The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1903-11-27
What Saw and Heard During the
Week.

week.
Editor Herdld.-A man in his shirt
sleeves one day and in his oyercoat
the next. A boarder at a well furnish
ed table call for cold bread when there
were hot batter bread and biscuit to be
had. That man was born we'll nigh
a. far from Virginia as the East il
from the West A mother slaps her
bad baby into quietude after nursing
and singing had failed iguominiously.
A number Of venerable fellow.citizens
casting nets aud fishing in mill pond
on a freezing day. Major Koiner, Viz
ginla's Commissioner Of Agriculture,
with gun and dog out in the open
country and having relief from official
cares and good time" generally.
An expert shot kill bird in a thick
ct on the wing, throw his hat in the
direction the said bird fell, turn and
kill another that was flushed at the
same time A boy Of ten summers
skipping over the frozen ground with
bare feet, whistling as merrily as ever
bird chirped in early spring.
A school girl wrestling with a sum in
algebra, another giving finishing
touches to a rural scene and still anoth-
er returning from Main street, holding
bag in her hand, into whose hidden
depths she made oft-repeated explOra-
tons. A lady farmer whose hog pen
was cleaner, warmer and whose hogs
were fatter than those Of her neighbors
Another farmer, who cheerfully said:
"Never mind as TO the price Of tobacco
you can't down a working man." An
independent tobacco dealer, who said:
81 don't know just what's ahead Of me,
but am buying tobacco just as though
there were no such things as tobacco
trusts"
Still another farmer who has grown
his first crop on a Virginia farm and
who is more than pleased with results
| A mixer who said: at is a mistake To
think that milking is a cold business
On the contrary the hands are kept
snugly warm and comfortable"
saw a yoke Of steers going down
the road at a rate that indicated that
they were some kin to Dan Patch. a
party Of Philadelphia hunters who
were equipped for the field in royal
finish but who didn't do ten dollars in
damage TO Virginia game. But for
local shots they wouldn't have carried
home enough for a family breakfast.
A man pack a trunk and II was o
trough, roll and tumble" sight
A glorious sunrise and a cloudless
sunset A Saturday evening rush in
a country store. A New Yorker, who
came to Virginia to hunt. Reached a
depot on the Southern at u O'Clock
at night, rode to his hunting head
quarters distance Of II miles, reach
ing there at ) a. m, slept until seven,
hunted all day and called that sport.
II he had been asked to make such
effort i'm behalf Of his employer, bis
wife, his government or his God he
would have protested.
heard Capt. Frank Cunningham
Of Richmond, sing one Of his tenderest,
sweetest songs at the close Of an inn
pressive sermon and it has been ring
ing in the chamber Of memory since.
No singer ever stirred me as he has al
ways done.
heard a great preacher preach
great sermon with "Moral Courage as
his theme. | stood, in the shadow of
the "Chesterfeld," in Richmond, an
unimposing pile Of unsightly brick and
mortar without artistic form or comeli-
ness But it is the newest fiat fad in
the city and the devotees OF fashion
are flocking to ITS sheltering arms.
heard this from an earnest preacher
He said, was preparing to leave
home a certain Saturday to meet an
appointment the next day, when my
little son Of seven summers, remarked:
| am going with you. But | said you
can't go, it isn't convenient to carry
you and you must remain with mama.
No, he replied, l am going with you.
Then became somewhat positive and
said. You shall not go, and nothing
more must be said about it, And
again he came back and said, yes | am
going cause you promised last Satur-
day that | should go. And that settled
! it. Moral: Take God at his word, and
rest on his promises. The incident
was unusually effective.
OK THE Go.