The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-12-15

woods. If any bees are anywhere near
they are suretO light en- that honeya and
when they have eaten all they want,
they make for their hives, which are
in the woods. The hunters watch
their course, follow in straight line,
seldom failing to find the hive. They
often get from one of these bee-trees
40 lbs. Of nice hOney-often combs of
pure nice honey two or three feet, if
they are large, are obtained.
We must not overlook mentioning,
that, whilst attending church at
Hoge, after service, our attention was
arrested by modest and attractive
marble pillar which stood in sunny
place along q gentle slope. APP
preaching the spot we read sacred
to the memory Of Meshech Brown
ing" Here at last after long and
eventful life the remains of the great
hunter and pioneer rest. As we stood
there for few moments pioneering
over his stormy and romantic life and
the great changes which the billows
of progress had wrought in the coun-
try, that was once his and his alone,
we could but exclaim: "if the names
OF Meshech Browning could break
from the cerements of the grave.
and behold the march of modern
vandalism that, has torn down the
splendOr of the majestic forest,
through which he loved to roam, and
where, after many a desperate en-
counter and almost miraculous es-
cape from death, he sought repose
charmed society Of his wife and little
ones in their cabin home in some cleft
of the mountain He would eX-
claim: '"Take and replace me in the
dreamless silence of my earthly home. -
1t was the following Saturday when
we reached Oakland, where we found
Mr. William Browning and one of his
accomplished daughters with Il con-
veyance ready to convey us to his
home some seven miles distant. On
this visit Capt. Browning, Senator r.
I. Browning and wife accompanied
us. We had had two comfortable con-
veyances; when about two miles out
an accident happened to one, and
with Vim. and the Senator we had to
make it by short cut over the mount
aims, across the streams, through the
dense woods for distance OF four
miles. 1t was hard walk, but we
reached the Mountain Stock Farm, -
such being the name of his farm, a
little after dark. We had travelled
much and seen much in our travels
but it has been many days since we
sat down to such a sumptuous, elegant
and artictically arranged supper table
it could not have been otherwise,
MIR. Browning has four pretty and in
teresting daughters who were it's ar
chitects. Show us a home that is en-
broidered with every rare flower as
this one is, and we can write, in the
dark, an essay full OF poetic melody,
in describing the character of the in
mates of that home. Two of the
daughters are teaching school, two
have charge of the household and at
tend to the domestic duties. Go
through their kitchen and you would
not know it was such, and then at any
time of the day, they can take off their
aprons walk into the parlor and be
presentable to a congress of diplomats.
After tea several hours were spent in
a delightful and cosey dr&wing-room
in conversation and with periodicals,
etc. 1t was most charming fall even
ing, and most charming are its recol-
lections.
Sunday was filed with pleasing OBJ
servations on and around the farm,
and in listening to music, etc, whilst
indoors, Monday morning we reluc-
family said goodbye to all-and to
ourselves we murmured-we viii come
again.
At Oakland we enjoyed, as we have
all along when in that mountain city,
the warm-hearted hospitality of Sen
ator Browning and his estimable wife.
We have made so many visits and
our stays have been so protracted in
this section, that we almost feel'that
it was our home. In a short address
which we had the pleasure of making
before the school teachers conven-
tion, on the evening Of our departure,
we remarked in conclusion, as near as
we can remember: "But for the fact
that Montgomery contain the graves
of our kindred and the willow that
told of a vacant chair in our own
home, we would seek out some cave
among the mountains, where it was
so sweet and still that one might hear
the dew-drop stealing down into the
hearts Of the wild flowers, and even
the footballs of an angel moving on q
path paved with liquid highland ask
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