Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-04
Solrual alto Courier.
Wednesday Morning, August 4, 1880.
CORRESPNNnENCE.

Travel in PennsyIvania-Sfgns of Pros-
 perity-GOing to the Circus.
 EAsToN, Pa., July 30. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 The summer is fast passing away, and al- ready the cool sort of ''fan feeling" IS mo- ticed in the air after the sun goes down. The continuous warm weather indicates an early coming on of autumn, and already fruits are some weeks earlier in market than they usu- ally are. For the past few days have been passing through the most productive part of the State of Pennsylvania, and it is said of one county Gancaster) which I visited that it's tobacco crop last year brought the far mers over five millions of dollars. You can not help but notice, as you pass through the extensive farms, how fourishing everything looks Great stone barns are seen, much larger than those that are built in Connect1- cut, and the stock you see grazing in the fields looks large and well favored. The houses are well painted, with shaven lawns about them, and the gaily-colored flowers are much cultivated for ornamentlng the door yards. Yesterday, going over from Philadelphia to Reading by way of Lancaster, had full view of the wealth of this great State, for at this season of the year the corn is nearly full grown, and the tobacco is almost ready to cut. As the train made no stop for nearly three hours, spent the time for mile after mile looking out of the car window, gratifying my eyes with the sights of plenty and securing happiness: Our train was bound to the far West, and was composed almost entirely of postal, bag gage and palace cars, and as we thundered along over the undulating country, felt happy to live in land of such prosperity. l was amused at one house to see great black Newfoundland dog rush out, as l supposed, to give us chase, as 1 have seen dogs do hundred times before but as all the passen- gers near me were watching him. did the same. and found he was ''mail carrier" for when the mail was thrown from the train he caught it up, and in company with another and smaller dog took it away, much to the amusement of those who were looking at him. It is a common thing to see a farmers dog, who is with him in the fields, start and follow the train at his greatest speed for quarter of a mile until he IS out stripped, and yet he has seen that same tram pass scores of times before; but 1t IS ac- counted for by the feeling that every one has when standing near a railroad track and see- ing train go whizzing by-that IS, to do something I never see a train move oH without feeling that must run and jump on, and many and many time have 'boarded" a train without one thought of where 1t was going, but followed the impulse that must go too; and many strange adventure have had, before turned up' where l wanted to go by my recklessness. But never met with the slightest harm in all my hundreds of thousands of miles of travelling by railroad car and, strange as it may seem, seldom get tired of riding. I have left New York all tired out at the close of a hard days business and been Gas good as new" after had ridden for few hours. In the past twenty years l have spent great portion of my life upon the ''rail' D and unless I very much ia tigued I can always find lots of amusement watching other people who are travelling in the same car with me.
 To-day there was to be circus here, and the train came in on was so packed that it was next to impossible to find even standing room, and they were all so 'Dutch' that l could not make one of them understand question from me as to what was going on; but they were such an honest-looking set of peopIe-mostly farmers and their wives or young fellows and their ''girls' s''-and they were so dreadfully awkward, that inwardly laughed at every ''batch" that came ln at an additional station Take 8 young man about IS to 20 who has been little in society, and let that same young man take ''his girl" on a railroad car to some place of amusement, and if a person who is fun-loving cannot see enough to keep himself innocently amused and vet not be observed by them, then that person is not like your correspondent. This I saw to-day over and over again, and both young men and maidens were so bashful that when once inside the car door tbey were per fectly lat sea" as to what was the next move But did look on only to laugh? Not at all. Away down in my heart 1 felt the highest re- spect for every one of them, and felt that could enter into their thoughts and pleasures as much as I could have done twenty years l ago, when was one of exactly that class and condition myself. M. c. s.