tent, together with copper, lead, gold, silver and other mineral strata, abound. In some parts of the range rock salt exists in abundance, and in others salt is obtained by boring artesian wells, and evaporation.

The surface of these hills is clothed with noble forests, and the valleys are

This evening we will visit some of the most beautiful places along the Susque

hanna, the Juniata, and the Connemaugh Rivers, in Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies. These streams flow through a region of surpassing loveliness, well deserving the tribute paid to it by the late Thomas Buchanan Read:

"Fair Pennsylvania! than thy midland vales,
Lying 'twixt hills of green, and bound afar

By billowy mountains rolling in the blue,

No lovelier landscape meets the traveler's eye."

The Juniata-the names of all these rivers are Indian in their origin, and somewhat obscure as to their meaning-takes its rise at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains proper, and follows a winding course, in an easterly direction, for over a hundred miles to its junction with the Susquehanna, a few miles above Harrisburgh. Comparatively few persons are acquainted with this stream. In fact the whole of this region is worthy of far more attention than it receives from the tourist.

We will now imagine ourselves, if you please, at the romantic village of Huntingdon, 203 miles from Philadelphia, on the Harrisburgh and Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad. This is the capital of the county of the same name—a county rich in agricultural produce, and in its stores of minerals, as yet hardly touched. Here we get many fine snatches of scenery.

Here is a very graphic picture showing a railway cut through one of the characteristic slaty ridges of the country, and giving a beautiful view of the valley and adjacent hills. Not far from this is a natural curiosity worth turning aside to see. A little tributary of the Juniata, called Arched Spring, flows for one mile under ground. Its entrance and its exit are shown in the two accompanying illustrations. I do not suppose that any one has been bold enough to follow this little stream through this one dark mile of its course, but you see that it comes at last back again to the sunlight, and sparkles and rejoices on its destined way. I think that we may draw a moral from this, though, in the dignified presence of our honorary members, I almost feel that it is presumptuous to suggest it.

THE PRESIDENT: We trust that the dignity of the honorary members will not be so great as to be unduly repressive upon the juniors. Pray let us have your moral.

JOHN Simply this, that darkness, trial, and obscurity in a human life must not be confounded with failure. If this spring in the mountains never issued forth again as a brooklet to be seen and admired, its intrinsic value and, probably, its

uses would be none the less important even in its rocky chambers than they are in the light of day.

KATE: Still I would rather have a little sunlight on my course than be all the time in darkness and obscurity.