Milford chronicle., 1907-06-07

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feel glad now that it is over that did
take the trip. l thisk 1 have learned some
/ thing that I did not knew before; there is
much that the Eastern people might learn
\ from the nations Of Western Europe In the
/ United States am persuaded that we don't
know it all, and there is much we could learn
from them that would be useful TO us. am
satisfied that climate has msch TO do ip help
ing form the methods and habits fthe people
everywhere. The ordinary squirrel will cease
to provide for winter If you take him to
country where the necessity to provide against
the cold does not exist. Man, like the animals,
viii not labor where the necessity for labor
does not exist. Much might be said about the
difference that exist among the different races
OF men on the earth but I will not enter into
details here.
received a letter from Mena. Jim's wie. in
which she suggests that write a book. and give
it the title of"Around the World at Eighty"
While the title is good enough, the trouble is
that 1 don't think have sufficient brains. TO
write a book cut Of material have that would
interest the public.
This is my second trip around the world
My first trip commenced when 1 went on
board the sailing ship Revenue" at New
York, in the. last of June 1852, when went
around the Cape of Good Hope to Australia; :;
and ended, when I came around Cape Horn
I from this place to New York; leaving San
Francisco on August the 7th, 1857 and arriving
IN New York IN the clipper ship Lookout"
in November OF that year. This time 1 len
[ New York on the 18TH Of November 1906, and
arrived here March 22nd, 1907 four months
and seven days. My first voyage around the
world took five years and three months; but
of that time I spent Il months mining in
Australia. and nearly three years in Cali
/ fornia, part OF the time digging for gold. So
/ II ever reach the East, / never expect to
cross the ocean again. l have crossed the
Atlantic Ocean . times, and he Pacific twice
/ and that is enough.
I have lived to see four score, and sti,l my
health is good, my appetite splendid nothing
/ seems 10 disagree with me. / can look back
and see many mistakes I have made. but 1
always tried 10 do what my judgment dictated
Tor the bes, 40 the time; 20 ] have nothing to
regret or for grieviug over. Spilled milk was
never in my makeup. My motto has been
"to do the very best 1 could as emergencies
arise" and so I enjoy life at So am glad that
my faculties remain in tact while old people
are accused OF being unable to see .heiT fail
! ings, ard often conceive they are more wise
when in fact they are only childish There
may be some truth in the assertion. for the
old saying goes that young people who think
old people are fools but in many cases old
people know young people are fools so am
glad to know that / am not called 10 settle the
controversy between the old people and the
young people, as to which is the greatest or
biggest fools. 1t is said Of theFold writer
teacher and philosopher Thomas Carlyle,
that being asked his opinion of the English
people in comparison with other nationalities
and peoples OF the earth, said. there was
about forty.eight millions Of people in Great
Britain, including England, Ireland, Wales
ana Scotland, mostly FOOLS" so after all it
is hard 10 draw the line where the fool sets in,
and where he leaves OF.
l received several letters from Mena when
arrived here, as / had ordered all my mail
through Thomas Cook q Sol, to be forwarded
to this place, San Francisco, when l left
Naples. So, as Ilsaid before, there was con-
siderable mail here, when ] arrived. In one
Of Mena's letters she stated that your wife
Mrs. Anderson, was very III and was hardly
expected to recover; out a letter subsequently
written, she stated that she was much better
and would recOver-at least that was the last
information she hadi from Frederick. Not
having heard anything later, am hoping that
ere this she is back again to her former health.
Well you and she have lived long together;
perhaps you havellived longer together than
any other two IN Kent county. / would GER
tainly be glad to see You both live until you
had passed the Goth anniversary OF your mar
ried life, and both enjoying good health for
without health Il seems to me life is not worth
living
am thinking about-going down to South
ern California, about Pasadena, Redland, or
Los Angeles and stay until the middle or last
of May, ,unt I'll the cold and disagreeable weather
has passed by. 1 want to get East in time TO
20 to Chautauqua, in Western New York
state. or to Ocean Grove. l am undecided
which yet. ] prefer Uhautauqua IA some re-
spects; il is far and away ahead Of Ocean
Grove. in that they employ more and better
talent in all lines 10 entertain and interest The
people; and there are no negroes there the
work is all done by the hite people, and they
seem to love to do their own work; they go at
Il with vim, and there are no negroes to be
seen; but, on the other hand, Ocean Grove has
that broad expanse of the ocean, where one
can sit and look out on the broad expanse Of
the waters, and inhale and take in the health
giving qualities, that come so gently to fan
our brows and invigorate our tongues. surely
like both places, and ! hope old Uncle Peter
will have as good places at his command "on
the other side" to give out as either Of these
places, and shall be like the Psalmest-sat-
isAed.
hope you both are well and enjoying life in
the quiet of old age, under your own vine and
fig tree with nothing to modest or mar the
every day happiness, that ought TO come, and
smooth the pathway, down the gentle decliv-
ity that goes the way that all the race has
gone before. Good bye May peace that comes
with a life well spent, be the peace that you
both enjoy is the wish and desire Of your
friend, JOSEPH BURCHENAL.