The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-31

Suddenly from the seat beAibd me )
voice was heard.
s'Say. driver, will your horses scare2'
TIC yer AZ Kgif ~ the tafgyT looked
around, and saw . young man holding
out revolver, pointed In the direction
Of the dog.
Pat Up that gun. you darn foolr'
roared the blonde driver. "What do
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The young man, very much abashed,
muttered something about only want
ing to hasu a little fun and scare the
dog. and shecpishly returned bie bistoi
TO his pocket The little Incident had
the effect 10 raise the driver in my esti-
NATION, and the favorable impression
WIS further heightened when the En-
glishman offered him driKk from a
flask Of whisky, which he refused in
gruf manner
The second morning we reached the
summit OF the pass. The road was
steep, difficult, and, in places. very
dangerous The driver sesmed always
t-eool, rand began to exact the confidence
OF the passengers
1t was not quite light wEeh we
reached the divide ard, began the
descent on tho farther side. The pass
was scarcely pass in any proper sense
OF the term. 1t was simply broken,
ragged hollow, which cut through tho
ridge at an elevation many thousands OF
| feet above tho level OF the sea. The
shadows OF night were just sinking
from the mountain tops, and the scene
was one Of indescribable grandeur.
Above US, to the left, rose single
peak, clad in snow, and which, CATCH
| Ing the earlier rays from the eastern
horizon, stood In the clear atmosphere,
clean-cut massive, and glittering with
with Respondent opalescence. Just
| below us extended cloud formed
ocean, still dark with the shadows Of
night, which was as level as floor
and which extended to the distant hori-
ION. The high peak, with its bright
ness, seemed huge dome of light, as If
a great lamp to illuminate the cloud
! land below.
AS we descended, we entered the
ocean of clouds, which receded little
way from us, making it scem as II we
were dropping down into an enormous
we'll Through the walls OF this cloud
shaft we could sees distorted Objects:
pines assumed fantastic shapes, and
| great fragments of fallen rocks became
hideous monsters ready to spring on us
out of tho void. The composition Of
this ocean was something wonderful.
1t was of two colors, a fieecy white and
blue. These two were not intermin-
gled except in large masses;~ there WAS
clearly defined stratum of one, and
then the other everything it. They were
! like fascia of blue and white, all ex-
| hibiting superb striation.
Suddenly we passed through the cloud
masses, which left open the view below
| The hollow in which we began to de-
scend had sunk rapidly to a fathemless
Irayine, and we were seen to be crawling
along narrow shelf blasted out from
the side of the mountain and which
was but few inches wider than the
space required for the wheels of the
COACH We were between what seemed
two parallel mountains. / glanced up;
It was like looking out of deep slit in
the earth. ! looked down to the right
and withdrew my eyes with dizzy feel
ing of horror. 1t was on the very edge
of a, precipice that we were moving, and
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