The herald., 1896-03-01
TRIP TO THE COUNTY FARM
The Kings Daughters Delighted With
the Management
The Inmates Pleased With the Visiting
Ladies' and Brief Address Is Pre-.
sented-The Letter

sented-The Letter
Bertha Landt tells of recent visit the
Kings Daughters made to the county
far IN and what was seen while there. Fol-
lowing is the descriptive letter:
On a recent date the morning train on
the Terminal road carried some thirty or
more Kings Daughters TO spend the day at
the county farm, and for about six hours
we were there royalty entertained. First
i'll greeting was DIR. Burdick. who makes
this farm the poor mans paradise, and his
sweet faced wife, whose personal interest
in the INDECENT men, under her husbands
care, entities her to the encomiums they
shower upon her. as their counselor and
friend.
In our talks with number of the in
mates. numbering about so. we heard no
complaint of any part of the manage
ment; but, instead, only praise for the
man who, at the head of so largo an insti-
tuition, has managed it for eight years with
presents it today, even to the most censo-
rious inspection. without flaw. And one
of the inmates words. we take it, but
voices the whole number. He said: "Dr.
Burdick has goodness enough for more
than one man, and could spare some to
others who need it,"
We saw the men at their dinner, and
noted the cleanly care with which it had
been prepared and the appetizing odor that
followed the wholesome edibles from the
big range in the kitchen to the long tables
in the cleanest of clean diuing-rooms. In
addition to wholesome solids, there was an
abundance of butter and milk.
We were shown every part of the culinary
department, and were told by the cook
that he aims each day to vary the bill of
fare as much as possible. He said he was
fond of hunting when he had time, and
showed us delicious. game stew, not
enough to go round, but for few weak fell
lows who stoCd in need of little cod
ding.
The immediate grounds of the farm are
marvelously beautiful and we'll kept-a
vast rose garden from January to June.
Many of the men working among the artis-
tically trained vines and orange trees
recognized us as visitors with gracious
nod, and seemed to he giving of their inn
paired strength, willingly 10 the glory of
the winter roses and other beautiful flow
ers. Here are large yards of alfafa-fed
be counted, and twenty-six or thirty great
sleek cows, that looked their ability to
produce the milk we had seen distributed
| among the friendless poor. Above
| perfectly cultivated acres we saw the
pervading spirit of man whose aim
u
brothers less hard and uplift them when he
may. In this large number of farm i'll
mates, drifted hither by the worlds buffet
ing. are to be found ''all sorts and condi-
tions of men"-the cultivated old medical
practitioner of fifty years, and another a
graduate of one of the finest medical col
leges of the United States; the man of let
ters, paralyzed and decrepit now, but the
| master of five languages; a mathematician
whose compilations are used in the coun-
try's schools; and fellow-mates with these,
scattered about on the wide sunny veran-
dahs, were the lame, the halt and the
blind. all afflicted to greater or less degree,
but all seemingly contented. One case
| most sad was that of a flne-looking young
Englishnlan who crossed the ocean full Of
the hope that the new world was the place
for him to make good living and lay by
something to help the old folks with in
after years; but fall from a building he
| was working upon as carpenter took all
| the rose color out of the poor boys life.
| But diseased spine must keep him sitting
| through all the years, only listening to the
victories men are gaining in the worlds
| battles. One young man, harmlessly de-
| mented, welcomed the Kings Daughters
effusively, and for the occasion had donned
| white kid gloves and tall silk hat, tilted
| very much on one side-the off side, poor
| fellow.
Ihe most pleasing feature of the whole
sented to the Kings Daughters, finely
written and read by one of the inmates.
We quote few paragraphs taken from it's
closing:
ITO the Kings Daugbters.-Nowt that a
happy day is drawing to a close, and that
cries of you and of it, the members of this
county farm hereby tender the expression
of their debt of gratitude for your thought
fuiness for them, and their appreciation of
your true woman's worth. What our eyes
have seen today, carries us back. in spirit,
to the days when the dove-souled Master
walked the earth with men. carrying the
| comfort of his presence, his words and his
acts to hearts bowed down. You too, gen.
| erous, self.sacrificing women. princesses
Of the blood royal, because daughters OF
king, are following in the same foot
very own royal Father. May he
| speed you and your self-imposed life er-
rand of cheering detected brother; of
leading, not pointing, world summed sis.
ter starward; of pouring the balm of your
ministration into cruelty bruised hearts;
merciful lives into the dreary, darkened
ones, that at best, cucumber the
| life paths of earth's successful ones,
full we'll assured that yet lit
| tie later, yours will be the mansions, not
| builded with hands, yours the bejeweled
| not grow DIM"
We returned when the red glory of the
sunset was turning the Angel City into a
city of gold. The noise and hustle of the
thronging streets soon engulfed US, and we
| forgot; but later, when the quiet stars had
taken up their night watch, and the pur
pie mantled mountains seemed to touch
heaven. we thought again of these human
brothers at the county farm, and said:
1.-THE same stars watch above them, the
| same Christ died to save them, and we will
minister to them whom we can.
BERTHA IANDT