A Letter From Nebraska

Red Cloud, Webster County, Neb., July 20. - Tirnely showers feil here Saturday night and Sunday, the only rainfall in this valley for more than three weeks. Crops had begnn to Ceel the eflects of the drouth and the ! tensely hot weather. The mercury at midday frequently climbed up to a hundred and over. It was the longest and hottest period in thememoryof the olilest sattler in the Republican Valley of Nebraska, yegetation ] was not seriously injuréd, but ita [ leu ves wonld roll up when the heat was greatest, aa a protection against the merciless raya that poured upon I it with n. hundred and twenty sunpower, But the blessing carne and the I country is safe. The wind has changed into the cool northern quarter, raina have fallen, i and the farmers and all hands a6 hopefalandgreatlyencouraged. Small prain is generally harvested in the South Platte counties of the state, I nnd it is a Car botter erop than tnany of the chronic pessimisfcs would have us believe. Wheat, it is truc, is Renerally light, but the writer has Been fields in the past t o weeks that were as fine as ever erew, well fillpd and good for i. vvuui y-ii v (j 'nn -;hi: poi1 nol-o. Of (.-üiuvú ; tltey were exceptiona, but the wheat : erop of Nebraska is not a failure by nny meana. It will more than bread her people, and a large amonnt of last eeason's erop is yot in the hands of the farmers. They are holding Cor a beller price and they willgetit. 0 rye, barley and flax are good crops throughout the state. Potatoea are in fine condition, and with seasonahle weather henceforth the root crops will be more than an average. Corn is Nebraska's preat stnplp. and it Stands rank and beautiful in all I of the state. The well cultivatcd corn, on old grotind, is all that in reoson could be desired. Sod corn, the latu plantod, and the pooriy cultivated pieces look appealingly to heaven. Onder ordinary eircumstnnces the next sixty days will i; a bountiful corn erop for the state. Since rain has fitarted in it bidsfairto continué the good work. The wind lias shifted into the north and rain is becoming general throughout all this región. The hay erop is good, although not as heavy as in some of the pist years. It has been secured in excellent condiLion and the aereago is greater than usual. Tamo grasses are being cultivated quite extensively and the t.nne hay put up in the state tl is season will aniount to several thousand tons. Clover, timothy, redtop andbluegrasa do reinarkably well in Nubra.ska. Alfalfáis bei)ig cul'ivated to some extent, and it is proving to be a prolific andhighly prolitablecrop. Two and thn-e cuttings a season ore taken off, oggregating five to seven tons per acre. Mili on of bushels of Old corn, in all parta of the state, are yet in the crib, and inaiiy of the holdera are wishing the new a light erop. that they may real ie a botter price for what remains of the old. The law of compensation seems to hold good in all things. Were our lives all sunshine we would soon tire of it and ?ii;h for a little shadow. Thee variations make life endurable and keep the battle hot. Nebraska is making niarvlous propress. Bho is coming to the front with liipul stridoa. Iminigration i.i pourinj in like an endless tide and flooding her fertile aere3. Railroada ore pushing out into all these remóte Bections, carryingthe banners of peaoe nnd progress into the hitherto isolated and inacceseible places and planting them with happy homes and a thritty people. A quarter of a century henee and all this vast región will be teemjng wirh a niightv mdnstry, and a high degree of intelligence and prosperity founded upon civil and ïvligious liberty will characterize the inhahitants.