The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-25

example will not die. II never dies
And while I Illuminated about this family
another verse Of poetry came to my mem.
DRY that fits them:
"Far from the maddening crowds ignoble
strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray,
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life,
They kept the noiseless tenor Of their
way"
Sometimes l think we are doing wrong
in exciting cur children to more ambi-
ticus things and painting them 10 the
high places Of the earth. Ambition is a
sordid, selfish world. 1t comes from
"ambio" to walk around hunting for
votes. That is what ray big dictionary
says. Better not aspire 100 high or K
pect loo much. As Cube says, "it won't
do for o man to straip his gum"
Next on the programme was the mill
tary performance of the broom brigade.
1t was quite q small brigade. About
thi:ty girls from the school at Monticello
we're brought to dress parade by their
professor. They were armed with brooms,
and dressed in pretty uuiforms-blue
ginghams, with;%:"negligee" waists and
white braid trimmings and rosy cheeks
and damask bushes, and other tantaliz-
ing things. They went through the
manual Of arms and all the eVolutions
that are known to military companies,
with perfect precision. It astonished
everybody, ard I remarked to a veteran {:
cit looks like the girls are getting ready
for the next war" Eyes," said he, "snd
they may fight it. 1t waa the likes of
them that hurried me into the last one."
Another remarked ~ wouldent be sur
prised to hear of them being in theinfan.
try service before long. They are shoot.
ing now-shooting Cupid's arrows"
On the whole, it was a pleasant fair
pleasant to all who attended; but there
was some disappointment because of the
lack of agricultural exhibits. The coun-
try people have an idea that somebody
else will get the premiums and so they do
not bring their products. To make a
County fair a success every substantial
farmer in the County ought to take
something, even if it is only a Curiosity
a freak of nature, a curious ear of corn,
or q potato, or q three legged dog or
something. Most everybody has got
something. I know what Brady County
can do from what was there, but there
should have been ten times as much corn
and cotton, and oats and potatoes, and
pears, etc., etc. Mr.. Pearce lives there
the man who ginned the bale of cotton
that took the premium of 81, 900 at the
worlds fair-the highest premium ever
given to a bale of cotton. He gave me q
roll of his best ginning of this years
crop, and I brought it home with me.
1t is more like down than cotton.
But I had to leave these good people
with my thanks and a blessing. I went
overland to Monticello, eighteen miles.
I cheated Jay Gould out of that much
time and money. We made it in three
hours and that beats his railroad. Mon
ticello is a more ambitious place than
Warren, but has no better people. They
ship 10000 bales from Monticello and
the town has m~acadamized the streets
and is building up beautifully. From
there I made departure for home. The
railroad did not connect at Little Rock,
so I bumped around the big room at the
depot until 8 o'clock in the night (seven
hours) and reached the river at Memphis
next morning at 9 o'clock. 1t took rs
two and q half hours to CROSS, and of
course the train was gone. I waited an
hour, but couldent wait any longer, 30 I
WAS delayed there until 6 O'Clock that
night. 1t is just awful when a man is
anxious to get home. The hours are go
long and weary. I fully expected to be
left again at Chattanooga but the conduc.
tor told me that if his train got in on
time I would have five minutes to reach
the Western and Atlantic as it passed
along at its crossing on Main Street, and
if 1 would Jump off quick and trot along
lively and if the engineer was in
a good, kind humor and would slow up a
little I might possibly make it. And I
did. My valise was pretty heavy, but I
trotted and fox, trotted and paced and got
to the crossing just in time, and I mo-
toned in a pleading, beseeching way,
end he smiled and nodded. and q stranger