The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
PLUNKETT.
ATLANTA CoNsrIrur1oN

that day has greater significance
in our county of DeKalb than else.
where, because of the number OF
Sco'ch people who have settled
here in the granite region.
Just Why the nsule nf ..A,abia''
was glven To considerable portion
of our county has been lost IN the
confusion of memories. some lay
ing it to one thing and some to
another. but certain that the name
has clung to it for a long while
and is more than apt to cling to it
through the balance of time. 1t is
peculiarly fitting that Robbie
Burns should be remembered there
and birthday celebrated in the
purely SCOTCH style. Tae whirl
of progress and the elegance of
culture has spared the region till
the glorious simplicities are there
to greater degree than anywhere
we know, and that is the reason
that we always strive to go there
on what they call their Burns
day"
The section may be rightfnlly
called "old fashion," but few, l
think, would object to that, when
there is nothing to be seen there
but what ID worthy of practice and
nothing heard but what is pure in
every precept. We took it leisure
ly and stopped at the houses where
we know we were welcome, and
spent three days in most pleasing
way. The houses are about all the
same-the most of them built of
hewd logs, shed rooms and story
and half. These homes are To-
Gated pretty near spring and
some old people never drank from
a well in their lives A peouliari-
ty about these old fashioned homes
is that nearly all of them have
cedar trees in the yard. I reckon
it pity that the fine old trees of
the original forest had not b:en
preserved in the yards, but it seems
to have been the taste to prefer
cedars, and SO it is. There is
generally a kitchen, and this is
almost universally connected with
a big house by passage laid with
large hewed logs. A smoke house,
cribs, stables and other small out
houses are present at. all these
houses and built out of logs, till to
see one of them is to see all, and
there is corn in these cribe, meat
in the smoke houses, milk in the
churns, sorghum sirup in the
barrels altogether impressing that
there is plenty of everything for
man or beast and the other i'm.
preston is present that company
is welcome. The people of thI.
region seem now and Always to
have been a most prolific set. Il
seems to me that we SAW more
pretty children in our three days
visit than we ever saw before ilr the
same number o. homes This
speaks for the section, but when
we consider that these children are
the offspring of hardy race of old
people who have lived and pros.
pered here, and that they have
never Thought of moving away,
and the same satisfied spirit
possesses them all from generation
to generation. All of this makes q
charming picture to me aud gave
as delightful time while there.
Nothing was more pleasing to
me than to learn just how the
young people of the region deport
themselves and of how wonder
fully satisfied they arc with coun.
try life. The boys we're all astir
getting ready for the next crop and
they moved with vim that i'm.
pressed that their hearts are in
their work, while the girls made
the same impression by their
manner of performing their house
work. Some would churn. another
brought water, some were washing
at the spring with their dresses
rolled up too high for company, as
they as good as said they rolled
them down as we would approach
AS far back as the memory of
the oldest inh4bitant goes this re
gion had what was known there as
the king" To be the liking of
Arabia" was considered a great
honor. Mr.. Nelson Anderson is
remembered there as having held