A Farm Philosopher
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Excerpt from A Farm Philosopher: A Love Story Effingham is a little City of five thousands people, at the junction of the Illinois Central and Vandalia Railroads. The Illinois Central runs from the far North via New Orleans and the Gulf through South America so we are in touch with the ends of the continent almost in an air line both ways. The Vandalia Railroad is an air line with its connections from the East to Hiwaii and the Phillipines, from the. Atlantic to the Pacific Coast, and thence around the earth Westward to the Allantic Coast again. I have lived the most of my life in the little town of Effing-ingham, Illinois, and while it is true I have gone North, South, East and West, my life has mainly been spent in its precincts. I once upset the dignity of a St. Louis drummer by telling him I lived in a suburb of three Cities. "Where do you live"? he politely asked. "At Effingham" said I, and he roared, he thought it was such a joke. "Well" said I, "the women of Effingham can run to St. Louis, Chicago and Indianapolis and back, to shop, in a day´s time, and I´d like to know if we are not suburbanites to all three of those cities"? And the whole of us laughed. I read in an Illinois Central year book that when the Nations of the earth met at Washington, D. C., to determine the length of a maratime day, that a German scientist whose name I have forgotten, wrote them that as the matter involved the renaming of standard time, that Central time should be named Effingham time, as geographically it was situated in the exact centre spot just as Greenwich, England, is so situated that longitude for the whole world is reckoned from it. No one knows how we received our name, Effingham. There was a Lord Effingham in the English fleet that whipped the Spanish Armada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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