The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-26

= AGANAE' - - DAGSAy
thoress has never thrown herself so
completely into her books as now, and
all her strong indIviduulisms are
marked here. How this book, which is
record of travel in the West and
South, happens to have the name given
| to If. we explain in the words of the
writer:
About "a year ago came into posses
sion of a fortune. 1t was from an en-
| tireIy unex peCted source, and l natu-
rally cast about for the best mode OF
Investment. Diligent investigation
showed that wool growing was de-
Iightful and profitable occupation.
Sheep are innocent, lambs engaging,
and wool marketable. l therefore des-
patched nv agent to Wisconsin, where
ne bought twenty-five sheep at q 90
head. This amounted TO Sll2 90. /
gave him the odd half-dollar for com
mission, babe him put the remaining
SI2 IL forgot TO mention that the original
fortune was Sl25) into the bank against
rainy day, drive the sheep to Min
nesota, and set them spinning-by
metonymy.
In due time the sheep was shorn, and
the wool brought SO 50. Gail Hamil-
ton says:
The thoughtful reader will not fail to
see that S22 so is sum of money not to
be laughed at, and the question al once
| became, how to get possession OF II.
The United States Post Office does not
refund the property which II fails 10
| transmit, and, considering the heaVy
rObberies committed upon the ADAMS
! Express Company, / could not trust
my treasure to its keeping. AFTER
severe mental conflict l decided to go
myself and fetch the money.
She then prepares for her Journey
and gives list OF the articles she took.
After her best clothes, she put in her
trunk a bottle of cholera mixture. OF
this and of brandy she says:
can from my own knowledge speak
with confidence of the efficacy of this
medicine. For nine weeks it Travelled
with us by field and flood, aud not one
of the party had the cholera!
A bottle of brandy makes an excel
lent travelling companion if your prin-
ciples and habits are good.
Her adventures in reaching the West
are sufficiently amusing and her snap
judgments on the towns and the peo-
pie she saw and visited, are excellent.
Thus:
a single fact will show how rapidly
the course of the Empire has taken its
westward way. Only in 1910 there was
but single school in Milwaukee, with
twenty-five scholars; now, there are
three hundred lager beer shops.
The worst thing about Minnesota Is,
that it is fifteen hundred miles from
Boston
st, Anthony stands on one side of the
river, and Minneapolis on the other,
and between them both sorry life
they lead the poor old Father OF Waters.
His back is broken with mills, and his
throat is chOked with logs, and what
with the rocks and the sluices and the
splinters, II is as much as he can do to
nj oil Mt all NnVnF there EuEh
an overwOrked river. 1t Is an unceas-
ing hand to-hand conflict between man
and nature, and man gets the upper
hand, at least once in while.
do not greatly wonder at the feeling
compounded of dislike and contempt
which the "higher classes" of the South
entertain for "Yankees," apart from
their persistent and successful oppose
ton to the peculiar institution. ! sus-
pect that very many of the NOrtherners
who go South are Ignorant or careless
of good breeding, which in its last anal
ysis is Christianity.
The South is an excellent SPECIFIC TO
put one in humOr with the West. An
ilI-tempered, irritable person like
we'll let us say like the render!-uOeS
sometimes, 1t must be confessed, come
into contact with the energies OF the
West almost too violently for his Sc
renity. "You may be the Great West, +"
tempered person after doletul day
ride in an mclean and unventilated rail
car, or days sail on "a floating palace,
"yOu may be the Great West, but you
are a very dirty Great West. You are "A
smoking and swearing and an I'M
cOuth Great West. You are loose
jointed, ungainly giant, striding over
the prairies, leaving your footprints
anywhere, brandishing your big arms
and bawling out your prowess through
the disguised world. Energy have your
Yes, you are drunken with energy,
You are wrecked on the rock of mate
rial prosperity. You make your idol,
and you bow down and worship it,
sacrificing to it whatever is lively and
fine and thorough. Give over your
Boosting. detest material prosperity.
Blessed be poverty and failure and
calmness and silence"
Gail Hamilton tells us no more of the
wool. She concludes by saying that
she brought home a golden fleece, and
she adds:
Aud yet, O reader, gentle but just, If
you should whisper that there is great
cry and little wool-alas! L cannot gain
say you.