Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-17
A BLUE RIDGE PARADISE.
What May Be Seen and Heard in
Quiet Hepsidam.
A Spot whore Every Prospect Ploases
and Not Even Man Is Vlle-Na-
turo's Cure for DIsordered
Digestion.
[special washlngton Letter.l

Especial Washington Letter.l
In the Blue Ridge mountains, where
all sorts of mineral springs abound,
there is a summer resort which Fred
Mussey called the mountain of Hepsi-
dam. Just about generation ago there
was a celebrated elocutionist who de-
livered humorous mock sermon about
the mountains of Hepsidam, and that
is the genesis of the name of This noun
tain resort. 1t is also called Comfort Re-
treat, but by neither name can you dis
Germ it on the map
1t is not far from Harper's Ferry and
is about 1000 feet above the level of the
sea. Hepsidam is different from the
city in one important particular, and
that Is that up in the mountains the
hens lay fresh eggs. Then, again, judg-
ing from the cream standing upon the
pans and jars, it is safe to say that the
cows give fresh milk up in the noun
tains, while all of our city cows give
SKINNED milk, with chalk and water
in it.
Col. Perry Heath, who is managing
the newspaper work for the republican
national committee, used to be Wash
ington correspondent, and he lived at a
prominent hotel. He spilled some of
the hotel cream on his black trousers
and was somewhat excited over the ac-
cident, when the colored waiter said:
"Nevah mind, Mistah Heaf. Wait twel
de cream dries on yo' pants. an den I'll
| Jest bresh de chalk off, an de pants
| won't show nothin'."
There is another difference between
Hepsidam and the city and that is that
the air in the mountains is different
from the air which is cooked on the as,
phaltum streets of the city. 1t is easier
to breathe it, and it is easier to ReeE
awake even on warm days, when breath
ing pure air. 1t gets warm but never
hot a Hepsidam, and at night blankets
are required even in August, when the
sun works hard twice eight hours day
and never complains of being tired
There is comforting calm in the at
mosphere at Hepsidam. 1t is quiet ant
free from the petty noises which rasl
fine nerves in cities.
The garbage man, the ash man, th'
huckster and the dog catcher are un
known at Hepsjlam; and the people dC
not gossip about their neighbors eX
cept in friendly way. heard it salt
that Mrs. Ashby wore poke bonnet u
church, and that it was becoming, bu
nobody criticised even the preacher
They seem to love each other up in tn
mountains of Hepsidam l heard tn
landlady of the little country boardin.
house tell passing neighbor who wa
driving to town that Mrs. Bliss, over OIL
the south ridge, had twins on Sunda,
evening. and that the brindle COW wa
gave last season.
guess from the subjects of their con
versation, and their willingness to b
quiet and let stranger rest, that tn
people of Hepsidam are not given t
overeXertion of the brain. After sur
down, when the crickets begin to CHR
ard the frogs start their basso profund
solos and choruses, it seems as thoug
the world, the busy, wicked city world
was far, far away; so far away that
could never come back, or we go back t
it, and we are glad of it. The cable
may be singing and whizzing their caI
along the heated streets in the worl
of cities. but there is no sound of tina
sort of life in Hepsidam. None but til
sounds of nature fall upon the ear, an
only the singing of birds, accompanie
: by the aeolian harps of the trees, CON
waiting through the little ancient viii
, dow with the yellow giinting of the ri
ing sun. And when the cows come u