The Newtown bee., 1892-05-20

Morgan addressed the Indian students and, in the evening at the chapel, he ad- dressed the colored students. At the afternoon service in Memorial church on the school grounds, the infant daughter of Gen Armstrong was baptized, when a pretty Hawaiian custom was carried out, placing garland around the neck of q guest. Then the beautiful baby was presented for baptism and a garland of green and white was hung about it's neck. Gen Armstrong's early years were spent in Houolulu, where his fa- ther was missionary.
 Saturday and Easter Sunday were so delightful as to weather that it was a great surprise to find on Monday the sky overcast with clouds and, until the following Saturday, one felt very much like saying, 'eThe- term, sunny South, is misnomer." People who think there can never be any place so good as Hamp- ton, in every possible way, inform you that ''such weather is very unusual" But, if the weather is not the best for making trips into the country round about to any extent, there is always more than enough to interest a visitor in the different class rooms in which the $50 Indian and colored pupils are, or in going into the different shops where the students are taught some business by which they can be self supporting, as well as earn the means to pay their way while at school.
 Saturday in Easter week was another perfect day and nothing could be more delightful than a row on Hampton Roads. The national home for disabled soldiers is separated from the school grounds only by narrow inlet of Hampton creek and a short row brings us in front of the principal buildings just as an inspection is going on. The num- Der of veterans at present is little less than 5000 and all able to be out are in the ranks. The view of the home from the water is beautiful and stroll through the grounds, later, is very inter- esting. Particularly interesting is a visit to the dining room, where the tables, polished to the last degree, are set for 1000 men to the kitchen, where the cooking for the 5000 is done; to the ice house, where all the ice used is man. ufactured. They explain it all to you and show you the immense coolers ad- joining, where the meats of different kinds are kept cooled by pipes from the ice making machines. The greenhouse, etc., etc., make you feel that you could spend whole day there and leave many things of interest for some other time.
 The national cemetery adjoins the school grounds and almost any day the funeral dirge of the band and the dis charge of musketry announces that an- other veteran has fallen out of the ranks. The interments, amounting in all to over $500, average 15 a month and the ceme- tery is so nearly filled that ground is being laid out for a new one. The grounds are beautifully kept, the broad avenues being bordered on either side by flower beds that, when in full bloom, must be gorgeous.
 Nearly in the centre is the soldiers monument of granite 65 feet high, which stands in circular plot enclosed by an iron fence of unique pattern, the posts being cannons and the pickets musket barrels with fixed bayonets.
 sHow sleepth brave, who sink to rest
 By all their country's wishes blest.
 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
 Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
 She there shall dress a sweeter sod
 Than FancV's feet have ever frOd
 If your purse does not admit of your being a guest at the Hygeia, you can get good look into it's magnificent din- ing hall as you pass it for stroll on the sandy beach in front.
 If you have leisure, you will no doubt hunt for and find moonstones and a lapidary not far away will cut and set them for you. You will wish you could sit all day and watch the waves and lis ten to their music, but time flies and Fort Monroe is right at hand, SO you cross a bridge over the moat which ex- tends around it, climb to the top of the ramparts and look into the fort. The cannon and piles of balls in the case mates fronting the water and on the top of the ramparts make you think of what war may mean. The Notifications, with the enclosure, cover about 80 acres. Everything looks peaceful and pleasant inside the Notifications and you descend and walk through the paths shaded by live oak and other trees and past hand some houses, with well kept flower plots. The fortress is garrisoned and this is also a school to put in practice where and, at certain hours of the day, there is much to interest the visitor. The room in which Jefferson Davis was confined is shown.
 A delightful sail of about an hour and half by the Luray, which makes two trips day from Hampton, takes you to Norfolk. If you have only short time in which to look around, you will be told by all means to visit the old St. Paul's church, which was erected in 1739. The gentlemanly sexton will call your attention to the figures telling the date, formed by projecting bricks. He will also show you the cannon ball in the bricks fired by the British from one of their ships in 1776. The walls are nearly covered by luxuriously growing English ivy, but it is carefully cut away from these tokens of antiquity. The in- terior has been repaired during the past year and was re-opened, February ', 1892. The citizens of Norfolk are justly proud of this fine old church, so beauti- fully re-modeled and kept. The church yard in which it stands is filled with old