Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1868 — SELECT FIELD NOTES. [ARTICLE]

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Our mind had for weeks only feasted upon books. The hectic flush and • splashes of vertigo gently remi tided tts Nutt more aIY and action was demanded. A. call to teach, at ■Winamac, was given, and the promise to pay convinced us, arid we went. 4Jn Sunday afternoon we accepted a place in a good brother’s carriage and started for Remington. to autumn’s sighing winds and -wooed the walks again. AVq nqied with what firmness the oak trees refused to shed their frosted leaves. We let opr mind wander freely, giving voice to the stray ... lhaugld.Kiil.lhc..lUQineilLJUld...4>.atching them into network with snatches from the books. Most men die bankrupt to God and*humanify by petting such crazy notions as that “trees'bear fritters” and rivers flow rvith silver. Life is longenough if Ave would but improve the present. " * * * We reached the village at 4 P. 31. in good plight. The east-bound train did not depart for 11 hours. went to-hear -preaching. Tha. minister’s text was I)l‘ut. xxn—B. The comments were fair and instructive. We remarked an audience of inteliigent ladies and gentlemen.— The good people of Remington knowhow to appear well. “Near to the beautiful is the good.” AVc slept a short and dreiffny five hours, and jumped aboard the cars for Logansport, and <-re the peep, of morning light was slowly waiting the freight train for AiSnamac. It came heavy laden with iron lor the Union Pacific Railroad. The up grade was too much for steam power and the iron horse balked. We bad a fine chance to remark the soil and productiveness of that country. ’Twas the cheapest, if not the quickest, railroading of our life. We left Logansport at 7 A. 3L, and arrived hungry and tired at the Jackson Hotel at 2J 4*. M. Brother Carper soon quieted our nerves with plenty of palatable blessings, We repaired to the temple of jus\tice and found a goodly number of teachers gathered where instruction was wont lobe had- With our bashful reserve it was a little hard to break the ice. We however met earnest.co-workers, and soon swimmingly swept along. W.e owe grate-y ful thanks to the fair ladies in<T bokl men for their kind appreciation and assistance in conducting the Institute. It was a pleasant’ recreation from dulhiess of office work.— Our initial visit to AVinamac will be treasured as an oasis rojthc desert of life. We will eVer. associate it with quaint allusions t,b Solomon, Na-sby’s spclliug-Laok and.cxcellc'ut 1 music. I Wtj hope the Comniissiogers of | Pulaski county wiH seeurts tho services of a bell on the steeple to speak to the people the notes of passing

limo. »-Ia MHghtdM proper<®wggowr yUo tlqjt a iirsublass school bouse << -.lid i-a t.unish thy fair foino oi Whmmar.’ At 10 I’. M., on Friday, wo Lado farewell to the nclpqbna’amH nnd masters, with all the ;Teasaut nnienTlieg of the luHtilute, and rolled back io 1.0_./,o>, wh. re we ent< rp'rinpig ypiin’g friend John PurcupiTe, ; who kindly showed us the pity. John is a clever boy and a good due. LogansrioJt is a live city, with jnexfomstlble watcr-powcr.and consequent manufacturing ones. We left at 10 A. M. for the'West, and now i sit in the office to finish these' pen jotlimg-. *