The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-12-31

serted. The radical change whicl
. takes place so suddenly about the
last of August makes the situation
desolate indeed, and the death-likt
stiffness for short season is almost
: unbearable. But it is at the close O
) the Chautauqua that the Park anC
its environments are to be fully en-
joyed. The beauty and magnifcenct
: together with its salubrious climate
5 during the months of September, De
tOber and November cannot be excel
led, and as sanitOriUm, the ParE
has but few if any equals. A season
: spent in a valley il Utah led me tC
think it was a paradise, but it Was
left for me-, later along, to learn thai
this summit of the Allegheny noun
tains far exceeds the Mormon country
as a genial and health-giving cline
The many thousands who have beer
accustomed to visit the Park iron
year to year, and who hurriedlN
packed their trunks and lett the Park
at the close of the Chautauqua woulC
have experienced an unmistakablt
joy had they remained thirty or sixty
days longer and drank in of the Quiet
| and beauty of this season. After the
evacuation of the ark by the pleas |
ure seekers and cottagers, the citizens |
accommodate themselves to the usual |
ways of living. No, it is not lonesome |
here The most desolate and most |
lonesome place on earth for one to be
is to be a stranger in a strange city. |
Oakland is lonesome place for a |
denizen of the Park to visit on a cold !
bleak day when its people are housed |
up, ar l when the streets are practi-
cally, deserted. How we hasten back
to the Park on such occasions. 1t is
our home. '.
Home, home. sweet, sweet home,
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home"
We have two first-class boarding
houses-the Assembly house, presided
over by Mrs. Samuel Sawyer; the
Braethorn Cottage, kept by Mrs. Dan
iel Smith. The latter is the hosiery
where Capt. James Smith spent the
first night of his honeymoon,
What about Park society? 1t con-
sists chiefly. of Christians; besides
there is a moral element that places
with a larger population might well
feel proud Of The busiest man in
the Park is Supt. Rudisill, and the
beauty of it all his busy hours are
confined to strictly attending to his
own business. | am sorry to say that
Mt. Lake Park, like many other small
| places, has an element which is con
tinudlIy sowing the seeds of discOrd,
and trying to destroy the peace and
comfort of this quiet community, |
refer to the gossipers. They whose
sole delight is to endeavor to blaeken
one of Gods choicest gifts to man,
viz, character. They invade the
homes of saint and sinner alike. No
moral force can stop them. They
will break down every barrier and
enter the sanctity of the minister's
home and study to deposit their sweet
morsel of gossip and SANDER. They will
shed crocodile tears over our foibles
and then hasten to their congenia1
spirits and build castles of sin and
:, iniquity for us to dwell in. .....
They have been known to take des
perate chances of being consigned tt
prison by using the United States
= mails for their nefarious work, b,
, sending anonymous letters through
the mails They make their owl
homes the vestibule of Hades and +
place for fear and trembling when TIN
Z husband enters, and they are no
unfreQuently the cause of the hur
band and children seeking a NOR
=. agreeable temporary abode. Thei
only disappointment and unhapp
mess comes when they learn tina
/, their vicious stories are proved to b
=" fruitIess and false 1t is then an
then only that they are unhappy
y The recipient of their ungOdly messS
gcs does notalways receive them wit
>, the satisfaction which the dispense
~ of it experiences in the bestOwal, bU
:, this matters little to them. The
p" deal it out in full measure, presse
" down hard, heaped up and running
= over. They bubble over with it, an
- i71I :
. In their Unsuitable desire to bring tt
=, happy ones down to their own mise
- able level they would, if possibl
II follow a pure soul to the very gates
- heaven to breathe out their venom
* towards as they are, they alwa,
- refuse to give the author of the
, stories, and they shield themselv,
- behind the fiimsy excuse, F"Oh!.
., promised not to give the name of n
=, informant" They put in circulatio
- their vile SANDER and leave the inn
- cent victim defenseiess by Withhold,
ing the name of their mythical par
ner III sin and iniquity. 1t is bles
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