Daily Republican., 1886-10-04

when I told him he seemed surprised
and commenced to tell me that routs
over again. I told him for heaven
sake TO ceese, ~ did DOT want TO II
that way, and we had quite lauEi
over IL. The members OF the Post arr
. hno ret Of men, and We bad 3 nic<
time together. l have enjoyed this par,
OF my trip very much, and ! do no,
see how l can ever repay Comrsdt
Fouch, his wife and daughter, unless
can have the pleasure OF being their
most sometime In the near future, for Il
seemed TO me that they could not dc
enough for my pleasure and comfort
They tried hard to keep me another
week, but could not stay although |
would have liked very much to have
done 30 and had some more sport catch.
ing big Ash.
Well, all good things must have an
end, and thought It was about time
for me to leave and start East. 80 /
bade my kind friends good bye. Com.
rade Fouch hitched up his team and
took me to the station, and at 8 O'Clock
In the morning ! took the train for st.
PauPs, arriving there at noon, and ut
1.45 o'c lock took the train OIL the Chi
cagO, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad,
and reached Milwaukee at 4 O'Clock In
the afternoon Of the 18th. shall leave
here tomorrow for Chicago, which
place / expect to reach In safety, as the
Q. M. & St. p. Railroad 10 fiist. class In
every respect, and 1 will Just say here
that II any Of the readers OF this ever
takes q trip west Of Chicago, that il
will be TO their advantage to 20 over
that road take nay word and 90, see
the officers, or write to them before tax
ing passage or purchasing tickets on
any Other road, and you'll not be dis
appointed.
10 day there were twsnty-f five half
breed Indian girls on the train, their
ages ranging from to 13 years. They
were picked up BY government agents
and were being sent TO this place to be
sent to school. 1t Is now after 10
O'Clock and l must stop and 20 to bed,
as want to start on the early train to-
morrow morning. G.. W. KING
BOLIVAR, W estmorelard County Pa,
Sspt. IL I am getting pretty we'll op
my way toward home and expect to be
there before you receive this letter, but
made up my mind that 1 would write
20u one more letter so that l could
give synopsis of the trip from the
city of Wilmington 10 San Francisco
and back again.
Ia my last letter told you that had
arrived at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
intended to stop there until O'Clock
the next morning. had q great desire
10 see that city, 30 1 took o stroll over
it, and think 1t pretty nice place.
After supper sat down and wrote to
You, and At 10 80 O'Clock went to bed !,
expecting to get good nights rest, but
upon seeing that there was large num-
Der Of mosquitoes flying around, 1
turned down the light, and got myself
ready for bed In the dark.
The weather was quite WARM, and
left the Windows up, but the varmits
found me just the same, and pretty soon
l had about all the work wanted to do
In the way Of fighting, for they tackled
me right and left. front and back; In
fact they seemed to come from every
point of the compass. To still further
aggravate me the bed. bugs of the whole
neiRhborhood Joined with them against
me, and want you to know that had
more for my money than l bargained
for: Just about the time let 90 my
right for q moequito would
have to let 60 with my left at a bed
buR that would be boring away, deter
mined on having an ever flowing arte
sian we'll 10 supply him with the neces-
sary article OF food, 80 that he could be
ready for the next" as the BARRIERS
say
Well, 1 just stood 1t abou' as long as
1 could, then got up and lit my pipe
and took n good. long noke. This
caused the mosquitoes to beat the re-.
sreat and was not bothered for the
time being, but rs soon as l ceased
smoking and laid down to sleep they
entered into new contract and seemed
determined to devour me, 30 tried the
smoking process again, but plague on
IL can't smoke al day aud night too,
so the great Rormandizers drove me
from my base Of supplies, as far o.
sleep went.
i accordingly got up at $50 O'Clock,
having constantly fought them for four
hours without having an instant's relief
sleep or assistance, and wended my way
toward the depot to take the 4 O'Clock
train. and to get as far away from Mil
waukee toward the east as possible. |
arrived at Chicago at z O'Clock the next
morning, aud then strolled over the city
until o'clock in the afternoon, when |
took the train again as far as Bolivar,
where | supposed an uncle of mine lived,
whom / had not seen for 16 years. His
name Is Thomas w. Gilpin he was my
mothers brother and he was always my
pet uncle; when / was small boy just
worshiped him, and thought there was
nobody like him; he was soldier In the
Mexican war. l got off the train at 80
and inquired about him, and as everybody
seemed to know him, it was no trouble
for me to find him. He only lived about
half a mile from the station. ard as soon
as l saw him knew him at once, but he
did not recognize me. / soon made my
self known, and want you to know that
/ have had splendid time with him and
my aunt, both of whom have done every
thing they could to make my visit pleas
ant, and they have succeeded admirably.
Uncle Tom, as still call him, is one Of
the Oldest railroad engineers living, and is
hale, hearty man yet, and bids fair to
live to good old age, and / sincerely
hope that he may, as l want to pay him
another visit one OF these DAYS.
Bolivar is quite lively town on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and is surrounded
by the Chestnut Ridge and Laurel Hill
Mountains, and seems to be quite a busi-
ness place. There is considerable coAl
taken from the mountains, and also tile
finest fire clay. There are several fire
clay brickyards there, and everything that
can be made from that article is made
here, and shipped to all parts of the
country. l am getting so near home that
| haven't the heart to write much more,
but there is one thing that will just say
to the readers of the REPUBLICAN who