The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-06-06
SARATOGA LETTER.


The General Assembly closed its mos
delightful session to-day at l p. M, ad
iourning to meet next year at Madison,
Wisconsin. The closing exercises were
very solemn and interesting, az all such
must ever be on earth. So also we're all
the exercises of the assembly very inter.
esting and profitable.
Il was prominently missionary as
sembly. The unanimous experience of
the Fathers was that they had never at.
tended 80 delightful meeting.
There were three great questions which
called out very animated discussions {:
The first on reduced representation, the
Assembly resolving not to reduce. The
second on the transfer of the Freedmen's
Commission to the Board Of Home Mis-.
sion. the voice of the Church answering
40 transfer now" Third, The relation
Of the Church to the Roman Hierarchy.
This called out the most heated debate.
let the Assembly was almost unaui-
nous in reafirming the deliverance of
1895 and in meeting squarely the issue
Of this apostate church in its attempts
10 overthrow civil and religious liberty.
important papers we're also passed upon
the great questions of the day, intemper-
aoce. violation of the Saba tn, and the.
ater going 1t was intensely interesting
to hear the great wise men debate these
questions. 1t was just as amusing to see
the would.be wise men laid upon the ia
bic
A few words more about Saratoga:
Quite strong effort was made to take
the Assembly back to this celebrated
SPOT. Twelve other places sent invita-
tons.
The Excelsior Spring Company fur.
nished free about three barrels of its (so
called) highly medicinal water daily. Is
it any wonder the members of the Assem-. |
bly, felt 80 happy? The Hawthorn
spring was the most popular, men and
women from early morn till late at night |
drinking, but never drunk.
What do "you" think about their
health restoring properties? Well, 'I"
think just as the celebrated physician /
did when he recommended his distin-
guished patient to use the little mallet
till the medicine made the
hand sweat.
It is not the water half so much as it
Is the sweet mountain air and plenty of
exercise up and down and around
through the lovely parks and sweet
scented flowers. Let every one who
reads this have his own little Saratoga
10 his own yard and garden.
Very dry and dusty at Saratoga. From
Albany to Binghampton raining. South.
,rn and western New York farmers are
slowing for corn, burning logs and max
ng pine stump fences. In Pennsylvania ,
md northeastern Ohio the big barn, Z
title cottage, and fat cows and sheep
,razing In rich pastures are seen. Kent
o Hamilton, Ohio, trying to ''snooze" !,
,ut terribly hindered. On the Little .
Miami q few fields Of corn in sight, one
r two fields once cultivated, a few fields
f good wheat. Cincinnati to the "old
ZONE" farmers are replanting corn.
This is the dryest and latest spring for /,
many years. Here we are, in the midst
( the scenes of our childhood, resting, 5
njoying and reviving the memories Of
ong ago, surrounded BY the fifth gener.
ton in the old homestead. We hope to I
cave next week for the place to which
Millions of eyes now, turp-Kansas. !,
HoNEwARP BOUND. {