The Golden Rod from Parsons, Kansas • 1

Mm tin pet HORTICULTURE, SCIENCE, REFORM, JQHOOLJ. VOL. XI NUMBER VI. OSWEGO, KANSAS, AUGUST, J900. One expression of regret by the Kansan days gone by is hushed forever, "Poor old We find we are poorer than our neighbor east 01 us, not so cneapiy governed, taxes are about one-third to one-half as much over there, finer 'houses and finer churches, more money more mules, horses, oxen, sheep and hogs.

The reason for our comparative is high taxation bad laws, and the evidence everywhere that the Yankee has got in his cunning, unscrupulous hand and been a ruling factor ever sincethe days of Jim Lane Pomeroy. Poor old Kansas! She has made "bricks without sVraw" for her eastern task masters all these years. Oswego has no Lover's Leap. We have romantic rock cliff over a hundred feet from the top to the water in the river below. A dusky Black Dog or White Hair Warrior from the Indian villages near by could have proved untrue to a fawn like maiden and she have gone to this mazy rock cliff, sang her death song and leaped olf and been dashed to death in the river below.

Thanks to somobody our Indian girls were not built that way and the -bare unromantic Oswego cliff is without a romance, But on Spring river twenty miles east of here there is a bonifide Lover's Leap; a tall perpendicular, llinty rock in the Kinderhook formation rises above Spring river and pierces the air high above with an apex fit only for the foot of an eagle. An Indian maiden crossed in love is said to have leaped off this rock into the mad waters of the river below and was launched into eternity. Our Saxon cousin Kaiser Willie talks of -making the In North Carolina the Pops and Republicans are united, and in Kansas the Democrats and Pops. Oh! for a sight of the jewell consistency in politics, it would be good for our optics. If your children are sick you can burn out their candle at both extremities with calomel, quinine and coal tar compounds.

At least you can rot out all their teeth prematurely with these medical bolos. Yankee Doodle wras played it is said in the Protector's army in England and by Gen. Braddock's army. In 1861 South Carolina enacted that no one should play it in the Palmetto state, under heavy penalties. The smallest hap we are 1 acquainted with in Kansas and the one having least to say these evil days is a Tax payer.

Honest Dr. Franklin once said "Give big salaries to the political ravens and they will become your mas. Promoter Downie had two of his elders mobbed and painted blue in Ohio. No doubt their breasts were nough blue without painting A down east cerulean around looking for snaps among the simple we suspect. The gourd family consists of gourds, pumpkins, cucumbers, muskmelons and watermelon and when one of these or all mix with our melons and they are eaten the doctor will get a serious job later on.

30 years in Kansas we do not remember seeing an honest John Hancock annual re. port as the law intends made by a city board. Thousands and tens of thousands of public money spent and when a tax payer asks for a Report these fellows blush like a red John Chinamen afraid later on to look a Dutchman in the face and have blood and revenge. We suspect Willie had been shot with the "liquid gun" we mentioned in our last issue and was a little headed school girl..