The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-20
BILLN.YES HOMELIFE.
Happy Days at Craig-y-Nos,
Quite Destitute of Clark.
BELLE OF TAILHOLT SEEGARs
Solving the Five-Ring Puzzle which
Was introduced by Man Who
Was Fond of Mushrooms.
Copyright, 1891, by Edgar W. Nye.1
CRAIG-Y-Nos. Runcnmhe Co Y q


Sept. Ii. 1891
Up to last Saturday our lives here had
been most uneventtul. l rose each morn
ing, caroled a glad pean, ate little break
fast of kippered herring, and finishing
of with some of our delightful climate.
would go gladly about my work on nv
autobiography.
AT 9 O'Clock Mr.. Vanderbilt comes with
the milk and vegetables fresh from his
farm. He is getting fine start and the
most OF his products command a ready
sale. buy everything can of him. He
has fine brickyard also, which is more
than self-supporting. He built it for the
manufacture of his own bricks with which
10 build his new house near mine, but his
Dicks were so evidently superior to those
mace heretofore in this country that he
was lmportuned to supply number of
builders and contractors at good prices.
HIS nursery, between Biltmore and Ashe-
VILE, on the Richmond 81 Danville road,
Is also, like my own nursery, a bowling
success. lie grows almost everything
known to the botanist and pomologist.
L he Baron De LANCE has charge of the
agricultural department, and on bright
morning 1t is gladstone sight to see Mr.
vanderbilt and the baron wedding onions
or tarrlng the noses of their sheep.
Mr.. Vanderbilt showed me yesterday a
picture frame which he has designed,
and which will be used for large photo
graph of myself to sit on his piano in the
oil parlor. 1t is designed to contain
nothing but products of his place, such as
cereals and other grains, seeds, nuts,
acorns, etc, etc. These are glued on a
pine frame and then coat of shellac is
put on over the whole, so as to look al
most like boughten frame There will
be an inner row of buckwheat, then a
row OF fiaxseed, then two rows Of rye
and one of wheat then corn, oats, etc.
with acorns and nuts, chinkapins, etc,
ETC., IN the corners, with rosette of corn
IN the ear and festoons of dried apples
over the whole.
AT a. m. every day Mr.. Vanderbilt rings
his bell at my door and with a long-han-
died dlpper he hands us out our milk, also
our nice, new laid hen eggs, fresh from
the hand OF the artisan, and warm with
the atmosphere of the home nest, and
with now and then dear little white
feather still clinging to them. He also
fetcnes US our roasting ears, and when he
butchers we get all sorts of novelties from
HIM. No man need ever ask for a better
neighbor than George is. He helps me
during the hoeing season, and help him
in harvest. We own thrashing machine
together, and in the fall we not only do
our own thrashing with it, but can make
as high as $50, We think, by thrashlng for
the neighbors.
We lead happy life here, as l say, des-
tltute of cark There has been but one
case of cark here since l came. One case
of cark and one of Milwaukee beer. The
day goes blithely by, and at night write
for an hour in my diary a lot of moral
thoughts, which will be eagerly published
after my death. l have decided to make
no dying speech, for l might die at the
same time when some other eminent man
is doing the same thing, and 50 what L
said might not receive that attention
which it so justly merited.
How / would hate 10 play against Mr..