The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-09
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spring house and otherwise improving his
place, giving much attention to landscape
gardening, stock and poultry raising, etc.
Going on we met with an incident that
perhaps we ought to mention. though per-
haps some may think it trivial. Our atten-
ton was attracted to package lying in
the road, and Lloyd held up the "black
nag and we got out and gobbled it up.
We must confess to having been little bit
disappointed when we found what it was:
for visions of the pleasure Of restoring a
lost treasure to its owner were beginning
to fit before our imagination, and when
we found it was a package of poems that
some poetry loving son or daughter of the
muses. had lost, we felt like quietly laying
it down again to fool some one else. How
ever, we concluded to put them in our
pocket, and if we don't find the owner and
you get scarce of that kind of material,
you shall them all. There were five whole
poems and part of another. One of them is
so pretty, we insert it here.
A ROSEBUD IN A LETTER.
\ kiss I'd send thee, dearest one,
But send rose instead
For kisses fade in letters, love.
But this is sweet, though dead.
Bright as smile through tears;
Now, while gaze, amid the leaves,
a face more bright appears.
The blushing cheek, the periumed breath
All, me. | thought twas you;
Nay, don't be angry, sweet methinks
You'll find the kiss there too.
Going on we came to Pennington, which
is pretty neat little village. Here we saw
a number of youths playing croquet. They
were knocking things around lively when
we passed in the morning; and when re-
turning in the evening we found them still
there, but they appeared to be weary and
very much fatigued. Nine hours of GRO
quet seemed to be rather more than they
were able to endure successfully. Poor fell
lows. we hope they feel better now.
We were particularly attracted by many
fine farms in the neighborhood of Farm
iugton-that place is well named, but the
"black nag" of our friend Lloyd could not
be restrained into walk, and we could not
write down the names of the owners so we
or any one else could read them, on ac-
count of the shaking of the vehicle, and
cannot recollect the names of the owners.
In few minutes after leaving Farming
ton we came in sight of Mr.. Lincoln S, and
in few minutes more we were there. We
found lot of mechanics engaged in fran
ing barn, and just at that moment they
were putting one of the stills or eirders in
position, and we thought sure we had been
invited to a raising and that our friend
Lloyd had made a mistake and thought it
a meeting of the Club. We might have
known BETTER and feel ashamed of ourself
for harboring such a suspicion.
However, our host, Mr.. Lincoln, soon
appeared and embarrassed the ''black nag"
and my friend Lloyd showed me round.
The first thing that attracted my attention
was Cecil Red" full blooded Durham
or short horn bull, raised by Mr.. Lincoln
and owned by Joint stock company. We
will not attempt description of this noble
animal; our brain is not equal to the task.
We stood long in silence and gazed upon
his noble and majestic form. We had long
wondered why the herd of short horns sold
year or so ago at New York Mills, one of
which brought the fabulous price of $40,
600, were esteemed so highly and sold for
SO much money. We thought we compre-
hended why it was so now. Cecil Red was
two years old the first of last March, and
what the Apollo Bevidere is among statues
for majestic grace and beauty. he is among
the cattle of this county. He weighed $50
ond birth day, weighed | ZOO pounds. He
is quiet and gentle as lamb, and is kept
in an outbuilding near Mr.. LIS barn.
Lloyd said, because his services were so
highly priced, that if he ran in the field
they might be surrepttiously obtained.
We afterwards saw nephew of Cecil Red,
Samuel j. Tilden by name, owned by Thos.
NJ. Krauss, near the Rising Sun, which will
be one year old on the 18th of June (iu-
stant), and is estimated by good judges as
weighing LOO pounds. Tilden is on his
fathers side full blooded short-horn,
and is out of one of the best dairy COWS
ever known in that part of the county.
His owner, we learned, will dispose of him
for a reasonable price.
We then visited the milk house. This
was once the old Haines mansion, which
Mr. Lincoln has converted into milk
house. 1t is supplied with water by means
Of telegraph pump. The churning is
done by horse power. Mr.. l.. has q nice
dairy, and, like all good dairymsn. keeps
swine enough to use the milk. His swine
are principally Chester County Whites.
Here on the sunny side of this old man.
sion, where the flowers once grew in the
early Spring time and the children laughed
and played in the long ago, we saw the first
sorrow and suffering it had been our lot to
see in this healthy and delightful country.
These things being SO rare and strange
here, we feel constrained to mention it. 1t
was a juvenile porker reposing as we'll as
his suffering would permit him in lounge
extemporized from an old basket We
tried hard to diagnose his case, but being
unskilled in medical matters, could arrive
at no satisfactory conclusion. We are in
clined, however, to favor the opinion that
1t was case of paralysis, superinduced by
the sudden change and cold weather. With
this exception every thing looked well
around the premises of Mr.. l., and we
mention this only because one of the mcm
bers of the Club did So
We now repaired to the spacious mansion
of our host, and soon the members and
guests of the Club arrived, and it was
called to order by the President, Mr. Gil
lespie, and the minutes of the last meeting
were read by the Secretary, Mr.. Lloyd Bal,
derston. The names of the members of
the Club are as follows: Geo. Gillespie,
President, Lloyd Balderston, Secretary, J.
ii. Bunting, Jas. Clendenin, H. H. Duy-
ckinck, John S. Ewing. Thos. Fasset, Able
T. Lincoln, w. E. Gillespie, A. r. Magraw,
A. }. Kitchener, w. w. Moore, William
Waring.
interest to farmers; such as "The selection
Of seed corn and the best time to plant it,"
Experience Of members in wheat cul-
ture;' "Present prospect Of crops" &c
We were much pleased with the way they
discoursed of the various subjects under
consideration, but inasmuch as the minutes
of the meeting are to be published, we will
only report for the benefit of your readers
the humorous part of the matter because
we cannot do justice to the other part and
are sure the Secretary will. Wewere asked
If we would suggest a subject and as we
had long been troubled about the influence
the moon had upon vegetation, and had
been uncertain whether it had any at all
we asked to hear the views of the Club
upon that subject. The funny man said he
would tell an anecdote, illustrative of his
views on the subject, and spoke as follows:
Upon one occasion a farmer was building a
FENCE, and had laid the worm, or bottom
rail, when his neighbor, who believed in |
the sign, came along and said the sign was
not right, and persuaded him to wait, pro-
missing to let him know when the sign !
would be right. In the fullness of time !
his neighbor told him the sign was going