Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-31
ON TO BALTIMORE
The Editor Takes Advantage of Ex-
element Concerning Chase for Villa
and is At Large in Maryland-NOtes
BY The Way For Inquiring Friends.

Inc EdlJ0r naQ Deen SICK and at
home for weeks and there is where
the trouble began: Pope said "A lit
tie learning is a dangerous thing" and
recent events in the Tribune's force
90 to show that we don't need Alex
ander Pope to tell us that with some
people too much kindness is a danger
Gus thing when applied to mule or
an editor that F'has got sot in his
way" In the first place the doctor did
that Editor up in cotton batting. as
though he was something very deli
cate and precious; then the "force"
sent him flowers and came to see
him and when he got out to the office
they told him that he must take care
Of himself and not try to work until
he was stronger; in fact everybody
seemed to conspire to overcome him
with kindness until at last the edi-
tors head was turned. he began to
think that he did amount to some
thing and became possessed with the
rather insane idea of skipping his
board bin and his job and going visit
ing. The object point was Baltimore,
Maryland and one bright Friday
morning he looked out of a sleeping
car window TO find that the level
fields and fine farm buildings of
northwestern Ohio had given place
TO hills so, steep that they required
goats TO climb them and the belching
smoke stacks Of the mills and fac
tories that grow in eastern Ohio and
western Pennsylvania in place of
farm buildings.
On through Pittsburgh, McKeesport
Homestead and all tie rest of those
places that these days are scenes of
busy activity day and night trans
forming the hills of iron into steel
rails, tubes, wire. sheet iron and ar
NOR plates. Down in this section
there seems to be no division be-
tween the towns but a sort of con-
tinuous performance of towns: Sort
of q Just one d-m town after an
other effect and one travelling through
this country realizes why we in Full
ton county have to keep straining
every nerve to make thirty-three and
one third kernels grow where only
one grew before: These people are
too busy with their coal and iron to
raise enough to feed themselves and
when they are not busy they are on
a strike, and anyway they have to
stand their land up on end in order
to take care Of it, consequently they
could not raise anything more than
q disturbance at the best.
On through the southern spurs of
the Laurel mountains of Pennsylvania
and across the state line into Mary
land and through the northern spurs
Of Blpe Ridge mountains with scenery
every foot of the way. in fact down
amosg these mountains tehre isn't
much else but scenery. Its rather
wonderful how nature managed to
pile so much stone on so little space,
she had to stand lots of it up on edge
to do it, but she certainly has got
lot Of stone piled up in these noun
tainsl
We kept getting up in the air more
and more until we reached Frostburg,
Maryland, 1900 feet above sea level
with a population of 5000 people.
Someway we gained the impression
that this population was made up of
travelling theatre people. lecturers
and unsuccessful candidates who have
become acclimated by the repeated
frosts they have experienced until
they really prefer frosty climate
all the time and have located here to
avoid the possibility of sudden chang
es, said to be very detrimental to the
well being of any Of the classes enum-
Grated above. We might have stopped
off here had it not been that we hated
to dissapoint the people of Baltimore
but we could not help rejecting that
it would be an ideal place for Mr.. W
]. Bryan, providing he could arrangt
for an adequate supply of grape
juice and Communication on the railroad
to Washington.
We did resolve that we would fur
nish gratis, to any inqujriLg friends
after November seventh. all the in
formation we possess concerning
Frostburg, and we pledge ourselves t.
do our utmost to turn the tide of i'm
migration from "Salt River" which WI
consider a very unhealthful place, to
ward this delightful spot, cup in thu
air" and away from the miasmas ant
@will-o-the-wisp" Of hopeless ambi
tions. Who knows. we may yet gain
a reputation as a public benefactor b.
this means.
The railroads follow the river
through these mountains except whel
climbing over or going through som
of the mountains; shortly after cross
ing the line into Maryland we cam
in sight Of the large Maryland Stat
Tuberculosis Sanitarium lolated o.
a mountain side some 1900 feet abov
a beautiful valley. Tunnels are fre
quent but fortunately not very long
and the air and sunshine which &C
upon a person like an elixer were wit
as during most of this ride. The frs
good road that we saw in Marylan
was near Blue Ridge and made U
think of Ohio and the level stretche
of stone road in Fulton county. Dow
here with stone in abundance the fe'
roads that we saw seemed for tn
most part to be mud.
At Cumberland one of the frs
things that caught our eyes as W
came into the city was a large bi
board bearing the cities slogan, "Cun
berIand Creates Confidence; we n
nembered that "Wauseon is YoJ
Town" and that "Wauseon Wear
Well' even if it doesn't adverti'
these facts in letters a yard high
the travelling public. Maybe it wou
be better if Wauseon advertised NOR
At Cumberland we found the Hi
toric Potomac river and except for
brief excursion which our train toe
up to Hagerstown, we followed tn
river until we were near the city
Baltimore.
We found that "all was quiet alor
the Potomac"
We were met in Baltimore by XII
friends who took us in charge al
kept us from falling into the han
of the police. in fact there was
much excitement in Baltimore ov
Billy Sundays meetings which a
now in full blast that not even t
Mayor of the city knew of our col
ing. We find that since we reach