The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1915-02-05
THAT FAR VISION OF YoRE.

Did you ever hold confab with your
alter ego? To my queries featuring
your Burg" A. D., 40 ties. "hear
It," seemed primed to visualize con-
ditions in the days of yore. saving:
Really, did the then town and farm
lands so nestle in embrace, one failed
to differentiate; for barns, sheds.
homes, gardens and orchards, posed
in rural guises." Thus had / found
the variest idolist to my liking. Had
not those old barns rendered first aid
to my after athletic stunts thro flip
fiops from beams to mows; orchards
yielded their fruitage in Rambes and
Grindstones to fill aching voids; the
open sheds fattened the Dominicos
for pot pies that leaves no foul blot
in memory's waste?
Have "he or it," fippantly delyed
back into the dim region, and told of
election ballots of yore days passing
to gun wads, and the gun and dog
the freemen's companion; then re-
1errlng 10 the grandeur of terran.,
SO very ideal for the boy scouts wig
wag squads. With reservation, had
to admit the suggestion. But what
about those red ripe raspberries that
abound in fence corners, strawberries
by roadsides, and the chestnut, haws,
etc.?
The very serious phases of society
partook then of pictorial family Bible
In the hands of We patriarch of old;
and the glow of tallow dip dimly
cast over the family group. No spine
indexed the way with devotion so
everlasting.
Meath those luscious cherry trees
out Harrisville way, we were once
wont to linger. How too, arises a
May day film Of blossoming apple
orchards, more artistic than ever a
September morn, ere evolved.
Years following years steal some
thing every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves
away"
To have once heard Jonathan and
Maberry in tone-"There is a happy
land, far, far away enchants life's
cup to sparkle at the brim, truly. The
simplicity of their mannerism par
took OF Hicks and Knox ideals, with
corner ball on the side. The old inn,
the most prominent structure, had its
restful and inviting porch for the as
sembling OF the 'burgomasters and
others.
The trail of Conestogas to tide
water, watered theira stock at the
pump in square, took their vintage
from his honor who commanded the
sentinels guarding the disembodied
souls of the very like wheat and
corn meath their covers.
Thus went those dreamy, twany
days, that chased their shadows over
billowy fields, where the larks carol,
and the breath of June leads on to
the Beautiful" AeI
The grist cart, and home 1arder,
were then in evidence, with no flow
cry name for publication. Ivory
Soap, has its hunch over the old ash
hopper the same as the auto over the
horse; yet our Mothers of that Israel,
found them o. K.
What, with Dobbin in bells, and
bright eyes meath robes inviting
sweet returns no auto can ever run in
the ground thro any design. Coon
skin caps, and leather topped boots,
Wed with the times when Jack o.
Lanterns fiickered DER the lowlands;
and quilting party assemblages es-
chewed suffrage and told ghost
stories. The frightful monster from
over M. 0 II. line, WOulu come WlCn
flaming eyes, etc. It failed to mani
fest itself to me till 1861, however.
Here in my Dixie habitat to-day,
oft I've passed baled hay cut from
fields DER which I've strayed in days
that are no more.
Old West Nottingham, with date
1872 over doorway and plain interior,
and held by Faith of foreparents,
whose rewards are no longer distant
as l assume mine not to be, yet its
salutory influence cannot but admit
as ego.-G. H. T.