Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-24
Annthnr reason is the same dad has

SAMPLES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA
ROADS.
Another reason is the same that has
been fatal to most all farmer movements,
though started with the most holy and
honest motives, viz, that we farmers
cannot, like the residents OF cities, see
each other every twenty-four hours and
Mot against other trades. When we
have done over nineteen hours OF work
and another hours wholesome thought
interchange with our calf kindergarten,
ane then mutton tallowed our bunion,
we must needs rest in order TO be up and
combating with the early bird for the
III advised worm.
Still, somehow the foreign peasant in
several European countries, far inferior
to ours otherwise, has road over which
he haus carload as compared with the
silly little convention jag which we see
so often here.
am patriotic, had almost said, to a
degree. | shot away two solid hours Of
fireworks here this year, sent to me by
the manager of Pain, the international
pyrotechnicker and faler Of Sebastapol,
Picking, Rome and other cities that had
formed the habit of falling; did 1t, too,
where the celebration of the Fourth OF
July has so long remained unobServed
that the pest bird dogs here tried this
year TO retrieve the common crackers,
and looked thoroughly ashamed when
they thought they had flushed a three
pound rocket; and yet say that, patri-
otto and enterpriSing as we are in other
things, in education for instance, and
the ambition to have about eight more
churches than we can support in each
village, together with other real evil
dences of advancement, we have got the
worst country roads that have been per-
mitted since the days when the earth
was a vast hot, steaming ball OF mud, fit
only for mighty lizard farm.
Some States have by nature delight
ful country road. So were Colorado and
Wyoming. In the very heart Of the
Rocky mountains these last two States
have a natural roadbed wherever 1t is
needed. Forty and fifty miles per day
with an ordinary team is the rule rather
than the exception, while in the spring,
when the frost is coming out OF the
ground and the new milk COW is bur
den in the land, the rich, deep, black
country road.of Iowa and Illinois cannot
be passed even by two-thirds majority.
But what are we to do?
We may laugh over it II we choose.
Some people have q wonderful control
over themselves in their grief. Once
there was young man or board our
steamer, coming from Queenstown
homeward bound, who was the life OF
the party. When others were Ill and
had gastrtis quite a considerably, he
was always our bit of sunshine. He
could tell Stories-funny stories-tell
them, too, so that they sounded like
reading from a large leather covered
tome, never failing TO put in the said
he" or the "oh, she replied" just as the
book did. He could play the lumber
onicon and voluntary on the mouth
organ. He was little bottle OF cham
payne, ever fixing and the life OF the
party all the way over.
When we got to Sandy Hook he broke
of suddenly in the midst Of joke and
said softly 10 passenger whom he led
aside behind the smokestack:
Il am gay,as you see: gay to the age.
spread Joy among the passengers
wherever l go. l am a ray Of sunshine
here, there and everywhere. People
cluster about me TO get a hearty Iaug D
and catch the contagion of my merry
atmosphere and enjoy my inexbaustable
fund of anecdote, but my heart Is really
sad on the inside.
81 am going home to bury my young
wife. She died in Chicago and will be
buried in Brooklyn on my arrival. Have
you any idea what it costs to bring
remains from Chicago to New York over
the Pennsylvania road?'
Again returning to the matter Of
wagon roads, let every one who reads
] this letter resolve that he or she will
not rest content till our roads shall be
equal ia every respect TO our bound
less enterprise in other respects, in
/ stead of being at the everlasting tail
OF barbarism. They are inhuman fol
/ one thing. We form societies FOR the
/ prevention of cruelty to animals and
/ then beat our dumb beasts through
swamps and muck holes, over roads
/ that il would bother peri with eleven
/ foot wings to 60 over lightly.
Let every one with an idea on road:
go TO Chicago with it, taking also g
change Of umbrellas and scrip con
tanning the price Of two weeks board
1 and credit at the home bank.
Mr.. Pope also suggests that cross sec
tions of wagon roads be shown at the
exposition.
i am collecting s few In North Caro-
lima. and am getting cans made to put
! them in.
have not decided yet whether TO FL,
/ ter them or not,
D. =.