The herald., 1895-07-09
HALSTEAD'S PADDY's RUN PAPERS

guv the year, nut the month was Novem-
ber, and the fall wheat was put Into
90 to visit my mother 8 father and mother.
who lived on Green's Fork, Wayne county,
Ind. They took one horse wagon, leAv-
ing the heavy team and the market wagon
at home-nlso myself, alone to watch
things. They expected me to be anxious
to go along, but was not. They won
dered whether ! would be afraid alone at
night in the house, but was not. had
been we'll taught that there was nothing
to be scared ahaes / the dark. The truth
was had tt..ssns-deep, dark designs
and my parents were hardly out OF sight,
to be gone ten days, when began to pre-
pare for an independent market excursion
to Cincinnati. I planned the whole thing
carefully. First, knocked the seed out
of an enormous heap Of mustard stalks
that l had gathered on the barn door.
That was my private mustard. The labor Of
thrashing and cleaning the seed was enor-
nous, and there were nearly two bushels
of 1t. 1t was what people now call capital.
Tho rumor was that clear mustard seed
was worth $40 bushel, but that turned
out to be an exaggeration. had also
quantity of nuts-hickory nuts and wal-
nuts-about three bushels "hitched up
the horses" and patiently husked all BY
myself our wagon bed full Of yellow flint
corn that had just got hard, but not dry,
and thought it would be the better that
way, and that tho Cincinnati people knew
what was good and would want 1t for
bread. But that was mistake. 1t was
too green for the best price. Then came
some trouble had not anticipated with
the wagon bows, but the cover was all
right feared rain on the corn and justly
and while made q night march to get q
correct wagon bow that knew man had
in q shed l covered the ears with corn
stalks and put rails on them and stretched
the cover over the rails, and thus turned
smart shower that would have deprecated
the oorn With the aid of q Welsh girl en-
gagged for the occasion killed SO chiok-
ems, and we mustered four dozen eggs and
ten pounds of butter. had a long strug-
gle between showers to get the wagon COW
or adjusted, and when had everything in
the wagon, including a dozen sheaves OF
oats in the straw for the horses, the team
stalled on a bench of soft ground, and
had to go half a mile to get third horse
to help pull out, and when that was done
the rain began to fall, and found one Of
my horses had lost shoe, and had to
stop an hour to get enc put on. But the
blacksmith sympathized with me and hur-
ried the job, and so concluded did not
want to die, after all.
arrived at the Temperance tavern, on
Seventh and Western row, Cincinnati, in
time for q late supper and to go to the
museum after had taken care Of the
horses. And that museum was wonder
full place. The crowning glory of 1t was
the internal regions constructed by Hiram
Powers, the famous sculptor. This was
the most famous show that ever was in
Cincinnati. Down stairs they had the
actual heads Of two dissected murderers in
jars of alcohol, and the ropes with which
which man killed his wife and children;
and group Of wax figures, with the real
clothing, showing how the murder was
dono. had most instructive night and
have seldom known time to pass SO quick
ly. never had been to the theater, and
the remembrance OF that astounding mu-
seum-that supper of serrors that did not
ecare, but exhausted-was about all
could carry. had to sleep In room with
half dozen beds in 1t and was glad to
find everything safe in the wagon and was
early to Sixth street market. I sold the
butter, chickens, eggs and nuts first and
then the mustard seed and at last the corn.
This was all done before II O'Clock. My
policy was to take all the money home,
but was tempted to buy a gold pen from
gentleman who offered to let me have 1t,
as he had to sell it, for rs cents. 1t may
have cost him cents, but l doubt it,
though he gave me his address and said
tho pen was pure gold. He was bad man.
I also bought book for 81 that was worth
it. The empty wagon was cheerless on
the way home. The rain was incessant
and cold, and the horses had to be handled
to humor them.
/ do not know how they could have
reached home if they had not known they
were going there and had not become zeal
GUS. was never better satisfied with my
self than when the horses were snug in
our stables and fed. 1 got into my own
bed, after filling myself with milk, and
with $40 under my pillow was asleep as
soon as got warm. My unauthorized expo
diton was surprise to the neighbors and
moro than a surprise to my father and
mother. But had not got killed or robbed
or killed the horses or had chill, and
turned over the money SO cheerfully, and
it was so large a sum, that 1 was allowed
enough of it to buy little case of survey
or g instruments and dictionary.
MURAT HALsTEAD.