| Show ON THE billowy BEEP thirty lemr spent on the j 1 ENTERING NEW harhola HA i it ii a most lovely life in the metropolis eastern prices and change editor thirty hours on the broad atlantic this was my first experience on the great deep peculiar thoughts crowded the mind what a mighty expanse of water ever restless heaving surging to and fro how vast how yet he who spreads it over three foai aba of a world holda it in his hands and says to oceans thus far and no farther the voyage was from norfolk virginia to new york city wo experienced no seasickness sea sickness the weather was lovely and at times a fine view was had of the new jersey shore line the ship was lighterd ligh teed into the harbor by the of liberty we passed under brooklyn bridge made brilliant with electric lights and anchored safely at the beech street pier when at a small town in eastern kansas I 1 purchased some raspberries rasp berries the price was 13 cents and two coppers were offered in change further ast they are more close yet in price and change what is the railroad fare cromb to H nineteen cents you put down two dimes and receive a ticket and one cent all the philadelphia papers are cne cent per copy verila I 1 realize I 1 am in the land of the penny splitters yes and in the land of alie millionaires millions gathered from harvests of pennies on a railroad car in a seat just behind me sat a farmer who the day before had drawn from the bank lie was going to the city on business two respectable appearing men engaged him in con finally be waa decayed decoyed into playing a game of chance and in ten had his money before he hardly it the sharps were gone leaving him walking from car to car bemoaning his loss moral dont do your fort as artemas ward says independence hall philadelphia is a place ever attractive to the visitor There in the corridor leading to the council chamber bangs the old cracked bell anat on the fourtly of july 1776 proclaimed with its iron tongue liberty to all abe world since that hour however it has been silent but the era of freedom which it then been a blessed boon to mankind the like of wh ch the world has never seen the original draft of the declaration of independence can here be read with the signers names written by own handa the alory is told that when they were subscribing their names to the document one of them remarked that they must now hang together whereupon another replied if they did not king georgre III would hang them separately there is aarde collection of original portraits of the patriots of revolutionary times adorning the wall besides many interesting relics of that period nicely arranged for inspection on to washington JB K |
