The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
wild Western Scene!"

We are In receipt OF a beautiful gotten
up Tourists guide to the magnificent
scenery of Northern Michigan, and the
Thousand Islands of Lakes Huron and
Superior. 1t is by Col P. Donan, and
the gorgeous letter-text is illustrated by
scores of pictures of MackiLac Island.
and waters. Pleasure seeking in that re
gion. in the bright summer weather,
where the grass is greener, and the skies
bluer, than many Of our readers have ever
seen, would be royal life, indeed; if one
had nothing else to do, and plenty OF
money to do it with Col Donan thinks
we were unjust to the Broom Drill lists
in intimating that they were rather
rapid for mice girls" He writes:
Il read with interest and appreciation
your article on the poverty of Southern
newspaper men. You need general and
thorough reform in that matter, even
| though yDu may have to initiate the
Yankees to effect it. Here in the
Northwest, they do everything different
ly. A newspaper office is considered Just
as much a business establishment as
carpenter or blacksmith shop, grocery
or dry goods store, gin mill, lawyer S
office or grave digger's shanty. Erery
thing of business or political nature Is
paid for by the line. People, with church
notices, aud festivals, charity concerts
and political meetings or conventions to
advertise. pull out their pocket books and
ask how D. uch is to pay, just as surely
and promptly as they would if they were
buying pair of shoes or a quart of forty
rod whisky. Every town of two thous-
| and people in Dakota supports Daily
paper; mind, repeat, supports it, and
newspaper men are generally as prosper
Gus and substantial citizens as bankers or
butchers. Stir up your profession to take
right views of their duties. You are right,
and right is mighty, and will prevail, -
(if it is strong enough
In your paper of May II, | notice you
fall into some errors In regard to the party
Of young Urls to whom | recently gave a
flying trip through the Northwest, and
do injustice to as lovely and accomplished
ladies as any in all the land. This, |
know, was not your intention. The young
ladies We're all Southern girls, and the
most charming social leaders in the Mis-.
sissippi Valley. Their exhibition of
themselves was nothing more than all
Southern girls do who take Fart in chari-
ty or memorial concerts or tableaux.
They simp appeared magni6cently cos
TUNED III t..nts in their new armory hall,
representa-, famous historical and mill
tary groups and scenes The party | took
represented the Russian Court in the
time of Peter the Great The chaperones
were three ladies' whose names certainly
are not unknown in Southern social
annals. One of them. Mrs. John G.
Brown, OF Tennessee, is the wife of Gen.
John e. Brown, who was Major-Gen-
eral in the Confederate service, and was
afterward Governor of his State, as was
also his brother, Neil S. Brown. Mrs
Brown is a niece of Mrs. James K. Polk,
and cousin of Gen. Bishop Leonidas
Polk and Gen. Lucius Polk Another OF
the chaperones was the widow of Major
Golf, of Tennessee, and the third, the
! wife of Col George A. Haywood, former
ly of the Z. S. A.
A more modest and refined little party
would net and could not be found any,
where, North or South. The immense
receptions. banquets, serenades, ETC.. ETC.,
prepared for them by my railroad ard
newspaper friends throughout the North
west We're an utter astonishmen. to them
They had expected simply to make fly
ing trip to such noted spots as Mime
haha, Minnetonha, ST. Anthonys Falls,
Lake Pepin &C., without attracting or
receiving any special attention. For their
overwhelming disappointment in this res
pect, and for the consequent seeming no
toriety and ostentation Of their little four
days tour, alone am responsible. l have
got up the same sort of welcoming hur-
rahs Letore ior parties of Southern editors
and officials. throughout the same hospi-
table region, which always does enthusi>
asticalj Whatever it does at all.