Daily Republican., 1881-08-20
A PASTORS HOLIDAY.

A PASTORS HOLIDAY.
Illustrating Among the Greer
Hills OF the New England States.
Tho Rev. A. N. Keigwin, pastor o
West Presbyterian church, who is spend
ing his vacation in New England, writes
rs follows from Haverhill, Mass
1--WE have been away from home near
ly four weeks, without fulfilling Oul
promise to write to you, but il is sucl
q luxury to be rid of responsibility thai
| could not command my energies suf
ticiently to break away from entertain
ing company of friends, for even the
time it would require to note down the
incidents of our journevings.
rhe weather has been so cool ever
since we lett home, with the exceptions
of three days, that light overcoat has
been a necessity. This season must
have been an Improbable one for the
summer resorts, for ! find wherever |
90 the same shivering company and
that very small one. A few business
and literary men who have their regu,
lar vacation and aslil fewer number of
! invalids, who are compelled to go some
where for d chang, and these are ali,
Nothing of the usual throug of sight
seers, or of the usnllly still more nu-
merous throng OF painting people who
are driven from the over heated city
homes for a breath Of fresh air.
We went directly from Wilmington,
to GuiIdhall, Vt, u typical New Eng
land village of about two or three hun
dred inhabitants on the Connecticut
river, u little community whose inter
ests centre on the comfy court house, u
saw mill, a stra wbOarti mill and n peg
mill. | has hotel that will accom-
modato about fifty guests, but it is prac-
tically closed this season, as there are
50 few summer boarders in this region.
Here We are in the very midst of the
mountains. just across tie river is
Cape Horn, the first of the Pilot range.
Eight miles east is Mt. Star King, with
the beautiful summer city OF jefferson
built about it's feet, and litte further
to the West, Nit. Washington, and all
the President range, many Of the peaks
in view. North a ethe Stratlord peaks
with their lofty submits bare and look
ing very much in some condit onS Of the
atmosphere as if covered with snow:
while West are various peaks of the
Green Mountains.
1t is u very beautiful locality, and at
present It's verdant meadows give a pas
toral appearance. But there are omi-
nous signs all about uS-the woOu piles
-soluc as large as the house itself,
which lead on inquiry to the intorma-
ZION that the Thermometer sometimes
falls o forty degrees below zero; that
zero is a moderate tempela' ure here; and
that winter lasts from the first of n O.
VI Elbrr to the first of March. | believe
1t lasts all the year if this is the kind of
weather they usually have at this sea
son; ior ever since | have been here it
has felt ike mild winter. But my
friends seem to enjoy it and thrive in
health.
il puzzled me when first came here
TO ki.ow how the people made a subsist-
cuc,, and what there was to support u
railroad, for railr ads are numerous
AMI run in every direction. But | have
no longer any fears OF the people or III"
railroad starving to death. For while
see no corn or wheat on their farms,
lind they yield good crop of hay, and
the farmers are wise enough to ship that
IN the form OF beet, cattle and butter to
market.
At every station Of tho railroads
see the inevitable saw mill and lumber
piles. This little place of GutIdhalI
which ships ten car loads Of lumber per
week, is y fair sample Of the value of
the railroad stock. There are such
stations at intervals of about six mi les
along the whole line.
you were to visit this place ard see
the one hundred and thirty bushels of
pegs made every day you would think
pcthaps as did, they supply the word
III OucWcek. Bat the mill turns ont mora
than IA hundred aud fifty barrel, of
shoe pegs every wtek, (and there are
about dozen oIher such mills in the
country) 1t runs twelve months in the
year and always has orders in advance.
] find that the largest part of the shoe
pegs 20 to foreign markets, the sewing
machines and the wire used in our shoe
making but small de-
mand at home.
Germany takes large quantities and
sends them back i'll Curious little wood
en- toys which are pegged together with
American shoe pegs.
spent one week Of the time ut Will
lou hby lake. TO reach this point
have to 20 west about twenty-ti miles
on the Portland and Osdeneburgh Il. II.
to st. Johnsburg the he Mquarters Of
the Fairbanks Scale Works, one of the
most thriving business places in all
this section of manufacturing towns.
There took the Pasumpsic road to West
Burk and from thence q sage ride of
six miles over lovely country road.
Many persons no doubt have meyer had
their attention directed to the wonder
full feature of the lakes which are found
in this section. We see them On tour
lists guides and think of them merely
be found. But they may be accounted
among The wonders of nature.
This lake Wiloughby is about a mile
in width and six miles long, All sltua
ted between two mountains, said to he
twenty-five hundred 1eet high, the
sides OF which rise almost perptndicu-
larly from the water, so that when you
See it as ] did, twenty or thirty miles
off, it has the appearance of "a gigantic
railroad cut. The lake has been sound
ell to depth of siX hundred feet. 1t
must derive its supply of Wa, er from a
subt iran, an river for there is II sulh-
cient supply from the adj )ining hills 0
kse the little river that flows from it SO
full. find these lakes are
Tar a,"vc tile water. Willoughby is
said to be twelve hundred feet and lake
Memphrinagog Is over six hundred teet
hls last lake tu nished me with IA de-
lighttul days recreation. The party Of
friends | met at Willoughby accom-
panied me to Newport, Vt, where We
t. OK the steamer Lady of the Like, and
had sail over its whole length, Il dis
tance Of lhirty-hve miles Rising alb
ruptIy f1om this lake are high noun
tains also, but We find much diversity
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