The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-04
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mer home for little covey of decayed
and flea infected novels on the Persian
gulf.
''Tho little seaport on the Persian
gulf had nothing to do with it," said
Mrs. Vance. "Td been reading an arti-
Gle on The Vagaries Of Eminent Men,
and among others the dream of De Quin-
cey that seemed to haunt him in ali his
later years, that he had conquered,
owned and ruled n distant island called
Gombroon. In all his work and in all
his leisure, as n purple background to
the picture Of actual life, stood this
ever present country which no called
Gombroon.
$50, when in the midst Of this, hus-
band wrote me that if no could think as
earnestly and industriously of the com
ing convention as he did of the COWS
and the orchard upon Black mountain
he would probably be more successful
as politician, named the home
Gombroon, and Gombroon it is likely
to remain"
Yoa get off the R. g. D. train at
Black Mountain station, and there YOU
secure a fiacre drawn by two melan-
choly mules. Black Mountain station
is not financial center, but is still die
tated to by Wall street. A large polit-
ical meeting was being held there at
the school house ON the afternoon of our
arrival, and good, pure Democratic doc
trine was coming out through the open
window, together with the flavor of
honest toll and unrectified spirits.
The road to Gombroon is eight miles
In length and reminds one of Pennsyl-
vania avenue in some respects. The
route crosses and recrosses the Branch
just often enough to keep the feet of
ones mules tidy, and the powders which
you drive over are well worthy of the
attention Of the geologist Four years
ago would have said that the road to
Gombroon was rough and irregular,
but since then have driven over Patten
avenue and South Main street in Ashe-
VILE and am gentler in my judgment
of mountain roads since that.
gathered from what Senator Vance
let fall While we were conversing OH
political matters that he is Democrat.
So is Mrs. Vance, Yet they had moth
ing to say of the Republican nominees
except in a tone of the most kindly
COMMUNICATION. We spoke very little
on political matters, however, as Major
Wilson was there also, and if any one
spoke of politics he promptly but grace
fully changed the topic of conversation
by referring to the third party cundi-
dates. T4
The nominees on the third party
ticket in North Carolina seem to be hav-
ing some trouble already, one having
been arrested for using profane language
in the postOffice, another for carrying
concealed weapons, another charged
with clipping with his wife's sister, and
another with stealing hog from a
widow woman during our late war.
trust that these grave charges will be
refuted at an early date.
Senator Vance has many agricultural
ideas in common with my own. His
watermelons mature in October. So do
mine. He has been unsuccessful in per-
fecting a coreless baked apple from
Seeding trees. So have l. His worm
less apple for train use has never reached
maturity. Neither has my own.
But vegetables generally have done
well i'll both cases. We had an album
dance of all truck from the garden, and
Irish potatoes that would do more for
home rule than oil the enthusiasm and
arnica Of those political meetings and
stellated fractures in Ireland, where all
joint discussions are held in the rum
joints of that liberty loving island.
Gombroon is a handsome summer
home built of native timber grown on
the place, cut on the place and hauled by
the Vance mules, Peter and Repeter, to
little mill down the Branch, where
the timber was sawed, dressed, kiln dried
and prepared for the building. In dig
ging for the foundation bed of beau
tiful building sand was found, and q
quarry of excellent stone was struck
within four minute walk of the house
and little above it. SO that with IL stone
boat and the speckled steers, Eyether
and Nyether, Senator Vance easily
hauled in few days stone enough to
build the foundation of the house.