The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-16

The weather east-aS far of Ohip at
leaSt-iS almost Identical with that Of
South Dakota. Anyway, that waN the
kind of weather ] ran ON to while
there last week. This has been the
case tor several months back. They
caught the same lovely Indian sum-
mer weather we did. and naturally
were simply delighted with it The
cold october rains were absent and
there was Il radical change from the
dark and gloomy fall days so chaTlct-
eristic of the Great Lakes country.
The weather was Slightly colder than
here all last week in Ohio. while Chi
cago caught enough snow for sleigh
ing-it they lad let it alone. Sut
they can't put up with sloppy streets
in Il big city ard before | had my
breakfast gangs of men were shovel
ing the "beaEtltul" into wagons and
carting it off to the riyer. The city
had not enough money in the street
cleaning fund however, to clean up
but two wards. Chicago is not only
one Of the most eNtravagantly govern
ed cities in tile world, but it has the
nastiest streets of any big city | know
| of. - :.
saw the sun for for few hours on
two days while IN Ohio, for Il wonder.
Once IN while at this time of year
Il (ll6 Sfl inc .ffo nr;c,
for Il couple of hours. Then the
clouds gather from over Old Erie and
the smoke from the hundreds of fac
tories in Ohio's metropolis (Cleyela 1d)
of a halt million people etlectually
shuts it from view for the remainder
of the day. AT 1870 dusk sets in and
gas OF electric light must be turned
on to read by and at 4:30 it is pitch
dark. TO chap like your humble
! servant. not accustomed to tuning in
for the night until IL O'Clock or mid
night it, makes long evening.
! have always had the cotton that
contentment IN the west and the
fidelity with which people stick to it
AMI swear by it-once they try it for
six months or a year-iS due more to
the almost constant sunshine than
any other one feature of western life.
Sunshine means health for one thing:
and it is quite impossible fora healthy
person to get the 'glumps" in the
bright sunshine and pure ozone of the
great and glorious west notwith-
standing the remark once upon Il time
Of the Miner county statesmen that it
's-s-shines too did much.''
All through Iowa. after passing
Canton, the creameries are in evil
dcnce, and when l awoke in the
morning 100 miles out of Chicago, the
first peep out Of the window sho we'd
dozens Of teams standing in the frosty
air awaiting their turn to unload the
morning mick. Notwithstanding
the fact that these dairymcn are using
800 acre land on which to keep their
herds and receive but a Slight in
crease over the price paid by the
South Dakota creameries they find it
one Of the most profitable branches of
their farming operations. But they
keep milch cOwS-coWs that can be
depended upon to give Il good flow OF
milk ten months in the year One
t),.,t will .,f
milk a year at factory prices is the
exception rather than the rule. They
get from ten COWS with one third the
labor what a western farmer with his
range-bred COWS gets from thirty.
How natural the fields and woods
looked from the car window running
through Indiana and Ohio. How
many, many days have spent with
dogs and gun trampng the shocked
corn fields and brier patches in the
clearings hunting little bob White
What IL glorious sport on clear Octo
Der morning, ! wouldn't mind it
now, not bit, If could try it oyer
again. But | wouldn't give shucks tc
chase all over creation stamping OUT
cotton-talS from brush heaps and
bowling over the poor innocent little
things with charge of No s. Bu,
for want tt better sport ! thought it
great fun in my youthful days -especi
ally with a nursery hand Juggling along
a box Of ferrets to chase bunnie out OF
his hole when the beagles run him t.
earth. Rabbits play sad havoc IN the
big nurseries and ferrcts are raiser
and trained to assist in hunting them
have heard it stated that the labor
expended in the construction of the
rail fences on the Ohio farms cosl
more tnan the land. Cnc can vel
believe it when Ee thinks about it
But how they do last Many of thu
rail- fences seen IN going through the