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WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

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Editorial CORES pOHdenes Of The Sfar.l
on THE BOsroS, CONCORD AND MONTREAL RI I |
NO. 81. Augus' - 1898
Vermont is very pious, and therefore will not |
permit travelling circus to desecrate her territory
Nevertheless. she is by no means a wide State,
the showmen manage to accommodate her sight
seeing population by exhibiting up and down her
eastern and western boundaries; in New Hamp-
shire and New York. To-day circus company
shows at Woodville, N H., directly across the
Connecticut from Wells River, where | rested last
night From sunrise until half-past 10 a. m, the
stsid folks Of Vermont poured into Wells River in
vehicles, to see the show. ! fancy that at least
thousand thus coursed through the villages only
str Get ere left per rail; many Of them coming rs
far thirty miles. The people will resort to
such shows, and the law against exhibiting
circus in the State simply operates to make them
pay three four times much in loss Of time, wear
Of horse flesh and vehicles, &c as it would have
cost them. if Vermont did not forbid such amuse-
ments where they might be conveniently reached
by her people. I had a fair opportunity Of seeing
the ordinary horse stock of Vermont, through the
collection to attend the circus; and wirey, tough,
lean-limbed, smart animals they are, indeed.
saw but a single black in the trip through Yer
mont, waiter at the Northfeld Hotel who APP
Peared to play 'sboss'' there Their labor of all
sorts is done almost exclusively by native whites,
very few foreigners being visible even about the
many railroad stopping pla es.
How they drive trade in this region was shown
l,-,Il III t.
booths tents pitched in the vicinity of the circus
canvas, wherein edibles, ginger-pop, gewgaws
FOR the women and nic-nacs for the men, were
p psed for sale. These tents were three or four
Cimes as numerous usually sees on such an
occasion at the South. may here mention that
tile native servitors about the hotels in Vernon,
while they are the handiest, quickest, and most
Intelligent persons as class ever saw so en-
pioyed, by no means wear the air Of servants; add
dressing all with the stamp Of equality impressed
on their bearing.
My course from Wells River lay for the first ten
miles down the New Hampshire bank of the Con-
necticut at an elevation Of perhaps a hundred feet
or more above that Of the Passumpsc road, on
which I travelled from White river Yesterday to
Wells River, and mile or more back of the Con-
necticut's immediate shore or bank am thus
afforded an opportunity to see more of the uplands
Of New Hampshire than saw Of those Of Yer
mont. Much of the land is sterile, though all at
tempted to be cultivated is well cultivated, in
deed The construction of this railroad has
doubtless caused much Of il to be I'm proved, that
before was in wilderness; for stump fences appear
on each hand, and many fields are vet unstri pped
of their stumPs. The soil continues rs sandy as
on the immeniate banks Of the river and the rail.
road bed is a succession of heavy but short cuts
and fills
We are now coursing up little stream, at the
head of which we to over to the waters of
the Merr1mac. One can hardly comprehend how
population can thrive as that of this reg ion does
in such country; the good land for agriculture
being not a tenth of the whole, the merely work
able not fourth Of the whole and the rest rock
or petite mountains PERCEPTIONS as to defy any
attempt to use them proftably. / see around me.
at tnes. rock faces of hills hundreds OF feet high
which look as though cleaved perpendicularIy
from apex To base, by some magical power, and
without visible cause for their wearing such an
appearance.
Charcoal-burning in huge furnaces, and lumber
ing, appear to he the only business other than
farming followed here The charcoal is sent bv
rail to Boston, a distance of more than hundred
and fifty miles. That il will bear such long rail-
road transportation proves both its high price at
Boston and the extremely-low ghts charged on
the railroads Of this country. All the buildings
nave seen In New Hampshire tell that ere the con-
sfruchon Of this road this particular region wa,
virtually sealed book-all Of them being evil
IDENTIFY recently constructed. The farmers here do
not use fences to divide their several fields plant
ing their different crops usually in iuxtapositiou
without them, as that is done in Europe and as
consequence. soil-feedng their stock for the
most part
The dining arrangements at Plymouth, on the
head waters Of the Merrimac, embrace model for
those of any railroad ever travelled fine hotel
Is built on the side hill extending over the plat
form. with dining hall adjoining the platform
and on Its level. in which three or four hundred
Passengers can be comfortably and satisfactorily
dlned or breakfasted half dozen times a day
Everything about the table and the meal itself
was as excellent and Clearly at Union Hall
saratoga, the walters being Yankee girls who,
When so employed, seem to be able to do twice
as much as male walters, being SO much NOR.
handy. This Plymouth railroad station In. 81
seems to be as much a summer pleasure resort for
families rs the Relay House on the Baltimore and
Washington road used TO be. I should like 10
snuggle mine host Burnham, Cthe name ON tb.
sign,) into our own region at some similar estab-
hshment here, BY way Of waking mp the SontlI-
ern "a iroad managers to a due com prelenson of
Tue oeuet economy OF paying more attention than
is usually paid here to the comfort and gratifca
ton Of passengers in the matter Of feeding them
From Plymouth we coursed down Bakers river
to the village OF Meredith, at the junction Of
Long Fond with Lake Winnepiseopee, through
a more faithful and longer settled country, with
the cultivable spots larger and more numerous
than before. Everything indicates that its inhab
itants have more means than their nei ghbers have
just left.
From Meredith. where a lake steamer added
her passengers to the trains former complement,
we struck the head of Lake Winnepiseopee
down which we are now coursing From the car
window we have views of 1t which will amply
repay one for trip from Washington to enjoy
them. On the left it is overlooked by towering
mountains among the bases OF which it's arms
the slnuosities Of Its shores-seem TO wind The
iake-3s miles long and 10 or u wide-contam
e5 islands, some of them little sugar loaf mour
ains' rising two or three hundred feet above the
waters surface, and all Of them exceedingly pie
turesque Two miniature steamboats, DIV the LAKE
al this season, for the accommodation Of numerou.