The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-26

western border. The town OF Sharon lies
across the River Canaan on the north,
| Goshen on the west, md Warren to the
/ south. Pious old settlers, they, to have
| chosen such names as these.
Cream Hill. 1.fQO feet above the sea and
| 900 feet above the railroad at West Corn
| wall on the river. is q huge hemisphere
containing four or five square miles Of
| highly cultivated ground. 1t is the garden
spot of Cornwall yet quite as much a
mountain as those forest-covered ones sur
rounding 1t. 1t is called a hill probably
because 1t is all under cultivation. This
beautiful mound with its graceful sweep
ing lines and patchwork of fields, Is the
work OF time and the contented home
builder For 200 years one generation after
another has raked the rock fro its sur
face, till now 1t presents that fl wless look
OF French or German farming country
with the added charm of clustering houses
and barns within neighborly distance of
each other. These tell of the blessed in
dividualism which exists in Cornwall. No
one owns it all and corrals his workers in
village miles FROM the fields they till.
At the foot Of Cream Hill. in North Corn
wall is the Pond" basin of pure clear
water fed by sprinP- scarcely a mile in
extent, lying in the hollow of the forest
covered hills-a tiny mirror turned Ip to
the sky In perpetual admiration, rejecting
the blue heaven which is above us. This
gem, which divides the honors of Cornwall
with the Pines" changes Its frame with
the seasons. In the summer it is mala-
chite; in autumn gold, wonderfully
wrought, and in winter, when its shining
surface is hidden under pr ,tecting
blanket Of snow the frame is purple
harmony of naked woods which sigh
mournfully for the return of spring and
their looking glass.
Watching the lake from the hoathouse
the other evening, studying the pictorial
possibilities Of the distant shore, | was
impressed with the likeness In line and
mirror-llke reflection TO L 1t view from
TIE Conduit Road looking DOWN upon the
Potomac above High IslaI The stul
waters and the wooded hi on the river
at that point are so very lake-like in
character Nature in a large way is, in
the temperate zone. after all, much
the same. The White Mountains and the
Smoky Mountains of western North Caro- |
lima differ more in the character of the
people, their habitations and dialect, than
does the country itself. So it is in Eng /!
land and the Continent. The sky IS !
the one thing that to the traveller looks |
the same the world over, and often bits !
of the old country that happen to be free !!
from any sign OF The infir ence of man |
upon it, seems to an Anne. can a bit of !
some familiar view here at ONE.
Beautiful as the cultivated fields are /
here in Cornwall. the uncut and still I'M
appreciated jeweI-the feature of the
town over which the artists go wild with
joys the neglected, rocky, bush grown
pasture land. Here, where sweet fern,
hard blackberry bushes briars, and birchss
play hide and seek wiz rim old grey
headed rocks, that hav-, sphinxlike,
watched untold generations Of them come
and go. Is the shrine OF the landscape
painter. Harmoaies of color and line in
infinite variety await MIN here. and how
ever heavy his painting on fit it is always
lightened when he turns his
face toward Cornwall pasture.
JAMES HENRY MOSER. !