Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-12-14

upon work wasted energies. ! find
it all that has been claimed for the
location. Tho only trouble with per,
SONS of my temperament is that the
atmosphere is too rare for the ncr.
vous system, and its exhilorating of
feet causes restlessness aud excite.
ment. As tonic it is better than
quinine. l am toning up rapidly,
and feel, sometimes, like J. could out
run II troop and leap over wall.
For many of the ills to which flosh
is heir, this is II grand health resort.
But if you, OF your readers, purpose
coming here, have your lungs tested
before starting. rs the pumping ca.
pacity may not be equal to the re-
Quirements of this rareiicd atinos-
phere. [ found my lungs luboring
like an old fashioned low pressure
engine when 1 dashed into this high
latitude. Tho heart has cxta work
TO do here until adjustment takes
place.
DOCTORS.
Standing on one of tho streets re-
Gently, my eye rested on the signs of
seven doctors i'll one builing of or.
binary Dimensions. l asked IL strap-
ger near me if there were any more
doctors i'll town, or had they all con
grcSatcd i'll one pla :e9 Ho replied
that there were as many in every
block in town as in this one. This set
me thinking. l thinlled it out
thusly; Denver is tho most healthy
place i'll the known world. People
never die here. The output of the
doctor Factories" for fifteen years
years past hns been so large in the
la"d, that the profession is SO over
done that physicians can not make n
living elsewhere, aud they crowd in
to Denver To live forever, aud thus
avoid starvation. Denver must be II
healthy location, judging from the
number of doctors here without prnc
tice. IL is the doctors heaven. Ii
they obtain n living, all right. If
they do not, I'LL The same. One man
told me that ho eats the atmosphere
here and gets fat on it. | have tried
it for ten days, and find the more mir
get the moro substantial food
want. 1 mny advance TO his expert
ence by remaining here longer, us L
am now only rcgandcd rs "tcndcr
foot" a person must be hero II
month before he is recognized as an
old citizen.
MOUNTAINS
j have seen tho mountains of this
vast western region. Like Moses
viewing the promised, l havo seen
many of them ut distance. The
out look Is all inspiring and stirs my
nature profoundly. | sazed at Pixies
Peak by the hour, and wondered
what the old giant OF the centuries
could tell OF the past There he
stands, SNOW crowned and silent, and
has stood MS sentinel, eyed from
affair by the weary plainslnen who
dragged their tired trims over desc.
late tracts towards the lald of cold.
hoping to find wealth in the tabled
Eldorado of tho West Many went
down to silence mud death beneath
tho gaze of the Monarch of the Rock
les, around whose Mural heights the
tempest laughed nnd Knocked ut the
iolllcs OF pigmy man. Yondcr, seer.
from my room this clear morning.
sixty miles away arc the dissolving
views of mountain ranges, all with
white crests, looking MS il they were
bathing in smiles supernal, aud hold
ing the kisses of celestial sunshine.
Grand mountains, the mighty ex
prossions of the out put of Omniiic
power. Mountains and oceans They
proclaim i'll grand unison the higher
truth of Revelation: "Grea; and
marvellous nrc Thy works, Lod God
Almighty Standing on one of these
exponents of mightiness, L called to
mind Il couplat from Everhart, of
Emory and Henry, thirty eight years
ago:
Surely if Gods Eternal Throne
Hath Pillars vast, This is one"
| wonder not Mt tho inspirations
awakened in tho poetic mind by
mountain grandeur. The ocean, vast
aud terrible, restless, like man, when
most ut rest, impresses me with its
awfulness. Listening to the voicings
OF its rhythmic thunders l have heard
1t swell the profound bass in Natures
great anthem. But turning from its
stormy presence and murmuring Dill
lows, 1 court the silent majesty of
the mountain bold. The inspiration
IS so elevating, and brings inc into
communion with the scenes Of the
Apocalypse, where one was taken
ito II great and high mou 1t,,in" from
whose golden cress he viewed the
Great City, New Jcrusnlem," which
descended from God out OF heaven.
With eye and glass l see mountain
upon mountain piled in endless con.
tinuity this morning, whose blended
brightness, snow-robed, presents n
panorann surprising far the loftiest
conception OF poet or painter. There
thcv stand, mOyelcsS monnrcho ~ =