Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1918-05-30
mIOSYNCRASIES
(supt. 9. C. Justus, sturgi., Ky3

SIhHBeI Fohnvy WIZ HeT WOHuefIul
diversity in nature has produced a
most interesting group Of men who
may be elassed as the genuinely abb
noriaal. "Dink" Mason, Jabe Smith,
John Watson, Wn. Kidwell, John Cam
bell, James Vittitoe, Henry Seymofe,
Joe Vance, hi Noe, Henry Browning,
VIM. l.. Wa8gOneA Booker Dyer and
Games Branson, deceased, are types
of varying wraps and woofs in mind
and body Others may be mentioned
N the discussions. No country that |
have visited seems so generous in
having produced men whose parallel
yoH could not find.
Gaze of the first men observed in
essF boyhood was prominent teach
er who had large local private
school. He governed by initiation; he
was strict conformist in all the
minusiae OF the high school regime.
Apart froom his "modus sperandi" in
his scholastic exhibits, he hal such
a personality in the home and on the
Arm as to stamp him as one of the
most singularly unique men d his
day. He was then a middle-aged man
who owned and operated a good farm.
Like "Biue Jeans" Jimmy Williams of
Indiana, who defeated BENZ. Harrison
fer Governor, this teacher-farmer
were this SUIT on all occasions. He was
heavy bailt and gave IN expression,
standing with his large pant legs turn
ed up so rs to show circle of demes-
tic linsng like the bands Of Orion. His
voice was deep and resonant, ending
VITA nasal twang; he commanded
his friends as he did his nules--with
the ring of austeEity, the menance of
the anpsrialistic; he sometimes mani
Tested kind Of superiority over his
felbows. On one occasion . neighbor
nailed four shoes to black, restless
mule; when the task was ended, Prof.
w. said, "WeA, Mr.. Jones, am very
mushSbfiged to you, when it comes in
the way will do as much for YOU.
He thought Jones would be glad to be
hoaored with the task and the comen-
datisa of the soverejga. w. was a
stickler fer regular habits as to eat
ing and exercising; all others were
essentially wrong; he sat at the table
on hour on all occasions; whether in
harvest or threshing, planting or
gathering he must have the full hour
so that he might live long upon the
earth. He was virile Scoth Irishman.
Ne said to my father in stroll over
The pasture fields: "Mr j., forty
years from now we will be going over
these hills with our gray locks fiat
tering TO the breezes". He became a
member of the famous county court
whose fine round handwrite is relic
in the archives of finance; he had his
ewa time; when done 1t was complete
IN every part, like the tabled zone
horse shay. The mecca of old age did
not come TO this abmoral personality,
he died after short illness of ty-
phoid fever 1t may not be out of place
TO say that the wife never manifested
any SYMPTOMS of matrimony; she ed
ucated her two daughters in col
legs town. Soae one said she was
averse to risking another hourdstain-
or at dinner table. Edscation in the
or binary cannot change the wrap OF
hereditx You may add all the lustre
to a pSsnmon tree yeu may, it will
be persinRnon tree STILL
We had another freak in speach. A
Mr.. Branson whose second marriage
took him to Missouri; he was a
teacher and afterwards a farmer. His
sen is now a pediog- theological teach
err of no means proportions. The SEN
Tor B. was born to classical language
be lived in circumlocutien. The writer
when a small boy, sat with an oper
mouth and radiant face for hours alb
sdrbed IN big words. He said father
IN substance: "a woman interrogateo
me as to prosi of the way OF term
inating at Athens; | was not teMa
mount to equivalent" Reference tt
the aptness Of children to learn Bran
sen said: "Ths physiolical appearance
Of the head represents the phillip
xentliaess of the BRAIN. On being
asked if he would have sug& in eof
fee, he said: "The sanguane OF tn
sssar knocks off the egelavarality o
the coffee, therefore | take mine ad
cute Apart from this idiosynnrasy
Branson was not unlike the mass o
sturdy ciHLens.
Come cther eases of the rattle
physical may be mentioned. A mai
whose dress was in class to itself
he had a farm, large family, a
hoHbssbls past; he was an Lido" i
dress and adaptations; his winter, fal
and spring suit was completed wit
= jacket of Goes skins with tails dang