The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-06-27
SILL TRAVELLING
Enterprise Continues Ms Trip through May
land and West Virginia.

/
NhShiugton on the Metropolitan Branch
We note tine agricultural section of
ihghly Improved h-lds beautiful groves
oi natural forest trees. trimmed aud
cared iur a. parking ia connection with
numerous summer resorts built up the
past lew years on tins line, aud r..-iden-
tiHl PLACES. ~ here the bti-iu.-s- man en-
l'N- the Injuries aud comforts ui The
country with a complete relaxation from
business care. \ striking feature also l.
the old rail worm i"nce. sometimes post
and rail -tiil doing duty, a. IN most S,c-
lions Further they are supplant.d 10y
barhed, American woven and other
~ty les. Now ~ We approach MonOcacV
Junction We enter "A more fertile section
here we'll titled fields and -ui,stan-
titl buildings Indicate "a substantial
competency, the large dairy herds fur
ni-hing "a sure and daily Income as we'll
as maintaining the iertIiity of soil Anon
We are approaching HarIers Ferry. th.
Blue mountains looming up So tall and
abruptly ending on one side. " hen "a. VI.
pass through the tuun, another con
irvutr ur, seeming ~ II cur way WAS Ia
ne blocked \ iork aud a turn II made
~ We wend our WAY up the valley
parairlling - spur of the mountain
un one side. whilst on ia. other
river rush madly over their rocky bed
seemingly impatient to Join thu-.. of The.
Potomac. Now We are IN Wet irxiuia
where ARE fields Of waving grain and
grass more abundant than at ANY other
/ time We can recall the beauty of -crusrV
~nmeW hat marrcd 10y the nutcrnpping
| 81 numerous limestone huuld.r- when.
scrub trees, bushes filth accumulate
Kan i"nce= still do their duty Ia restrain
ing stock. very little of harh.d wire be-
ing u---d, which We have 80 long been
accustomed to seeing. Some hues of
woven wire have been started and
must eventually come into general a..
when The rail gives out. More stnrk
than usually seen on previous trips in
dlcAt~ progressive and intensive farm-
| lnH. a. Farmers realize with present con
ditipn- oi labor they must have NOR. Ger
tam and varied returns than eAn be- -
cured with the two staple crops OF wheat
and corn.
Passing Brunswick We are impressed
with immensity of the trarkage of the
| Is. %. r. X. here la the ex tension there.
of necessary. with from 900 to 5000
ears sidetracked to make up trains. the
mileage "i this system here being esti-
mated at over Ia miles aud the month
| y pay roll over $jO. 900.
Completing our mission ia West Nir-
ginia We retrace our steps t. Hnrpers
/ Ferry, thence to Mevrrtun ON a trim
| through the two best counties of th.
| state of Mary land, Washington and
Frederick, where ON these almost mex
lau-tihle limestone fields the prospects
! ior enormous crops of straw AR. in eVi-
/ deucr, never have We seen better hlad,.
and taller stems and generally long
heads. Fields are clean. only one hu>hy
Held. which had recently baen cleaned:
some Roadside cleaning was neglected.
a. my friend informed they generally nj
| tended to this We Travelled over good
roads. we'll graded and many of them
had gravel or stone. The system here il
10 let sections from ten To fifteen miles
10 iarmer at twelve dollars "A mile un-
| der certain conditions and reuuire the
| iulhllment of these. Prospects for "A
crop OF hay are encouraging and corn
was making substantial growth with
the advent of warm weather ON the I5th
oi June, with increasing warm through.
out the past week. No cherries or
peaches and very few apples this year.
Several large iron plates painted black
with "a slope for rain were passed on our
drive. marking the scene Of hard fought
battle during the Civil war.
On top of the ridge dividing Frederick
and Washington counties is "A large stone
wall with arch in centre and towers ON
either side, the ground being enclosed
with iron railing and inscriptions com.
inenorating this locatiOn as being the
spot occupied 10y war correspondents as
headquarters. and other inscriptions We
did not have time to decipher This WAS
the South Mountain range. the road
crossing here and leading to Sharpsburx
ana other towns. As We descend the
western large orchards of peach trees of
various paintings are made at VARYING
elevations to lessen rfsk Of too early
blooming. Further on we see acres of
raspberries. from which "a good revenue
IL derived; these lands being fertile and
moist are admirably adapted to this
berry, and blackberries are also shipped
in large quantities from the native
bushes which need no cultivation
/ BOOnesbOrO Is now reached, " here man
aud beast are fed. This is "A very we'll
built town with considerable length f.
and W. and the newer portion :. to-
wards h. \ q. X r., good road leading To
keedysville Station. From Hagerstown
we went To Middletown ON the electric
X. r., built between this town and Fred
erick City, passing Meyersville, Middle
town and Braddock. located on Brad
dock, where are several hotels, and il is
l.
of this road go to BOonesboro, j, ffersnn
and other places and in Hagerstown
certain cars pass around certain parts of
the city making what is called The
Loop, the whole system being under one
management.
Stopping over night at Middletown we
| find Mrs. Carrie Nation billed for a lecture
| there, and availed ourselves of this oppor
| tunity To hear her Justification of the
course she pursued in saloon smashing.
Basing her action on II revelation through
a vision from Heaven, she told of her
work, reinforcing il by stating in this
connection that her initials being CAN,
she could and must do this work, then
for 20 days languishng for her action,
submitting 10 great indignit@e, being
quartered therein, &c. God had spoken
To her 10 Use the hatchet in smashing
saloons and much more, and at close Of
her talk, in which she arraigned both
political parties and classes of individ-
uals, she offered hatchets for sale These
were on cards aud the inscription there
on, Garry A. Nation" revealed to her Il
divine mission as implied in spelling of
name, and this she is now carving out.
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