The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-10-14

with a barrel of water and cord
of wood will thresh more wheat.
grind more corn. furnish more
power and kick up more fuss than
the prettiest mill that stands upon
the best mill site in Georgia. The
one at Browns today squeals and
fumes aud surges to make more
noise than Niagara ever dreamed OF
Things all work in Gods own
way, I reckon. If you had told q
farmer fifty years ago that u wheat
crop could be gathered, threshed
and carried to mill without the use
of oxen, he would have thought
you crazy An OK was big thing
in old time harvests. They got
the wheat cut out of the field and
away to some gin house or mill to
be threshed but now these little
old engines roll into the fields
and do the work with suoh hustle
and self-importance till an old
time Georgia OK is too sorry to
even be eat by the poorest folks of
town-they want western beef now
and 30 the Georgia OK is thing of
the past. The mule and the horse
will go the same way before very
long, but 1 am still "boxer" and
"boxer" I'll remain.
ALI this is wonderful to an old
man, but it has come SO easy that
young folks consider it nothing
our old time ways are a joke to
them. While the most of old peo.
pie are silent on these old-time
things in fear of being laughed at
yet you may be sure that they re.
member it all and that it is very
sweet memory too. and in their
hearts they doubt if the world has
grown any better by the passing OF
the old and the coming of the new
1 can remember when people
only had biscuit once or twice a
week. If children in those days
got biscuit on Sunday morning for
breakfast they were satisfied and
delighted. Now they get bisoui,
three times day or they will know
the reason why they don't and
move on to find a more prosperous
place of abode. So wags the world
l have watched and considered un-
til my head gets dizzy ON these
things to at last conclude that it is
not what we used to be nor. what
we are going to be but whstswe are
now that counts. AS all the signs
are good and a spirit of splendid
contentment is taking possession
of the country homes and country
life. 1 rest myself content that all
things will work out for the best
The coming of these .threshers
as they do come is a matter spiced
with variety of sensations. You
learn that it is coming, but you
don't know exactly when it will
come. 1t might come fifteen min
utes before dinner, breakfast or
supper. or at midnight. We profit
by the uncertainty of their COM
ing and have something little ex.
ira from the time the squealing
engine gets in hearing Three
days ago we thought they would
be at our house for breakfast. and
so we had a threshers, breakfast.
Then we were certain they would
be on hand for dinner, and so we
had d threshers' dinner. We would
have swore-in fact we did swear
that they would be on hand at
supper. and SO we got threshers'
supper. So it had been running
for three days before it did eyentu-
ally come, and Brown gained II
pounds in weight and L am heavier
myself. But every bitter has its
sweet. as the saying goes, aud we
are liable to fall off now fully as
fast as we gained to make up for
what our woman folks call the ter
rible extravaganza of threshine
wheat. SARGE PLUNKETT.
President Roosevelt has decided