The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-11
ARP IN LOUISVILLE,
me Cherokee Philosopher Seeing the
Sights.

Atlanta Consultation.
LOUISVILLE, September 2S.-Thc cars
were rolling on-smoothly and swiftly
they carried us over the polished rails
but still l couldn't sleep. | remember
we'll when we used to have To sill nm in
our seats and nod and bump around ali
night as we journeyed to New YORK n
Guy goods, and thought how much better
lhat was than the old fashioned stage
| coach IN which we used to travel. Nine
INSIDE and some on the top, and night
after night and day after day we endured
1t pleasantly and told stories and swap.
pea lies and exchanged our wit, and
somehow or other we got along and were
happy. Next came the railroads, and
we thought it was elegant and a luxury
10 ride ON 'em, for they glided along 80
smoothly over the snake. head rails-that
Is SO smoothly compared with the bump.
ing and jerking and twisting of the old
Stage coaches, and we never aspired 10
the luxury of a sleeping car. Then
came the little narrow berths, and soon
alter the Pullman sleepers, in which
man, after reading the news of the world
IN the Atlanta Constitution, can draw the
drapery of his couch about him and lie
GOWN 10 pleasant dreams.
i was riding in one OF these last night.
going to the exposition. The night was
cool and the road was smooth, and ever
and anon the locomotive would take on
strength like giant and could feel the
pulse OF its power as it whirled us along,
but still could not sleep. There were
some ladies close by, and they were cack.
ling about some Atlanta boys aud about
foolish children running away to get
married, and how many lovers they had
rejected, and one said she could have
married 400 times without running away
II she had wanted to, and the other said
she had Tilted enough young men to
make corduroy road mile long if
they had all been laid side by side, but
she had never found the right sort of q
man yet and she wasn't going to make
iool OF herself. But it wasn't the like Of
that that kept me awake, for take but lit.
tie Interest III those things now. have
served my day and done my duty in that
line as we'll as could, and am perfectly
content to stand OH my hand. AS DR..
te!ton used to say quote from the Con-
stt'ufton- There is my record-look at
II" Children anu grandchildren have
Deen clustered around me, and l see in
the distant future posterity as numer-
Gus as the sands of the seashore or the
leaves of the forest if posterity will run
the schedule of their illustrious help.
mate in this subloonary world. No, 1
wasn't thinking about those girls. Their
oranges dropped from their trunk on the
floor and rolled by me, and picked
them up and tossed them back with due
ci'ility, and they thanked me with a
smothered giggle but wasent thinking
about them girls and tried to 20 to sleep
but couldent. AS the cars swung
around curve it changed my center Of
gravity, and as it swung back again
gently rocked on my other side like an
infant in q cradle, but still | kept on
thinking and thinking and listening at the
rumbling rolling wheels, and my thoughts
wandered afar off into the universe of
motion. Here @as speeding along at
40 miles an hour, and here the world was
turning over on its axis at 900 miles al
hour and going towards the sun at 40 900
miles an hour, and couldent help pom.
dering OH all this complexity of motion,
this riddle of the universe. 1t was big
thing indeed to be whirled along in a
palace Car ut such u speed, but the car
W
a struggle amid the noise and rumbling
Of its friction, but the world rolled on
and on and had been rolling for ages and
ages without any visible power and it
kept me awake thinking and Illuminating
how it was done-how it was begun and
when it would stop, and it seemed to me
humble under the mighty hand of God
when he thought of it.
ut I did drop to sleep after awhile
that is after those girls stopped their
racket and the next morning 1 woke
up e: Louisville, OF near By and prepared
myself to take in the notable city. 1t
was my first visit to this southern metrop.
oils; this beautiful city; this city of
wealth and dignity, where the proud old
southern stock have congregated and are
living in leisure and refinement. I like
this old kentucky stock. 1t is a grand
old State and has record to be proud
of. For thirty miles out the country
around Louisville is garden and gives
signs If happiness and comfort among
her people. / recalled the time when
Daniel Boone found it q vast wilderness
of unbroken forests and lamented that
the grand old trees were gone. The ma
tive forest always reminded me Of the
vigorous hair on strong mans head. 1t
is natures covering, and when it is gone
dame nature has lost her hair and is bald
headed. But mankind must live and
the forest must 60 and now houses and
fences must be built mainly of iron and
stone, for we live in an iron age, and it is
cheaper than wood. There is timber
still-lots Of timber-but it is fast going,
and few years will sing its requiem.
There are sixty saw mills in one county
near to me, and they have cut half Of
its timber away in the last FIVE years.
The process is sure and simple. In ten
years more the Georgia pine will be az
scarce as it is now in Kentucky, and the
face of nature will be desolate. All
around Cedartown for miles there is not
tree remaining, and the shaved land
looks beack and barren. What the saw
mills did not cut for lumber the iron
works took for charcoal, and so goes all
over our beautiful land.
I went through Dir. Avery's plow
worke to- day, works that cover fifteen
acres of ground, and supply whole States
with their products, and l wondered
where their timber was to come from
twenty years from now. When we con.
template all this destruction it seems
alarming, but then nothing ought to be
alarming, for Providence always provides.
Providence makes no mistake, no blum
ders. We may waste and destroy, but
Providence is kind. Two years ago
barbed wire was twelve cents pound
ond ro,v II 10 civ Our timber for rails