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Show Railroad Not Necessarily Ugly. j Why people fancy that a railroad must I necessarily be an ugly object I never have discovered. There are railroads and railroads; a long, straight, raised embankment em-bankment in a tlat country is ugly; but a railroad In a mountainous country adds an additional charm to the view. Few things are more beautiful than a brick viaduct arross a valley, unless it be the line of steam which issues from a loco- motive and hangs in graceful curves ! along a hillside. Why they ore deemed j objectionable "ny (esthetes, poets and such like persons is because they are osso-' osso-' ciated with that utilitarianism which Is hateful to their mooning, unpractical i minds. London Truth. |