Show NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE edcor bews yews your correa corna prudent pou dent boarded the 1050 JR Q G W y train at and atter after a fifteen minutes stop atop at thistle station coir fo lunch limon we trept slowly up the canyon and over the hills hill and at 14 1 pta pm the f train stopped at millburn Mill buro banket county on getting out of the car I 1 i found the station platform was coverett oo with beautiful snow several looted t deep the station house floor was wall of 1 I the same material with the wind and I 1 the blue sky lor for sides and covering 1 I not a very warm waiting place f for r lau passengers at th this is time of the year millburn Mi liburn ward consists of about 9 five families oue bund hundred reit antt fifty people and they wonder they cannot have a platform bad and i house as they do lots jots of t shipping ship pini by rail of lumber sawdust slabs etc ties it being the second shipping pola 1 in size in the county last year tift th place raised about bushels nf it of grain and other crops correspond i as 1 angly on looking up fro a the platform saw gat gathered tiered in the center of the villa a largo large crowd or of tuen men and boys boyatt tt engaged in a shooting match the toy get being hung on D the side of 9 ehte school house rho fhe whole town hat had tadeu sides the ibe win vinnera tiers to eJOY it 49 A free dance at the expense of th the losers and aa the dance was to be tile the liia night jao jan aad 2nd the he women fa folten were all very buy preparing picnic on inquiry I 1 found that millburn Mi liburn p office was in fair view six miles aou so these thirty families have to g gu a miles for their daily mail and as 0 oo 00 halt of the families tabb the besides many other pipers the they w to know why they oaut cant have a p office can you tell them well as the shades of night sett down upon the little town the A over the store was lighted up and ana amla women boys girls and plenio picnic dereu mx re J gathered in and the hall ball comm oommen enevaL oed I 1 on invitation the writer attended 4 found 1 was in a dance of 1 years ago two fiddles sat mat upon tbt t stand playing in that old fashion edi ways way fast and loud with in wit 4 t a single music book in big sieb N your correspondent was induced i take part in the dance all sell shouted the floor manager the mowa struck up rare and willi wild balanes Bala nev all shouted the prompter and away we go 12 who can describe tb pleasures of et the old time A 4 forbear to try about 10 p m a was called for tee picnic i anic anen all sat or I 1 stood around the hall and food of at taft best quality with plenty to spare W passed around shortly a ter pie picnic was over it was found that the en eaas of all mankind had bad got into the 1 room in the form of bottled g goo still the dance went along please for a while only having to stop in the middle ot of the set not while aej I 1 then E lee fiddlers fidd lers argued SOMO some point between themselves em selves which we under aland ata lad still w we a struggled on between the stops till we found the liquor had triumphed and an d the music began to more faint stud and weak with more grow until the manager manage r de ice quent akope ced ad we would have to give it up elder li 8 the he following night hilgh delivered a very flue floe illustrated lecture on the follies ot other bad habits which we and 12 ing pa hope wp will wil w I 1 do good bodre in haste g |