The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-06

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Assuming that he was not In / Pull.
man, the traveller has discovered thet
he is In new region. or. more accu-
rately, a new environment, from the
time he crossed the Potomac. The low,
soft, slow speech, with its languid long
vowels aud neglected final endings, has
caught his ear, and he listens to it rs
music without trying to follow the
words. There is difference. too, not
very marked at first. but still percepti-
BILE, in the dress. The people all seem
to know each other, and they talk
with easy familiarity of personal con-
Germs as members of one family. The
conversation is more personal for that
reason, the tones less reprcssed. The
women will appear less expensively
dressed. A man will probably not no.
tice this for they will be generally
prettier than those he left the other
side Of the bridge, and they will have
something about them-an air, q man.
ner, n something-which will be more
attractive. Among the older persons,
men and women, he will note q gen.
tier mir than he has seen on the ether
side. They will in way be more indi-
vidual, too; there will be individuali-
ties of dress. He will see more men
offer seats to ladies, and more as a
matter of course. He will be surprised
to see how many get off at Alexandria;
for the little station at which the train
stops and the poor streets through
which the train passes will give
him an idea of meanness in the
pluce. Should he, however, stop
there, and be so fortunate as to
know some of his fellow-travelers who
have got off, he will discover that the
view of the town which he has had
from the car window gives but an in
different idea of the place itself. He
will find it old. IL is true, and bearing
unmistakable marks Of narrowness of
means; but the want Of money is not
poverty, and the old age is not decrepi-
tude. The streets are paved in the
old-fashioned way with cobble-stones,
which look strange to one who has
been rolling through the asphalt ave.
nues of Washington; the houses are
often antiquated, and sometimes out
of repair, but there is something i'm
pressive in it all. There are no marble
palaces on the street corners, but the
old square houses with their classic
porticos, on the streets or set back in
the yards amid the old trees, are
homes, not mere monuments of wealth
and pride; the stain on them is that
of time and of the elements, not a
chemists connections; and they have
sheltered through generations pure,
kindly aud home-loving people. The
splendid marble shaft that towers ia
the memory of Washington is on the
other side of the river in the city which
bears his name, and which is even q
more splendid monument to the great
Virginian; but the old church where
he met his neighbors and worshiped
God is in Alexandria. 1t was on this
side of the river that he learned the
sublime lessons which have made him
the foremost American and the greatest
| citizen that the world has known
Down the river only short distance
| is the home where he lived as Vir
ginia gentleman, and the simplicity Of
which he adorned with the elegance o.
| q noble ife.
AS sooa as we reach the old town We
are on historical ground. The house
where Braddock rested when the young
Virgininn who was to be known as the
father OF his country was his volunteer
| aide is still shown, and the road tha'
| leads away toward the west is still
called ''Braddock's road" after the
brave but ill-fated British general
Here, too, British troops landed to raw
age when the city across the river wa
but village; and here in the late wa
came the first army which invaded Vir
| ginia to march on Richmond and enc
the war during summer holiday
Away to the westward, only a littl,
distance, is Bull Run, where the sum
mer encampment idea was SO terribl,
destroyed, and here the shattered arm,
returned to prepare for war in earnest
From here to Petersburg lies the wa,
that the armies took, in campaign afte
/ campaign, and this explains in part tn
appearance Of the country. This regiol
was ''swept by the bosom OF war" t.
use the old phrase, and the bosom o
war sweeps clean.-Thomas Nelsol
Page, in Harper's Magazine.
| WEALTH OF THE WORLD.
| The Actual Growth of Riches is Almos
\ Too Enormous to Compute.
Few people, even among professe'
politicians, have much idea of tn
wealth of the world or of the manne
in which that wealth is growing. Still
fewer have any notion Of the poten
tiality of wealth to increase. M. Jan
net quotes the elaborate calculation o
an ingenious author to show that 10
francs, accommodating at per cent
compound interest for seven centuries
would be sufficient to buy the who'll
surface of the globe, both land an,
water, at the rate of 1000, 1000 franc
| Gao, ,O00) the hectare. The actua
growth of riches has not hitherto az
sumed such inconvenient proportions
says the Edinburg Review.
M. Jannet cites various authorize
to show that the wealth of the Unite
Kingdom exceeds O,O00, 600, 900; tina
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