The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-03-02

! tcHudHC On JllC uuOTHIuS sun, anu
as they drifted away the broad
heaven, that hung like a blue cur
tain above the world, appeared
purer and more beautiful than ever.
How solemn and eternal it spread
its clouded glory above waters,
woods and wilds. as if unmindful
of the sorrows and cares of earth.
The trees and flowers-for there
were many artistic little parterres
which the agents of the railroad
company had made on the sunny
cliffs and in the alcoyes immedi-
ately along the bed of the road
all sweet and washed, rustled
their leaves and shook the clear,
bright drops about like showers of
diamonds, from every point and in
every direction, above and around
US, near and far, rose in awful sub
Unity massive and seemingly end
less chains of mountains, covered
with timber peculiar to such regions
Of country, such as the birch, maple,
hemlock, spruce, pine, cedar and
immense oaks, which had battled
with the storms for centuries. Here
and there appeared frightful ridges
of ragged and frowning rocks,
whose sides were sparsely lined with
scrubby pine and cedar, and on
whose heights stood clusters of life
less and almost limbless trees. Be-
hind these and far off rose other
rugged mountain ranges, looming
up in dim and shadow outline
against the sky, now and then to be
out in two by some wide and weird
gorge covered with a dense and
thrifty growth of trees and ever
greens, where the rays of the sun
never enter and wild flowers are
never seen.
Perhaps the most startling and
terrific piece of scenery along the
grade lies between the bed of the
railroad and the Savage river, which
makes its way through the Alleghe-
MES at this point. The greater part
of the railroad up the grade is cut
on the side of the mountain, and at
several points the distance from the
outer rail and almost perpendicular
will cover from 800 to 500 yards, if
not more. Looking down this
frightful declivity and over the deep
and dark raviue below, covered with
almost every variety of forest trees,
with the river making through the
blackened shadows, here eddied in
blacker places, or yonder breaking
through masses of DIR fling wood,
or foaming over the rocks, where
the sunlight plays only in the noon
tide hours, ore is lost in astonish-
ment at the inventive genius of man.
Whoever thought that the locomo-
tive. with it's train of human freight,
would go laundering over peaks
higher than where the eagle builds
her nest, or that natures voice,
dwells among the precipices and
mountain Businesses, would mingle
with the scream of the iron horse?
1t is useless for me to attempt a
further description of this mag
netic and rare painting as it hung
in the great art gallery of nature on
this beautiful morning. Those
who are fond of the beautiful and
sublime in nature should make
haste to view it. 1t is grand and
enchanting at any season OF the
year, whether it be in budding
spring, when the forests are filled
with the odor Of wild flowers, in the
mellow summer, in the fall after
the autumn fires have been kindled,
or amid the blasts and desolation of
winter.
1t was s o'clock in the morning
when our train reached Oakland,
just two hours behind the schedule
time. AS the cars came along the
side of the platform | failed to
catch the genial countenance of my
friend Browning in the little bunch
of persons standing around, but
had no sooner landed from the
train when | recognized the face of
Mr.. +. s, Jamison, prominent
merchant and politician of the
town, whose acquaintance l had
previously made in some one of the
many active campaigns in that por-
ton of the state. Approaching and
giving me cordial shake of the
hand, Mr.. Jamison informed me
that Mr.. Browning was out on Deep
Creek experimenting some import
ant work on his lake, and then
turning to two young ladies who
had followed close at his side said,
"These are his two daughters" in
PRODUCING them by name, but which
| cannot now recall, "who have
come to meet you in their fathers
necessitated absence" | should
have stated before that my daugh-
ter was to accompany me to this