Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-18
me going, and then did not prove very sue

with as pure cold water ~ flows out of the
earth. Ifit flows through an icy conduit
direct from the North pole it could not be
colder. Talk about your Saratoga springs
and Bedford springs, or even the Wild Cat
spring, from which Jack johnson and his
mules drank and went wild over, they are
not to he compared with this. Health and
long life are to found in its waters. Here
doubtless tho noble red man ate his speCklod |
trout and quenched his thirst from this
crystal fount centuries before the foot OF "A
white man pressed the soil of America
Here in this cool retreat with friends we
rested over night
THE BUCK, AND THE Loo SCHOOL HOUSE.
We now turn eastward and drive to the
Buck, in Drumore township. This is truly
what is called in the application for license,
"an old stand" | remember tho place
| since 1874 and il was then old stand.
| Here in the old log school house, with its
| slab benches and smoky old stove, | wres-
| tied with my first lessons in an old Dilworh
| spelling-book, long before the Inauguration Of
| our present system of public schools. ] often |
waded through deep snow distance Of two |
miles to reach this old school house, then |
| unfit for a sheep stable. The boys of the |
| present day know but little about the hard !
| ships and obstacles encountered by poor boys
in those days to secure an education. Here
are found still living some of our old school
mates-the Moores, Pennys, Wentzes, Simp
| sons and others.
Happening TO be over night at this old
| GNtTIl III tnb autumn Dl lNb' SAW lht great
est fall ofmeteors ever witnessed during the
| present century. The phenomena so
| unusual and lasted 80 lOng-from two o'clock
AIN. until daylght--as to fill all present with
fear and alarm. Many believed the end of
| all had come.
We now turn and drive southward through
Drumore and Little Britain TO Fulton House,
, in Fulton township.
THE BIRTHPLACE or ROBERT FULTON.
on reaching Fulton House we were kindly
| ;,.,I
|, | Swift, and sat in the cooling shade of the
! grand old sycamore tree, planted more than
I a century ago, whose branches extend hOn-
. zontally in either direction forty i've feet in
T, | length. Here we were kindly shown the
j. original patent for the land, and the deed Of
T conveyance from the father of Daniel Fulton
< to Joseph Swim, the grandfather Of the pres
s ent owners, dated l175. The birthplace Of
e | Fulton has been in the possession OF the
l, | Swift family more than one hundred years,
II and though only small clearing in the
10 midst Of a great forest during Fulton :
- time, 1t has become a centre Of population
i wealth and intelligence, as well as of trad @
~ and of business, where the steam whistle
now wakes the echoes right here at the birth
place OF Fulton. Little did dream of this
m when attended the campmeetings in Swift's
- great woods, fifty years ago. This shows the
y rapid progress Of our great country. What
10 may not another half century bring about
TO Who can tell? | have been told 10y one who
"A reputation Of benga little OH, or what is nov
4 called cranky. However this may be, he i
-. identified with the age in which h'
- lived, and so long aS a knowledge Of the
We power of steam remains, tradition will per
lu petuate the character and cXertiOns Of hin
II who, by his successful application of it
II power to the purposes of navigation, dehec
ar alike wind and tide, and compelled the cie
Hc ments to bow to the genius of man.
=" THE DIARIES ASD CREAMERuss.
he South of the Buck, in Drumore, Littl
Britain and Fulton townships, the creates
changes are observable. In many place
ne where fifty years ago there was nothing bu
ort woods and old fields too poor to tatten Kill
nd deer, we now SOC the finest fields Of corr
II. | grass and tobacco, herds Of fine cattle, goo
houses ana large barns well filled. Man
changes in their system have been made b
the farmers in the Lower End. Their Ian
ore being well adapted to dairying purposes, AN
dc, now having railroad iacilitlc, Tor reaching II
ng Philadcl phia and baltimore markets as rcat
CuI ily ~ we can from Lancaster many hay
,es turned their attention to this industry, an
realize greater profits than i'll raising grain
No We also found number Of crcamcncs
id full operation, where the farmers bring the
nd milk fresh drawn from the cows in III
nr morning, and by the electric method it
vs converted into butter, which reaches Il
-. markets in the evening of tho same da
.ha This method of making butter being mrC
rII quicker and more uniform, creameries a
j. to some extent taking the place OF the dalro
y.r There ~ no waiting hero for the cream
at rise the bntter IL made entirely from Il
,cd new milk. We also find the canning
tv vegetables and fruit extensively carried O
~ which now affords the farmers "A read
os. market for their surplus products OF tn
ma kind.
90, LIME AND OTHER TERTILIZERS.
ly burning lime 10y the farmers for their ow
use, once so extensively practced, has bee
= wholly discontinued, and even the use ,
The lime as a fertilizer has greatly decrease,
NY Large quantities Of SOuth Carolina rock
the now used instead of lime and apparent
the with very good results saw at FultO
ate House large iIcId of corn where tn
.rv fertilizer had been used, which was estimate
scyr 10y experienced farmers at ninety bushels
Ihe the acre and | saw many other fields n,
nes much less promising. What the ultima
os elect OF these foreign fertilizers upon tt
hat soil will be is at present unknown, br
,n~ James Simpson, one Of the oldest and mo
rre intelligent and experienced farmers in tn
~ Lower End told me he thought they woul
nr | 90 bark To the use OF lime.
,rn WOOD BECOMING A DRUG.
ho Notwithstanding the rapid disappearanc
as of the timber during the past fifty years, tn
III phenomenal tact has been developed-pari
'ds dOXical rs it may seem-that wood is cheape
i'm now than il was a quarter of a century agC
for In 1860 sold wood for dollar and half
cal cord, where II IS now hard to sell at dollar
asa The fires Of the Old charcoal furnaces haV
,nt gone out forever, and other things are $
rapidly taking the place of wood that it ha
ME- almost become a drug. Right here in tn
ra heart Of what was formerly called woode
ho country we see long stretches of wire fence
OF and the farmers tell me it is cheaper tha
ny wooden fences if they get tho timber fo
ne nothing.
nd THE OLD FAMILIES AND TIE NEW.
On Whilst some families have died out an,
", ,or others have gone away, We wero pleased /
~ find still here so many of the dcsccndentso
th the original old Scotch-Irish and Quaker sci
| tiers. filling the soil thair T,t