i8o WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



the seashore and then back to the big city, where he 

 went to see Fairmount Park. He had all these years 

 been buying ready-made clothing of a house in Phila- 

 delphia. He called upon these people and was so im- 

 pressed with the size and merits of their plant and the 

 courteous treatment which he received that he now 

 says it will be Philadelphia for him twice a year after 

 this. 



Citizens generally do not realize what an advantage 

 this stop-over privilege is to every one engaged in 

 business in the city. Merchants of the west, the north- 

 west and southwest are finding out now more than 

 ever before that in addition to the permission given to 

 " break the journey," as our English cousins put it, 

 they can ride over the best-appointed railway system 

 in the world and buy in the best markets for many 

 lines of goods in the whole United States. 



This Missourian was loud in praise of the fine 

 scenery and well-kept and prosperous-looking farms of 

 the old Keystone state. And next morning as the 

 train sped through the state of Ohio and a portion of 

 Indiana the contrast between the farms in these states 

 and our own was very marked, indeed. 



The farms in Ohio seemed to be particularly slovenly 

 kept. On many of them the weeds outranked in 

 growth the crops themselves. 



We arrived at Chicago in a rain. The time-table 

 gave us an hour and a half to go from the Pennsylvania, 



