, 1880-07-04
PUTIN BAY.

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Special Correspondence Of The Chicago Tribune,
PUTIN BAY, O., July l.-From Southern Texas,
with its burning summer-skics to Northern
Ohio, with its inland-tottcd lakes and cool green
waters, is truly pleasant transition. l look
around me ami say, rs I have said a hundred
times before. This is a lovely place. l like 1t
anyhow. 1t presents a practical escape from
sights that weary the eye and fatigue the body.
1t gives one broader idea of life, and places
him more calmly Mt rest and peace with his fel-
1ow-men. Frivoty and ostentation are here;
but escape easily, md wander out to tho quiet
woods, where l can rest beneath the
shadow Of noble old oaks, to read
and dream the snddest, loneliest, sweetest
drenms In which other lands and half-forgotten
people are incxtricAbly blended. Friends they
were, too. but they faded in the shodowy dis
tancc, and can be seen only in dreams for
evcrmore.
And, whom the sun nears the horizon, go
down where the noisy steamers are putting at
the wharf, and Join tho miscellaneous crowd,
not one Of whom, possibly, ever sAW before.
I ascend to the upper deck, and find secluded
spot, where a mild Havana and morning
paper, together with the glorious panorama OF
sky, and sea. and green islands. serves to amuse
me for hours. love to rcInnin in perfect 1g-
norance of our destination. Why should care
whittier we are going, for know sometime
other we Slnli fCLuFll> uI!ts5 tuI
steamer catches the prevailing Eastern cpl
demic, and burns up or runs into some equally
obstinate and fatnl boat.-in which case, eS-
pect to figure as THE Turbines enterprIsing
1eiesraphic correspondent please don't call
that Pessimism, for it is only JOURNALISTIC us
pirlt1on.} There are people enough on this gfeht
steamer Il am writing this on board the waiter
to furnish u three-colunln special. and ut least
four sticks of editorial matter, il something
startling should happen. But I feel assured
nothing will occur, and my journalistic instincts
are already doomed tn sll1mber and die for want
OF exercise. I must go East and travel on the
preventive OF future accidents
There is one beauty about steamboat-travel-
ing which prize I wonder ifnnyhody ever no.
ticed it. The people around ME are III no per-
ceptible hurry. They sit looking ut the white
capped tossing waves as contentedty rs II tney
expected to journey thus for forty years. NOT
SO on the railroads. That anxious, expectnnt,
careworu look which comes from too much Loose
| baggage, dust, and haste, is entirely wanting
here. I feel it too.
There is an abundant sprinlltng Of politicians
! here at Putin Bay, and they grow noisy usually
after supper,-the probable result OF liberal
samples OF the excellent wine which Is natiye
here. 1t is noticeable that they are all old
men who have fought their battles md
won nearly all the honors they can expect
in this world. 1 like to hear them falk.-thero
Is such steady glow to them. like the radiance
Of an urth acite fire, and different from tho
usual rubbish Of hotet-tuble and club-room con-
versation. l believe this fresh lalSe-ni kndlcs
here that their island is very close to st the
Fountain Of Youth" have noticed number
Of fountains here, and they look X extremely
yn11thful r. W. DALEY