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JELLICo VS., THE WORLD.

reached home, writes the Jellico, Tenn,
Advance-Sentinel, a letter from which
we make the following extract:
have just spent over Two months in
travelling and visiting in the North and
East, and return to my home, on the
hillside of Jellico, to find it the most
beautiful spot have seen this summer.
l enjoyed my trip very much indeed, saw
many places and met many dear friends,
did not have an unkind word from any
body, nor did / speak one to anyone; but
came back hoping to be happier and do
better work for God and humanity in
Jellico than ever before. l hope to APP
preciate its natural advantages and enjoy
its privileges.
went through Tennessee, Kentucky,
Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Dis
trict of Columbia, Virginia and West
Virginia. l crossed Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Vermont in two directions and New
York in three, spent a night on Lake
Erie, part of a day on Lake Ontario and
Lake Champlain, touched and enjoyed
the prominent rivers of the Northeast,
the Ohio, Niagara,St. Lawrence, Hudson,
Winooski, Otter Creek, Delaware, Sus-
quehanna, Schuylkill and Potomac. 1
saw Niagara Falls, the mightiest cataract
in the world, Winooski Falls and South
erland Falls. visited the famous Adj
rondack mountains of New York, from
the top of whose peaks, Marcy, White
face and Seward, over 5000 feet high,
can be seen 80 bodies of water. l spent
three weeks among the Green Mountains
| of Vermont, several days in the Catskills,
and passed through the Blue Ridge,
Allegheny and Cumberlands. Some of the
scenery from Harper's Ferry, where the
John Brown raid took place in 1859 to
narkersburgh, West Virginia, is very
fine. The railroad crawls along up the
mountains sometimes 5000 feet above
the sea level and through so many tun-
nels that the cars are kept lighted all the
time. In all the summer resorts l have
mentioned, hotels abound where every
pains is taken to please and comfort the
traveller, from the lofty Overlook House,
on the top of the Catskills to the well
Bennington.
At Bennington is located the highest
battle monument in the world. 1t COM
memolates one of the most important
engagements of the Revolution. 1t
turned back in defeat the hitherto Veto
rious British army, made Saltwater and
Saratoga possible, greatly encouraged
the colonies, and led to the surrender of
Burgoyne, and the general triumph of
| the American cause.
But Bennington and Saratoga are near
ly $50 years old, and have spent millions
of money and the best brains of the new
world in developing and identifying
their natural advagtages, while Jellico
and the adjacent country in Tennessee
and Kentucky, is yet in its infancy and
has been battling for bread, with little
time or money for public improvements.
But we have land fit for the garden of
Eden; hills as fair as Palestine: noun
tains as green as Vermont; mines of coal
richer than the famous treasures of Col
conda. We have an atmosphere midway
between the gul and the great lakes,
combining the excellence of both with
out the discomfort of either. We have
vast fields of timber, capacity for fruits,
vegetables and grains. Stock easily
raised, fish and wild game.
What we need is development men
with courage, skill and money to use
these natural resources, men and women
of mental and moral character who will
push educational and social questions to
an altitude of purity and power. We
need to realize our own advantages and
improve them; respect our own laws and
make others do the same; provide the
best schools for our children aud see that
they attend them; lead manly lives our
selves, and license no one to brutalize
our neighbor; be industrious through
the week, and pious on Sunday, and
this country will soon become 1.-THE gar
den of the Lord"