The Newtown bee., 1901-08-09

upon the steps of the train, to the mo- ment when they reach home again, used up and exhausted. Did they have good time? No, they did not go for that, exactly. They went because other people were going, and they would not get the worth of their money un- less they took notes of everything, so that they might recall it. have lot of notebooks, about 20 of them. I will sell them cheap. They are filled with things that the professors said mary. thought it would be of great use to me in after life. I thought, doubtless, that I would get many a sermon out of them; but I haven t.. not one. The best place to get sermons is out of life, what people are thinking about, what they are talking about, what they would like to examine. Such sermons people will listen to, but they don't care a fig for sermons gotten out of musty old notebooks, that, with every passing month, grow more musty and out of date. If you go to the "Pan," leave the notebook at home. See all you can, remember what of it you can; but, above all things, enjoy your trip, don't work at it overhard. There are so many things at Buffalo to see besides the exhibits in the build- ings. One sight, not advertised as one of the attractions, is the newly welded pair. Why, of course, the "Pan' makes just an ideal place to pass the honeymoon. Niagara is close at hand; and, from time the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, newly welded pairs have been going to Niagara. A young lady remarked to me some time ago. that .eyery Jack has his Jill." This particular young lady, though having arrived at the proper age, q should SuppOse,) had not yet found her Jack, but most Jills do, and most of them go out that way before they settle down to the bread and-butter problem. You can tell this you see them. They generally leave
 trail behind them, of a vegetable that grows in the South. They do not talk a great deal; they more often sit and admire, not the scenery out of the car window, but each other. Every body in the car with them has an in terest in the pair; they are the ob- served of all observers. Most people, I dulge in little idle speculation as to how the sweet dream is coming out, as to whether their gentle bark Shall l always sail upon an unruffied sea; but, of course, it is going to have grace full voyage, for most marriages, the stern old bachelor to the contrary not withstanding, are made in Heaven.
 l meant to say above, when this little aside upon young married couples broke my thread, that l could have taken along a notebook, filled it up, cover and all, and written some StatiS- tical articles patterned after the U. s. ovfc. h,1f nf I,nr cared for such articles, and would not have read them. have tried to chat with you about what there was out there between the twin lakes, just as we would chat together around our blazing hearth fire in winter, or in summer uOn. our veranda, while the soft moonlight threw it's pale radiance over us as silver sheen. AS now l am spinning my yarn to it's close, want to catch up few threads here and there, just as I pick them up at random anywhere upon the grounds.
 Those were pretty good apples in the Horticultural building to be kept since fall. Cold storage is a great eating, I mean of man with a fat pocketbook, who has access to a large city market. There are good many things now that used only to be had during short season, that can now supply his table the year round. Well, when it comes to having strawberry shortcake in December and rattle snake WatermelOnS when the crOcuS peeps out of the ground,I I'll be ready to vote that the world, gastronomically, is ordered right. l believe that the one who addressed Grange meeting here was about correct when he said: '"The farmer who raises the apples and sells them at a dollar barrel, gets feeds his COWS, and still cOmpels him to grub. The capitalist who buys the
 farmers apples for dollar barrel in the fall, and, keeping them by cold storage, sells them for three dollars a | barrel in the spring, gets the two dol 1 lars above the bottom dollar that en- ables him to ride iii his carriage and send his family to Europe." Some day the farmers may see the wisdom of
 joining their forces, putting their apples in their own cold storage, and securing the extra two dollars for themselves. Is that time yet to l come?
 What wonderful witchery of grace and beauty was made by the inter- l twining and interlacing of grains and corn, and even tin cans, in pyramids and arches, did not make a sorry sight. got the impression that Cali fornia was pretty big State. Of course, had that impression before;
 but every time 1 see anything from California that impression grows. l have met some small men from Cali fornia who could spin some pretty big yarns. Corn stalks so tall that a lsix
 foot man by standing .On tip-tOe could
 just reach the lowest ear with cane,
 and tomatoes that could be picked
 window; oh! that is only the begin
 ming of the tall things Californians
 tell. But the plums and the apri-
 cots, and the peaches, preserved in al- cohol in large jars, did look bigger
 than anything l ever saw grown on
 the stony New England hills. They
 were not good to eat, however: the al
 cOhOl had ruined them. That was the satisfaction in looking at them; they did not make your mouth water.
 | I hope that you get into the Art gallery on a cooler day than we did. l
 do not know that a free circulation Of
 air hurts works of art. Perhap it does,
 for the directors were bound that not
 a breath of air should strike them. l
 was almost waiting to see the saints
 and monks in the pictures wipe the
 preparation from their faces. 1 don't
 remember the slightest thing that there was in the old gallery, except ]