Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-15
One Way to Travel.

family has crossed the American conti- nent in a wagon, or house on wheels, as he prefers to call it. He supported his family as he went along, visiting the leading places of interest in territory extending from San Francisco and Tex as on the south to Chicago and Buffalo on the north.
 The journey began March ga, 1894. at Port Angeles, on the strait of Juan de Fuca, 100 miles northwest of Seat tie It reached its chief stopping place the 1st of January, 1898, in New York city. Not that it ended there Lasley must be the reincarnation of the Wan dering Jew, for he says he Is going still on, and that the house on wheels and the tow headed children and the dog will turn up at the Paris exposition in 1900. The only concession he will make to the conventionalities will be involv- ed in the necessity of crossing the Att lantic ill ship instead of a wagon. Undoubtedly this original American family will make holy show rolling along over the smooth highways of France in their unique homemade vehi- ele.
 The house on wheels was built by the versatile Lasley himself. It is of cedar elapboards and is feet high and 12 feet long It has stove in one cor ner and can be divided into two com- partments. The clapboard walls are lined with cloth and heavy paper Two babies have been born to the couple in their house on wheels
 The plan of campaign was this; Las ley is jack of all trades, and wherever he is can turn his hand" to almost anything. Mind reading appears to be the lowest depths be reached. When he stopped in neighborhood, the queer outfit always attracted a crowd. Then Lasley's eloquenee prevailed. He sue- ceeded generally in getting work of some sort, either at farming or at some mechanical tinkering Besides that be always had on sale his little book, the history of his travels and photographs of the outlandish rig and the whole family. h selling these be sometimes took in money at the rate of "a dollar a minute. ;" Not the least attraction was the tow headed children peeping like birds out of the little window in the wagon and displaying radiance of complexion and health absolutely dag. zling. Many a millionaire would give untold sums to have his pampered chil- dren look like the Lasley young ones h California the family lived awhile on grapes and green walnuts-''very good food, , writes Lasley, but after two weeks it clides." Naturally it would "elide. D
 The house on wheels travelled 6,666 miles on its journey from Port Angeles, Wash, to New York city. Lasley says he never shoes his horses in summer, and they never get tender footed. It is necessary to be truthful, however, and say that two pairs of horss have suo- cumbed to the arduous labors of hauling the Lasleys by erisse1 oss routes over this continent and have lain down and died. Was it because they had no shoes in summer?
 Some of the fakir's observation of travel are gems in their way. Ho says in a little descriptive pamphlet that during the nearly four years they have been on their journey the Lasleys have been invited to attend church only six times. Of California he writes, Ranch men are close listed, they believing q poor man a curse to the earth--better be dead. l" Of Texas, "Tezas people gre the most religious we ever met, also the poorest " Do the two facts belong to- gether Again, '.It causes us to smile to see the pomposity of some city officials. ," Many another has had occasion to re- mark the same
 Lasley is a spare man with a fresh complexion and shrewd bright eye. It is said the people of New York city thought he really might have put on 8 clean shirt when he reached their town and not worn the same one in which he started from Seattle. Still, New Workers are apt to be oyersensitive in these lit. tie matters.