Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-24

Men OF prominence throughout the
country have been receiving for some
time we'll penned letters from the type
writer of Albert A. Pope, OF Boston, who
has discovered, no doubt, that the rea-
son we crowd into the cities to live is
because we can get from one store TO
another without getting mired.
1t is now proposed 10 make road de-
partment in the exposition at Chicago,
wherein may be seen all manner OF
roads, roadbuilding, materials, tools,
machinery, etc, from a right OF way
with a rut in the center OF 1t to a
sprinkling cart that viii wait for the
man with the fresh duck vest and the
linen trousers and newly polished boots
before it will squirt.
As originally designed, the roadmak-
ing machinery and material, as well as
cross sections OF roads, were to be so
scattered over the ground, being in
fourteen groups, that the visitor must
look through five immense buildings,
covering 70 $40 acres OF ground. in or
der to see what the world is doing in the
way OF making roads.
We have very often home grown pro-
duets, l know as a farmer, which would
yield something if we could take a
profitable load TO our nearest town, but
where we can only draw 500 pounds and
take off wheel en- route we find that
we had better lose the goods than try to
market them under such circumstances.
Referring to home grown horses, will
add that we need, if we could afford it,
q strain of the better class OF blood,
such as the Percheron, the Norman, and
well known English families dating
back to William the ConQuerer.
l was never more mortified than last
week. l had endeavored on my stud
farm at Buck Shoals to rear new and
attractive mule, and in May we were
blessed with little bunny mule OF the
clay bank variety, sired by Kentucky
papa and damned on the place.
For years have not been cursed by
pride. Since the artist has been. prac tic
ing on me with a view to some day IL
Illustrating a book called Life Among
the Lowly; or, Eighty Years on the
Door FOR Mephistopheles," l can truly
say that am not proud, but a week
ago went to town with the mother Of
the new mule Marguerite, as 1 deemed
it time to wean her. So we left Mar
guerite moored to she well curb and l
drove on to Asheville TO market bunch
Of fat pine.
The day was beautiful. The odor Of
clover and the sweet, seductive smell Of
the azalia seemed to lift me of the seat
! A small black hornet also assisted in the
great work.
"Oh, Joy. Oh, Joy" said; ''what a
/ gladstone day. Is it not indeed plumb
( honey?" as we say in Hooper township.
/ The air was impregnated with ozone,
/ and now aud then we could hear the
| neigh of my palfrey neighing.
| She neighed for ner absent child with
a mothers neigh. The fact that bitter
things had been said about her and
social ostracism had come with the little
\ stranger did not steel her warm mother
/ heart toward the little one. True, she
could not remember any OF her folks
/ wbor so freely to ears as Marguerite
/ did, but she rocked not.
When I had marketed my fat pine
| kindling wood at the kenilworth inn
/ and bought hay with the money, for l
/ have to buy hay in order TO feed my
stock on the farm, so that 1 can look
/ forward to the time when can buy more
| hay TO feed my team, so that they will
feel strong and well enough to cultivate
the soil, so that will be cheered on to
/ buy more hay for the same purpose.
As stood at the porte cochere Of the
/ hotel, looking down into the eyes OF q
bright young girl from Tuxedo, who is
here for her fathers asthma, though he
/ is not here yet, heard, borne across the
/ beautiful bosom OF the Swananos, the
mellow bray Of Marguerite. She came
/ with a famished snort, and Sheridan
some twenty odd miles away was no
where. There was rattle OF tiny hoofs
on the gravel drive, little glad cry OF
recognition from the mamma, and the
clay bank mule Marguerite was monkey
/ ing with what is called the maternal
/ font.
The reader can readily understand
how the mule Marguerite, by connect
ing herself with ny palfry, had hurt me
socially at KeHilwqrth inn, and how the
Young lady who eSme here to try he