Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-01-14
A VOICE OF TIE PAST.
WORDS OF CHEER FROM ANOLO-
TINE CO-LABORER.
John Leland Henderson, one of
Olymria'S Stcadfast Friends
Statutes us from Afar-lIc Writes
of the Soutl-Missis>ipri Tim
her.
BAY ST.. Louis, VI Ssi>,ippi,
December, 81, 1897.

BAY ST. Louis, Mississippi,
December, 81, 1897.
ED. WASHINGTON Standard:
Enclosed you will find L. :. Treasury
Note for -, No. Bill ,-i95, $3.50, in pay
mcnt for one years subscription for
the STANDARD for the year 1898, which
has been coming to me for two weeks,
as per my request to Mr.. Arthur
Callow. DO you know that it is seven
years since | left Olympia for my
present home here? And during all
that time / have cndcayOred to keep
in touch Of dear old Olympia, and my
many warm friends in Washington.
As the old year, leaning upon the arm
of the youthful 1898, will in few
hours pass over the River, cannot
refrain saying few words across the
continent that intervenes between us;
few words of greeting, coupled with
my earnest desire that the new year
may bring to you, dear old friend, and
to glorious old Olympia, which like a
seminal stands at the head of Puget
Sound, the most beautiful body of
water that God Almighty has ever
made, a bright and happy New Year,
full of all that should make life en-
joyable for you, and at the same time
bring peace, happiness and advance
ment to all the people in my dear old
home. / love Olympia, and love her
people. am proud to know that
was zone of the people" her faithful
citizens, who in times has worked for
her advancement and renown. do
not doubt that the same public
spirited men and women, who with
your humble servant, put their
shoulders to the wheel, and pushed
along the chariot of municipal pro-
gress in the good old days, are still on
duty. / can see in my minds eye the
Phillipses, the Conveys, the Barneses,
the Shannons, the McMickens, the
McKinneys, the Bigelows, the Hales,
the Whites, the Reeds, the Aliens, the
Ayers, the Billingses, the Henrys, the
Youngs, the Humphreys, the Simen-
sons, the Sylvesters, the Browns, and
a host of others, too numerous to
mention, or those OF them that the
good Lord has spared to report, still
answering the roll-call, and still
striving to make Olympia, rs she
deserves to be, the proudest, most
beautiful and progressive City of the
grand old State of Washington. You
see, my old friend, l left you out, but
it is not necessary to mention you.
Everybody who knows Olympia knows
John Miller Murphy. The life, the
essence, of one, is the life and essence
of the other. For thirty-eight years,
if mistake not, John Miller Murphy
has been fighting, talking, working for
Olympia, through the able columns of
the WASHINGTON STANDARD, and the
Lord only knows how much longer he
has been carrying the good work for
ward through other and earlier
channels. Keep up the lick, old boy,
and when you have finished the course,
then let your mantle fall on other and
younger shoulders, if they can be
found worthy to wear it.
And now q few words for this coun-
try. Some of your readers might like
to know what can be said Of the
"Sunny South" Take it all in all,
the climate here on the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico, is delightful. The
mercury has never reached 100 degrees
Farenheit since my uncle, who was
brought here, when child, has known
this land. 1t rarely reaches 80, and
then only for few days. Such
thing as sun-stroke is unknown. Oc-
casionally, once in 20 years or so,
/" Yellow Jack" makes us q call, but
the disease is not indigenous to this
country, and is always brought here
from abroad, through careless quaran-
tine measures. You of course watch
the reports in the papers, and you will
see that the Sunny Southland is will
ing to forego some of her States
Rights ideas, to obtain o National
Quarantine, aud when the quarantine
regulations are rigidly enforced, there
can be no healthier country in which
to live. My health has been almost
perfect since 1 came to this place,
until this year when l caught the
Yellow Jack" and all I can say is
that it is not nearly so much to be
dreaded now, as malarial fever,
typhoid fever, smallpox, scarlet
fever, or any of the serious diseases.
AS to the soil hereabouts, it is poor
sandy loan, covered with native
growth of pine and oak, hickory, etc.
1t teaches easily, and requires fertiliz-
ing all the time, but when put in
order and well fertilized, crops can be
taken off every month in the year.
Figs, Strawberries, blackberries, plums,
and some other fruits do we'll, but
oranges, pears are uncertain. Apples
do not grow at all in this latitude,
while oil nuts, especially pecans, are
abundant. Land can be bought with
in five miles of Bay st. Louis, at
so cents per acre. Poultry, sheep,
and stock do we'll, but must be fed
part Of the year, as the range is light.
Truck farming pays we'll, and land
along the railroad will pay $500 per
acre, if we'll titled. Irish Potatoes do
very we'll, and sweet potatoes, cotton
and corn flourish. Cotton is not raised
right on the coast, as this is a lumber
ing section. The mills are kept busy,
and cut up what they call clogs" here,
and most of these clogs" would be
only used for skides" out West. 1t
is fine stick that contains 1000 feet
board measure, while the average saw
logs run four to the thousand feet.
Fish abound in this latitude, and there
is not day in the year, that fresh
fish and oysters of the finest kinds,
cannot be had on any persons table.
But I tire you, and 1 must not wear
my welcome out the first call.
Adios,
JOHN LELAND HENDERSON.
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