The Red Cloud chief., 1904-05-20

the banks of the little lake where tired
sightseers may sit down and rest In
this underground lake there are fish
without eyes. Living near this lake is
a very h~ospitable family, and they take
pleasure in escorting visitors through
the cave, free Of charge, and ii it is
near meal time the visitors are invited
to take dinner with the family.
Twelve miles from here is another
wonderful spring, which feeds II stream
almost as large as the Republican
river, and the stream is full Of the best
fish in the world. No bottom to the
spring has ever been found; the water
boils up in the center and flows off at
the sides only, where il empties with
an awful suction. \ dinner plate
thrown on the surface at the center
will jump and bob along till il almost
touches the banks, then down it goes
and nothing can stop it. A mar once
fell in this spring and disappeared,
and he was never seen again. His wife
attempted to rescue him and also fell
in, but vas caught 10y her skirts aud
saved. The stream from the spring
runs "a great saw and feed mill.
But the greatest curiosity of this
part of Missouri is the young folks
the prettiest set of young people the
world ever set eyes upon, and the
prettiest women Young girls think
nothing Of walking fifteen miles in a
forenoon, then do "a hard half days
work. Independence is no name for
the girls, bless their hearts! One of
them will do up her mornings work,
sit down and write a letter and say:
"Ma, / am going to town to post this
letter.; then run out and catch a
horse, mule or bronco-anything that
the men have left out of the field, just
so 1t has the shape of a horse-jumps
on II she can get close enough to throw
a saddle on, and away she goes, does
her errand and returns home, un-
saddles and unbridles her horse, turns
him loose, goes In the house and cooks
one of the best dinners you ever ate,
Strengthens up the house, sits down to
the sewing machine or organ, one of
which you will find in almost every
home. Many married women think
nothing of taking from six to ten
dozen eggs in a basket and going from
two to five miles to market on foot.
She can walk in, sit her eggs down on
one counter and receive IA cents cash
for her eggs. She can turn to another
counter and pay out her cash for any
thing she may want. A farmer can
take into town IA Jag of stove wood,
cord-wood or anything his farm pro.
duces and the merchants will pay him
for it in cash; then he can take his
money and spend 1t where he pleases
You never see an old rag Of any kind
lying around, for the women can tear
sew and wind them into balls of car.
pet rags, take them to any of the stores
and receive cash for them. All the
merchants pay high prices for green
vegetables, fruits, etc, in cash-nc
coupon business goes with these
people.
Fruit trees and vines are loaded
with their little balls of green fruit
But, oh! those wet, dreary, rainy tire,
and sometimes five days out of every
week, give aperson the shivers to think
of them. But the oldest inhabitaht,
say this is the most backward sprinl
they have had for thirty years. This i,
one of the lovelist countries on tn,
face of the earth when the sun shine.
there seems to be some kind of al
elixir in the air which is so invigorat
ing to "a tired, sick person; then com
the cold, dreary, rainy days which Civ,
IA person that aguish feeling. l would
not advise a pc son who has lived al
his life in a smooth, untimberc,
country to come here to make a livin,
by hard work, as the rocks and stump
are a great drawback to an old Ne
braska farmer; but just to live in thi
country is like being in a Paradise OF
earth.
The people here don't know wha
dust is.
Mrs. II. c. Bon.
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