New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-30
OLD IICONDEROGA.
PRIMITIVE PASTORAL SCENES NEAR A HIS
TORlC SPOT.

PRIMITIVE PASTORAL SCENES NEAR HIS
TORIC SPOT.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE Tribunal
ORWELL, VT, Sept 2S.-The pleasing and
picturesque places which have no summer hotel ana
know nothing of the summer boarder, have nowadays
become that the finder of one feels rather IN
clned keep his discovery secret than to publish IL
to the world 1t like un0shed brook; let Its loca-
ton once be known the professional anglers after
pleasure and one after another the shy and distinctive
disappear There Is 1t ia true, quiet motel al
Fort Tconderoga a miles from the place where TINS
letter dated But its guests gaze abstracteoy over
Lake Champlain the Vermont Shore without Ventr-
ing across or turn their faces back to weknown Lake
George To be the farmhouse on the DUN ABOVE
the ferry ut Cbipmans Point is known as the hotei'
and Its owner has announced for time his Intention
90 open It to guests but he has gone no further
The primitive ferry too is setback to tmld travel
ers At the turn OF the road leading thereto stands
crane like that which used TO hold the swinging sign OF
coach inns In place the sign hangs horn, to sunon
the ferryman from his distant house or Held
To breeders OF fine strains of live stock however ana
10 horse dealers fancers this region has long been
known strangers eye is Immediately attracted by
the wide rolling meadows the steep hillside pastures
Rut he often needs to be told that the soteyed cattle
grazing thereon or standing In patient groups In tine
farmyard milking time. are genuine Jerseys tnat
the black wrinkled sheep are Spanish merinos, held
at prices that to the unniated fancfu as those
demanded for rare bulbs by old Dutch tulipgrower;
that the sleek is which crane their necks over the
roadside fences are the finest of the HANDLE
touian and Morgan blood. No admring eyes follow
Maud g. down the New-York drives than are here
turned toward Ben Franklin and Addison Lambert when
they appear the village street. The mshy priAeu
mern sheep often present very uncouth appearance
with their rhinOceroske folds and wrinkles the WOO
all backened with the superuous oil that has hardened
fnor ic n
shelter them from showers and heavy dews lest any OF
this apparently useless and dirty coating should be
washed ayay Many OF them have their pedgrees traced
ba ok yera generations further than their owners per
haps could their own family lines Lambs OF Dlue
blood have holes punched in their ears Into which are
inserted silver labels, each bearing number ana the
name of the owner This number is registered on the
books of the sheep breeders association and notification
is given any transfer: and sheep can he said
70 have social standing without this silver ring and
certificate.
sheep-breeders not only send here from nearly every
State and Territory but from Australia for stock TO
improve their own focks partial copy of bill oil lad
ing Spanish mernos sent fromLisbon In lSlooy Will
lam Jarvis then United States Consul at that port has
certain interest In connection with ths subject as Well
as for its quaint and pious phraseoogy:
Skipped by the Grace Of God IN good Order ana eg
shp called the Alfred whereof Joseph Patch is Master
under God, for this present voyage ana ny os grace
Boston, Forty Ewes "hu
SIX Spanish Merino Rams, ETC., etc
An Endorsement ON the back remembers the officers OF
the vessel:
qualification Of fifty Cents mead Is to be paid TO the
CAPTAIN and twenty-five Cents head to each or the Two
mote not more than ten Cent Die on the passage
The work Of butter-mang, one sees 1t here mas
about IL many picturesque features not found In the
Isroe creameries Here is farmhouse where every
thing IL carried on with rastous neatness The twenty
Jerseys are MIXED in covered pals to keep out all the
dust possible; the milk is strained, ana mmedaey sci
in running water TO cool. After cooling the narrow
deep nails are placed in icebOx, and Kept & te-
perature OF 49, The cream forms rapidly to depth OF
al or eight inches, and is carefully dipped on whle sui
sweet Then on churnng day, before SUNRISE there
to ne seen pretty picture Of black-eyed, eghtyear-
old maiden seated astride Of Moe the riding hcI
around the ring OF the horsepower scoidng and slap
ming her now them for the peted horse nns IL stu
mid work and plainly shows her sukness in every feat
nre while in dairy the large barrel-churn reyolve'
with steady swing In little more than an hour thu
plobues of butter form, MOle and the maiden are re-
| leased and the buttermilk Is drawn on me golder
gnues butter about as large as duckshot look very
tempting they lie there, forty or MY pOunas OIL mem
after hping washed with clear brine. III tue Worknl
and sailing great Is taken not 10 crush ah TEASE
them unnecessarily The last of the mlk Is taken up oJ
cloth wrapped about sponge; and, even after pack
ing if the Lutter be broken IL VIII SUN SHOW srahu
For a9 afternoon rambe few places offer more IL
the way OF beautiful views, associated win historic
memories than Ticonder0ga. A. Tue NAIVE eau II
and stare at you you squander your breath Dy pro
ponncing the whole. And tile syllable ~ wen repre-
ent hs dlsmaned condition OF the old fortress-somt
of il done by time, but more by the wanton hands
those whose tongues have clipped the name The stones
Of The walls lay TOO empngly at hand not to be utilized
| in building new walls for pastures and sheep pens
tine village III Is located one OF tne pup nlli
WHICH have sprung up tnckly In Northern New-Iorl
since the development OF the manufacture paper IRON
! good fibre. NO lover of can view witt
| eGnanlmity the grinding up of the stately
| growth OF generations into the most fugltNe %
aIl products In the neighborhood of the pulp mills IN
face of The earth begins TO look as II haC
been visited by a scourgo OF gigantic grasshoppers
Woodlols are chopped away with pitiess weep; thu
best timber sawed into boards the second best goes
The min uillS the the ground to rot dry
into tinder Then comes the spark from the ne or h'
nar,nd fire 10 complete the work of destructi0n-a de
fTnrton which often involves large tracts OF timbe
which the axe had. spared.
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