Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-10

went on toiling, day after day, week
after week, two good years over that
miserable mine. Nothing came OF IL. l
was growing poorer with every ton we
dug, poorer with every pound we crush
ed. In few months more should have
spent my last dollar and have gone to
day labor. l saw, OF course, that some
thing must be dOue. What, l did not
know. / was in that state when one
needs an influence without himself to
take him by the hand gently, by the
shoulder forcibly, by the hair roughly,
or even by the nose insultlngiy, and drag
him of into a new region.
The influence came. Bad news reach
ed me. My only sister, widow, my
only near relative, died, leaving two
Young children TO my care. 1t was
strange how this sorrow made the an
noyance and WEAKNESS OF my lie
naughtl How this responsibility cheered
mel Nv life seemed no longer lonely
and purposelesS. Point was given to all
nv Intentions at once. l must return
home 20 New York. Further plans when
am there! But now for home! II any
one wanted my quartz mine he might
have IL. could not pack IL In my sad
dIebaFs to present to a college cabinet
OF mineralogY.
determined, as time did not abso-
lutely press, TO ride home across the
Mains. Ii is grand journey. Two
thousand miles or so on horseback.
Mountains, deserts, praries, rivers, Nor
mons, Indians, buffalO-adventures with
out number ip prospect. A hearty cam
paign and no carpet knighthood about
It.
Il was late August. 1 began prep
atious at once.
IL happened that on a journey early
IN the same summer; some twenty miles
from my mine, had come upon band
of horses feeding on the prairie. They
cantsred of as went riding down the
yellow slope, and then, hating just out
OF lasso reach, stopped TO reconnoiter
me.
One horse, however, among them had
more courage, or more curiosity, or
more faith. He withdrew from the gre
garious commonality - the naughty
aristocratl-and approached me, cir
cling about as II he felt q certain CEN
triDetal influence as il he knew him
self a higher being than his mustang
comrades--nearer to man and willing TO
offer his friendship. he and l devided
the attention of the heard. He seemed
IN be. not their leader, but rather one
who disdained lesdershlps. Facile pre-
cansl He was too far above the noblest
~ the herd TO care for their unexcitlng
society. MAJ.
slipped quietly down from my little
Navican caballo, and, lettering him 10
= bnsb with the lariat, stood watching
a. snIendid motions OF this free steed
of the prairie.
He was an American horse-So they
distinpuish in California one brought
Srom the old states-a superb young
stallion. perfectly black, without mark.
r. sgas magnificent to see him as ne CIR
lid about me, fire in his eye, pride In
~ ~ rostriI. tail flying like banner,
I've, ~ and grace from tip TO tip. Noone
PP'o,Id ever mount him or ride him. un-
49, n was his royal pleasure. de was
soions of his representative POSITION
"a showed his PAGES handsomely II Is
anu Snstness of all beautiful things TO
eA ImoSine the scene. A little hollow
,D +bs nrsirie, forming . perfect amphl-
. - 80 the yellow grass and wild oats
snes od sbort: herd Of horses staring
sI" tha slope, myself standing In the
middle. ike the ringmSster "a etreus,
and this wonderful horse peilOfnS -