The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-08-26
Wednesday, August rs, 1903. 4
THE QUESTION;
ffshouid We Blow Our Own
Hosn?'

yes! Should We praise our section?
Stir up enthusiasm and, like bees, the
people will settle down to the tinkling
that pleases most. I wish that We
could have had thousands of visitors
from 8 distance to attend the associa-
tions, the 7eterans' reunions and the
Sabbath school celebrations as we
had in the last month. To say that
we have been having good time is
putting it mild and to say that strang-
ers would have been impressed favor
ably can be stated as certainty. Me
and Brown both have gained twenty
pounds apiece in the last month and
we will weigh two hundred apiece if
the gain keeps up through camp
meeting time. We have already at
tended one campmeeting, but We fail.
ed to realize gain of flesh by one
little mishap that it was as natural as
it was provoking in results. Brown,
as usual, made bad break on the
first morning after our arrival and
nothing would do him but what We,
must return home at once.
In the early morning he was the
first one up on the grounds, and in
.snosing" around, as he does always
.snose," he discovered pretty foot
that had worked itself all uncon-
sciously under the sheet that had
hung to divide the male sleepers from
the side of the females in the tent.
It was nothing to make great ado
over, but Brown thought that every
fellow on the male side would like to
gaze on the pretty foot and ankle and
so he walked us all up and pointed in
great glee at the object. OF course,
we had to look, and while We were
looking my old friend decided that
he was Just obliged to see what lady's
foot it was. He sneaked out and to
the entrance of the tent and peeped
in at the sleeping lady, when, 10 and
behold! he discovered that the pretty
foot that he had taken such pleasure
to exhibit belonged to his own wife.
He rushed frantically back to where
We had remained to stop the gaze OF
the men he had himself invited to
look, he gently but firmly pushed
the foot back to it's own side, pulled
down the curtain close to the ground
and with coold perspiration dropping
from his brow he went out for stroll.
The men had the joke on him and
they teased him to such an extent
that nothing would do but his crowd
and my crowd should return to their
homes at once-as we all went in his
wagon I had to comply, and thus, l
am sure, was lost two or three pounds
of flesh to myself, for eating was
abundant and my appetite was some
what like that of my old friends on
former occasions. he had promised
me full half gallon of good old
corn not to tell the joke around home
on him, and I shall not if he stands
to his promise.
Everything invites cheerfulness in
this section of country. Cotton is
backward in fruiting, bnt I never saw
such prospects for corn and hay in
all ny days. There has been some
little prospects of a war with Rus
sia, some predicting a world wide
war, but when I had watched and
studied Brown for an hour my verdict
was that there would be no war. I
know Brown so we'll that I am sure
he would feel it in his bones if there
was as great prospect for war as
many would have US believe. If the
war was probable I think Brown
would know it by instinct and would
be setting up place to hide when
the conscript officers came. Instead,
he has taken unto himself a boastful
air, and a stranger would think he
never lodged from a bombshell in
his life, nor hid out to escape the
conscripr. If war was imminent he
would be dropping around with rheu-