Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-08-28
Camp Elizabeth.

In the language of the rudy checked
man, it was 'perfecly booful," or, IS
| Cholley would have said, it was 'peku-
! liarly nice, don't yer know, or, as John
Chinaman would express il, "heapee
sweetee girlee,'' but our sun-burned
| maidens simply said with sigh, it was
grand" and gorgeous" and divine.
1t began on August -, 1902 (the camp,
| mean) when we boarded train No. II
on the Baltimore '& Ohio Railroad at
| Duffields and after a short ride of five
miles we stopped at Pitchers Mill,
alighted, and laden with many bundles,
wendell our way several hundred yards
along the Potomac until we came 10 a
halt at the cottage at Rafting Springs,
two miles east of Harper's Ferry. The
next thing we did was TO name the
camp, and we named it Camp Eliza
BETH" after Miss Elizabeth Osbourne,
one Of the sweetest and most popular
maidens in our party, and then pro-
ceeded to enjoy ourselves in such ways
as only young hearts know.
In our party were Misses Katharine
Lyme, of Sharpsburg, Md, Susie Legge.
of Oakland, Md, Martha Hawking, of
Washington, ID. c., Nellie Doll, Of Knox
vile, Tenn, and Misses May and Eliza
beth Osbourne, Bette Beckham, Laura
Link and Hessye Melvin, Of Duffields,
w. Va.-as sweet and enchanting maid
ems as e'cr zephyr kissed or the sun
shine tanned. Then there were MessrS.
Julian Lyme, OF Sharpsburg, Md, Hun
ter Doll, of New York, Ernest Williams,
Of Shenandoah Junction, W. Va, War
rem Hunter, John and Samuel OsbOurne,
Boyd and Harry Link, Edwin Triplett
and Lawrence Hartman, of Duftields.
And to complete the party were Mrs.
Francis Bennett, of Washington, ID. c.;
our good chaperon. Mrs. II. J. Miller, Of
DutfieldS, and Uncle" Charles, the
cook.
Really, it was one Of those times of
which poets sing, when youths warm
blood longs for rest and quiet, recrea-
ton and panionship, and Cupid
deals the cards and hearts are trumps.
There were Just twenty such hearts, so
there were ten fellows for every girl and
ten girls for every fellow, excepting a
trio of fellows who SeemedtO have lust
one girl, " and then there was one fellow
TO have two girls, and two girls really
exceptions, you know.
We took with us lots of thngs-hookS
and lines, nets and guns, plenty to wear
and good things TO eat, hammOcks ga
lore, and Sam Hunter brought doll.
Then there was moonlight and moSqui-
tos, boating and music, and shady, qui-
ct hooks, and hearts On fire. We caught
lots of fish, and Cupid'S lyme landed a
whale. Hello, central And we did
lots Of other things, TOO, for one fellow
thinks he found the missing link, and
another fellow, who has been in the
habit of teaching fair maidens about
angles and tangents and spheres, seemed
to have a peculiar inclination to take
our fair maidens off into coy hooks and
shady dells and teach them Quietly by
a sudden inspiration how an eclipse can
take place, and what delightful titila-
ton it is TO circumscribe circles by
moonlight without any compasses.
But it is all over now. And though
the maidenS are somewhat tanned and
freckled and burned they have not lost
single charm Of their sweetness or
their grace. But for the fellows can't
say, nor what they said, or what they
did, for what they lost or what they
found, know not Yet do know that
those days shall ever live among the
dearest flowers that blossom in the Ster-
lie wastes of their memories. So that
when they, like our good chaperon, are
helping carry another's burden up the
hill, they too can look back TO time
when, down in the valley by the old
Potomac, they gathered in the sheaves
while the moon shined and the gentle
zephyrs waited towards them the fra
GRANGE OF sachet powder and pepper
mint and forget-me .nots.
But before stop want to voice the
sentiment of us all in grateful acknowl-
edgement to our beloved chaperon, for
it was due to her kind and faithful ser
vices that our stay was so enjoyed, and
we can never forget her, nor the beauti-
full and hearty manner with which she
looked after our comfort and enjoyment,
and we beg also to extend our hands in
hearty thanks TO Mr.. Galloway, Divis-
ion Superintendent of the Baltimore IL
Ohio, for his obliging courtesy in allow
ing trains to stop between stations on
our account. And here's three cheers
with hearty goodwill for Warren Hun
ter, the jolly good fellow, the genial
gentleman, the man Of chivalry, to
whom all the praise and all the glory
for all those joys rightly belong. For
it was he who engineered the party and
assembled such madens, with such
ideals as lift mankind to higher plane.
T.