The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-27

he suggested.
He was q good fellow, and like.
10 favor that kind. | stopped at
Knoxville, and stayed there two years.
East Tennessee is al that has been
claimed for It
There wasa Dutch girl up inPenn-
sylvanIa, and you know what that
is. You have heard the old express
sion, "That beats the Dutch" Don't
believe it. Nothing beats the DOUGH,
at least the Dutch girls.
That Dutch girl had talked about
the South and one day to surprise
her 1 bought two tickets for North
Carolina. It surprised her. Sur
prised me too when she told me the
day after she arrived she wanted to.
buy the place where we now live.
You know when that kind Of q girl
wants anything what you do You
buy 1T If the figure is any place where
You can reach It by standing on the
top of the piano, We bought the place
because the climate is one that you
do not have to lie about all the time,
and you never have to apologize for It.
You Just say, II some Of the Yankees
kick about it. that this is not your
day for directing the weather.
For about ten years we kept drop
ping down in North Carolina when
ever we got money enough to get the
railroad company to view the trip
with complacency, and each time we
took more Of a fancy to the climate,
the people, the razor back hams, the
soft-sand spring water, the pictur-
esque forests and about everything
else. We figured that It is a COOL
place for the small bunch that has
been gathered up with the rest Of the
household plumber.
| asked a doctor one day what we're
the taypes Of children's diseases that
he encountered in his practice here.
81 see so few diseases Of children"
he answered, that cannot say that
there are any typical diseases Of that
sort in this section"
It is child's paradise. 1t is a
restful place for women. 1t permits
SO much out.oEdoors life, SO much
open-air exercise, and so much sun
ny cheerfulness that it is a fit place
for any one.
This section Of North Carolina is
an agreeable place to live, and It has
the advantage Of being convenient
to the rest of the world. The man
who wants to make an occasional
trip to the North between the time
the ice goes out in the spring and
the closing of navigation again in the
fall does not have to spend the rest
Of the year in a long journey on the
road. He can get from North Caro-
lima to Pennsylvania in less than
days travel.
1t is q good community 10 live in.
! was at a neighbours house one day,
aud he was putting a new lock OH
his front door. He had lost the key
to the other lock about eighteen years
ago and because he had a friend in
the house from the North who was
doubtful Of the safety of such a place
he decided to put new lock on so
lie could fasten The house at night
that his visitor might sleep in peace,
! only know Of two towns in a dis.
lance of O hundred and fifty miles
that have open saloons, ! don't wani
to discourage any man with a thirst.
He knows the way to the pigs ear
or the road 10 Richmond, Wore he
can cool his coppers.
like the nolghborhood because
when we are up town for a day Or so
It is satisfying TO get back home AMI
see IN old fat black Niger woman
gather the children up and hug them
and tell them how glad she is to sec
them. The curious tales that are told
the little folks in the kitchen after the
supper things arc cleaned away or
around the barn while the horses eat
at noon are among the brightest hours
.of juvenile life,
Come down here, you Pennsylvania
man, and see why we decided on Mid.
die North Carolina as a place to make
a home, Come ana hear the field
hands chop cotton and sing half a
dozen OF them together:
II ! could, ! surely would
Stand on the rock here Moses stood,
Pharaor's army got drownloCed
Oh, Mary don't you weep.
oh, Mary, doRlt you weep, don,t4