The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-04
AUNT TRUDY's LETTER.
She Discusses the Organization of a
Colony
Button Rose Cottage, Aug. 4, 1900,


1 usto think, before I fell so deep in
gether up ali the onesy an diskentented
folks 1 could find. some day, an or
idee fur nigh onto Is yeers, an I bin al
lus intendin' to make the start when there
Kansas. but now this yere's. put it OF
agin hev my plans an bilaws well
be spell o monotony after. Bryn's de-
feet, thot prudent to speek of the kolony
now, SOS all the folks what's hopes is
wilted kin make up Their minds to jine.
The way cum to git a noledge of the
| lokashun an the idee of a kolony was
CRATE yers for grashoprs-jes' after Horis
Greely's defect, in the last century? Well
niles north o. here, where they was the
thickest, an for three odd yers we he'd
to dint considerable more than we en-
joyed, an there was nuthin' goin' on to
reliev the monottonny. but a smart, SILK
teasin' at our folks to trade farms He
sed his farm wus SHELTERED on the othur
hoprs were never nown to fly over them
He spoke of timber an springs. an sill
dear an wild bare, till our bare hills
an went an traded-akre fur akre!
tales of the movin'-fur the sake of my
kolonists. 1t is wiser to pass some
interestin' things. Suffus 1t to say, the
cars set US on one oay IN Januear ,+ M IN
| pint of Mizoory tord Kuby. They sed It
! wus the comfy seat, but If that was SO L
! think the comfy mostly stood up. We
didn't no exactly which way our Ian lay.
Sc we went a lookin' around. There was
min around here an there Which ever
way we druy. it seemed to be there;
erik, an it was SO cler the very bottom
seemed to com to the top: They druv
stones They sed Their want a bridge in
the comfy. as they couldn't AFFORD IT, but
| they allus was a'fordin it, tho
| After a fu days with the help of some
secshun hans. sirvaing over them
spurs we found our farm-the one we
| traded fur, akre fur akrei The promfs
oR ban had but 6r we fSgnd i tSan
..com to pas" and some of US sed they
gest we was TIE 3e some o to pes Eee Part
was jeS tangled mass o roks an trees
an am h 'e sine sieS Of mnnev there
| therel I never see the like. But some
of our folks re1ond the money was two
deep in fer farmers, | venture there was
! iron ore enun to bid a rale rode An on
the hilsides, steeks o green rust from from
copper; an Their was brik ella, an kaoiin
| ella, white as chok. what they make
| plates of in FIllydelfy. an car lodes an,
| led an silver so the secshun hans sed-
| An Their was game two, an the secshun
| thin. but We kind q felt We was game
| oursels an didn't lissen much to them
stories of 50 lbs. fishes in the lagunes. but
| we did pay atenshen to them stories of
| the snakes an tarrentulies an We ac-
| the hotel. an most tired to deth, an
| nothin' seemd good but the rale rode!
But we remembered Their was no home
! to go bak to-we he'd traded alre fur
akre. an must now make the best OF #.
rent in the Flat woods, mile west Of
the comfy sect, an at last we rented that
All around 11nq it. The The Fiat woods was high
Crooked erik am Castor river There was
J mar n there.
! had probubiv traded akre fsjr akre, must
! have once had that farm. for there was
on on - teliveref noies. an big around as /
was jest holes like big jugs dug in the
ground. an when it raned an they filled
Up with water it jes Stade there, till you
took it out. or it got plum full of mos
ketos. Troffs were dug in the fields an
The nabers jes sooted the contry. It
jes seemd like the great streem O. sivili-
that corner to itself. like them eddys by
the river side where the water has got
itself forever, Evry farmer was his own
blacksmith an shumaker, an everythin
wore right from the Sleeps bak, or from
the faxfeld. His dotters ploWed an
fshed an hunted an smoked. When meat
was needed they went to the woods an
they found. An they made all there own
suger an sirup. One of our FANNY thot
he would tech skule in log skule house
an the first week was the end O the
turn. The bOrd sed he mus begin at
sun up an tech to shutdown. He thot ne
so he got some biak biidin paper an
made a blak- bord. an sum kaolin ella fur
G nrnin. a when in cum the skule bord an
rored about it, an sed he he'd got to stop
chfidern's baks' instid O. white marks on
the blak bords. Our Children never went
to skule there after that
WidO MQuS0r.
Barb lived mere They wer 1.-THE the a lilt &c
to taG q wool We piken. onct. The hui crowd set
silent as dum-bells all day. askt cues
BUT But they sl workt fast an iookt ciost to
there bizness. They past tobacco around
on plate, same's we would appIesi They
oldest dotters went out to the corn pach
and gethered there apurns full Of corn
for supper an cooked bacon in a long
legged sl1ilit on. coles on the eye of the
din proseshen went by, an we al went
out on the porch to see 1t. me prid-en-
miles miles away. The groom was iedin' his
horse. It was shady there, an the bride
sunbonnet. She had on a yellow calico
dress an a white apurn- She was purity.
TO- rcd T Iins an, dark cur1s -bobbih' aroun'
Her eyes were shy an dark, under cur
y WI Teller had to hold his he'd down fur!
Well I think we taut them something's
around there, fur they would slip in every
ono in a while to see how we made lite
bred. an how we peeled apples with ma
sheens. an dried bushels every day in
the drv house, an how we put up crates
of froot for st. Louis, an how our stoves
.worked.'' an other things Then we
hunted up an old preacher in town, an
started a meetin' in our house. an post
offis-an' the name of it is on the he map
was a mile wide, an all the trees ALVIN
fat a pinten to the south east-we started
to bid our own kind of a skule house;
we could get all the Ian there we wanted
at a dollar an akre. with all the wood
| an huckleberries an mounten laurel an
| wood ticks throwed I'M
There was end of cherry lumber an
walnut lumber an yello pine an ceder:
an hickry, an VIM Z. oHe. - s1ISld ~