The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-01

", az they once sald In Rome, Webster.
sa flctti a non iucendo," from which
no light Is emitted oil that subject.
SUI, thcro aro somo primitive ioroUt
truos to be aeon horo aud horoabouts,
and tho landscape, far and near, has ita
wooded aspect, and for all practical
purposes tlioro Is wool enough To 90
round, ns havo found TO my delight
NIL winter whiIo onjoying tho genial
warmth oil a wood Htoye. Thoro aro
also somo vol shaded homes, situated
back from tho road sidcs, whore.
In prlmoval trocs aro to DO aeon
along with those OF moro rocont
planting, aud altogether, 1t may DO said,
that II, proper diatributionlof tho whole
collection would glvo oyory cottayor ut
least ono "root tree" Tho fact that
i,avo only aeon these trees In tholr
''aoor aud yellow leaf" alter tho frosts
OF autumn and tho winds OF winter hal
stripped thom bare. has intorfcrod with
tho full development OF tho grove idea
IN my mind. Tho ''leafy month Of
June" as l am assured. and can we'll
believe, will prosont different aspect.
It 10 with Webster ms q wintor resort,
physically and socially, that have had
to do, aud from this standpoint eau
boar cheerful testimony on Ito behalf,
AZ to ita attractiyoness, hoalthfulness
and heartsomenoss. Coming hero to
spend fow weoks have long.hcnod
out my stay into ono OF several months,
and surely. as Mr.. posgoty was wont to
observe, II can say no fairer than that"
Aud now that am about TO rosumo my
nomadic habit aud like tho Gypsios do.
part for "frosh folds and pastures now"
further west, eau well stTord to leave
my 'benediction behind me on this a.-
tractive location aud It's many cxccllcnt
people.
4.s now TO GET THERE.
III ever my friend McNeoly should
visit the future great again, will toll
him how to proceed to reach this pleas.
ant suburb OF 1000 people. will not
contont myself with tho old recipe once
much In vogue as to how 10 find Beech.
or'a church. viz, 'cross tho forty and
follow tho crowd" ofcourso my friend
will cross tho forty from East St. Louis
10 the city proper in coming into tho
heart OF the future great" from tho
Egyptian part OF Illinois through which
no must needs travel, aud OF course in
so doing he will follow great crowd OF
fellow travelera through tho iron gates
OF the most magnificent railroad station
in the world; but he will find that the
Union station. Ike that other good place
that. We read about, has "many man.
sions." or, In other words, many sub.
divisions in the shape OF trnckage, alleys
and areas, and tina. by turning into
one Of these spaces, through a gate
called beautiful (alias Missouri Pa.
clfc), he will find at most any hour OF
tho day train on tho owe of
departing for this interesting suburb.
1t is best known a, the "kirkwood &c.
commodation." kirkwood is another
interesting suburb, three miles west Of
Webster, whercat live four or five old.
time Wheeling people, viz: Mcssrs. A.
G. and l. @. aud John Good (all sons OF
the we'll remembered Major OF former
days., John G. Chandler, ex.United
States attorney. and also Mr.. lack
Mitchell Ia son OF ex.Sheritf Isaac Mitch.
ell and likewise John Yarnall (son OF
"old Peter J, now eeventy.six years OF
age aud well aud hearty, land not long
ago married to his third wife, who, BY
the way, was the widow OF Elijah
Woods, OF Martins Ferry. This "Kirk-
wood accommodation" stops about
dozen times after leaving tho great
Union station before 1t finally lands you
at Webster, and yet Webster is only half
rs faraway from that station as Sheri-
dan was from Winchester on tina. event.
full day when he made no stop at all.
lie, however, was running on 4 war
schedule just then, while the kirkwood
accommodation runs calmly OH the
peace programme. The way TO Webster
is "blazed" along the track so unmistak.
ably by evidences OF the agencies and in.
tluences that finally overthrow Bourbon.
ism in Missouri, in the shape Of tacto-
ries OF ono kind and another (see cleo
ton returns OF last iall), that our veneer.
able friend, with his eye so long accus.
toned to snch sights, will not mistake
his bearings, but by these signs.
unmistakable as that one observed
aud followed by old Constantine,
will know that he is headed in the
right direction. ue will at the sixth
mile stone hear the name Of Benton
called out. aud that is ''namo to con-
jure with" in Missouri; name, that in
connection with tho name OF Blair, is
to stand in tho old capitol rotunda at
Washington. for most that is glorious in
peace and war in tho annals oil this
great state. Perhaps vision OF Ben.
ton speaking in old Washington hall at
Wheeling In 1867, under tho ban Of tho
Wheeling Argus, the Democratic organ
in those days. aud Frank Blair speakt
ing at the old Atheneum in tho memoir
able campaign Of 1860. under tho ban OF
its SUCCESSOR. tho Wheeling Union, will
rise on the memory OF our friend las it
has time aud again on miue) rs no
listens to tho call Of tho brakeman at
that station. Never two more heroic
spirits animated the bodie, of modern
men thnn those that swelled tho breasts
OF Thomas II. Benton and Francis p.
Blair, and it was meet that the state
they did 80 much 10 emancipato should,
as she has iately done. proclaim her
pride in their regulations.
- GRANTS OLD HONE.
Continuing on his journey westward,
in search OF the elixir Of life" that is
such a marked ingredient Of the broozes
that blow here ut Webster, our old
friend, who, Ike Obadiah. in his ''jour.
noy OF n day. !" Is supposed to BIO ''alort