Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-07-28

against 10000, 900 for 1882. Tae
growing corn looks asSif the crop
would he enormous. / have never
before seen the corn fields OF the
Oaio farmers SO we'll kept Clover,
well, the whole country seems To
be teeming with this valuable
plant. | noticed numerous wheat
fields where IL was In bloom and
falling down over the ground.
The oats looked az If the crop was
an most excellent one. So much
for the crops.
A person travelling over the c..
w. and Is. II. r. gets hiss moneys
worth of rural scenery. and he
gets his moneys worth over and
over again in appetite. 1t takes
all of the "old kinks out OF ones
body and puts new ones In by the
dozen. This Railroad performs
the astonishing feat of going sew
eral ways at once. 1t boxes the
compass about every mile. SO to
speak. The traveller has fine OPP
portunities for reflective reading.
He will no more than accomplish
one paragraph when with q sud-
den jerk he is scooted across the
seat. and in the scramble to regain
sitting posture has lots OF time
to digest what he has read. l felt
like a demoralized corkscrew by
the time / reached Cincinnati;
and one has no idea how delight
full il is to feel that way until you
have tried 1t. | enjoyed its so much
thar / wished that was going
right on TO ST. Louis--or even San
Francisco, as there will soon he a
large gathering of the Knights
Templar craft in the last named
city. The man who runs the Rail-
road lunch-roOm at Loveand Is a
genius of the first water. Feeling
the least hit "Off" from the con-
slant vibrations of the train, |
hoped off at that point and called
for a cup of coffee.
do you want anything elss?'
he asked.
w uut uhNC you SOt
"Well, what do you want?"
Can you give me a corned beef
S ndwich?"
"No.n
Please make me a tongue sand
wIch.'
Haven't got any,"
Have you got anything
~ es.''
"Wnat?"
boiled ham sandwiches, you
bet ("
Anything else?"
mo"
BY lifetime / had succeeded in
wrestling this information from
this curious Buckeye" the train
was moving on, and IL was 100
late to even obtain one OF these
greasy tid-bits; aud all this waste
of wind, time, and patience, and
the mercury dangling around in
the nineties. Having thus Toasted
luxuriously and taken my seat IN
the train, my pleasure was soon
to be further enhanced by the fem
mime member of the broom bril-
gade who with dash and-I-don't-
care-if-I-do look, entered the Car
and began TO raise dust by the
bushel. AS she seemed to enjoy
it and the other passengers meek
ly submitted, u woman armed
with q broom is dangerous
being, / hoisted my feet, with au
effort, out Of her way, and skunk
into the corner of my seat in a
very quiet manner, hoping there
by to escape being swept out N.Y.
self, and / did. We must hurry
on, Cincinnati is 500 miles from
Martinsburg, Ito be statistical and
mathematical, 493). So much the
better for Martinsburg. In the
same breath / might say that 1t is
a picturesque and dirty sort of a
town where lager beer, corn
whiskey, and hogs, seem to be
the predominating elements.
Having no desire to make an in
vestment in the above noted stock
/ hurried off to the mighty Ohio
and WAS soon aboard one Of the
many file steamers plying It's
waters, and en- route 10 our pres
ent quarters, twenty miles above
the city. 5
The little hamlet Of c. Is a
beautiful one, pleasantly situated
on a hill on The left bank OF the
river undulating into correspond
ing prominence and depressions,
mountains and valleys Ia minia-
lure, The little scoops excavated
by arr almos. seducing one to
plunge precipitousiy into their
Goa depths Eternal evergreens,
Kentucky magnoIias, weeping
willows, and divers other products
of nature and arboriculture, whose
foliage ia many instance is ba-
spangled with red. white and