The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-10-22
ARP AT THE EXPOSITION
The World Is Full Of People This
Year, He Says.
lie Writes OF the Couv.cts-Tn His Opinior
the state VIII Have to Establish the
whipping Post Before Long,

by the hand and to!loWeu our purity
through the thousands who thronged the
sidewalks. Sometimes we were lost but
soon got found and after struggling over
a hot half-mile we found q LoSpitable
verahda away up ON Peuchtree and camp
cd upon It,
But we were ahead of the music and
here for an hour we waited tie coming
Of the grand procession. Even this far
out there was no dimiEution of tie crowds
that packed the sidewalks. We had tried
to flank them, but gave 1t up in despair.
The world is getting awful full Of people.
As Cabe says. they are get thg more
thicker, more denser. wiped the pers-
piration from my bald head and furrowed
brow and let my tired legs hing down
over the edge of the veranda floor and
gazed and ruminated upon the living ka-
ledoscope before me. By and by we
heard the strains Of music iu the air.
The little girl reused up from her weari.
ness and said: "Grandpa, / hear II; the
band is coming" BY and by we heard
the echo and shouts and cheers away
down the line, and by the mounted van
guard appeared. Then followed the band,
and the air was sweetened with charming
music and thousands of children were
made happy.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys came
marchin-the boys from the barracks
the regulars of Uncle Sans army. How
clean they looked with their white hats
and white pants and blue sack coats
How straight their lines, how uniform,
their step, how soldierly they carried
themselves and their arms. This was a
great frolc for them, an episode in their
monotonous life A professional soldier
does not live much life in time of peace.
He becomes machine, and every day ie
alike to him.
Then came the Washington Artillery
band with its handsome drum major keep
Ing time with his baton, and then the
artillery with guns and caissons and a
fifth wheei to every wagon. Many n
time we saw that famous company dur
ing the war and revereneed them. l
don't know why ii was, but they were
considered the ranking command in that
arm of the service. They were like old
Stonewall's men in time of battle. /
wonder how many of the old heroes are
left. How our Confederate veterans
would have liked to take them by the
manu- anu WITH IOlStthCu co Su1 SOhA
rade, l was with you in old Virginia"
Then came more infantry and more music
and more artillery and some "hoss cav
adry," as Cabe calls them, and they kept
Oh coming and after while the lines of
carriages with all the notables in the
State began to pass and we all cheered
the women, both new and old, and they
paid us back in smiles and that was
enough. By this time l was tired and one
of my feet fell asleep, and the little girl
was tired, so we all took car for the
fair grounds. We listened to the Ions
speeches awhile, but it was awful hot ur
in the gallery, and so we walked about
seeing the sights and waiting for Mr.
Cleveland to touch that button and put
the wheels in motion. That is most
wonderful thing to me. 1t was awful-by
which mean it is full of awe. The idea
of a man ] 90 miles away touching lit
tie button and in an instant the great
iron wheel begins to move and hundreds
of smaller ones spin round like tops and
old Grover never stopped talking nor took
the cigar out of his mouth. / cant COM
prehend it. As David said. l cannot at
tain unto it. The only reasonable and
natural way for old Grover to start that
big wheel was to come out here and take
his coat off and get down behind it and
give a grunt and heave- and say: "Hur-
rah. boys. let her CO." / could under
stand that. That's the way that big
strong Ike Dunkel, of the Rome Light
Guard. used to lift our army wagons out
of the mire when the team got stalled.
By and by the speaking was over and
the button was pressed and the big can
non rockets were fired to the heavens and
cheers went up from ten thousand throats
and the little girl chung close to me and
trembled. 1t was too much for her T.
year-old soul. Twilight soon came and
then the electric lights and the grand IL
Illumination. 1t was bewildering, en-
chanting, inspiring. l felt like the old
woman, who for the first time went to
the circus and when the grand procession
of beautiful horses and star-spangled
riders came in her old man said: ''Sally,
Sally, what do you think of ity She
struggled for utterance and whispered,
John, it's more like the kingdom Of
heaven than anything / ever expected to
see in this world"
But time and tide waiteth for DO man,
neither do the ears, and had promised
nv wife to come hoIae at 10 o'clock and
did. So kissed the little girl good-by
and boarded the train for home. 1t had
been a long but happy day. Thousands
were happy and never saw a drunken
man nor heard baby cry.
l had lighted my cigar and settled
down in the smoker TO ruminate on peace
and good will when suddenly heard the
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