Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-01
THE FAR EAST.

THE FAR EAST.
Sketches by a DakOtaian in the Land
Ofthe Nations Bui1ders-A Western
err Among the Yankees.
Correspondence Press and Dakota,an.
We must not turn our face westward
to the fair land of the Dakotas until we
had responded to the cordial invitation
OF our old tried friend, Rev. Stewart
Sheldon, who and whose family are 30
well known to Yankton society. Thus a
few days before leaving the east we left
Newton for our eastern trip. We took
Beacon street in our way and in the
Congregational rooms we were treated
to o no ordinary surprise in meeting my
old friend who was known so long and
so favorably as pastor of the Congrega-
tional church in Washington, d. O., now
of Orange Valley, N. j. The meeting |
brought new life to the tired and worn
out pilgrim. The browning point Of the
short visit was an invitation to visit Sa-
ratoga Springs, where his wife her was
staying and he would foot ali the bills
and he and his wife would tenderiy care
for the writer as long as he remained at
the Springs, two or three weeks. We
dld promise.to accept the generous offer,
but found that we were growing more
feeble the longer we remained east 30 we
regretfully had to say we were too sick
to come. We sought the Boston & Maine
!, depot and bought o ticket for Salem.
i We had not q minute to spare
tor we were no sooner seated in the
cars than the engine steamed out from
the depot. The entire route to Salem
4 is but q continuous village. OFF to the
right the Of Bunker H iii,
rises up in its sublimity locking heaven
4 ward so silent and yet SO grand, as if
sensible of Its solemn trust to guard the
dead, the first fruits of victory in our
: fathers struggle for liberty and tells the
a story of such heroes as Warren and
P'utnam. This monument il which The
pennies OF the children of the common
wealth of Massachusetts took 80 con-
: spiouous u part in building. Well does
the writer remember whom the big boob
OF folio size came to his fathers house
for The names and gifts OF the children
: Most of those young contributors are
resting from their LAHORE. But Bnnke,
Hill is behind and SO is Sommerville
Everett, Chelsea. Revere, West Lynn
Lynn and East Lynn busy as ever in the
manufacture OF boots and shoes and
Swampstot ihas also been called and
9 passed and now the shrill whistle tells
l. OF the nearing Of the next station where
we are told this is our stopping place
q Soon "Salem" is called. The Gals conn
" TO q short halt and we land and before
the cars steamed hi from the depot we
were on our way to our Yankton friends
| need not say our reception was every.
thing we might hope for in way Of
Welcome. We found our friends here
g at work with the same indefatigabIe
D spirit for human good as characterize
o them while in Yankton. The field
d agent in meeting house parsonage
d building is thoroughly alive to his work
b and for two months ahead he has his
t appointments out for Vermont, Mas.
sachusetts, Rhode Island New Hamp.
shire and Maine. A wide and effeotual
door has been opened to the laborious
worker. Dakota lost a good man when
a he was called east to take charge oil
this important field. All there feel he
is the right man in the place so the
Home Missionary society in their loss
' has been equal gain to the Congrega.
tional union. We began our sight
seeing at once. With
: Mrs. Sheldon and daughter TO,
!, an escort we sought the water, a waiting
place called the Willows where we could
! look seward and breathe the breath
which came in with the ocean waves
Here we added to our stock of minerals
for the Yankton college. One box had
! already been sent before and 8 second
. was being rapidly filed. But this town
!, ID full OF antiquities. The great center
of attraction was q visit to the old meet
ing house in the srear of Plummer hall.
? 1t was built in 1883 at a cost not to ex-
Deed 100 pounds sterling. 1t was twenty
feet square. A good photograph like
ness we brought away with us which
will be the property of Yankton college
and kept among the sacred relics of
history as we'll as several other relics of
those early days which have been given
by artists to the world in a permanent
form. In this old church we found an
abundance of relics OF antiquity. Asofa
from Normandy brought by some OF the
French Hugenots who came to this
country .after.the revocation of the edict
of Nantes by Louis the XIV in 1856. The
old communion table of the East church
built in l71s. A christening stand for
the basin $50 years old. The desk of
Nathaniel Bonditch, l.. l.. D., on which
he translated "Mecansque Celeste. A pen
door from the meeting house in Hing.
ham built in 1880 from a pen
owned by William Lincoln and Enork
Lincoln the grandfather OF Governor
General Lincoln the governor of Massa-
chusetts when the writer was q lad OF
Il nine years, a samn mortar from fha