The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-22
MIR. NYE ON THE ROAD.
Bill Saunters Gayly Through
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
THE USE OF NATURAL GAS.
Heavy Correspondence OF . Great Man
Funny Letter From Sir Edwin Ar.
nold-Notes From the Girls.
Copyright, 1891, by Edgar W. Nye.
On THE ROAD IN THE PoLITrcAL
MONTH or NnrrMprp

MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
liz is at this season that the bright red
and blue three-sheet posters of my NAM
moth aggregation called 1.-The Twins of
Genius" may be seen on the parched and
chapped bill board of the one-night stand,
vying with the startling announcement
that William Mckinley, jr, and Governor
Campbell will speak ON the same evening
IN the same town on the living issues of
the day. Everywhere through the merry
month of November in the middle states
the delighted eye is greeted with these
glowing statements regarding approach
ing enjoyment and entertainment for man
and beast. The man is, of course, the one
who thinks as we do; the beast is the voter
on the other side.
When this letter is printed the great
question of future greatness or future
shame and degradation in Ohio will have
been settled. Ohio will have then cast the
die and crossed the Rubicon. Will she
rise above the political horizon purified
and ennobled to take her place among the
great sisterhood of progressive, prosperous
and glorited states, or will she hang her
head in sorrow and humiliation in the
ranks of the lost and undone, amid the
bleaching wrecks and battered hulls of
broken and stranded ships which line the
bleak and forbidding shores of time?
This will depend greatly on what paper
you take.
Findlay, o., is essentially gas town, as
every one knows. l spoke there four years
ago 10 a crowded house, consisting of the
gentlemen who introduced me to the au-
dience and a bright young janitor to whom
the chairman in a few well chosen words
introduced me. / spoke feellngly to the
ianitor, and | am told that he went away
a better man.
In the course of the evening violent
hailstorm broke loose over Findlay, O.,
and as there was low tin roof over the
stage. | could not hear word that / said.
So did not enjoy the entertainment so
much as usual. / went to my hotel Won
dering if | had made myself clear to the
janItor. and as | wrote my press notice
for the morning paper l said to myself:
Have j made stride in the right direc-
ton? Have / purified and ennobled this
janitor who has been placed within the
sound of my voice."
Since then Findlay has grown from 1900
people to 10000, and from the good work
done with that gentle janitor has sprung
up an audience that would have swelled
the heart of Frank Sanger.
Time heals over wound quicker than
one would think.
Findlay now has gas wells which make
the old Karg well look tame. Though
few years ago the Karg was the wonder
of the world now, by the side of recent
discoveries, she looks like the dim light
in which my young and trusting heart was
won by one to whom | afterward gave
my hand in marriage, together with my
worldly goods, consisting of the good will
of newspaper which was pretty generally
disliked.
The gas which forms in the earth in and
about Ohio would indicate very unset
tied state of affairs in that region.
l am getting accustomed to the use of
natural gas now, having been in the gas
region and competing with it, as | may
say, successfully for two weeks. so that
at my hotel yesterday l lighted my own
gas stove. put newspaper in the stove
and then | slowly turned on the gas, hav-
ing first ignited the paper. had lighted
the paper. which was one of the New
York Sunday papers, by the way. and
while was turning on the gas the blaze