The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-17
LAYTON. Aug. 30th. Y,

LAYTON, Aug. 90th, rs.
1t pleased our Heavenly Father to give US
beautiful day aud our usual health, so we bic
Our friends hearty goodbye: and after ar
hours ride in carriage we found ourselves CT
the rails for GAINESVILLE. Wyoming County.
Passing through Rochester, we were remin.
ded of very decided improvements in, and
about the city, which is one OF the pleasantest
and most thriving inland cities OF the Empire
state, In due time we reached Batavia, where
we found a kind of one horse" Rail Road
with very pleasant little train and conductor
which took US to Attica, a pleasant and thrlv-
ing village OF some 5000 or 1900 inhabitants.
Here, we were greatly annoyed by the long
time we had to wait for the Hornellsvle train.
But, after our patience had been eaked out
three or four times TIL it was nearly all pay.
ed cut; )" behold the cry, call aboard broke
the trance. and we obeyed the summons with
cheerful heart. Reaching GAINESVILLE station,
we met messenger who conveyed Us some
four miles to a beautiful little country village,
the home of our brother. The road was up.
hill nearly all the way through a rich farming
!
night very pleasantly, but owing to previous
arrangements we were compelled to leave in
the morning to meet some company at the
Suspension Bridge. Reaching the depot we
had to wait more than an hour for the train,
and then at Attics we we're doomed to more
than another hours detention. And then on
reaching Batavia, to our great surprise, we
were compelled to wait some three hours more
for the Buffalo train Blu, alas, at Buffalo we
were detained some two hours more. Finally.
through much tribulation we arrived at the Sus-
pension Bridge at o'clock in the evening"
Here we expected to meet some OF our friends
who were expected at IL o'clock; so we bad
to quiet ourselves as best we could for two or
three hours more. But, TO our surprise, our
friends did not arrive on the $3.50 train. so we
were driven to the necessits of waiting several
hours more for the next tram.
This waiting at the depot for coming trains,
is the worst Of all waiting. Boys and girls
waiting for new boots and dresses, don't be-
gin with it, Young men and maldens waiting
for their fathers possessions is thought to be
hard business, and 60 il must be! Young
ladies waiting with anxious solcitude. for their
intended to "pop the question )" or even young
men with their hearts going pity pat for the
answer OF their sweetheart, after they have
popped the question. bears no comparison 10 it.
A minister waiting for the back pay of deln-
quent parishioners, when his creditors are kind
ly furnishing him reading matter like the fol-
lowing " am in great need of the amount
due me from you, may have 1t by the 18th
instant. as | expect to go after goods at that
time" is something like it. Or, for printer
to be so cramped that he hardly knows where
to raise the money for the paper for his next
issue, while waiting year after year for the paw
from some of his delinquent subscribers. may
furnish little foretaste of what it Is TO wit
ness the dreary hours at the depot, or near bv.
while waiting Tor the cars.
II. WEST.