Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-20

The falls OF Niagara are grand and
beautiful, besides having worldwide
reputation; so are the Brooklyn bridge
and the national debt, but l would not
care, even II footlOose (which am not,
TO marry either one OF them.
But let us return. We have been for
DAYS IN the lumber region, 1. e., the
spinal column Of it. At every little sta
tion we were joined by lumbermen, most
IL foreigners, wearing the picturesque
costume Of the camp. We saw the
Berry Wall Of the pine regisn yesterday.
He wore q new buckskin shirt, futed at
the seams, and pair OF wooden pantieS
or over-underwear knitted from the
worsted remnants Of big yarn carni-
val, l judged. They were the most
lurid trousers / ever saw. Wherever be
went you could almost seem TO smell
something burning. 10 was a wooden
kaleidoscope which reminded one Of a
picture Of a volcanic eruption executed
by an incorporate wagon painter.
Underneath the clothes 1 have named
above he had all the other clothes he had
ever owned since ne grew up. This gave
him a chOked aud suTOcating appear
ance, and gave rise TO the remark, IN the
Scandinavian dialect: Il gort too
many pantSes on. That's becorse L svet
So"
The lumberman carries valiSe made
OF two bushel grain bag fastened to-
gether by a top and bottom corner so
that he can sling 10 over his shoulder.
In this, I think, he has pair of heavy
kip boots, some edible tobacco and a
large bottle OF alcohol.
Sometimes the prosperous chopper has
a square, black papier mache valiSe
with a toy lock on IL. Yesterday two
men got on the train at the same time.
One OF them was Canuck and the other
was a Norwegian. The Canuck had one
OF these little black bags with the tin
lock on il which is so exactly like sew
eral thousand other little black valises
peculiar TO the railroad.
"Hole on dar, you FrantSmans." said
the NOrske man. you gort my saSSle
dar,"
.sNo, sare," said the gentleman from
San Pierre; lit is eempOSseeble."
BY that time both men had hold OF
the handle. They talked broken Eng
lish back and forth for some time. Then
the Norwegian said, wort you got in
your sassle?"
The Frenchman told of few things,
such as hair oil, hoarh0und candy, comb,
brush, SnOwshoeS, etc.
The NOrske told what he had, and in
tho meantime they pulled hard on the
bag and the train got good start. As
we crossed trestle they were both ap-
palled and put TO confusion, for the bag
burst open and down through the treStle
there fell porous plaster and big fat
bottle of something that thawed great
holes in the ice wherever Il struck. The
bag, Il seems, did not belong to either
OF them.
I spent two weeks in a lumber camp
once by advice of my physicians. They
said needed pure air and q good deal
of IL. Every evening around q big hot
IRE the choppers from Denmark and
Cbristiana would remove nine pairs Of
hose apieee TO dry them by the nice hot
stowe. and so ] went back home where
the air was less resinous. do not care
to be too healthy II makes one look
coarse.
st. Paul and Minneapolis are making
great calculations on entertaining the
delegates TO the national convention.
They will do well too. They have
good deal OF local pride and the means
to sustain their reputation Tor enter
prise.
Possibly this is as good chance as
will have 70 say that my name will not
be presented. l wish 10 refute now,
however, the report that my health Is
out OF repair. / was never In better
health, but my name viii not be pre-
sented. This narrOws down the fight 10
Jerry Rusk and member OF the senate
whose last term received a beautiful red
Testament az the close Of the session for
being neither absent nor tardy. 1t is
certainly to be hoped, for the good OF
the party at least, that q man will be
selected who has been careful all his
life 10 avoid giving offense---a man who
can speak for hours without making a
statement.
met q man yesterday who looked
like Ignatius Donnelly. / am told that
n was Donnelly. BE said that senators
ought to be chosen by the popular vote.
orchestra seats in the senate are too
high nov, he said, considering the char