The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-11-18

the apparent Indifference and hilsrity of
those who were in his own predica-
ment, but he soen got used to
it and his thoughts were drawn
from himself and his ills.
In many houses the guests are prohibit-
ed or discouraged from entertaining or
instructing each other with accounts of
their experience and symptoms. The
| climate is bright and CHEEKY, and 1t is
the aim of friend and physician to make
everything SO to the patient.
Without intending it, / have now writ
ten what may seem a letter of Partially,
but j may say have only attempted the
description would myself have liked.
may have got little too much sired in
che brush," but not enough to mislead
you. l hope. 1t Is but true to add that
this Is not Paradis IL you seek that,
you must wait for your wings.
L cannot close without some words
upon the one great and conspicuous OBJ
ject that interests all who are in, and all
who visit Colorado Springs-Pike's Peak.
The housekeeper who first starts the fire
la the morning looks to the summit of
the white giant to aid in plans for the
day, to know what the weather will be.
Ii the summit shows it's outline with dis
tinctness against the blue sky, the indi-
cation dis favorable, and the out door
IL clouds and mists hide it's head it Ia q
warning that should be needed. All
through the day invalids on pia zzas and
people indoors, frequently look up to see
the changing moods of the Peak,
and It's companion mountains. 1t Is q
never falling object of regard and study,
and In other times and countries would
have been an object of worship. 1t has
grown upon me In its high and massive
proportions, as have seen it day after
day for three months, at q distance of II
miles, ever appearing as the commander
1n- CHIEF over It's group OF royal brothers.
have seen it, too, 40 miles away, rising
alone out OF les range, the one impressive
object in the horizon; and, again, 1t has
suddenly stood up before me In its im-
perial majesty, looking at me over the
curvature of the earth through the dis
lance of fonr score miles, and adding to
my admiration sensation akin to fear,
| as when, child, Il ON the brow of hill
had my first sight of the deep blue ses,
and felt 1t was about to overwhelm me.
As / write, it stands to-day as it has
stood since first known to mantle em-
blem or the interchangeable and the imper.
ishable. In Its silent grandeur it looks
down with rigid Indifference upon this
fly OF city that has alighted for few
brief centuries on its valley. Tt stands
80 " mas stood through all the events OF
history it is now as when Socrates drank
the hemlock; when Caesar crossed the
Rubicon; when the tragedy of Calvary
shook the solid globe. But if the Gospel
preached in the score of churches in this
valley be true Gospel, the languid eye
OF to-day chat gazes upon It's crest,
will look out with immortal vision upon
mountains detachable and valleys of in
finite health and beauty, after this mon
arch OF the everlasting shall for ages and
cons have been melted to It's original at
0ms and It's place and it's name lost out
the universe. have reason to believe
that such thought and such hope
have ennobled thousands of invalids to |
accept the inevitable with reverent and
happy submission. 1t Is faith that
tends to make life healthy and useful and |
is infinitely preferable to that hopeless |
belief or presumption that we end our be- |
ing In an ocean of nothingness ere we are |
scarcely born, while pyramid of gran
tie endures for untold ages Ezra D |
Barker.
Colorado Springs, COL, November 3,