I had just returned from a business trip to Vermontwho ever thought that Vermont would be traversed by railroads, or that the echoes which dwell among her precipices and mountain fastnesses, would ever wake to the snort of the iron horse?

How old Ethan Allen and General Stark, "Old Put," and the other glorious names that enrich the pages of our revolutionary history, would open their eyes in astonishment, if they could come back from "the other side of Jordan," and sit for a little while on their own tombstones in sight of the railroads, and see the trains as they go rushing like a tornado along their native valleys.

The next thing we shall hear of will be exclusive steamboats, exclusive railroads, and both for the uses of the exclusive people.

His autos, his railroads, even his fragile flying-machines, have been keyed up for record speed.

The rebels were not pursued to any extent away from the railroads.

Huerta, who is an excellent organizer, soon appreciated the magnitude of the revolt and rushed troops to the north as rapidly as possible, his strategy being to hold all railroad lines and cities with strong columns which would force the revolutionists to operate in the intervals between the railroads.

The Carranzistas understood this plan and, to meet it, tore up all the railroads that they could and adopted as their fixed plan never to risk a general engagement of a large force.

For the first few months, the rebels, who had adopted the name of Constitutionalists, continued recruiting their forces and destroying the railroads.

The Federals tried to repair the railroads and get enough troops into the north to cope with this movement.

To understand the apparent slowness of the Federals in moving from place to place and their inability to pursue the rebels away from the railroads, some idea must be given as to their system of operating.

This ties the Federals to the railroads, as they can not carry enough ammunition and food for any length of time.

As most of the horses and mules were driven away from the railroads, the insurgents could get all the animals they wanted.

The railroads south of these points were also in the physical possession of the Federals but subject to continual interruption at the hands of the Constitutionalists.

It is hardly likely, however, that such effects will be perceptible, at least as regards the stocks of railroads and other large corporations.

Perhaps you'll go mad some day, Jean, and dream about pretty girls, and railroads, and forests, and snowsand then I'll be your keeper.

"I am American born, but my father, who was a civil engineer and of high rank in his profession, was obliged, when I was quite a small boy, to go to Austria, where he had made extensive contracts for the building of railroads.

Of course, more or less produce is taken to the seaboard by the railroads; but, even if they could compete in price with water-carriage, it is evident that they are incapable of moving the surplus grain of the Northwest, as it now is.

Since railroads have penetrated the great prairies and made them habitable, the demand for pine lumber has greatly increased both for building and fencing; and it has been estimated, that, if every quarter-section of land in Iowa and Illinois were surrounded with a "three-board" fence, it would consume every foot of pine-timber in Michigan.

After taking one through wildernesses of beauty, after whirling one past nooks where one could gladly linger whole summers, it is strange at what commonplace and graceless termini these railroads contrive to land one.

But we were to camp somewhere, "anywhere out of the world" of railroads.

I include in these remarks, all taxes, whether on property, or imports, or railroads.

So I may locate property in Philadelphia, trade there, and ride on its railroads, though I know government will, without my consent, thereby enrich itself.

There is also in many states a superintendent of education; and in some there are boards of education, of health, of lunacy and charity, bureau of agriculture, commissioners of prisons, of railroads, of mines, of harbours, of immigration, and so on.

In lumbering operations as practiced in this country, the logs are usually moved to the sawmills on sleds or by means of logging railroads.

"But this road is also fortunate in its pathway across the two ranges of mountains which tested so severely the Pacific Railroads built on the central line, and the overcoming of which reflected such well-deserved honor on their energetic builders.