got nv own
valet 10 remove the stone ab1rment on
which the garden stood. He took out sew
erai cords Of micaclous granite and had
left soil enough 10 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
lot OF bone dust We bought it al Ashe-
vile, and il was carried by Is 10 Charles
ton. Our station Is q flag station only and
we have ice brought out from Asheville
too. Il sometimes goes by TO Savannah,
A..
soul OF honor. Ice that has been to Ssyan-
nah and back these days has that tired
feeling We so often read of IN some Of our
most successful advertisements.
We got some bone dust and mixed Ii
with the soil al the rate Of eleven pounds
bone dust 10 eight pounds Of soil. We
were told afterward that We should have
used more soil, but everybody / knew was
using mis- soil and so I had 10 take what /
could get We planted potatoes, cabbage,
tomatoes, melons, lettuce, radishes, peas
and beans
/ got good man TO hoe them. Then the
children watched them grow, now and
then pulling up hill of potatoes 10 see if
they were large enough TO sell 10 their mis-
vegetables have been sold to me al high
price. the most Of which sum has been
used IN the purchase Of irecraekers.
You ask il / intend TO live here perma-
nently. / do not yet know. Land IN the
country is $40 and $50 per acre, and, as You
may readily Judge, il Is not worth that for
agricultural purposes. Is II 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 10 marry q
wealthy wife till it Is too late, viii have
great difficulty of dying Of govt.
Every half mile you cross crystal branch
or find cool, delicious spring by the road
side. Bees do well here, making honey all
the day and foolishly acquiring much more
than they need, never dividing II with those
who are needy, showing through life great
irritability OF temper and finally dying
miserably in the midst OF plenty, like the
founder of trust. / think that the bee
and the prairie dog are both greatly over
estimated
Insect life here IS prosperous and blithe-
some. Mosquitoes do not flourish here st
all for some reason, AMI flies are not SO
plenty as they are in the North, but the
woodtick; the 'Jigger" or chigre, the black
hornet. the splder and other non-verte-
brates do well. The bed insect also grows
to great height and attains . wonderful
age. Some Of the best blood of Pocahontas
and George Ill flows IN its veins. II may
be found on the crest of some Of our oldest
families IN the United States. | bought q
billiard table Of one Of the American
dauphins once CT sacrifice, and il was a
year before dared 10 play on il with those
who might criticise il and give their criti-
cisms 70 the press.
a. Oranges do not grow here, but you can
get them at Asheyille for less than your
fruit costs you where you are. Help is
cheap and not Of high order generally I
had colored man splitting wood for me
yet He afterwards went into agriculture
with the aid Of two little bright red bulls
which he drove IN harness made OF boot
legs cut IN STRIPS and sewed together. His
lines were made Of clotheslines. His name
vas Tr2nsom Is. Walker, and he got two
acres Of corn up 10 where Il began 70
"tossle ont when one Sabbath morn
while the neighhors we're hitching their
horses IN front of Zion church for early
services, some COWS got over the fence, and,
with loud snorts and noisy bells upon
them. ale up the corn Of Mr.. Transom 3.
Walker. Of this state.
Was yoa away from home wnen they
done eat up 81 70 cone?" 3 neighbor
asked him.
NO. chile, case was 70 home"
We'll, whaffer you done lei EN- eat up
yo' whole crap, den, dat rot bin 70 yeah
growin'?' '
why. you ANT got no sense. Case /
vas home 81 de time, bRt Law / was in
bed ttt''