The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-11

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 | screws and all kinds of hardware. But on walking along it's broad, clean, elm | lined streets it is difficult to realize that you are in a manufacturing center, there is such a comparative absence of smoke, and everybody is so well dressed. There is poverty in the town, I am told, but it does not stare you ln the face as it does in the east end of our "Old Country towns, I have seen no rags, no beggars, nothing sordd or dis l reputable, except perhaps in the Vlclnl- ] ty of the saloons"
 But you do feel that everything is in motion here, The go-ahead feeling IS in the air, You see it in such an an nouncement as this over a restaurant "Quick lunch" You see it in the way they count time. If you ask the time of a young American who will give you l the particular minute not contentlng himself, as in our country, with 'tWen- ty minutes past twelve" but twenty | two" if it should be so indicated on the dial. You see it in the rapidity of their splendid electric cars. They run along the crowded streets at speed that would be no disoredit to our Mac duff line of railway. Five cents is the uniform charge for any distance, from quarter of a mile to three or four miles. When the guard takes your | fare he pulls cord, which rings bell, and the payment of an additional fare is indicated on dial which all the l passengers see. When l return to Aberdeen I shall be able to give not a few wrinkles" to our tramway com l mittee, and, like a good citizen am prepared to do so without making the usual deputation charge for travelling expenses
 The American climate does not favor good pedestrianism. A great deal of driving is done here and I am not sur prised at it, as the heat and the lassl- tude it brings to those not accustomed to it makes buggy or car very welcome. It is near the middle of Sep tember as I write, but I told my host the other day that my chief occupation at present was wiping the precipitation from my brow. ,...
 The people have the sense to adapt their food to climatic conditions as lit tie meat and much fruit is used. Ma ture, which does not err in its appoint ments, makes provision for the need by | furnishing an abundant and varied supply of fruits and vegetables. You will get ba sketful of tomatoes for ten cents, and on any country road you might soon have your pockets filled with fallen apples without rebuke or hindrance The country at this season teens with good, wholesome food. Ev- cry morning I have placed before me grapes, apples and pears as the first in- stalment of breakfast. After that may come oysters and l don't know what. Indeed, one might begin to dream that | he had stumbled into an earthly para 1 disc if it were not for those horrible mo- sqrNtoes, which bite and sting so vii ciously. Certainly the people live we'll l here. The early colonists had as their bill of fare, according to an American 1 poet of that day, Pumpkins at morn ing and pumpkins at noon;" but their descendants surpass those fathers in the possession of comfort if not in the practice of heroic virtue.
 The crowning glory of New Haven is Yale university, of which Jonathan Edwards, Timothy Dwight, Lyman Beecher, Noah Porter and other we'll known American men were graduates. | It IS lfl6 SIScl NollcS6 lOI lilc Congregational ministry, but it is un- denomnational both in it's admission of ! professors and students The session, which begins in October and ends in June, usually brings together about | three thousand students, The Students 1 Christian association, winch has mag nificent buildings, in the largest hall of which Drummond, Stalker, Horton and George Adam Smith have spoken, has a membership of fifteen hundred and that speaks volumes for the prevailing | tone and temper of the university. It is splenddly equipped with halls, class rooms dormitories and laboratories, but as the buildings are detached and have been erected at different times since it's foundation in 1700-there are no less than fifty separate buildings-there are a lack of unity and effectiveness in the grouping. It is great institution, with honorable traditions, around which are entwined some of the greatest names known to American history; and while the Theological Faculty may have to i divide the honors with the other de- partments more in the future than it has done in the past the university as whole is destined to be a great fac 1 tor in genera tions to come for the pro- motion of the higher culture of the | American nation.
 A worthy graduate of that university is my host, the Rev. Dr. Mutch pastor | of Howard avenue Congregational church, by extraction an Aberdonian. being the son of an old member of the Dimension church, near Insch, who came to the United States nearly half a century ago Where will the Scot not be found? In this town there are more than a thousand of my fellow country men, who not content with hearing me preach, want me to address their Gale donian society" J. $.