West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-11-22

about them like all mad, just as
they have been through ages past.
And this was the how of it.
Now we are we'll aware that this
theory doesn't exactly comport with
Darwin's evolution ideas, but we
submit that our euoJut1on is much
more simple and easily understood
than his. And Darwin's notions
about natural selection" and the
survival Of the fttest" wouldn't
work in this country at all. We de-
fly any student of science or philos-
ophy to find anything in the region
of Hawks Nest, either select or
natural, and as to the survival Of
the fittest," there isn't anything
that fits in this whole country.
THE BLUNDER OF THE AGES
was the dumping of all these heaps
of hills and rocks and stuff right in
the center of the graaedest, richest
and inemensest coal-yards in all the
universe of space, so far as the re-
turns have yet come in. Of course
this wasn't done on purpose, but
it's now costing these enterprlsing
miners a heap O bother to get at
the coal, all the same, just as if it
had been covered up with malice
aforethought. However, it occurs
to US on second thought, that it
NAV have been a
HAPPY STREAK O LUCK.
We mean to say that it may have
been lucky after all that all these
immense heaps and piles of the
finest coal in the world have thus
been hid away under rocks and
mountains through all these ages,
for there's no doubt in our mind
but that if it had been living around
loose where the mound-builders and
squaws could have got at it, it
had long ago been all consumed in
lighting up festal occasions, war
dances, funeral hops and such as
that.
1t were simply draft on the
widest Of guessing to attempt to
prophesy as to the
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
of this Kanawha coal region, where
almost every hill and mountain is
interlarded from top to base with
massive veins of the richest and
finest coal for all purposes in the
known word. AS one flies along
the bank of the river by rail, and
shoots under the many coal-tipples,
and turning his eyes zenith-ward
follows the almost perpendicular
railroad tracks away up, up, up,
almost among the clouds, one gets
a faint inkling of the immense
wealth that lies above, beneath.
on every hand, and which capital
and enterprise will surely drag
from its dark hiding places and
turn into the channels of trade and
commerce.
RICH AND ROMANTIC
may we'll be spoken of this grand
country, and that it will have a
brilliant future in rapid growth is
most evident when We consider the
penchant of American progress to
combine business and pleasure.
The inrxhaustable minerals of this
region will make it base for bust
ness, while its unequaled scenery
and health giving springs will
ma Ike II pleasure and health-re-
sort for the world.
But d word or two of this bright
little city we are looking down on
from our lofty perch-what shall
we say of
Hinton. the county seat of Sum
mers county, sits mostly on ii beau
tlful plateau, around and beneath
whose rocky walls sweeps the ever
roarin New River as it rolls and
splashes over its rocky bed The
town has now about 1900 inhabit-
ants, and has been principally built
in the last half-dozen wears. 1t is
divided into upper, middle and
lower Hinton, the former being on
the low ground on the river above
the plateau. This locality over
flows occasionally, when the rapid
current proves disastrous. Four
wears AGO an INNS ,al A,,J cu,o,,t