Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-10

distance OF about 500 feet from the tOI
of the mountain has u rise of 81 feet u
every 100. We spent the entire day on
the mountain and when evening came
we were loathe TO leave, and our visit
there will be remembered as the most
interesting of our southern trip.
Mr.. G.. A. Potts who was one of the
''sojer boys" that wore the blue gives
the following in the Saranac Local:
The writer took pains to hunt up the
Zollicoffer hotel which will be pain
fully remembered by every soldier that
ever passed through Nashville. The
hotel is now the finest in the city and
is called Hotel Maxwell. Very few of
those who fought greybacks and bed
bugs in the hotel Zollicoffer would
ever recognize it, and even the name
of Zollicoffer is forgotten by the ma
jority of the citizens Of new Nashville
| have been asked many times what
! thought OF Chattanooga, and my ans
wer has been that | was disappointed
probably because | had expected TO
much. Chattanooga is a fine city in
many respects but her streets are poor
ly kept and her business places, as a
rule, are not up to modern ideas.
iiCi = ilO oOlhC NClI uduuSOuit p'dNOo
however, and some beautiful houses,
but there is too much filth, too much
squalor among the poorer classes,
black and white, To make ii an enjoy
able place to live in. 1t has beauti-
ful location and large manufacturing
interests, but the agricultural inter
ests in the surrounding country seems
to be at low ebb In fact il would
seem to the ordinary observer as
though the improvement that has
come upon the south has been almost
entirely in the cities while there has
been little if any advancement in the
rural districts. This of course is only
an opinion based upon what | could
see while riding on the railroad or in
the short trips made from the cities of
Nashville and Chattanooga.
j. W. Hallock, who was another that
fought for his country says in the
Sparta Sentinel
On the way down from Nashville |
fell in with an old Confed., one of
Wheeler's old riders. We had ridden
over much of the same territory and
had formed distant acquaintance in
the old days, and naturally grew quite
chummy He was "a sensible fellow
and very frank. when the Yanks
get hold Of this land 1t doubles in
value, he said, "our southern people
lack both energy and knowledge. The
land owner lets his fields to darkies and
poor whites. He gets enough rent 10
live on and that is all he cares for.
The fellow who rents ii raises what he
wants to eat and that's all he cares for.
If a bush is likely to scratch his mule
he turns out and goes around it. If a
stone is in his way he steps over it..
And that, "he said, pointing to a planta-
tion growing up to bushes and briars,
with only here and there half culti-
waited patch, lis the result OF that kind
of cultivation.
A question / have been asked many
times is whether | consider it worth
the expense to visit the exposition. To
such | whold reply if you visited the
Worlds fair at Chicago and cared for
nothing but the exposition proper, it
would perhaps hardly pay you. But
If you are northern bred man or
woman and have never visited the
south you will find great deal that is
interesting in both the country and the
people. You will be well treated for
the hospitality of the southerners is
proyerbial and they do not belle their
reputation. Judging from my own ex-
perieRce any one would find the trip
very enjoyable. C.R. c.