The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-30

rights were afterward subIct for 81 each
After these exercises ice cream was
held. l held some also. A crazy quilt
was voted on, and the most popular man
got it, The most popular man Is tho
one who can buy the most suffrages. One
hundred and seventy dollars was
realized ont of tho quilt, and one lust
like it, only crazicr if anything. was Of
fercd mo in Buncombe county, N c.,
for So. rs a week ago last fall
One of the ladies asked me to have
saucer of cream with her. said would
most blithely. She found big crowd
about tho cream joint, if I may be per
mitted to use googoo term, but my
magical name secured the cream III
trice, with II spoon also. 1t was also
complimentary and given i'll addition to
my box Office receipts. After I went
home 81 more saucers of cream and cake
were ordered for Mr.. Nye.' This in
Sured prompt service and no charge MI
til DR.. Lambeth feared that I would
kill myself and get myself embalmed mt
the expense of the church, and he en-
posed the fraud, us I had been in bed at
the parsonage nearly two hours.
am at heart good man, but I never
promised that whatsoever was asked in
my name would be given without mon
ey and without price
Suffolk, another prosperous Virginia
town. has the truck region on one side
and the Dismal swamp on the other.
competed i'll the oratorical contest ut the
Suffolk Military academy with the
handsome cadets, and of course came off
second best. Everybody got bouquets
but me. 1t was Il delightful occasiOn
The opera house was filled with indul-
gent friends and the perfume of ii thou
sand magnolia blossoms sat behind
large, graceful palm with my sunny
head just peeping over it like IA hard
boiled eggplant or an editorial orchid
living cheerily on air.
The next day an expedition, including
the writer and family, was arranged for.
having in view the lake of the Dismal
swamp. 1t is long and rather labori-
Gus trip Of 10 or ii. hours by canal. four
negroes punting the boat ten miles ana
return at the rate of two miles an hour
not including stops for treatment of
snake bites.
We had n very choice party of young
people, headed by Miss Lizzie Joseph
King the principals energetic daughter.
and Major Dawson and Captain Phillips,
two carnations of the academy and pinks
of chaperons; also Mr.. Elam, the rail
way guide, philosopher and friend Miss
Vinton, the botanist and buggist Miss
Hunter, Miss Mary Prctlow, Mrs Har-
per. the prize taker on pickles and jel-
lies; Miss Croker, the entertaining
reader and elocutionist, and others whose
names cannot spell properly.
Gayly we started at o'clock by car
rage for the canal, which is perhaps
two miles from the town. We got aboard
the Jennie Wilson, and with the shrek
of whistle from the off niger on the
jlb poop we began to glide softly from
our mOOrings in the tall grass.
For the first few miles one wonders
what Tom Moore, the gifted Irishman,
found to write about, for we glided along
through grassy rneads and tall weeds,
but anon we found ourselves in the cane
brake and the hush OF vast 100, 600
acre silence. Now and again the deep
silence would be broken by a glad cry
as fragrant magnolia and cool moe
casin, with red petals, were gathered,
and as the snake fell, with mellow
PUNK, shrieks of delight were echoed
from the deep, somber wall Of giant
gums.
The Dismal swamp was owned after
the Revolutionary disturbance by George
Washington, who cut down good many
Of the large trees with his little Ratchet
He formed the Dismal Swamp Land
company and dag the Washington ditch
to raft timber to market on, and the
dark sarsaparilla colored streak of vet
ness is still there.
The Dismal swamp is yet the paradise
Of hunters, and in Lake Dru1nmond there
are fish as long as an oar. caught one,
but it had just been born and was only
50. inches in length. was told that if
/ kept it long enough it would grow to
| be as big as an oar, but I only kept it
! till the conductor the next day asked me
to please go into the secondhanded car,
and decided TO cast my little fish aside
! Friends are 70 me far more valuable than