The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-08-29
EDITORIAL LETTER.

with travelling and visiting, that ]
have found il difficult to return to the
kind of work that demands my time
and attention at home. IL Is q relief
to feel, when l get up in the morning,
that there is no hard work before me
for the day. but this will no doubt
grow monotonous, and | shall be glad
to GIT into the harness again. You
know editors are all of that active and
industrious disposition that will not
permit them to be contented in idle
ness. Perhaps this may be accounted
for in the fact that they have to work
or starve. The necessity Tor bread and
butter is something of an incentive to
labor, and as the editorial profession is
not one of the calings that keeps
a mans purse in a plethoric condition,
the intervals of idleness must necessar-
lily be few and far between.
We reached Plymouth one week
ago Today. This is prosperous little
town of 1900 inhabitants, and since
my first visit here twenty one years
ago, il has shown many substantial
signs of improvement. 1t is about $50
miles north of Chicago, and IA miles
west of Lake Michigan The breezes
from the lake have pcrccptible inhu'
ence on the atmosphere, so that while
you are sweltering with the thermome-
ter at 80 degrees we are comfortably cool.
The Episcopalans here are happy
on account of great addition to their
church in the shape Of fine new pipe
organ, which was completed to-day.
1t was presented to the church as me-
mortal BY the wife and daughters of
the late Hon. p ii. Smith of this place,
a son in-law of Judge Elwell. 1t will
be used for the first time on the 3lst
inst. A paper says that distinguish
ed organist' will preside at the open.
ing. Modesty prevents me from CIV
ing the name of that "distinguished'
performer, as some of your readers
might suspect that the adjective is mis-
placed. | think so myself.
sHEBoYGAN.
We spent several days this week at
Sheboygan, city of 10000 inhabi
tants, on the shore of Lake Michigan.
1t is prosperous place, and there are
many fine buildings in the city. In tho
public park never failing supply of
mineral water flows from an artesian
we'll 400 feet deep This water not
only supplies the fountain and fire hy.
drants, but is bottled up, and sold all
over the country. One of the most in
teresting places we visited was the life
saving station. 1t is the same in ev-
cry respec: as all others maintained by
the government on the sea coast and
lake shores. The station is located
near the beach, at the mouth of the
Sheboygan river. The crew consists
of captain and eight men, whose duty
it is to render assistance TO any ves-
sells that are cast ashore. They have
a surf-boat, large boat that can neith-
er sink, upset nor founder, mortars for
throwing line from the shore to a
vessel, life-saving car that is drawn
back and forth over a rope in cases
when the sea is too high TO permit the
boats to approach wreck, life preser-
vers, medicine chests for those who are
injured, and every possible appliance
that human ingenuity can devise. In
one of the rooms hang the names of
all the vessels that have been
rescued by the crew of the
station. The men receive $40 per
month, and much of the time have
nothing to do, but when their services
are needed they take their lives in their
hands, and enter upon perilous work.
The government cannot expend money
in more commendable manner than
for the life-saving service.
Sheboygan is the leading city of this
country in the manufacture of chairs.
There are several factories and their
combined facilities are capable of turn
ing out one thousand dozen chairs per
day. We visited one of the largest es
tablshmerts, and were surprised at the
rapidity with which a chair is made.
Everything is done by machinery, and
one can scarcely walk fast enough TO
keep up with the pieces from the time
the first plank is sawed until they come
out a chair.
| COUNTY INSANE AsYLUMS.
This state has system of caring for
insane paupers that has worked admir-.
ably. Every county can erect its own
asylum, and receives from the state
$1.50 per week for each inmate. In
this manner they are kept at consider.
ably less expense than it costs the coun
ty to keep them in state institution
Sheboygan county has one of these es.
Establishments which is said TO be the
model one of the state. 1t is fine
brick building and contains at present
Al inmates. Everything about it is in
the best of order and the unfortunates
oil receive the kindest attention.
POLITICS,
/ have seen much in the republican
papers about the stampede of the Ger
man and Irish voters from Cleveland
to Blaine. This county is largely pop
ulated by Germans, and l have yet t
hear of the first one who has gone over
Large clubs have been organized al
through the west, and the greatest en-
thusiasm prevails. The club at She
boygan has just received 1000 torche,
and will have some big parades thi
fall. The leaders here claim that Wis
} consin is now doubtful ate,and the,
J will make tremendous effort to swing
] her into the democratic ranks. Mich
igan also is said to be debatable ground
and the coalition between the demo
Gratis and greenbackers will probabl
give Cleveland some of the electors
J votes of that state. The Democrac
here is hopeful, and with the brighter
} ing prospects all over the land, tn
election of a Democratic Presiden