The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-10-14
PLUNKETT.
(Atlanta Constitntion.0

for the years bread that is in it
There has been an overabundanct
of rain and it disturbed the thresh
ing of wheat some little, but nj
farmer in this neck of the woods
has any right to complain. Th,
wheat yield has not been the very
best, but the fsll off in wheat bal
been more than made up by the
good oat crop and SO the most
chronic grumbler finds very little
to base his complaints upon in
this year of our Lord 1903
The truth is that the grain har
vest just now being wound mp seems
to have more of the good old times
in it than any we had since the
war Even the girls went out into
the harvest fields this year end
brought water and cheered the
boys and hunted for partridge eggs
just as they used to do when birds
were everywhere and we had nc
thought of their destruction. That
these birds are being protected
now more than twenty years haok
may be guessed from the fact that
one pretty girl that 1 know found
a nest this year with forty
eggs in it and she refused to dis
turb them herself or allow any one
else to do so. This struck me as
being so pretty in the girl that ]
stood and looked at her as a youug
fellow that held her hand and
picked a "treadsalve" out of her
finger and wished that 1 wss young
again that L might court and get
closer to her than l can ever hope
to get as old AS 1 amt is bad to
grow old, especially for some rea-
sons.
Perhaps these girls going out in
the harvest fields did about as
much to delay work IS it did to in
spire the workers, but it goes to
spice the occasion with sweetness
thHt.must be felt to be understood,
and / will remark by way of paren-
thesis that man as old as me has
no hope of ever feeling that way
again, but as cid as 1 am 1 can re-
msmber how it used to be and
rejoice to see the same sweet things
going on again.
The signs are all good in this
neck of the woods to the effect that
boys and girls are soon to under.
stand that a life on the farm is moi
the plessureless thing that they
had we'll nigh believing it was. OI
course a few fools will still think
aud insist that all the opportuni
ties lie in the towns and respecta
bilitY ard prestige lie III the pro
{ f'ssions. We will just let these
fools go on to town aud let them
join in the ranks of the professions
till it won't be long till to be q
countrymsn will mean that one has
sense and manhood aud prosperity
The town as town don't care. but
the, professions had better mind
how they lower their standards tC
meet the capacities of these fools
The day is not far distant, and
predict with confidence, when those
seeking for intellectually will &c
to the men of the hoe and the wo
msn of the country homes Thii
is coming and it will be quicke,
than you imagine, when to be {
farmer will mean sense, prosperity
snd that will sound the highes
title. of a gentleman. And the wo
men of the country will be tn,
"ladies" of this fair land.
Bot to ret urn to the harvest anC
the threshers. Even now 1 Gal
hearithe zoon of one of these ma
chimes over at Browns and tn
whistle of their little engine squesl
as if striving to thrill the Who'll
settlement. / don't like these lit
tie old sQuealing engines The,
strike me as something irreveren
to Gods great plans When the,
are footing around on the hot ant
barren hills they are inviting Gus
tom from the cool and inviting
water mills that sit in such delight
full hooks along the streams. Blu
there is no use for me to objec
and there is no denying the fac
that one of these little old engine