The Newtown bee., 1902-01-10

To care for themselves, it makes one distress
ed.
IT'S not a few cases, they are all over town,
The orchards grown with weeds, and fences
all down.
But the beautiful oaks that bordered each
Are very beautiful now a nd full as fair.
With their fine green leaves all the winter
long,
Where the mocking bird pours fourth its
witching song.
The people here are nice, among the best.
They came from the North, the East and the
West.
Hospitable too, they make you feel at ease,
And in their Intercourse. they mean to please
Some OF the houses here, that look so bad and
drear,
Bereft of paint for many a long, long year,
Step into them, and you will surely see
They are as we'll adorned, as one could wish
them be.
OF the churches here, I'll not forget to tell;
The Congregational has cracked bell.
The house is white and very fair to look upon
On the same street the Methodists hold sway
They are so very poor they cannot pay
Their pastor enough, to keep the wolf away
From the door Of the house, in which they
stay.
But the pastor breaches on, some soul to save
And his dear little wife, so earnest and brave
Holds up bis hands, while with daughter ant
son,
Suffering from want, says, Goods will b.
DONE"
The Episcopal church on Volusia street,
Is very pretty, also very neat,
Surrounded with palms OF various kind,
We are charmed without, and within comfor
find.
But so few the members OF this holy band
You can almost count them on one hand.
The Dunkards have church, I'm told,
Where they meet each week, and service hold
A curious service too, that makes them meet
To wash each Other's-not face and hand
but-feet.
Two otner colored churches here abide
With influence neither high, nor broad O.
wide.
They are brown and uncouth looking. it il
said
You'd sooner take them for a carriage hous'
or shed.
Here is a library, we'll filed, and patronized
Supplied with such books that you would b
surprised;
As white" men conduct it, with women too.
The reading room is furnished we'll and vel
comes you.
The people feel quite proud, and we'll the
may,
The place Is so neat, that the light of day
l 1.,.>
and done,
The need Of praise is due Miss Dickinson.
And sitting within in your easy chair,
You look across the street and near at hand,
Just beyond:the palms, with their heads hig
| in air.
You see the Orange City grand band stand
The city was mapped in symmetrical squal
or ten acres each, SO level and nice,
And when they were sold e'er one was awar
They had doubled and thrilled on origin;
price.
This region abounds in valuable springs,
Yielding all kinds Of mineral water.
And company was formed that brings
1t to each house, or rather, it had oughter.
The water is of the best and purest kind.
The chemist of the state says he surely cannt
! find
A better water in the land, to Danish all o,
ills;
The people here assert it too, for it "just fiji
the bills"
A huge artesian we'll was bored, down deep,
Until they struck it rich. through sand an
| shell,
| When the boring drill dropped down fu
thirty feet,
And struck this healing, gushing, flowing wei
A verit4 BILE lake, two hundred feet. deep dow
So pure, they use it freely in the town,
And ship it DER the state in bottles or
casks,
Or In any other medium, that any person ask
1 ought to tell you of-but you would fain #
alize
The beauty of the pine-straw road to Enter
prise"
Or of the hard shell road that leads to !
Land.
So f1ne so straight, so level and so grand,
But sleepy-time has come. think I'll clos
And lay down my pen, and myself to repos
P.S.
have Just thought Of a curious thing to te
IT'S not Of groves or people, church or we'll.
But Mr. Leavitt-Rufus is his name,
From Washington, Connecticut, he came.
AS postmaster he tries us all to please.
Since the great freeze" bereft him Of
| orange trees,
Now quite lot OF fancy fowls he's keeping,
And with very fine success is meeting.
a He has them trained we'll, and they obey hi
too,
Much quicker than parents children often c
When the old white hen on his shoulder do
fly,
The rest OF the flock around the barn do
HE,
And coming back in rows doth stand,
Waiting the order from him, to commal
. Them, twice again, around the barn to go,
And 60 they do with naught about them slo