Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-08
Frog Holler Correspondence.
To the Editor of the WORLD:


DEAR SIR-As there seems to be no
one interested enough in this country, to
let the people know when we are going
to have some rain, I propose to ''rush
into the list where wealth, rank and
genius have arrayed themselves, and
competition must flee from me as from
the glance of destiny" Expect, of course,
to be reviled, and villi6ed, and slandered,
and booted at, and amt caring a CONT
mental for consequences. Somebody
must take hold Of this matter and carry
it to an issue. Hicks and Foster and
other celebrities that swapt lies on this
subject, seem to confne all their efforts
to the development of the country ada
cent to the big muddy and other por-
tions of the over-crowded east, and leave
our farmers, land agents and business
men without any ideas that we can tie to
with certainty, and thus we are forever
obliged to struggle with the painful, fret.
full, what shall do" just because the
idea has been promulgated that weather
il Trego county is past finding ont. I
start with this statement. MARK it down.
The country is safe for this season. and
the croakers can get into their holes and
pull their holes'in after them.
The farmers and everybody else can
go their length and needn't fret their
gizzards about the outcome. Have had
long confidential conference with the
weather clerk, and here is about what
you can expect is going to happen in
this neck of the woods. There will be
very little rain or other precipitation un-
til about April 9th. From that date to
the 22d heap much may be expected.
From April 22d to May 22d weather will
be fair. From the 22d to the 30th more
or less wind and rain. From May 30th
to June 7th weather will be chaDgeable.
From the 7th to the 18th wind and rain
more or less. From June 18th to July
9th, fair weather will be the order. From
9th to 18th changeable. From 18th of
July to 9th of August it will be raining
all the time, and it will be good idea
for everybody to adjourn and 60 fishing,
as the balance of the season won't affect
anybody, so much as to cause loss of
sleep, we will let it go at that and wind
her up until it is necessary to go off
again.
If things don't transpire according to
programme, then, I speck, I'm lying
again, and everybody that don't like this
bill of fare can make one to suit them
selves, and needn't defer it any on my &C
count.
In conclusion I would advise the farm
ers to plant little late and pot get
things too far along for the three last
weeks of June and the first week of july
to make sport of. The cherry picking
rains through July and August will in
sure plenty Of moisture for the maturing
of late crops and, as general thing, the
crops out in this country are going to be
hummers.
Plant barley and oats and hogs and
millet, and let your motto be ad astra,
glorium, fokHm sQueekum, and you will get
there by hockey, whether you live on the
Saline or Oh the Smoky. Some people
would growl if they were going to be
hung. Don't let me hear of a mothers
son of you growing about the mud.
Take off your shoes and stockings and
wade through it, and let there be smile
your face from the time you
get up in the morning until you go to
bed at night
And, Mr.. Editor, don't let me see any
such nonsense in your paper this year;
as 1--WE have had a fine rain," and all
crops are secure from now on without
another drop. When the rain wagon
comes this way and the nozzle is turned
on, let her siz, and don't let the weather
clerk get the idea that we are such set
of fools that We don't know good thing
when we have it.
might sit up all night and tell you
lots of things, but I'm not going to do it,
you would all get SO smart you would
soon know more than do and then you
would be in fix, and it would require
more energy, as I has got, for to tell how
to get you out of it, and the chances are
you would have to call for perlice,
when there is no perlice, ard to create
them for the occasion would pecessitate
more taxes, that would be about as bene-
fetal as the fire guard humbug, which is
and disgrace to the
outfit that made it, and as fine piece of
work as the crossing at Big
creek.
Hoping that everybody will be delight
I'd with this effusion, I will make my |
bow and retire to the arms of Morpheus, |
and will try to find out why it is that
winter refuses to pass in its checks, and
prevents US from gazing upon the beau
siful forms of spring time and gentle
Annie. Boys, get your guns, I've had