Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-08

Chattanooga huns WIN dcliNitS
The wheels of it's great mills turn
night and day, and on every side one
sees evidences of industry. The last
census think, gives it $4,000. Ii mas
over $4,000 people. 1t is, in all re-
spects, a modern city, and the peculiar
thing about it is that it differs IN no
respect from a northern city. The peo-
pie look Just like Iowa people and talk
as we do. The southern dialect seems
to have disappeared completely.
Whether this is due to the fact that
so many northern people are mingled
i'm the arteries of trade, or whether the
generation since the war has grown
IN side by side with the business men
from the north, do not know. Sitting
in the Reed house AN immense cara
vansary. one watches the we'll dressed,
keen. alert commercial men come ana
go; just as in the Slavery at Des
MoineS.
The field of Chicamauga is only nine
miles away. Missionary Ridge is III
plain sight and old Lookout Mountain
rears its head almost over the city IL
SELF but the cannon no longer DOOM
at. Chicamauga The woods are quiet
as the eternal hills. Great monuments
and metal discs mark the lines Where
mighty armies met and Snoasrass
Hin where General Thomas made ms
last hopeless stand, on the evening Oh
the second day of that tremendous
conflict shines peacefully in the sum
The waters of the Chicamauga no
longer run red with blood, and the
birds sing just as they did on the NOR
ming of September 18th, 1ofts- wv
wears ago. over to the east, Mlsslol. ;.
ary Ridge reminds one that ooo'Voo
mon once contended in a deadly strus-
o,a for supremacy, while the silent
Grant sitting on his horse on Orchafd
Knob. watched the deadly struggle
r lockout Mountain looks down on us.
INST as if the deeds of valor that once
took place above the CLOUDS heNsi
had any existence except in hctloll'
and the $4,000 dead sleep IN the ma
tional cemetery that the sehllnel
mountain overlooks, and yet hoW' elle
Tennessee still winds thru the VaiieS'
the wheels of the iron mills ana tile
wooden mills go round, ana thousaiios
of cotton spindles move forward ana
back, lust as if it had always been the
eternal order of things.
We left Chattanooga regretfully. Inc
Southern railway system that spreaas
like a net work over all the southern
states. carries us from the plains up
nm. into the mountains, ana pine lol
ests of North Carolina. AsheVllle IS
i'm the western part of North Caf0llha'
. 900 feet above the level OF the sea-
is both a wonder and delight. They
can il the land of the Sky, and 1T is
beautifully named. 1t is the land OF
health of resinous doors, of pure ar
and pure water, pure as the crystal
raindrop from the clouds If a man
CANT he we'll i'm Asheville, he may just
as well quit rowing. The city has no
factories, no industries, but certainly
nature has been lavish in her gifts III
often happens that so-called heaith re-
sorts have impure water, put Aslle-
willie boasts of 1.-The purest Watah IN ail
the wuld," and the boast is true. Ashe-
willie is a health resort, city OF beau-
tiful homes. 1t is a we'll built, mod
ern in every way, has splendid street
c.r service. and about 10000 people
And all this in North Carolina, the
home of the "Tar Heel.
went TO a news store for a WASH
inaton paper; they had all been SOLD
A gentleman turned and invited me TO
STEM into the Y. NJ. G. A. and read the
naners went with him. spacious
huldina beautifully furnished, with ail
tho leading dailies and perlodlcals.
won't nm to the square where STANDS
Tho monument to Governor Vance l
found fine stores on every street ana
. great public library building that
vas hult and used long before Grin
neu ar Marshalltown could boast of
a,,,tbino of the kind. Now don't you
neonle ont there feel just little hu'nil-
iationo Do YOU wonder now that the
North Carolina delegation in congress
is eunnorting Roosevelt and the Hep
l,,rn hill? / saw two larger news
st.nds i'm Asheville than one can find
In Des Moines.
Superb Climate.
The hotels are the pride of Asheville
and thew ought to be, beautiful In de-
sipn commodious, we'll equipped, with
silent attentive. noiseless service, and
cuisine fit for king. Asheville
seemed TO me the ideal resort, both in
winter and summer. In winter it is
never cold and yet fifteen inches of
snow fell on Thursday. January 10Th.
the thermometer standing at 81. 1t did
not impede traffic at all. In summer
ii is never hot. One can not have roses
in January, but he can have them nine