The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-05-28
SUM N Err LANDS.
Rambles Along the Wyoming Valley, and Over
the Erie to New York.
: When April steps aside tor May
Like diamonds all the raln.drups glisten,
Fresh violris open every day,
To aOmr new blrus eACh hour we Listen.


Come, gentle spring; ETHEREAL mdness, come,
has been the song of the merchant, the manufac-
turer, the laborcr the tailor, the halter the mil
liner, the belle and the masher, as well as the
farmer, the boot maker and the tramp, all tired
and sick Of the beautiful and the long winter !;
while all over the land the budding, blushing,
beautiful spring has never been hoped for and
onged for as it has this season; all want 1t, aud
plenty of IT, But spring at last has come, ana
with it the birds from the sunny land Of song"
where they spent their wlnter-sOme amid the
palm trees and llowcry regions OF Mexico, Cen.
trail America, or perhaps beyond the equator.
The trees have buddcd and are now In the full
glory Of their foliage, and the lordly kings of the
forest appear in all their pride and beauty. This
strain OF thought takes possession Of my peace
full mind us ! sit listening ~ the rumble Of the
Pullman car wheels gliding over the steel rails,
and while waiting for the porter to ''do up" my
berth-when completed, to elevate myself to an
upper ten, soon after to forget the world, land
by the world forgot"
Morning dawns bright and lovely, bringing
clear faculties and wondrous appetite to the
weary traveller, TO whose condition the thinness
OF a Pullman bed was anything but pleasant.
Breakfast eaten, we 70 bounding over great
bridges, high trestle works, and by charming
bits OF landscape scenery; smiling villages gree,
US for a moment, then disappear; and after few
hours ride we glide along the banks of Chautau
qua Lake, where annual swarms OF blue waves
gather TO frollc over FoX's Book of Martyrs
where Sunday school conventions are held Ia
leafy June and genuine religion loves to brood
leavened with little politics. On the bank o.
the Chautauqua Is glorious place for summer
loterings, and few spots are more pleasngly
adapted to while away the dog days. have lit
tic doubt thatit improves religion any more than
other camp meeting resorts, for individuali
brought TO Jesus" at camp. meetings, whether
by the salt seashore, sky-blue lake, or beneath
the leafy shade OF some grand old oak, arc gen
orally Of the "thIn- skinned" order, endowed with
no staying qualities 10 that particular. But thei
there mus; be some recreation provided for oul
poor, over Invoked preachers, whose greatest Ia
Dor during the year Is to hsrrangue their eongrc
cations for an hour or so every Sunday with I
poorly prepared sermon, and the rest Of the week
to run sociablcs, receptions and tea parties
while the really over-worked man--onc Of hii
flock, whose hours OF labor are from sunrise I'll
long after sunset, and many OF whom are obliged
to work from twelve TO eighteen hours per day
and that for mere pittanee--is nevereonsidered,
even thought Of, % given the necessary hours
for rest conducive 10 good health and happiness.
But perhaps many Of those Divines 60 on va
cation" 10 give their dock restfD