The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-03

satisfaction. But then couldn't for the
life OF me reproduce it for the benefit OF
your readers. What! write out in one
letter ten thousand questions, with their
ten thousand complex answers: Why,
YOU lust ought to have heard
me going through the mill.
First, nv examination III chief,
Now tell me, Salathiel, all YOU know
about the Exposition-about the babies
women, dresses, styles, fashions and II
thousand other matters Of leading I'M
portance.' This part Off was very dry,
dragging and unsatisfactory all around,
but when 1t came TO leading. direct ques-
tions. with categorical answers, ! got on
swimmingly, and just a was beginning
to congratulate myself on being second
Moulton on the stand, suddenly found
myself besieged and befogged with a
shower of cross.questions, ana
you'd better believe my cross-ex-
animation was cross one and no mis-
take. In reply to cross questions at
tempted TO give cross answers, but soon
found this policy was involving me III
such re-croSS storm a. dare not hope
To weather through, so / wisely simmer
cd down, toed the scratch, and answered
to the point and Tabrtha soon knew
more about the Exposition than did,
and will be happy to impart her ideas to
any of your readers who may ca!l.-N.
b. Please call when I'm away, IN vel
come-mv latch string Is always out
when I'm out.
Well; of course you know summer IL
cone and cold autumnal winds are whist
ling about ruthlessly, whitening every
thing green and pretty; while the sad
old forests, pensiveIy obedlent, shake
their thinned locks and scatter their r.
luctaRt, lingering leaves to the toying
whims of the eddying breczeS, The
hungry cows come up now for their nub-
bins and pumpkins, aud the sour milk
maid comes out shivering to be kicked
over by that pesky old Boss.
Yon can now hear the farm
ers musical Poo-oo-O-ig; Poo-ooo9
Ms he iilngs the big ears to his inflated
Chesters. Every farmer who has any of
these grunting promises to pay, is Just
now All active inhationiSt, knowing The
greater his issue Of corn, the sooner the
market day OF redemption. Contraction
on the part Of the feeder were contraction
for the butcher, and slow way for the
farmer to SAGE his bacon. Fat hog are
PAYABLE on demand, these tiiuer, and
packers are ready to resume.
And now, alas, come on the gloomy day
Ol rains, and sheets, and SHOWS
or frosted heels and toes
When All brnumbrd, one trctS and NwrIrs,
lie cannot blow his nose.
Alas! alas! why wh-whats to pay
now? Pull down the house won't you
little Sampson? But what's the "a"
ANYHOW. ola fellow trying to write poe
try. sense or anything else, with the cares
and coniusionS of family everlastingly
besleging him on all sides? a man Os-
terlsibly comes home to the bosom OF his
said family to rest, recuperatc, to drink
IN inspiration, write poetry and such
like, but Oh, how facts DO sometimes
knock him all heller -kctcr.
| WAS Just going to get of something
rich up there, when Fritz, the little imp,
slipped oil the table and frightened me
hopelessly of my subject, and | see l
may Just as well give up everything liter
ary, and 20 to pealing potatoes.
"Tyc great mind to tack square
about and bore you with indefinite pro.
lixness Oh the ups and downs, ills and
woes. married flesh is heir to.
Talk about matrimonial felicity, family
- 1 I...,.l, o. tot. Oh ANAL ,vis
aid all that, but let these angel visitors
tumble over the furniture, get cross and
colickv-the,e family joys claim your
attention at midnight, and this
felicity comes only in squalls, and you
have to scud out of warm bed, when
you're tired, rheumatic and sleepy, and
prowling around in the dark hunting FOR
the matches, you step on the cat and fall
over the crib, unJoint your nose on the
BOOKCASE, and then have to 60 out into
the storm, where you can't take light,
and getting down on all tours, crawl
about the back yard, like Il broken backed
alligator feeling among the weeds for
cotgiD. with no way toteil when YOU find
the desired herb, bat to smell of the diff
ferent weeds when You pluck them, and
before YOU find catnip, yet you hands and
knees on weeds and things that don't
smell bit like catnip, or ripe peaches
either. And if all this don t take the poetry
outIof njugated blis., why, then my
experience is a fraud and worth nothing.
And these young bachelors that are get
ting tired OF single jobs, and are cavort.
ing around among the girls hunting for
partners to go into family enterprises
expecting to lind nothing but moonlight
music, love and flowers, will get the in
spira,ion all knocked out Of that idea in
a twelve.month, or else I've learned the
wrong lessons in ma schoo!-thgt's all.
But then may not be disinterested
critic at the present writing. | might
think differently under different circum-
stances. Place me in the old easy chair
before blazing fire, the baby cooling
in the CRIB and plenty Of catnlp on
the mantel, with summing little Fritz,
like the pet coon that he is, diving into
nv pockets for cheStnutS, while the cat
purrs on the hearth, and dear Tabitha
sings and gets Supprr-weiI-l ieel-the
fact is. feel change come over me
now, and | rather guess I'm not in con-
ditjon TO write consistently. l think
this firm will suspend for the present
with no very definite idea OF It's assets
and liabilities. Hope to be able to MAKE
An intelligent statement soon.
Contusedly, SALATHlEL.
work on the Mississippi Jetfies.
The St. Louis Glojs-Dcmo'rct, OF
October 23rd. SAYS: We learn from
Captain Eads, who is in the city, that
the work at the South Pass for tn" last
two months has not been Of a character
to produce al immense effect upon the