The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-11-24

INC IL college, boys can I go 10
sleep without it on Friday night"
loot! toot! Hurrah Three cheers!
Twenty minutes for dinner! And the
kettle drum beat and the welkin
rang. History is repeating her
self" said I. Forty years ago | was
doing just what you boys are doing
tonight, and forty years hence you
boys will be doing just what | am
doing now" loot! toot! Hurrah !
hurrah for Bill Arpl Never say
die! Don't give up the ship! loot!
toot! boom! boom! And the drums
beat and the horn squealed. L.
Well it was splendid fun and L en-
joyed it as much as the boys. They
were just running Overland had to 40
They are all young men of something:
good 'habits and good manners and
faithful application to study but there
is as fine a field for a music teacherat
Davidson as / know of: While |
was up stairs in a brick house the
earthquake came along again and
shook us up lively. 1t was the
severest and lasted the longest of
any hat / have felt, and / did not
like it at all. A little while before
| had been shown where the great
high columns that supported the
gable projection of one of the college
buildings had been displaced at their
tops several inches. The quake Of
August 31st did that. | am not
panicy o inicky, but still | had
rather live in a one-story wooden
house these times. This is an off
year and | am looking out for an
other fall of meteors. There is some
kin between earthquakes and cleo
tricity and between electricity and
the meteors. | remember seeing the
stars fall in 1888 and my father said
he felt his nerves to tingle just like
he had hold of the arms of a mag
netic battery. George Lester and |
ven out next morning and looked
for the stars on the potato patch,
but we couldn't find them. History
records these meteoric displays as
occurring on the twelfth Of Novem-
Der. AS far back as 1866 they fell
on that night in great showers and
there was red dust left on the roofs
of houses. Humboldt tells of a
great fall of meteors on the same
night in 1887, and on the same night
in 1922 and 1881 in Germany, and
in 1888 in the United States. The
next were on the same night in Eu-
rope in 1871 and 1916. | wonder
what the twelfth of November has
to do with business. ] don't believe
we understand everything no how.
Home again now for a season.,
but | am going back to North Caro-
lima again soon. | like that State
and her people. The latch string
hangs on the outside and the dog is
tied in the back yard. | met two
preachers over there and they in
troduced themselves. and [ told
them | knew they were preachers
when / saw them walking about
town. One of them asked me how
| knew it, and l said | couldn't tell
exactly how, but their faces and
their walk and their clothes said so.
One of them was a large man and
he had the biggest foot [ ever saw
on a white man. | think his shoe
was about number fifteen, and it
looks like a big dogwood glut that
John splits rails with, and he calls
it a buster" "Ill tell you how you
knew l was a preacher" said he.
you saw my feet and remembered
the Scripture that says How beau
tiful upon the mountains are the feet
Of those who bring glad tidings.'"
He was a wag if he was a preacher,
and as | replied, "Well | am sure
| am in Piedmont now for this is
the foot Of the mountain" and [
pointed down to his alligator brogans.
He was no quaker for he smiled
out loud and said CESS So"
BILL ARD