Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-12


human in appearance than pigsties.
South Of Washington there are certain
ly some charming regions under the
Blue ridge and among the WOODS OF Vir-
| ginla, and climate and scenery both
alter a little for the better when the
train crosses into North Carolina, and
you run down by Hendersham and
Raleigh, ~Spartanburg, Columbia and
Augusta, through South Carolina.
THE eye, saddened by the absence
OF furred and feathered life 10 the de-
| so.ated rural districts OF the north. sees
here with pleasure the buIzard and the
hawk lowering In the sky, the wild fowl
! clustering upon the inlets and swamps.
and Ia the forests squirrels and chip
munk playing about, with perhaps q
deer or TWO. The expresses and great
white sycamores are q welcome charge
from theliv oak ond maple ahd ilr, and
the ,negro population, growing denser,
lends an interesting feature 10 the pro-
longed journey.
"Farther south your train goes
"marching through Georgia" and you
begin to feel the influence OF a subsropi-
car latitude in the vegetation and char
acter OF Ih common lie. Types OF the
s%outherner aud his beionings enter aud
leave the carriage and divert by the
novelty Of their Ideas and language,
while the odd mixture OF American with
Indian. French and classical names for
the towns entertains you 10 pa sing from
Columbia 10 A~"gusta, An. u "a TO Ma
C q, Macon to Vienna ana 'bheville,
a ~ so ny Val C'Osta, TT d re Hnl
Jasper, L We Oak, Tallahassee and ooz-
ens OF strangely entitled spots,t Bristol.
"But u is AL somewhat teoious In It's
mouotony until, approaching Florida
and the coVst OF the gulf OF Mexico,
you come INTO more special scenery,
where tho Spanish moSz%aia%Ss@an
the dark forest trees, and the palmetto
shoots up from the lagoons, and over
the in%terminable sea marshes between
Appalachee bay and New Orleans flights
OF long tailed black shrlkes and gray
crow ill the air, and the stagnant wat
or swarms with catfish aud alligators,
l Ike America, and have good reason 20
like her, but look back upon the great
err part OF that prodiglons. journey with
the recollection OF a fatigue and ennui
such as a few railway trips ever left be-
hind.
"As yon get westward, between New
Orleans and the Pacific coast, passing
through Louisiana and the immense
deserts OF southern Texas, things are
different. Vast as Is othe monotonY
there also you cannot pass for the hrst
time across the Colorado river aud
through the sand wastes Of the Apache
mountains to FL Paso and the Rio
Grande without pleasure In studying
he .extraord nary landscapes. II IL
another world from that which you
have trnversed when you rattle along
through the curious thickets OF candle
labra cactus on the Llano Estacado Of
New Mexico, and thence 20 Arizona
and the wonderful foothills OF lower
California"
do not know where Hendersham IA,
but Imagine he means HendeTsonvlile.
We are grateful for what he says OF
North Carolina and the railroad. but
we dislike whAthe says Of the "strIngy"
scenery. That Is not the fault Of nature,
for II is beautiful and prosperous 70
look at. The farmers who have sold
their very roofs 10 p%urveyors OF man
drake pills, who are such by special APP
pointment TO bis royal dulIness the
Prince OF Wales, will never come % q
good end.
Still that Is pleasanter 10 me than the
scenery along the Underground railway.
Did you ever get In a cheap %car-down
cellar where the sun has " dried
the mud that Julius Cesar brought
with him from Rome, and where the
same old air IL still stagpatiDR, filed
With the sulphur and gas that
Brutus complained, OF IN the country
papers l.10s years Il. G., over the sig
nature of Pro Bono Publico? II not,
you should do so then.
/ hate TO pick quarrel with q poet
who is older and smarter In every way
than /, but I'd rather ride among long
tailed shrikes and stringy trees that are
Just doing the best they can" than 70
mount a cold, stencby car worth about
co and 80 cents and plunge through
the darkness, the bad air OF this black
gopher hole, and with the risk Of losing
your Waterbury watch before you can
say John H. Robinson. And, speaking
Of adVertisem ents, there is none that
can or does approach this God save the
queen and the devil take the rest coun-
tay. Clarence agrees With nj aud has
travelled . good bit.
A man here who has been somewhat
snubbed By her majesty told me q lot
of scandal about the royal family thai
would make good interesting reading,
but why should I break of with tbs
royal family and lose good neighboFs
by printing these stories?
Moreover, 10 do it would require 10
years right of my life II did the family
substantial justice.
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