Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-29
SECOND LETTER,

On BOARD BELLE MEMPHIS, June
27.-Left st. Louis few days ago by the
nGrrow-gsuge road and came to Cairo,
and thence by the magnificent Anchor
lire boat, Belle Memphis, to Memphis,
and now go by rail to Little Rock and
beyond for my family, and propose to
return by the same route to st. Louis at
once, and thence make trip up into
Minnesota for the summer. We were
up there last summer, and long to be
back. We went up by way OF the st.
Louis, Kansas City and Northern road
to Ottumwa, Iowa; thence over the
Iowa Central, and thence into Mime
sofa. Excursion tickets were sold by
this route from st. Louis to st. Paul, anu
return lat extremelylOw rates, good for the
summer season, and of course are on
sale now. The country up there is, in
many respects, more beautiful than any
other part of the United States. There
are grand and magnificent prairIes, Just
as they came from the hand OF the
creator, rolling as the waves Of the
ocean; and there are prairies cut up into
q thousand farms, adorned with groves,
often the planting Of men; and there
are comfortable houses and barns to pro-
tect man and beast against the almost
Arctic winters. There are waving fields
of wheat that is sown in the spring, be-
causa it cannot stand the severity of
those winters. But it is not land OF
corn, or apples, or fruit; it is too far
north. The apple trees freeze and die.
They tell of storms Of SHOWS that will
90 blind and bewilder a man that he is
in danger of being lost and frozen be-
tween his barn and his house. They
dug up snow for me from beneath pile
OF straw about the first of June, and
that in the southern part OF the State.
Take me home to my sweet sunny south
in the winter; but carry me back when
the summer comes. Let me look upon
her lovely lakes, clear as crysta. foun.
tains, and pure as snow. Let me sit in
the cool Of the morning, with my wife
by my side, beneath some shady tree,
beside some sparkling stream, forgetful
for q season Of Gfe's SORROWS and cares,
as we cast the bait to the sporting fish !;
or let me stand at night before the as
sembled congregation and tell of Him
who called his disciples to become fish
ers of men. Surely we have but one
life to live on earth, and snail that be
wasted or shortened in the greed of gain
or gold?
shore;
Let me hear Of 1naIarial fevers no more;
Let the untainted winds from the mountains
Bring the blessings of God as upon me they
blow.
Yes, away from the dust OF the street, and the
strife
OF the everyday duty in everyday life,
Give on give me my wife and my babe by
And away in the hills OF the north let me
hide,
TIL the embers that now in the engine are
Shall enkindIe with vigor and brightly shall
Tin tie engine of lie, on the track of his VIII,
Shall perform its full speed and its mission
fulfill.
We did not get as far as st. Paul Last
summer; but IL the Lord will, we shall
do so this. The country is said to he
more beautiful up there; and beyond
this is Lake Itasca, the source OF the
mighty Mississippi, and also the grea.
Lake Superior. Surely God is good,
who has given us this great and besuti-
full world in which to live. Much have
] seen and suffered in il, from the East
Indies to the West Indies; from Mexico
to Canada; from the golden shores OF
California to the evergreen isles of japan,
and to the everlasting mountains Of
western China; and from the school Of
medicine to that Of Law, and to the Cos
pei; and well can I say with Solomon:
'Let us heaI the conclusion Of the whole
matter: Fear God and keep his COM
mandments; for this is the whole duty
of man." There was a woman with
some little children on the Anchor-line
whsrfboat at Cairo, who had lost her
husband and was trying to get to her
people down the river in Missouri. The
clerk on the wharfboat raised money
and sent her on her wsy rejoicing.
Our trip down on the Belle Memphis