. Book of the Royal blue . herailroad. This view of the case was actually considered correct by the massesand goes only to show how greatly people,as well as conditions, change with theadvancing years Such towns as Frederick,Hagerstown, Cumberland, Washington, Pa.,and Wheeling were the loudest in their op-position to the railroad, as they owed mostof their supjiort to the National Iike. Howthese cities with dozens of trains a daywould protest if they had only the pike todepend upon to supply even a hundredth oftheir wants. The transition from the piketo the railroad was gradual but most insis-
. Book of the Royal blue . herailroad. This view of the case was actually considered correct by the massesand goes only to show how greatly people,as well as conditions, change with theadvancing years Such towns as Frederick,Hagerstown, Cumberland, Washington, Pa.,and Wheeling were the loudest in their op-position to the railroad, as they owed mostof their supjiort to the National Iike. Howthese cities with dozens of trains a daywould protest if they had only the pike todepend upon to supply even a hundredth oftheir wants. The transition from the piketo the railroad was gradual but most insis-tent, and in time the old road lost its gloryand prestige, but in the minds of the armyof old wagoners and their retainers therelingered for all time the greatest admira-tion for the old National Road. To-day itremains merely a picturesque souvenir ofits former greatness and furnishes a basisfor contrast between the old gallopingstage coach and its homely inns to thepresent age of a mile a minute travel andpalatial CIMBKKI,AN1>. > WMKKK THK KOAU HAfl ITS liKGIKSIMi. ONE OF NATURES NOBLEMEN. The Founder of Harpers Ferry. BY E. H. WAGER. RUBERT HARPER, son of John Harperof Oxford, England, was born aboutthe year 1703. After he had at-tained the years of manhood, and learnedarchitecture and mill building as his futureprofession, he, with his brother .JosephHarper, joined a party organized at Oxfordto settle in Pennsylvania. They sailed inthe ship Morning Star from London in1735. Robert Harper went to Philadelphiaand there married Mary (jrifReth, and forthe space of eleven years pursued hisbusiness energetically and the title to a tract he had bought atFrankfort proved defective, and as he hadbuilt upon it three dwellings and a churchnamed New Oxford, his pecuniary loss wasserious. In the course of the year 1746, he settledup all his business, determined to leave Phi-ladelphia, intending to go to North Carolina,when inducements were
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