The Princeton union., 1896-07-02
SOUTHWARK IN JUNE.

This was the Interrogation heard upon
every side and the writer began to think
g mistake had been made when she en-
tered the ullman at Minneapolis over
Iheated through a hasty walk to the
depot and 9 hurried opening of, her
trunk for the purpose of slowing away
some IN previously forgotten articles, all
accomplished sSjust in time.' This
was on the evening Of June is, and at
|.7:05 we left the station, hardly feeling,
however, that the journey was really
begun until St. Paul, too, had been left
IN the distance, and the wn-hurrying
sun found us speeding toward the great
western metropolis.
The scenery through eastern Mime
sofa is too familiar to need description
and the dusk Of night enveloped the
Landscape as we crossed the borderland
|of the sister State. Little New Rich
mond greeted us brightly with her
Electric lights and then oblivion until
the morning found us in the midst of
1.-THE pretty, pastoral scenery Of south
eastern Wisconsin and northeastern
Illinois. Chicago, the great point Of
Ichange, was reached at 9:45 Wednes-
Iday morning and we were at. once
transferred from the Wisconsin Cen
tral to the Dearborn st. station where
we took the Monon Route for Cincin-
Enati, leaving at 1880. Here we
Boarded parlor car, these being fur
Inished in lieu of sleepers on the day
run between the two C's, and passed a
VERY pleasant day, although with the
Increasing warmth came the growing
lconviction that Alaskan ice fields
Knight better have been our objective
Ipoint.
In many Of the pretty little Indiana
towns through which we passed, the
quaint, oldsfashioned holly-hock reign
led supreme in the flower garden, and
l5these, with numerous apple orchards,
FILLED with the gnarled old tree,so dear
Ito the heart of the New Highlander
lwere such as to make one feel as if
nearing home. Roses, in the widest
Iprofusion and the most wonderful tints
land shades, grew everywhere. Hardly
la fence SO ugly or a stump SO charred
or deformed that it had not been trans
Horned into a thing of beauty"
lthrough the many tinted coverlet
woven BY this fower-qu queen and this for
sRiles and miles sthrou theYery heart
Of the State. Indianapo1is at 4::3355 and
Cincinnati at 1850 evening with ten
minutes to wait for the train on the
Cincinnati Southern Ry which was to
take us to Chattanooga and thence to
| Atlanta.
AS we left the city, innumerable
lights twinkled upon the hillside and
found many an answering CLEAN in the
river below and at one point ground
illumination with fireworks was in
progress, perhaps in honor of the
anticipated victory at st. Louis.
The WEAKNESS attendant upon the
second night out brings soundest re-
pose and we knew nothing more until
the porter's gentle tap at our berth,
in answer to a request of the previous
night, and his mild s'suppos'n you get
up now," reminded us that it was the
hour for awaking. We were nearing
Chattanooga and a toilet to be made so
there was scarcely time for peep out
at the picturesque mountain scenery
through which we were passing.
The change here was found to be
merely a step into the next sleeper
and we settled down with sigh Of
thankfulness at the prospect of a much
cooler day in spite of predictions and
our own fears to the contrary
Chattanooga with its historical
mountains which we hope to visit upon
our return showed prettily in the
morning sun and the six hours ride
from there to Atlanta proved by far
the most picturesque and interesting
portion Of the entire trip. The noun
tains, blue in the distance, emerald
with verdure upon nearer approach,
formed a brilliant setting for the sslit-
tie old log cabin abounding every
where, windowless, many of them, but
with gaping door-Ways and crevices
where bright little black faces in.
Vulnerable peeped out.
Extensive works. s'wha' they
make coke at" as the porter informed
US, were seen occasionally and fields Of
corn and cotton where men, women and
children were at work lined the way
SIDE
Everybody stood still to see the
train go by and in some cases so
statuesque was their attitude it was al
most impossible to decide whether
they were really living, breathing
human beings or some of those images
made in the likeness Of man and found
in fields frequented by certain birds Of
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