The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-06-24

put Wo Nioi'oi tuc udtlOudi cemttcIy Dc-
tween showers, or rather during one, and
started for the mountain about 2 o'clock.
Nearly everything goes easily and with
due moderation here, and even the conduc-
tors and motormen on the electric lines APP
prtciate this. Probably TIMES readers will
not have to stretch their Imagination much
to get the idea that as lot the blacks are
shiftless and lazy, but they do not want to
leave out of mind the ''poor white trash" If
they wish complete picture. They are so
quick and so intelligent Why In running
out to the mountain we ran up to place
where one Of the latter class was standing
by his mule and buggy, evidently trying to
make up his mind whether he should hitch
his mule to the back of the wagon In front
of him or look for a hitching post. The
mOtorman turned off the current, applied
his rig out of the way of the car, then wait
ed. The owner of the offending rig appar-
emily did not know which end of his beast
to tackle, but after considerable hesitation
the rope reins. This produced no effect,
however, but by this time the conductor
had walked leisurely up to the rig and lift
ing 1t by the rear axle tossed the buggy out
of the way into the gutter amid great rat
Ting of old iron and loose bolts. The con-
ductor and brakeman took it all as a matter
of course event. They know how to make
the best of such people and simply put up
with them with the least possible trouble to
themselves.
A good description of the mountain and
the wonderful panorama spreed out below
1t could not lack interest but it has been
we'll described befCre. The new cable rail-
way, too, is certainly a wonderful piece of
engineering, and at times little less than
verltable elevator. But what can be said of
what Stanley called the "most magnificent
view in the world" or which the historian
Bancroft described as the 'grandest view l
ever saw" Words cannot do justice to the
spot either for its war associations or for its
natural sublimity. The thought that you
can look over hill and valley to the peaks of
seven different states, too, seems to mean
far more to one when he is actually stand
ing on that huge pile of rock looking at them
than it ever could to one who had only read
the statement about it, The air was beauti-
fully clear when the clouds would get out of
the way for a few minutes, and mountains
which were ninety miles away seemed to be
only ten or fifteen at the farthest.
Nature favored us even with the sight of
| a storm in the valley BLOWOUT over Chat
tanooga and the great moccasin bend of the
muddy Tennessee, and we ourselves man
aged to finish the jaunt without doing any
thing more foolhardy than standing at the
very brink of those rocky cliffs and climb
ing to the top of a ninety foot stand pipe,
on top of the mountain, by narrow out
side steel ladder. The view from the latter
vantage ground was even finer than any
other, for 1t was not only higher but unob-
structed in every direction. Perhaps the
satisfaction we experienced in finding our
nerves cool under the test added little to
the pleasure of'the climb, and the view, es-
| pecially when a darky below with spread
ing eyes exclaimed: "D'you clum cleah up
theah? Golly, wouldn't do dat. Guess
| amt got de nervh."
Back in Chattanooga we walked about
before train time for little time looking at
the elegant homes, and were stopped on our
way back to the station by the sound of a
piano in music store. We stepped inside
and there was blind man, friend of the
proprietor, playing partly for his own and
partly for his friends pleasure. 1t seemed
long time since we had heard such piano
playing, and it is hardly necessary to say
called up recollectiOns of a northern state,
which we are proud to call our own.
Tuesday.-lt seems that blessings do not
come singly. Yesterday afternoon we were
favored with call from Gov. Pipgree and
Insp. Gen. Case. The boys gave the gov
ernor warm reception and this morning he
gave us one. That is to say, 1t was pretty
hot out in the field where the regiment put
up governors review"
Then yesterday afternoon, too, we were
equipped with rifles pringfelds, AS cali
Der, model of 1878. What would you think
of sportsman who bought shotgun or a
rifle of model twenty-five years Old2
Well, some Of the boys think much the same
of the government now, only their thoughts
are couched in strong, expressive language.
Think of bicycle of model of twenty. q We
years ago-if you can-and then in view OF
all the boosted progress in the art of war, y
1t will not be difficult to guess at the feel.
ings of some of us. Why Spaniard could
shoot through a tree with his Mauser rifle
and kill man behind tiff he could hil
the tree at all, when, If it was an American
with Springfield rifle shooting at the same
tree with Don behind it the bullet would
go perhaps a quarter of the way through.
But then suppose we we would want to
get behind the biggest trees anyway If we
ever got into such warm quarters and per-
haps we won't be expected to shoot al
Standards who hide hahind traae