The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-18
Richmond of Today Contrasts
49, 49,. 49, 49,
Strongly With Town of 1906
Sketches Written BY Pioneer

In the meanwhile, his WIFE and tod
ding wee things, would. with much
Impotence, await the hour when the
set time for his return should arrive.
And a more heartfelt day was realized
by this little group in the woods. than
the family of the man of thousands
now enjoys when he returns from the
eastern cities with his tons OF goods
and groceries. There are those who
then commend the world, who in a
few years become easy in outward
circumstances and OF whom one may
aptly apply the sentiment OF the Scot
fish bard.
THAT buirdly chiefs and clever Liz
zies
Are bred in sic a way as this is"
When we had prepared our ground
for rolling a sufficient number o.
hands would be procured in a circum-
ference of three miles in diameter. We
generally completed our task whether
the number of acres were five or ten.
Sound of Woodmen's Axe.
| can look back on those days with
pleasing emotions when activity and
deXterity with the hand spikes We're
considered high qualification: and
the sound OF the axe and Of the mill
We're undisputed signs OF obtaining
livelihood Our race had not then be
come effeminate and pueriIity of man
ners was countenanced nor had our
appetites been accustomed to the
fumes of teas and coffee nor with those
| diseases which lurked behind sweet
meats and jellies. | completed my
! twentieth year without having seen
( {1la
lieve that our race would be more
stalwart had its use never been intro
duced among us. We moreover enjoy
ed a social state of society friend
ship and mutual confidence was un-
shaken. No religious sect was sufft-
! GENTLY strong to raise a house or roll
the logs. hence those points were pass
ed in silence
Neither were there in those days
either Wings or Democrats. Fools and
demagOgues did not love log rolling
or house building. They generally en-
ter the settlement after the hard work
is completed.
But I will return to our farming OPP
eratons. We had twelve acres nearly
ready for the pillow when on the 16tf
of May a heavy wind and rain blew
down such a quantity of tall trees
that the appearance for a crop looked
more discouraging than when we com
menced. We abandoned a part of Oul
clearing, employed for five days two
additional hands and on the 2Sth o
May planted our crop, which with {
little attention produced an abund
ance. The next year and the next, the
planters added to their fields unit
the quantity raised was so great, anC
so little demand for it, that ten cents
per bushel was quite as much as i
would command.
Not Moested by Indians.
Although the country was new ant
the Indian boundary line but a few
miles off. yet we were never mOlestet
by them or any fears on our part en-
, tertained. The philanthrophist, whel
he looks at these children of the for
est and contrasts their present COndi
, ton, with that when North Americ
belonged to them, may invOluntaril
drop tear and exclaim: Great God
. on whom does the responsibility res
l for the murder of a portion of TIL
? red children and driving the balanC
as beasts into the barren wastes O
the Rocky Mountains"
The historians of our Indian war
J have always treated these people a
things, which had no right, no feeling
and have studiOusly kept the mind
a of the readers excited with their mu1
ders, their burnings and Scalping'
d less the sense of remOrse of ConsCiou
wrong might find a place-a lodging
e in his guilty soul. l can truly sa!
t with the departed jefferson: Il tren
;. Bile for my country when | reflect tina