Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-06-15

Yet He Enjoys Grren Pastures of
Retired Streets

as on the side walk, and am what
the city folks call a countryman-
just plain farmer. l have bought
a little home on Main street and so
located myself in order to be enabled
to enjoy seeing town dress parade on
Sunday, and my country friends on
week days. / try not to violate any |
of the town laws, but not being very
well posted, l should be pleased to
have you coach me some.
Out in the country, If a fellow
drives flock of sheep or drove of
cattle along the highway and in so
doing permits them TO jump over
the fences into the wheat fields and
do damage. there is remedy; but
in town it SEEMS different A great
drove of cattle will come tearing
down the street, through the dust,
four inches thick, stirring upsuch
cloud the women folks will all rush
to put the windows down. (The
water wagon, you know, don't get
up our Way. We folks on upper
Main street, especially John Whit
more and John Champ, advocate pro-
bibition. We don't need any water
wagon
Well, nearly every day cattle are
driven down by my house, on the
side walk as we'll as on the street;
and it is not an unusual occurrence
for some of them to jump over the
fence into my yard; then the men,
small boys and dogs come rushing
in with sticks and stones to drive
them out, to the destruction of my
young trees and flowers.
have a nice little neighbor, a
widow woman" and her fowersl
The roses. lilies, tulipts! Why, if
that little woman would form a CO.
partnership with Burbank, they
could make the very Desert OF
Sahara blossoms, like rose. What
she puts into the ground grows. She
don tattend the Farmers Institutes,
but she evidently has up to-date
literature on horticulture, and has
adopted scientific theories. Her
flowers are true source of pleasure
to her neighbors;in fact we at little
distance can enjoy them more thar
she can, and therefore take it as c
personal offence when they are seri
ously molested. Last spring a large
red COW jumped her picket fence
and hung there with her fore legs
right ON one of these flower beds
paving up fifty cent tulips anC
hvacinths, while half a dozen mel
: and boys were treading up the othe,
flowers in their excitement. Ate
beating the poor beast and pulling
e her tail, she was landed on the in
d side of the yard among the $1.00 tie
! roses. The COW was finally drive
e over the fence again and then dow
3 the street. The little woman VIII
was so much damaged asked tn,
S owner of the COW who he was, bu
J. he only replied NV name is Jak
Smith and l don't give "a. 1 don
tell any woman my name. "
There is a fine lot OF timothy, blu
y grass. and clover growing alon
Jordan street from Frank Moore
to Main street Jim Ed Heck refer
to it as our meadow. l would lik
10 to know, Mr.. Editor, whether ther
~ is any law to prevent me tetherin
~ my COW to my own fence posts alOn
Jordan street so lean get the benei
: of the fine grass growing in tt
. street. l started to dig some of
. up last spring to sod some bal
=" places in my yard, but was informe
" that 1 was laying myself liable
20 so doing. We folks in this end
:, the town are surely blessed Wi
- good grass. If / can't Craze my co
~ on this fine grass land, believe
will sell my property here and mo-
- to the country where one can enit
w more liberty.
Thanking you in advance, NJ
70 Editor fer your information, r
main, Very sincerely yours.
% JAKE.
rs The government will go into bus