The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-07

Farmers, thou kings of the earth, we
take off our hat to your festival Long
may it be fair festival of peace and
fraternity, and may it be an upbuilding
of your industries, and strengthening
of your many, many virtues.
This generation has never experienced
such serious and long drawn drought
Yet the exhibits of agricultural products
is very good, particularly crops grown
prior to August.
All the departments are filling in
rapidly.
The programmes for the week are very
attractive Thursday will be the big day.
There will be racing both on horses, and
wheel, and tournament on Friday.
Who does not love a Fair2 If there
was nothing else to look at but the peo-
pie, did it ever strike you that the peo-
pie are an attractive show. The exchange
or harmonious ideas, the greeting of
honest hearts tunes up the weary, and
tones down the naughty. The old grow
young, and the young learn many prac-
tical and useful ideas for future life.
Young man, if you contemplate marriage
take your girl to the Fair, not to a
Worlds Exposition, where social ques-
lions are insoluble, and where men do
not know each other, but take her to q
country Fair, and there you can find
out her true character; see that
she knows how to sweetiy converse about
orchard products, that she can talk of
the illimitable resources of pantry pro-
ducts and other culinary paraphernalia;
see that she shows aptitude in dairy
goods, knows how to cook, as well as
look, and that she is capable of master
ing and judging not only gardening,
pomology and agriculture, &C., and
when you find such girl, young man,
court her; don't court her as if she was
. fool and you were another, but court
her for her worth, mental worth; court
her while looking at the corn shelter, court
her at the piano, court her for her brain
power, court her for ner good sense, and
then when you leave the fair ground,
court her some more; and if you
should marry her, young man, keep
right on counting her, be to her the
same lover that you were at the Rocky
Mount Fair. Court her, and bless her,
until you are laid in the quiet tomb,
make her feel through life's beautiful
journey, either in the sunshine, or under
the clouds Of disappointment, that she
is the queen of your heart, and my word
for it, peaceful calm will abide with
you always.
Jesse Brake.
Jesse Brake is the President of this
association; and the association and the
country are proud Of Jesse Brake.
La Jesse Brake we have not
a politician, nor yet one who
seems to think and feel that county fairs
were inaugurated for him, and him
alone (albeit his honesty and integrity
caused him to be sent by Edgecombe
county TO the Legislatare); but we have
farmer, who is of the people, who com
rnenced life under the musical sound of
his own continued industry. Jesse Brake
ia the owner of model farm. He has,
by intellectual activity and operative
brain and muscle power, conquered trees
and stumps; in fact, cleared farm and
built up an ever increasing treasury by
raising products out Of responsive earth,
Edgecombe grit, both the man and the
sod.
Jesse Brake saw the Battles harness
Tar river to drive their factory. Jesse
Brake was inspired by the electric atmos-
phere and the resistless energy of the
cities of Rocky Mount and Tarboro; he
saw these people erect mills, and by
labor and alone forge out factories, he
too harnessed his agricultural M he
ments, and by steady strokes forged