Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-26
AT CHAUTAUQUA.

A Weary GlObe.Trotter ReneWs His
 First Love-On the Shores of the
 Beautiful New York Lake-The
 Changes in Four Years-Pen Sketches
 by tho Way-The Illumined Fleet.
 CHAuTAUoUA, New York, Aug. 20. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 Four years ago spent the season at Chau- tauqua in the capacity of correspondent for one of the Cleveland dailies Of course yielded to the seductive influences of the educational atmosphere and became an en- thusiastic Chautauquan. Perhaps the word enthusiastic is superfuous, for, believe, an inherent quality of the genuine Chautauquan is an enthusiasm such as almost borders on efferyescence But like enthusiastic peo- pie.
 Four years have elapsed, and during that time it has been my privilege to wander over the deserts of Egypt, the poppy blown plains and the snake-infested jungles of India, the matchless landscapes of Japan, the densely peopled coasts of China, the arid wastes of Arabia and Asia Minor, the ruin-strewn sites of Greece and the Troad, Palestine's sacred but desolate hillsides, the tropical shores of Burmah and the Malay peninsula, together with most of the beaten tracks of convention al Europe Extensive travel had dulled the keen edge of my old appetite for camp life.
 It was accordingly with no eager anticipa tion that took the cars of the Thunderbolt express on the N. Y., P. & O. railroad the other afternoons train which seems especi- ally designed to make Chautauqua accessible to the Ohio public-with & ticket to the great summer school in my pocket.
 A little after o'clock I was landed in the attractive city of Jamestown, where put uI at hotel for the night. In the morning guidly boarded the steamer Minnehaha and languidly proceeded to get out my writing pad for the purpose of writing line or two en voyage. To tell the truth, did not take a particle of interest in the experience before me.
 The ropes were cast off and the steamer started up the river-or rather the five mile arm of the lake which connects Jamestown with the lake proper.
 My eyes wandered from the writing pa6 before me. The lovely run which I had SC often travelled by boat four years ago had not lost anything by contrast with the fail scenes witnessed in foreign lands. The same OlQ ltdlldu OTCucStEa Stdi Ucu up Ou0 Ol bus same old tunes which they had been wont te play in 1881, and then the leader passed around hat which, am ready to swear, ii the identical one into which I dropped ten dollar gold pieces when here before. Tn, trees rising directly out of the water on either side suggested the magnificent wilds of th' Ocklawaha, the Upper St. Johns and thu Suwanee in Florida. Indeed, found mysel constantly expecting to see the horny head O some slow swimming saurian protruding iron
 the water directly in front or.at one side O the steamer.
 But, of course, there was no hanging mos on the tree boughs, there were no palmettoes or water lettuce, or bonnets, or crosses, o pink ii1ies-elements which are necessary ts make the scene thoroughly Floridian. was conscious of an awakening interest il the localities which had once been so famil jar and so dear to me.
 With indignation I noticed that som Jamestown merchants, and even some prohi bition zealots, had been doing their best dur ing the interim of four years to disHeur the glorious scenery by putting up advertise Ilent boards against some of the trees ol either side--usually with inscriptions in sucl fine type that nobody can read them. Blu human vandals had not been able to mar tn exquisite fne-cut foliage, or to dim the su perb beauty of the great blushing pyramid of crimson-leafed bushes. put up m writing tablet altogether. Plainly I was i