The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-06
Canon City, Col.

ENTERPRIsE.-When person leaves
his home in the East and emigrates to
the far West in search of fortune and
becomes absorbed in business and la
boring hard to acquire the boon he so
much desires, he in a great measure
forgets his old associations, and the
home of his childhood, yet there remains
within, i'm latent form, the germ which
needs but a very small breeze to fan
it into a flame and draw out all the
incidents connected with his former
h ONE and associations SO vividly that
he would hug a dog if he was sure that
he came from that sacred locality. A
short time ago saw a wagon on the
street which was so much different
from the numerous others that stood
around it that 1t particularly drew my
attention. In general makeup it was
like the giant oak tnor in size but In
symmetry among lot of crooked
knotty shrubs. 1t seemed so natural to
me that 1 instinctively walked around
to the rear of it and there upon the end
board I read
''E. S. Tripp,
Wellington,
Ohio"
1t was too much. I-I-yes,I believe
I hugged that wagon, and IL there had
been a spot on it which looked rs
though the mules had not slobbered on
it, 1 believe would have kissed it for
old associations sake. Many Of your
readers will, no doubt, think this
weakness, but to such will say try it
on and see for yourselves. 1 had Gu
riosity to see the owner Of that wagon,
and waited until he came around, when
I asked him about one hundred ques-
tions [Yankee-likel in less time than 1t
takes to write it. ascertained that he
was as proud of his property as was
Of being a resident of the sacred spot
from whence it came. When the driver
mounted his seat and started his team,
the rattle of that wagon jingled like a
twenty dollar gold piece upon marble
slab, and it appeared to say: 81 have
traversed ono twentieth part Of the
earth's circumference, and with proper
treatment am good for the balance"
If old tin cans were legal tender, Col
orado would be rich. She could afford
to pay the National debt, build all the
charitable Institutions in the land, edu-
cate and send missionary to every five
curly headed heather on the continent
/ ~ A fr;c. op1 than hovo opou0h 1aft Tn
give every man, woman and child in
the state competency sufficient to keep
them in grand style during their natur.
al life. They are piled up in the alleys,
scattered around on the streets, lying
in heaps on vacant lots, and around
camping grounds, until the whole
country is fairly paved with them. You
will be awakened out of a sound sleeI
in the middle of the night with ching.
ting-rip-she-bang-and make upi your
mind that whole second-class tin-shoI
Is being hurled at you but upon making
an examination you find that some re-
fractory mule has broken from his fas-
Jennings and In hunting for some dainty
sage brush had run into q pile of ole
tin cans.
If you happen to be up town of al
evening aud are detained until ate
dark, and in your hurry to get home
take short cut down an alley, clstter
bang-chinck-ker-chug you find your
self fioundering in pile of old tin cans
You release yourself and get out wher'
you think you have free sailing. wheI
thump -whir-r-r-r-r-r the toe of you
brogan comes in contact with an old til
can and sends it rolling off in front o
you to meet with the same tate a secon,
time. j. $. BowLBY.