The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-17

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and rivaled Pocahontas in her beauty
and balanced the scales al a hundred
pounds, and we have her portrait that
was painted over thirty years ago-aud
so she didn't want her matrimony face
and form to go down to posterity in pic
lures. She is not satisfied now and de.
clares the artist is no account, but ne all
tell her the photos. are splendid. You
see there is no trouble about photographs,
especially cabinet size. If the nose ia
quite prominent and slightly elevated. it
appears more so in the picture, for it
strikes out little nearer to the comera
than the rest of the face, and is a triAe
magnifed. a small nose takes well in a
picture, for it becomes enlarged and
drawn out, but large one becomes larger.
I am not alluding to any nose, in particu-
lar, but just mention this as scientific
fact, that I have diagnosed. Large
noses are good thing to have, for they
indicate force of character and will.power,
but a man had better be cautious about
mating with woman whose nose is lar
GER than his own. Sometimes wish
that my noae was triAe larger, just q
triae.
This Is the centennial year of the re-
public. 1t is the one that ought to be
celebrated. One hundred years ago on
the first day of this month George Wash.
ington vas elected president and John
Adams the vice-president. On the first
Wednesday in February the votes of the
States were opened and counted in New
York city. Then it took messenger
three weeks to ride on horseback to Mt.
Vernon to tell the,general that he was
elected, and it took another;messenger
two weeks to ride to.. Boston and tell Mr..
Adams of his election. Then it took
Washington several days to have tailor
make him some clothes that would suit
the great occasion, and 80 he never reach
ed New York until the goth of April, and
vas inaugurated on the 30th. So it is a
historial fact that these United States
never had apresident until April 80, 1888,
and the government is not yet a hundred
years old. I thought of all this last
Tuesday night, the centennial of WASH
ington' 3 election, and I got inspired and
went down town to get some of the pa
triots to help nae to do something and
shoot some guns and fire off some rockets,
but nobody seemed enthused but the
patriot Willingham, and he said he
couldn't holler any to hurt, and SO came
back home and got on the piazza and
threw up my hat and gave a Wild Indian
whoop all alone-"Hurrah for Washing.
ton hurrah for Adamsr' I exclaimed
and about that time Mrs. Arp came
meandering to the front and said, "Wash
who7 Adam who ?" and, "What have
they been doing 2" and when l explained
she asked me if I was crazy, and she
looked at me with alarm. I saw that
patriotism and sentiment were not appre-
ciated, and so I subsidized to my normal
meekness. I'm afraid that I am the only
patriot in all this nation that celebrated
the centennial election day, and this
proves that republics are ungratefnl.
Not long ago heard man speak disre.
spectfully of Washington's little hatchet.
He said it was myth. But even the
sun paid homage and respect to the nota-
BILE day and held his face behind the
moon; though heard an Atlanta man
say that Atlanta got up that eclipse just
to show the world what Atlanta could
do. I wish that our people would pay
more respect to the memories of the past
and less to the sensations of the present.
A friend asked me yesterday ifMr. Hayes
was living or dead. I told him that he
was not dead, but was "sick transit"
BILL ARP.