The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-11-06
WELLINGTON, O., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1879.

out and seek the shore, it would have
been his grave, and the mystery of his
disappearance would never have beer
solved.
But such small matters as that were
of no moment to its owner; he propos-
ed to drain it. Could it be doneP Oh
course it could and he knew exactly
how. 1t was very simple, just cut
through to the lake near it, and let the
water run Inter" the lake. "But the
lake is the highest" some one sug-
gested, and will run into your marsh
what thenP'' 80, I'll resk that" he
answered, but his s'resk" did not lower
the lake an inch. Such glowing ac-
counts as he gave of the wheat-field
which he was to have the following
year! A hundred acres-for he should
not stop with one marsh, he would
drain that beyond him on land owned
by spectator. One could fairly see
the wheat heads nodding in the breeze,
and hear the click of the new reaper
he was to buy. when listening to his
enthusiastic accounts. Other men on
their little stumpy patches, used era
dies, but he would have q reaper and a
span of good horses to draw it. Enough
W say ludL ne ucNcE cNcu luIcw luc
first shovelful of dirt out of his drain,
but got enamored of a life on the
prairie and left. He never said, like
Col. Sellers, " There's millions in it! !"
but talked equally grand and absurd
and drifted around for time in his
covered wagon, then into a sod house,
and finally back to the same settlement,
to borrow a bit of pork or half a cup
of tea, of some more prosperous neigh
Dor.
Lie tried patent rights. He had
one mare, his whole dependence to car
with considerable &" boot" for patent
one adjoining were so sparsely settled
that he could not have sold enough
churns to recover the price of his horse
if every one had churned the cow in
stead of the cream. He had now no
horse, to be sure, but his wife had a
patent churn and he had q Z" right"
and besides there had been one more
chance to trade, so that all things con-
sidered it was quite an advantage, any
one can see.
All these slow, easy-going brothers
had, as might be expected, the most
fiery of wives; the slowest. easiest of
all having married short, tow-haiI ed
of whirlwind, boxing and cutting her
there at various articles in her house,
" doing up her work" 81 tell 'em'
she used to say. {" tell 'em gals a
fool tew git married and go racin' all
over the country" &c l tell 'em, its
A. Il
who'll dispute herr s
But the most sanguine, uneasy cloud
palace-builder of all, was " Rem" He
had neighbor who. when invited to
enter q house sometimes, If in a hurry,
answered, " No, thankee; / can't stop
to stay;" or, if not, remarked casually,
he would jest drap Gen." That was
the way with this man bubble. He could
not " stop to stay" he would jest
drap een' somewhere and then he was
up and away.
One who had known him for several
years counted up the houses he had
known him to build up to that time,
and by actual count there were seven
teen. His great project was a canal
which was to connect lake, or series
of lakes, some nine miles long, with
the Mississippi, which was twelve or
fourteen miles distant. On the lake
was to be a large steamer and numer-
Gus smaller boats, and the commerce
was to be something magnificent. Who
was to do all this, and what the trade
was to consist of, he never took the
trouble to mention. The same lake
has since been fitted up for q summer
resort, and every summer people from
Minneapolis, St. Paul, and even as far
South as New Orleans, visit there; but
then, when wolves and bears roamed
about its banks and the Indians tepee
poles and stones on which their kettles
had been placed we're the only signs OF
human beings near it, it sounded slight.
i ly visionary. He grew very enthusias.
tic, enc year, over a plan of his by
which all suffering of the poor in cities
might be stopped. 1t was to have peo-
pie take wagons and, begging clothing ol
the rich, fill them and 60 about and dis
tribute them among the poor; and wher
some one informed him that something
of the sort was done, though not in eX
actly that manner, he was quite sur
prised for q moment, but soon resumed
his talk. He managed at one time tt
become the owner of large amount o.
cord-wood which he was sure woulC
make his fortune, but SO anxious wa.
he to sell that he peddled it out in the
town in which he was then living, fol
old clothes, or whatever he could get
ard the little for which he received
money was sold for much less than h,
had paid for it. His family was very
poorly supplied with food, one winter
but he had the good luck to kill beal
and then he was happy. There wer,
hundreds of young hickory trees nea
him which he proceeded to cut and sci
for hoop poles, thus purchasing fiou
and bread, which with bears mea
provided the means with which t,
"fare sumptuously every day" all win
ter. Joe and came across him on
day with pail of raJpberries in eacl
hand, started to walk to town. Jo
stopped and asked him to ride and h
climbed in at the back of the ligh
wagon.
"You have some nice berries there
Mr.. Dubble," said Joe.
"Yes, but didn't pick 'em. 1t doe
well enough for wimen and youn,
ones, but 'taint no work for a man
Hammer and the young ones picks 'er
and 1 sells 'em. Young ones is lik
bees. Take the honey from bees an
they 60 right to work agin and it's jes
so with young ones and berries"
I have often heard it said that if yo
gave Yankee a riding bride he woul
trade till he had a horse and equiv
ments complete. was always incline
to doubt it a little and class it anon
the stories told concerning wooden nu
megs and the like, but have begun t
believe it since heard of how this yer
man got him q good spring-wagon fror
J a cow-bell without a "clapper." II
; was walking through the woods an
stumbled over the bell in the dea
leaves, lost from the COW which ha
been feeding there. He took it HON
and shortly after traded it off for
small, old fashioned pistol. He thre'
in little something as "boot" an
soon traded his pistol for a gun with
: out a lock. again giving some tride 8
J boot. The gun he repaired and swal
ped that for an old wagon. This