The Huntington Herald from Huntington, Indiana • Page 12

i i a fir 'IS THE ING TON ERA JAGT JEN A L1W0 If it iv. rl .3.. life fefE 1 1 1 1 Photograph shows a group of buildings running west from 4200 Maryland almost totally destroyed when tornado struck St. Louis shortly after 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. HERE'S MORE ABOUT CITY FROM PAGE ONE said: "Oh, Aleck always does the churning.

This "churn he is using belonged to my father and mother. It sure is an old relic in our family." Ah, a relic indeed! I looked at the old fashioned churn in perfect amaze ment. It was onp of the rnr iiiRtnnpps where an old relic was still In a wlre Ay swatter. He explained running order and In use every week, i tnat wnen flies, settle down on his Number of Strokes Required Then Aleck said something rather out of the nrdinnrv. It whs this "When I'm churning I often fix myThl8 where the rooster gets busy, mind on that hplnu in nna i and in an instant, not a dead fly is the time and makes me forget thn labor I am putting forth.

For instance. 1 "nering amusement ana ninng a long I used to wonder how many strokes want on tne Part of tne rooster. Jt took to bring butter! Well, I tnen exemplified the work for counted them several times and found me and 11 was fn t0 866 how swiftly that it takes from twelve hundred to insectlverous fowl could dispose oighteen hundred, depending some a meRS of what on the tenineratiira of thn rrpam Like Ruskln, Loves Trees Til course, we always test the cream 1 with a thermometer to Eet It as near right as possible i Nancy, his wife, was busy with her Saturday's baking, so I did nut daro trespass at much length upon her time1 in order to ask about the nld home place she loves s5 dearly and on which her father and mother set tied In 1837, ninety years ago. Her parents were Thomas FiRher and wife, "Their first place of abodo was in a log cabin," said Mrs. Fisher.

"The second building was of hewed logs. That one is still standing back of the house we are living in. It was In the hewed log house that I was born September 28, 1849. There were hindrance of the overtowering hard eight of us children and I am now wood trees. This pine, however, has the only one living.

The last one to a history. "That tree," said Aleck, die was my brother. Judge Daniel D. "was brought here from Virginia by Fisher, who lived in New York. My Uncle Walter Starbuck.

His son was father was twice married, each mar killed in the battle of Antletam, I riage having been to a Dwiggins, Usters, Elizabeth and Susanna, Eliza oetn naving been my mother. Remembers Fawn in School "I was not old enough to go to school in the first log school house that stot)d down the road from here a short distance. It was known as uie Fisher school, for the ground was on4 a part of Asher Fisher's farm now grow as nature Intended, you ought owned by Mr. and Mrs. Wm.

Billiter. to let me take you back to my thirty Three different buildings have st6od five acre game preserve. There you on the same sie but each In turn was would see a woods in Its primitive ibandoned. The old road that passed state, with great trees and dense un he school house angled through the dergrowth. And it Is full of all kinds.

Asner nsner land and came out on the Marion road right there at Henrv Bradford's. An incident of my earliest school days was when an unbroken forest extended west of us for a couple nf miles. One day when the Blose, Brown and Watson children, from ver north, came to school they were cconipamea d' a Dcauttiul lawn, They said it came to them in the woods and seemed glad to be with them. It created quite a stir among the children, who fondled it and not consider the taking up of a resl showed the little beauty the tender dence wihin the narrow prison con est attention. We had heard of fines of brick walls in the city? As wurys nine iamo rouowing her to chool, but for a fawn to do such a htng was something unusual.

Our parents believed that It. had been a pet In somebody's family, but had ar.deied away in the big woods and rot Hnd its way back home, so it was glad to get in the company of children again. cngioie io ivicuuTjey ciub Mrs. Fisher showed me a woll pre served copy of the first school book she ever owned. It was McCuffey's nrsi reaaer.

tvery page Is intact, ne likewise has tlie MrGuffey fifth end sixth readers. "I used the sixth reader when I attended the seminary ui uoanoKe in me tu s. sue comment uu.uuuu were seminary at tnat particular time. Thy were Manda f'f. Tnarrp1 Wm' nilliter; Julia Fisher, who became the wife of Ike Hosier: Frank Fisher, John Blose and myself of the five, only Mrs.

Billiter and I are sti 1 here. While at the seminary we boarded 1. 7 .1 l00K care 0I' muuciHB oi mai lime, ine Zeilt familV f. '7 Ad Nanry Wagoner. and Ed.

and Mollle Smith. I have or en wondered' how the TO TALLY DES tween the man and bird, but couldn't explain it. The more this heavy draught rooster stepped around Aleck in circles, pounding the floor with his big feet, the more puzzled I became, So I asked Aleck to make full con fession, keeping back nothing and giving me true facts, which I may want to place before the United Board of Expert Poultry Scientists of Amer a. For a moment Aleck was silent and seemed reticent, evasive. Then he divulged the facts and gave a dem onstration.

He went on to say that when sit ting on the porch he makes good use ss hi 8uuiy iiuniuer, ne singes vio lently and large numbers drop to the floor In an extremely deceased state. visible. It saves sweeping, besideo In ront and al1 around the Fisher nonie are lofty trees, some of which were planted by Mrs. Fisher's pioneer fathfr. The early settler's care of tnoBe trees has been perpetuated by tne son in law.

In the collection I noted hard maple, shellbark hickory. P'g hlckory, white ash, fed oak, black oaK, wnite oaK, Durr oak, basswood, red and white elm, black walnut, horse chestnut, box elder. Carolina poplar, birch, dogwoo'd, red Bua catalpa and persimmon. On a slPe across the ravine are numerous native cedars. Among trees in the front yard stands a yellow pine, old 'b not large for its age on account of think It was.

When Uncle Walter went down to look after the body of nis son, ne pulled up the little pine while in Virginia and carried It all the way back here. The tree is sixty fr years old but has not had a chance to do well "Say, Bash," continued Aleck, "if you like to see trees where they can Joys of Countrv Life After listening to my friend Fisher, as he revealed his admiration for nature and all forms of outdoor life, I thought: Here's a man like Ruskln, who was said to be enraptured over trees and wild life. Bishop Quayle once sam: "The pity of the world is not its own limitations, but ours." Is It not so? And can anyone won der why Aleck and Nancy Fisher will we talked on, Aleck said: "When I was county ditch commissioner and had to drive back and forth to the county seat nearly every day, I was always sure to meet HI Satterthwaite each morning coming ant to his farm near Monument City. In the evening I would meet him returning 'to his recently acquired home, in Hunting ton. One time I said to him: "Hi.

how about an old farmer living in This is the wav nworH 'Aleck, you've got me beat two to Mr. Fisher is nearly eighty four years old. His life has been dramatic, patriotic and industrious. His obser vatlons and philosophy are rich in I'rucucai imngs ana common sense reasoning. His birthplace was in Wayne county, near Richmond, this state, the date having been November 23.

1844. At that period in Indiana, educational advantages were limited but in some way he managed to gain access to seats of learning. After at tending the local school he went to Whitewater academy not far distant from ha hnmn In lirnVn nut ha rMMn nr BID L. uter he reived business training In. a commercial college located Pouehkeensie.

N. Y. RTi th i cuuniy, oui me company's quota was ere a noisy set But they never full, so he came to visit relatives at NancpradXhadto'S drifJ I I mpany was made up Xut half and drifted out to the porch, where he has half of Mt. Etna and Roanoke men always loved to while away the A long and hard service fStd the among the whispering trees and closing years yielding ill I form conning squirrels. After we were.

hardshV and Tdangei in tie SSI" St sea ed I not.ced at the feet of Aleck Texas a. any one can And wh? reads a atalwart young rooster, which kept the record of the 34th Indiana ooklng tip in Aleck face rather long Arm PlnkertonVeenbick tagly and confidingly. It was a riddle In his retrospection Zi bo He say. there is really bSS3SJ. TRO YED ter in his history that he is proud of and that is the fact that he did all in his power to help prevent the destruction of the Union in the 0's.

There was a time in Texas when he and his comrades were in hard linen for food. One day Aleck and Arm Pinkerton went out to see what they could find that would stave off the agony of starvation. They found a little provision store conducted by a Frenchman. Arm handed his comrade an advertisement printed in Imitation of a five dollar greenback, telling him to go in, buy something to eat and tender the Frenchman the queer bill In payment. The purchase came to about three dollars.

When Aleck handed over the paper, the little Frenchman almost exploded with indignation, and explained: "Zounds. Meester Yankee! Zeeze is no good!" at which he took back the goods and Aleck reported outside to his friend. In an instant Pinkerton, armed with a club, marched into the store, and yelled: "Not good, eh! Well here's something that will make It good, by ginger!" at the same time flourishing his club furiously. The proprietor recapitulated with haste and profuse apologies, shcrvlng out the goods to the Joy of the famished customers who left well fixed. It was always a source of.

pride to Company boys that they had a member who could compel the circulation of most any kind of old currency and make It pass as legal tender. After the war Mr." Fisher returned to Mt. Etna. He and Nancy Fisher were lovers but did not believe in hasty marriages. They decided to wait; three years.

In the meantime Aleck would go to Illinois and teach school. This separation would test their devotion and prove whether their regard for each other was genuine or fancied. Aleck was given schools in which the big boys cleaned out every teacher sent there, but he rolled up his sleeves and waded in, the result being that he licked lovo and esteem Into young natives who became his best friends. He went by the name of the "Hoosler Schoolmaster," for it was at the time when Eggleston's book of that' title was attracting attention. Time only strengthened the ties between.

Aleck and Nancy, and they were married. After a couple of year's they moved to one of the Dakotas, but hall destroyed their, crops each. and they came back, settling on the Thomas Fisher farm where they have lived ever since. In recent years' they have traveled extensively. Their three children are Bert; of city, Wilbur, who llyes west of them and Jessie, a daughter in Steuben county.

After my visit at the Fisher home I Another New DRESS frocts may be dyed another vshadc arid; look 'exactly like; new. 6ur scientific methods insure the best results. 66 MODEL Cleaning Pressing Co. easily understood why the old folks Give me a home with such peace and beauty and I will nexer envy any king his coronation. Station AutqmatiG Meter Pumps is No New Mar vents E.

livered fn' hla last interne B. ShAyf seems as sprightly as ever. The' sun never sets on the British wag. a i The clinging vines haven't disap I Today we mention just two Exclusive Service Features installed at great expense for your protection and convenience, Water Experienced auto entirely free from all formation of lime irf cooling aiid keeps them at new car efficiency. Our service station, corner of Warren and Market streets, is the only station in Huntington that provides this service and it's entirely FREE.

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U. saddened to think there so many people capable of Wubi Jfe ore With I' 4.