The Republican journal., 1892-09-01
Letter from Rev. Myra Kingsbury.

FROM THE LAND OF ''sTRIKERs' OR
ALONG THE LINE OF L. V. r. r.
SHEsHEQuIN, PA, Aug. IS, 1892. The
hills are echoing and re- echoing the sound
of car whistles. While sitting on the home
piazza, l count as many as six coal trains
Numbering from so to one 100 cars each)
rushing along as though glad once more
of liberty. Nearly week has passed
with freights held at Sayre, Pa. The
suffering livestock were released, not at
their destined market, but at the cattle
yard only-in Buffalo, n. Y. Cars were
burned. Such condition of things, of
course, could not last, and yesterday post
ers were conspicuous notifying the strik-
ers that payment foI working over hours
(Which was the cause of rebellion) was
ready for them. and thereafter dismissal
from further employment on the Lehigh
Valley r. r. AS usual, there is division
''pro and con- the parties in conflict
which can never be settled until heart OF
employer and employee echo and re-echo
OF steam whistle, but of that spirit of
brotherhood witnessed in Jesus, which
reached from the sobbing sinner at his
feet to the Infinite God, and united both
with a sense of companionship that encir
cled with it's love Gentle and Jew, bar
barian and Scythian, bondman and free
man. We can but hope and pray the day
is not far distant when man ''shall learn
to war no more"
Barring the excitement due the ''strike''
the vacation season has been one of unin-
terrupted rest With Emily Dickerson |
can say:
s'Inebriate of air ami
And debauchee of dew"
so indolent have | become that the
country home has held me willing guest
with no desire to rove elsewhere. The
mercury has run considerably in advance
of the degree of comfort but we have the
not always attainable luxury of large
rooms, within the cool retreat of which
we cannot be otherwise than grateful and
happy.
| have limited myself to two appoint
ments. one of which was cancelled last
Sunday by divine service in the quaint
little valley church, the other is to come
the last Sunday proceeding my return
east.
From Aug. 1st. or the day of my depar-
t,ra frop, Ra1faSt Nh to tI,a nrpSeni time
enjoyment has been closely associated with
every day. Old Neptune treated me some
what stability in the beginning, but
doubtless this was in part due to my
boastful defiance of his power, which
sampled not with the best grace | CON
fess. Being among his sincere lovers. |
shall, forgetful of his tyranny, make return
trip by same route over which | came.
1t would be difficult to find one pleasanter,
OF with more courteous officials, than that
from Belfast by boat to Boston, thence to
New Y ork without change of cars, by the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail
road to Waverly, \. Y. The ticket agent
in New York City told me the I p. m.
train would bring me to Waverly at
an unearthly hour q a. n.y. But in
August one day in New York sutfices,
and | resolved to leave known dis
comforts for evils | knew not Of or
the prophesed 'sunearthliness Re
membering the D. L. Il W. was a
comparatively new road, with its depot
some little distance from the hotel,
before arrival in Waverly | questioned
the conductor as to a carriage from the
station to the hotel He replied that none
We're in waiting for his train. but that he
would see that the telegraph operator ac-
companied me up town. When the train
/ slowed up. however, he came to me say
| ing: ''There is a lady, resident of Waiver
ly, who stops off here, who, if You will ac-
cept her as escort, says she will gladly act
tile part Of guide to the Tioga House
| | assented at once. and found myself in
/ the presence of a benignant looking lady
the wife Of one Of the City Fathers. She
was returning from Asbury Park little
earlier than anticipated, and thus failed
in finding any one to meet her. She said
we could take shorter way by following
a new street. which though anting in
sidewalks lessened the distance one half
NV friend 'reckoned without her host. !"
and missed her way, and in that clark
hour, just before day, instead of the "roll-
ing of the briny Deep We were in the
worse dilemma of ''wading' through
three lots of DOGGY soil, and, the ludicrous
ness of it all, climbing tayo. fences, and break
ing five pickets off the third. and through
it all having the pleasant (?) anticipation
of either being shot as burglars, or captur-
ed by the police and put in the lookup
for destruction of property. TWAS most
satisfactory that darkness was round about
us, on one account, for notwithstanding
the seriousness of the situation. it stirred
my merriment.
We reached the Tioga House at last and
bidding good night to my companion, | reg
istered at the office. and was soon in the
large, well ventilated room assigned me,