The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-07-20

SREEZESBLOW
I me Banks Of Lake Michigan
!. Jones Writes the Times.
ENTERTAINING LETTER
WIN Be Read with Interest by the
',slor', Many Friends in GrssnvilIe.
Resting at Konosha, Wis.
n GREENvILLE TIMES:

In GREENvILLE TIMES:
N attended the Buffalo Exposition
came back without telling us any
you saw, so am going to make
ebut as correspondent, and give
eaders Of the Times a short sketch
IN trip from Greenville to this
Of course, allowing you the
lege Of casting it into that dread
ceptacle, the editors waste bask-
Il occupies too much place.
Mi, to begin at the beginning,
remember my stopping you on the
4 10 talk over some business mat
and my remarking intended
.ng that morning for Wisconsin.
leaving you, the lady in the
N. now, I am not going to say
|her she was young, old, ugly or
". for if I do, some one will be
to take it upon himself or her.
most probably the latter, to send
hrked topy to my wife, who pre-
ed me here, and then well, |
e find it advisable to seek a more
hern climate. This lady laughed
remarked: II just know you told
editor where you were going,to get
name in the paper, and I am going
bll it on you.' So I am telling it
M, to get ahead Of her.
NJ apt women are to judge us lords
eation by themselves!
u trip to Memphis would have
very pleasant, but for the terrible
as there was u nice breeze all the
The cotton along the way might
assed as good, bad and indifferent.
latter prevailing. ranging from
high to six inches. The corn is
N much failure, burning up for
ofrain. | do not think q "Noah's
could save it now. It looks like
Dhly way to curtail the cotton crop
II The Almighty to send 9 dr0nth,
much rain, or worms. 1t Is use
to hold conventions and pass reso-
ns,to plant less. They will all
u to that, and then every fellow
go home thinking as his neighbor
Ding to reduce his acreage he will
ase his own, and find in time his
hbor has done the same, the re-
being big crop.
aving Memphis at 8:35 p. M, most
d trip to Chicago was made in the
and as cannot sleep on the
the time passed very slowly, and
bile away the hours, most Of this
written. The road from Memphis
hicago is so smooth it adds very
70 the pleasure of travelling, then
make fast time, averaging forty
miles an hour. The coaches are
IN Improvement on our River
division. I guess, when Green
gets to be as large as Memphis,
Fill have better accommodations.
midnight we entered "Old Ken
that land renowned for its beau
women and fine horses. No disre-
lsintended the ladies-for mention
nem in this connection, but rather
npliment, for In the opinion OF the
y, fine horse is the most beauti-
tning in the world. It must be
are no beautiful women in the
Pn passed through, for If those ]
Eere specimens they certainly do
empare with our Greenyille girls.
we might go much farther and
nd their equal. to say nothing OF
lng them. regretted that we
0t pass through this state ia the
lme, also that we crossed the fine
az Cairo at night. / should
liked to have seen this wonderful
engineering skill.
nloyed six hours Of daylight trav-
rough Illinois, looking out upon
alui, rolling prairie country with
sli'y orchards of pears, apples
eaches, but very few Of the lat
sae neids of corn, hay and grain,
As.er now being harvested. More
alal scenery | never saw. AS far
eye could see large fields of
ai.n field of grain, oats or
IN the center and beautiful
q trees dotted here and there
0noined to form a picturesque
mat was lovely beyond descrip-
and that the eye was never tired
4lng upon. While we, Of the
nave been eating roasting ears
sseral weeks, here the tallest
8 g seen is not above waist high
o.s Of It only a foot. but Of a fine
painted so thick and 50 close to-
mat 1t looks like a rabbit could
through it without breaking Il
'adging from its appearance
= absence Of dust this country
n0t have suffered nom drouth as
'orcloly impressed ia passing
'.'pes y, towns, With the exceeding
houses and stores, the former
one Of n lo,.... sf,s Ali