Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-05
AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.
Rev I. B. Barnes ard others at
Webster Springs.
Messrs. GlaSsc0ck. Sisler and Reay So
journing mt this place-Ali having a
Fine Time aud Gaining Health-The
Picturesque Village OF Addison.

My apology for writing this,is the consci-
entious belief that the person who can
go among new and interesting scenes,
ought to let home folks see them from
/ the point of his pen.
While waiting for hack at Cowan on
Monday morning a travelling salesman
drove up to the store of my old friend j,
n. Berthey, and / was invited to occupy
a seat in his buggy Ny new friend was
D. A. Ours, of Buekhannon, and very
pleasant travelling companion,
+ About II o'clock we began to drop
/ down off of the mountains. Drop, is the
proper word To use, for the carriage
wheels simply fall from one stone down
! to another until YOU are in Elk river.
! Ones first look at Addison is disap-
/ pointing 1t is not as picturesque as the
Imagination pictures it. But the lofty
mountains which surround it are una
jestic, and compensate for the lack of
the romantic in the village The sharp
curves in the river canyon, above and
below the village, make it seem sur
rounded by mountains and give you the
/ impression that you are in the bottom
of an immense kettle with the sides COW
cred with forest trees.
After an excellent dinner at the Stan
ard house, | started out to find the
| spring, which is located on the bank of
the river just below the court house. A
canopy, or summer house, is built over
it, and broad walk leads to platform
built in front of the spring. Across in
front of the spring is bar or counter,
behind which boy stands to dip the
water and fill the glasses for the drink
ers. Guests at the hotels pay 25e a week
for the water but the natives get it free.
Near the spring / met Mr.. Sisler
and Mr.. Glasscock, of Morgantown, and
4 directly the smiling face, pipe and fish
ing tackle of Presley Reay hove in
sight and / soon began to feel at home.
But that smile had faded from Pres
ley's face, when late in the evening
met him returning from away down the
river with - ask him what.
The Morgantown people, excepting
myself, are stopping at the big hotel,
which, of course, is the proper thing for
Morgantown man. but from the num-
Der of hints dropped, / am persuaded
that all OF them would appreciate some
OF the good square meals enjoyed by
your humble servant, three times day.
If you want little style and modern
conveniences, the Springs hotel is the
place, but if you want to feel at home
and have an abundance, and variety of
good we'll cooked food go to Stanard's.
Mr.. Sisler is putting on an average of
one pound daily, and ] am doing fully
as well. At this rate we will need new
clothes before winter.
Yesterday was the first day of the
circuit court and it afforded splendid
opportunity to see the natives.
By ten O'Clock in the morning the
r, -
Among them were some fine specimens
physical manhood. Two men ia parti-
cular attracted my attention and
sought an acquaintance with them.
One Of them Thos. ]. Woods, said that
high and during the winter weighed
2O6 pounds. The other, Edward Mccoy
is 25 years old, 6 feet inches high,
weighs 2S5 pounds, and wears No. IA
shoe. His foot is 124 inches long. A
shoe-make told me that he once made
a pair of boots for Mccoy. The legs of
the boots were % inches long, and when
they were sewed and turned before the
soles were put on, a five year old boy
crawled through one OF them.
ADDISON, Aug. 3.--ln addition to the
big fellows mentioned in my first letter,
tueTt 10 d ldlIlly living III bHC CoullIiy
named Hamrick, of whom it is said that,
one hundred men can be found who
will average 6 feet 6 inches high. / have
met quite a number of them. and do
not doubt the statement. They are
like the poplar trees on the mountain
sides, tall and straight.
Speaking of poplar tree, reminds
me-" rode eight miles over Elk noun
tain Yesterday onto a branch of Holly
River. For distance OF six miles |
deserted lumber camps. But every
where there were poplar stumps and
ends OF trees, many of them and feet
that he hap helped to handle log 16 feet
long and over feet in diameter, and
| rom one log they had cut 1900 it. OF
lumber. AS Camden-on- Gaulev, / saw
poplar plank measured, that were A
| inches wide.
! have heard some interesting stories.
and quaint expressions from the noun
taineers. A fellow told me that "The
trouble with this country was that, pow
erty struck it before the war, and had
not let up yet, and the devil had been
loose fer season.
s'Tom jack Woods, as he is called,
| the big fellow mentioned yesterday,
| told me that he was attending Meth
odist revival at uppergrade. once, and a
| LADY came around and asked him to
come down, so that she could talk to
him. He said, II came down, but it
caused some OF the small people to laugh