Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-14

Raleigh, SpArtAnburg. Columbia and Augusta. through South Carolina
 The eye. saddened by the absence Of furred and feathered life in the desolated rural dis tricts Of the north. sees here with pleasure the buEzard and tho hawk lowering in the sky. the wild fowl clustering upon the inlets and swRmps, and in the forests squirrels and chip hunks playing about, with perhAps a deer or two Theeypresses and great white sycarnorea arc a welcome change from the live oak and maple and fir. and the negro population. grow ing denser, lends an interesting feature to the prolonged journey.
 Farther south your train goes marching through Georgia" and you begin to feel the tn- duences of a subtropical latitude in the SeEe- tation and character of the common life Types of the southerner and his belongings en- ter and 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 entcrtains you in passing from Columbia to Augusta, Au- gusta to Macon. Macon to Vienna and Abbe- vile. and so by Val d'Osta. Traders HILL Jas per. Live Oak. Tallahassee, and dozens of strangely entitled spots, Co Bristol
 But it is all somewhat tedious in fits monet ony until, approaching Florida and the coast of the gulf of Mexico, you come into more sH-e- cial scenery, where the spanish moss swings upon the dark forest trees, and the palmetto shoots up from the lagoons, and over the in- terminable sea marshes between AppAlRchee bay and New Orleans flights of long tailed
 
 the stagnRnt water swarms with catfish and alligators- like America. and have good req son 10 like her, but look back upon the greater part of that prodigfous journey with the rec- OllectiOn of n fatigue and cnnul such as few railway trips ever left behind
 As you set westward, between New Orleans and the Pacific coast, passing through Lnuisi- ana and the immense deserts Of southern Texas, things arc different. Vast as Is the monotony there also you cannot pass for the first time across the Colorado river and through the sand wastes of the Al Apache mountains 10 Fl Paso and the Rio Grande without pleasure in studying the extraordinary landscapes- It fs another world from that which you have traversed when you rattle along through the curious thickets of candelabra cactus on the LlanO EstacadO Of New Mexico. and q. snce t0 Arizona and the wonderful foothills Of lower California
 l do not know where Hendersham is, but imagine he means Henderson vile. We are grateful for what he says l of North Carolina and the railroad, but We dislike what he says of the ''stringy' scenery. That is not the fault of nature for it is beautiful and prosperous to look | at. The farmers who have sold theiI very roofs to purveyors of mandrake pills, who are such by special appoint ment to his royal dullness the Prince of Wales. will never come to a good l end.
 1 Still that is pleasanter to me than the scenery along the underground railway. | Did you ever. get in a cheap car-dowT | cellar where the sun has never dried thu | mud that Julius Csesar brought witt l him from Rome, and where the samt | old air is still stagnating, filled with tn,
 sulphur and sewer gas that Brutus [ complained of in the county paper ! LOS years B. C., over the signature o
 Pro Bono Publico? If not, you should q, | so then
 hate to pick quarrel with a poe
 who is older and smarter in every wal
 than I, but I'd rather ride among lons
 tailed shrikes and stringy trees that ar,
 just doing the best they can" than [,