The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-07
A RUN ON THE B. & 0.
Our COrre~pondent's Trip TO
Pied mont.


PIEDMONT, W.VA.,Sept. 25, 1882
He who has left home knows what
a trouble it is to get off. How many |
things he wants! And how many |
things he forgets! What trouble and |
vexation! For fear something useful
will be left out he packs away what
can be of no possible use to him
only to be in his way. After much
worry the time of departure corses
and all is declared ready. He knows
very we'll that something or other. is
forgotten, but go he must He bids
goodbye to his friends. Is delayed.
SAYS by bye again in such flush of
excitement that people wonder II he
is in his right mind. He piles him
self baggage and all into an old hack
aud is off for the railroad. He finds
no place for his umbrella SO he losses
is back among the trunks. He has
something to say about luck when he
crosses a sbrcakcr" and the trunks
come smashing together and he be-
holds the fragments of his only para
sol. He reaches the r. II. but finds
they don't run special trains to suit
every individual, SO he must stay
over night. He sleeps, or tries to
sleep on miserable something called
a bed. When morning comes we
find our transient visitor paying an
extra % cents for dyspepsia pana-
cea in the shape of sour bread, burnt
meat and butter strong enough and
old enough to take charge of the
house in case the rcd-nosed proprie-
tor should get "on the town" 1. e. too
show came you So"
/. BY and by our travellers train is
: due. He gets his ticket goes to the
:. depot-waits half hour-The train
= is late. Fixes his baggage all "right
i side up with care" In comes the
: train. The baggage master is re-
: quested, specially requested TO see that
!" his trunk it not turned top down
ward or made to stand on end. He
takes the car next the baggage car
:, He thinks of the delicate things in
u his trunk. He holds the railing oi
the car and watches. His trunk is
y lifted in the air is heavy and is drop
', ped anything but fright side up. Now
= it is sent whirling into the car Th,
} traveller thinks-but no difference
y what he thinks. At any rate he does
. not feel like praying for baggage
handlers. He enters the car ant
. soon forgets his baggage Though
y he sees but few, yet he secs the great
- est possible variety. Some are talk
: ing some are reading. Some ar
- showing their supreme indifference
, to surroundings by pretending tt
~ sleep. Some are occupying two seats
- with feet at a great elevation, som'
~ sit in silence-such silence that say
u the world is foolish for its chatter
y, ing / alone am right and wise.
~ HE loves no plays
% As thou dost Anthony; he hears n
W, music;
ed Seldom he smiles and smiles IN such
lis sort
ID AS fhe mock'd himself and scorned hi
spirit
!, That could be moved to smile at an,
D thing"
ty The adventurer comes into thi
car just as the train is getting unde
'lc Roadway. He strikes a clownisl
lis attitude, which seems to say "a wor
he dcrful feat, this catching train o
dc the fly. Women with disheyele
al hair, nursing screcching babes an
lis reading novels at the same time
ty. The young man with the waxed mu
in tache and bronze cheek eyes ever
ere female with look of beastly lus
IT. aOnly Grip ssThe World O
IN Wheels .Ingcrsollia," newspape
es, &C., we find read on the railwa
no trains. The news agent comes
ICE selling the best books ne has ev'
are read. Perhaps so, and perhaps Il
Ter best books he has read wonld be tt
worst books in the world to rea'
ne. On goes the train with screec
tu- rattle, hum, buzz, thunder r-r-umbl
ry- 1t climbs grades sweeps in its su
or pentine fashion around curves, dash
The through cuts, disappears in tunnel
CO. reappcars on open places again, U
on up, up, the summit it reaches, it sal
hin over the plain or plateau, then dow
nj down, the foot OF the mountain
lge reached, which may properly be GALE
The Piedmont.
cir The scenery on the B. d 0. K. !
18th from Newburg to Piedmont is wild
rho grand. Here the forces Of natu
de- have been at work. The mind rul
the back over the time which has bet
nee required to score these mounts al
OF hills to their present shape. Mou
'wn tains lift their heads heaven wal
pill Their sides are worn and quilted
ant running water. On their sides veg
'wo tation struggles with the barren al
ace rocky soil. Mid all the grandeur
in nature we have art. The nigh
ing railroad with it's prodigious cuts, I'll
UGH tunnels and trestles. The ''ir
Of horse" the application of steam, t
nge telegraph &c. What wonders ha
rdy been accomplished S1y man!
en- many thonghts arise that one til
rty, despite the excitement Of the see
heir -
Z. Il
Physicians say it combines all
desiderata of every ferruginOus tOl