Show the wheel and edgland ED Cland take the great north road except upon market days one might have traveled any 60 50 miles along it between highgate and york without meeting 50 people towns which literally lived by the road had bad drifted into a helplessly somnolent condition from which no apparent human agency could awaken them and the stranger thereto was stared at as aa much as it if be had bad been a highlander or in an iroquois in full war paint the highway itself being of no do particular value to anybody since the great northern railway began to whirl the old patrons of the road along at 45 miles an hour was waa allowed to decay and in wot wet seasons or weather was well nigh impassable the rago rage for wheeling has baa produced a rapid transformation station yourself at any point you like and try to count the machines which pass on a fine saturday afternoon during tho the course of an hour bony and you will soon abandon the task as hopeless then consider that every rider of every machine spends something during his bis trip even if it be but the cost of a temperance drink consider that a very large number of saturday riders sleep out ont and make good meals during their journey that they are constantly spending something over and above their actual traveling expenses pen ses that the wonderful extension of our acquaintance with our own country resulting from these peaceful invasions of it by the inhabitants not merely va of tho tho metropolis but of every city and add considerable town in the he land has baa led to the refurbishing up of such local lions as the castle or the abbey or the great birthplace or the waterfall or the view the inspection of all of which means the expenditure of money and an approximate idea may be gained of the influence upon national trade which this pastime alone exercises chambers journal |