The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-18
MRS. MOHL's LETTER.
cnrresnondence of the Hernld

Yes, dear reader, it is warm. Even at an
altitude Of 1000 feet ~ we the level of the
sea, can say without the slightest exaggera'
ton, it is warm. What it is in those nigh
piles of brick and mortar called cities, |
shudder to think This morning there Is
fine. fresh breeze coming from the Allegha-
MES, and the few of us who have taken refuge
in this quiet summer resort are IN
haling the pure ozone into our lungs,
finding it at once a cooler and a
tonic TO our bodies and minds. But we knew
that the strong breeze, like other earthly be-
ings, must die. By-and.by old Sol will be
monarch of all he surveys, and the guests
will each one, like the old Indian rrior,
$50 to our tents and lie down in despair"
until earth turns away from her ardent lord,
and zephyr again dares approach her with
his gentle wooing--in other words till the
sun roes down. Then we will reasonable on
the broad versndahs, weak and
faintng number, and drink IN
life and strength once more. 1t
is an idle, dilly.lally kind of life | lead
lust now, | have nothing TO do, and AS is
nv wont. do what have to do with all my
might. At first, was like Bulwer's French
man who had been in the habit of spending
every evening at the house ola lady to whom
he was devotedly attached. At the expira-
ton of twenty years the husband Of the lady
die and friend congratulated the faithful
lover that he could at last marry the woman
he had loved so long. "Yes," be replied,
certainly, that is great happiness, but
where will | spend my evenings" l
didn't know what to do with my even
ings. We have no such modern absurdities
as gas at Harper's Ferry, and even if we did
there is such an endless variety and number
of disspated insects about that life is bur-
den if you have light in your room to
attract them. An idle, vagabond set they
are, cumming and buzzing all night long,
when decent bugs are AIDED and asleep.
They run after every glittering lamp, and
fly against the chimney thereof, and scorch
their poor gaudy wings trying to reach the
unattainable. No, dear reader am
not going to draw moral. Don't think
it, | havn't the energy.
| wish somebody fond of statistics would
fud out how many means OF locomotion
have been invented in these latter days Of
.'runplnc to and fro in the earth" by the
wav Daniel is the utterer of that prophecy
and not Malachi, as | said in one OF my let
ters.) A New York drum mer or CONNER
cal traveller, as they are now called, named
Soule, has invented ''water skates" on which
he "wslks The waters like a thing of life"
alice samee likee shippee, as our Chinese
friends say. Last week he walked across to
Harlem in the presence of thousands OF In
terested New Workers. These water skates are
shaped like snow shoes and must be
one foot shorter than the wearer. They are
about ten inches wide, made of zinc, are hol-
low and filled with air, on the upper side is
u socket for the foot with straps like skate,
on the under side sort of paddle.wheel
which is propelled by the walking or skating
motion Of the wearer. Mr.. Soule throws one
skate into the water, steps on 1t, then sits
down on it, and puts on the other skate, after
which he gets up on the latter skate and in
serts his remaining foot into the socket of
the other skate Dear me what dreadful
muddle got that last sentence into Well,
7 hone my readers will have energy
enough to get at the fact that Mr.. Soule
can travel with impunity even on Long Is
land sound as in case of collision or fire, he
can escape, unless the sea is rough. For
these skates are not very useful in rough
sea.
The Gulnare has had to put in at st.
Johns, New Brunswick, for rep ,irs. She
reached port under sail, both her engines be-
ing disabled. So all the absurd stories about
the naval inspector being actusted by 'pri-
yate piuue" or personal spite" in his deci-
sion regarding her condition are proved to be
false. IL is vel! Tor those on board thai She
was disabled so soon on the voyage. pre-
sumo she will not attempt to 60 farther.
Whichever presidential candidate is cleo
ted the long reign Of Methodism in the white
house will be ended for four years, any way
. | think General Hancock's parents, his wife
and her parents have been assigned to every
known denominati except the MethudistS.
The truth is, General Hancock is not Il mem.
Der of any church. His parents were Bsp-
fists. Bis father was for thirty successive
wears elected moderator Of the Baptist asso-
citation of his district. SO we see G neral
Hancock comes fairly by bis Democratic
principles: for how Baptist can be anything
but states rights Democrat, | don't under
stand-seeing that their church government
is n pure democracy. Mrs. Hancock is an
Episcopslian, and her husband generally
goes to her church with her. 1t would make
Curious reading in decade from
now if all the newspaper, paragraphs
about the two candidates could be collected
into one scrap book. Fancy the historian of
ahundred years hence trying to get at ii Q
truth through that wilderness. By the way,
the patient search of the Radicals fora stain
on the old warriors record has at last been
rewarded. was told Saturday by the editor
of a Radical paper that General Hancock
had been interested in oil wells; in fact the
Democratic candidate for president had &C.
tually, in some remote period of his history,
"struck ile." Horrible, if true! | told
the aforesaid editor that all we
need was that, Just little bit of a smirch
on his stainless name to bring him little
nearer the Republican idea of statesman,
would decide. in Hancock's favor, the nu-
merous Republican soldiers who are now on
the fence. AnG would you believe it? that
unreasonable editor got mad Some people
are so 'techy."
l see the HERALD is helping the Philadel-
pbis Tines TO make up cabinet for han.
cock, by adding Governor Throckmorton, OF
Texas. doubt if any man in the United
States is better qualified to take charge of the
interior department than Governor Throck-