The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-21
For ne Farmer ADJ Mech.clc.
A North Carolina Lady In New
Orleans

seek with the world. | heartily wished
| had carried a fan TO my lmpedl meuta,
a. Cesar wouli have ST. led al the things
| had carry. \ water proof on one ann
i Away the pttt 1T VS. iou. Ne have
a family tradition ablu' NY grand .'l.I.
Judge Daniel Car, Of RIchu lui. VIZ
always went bout armed and ~equipfei
With oyer>h .e- ini uubrrll4. one day
his brothcr-in law. Chief Justice Mar
shall said 10 him, Cal. why i it thar
you carry 40 umbrella on a cay like
thi.2"
The Judge replied coolly, "Whv, Mar
shall, any foe, will take an umbrella when
it is raining; II IS oaly a wise man who
carries one when the sun is shining"
And often think Of my progenitor's
wisdom a |, in town, arm my self against
the possible treachery Of this lovely but
most unreliable blue sky.
Judge Morgan, now United States
minister to Mexico, used to say that he
considered the climate Of New Orleans as
dangerous as that of Alexandria in Egypt
which it closely resembles.
1t is now variable, and SO damp. at
least that is my experience of il. But
oh, it Is so lovely here, such green. green
grass such lovely blooming roses, such
a soft ~invitingness about anything. 1t
does not seem worth while to get vexed
or even to be in a hurry about anything.
Yet these people In their own quiet. Ian
gourous way do more. aud with resistless
energy when they see fit.
Take for example this great Exposi
ton. 1t has been gotten together in one
third ofthe time, at, | think they claim.
one third OF tie expense, and on a three
times greater scale than the PHILADELPHIA
Centennial.
The Philadelphia fair runs three wears
IN proportion, ard only twenty-five States
and some of tho territories exhibited
there.
This whole thing las been done in one
years time. and ever, State and Terri-
tory IN America is h re represented and
~splepdld'y represented at that.
And until you see 1t all en- masse, side
by side tor comparlSon, you have concep
ton OF what the United States really is.
It's wealth OF resource, its hounilcss ca
paclty, It's Infinite possibilities. The
strides 1t has made III natural progress
and Development in the last S years is
II phenomlnal, and puts the old fable of
the 8 league boots to the blush, and JUS
tlhes a stretch OF imagined possibilities
that throw even Jules Verne's marvellous
tancies into the shade.
AT the mass meeting held on Battle
Day, Jan. 9Th, when Old North Caro-
mas son, Gen. Jackson taught .one
infamous Edward Parkingham' that
Beauty and Booty was a dangerous
WatchWard to use then Southern Il had
began to write American, when | re-
Beast Butler in this same
New Orleans, and for truths SAKE
changed the geographical momenclature)
men were his opponents. Well to re-
urn, n Jan 8, a mass meeting wa held
the Washington Artillery armory. to
lelp the managers of the Exposition
elephant out of Their temporary financial
1lfficulty. 1t was a great success Mai.
Burke carried the heart and enthusiasm
the entire multitude with him as he
does, and said at the close of the
meeting that its financial success was
low a certainty, that by Saturday night
le will have all the money needed for
he current expenses since December.
md gotten from the New Orleans too.
hat on Tuesday the exhibitors had Of
him $500, 900. but he declined 10
axe 1t, preferrlng to see what the Cres-
City ment to do, before a~cceptino ,
outside aid. The Exposition managers |
LEGGED s2o,OOO there and then. and the +.
Ihaliclai pulse generally slow to rise,
vas beating at fever per heat. And if sub
criptlons had been taken, | fancy some !
cry reckless figures would have been l
'fltten down. Now, the feeling in re-
ara 10 The lpance IS very comfortable.
40 as | begun by aging 50 continue. it :
as a 9feat success. And after its close. d
saw MI. Burke under most favorable. u
'hdItlons ITO take his measure He
a wonderful a genius beyond all
efadVehtufe ana IA born ruler among
zen. lie has great personal Magnet
III, ana once let him rise before an
idlence to advocate a measure in which
IS heart Is enlisted, and YOU may buy
y wager II you please that he Will car
the crowd with him Just as resistlessly
a flood will carry drift-wood. He has
reslstable personal influence. The in
lnctlve domination of a born master.
A rather tall. slight figure, exceeding
graceful, and looking every inch a
entleman and a thoroughbred. .
III he does not come from s0n1re ANIL
ock then don know an eagle from an
vlD
A pale powerful face, keen pleasant, .
ue eye, line nose, clear cut ~resolute
outh, and the whole face indica-
the brain, the resolute will the dar-
gness OF purpose, aud indomitable a
ess OF the man, who in sixteen years. )
ms W single handed effort has lift :
himself ron a clerkship TO the DO
-lon he now occupies and Occupjes
perhaps no other one man could have
me.
On that same occasion | also met
rs. Townsend, the poetess, whose NO.
poem upon the opening dav has been
widely copied, and 50 justly praised.
e. IS a tall fine looking woman, with cor.
Il pleasant manners. AID though heart
q soul Identified with the land of her
option, she is a New Yorker by birth.
llie her husband, Mr.. Gideon Town
ld belongs to the distinguished Mas
;husetts family OF that name. They
very Charming people, and Mrs.
"hsend is the author of some most
iutilul poems, one, that | almfre
we All Others written on the same
.Itcl' and to my mine the nohlesl
Ats lhat has yet given to the
rid, beautiful as some of the others
should be copied in every Southern TT
lsehold. | mean her poem on Stone =
Jackson, written for the dedication
MS monument in this city. -
mere IS here a very noble monument w
cen Lee. and speaking of il one .
"a ocotchman. who is boarding w. ere
,, and who has lived since 1887 m j,
ago, saId,-"Its a fine l.
nave built to him. On, he was -
man, and if he had only succeed
instead OF Gen. Grant there couIdr,,
{ oeeh a monument fine enough 70 la
e to INN. and lie would haye-had -
u raised all over this country. and
Dad too but he'll have many mora
as peODleU yet over tLnir rnu =,