The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-26

on the right" said the clerk very politely.
AMI not at all as ii the sight of woman
was likely to knock the universe into n
cooked hat. SO into the Office 1 went. |
How was going TO get chance to speak |
to the gentleman was more than | could |
imagine for he was literally besicged with
visitors, and every one evidently bent
upon having his say, without especial re-
gard to the convenience of anybody else.
Mr. Cooke espicd me at last, and coming
forward said in the kindest possible man
ner, Would you like to see me, madam }"
81 have come to see about the fruit" said l.
Gall right" said he, "come with me-"
followed him down stairs, and found that
instead Of coming to Wall street and Jay
Cookies Office as had SO wildly dreamed,
I had in reality been travelling along the
limo of the Northern Pacific II. X. and had
been set down in the neighborhood of
Olympia, Washington Territory. The
men around me were fellow travellers, all
engaged in selecting eligible sites for
building, and cultivation. Mr.. Holmes
busy with explanation, was the gentleman
who had been here the longest, and who
had it in his power to impart all manner
Of information. Here we're Calfornians,
just "run up" to see how the fruit and
grain compared with theirs, and frank
follows that they are giving in their tes-
timony in favor of Washington Territory.
Here were apples of every size and flavor,
the largest weighing two lbs. and graually
decreasing in size, to the exquistely shaped
rosy checked lady apple. Tbon there were
pears, juicy and golden, huge, oblong AFT
| airs, weighing almost as much. Then we
proceeded to the vegetable garden, and
what sight met our astonished gaze |!
Open your eyes wide, and prepare to
stare. Think of turnips weighing "a lbs,
and beets 32. The largest of these Mr.. Cook
facetiously termed dead beet" And then
the onions: Shades OF Horace Greedy
what onions These were as large as a
good.sized baby's head, or a baby's good
sized head, which land said to be sweet
or than the sweetest of our onions. One fol-
ded in hankercheif is warranted to make
mourners of the most hardened, and un'
der the most provokingly joyful circum
stances. The specimens Of wheat wer'
perfectly exquisite. There were fv'
} varieties, taken from FIVE different scction
of the country, cleaner and plumpsr i
not larger than our wheat. These sam
: Piles are entirely free from specks or sedi
ment, and will yield 81 lbs to the bushel
t 1t is no use to attempt q description o
: the native grass and ripe wheat
said to have bean gathered
from Bellingham, Washington territory
walked through groves Of fir and eeda,
sat by the side of ripping waters, gazed i
L a sort of rapt semi-magn0tized condition I
the setting sun, and all of sudden locke
away to find myself in the busiest place {
the busiest city in the world.
-, didn't "let on that Imagination Ina
, been up to one of her old tricks, but
Z kindly voice said, "Say, when you start OF
r again, don't come back again till you hav
gone with me through the valley Of tn
Yosemite;" and promised ~ wouldn't.
y There isn't any wear and tear to th
= kind of travelling, and it is so nice.
n wish could make you enjoy the reat
n ing of this tenth part as we'll as 1 ..er
joyed the visit. We should then be en- raj
, port indeed.
MORAL.
hope to be broker or brokeress my
' self one of these days and to own fsrl
o in Washington Territory.
n Zone Of the most magnificent pagan
q ever witnessed in this country took plsc
d yesterday in honor Of II. l. H., Alexis.l
It Yours, in a princely Autter,
l. ELEANOR KIRK.