The Newtown bee., 1877-10-25

bright Summer morning oldwhighl
 had taken on her freight and passengers
 Everything seemed suspicious and fail,
 ufe was apparcntly impossible. Many
 friends of incline had gathered to sec
 her off and say good.by to the passen.
 gers. Hats wdved farewells aad hand.
 kerchiefs hutiered adiens. But 1t seems
 she had an unusual burden, both of
 freight and passengers and in distribut.
 ing the freight equally on both sides as
 ballast 80 that 0ldwhight would behave
 gracefully before her friends the balance
 was not properly adjusted and she ca.
 reened over on one side and the cargo
 was suddenly thrown overheard together
 with all the passengers Then followed
 sn exciting scene. The assembled mul.
 titude rushed to the rescue. When it
 was found that none were lost or injured
 and the freight all saved friend greeted
 friend in an ecstasy of delight and the passengers were congratulated on their
 escape. Oldwhight soon righted and
 swept around in graceful curve to her
 moorings. Once since, in modern times
 under her new name, she had slight
 mishap, which was duly chronicled in the BEE.
 Among the successes recorded is an ex
 petition that went up to Jerusalem. It
 was in the same happy season of ex- cursions. A bevy of blooming maidens chartered Oldwhight and ran her as an express to the ancient city. I see the trio now ss they pass through the land
 ,f the warning Benjssnites who were conquered by the Philstincs, and up through the pleasant hillside country of the patrisrchs, the gallant Oldwhighl scudding lightly up like a white mis, "n the mountain side, and flashing in the sunbcams as she dashed over Mt. Nebo; and as she shot down the hither side the inhabitants thought her shoot ing. star, (hence her modern name.l Oyer hill and through valley they fly the engineer ,crowding on more steam and urging greater speed, till they reach Newtown the ariginal city that was set on hill. From thence they journeyed to the valley of J(eh)o seph(at) aLd crossed the brook Kedron and thus Put. a-tuck in the close of their outward bound journey. After exciting much marvel among the people and store,ing up much of the useful and making val. uaole discoveEes gathering many ,reiics and flirting with some Gentiles, they took their departure They returned by 1 a different way passing through Joppa where dwells one of the minor prophets Among his treasures is a precious stone much coveted by the curious, which is geological key 10 the history of creation and may some day unlock chapter for ahe BEE. On the home stretch they skinned along the plains of Elizur like a meteor, belt of dust and white flash marking tbeir course, and arrived home safely, having made the quickest and most successful trip to Jerusalem on record Safe within the tent the maid ems gave touching account of their Journey that mostened eyelids unused to weeping. Imagine three excited girls narrating the same excitiag events at the same time. It was a terrible account mot to say terrible, and s it stands ou the original record no translation into any known tongue would do it Justice To be appreciated fully it should be read in the original.
 A try-angle excursion was also made to the Oussa tonic over beyond Jerusalem where the excursionsts angled for bass and caught more than they bargained , fur the chicken7hearted ones reme mber to this day. Fishing WAS knocked into pie.
 Many other excursions were made in . this interesting land of ancient love and much valuable geographical and scientif c information gathered, au account of which would fill many BEES, but would | 'e wearsomo to those not philosophical U U y inclined. These minor excursions U lave taken up more space than I anici 'ated. The BEE may some time gather he honey of a purely GGieptifi c explora- U ion and lay the startling results before ts readers. ArrcH V