Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-08-25
A Trip to New Orleans.

New ORLEANS, August -, 1892.
DEAE COURIER: l mailed you a
running sketch from Lavonia to
Atlanta. One of the grandest excur-
sions OF the season pulled out from
the Union depot on Monday morn
ing at half-past s O'Clock A. NJ. for
New Orleans, $40 miles. We availed
the opportunity and reached here
last night at II O'Clock, and will write
up a railroad glance of such things
as come under our observation, with
some comments etc.
The crowd a..s motley one. All
colors, crafts and creedS seem to be
eager to enter the train, and assure
you we had a Jolly crowd and every
thing went "merry as a marriage
bell"
Our route was over the Georgia
Pacific to Birmingham, Ala. We
reached here at 5 o'clock and jaid
over till half-past I o'clock next
morning. We travelled through
this country in antc-bellum dave by
horseback, just where the city nNss,
but there was no sign of mnerN
---es1';h at that time, and The country
has undergone great change az
but little appearance no~ Of thu
For some distance around Biri4 ag-
ham is perfect network Of rail
roads, with foundries and machine
shops and everything pertaining to
mining section. The smoke stack
in every direction has given the city
dirty, dusky appearance. We
don't claim the night was spent in
s'sweet dreams of home,'' but rather
in cat-naps, bed-bugs and mosquitoes,
and we arose rather unrefreshed for
the run to New Orleans, over 300
miles, in crowded car, with the
mercury registering among the nine
ties. SO, in order to brace up against
contingencies, we determined within
ourselves that we would eat nor
drink nothing" from here to the
Crescent City. When we pen such
articles as the following We base all
of our speculations or reasonings
rather from Biblical deductions or
scientific research, and DR.. Hawthorn,
of Atlanta, says, and truly, too, that
all sciences are in direct keeping with
the Bible, and if any of it is true it
is all true, and if any is untrue gives
rise to mythical construction OF the
whole solemn truth, and we try to
honor God by studying and obeying
Nature through Natures God, for
which we have been engaged for over
one-fourth of a century.
Water is the only liquid that can
permeate, saturate or percolate the
entire human system without irrita-
ton. Two-thirds of the earth IS COW
cred with water, and wherever its
surface is penetrated water may be
found; and two-thirds of the human
body is composed of water, the other
one-third being food and air.
Now the best chances to get a
sound mind in healthy body, which
was the Grecian's ideal of perfection,
are to compose it of pare food, water
and air and keep it so by replenish-
ing as the wastes of the body require.
Now it is an evident fact that much
of our thirst comes through thirst
provoking articles of food and drink,
of which two of the principal are
saccharine and saline condiments in
our food, both of which should be
used very sparingly, if at all. Then
correct diothesis rules that the
only object nature requires for drink
ing is to replenish sensible and insen-
sible perspiration or the natural
wastes of the body through the chan
nels of excretion.
Our preface thusly We continue tc
spin our narrative. 1t is amusing tc
watch such crowds as was packed
and jammed into twenty coaches:
after a night of carousal, debauch
and surfeit gasoing and yearning fc'
tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and al
kinds Of meats and drinks, and hear
them talk CANNON as the train fits
along sslike a thing of life."
The run from Birmingham to Tus
caloosa was very monotonous, ane
we here again cross over roads WI
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