The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-07-25
N. A. !.
At the Richest City in the World.
The Journey from Morgantown to
the wonderful Helena.
Farewell to the Last Familiar Face
and then Sprightly Resume
of the Journey.
HOW A LIMB OF THE LAW GOT LEFT
With other interesting Incidents and
Many More to Come.


Many More to Come.
Special corr. of the New DOMINION:
HELENA, Montana, July 17.-"It
was cold day in July" when / arri-
we'd at Chicago one day last week af-
ter a pleasant ride over the elegantly
appointed B. d o. An icy breeze
was blowing from the Lake sending
great foam-capped rollers from far
over the water racing shoreward to
break on the beach and toss their
snowy names far up in the air as
they reared and plunged and then
fell back like exhausted coursers.
The first thing did was to invade
the baggage car hunt up my trunk
and get out winter coat, into the
comfortable depths of which l was
soon snugly buttoned.
The last familiar face looked up
on was, as stood in the vestibule
when the train paused to pant like a
weary giant in bustling little town
in West Virginia, not far from Ben
wood. A lady got out of the forward
cart whom l last met in 1879 and as
she passed along she looked up with
start of eager recognition and call
ed my name.
/ travelled two thousand miles be-
fore | again saw any one / had ever
seen before. There is no solitude to
compare to being surrounded on all
sides by faces in which you can trace
not single familiar lineament.
Riding on the rail would be very
monotonous were it not for the little
incidents and condolences that con-
stantly occur. A German lady whose
home was in Wheeling occupied one
seat Of my Pullman section as we
were passing through the picturesque
Cheat river scenery She had Just
returned from revisiting her old home
in Europe and was greatly interested
in comparing the lofty peaks and
deep gorges of Cheat river with the
crags and chasms of the Rhine which
she had left only ten days before.
She said "Ah! but l prefer America,
for along the Rhine saw women toll
ing to the tops of hills higher than
any of those, carrying great baskets
of earth strapped to their backs to
pour out on the rocks as foothold
for vines for something must be rails
ed on every foot Of space or some
body must starve."
A large number of delegates from
the Sunday School Union of Boston
were aboard en- route to attend Con
vention in Chicago. ! found and re.
stored to one of the mem bers two
beautiful rings and was fairly over
whelmed with torrent of surprised
thanks. Is honesty then, such rare
virtue in Boston?
had hoped to see something of
Ohio as l went along but Graded
"like diamond in down" / never
awoke till far across the State line
the following morning.
The b. d O. runs through some of
the loveliest and most productive
portions of Indiana and Illinois. The
country was fiat as floor but not at
all monotonons when studied in de-
tail. The farms and fields are laid
out as regularly as geometrical draw
ings, the roads all run parallel or at
right angles to each other. The
houses are handsome, the barns large
and substantial. There were thous-
ands of acres of rankly growing corn
whose dark green streamers rippled
like banners in the breeze.
There were miles and miles of
richly ripened wheat ready for the
reaper. There were bourdless fields
of timothy and clover, corn and wheat.
Wherever undertaking had been re-
sorted to, the land hlossomed like
the rose and vegetation spread itself
like a green bay tree. Where drain
ing had been neglected corn had
bedraggled discouraged look and
wheat was poor. There had evident
~ been copious rains through both
States and good deal of wind in
places as many hundreds of acres of
wheat lay perfectly fiat on the ground.
The thickets were gay with wild |
roses and marsh mallows. The slug
gTsh streams bristled with giant cat |
tails and great creamy lilies lifted
their spotless petals from the Shiny
depths and lay smiling in their dain-
ty purity on the dark surface of the
water.
If cross section of the stem of a
water lily be placed under power
full glass the interior is shown to be
studded with crystalizations that
sparkle like the gems of coronet,
and light up the hollow tube with
glow of light. Do the water elves
use them as flash lights to illumine
their revels, and the rotifers, desmids
and diatoms admire each others mi
croscoplc beauties by the aid of those
subaqueous arc lights,or is it another
instance of the great law of compen-
sations? They grow in the squalor
Of the mud and creep through the
Shiny sunless depths Of the stagnant
water and yet they carry a hidden
splendor within, unknown to the
plants that flaunt and flourish in the
full glow of day. Here is point
for a preacher.
just as the train was pulling into
Chicago, stranger, a pretty girlish
cooking woman, with two little chill
fren, sat down near hy and opened a
by saving, Il am so
.ired | was tired out, waiting for
hours at Fai,mont for this train at
er coming up from MorgantoWn.
,ut Il had y lovely time at the Com
ncncement ball and had such fun
iancing with limb of the law
who ha'. just graduated and thought
was a Sinu1a ,,irl .,p,I ,,,r;,,al ~,