Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-09-01
Mr.. AND MRS. c. c. wADE's TRIP
By Mr.. c. c. Wade
CONTINUED from last week)

preston that mountain range was
like the roof of a house and | natur-
ally expected that when one went over
the ridge he would slide down the
other side. So / pause to remark that
the tops of ranges are really table
lands. This particlar range, known in
your geography as Laurel Hill, is forty
miles long couldn't be any longer
without interfering with the Yoaghio-
gheny river on the south or the Cone
mough river on the north. am glad
the Lincoln Highway went right over
the top midway between the above UNI
pronouncible rivers instead of going
around as the rivers and the railroads
go, for we glided down so easily a
matter Of five miles, to Jennerstown
on a creek, and mile or two to an
other town on a creek, and then to
Stoyestown on Paint River, the waters
whereof were racing nOrthward along
side of a train, on the Ohio r. R.;
and tn. train had the best Of it for it
was down grade for DO III; but the wat
ers only gcrgled and said: 1--WE should
worry not-for on tie morrow viii
the train toll Nearby up grade while
we go on through the Ohio to the Gulf
of Mexico" And here we babe good
tbye to the "West" and to the last
stream that could by any means flow
westward; and we began to ascend
along a certain rib toward the real
back bone of the Appalachian system
the Allegheny range-some 10 miles
distant. This was up hill work and we
seldom exceeded the speed limit. Once
or twice we thought we wished we mad
a six or eight cylinder car; but we
thought it not above whisper, for we
would not for the world have our faith
full flivver know we were so disloyal.
Half way up | wanted to look back
over the valley we had left so far be-
low; but the driver on mountain roads
can only look ahead; so after GER
tain stretch Of about a mile mostly on
"low" / carefully backed the rear
wheel against the rocks of the side and
got out to look around and pick few
violets for my lady in the car who had
seized the opportunity to read another
page of the "Pride of Palomar." Fac
ing landscape that is sleeper than
the road bed, one has the impression
that the road is level or even down
grade and wonders why he cannot get
the car into thigh" but standing on the
road this optical delusion is corrected.
After feasting on the grandeur of the
scenery to the rear and wondering
whether we had come this side or that
of certain great hills that we must
have passed, and which now stood out
in all their glory, we took look ahead
for we were headed straight up the
mountains where only a goat might
hope to climb A big car went by and
soon turned toward the north and dis
appeared; but even while stood there
yet entranced and gazing on the
heights sublime there appeared away
up the mountain that same car going
south on a shelf hundreds of feet
above us; and said right out to "Liz-
zie:" sold girl you'll never make it,
but she did, for in twenty minutes we
were up their looking down upon the
Mace where W chad made disparaging
remarks Behold how great are the OBJ
stscles lhat FIe have not reached and
how iightl, looked upon when they are
passed. Getting to the top of noun
tain or any other obstacle is mostly a
matter of keeping at it. Eventually
the four cylinder man gets there just
as certainly as does the six cylinder
man, and the enjoyment thereof is just
as great.
The top Of the Allegheny range
1000 feet above sea LEVELS little
more rocky and barren than was the
top of Laural Hill range. Part Of the
JOY of getting to the top of a range
is the joy of going down on the other
side. Then If ever one revels in land
scape scenery-ore ridge beyond am
other, stretching away as far as the
eye can reach, and then some, with
farm buildings, villages and church
spires ever reckoning him toward the
haunts of humans with their varying
desires and ambitions. Spread before
one is vaster area of Gods creation
tIloti uG Is dCCuSb0iuGQ 10 comprehend
in his Ordinary life on the level, and he
unconsciously imbibes a feeling of
greatness himself--a feeling of glad
ness just to be alive and to be a part
of the great scheme of life on earth
and hereafter.
Back on the plains we had been ac-
customed to seeing danger signs warn
ing of short curves; and there had fire.
quently been fences to keep one from
driving over bank; and the oft re-
curing sign: Picture ahead, Kodak
as you go;" but here signs had long
since disappeared for all was danger
Gus and all one grand moving picture.
We We're reminded of jeremiah 81, 81:
"And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord, for
they shall all know me from the least
of them unto the greatest of them,
saith the Lord.
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