The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-10-04
BLUE GRASS.
And Why Ii Grows in POcahOntas
County.


tors was that of Andrew Price, OF
the Pocahontas Times. He re-
sponded to the tost bluegrass,
and Why it Grows in Pocahon-
tas." While the seeker after
knowledge might no be able to
raise bluegrass or recognize it
when he saw it from this descrip-
ton those who heard the address
conceded it to be a decidedly wit
tyand clever production For
that reason 1t isgiven herein full.
1t has become my pleasant du-
ty to read and your painful duty
to listen to a scientific article on
one of the most important prod
ucts of the soil. There are very
few of us who would dot rather
speak than to be be spoken to,
and those few are educated at
the expense of the State so they
can make signs.
Blue grass is one os about four
thousand species of endogenous
plants and one of the eighty thou
sand of the phanerogenous plants.
1t grows in profusion in Pocahon-
tas county, or the Pearl of the AL
leghanies. There it is indigenous
to the soil, is known in scientific
circles as Pocapratensis and be-
longs to large family.
So also did Doctor Barnes be-
long to a large family. or rather
the large family belonged to DR..
Barnes. He came to the blue
grass country soon after the war
from North Carolina and engag-
ed in the practice of medicine
and in the digging of bitches
After living there for a number OF
: years his deposition was taken in
the case ofMcNeel vs. Auldridge,
a ganging plea, that satisfied
some Scottish traits for some gen.
erations.
His cross examination was con-
Quoted by a very dignified old
lawyer Captain Stopher, veter-
an of the Mexican war. DIR. Bar
mes was ready to defend his testi
mony and he commenced on the
counsel. "Ef my eyes don't de-
ceive me this is old Dan Stopherp'
.'That's my name," replied Capt.
st ,pher,.. who also elaine to be
entitled to the title of G unit to
his most intimate friends.
GWell, I never expected 1
would see you again. Dan, do
you know when L first seed you?''
mo, 1 DON'T" answered the
Captain sourly.
"Well, it was in Mexico during
the Mexican war, and you war a
hugging and kissing a Mexican
woman" The Capt. Indignantly
denied it.
"What is your oeeupation?''
asked the Captain.
ga digging of bitches and rear
ing of children"
"Why are you called doctor?''
because 1 am a doctor?"
"What system do you practice
by?"
81 practice by the vegetable
system; by the mineral system;
and by the botanical system"
"Do you think you could spell
any of those words you used?"
.'Well, L ant much of speller
but kin you spell this word:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
lancomdiscomperomity."
Words must necessarily fail to
portray the beauties of that blue
grass country. The jocund trav-
eler stands tip-toe on the noun
tain height and gazes entranced
on landscape which melts away
over hill and dale, fading from
the rich green of the blue grass
hills to the distant crests robed
in an azure hue, like Bucking.
hams dye on the whiskers of 9
grass widower.
From time immemorial the
people of Pocahontas County
have heen engaged in the work
of making two blades of gras
grow where but one grew before
1t is indeed melancholy sigh
to view a barren spot where bn
one b'ade of grass is growing
There is nothing So desolute un
less 1t be bird bird of feath
er. And to come upon a spo
where bird of feather rests b
a place where there is but on
blade of grass growing, is seen
to wiring tears from the eyes of