Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-12
HERE AND THERE.

Ook drive the e.Rther DAY out over the hills |
II West Drumore, around Liberty Square
md Pennock's mill The improvement OF
hat country is wonderful, aud at this sea-
ION of 1t a ramble out that way is especially
delightful. The roads are often through fine
yrowths of young chestnut timber and
blooming laurel ot every shade, from nearly
pure white to the deepest pink, ahouudS III
The underbrush. As the way winds along
Fishing creek and mp and down the hollows
OF that most picturesque region, one wonders
that the people of Lancaster 20 away for nat
ural beauties when they have explored so |
little OF their own county. From the top OF |
the hill that is crowned with Alvin tutlers |
fine farm house, other good buildings ana |
handsome lawn, there breaks uron the view |
a sight CT the lower Susquehauna that makes |
the heart leap 1t looks from point above
Peach Bottom down to where the Bald Friar
keeps his watch and tells his beads Rocks
and green islets dot the bosom of the broad
stream and, all in all, 1t is well worth ten
mile drive, climbing up the hills aud crawl
ing through the rsvines, to take in the gio'
rious prospect from that hill top, The Octo.
raro hills, the valley of the upper Conestoga,
the Chickies, the Conoy, the Cocalico and
the Conowingo are some of our local streams
along which the tourist might spend weeks,
and have an experience invested with the
most lln nresSlNe CnAflls Ol NATURAL sCcHtIN.
1t is very different from the flower beds at
Washington. They are profuse with bloom.
They look very promising But
many hungry Democrat is yet uusatisded.
For ali that they cannot but be glad that the
White House gardens and the treasury yards
put on their prettiest best for the bride OF the
executive mansion. | read III the Press that
the chairman of the Democratic state
D., .1xsa .AsNkaT
in Washington the other DAY in-
terviewiug Civil Service Commissioner
Oberly, inquiring of that regene7ated par
tisan "if an ything in the civil service rules
forbade a federal emplcye from making an
unsolicited contribution To the Democratic
campaign fund 1t is related that "Mr
Oberly answered him that any federal officer
in Pennsylvania or elsewhere could give
anything he pleased tO any charity WhA.-
ever, but warned Mr. Heusel against send
ing any bold Democratic officer out upon
soliciting mission. The fund should TO col
lected, he said, in cautious and ulpiohauc
manner" The mission aud its results are
facetiously but sincerely commented upon
by "A few esteemed but misguided Contem'
poraries of the Press
happened, by an odd chance, to be i'll
Washington the day the Democratic state
chairman is reported to have been there; and
/ tracked him where he went. He did
not see Oberly and he did not go to see him.
II 9 had no such mission as reported, made no
such inquiry and got no such answer What
the chairman was after don't know, bat
what went after, for few houTs-lt any
body has any interest in knowing the truth
was to try and impress few OF my
friends and acquaintance i'll Congress with
the fact that Lancaster city was quite a.
much entitled to a federal building, built by
the United States government As Harris
burg, WilliamspOrt, Reading and scranton,
which have been provided for and little
more entitled to One than Wilkesbarre, Ale
gheny City, Oil City, Chester or even Allen
town city, which are struggling in competition
with this good shire town. You have no.
| ticed, of course, that we have more pOpula-
| ton than any other county in the state eN-
| cept Allegheny, Luzerne and Philadelphia
| The Luzerne- Lack swauns district IL already
getting one building at scranton. "lnsatiate
monster, will not one suffice at least until
| some OF your neighbors are given 4 show
| Lancaster has volumes and centuries
| of history back OF 1t. We have over
| loo postOtiice,, for a large part of woich
| ours is distributing Office. This 4
| the natural seat and Ceutre of the internal
| revenue district ami will remain such, while
| tobacco culture lasts, aud the many hundred
cigar factories here have close business
| relations requiring personal communication
with the United States government There
are good deal weigh,Ier considerations than
| local pride for the selection OF this, pre- emf
| federal building ordered in Pennsylvania.
| Fortunately tor the chances OFF f,ConEres- man
| Hiestand is leaving nothing undOne to secure
| 1t that energy and popularity can accom-
| plish.
| That was all of except that | heard 1t
| Blanch Welsh, a Columbia boy who WAS
| graduated with honor at West Point, and is
| now lieutenant in the regular army, is
| being talked of to he detailed as military
| instructor at Allegheny college, Meadvilie.
His father WAS a gallant soldier Ot the MeNi-
| can and Union wars and the Grand Army
post at Columbia that hty bears his name
has given his worthy scion quite boost for
the place at Meadville. 1t isn't much that
Lancaster county gets. Why not this
| -
| When IL was quite safe and sure that the
| chairman was after no mischief | hung over
the House gallery Tor half an hour trying TO
| get interested in what was going on in the
| pit 1t seemed to be as orderly as a stock
exchange, and yet the cool, cIearheaded
| speaker, clerks and the vigilant stenograph-
| ers kept the run OF things very well and al
| ways know what Is going on. 1t Is not very
| important that anybody else should. On
| Thursday two Tennessee members of OppOs-
ing parties took up a great deal of public
| time in reading tiresome speeches about
what Gov. Harris, of their state, did and did
not do quarter OF century ago in relation
to some state matter, of no earthly import
ance TO any body and having no connection
with federal affairs. This seems irrelevant
| To the common loOker-On, but the truth Is
that while these debates for Buncombe
county and the galleries are going on and
| more harmful work is being prevented, the
really useful and busy men OF Congress are
| at work in their committee rooms, around in
the corridors, shaping legislation, killing or
cooking JOBS and getting things read y for the
serious business OF Congress.
| -
Senator Beck was delighted to hear that
the black Muscovy duck, which had built
her nest in the forks OF a tree, twenty feet
above the surface OF the big Donegal spring
| had Matched out a brood OF seven and brought
them down, just as he predicted she would,
| on her back, one at a time. He thinks that
| she would have brought out the whole dozen
| had not her concern for those who reached
| the ground and water led her from the nest
| lie wants the remaining eggs examined and
| "a port made to him when he comes to Ma
Tietta next week to attend the Farmers din
| ner at Colonel DuHys. 1t must DO a good
| deal colder than j une day when the seuOs
| senator from Kentucky gets lett on an
economic or an pathological puzzle.
-.
1t was the talk of the corridors on Thurs
| day that Mr. Randall's brief speech on the
| civil service appropriation clause, was one O
| the most effective he had ever made in his
entire congressional career. 1t is seldom
that a speech changes anybody's mind. The
| effect OF most them is TO only intensity the
friends and Toes of the measure under dis,
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