Show TIMES CHANGES reports ot the bryan tour has brought out the fact ahal the west is not salt as wild and woolly as some other portions ot this greal nation for instance here Is a description ot tha people who greeted bryan in thurmond in west virginia at thurmond mountaineers came in by hundreds many ot them loaded wibb moonshine and carrying double guns loaded edth buck snot they were quite civil however and most ot them listened with deep attention the occasion being a memorable diversion from the bleakness ot their isolated lives the most picturesque arrangements fiad been made at thurmond beside he railroad on the bank ot the canon and high up on the precipice a platform had been thrown out from the rocks and decorated with flags and bunting most 0 the awo or 3 people present were perched upon the elde ot this precipice where they had to hold to crevices jn the rocks to prevent heir rolling far down into the river one would be compelled to go off the railroad to find anything approaching the condition of society depicted in the above when bret hart was writing his best stories of western alte something of the kind might have been witnessed in the mining regions ot california and nevada but there Is no place in this western country today where men go always armed and display their behof guns on state occasions as they did at thurmond west virginia |