, 1889-05-23
LADY ALBION.
Chats Pleasantly About Medi-
cal Lake.
Its Magnificent Scenery and
Curative Properties.
Destined to Beoone the Carlsbad Of Amsr-
lea and Attract Thou
sands.

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When new day wskens and the drst
opalescent tints of the dawn are pencied
in the east and the whisper that new
born day is here thrills through all sen.
tient space, and the soft winds tell it to
the listening leaves, do not the leaves with
shivering mystic delight make it known
to niep The dewdrops are waiting upon
the grass in sparkling crystals to tell me /;
the rivers send up soft mist wreaths, the
dimpling waves break into long lines Of
beauty. and the mountain lakes look, then
dream again, lying close in the clasp of
the sheltering peaks. The mountains
mighty as they are and everlasting in their
mighty and una iestic silence. are yet the
first to herald the approach of the god OF
day, are they not first after the rosy blush
ing clouds to get his warm kisses and
and golden beams.
| And are not the mountains mine, and
the sun and his vladdenin9 lightP Are
not the seas aud the lakes and the rush
ing rivers mines? Yes, mine and thine il
we will take it AS it Ia given to us fresh
from Him in whose hands are all co.. ners
of the earth, whom even the seas and the
winds obey.
And now | want TO tell you of IA little
nook in very small corner of His earth
this morning, and of the sweet influences
of peaceful homeliness that surround me
here.
| am not lodged just like an empress,
the roof does not expand and spread away
into a princely palace; nor did | enter
here through parterres of stone copings
and palm cactus and orange beds. as one
| does at the Hotel Ponce de Leon in Flor
| ida, neither was | conducted through
! quiet passage ways into a mysterious and
| elegant rotunda-with Oak archways be-
! low, balconies above and dome far over.
head.
While my dining-room has bent sides,
the coDcave ceiling Is not pierced tor gold
/ en- transiuc dormers of stained glass !.
My room Is no. luxurious with mahogany
and pate-vlass, no white and blue mo
quette carpet upon the floor, nor minetto
curtains and rodded screens at the win
dows.
No fire place with eighteenth century
tiles mantel and mirror
No carved wood, tligreed glass and
Spanish heraldry.
do not dine under the witchiug inspi-
ration of a band, nor sip my sherbet while
listening to a superb vocalist sing to the
accom- paniment of Spanish guitars
three it'll. rooms cl;nuinv ,o,ta"e like 10
tho rorkv c,,ff-nniet ,cstfnl and home0
like. feel like bird who has folded her
wings from joyous flight. Though tar
away In IA strange land, yet am at home,
not driven hither and thlther by the 0naw.
;n, i'm Iom..Iv snIandnr ~ the angnisb
thst il otten hiidnn heneath siIken rohes
FROSTY l,ces often cover :, heart nnmb In ali
human feeling levels oleam beneath
ewes that look ont of A soul uitiIess and in.
/ different colder than st..l h,rder th,n
Aint
went to sleen last nj ,,bt sootbed bv the
gentle falling OF the rain upon the roof
/ exalted nv the Grand dianason thar rolled
| thTonoh th. tow,rinv pines upon the cliffs
| abovr me, To-day ib'. wind In TN. nin.s
anil f,Il,nu kim NV room with th,
! oheery tireiiyht seem ali tb. more cosv and
/ hom.-iits
From INV little white balcony look
across the iakp ,ts snrface soft and misty
with the rninJrons hear its low mono.
tone AS il break. frothinv upon the rock
ribbed shore.
Like Ponce de Leon have been seeking
fouatain; Iuckier thau n.,, have found If
the fonnta,n ot nsrpetno,i heath
Here in the eastern edo. Of Washing
ton territory is Medical Lake. whose tan,,
is travelling fast and far. As Bill Nye
s.ys. "A wild veil rang through the
Southern confederacy." 40 through In.
length and breadth Of the land from lin to
lin will the glad tldings roll, that there is