The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-01

\ no limit -to-sh Indignation. she saio
."Well; it is Just. outrageous Kin, in.
deed why he is just about the forty.
eleventh cousin, and he diden't know
l.wkose child it was, no how. ! wish !
Lhad never sent my baby to the fair.
didn't want to do it no how, bat the nurse
wanted to go. I never had him entered,
sbut the nurse wassWalk liking around and
Ethes committee saWsh hersands said sthey
wanted just one rnores ito makeup sthe
lztWentg.five.- / neYerSt thought. .s60utithe
Eprize, but the judges took THE dear little
Efellow in their arms and heWas ohappy
and laughed 80 sweet and croWed anthem
ands pulled their whiskers and they fell
Isi65ssIove with him, aud 5that;issall of it,
butsI'm going to send that money back.
lsIswon't keep dollarSof it..'
Well, there is something in what one
fio5ffSthose disappointed mothers said,
are the best judges of children,
and especially of babies. Ifaman holds
Isout. his arms to q little child sand 'sit;goe
|. to him and laughss and claws. .him+bysbis
|swhiskers or hissnose, he feels flattered.
IrHea thinks he# must have kind,
attractive Sace,s and that the child
is smart snoughst TO know it. ], never did
like a. aschild thatswouldn'ta come to me.
EsItais reflection ION 5my hysiognomy,
tsandso reckon that iss theEsecret ofsour
little posterity getting the premium But
l:thejoke ofit:is that the next day prize
Wassof offered TO the ;ngliest baby, and the
got the second prize on the first
|sday;g got thaEfrst on sthe second day, for
Che mother put oititsi old clothes and let
Isits face: odirty and tangled up. its hair,
sand:it took the ugly premium without
sapyssrouble tell you there is heap
lsin fine clothes and; the way! they are fixed
.upsGa If Womansd0n,t 20 neat and at
Istractiye atshome, there :iss great danger
thai, her husband wont knowalher when
I6elmeets her ont the street. Il
Evan Howell Swtotas: tosmeSand con-
|.gEatulated me and Mrs. Arp about that
pTizs baby, aud ssid that he always knew
|.thatsthe stock onSboth sides sWas good.
|SWeH, believe there .iss something in
stock-in blood-asim1chii IN human folks
| as there is in horses and eco 0WBsandss dogs.
Ny, good old father was splendid stock.
|ssHe'Worked hard when; he iwas33 33afboy and
lskired out in the summer and Ewent to
school in the winter and; ;heslaid stone
walls and made brick and shipped as a
sailor to Savannah and got ship wrecked
and then went TO teaching school and
testudisd hard at night to keep ahead of
his scholars. Yes, he was good stock.
My wife,s stock was, pretty good, too,
consideripgthst they we're rich and went
to the. Legislature andsto Congress, but
still they had good blood aud were game
to the back bone. I have known for forty
years that Mrs. Arp came from game and
blooded stock. And thens-there4is.the
other side of that prize baby's ancestors.
The old Sparks stock came all the way
down from the man who wrote the life Of
Washington, ,:and 1.-The sEIntons 4went3to
school with me, and could beat all-the
boys at town ball and bull pen, /, and cat,
and 80 know they were good stock:
But the main question is, what will that
baby boy be about twenty years from
now. hope he will never find ont that
he took prize, for it may effect him like
taking the first honor sometimes effects a
college boy-or it may make a fool OF
him, like being thesbelle 5cf:thestown
makessa gfool:of aTplretty pirl.3 "Well,n'
.aaid Iato Mrs. Arp.sssthese infantile.ex::
ploits don't amount TO much. Ifthere
had been any fair when / was child,
mavbe I would have carried off the blue
ribbon. and I am sure! you would but
what is better waited twenty years and
got prize as is prize, and you come
out pretty we'll yourself. | looked
| towards her for some sign, some smile of
approval, but she Just remarked that the
61e was getting low and had better 60
and get hod of coal. These fairs are q
good sign. They are taking the South
I'll over from Virginia to Texas. The
| e. me fair was 8 big. SUCCESS everv way.
NV folks vent over there to spend the
dav and thev stayed the whole week, and
arc mt done taikinp about f. vet Mrs,
Ar Arm ssw ali her oId friends and they
mad made her hannv and abe saw the races
which are her delipht. for she used to be
| as much at home on a horse as on the
ground. and q good deal happier. By
the time she was in her teens she was
riding to the plantation twelve miles,
and back. in a day, and looked like a. lit.
I tie Indian maiden with her long, black
Pocahontas hair falling down to her
slender waist. A good lady rider on a
graceful horse is aueenly sight anyhow,
and I reckon that is the way she set hel
net and caught me. But her hair is not
so long now and her waist not quite SO
slender. and she don'tride on horseback
any to speak of. She took three of the
children with he o Rome, and left me