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66 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,. SOUTHERN HUMORISTS'. Mary Washington. Article No. 1. Judge Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, of Georgia, is, I believe, the earliest of our Southern humorists. He was born in Augusta, Ga., September 22, 1790. He graduated at Yale College in 1813, studied law in Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar of Georgia . In 182i he was elected to the Legislature, and in 1822 he was made Circuit Judge. He resigned, on moving to Augusta, soon afterwards. In 1838 he entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry, and in 1839 he wa* made President of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. After nine years' successful administration of this office, he was called to the presidency of the Centenary College, Louisiana, and soon afterwards to the University of Mississippi. In 1857 he accepted the presidency of the South Carolina College, but returned to the University of Mississippi in 1861, and remained there until his death in 1870. He had an extremely varied career, being by turns lawyer, judge, legislator, preacher, author, pamphleteer, educator, and president of various colleges. He is best known, however, as the author of a richly humorous work entitled "Georgia Scenes," which was published in 1840, and which enjoyed so wide a popularity that you could find a copy of it in almost every Southern home, prior to the war. A revised edition of it also appeared in 1867. Many of the characters were so racy and life-like that they became household words. Judge Longstreet afterwards wrote another humorous work entitled "Master William Mitten," but it did not possess the freshness and vigor of "Georgia Scenes." Another of our ante-bellum humorists is Dr| George Washington Bagby, who was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, on the 13th of August, 1828, and who died in Richmond on the 29th of November, 1883. His father was a native of Lynchburg. Dr. Bagby was eucated at Princeton, N. J., and graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, after which he started to practice his profession in Lynchburg, where his father lived. He soon, however, abandoned medicine for the profession of letters. He first wrote for the "Lynchburg-Virginian," then edited by Mr. James McDonald, and many of his sketches were published in its columns; as, for instance, "The Sacred Furniture Warehouse," "Blue Eyes," and others. Early in 'the fifties, he and his friend, Capt. George Latham, owned and edited the "Lynchburg Express," which only ran a short time. Afterwards Dr. Bagby went to Washington City as correspondent of the "N. O. Crescent." Whilst in that city he not only wrote for "The Crescent," but for the "Charleston Mercury," "Richmond Dispatch," "Atlantic Monthly," and "Southern Literary Silver Herd Spring of t SHORT HORNS. ROBERT R. SMITH, PROPRIETOR, Chariestown, W. Va. Jefferson Co. -OR- WickUfle, Va, Clarke Co. Farm In the best bluegrass section of each State; cattle out all the year, therefore hardy and healthy. Herd numbers 76; calves by a son of Choice Goods, out of dams by a son of Gay Monarch, also by the Scotch bull, Minn'* Secret. Five 1-Year Bulls for sale, also a number of younger Bulls and Heifers at reasonable prices. Short Horns are equally the most profitable breed of cattle, as they ar» the most popular, as a glance at the sale averages for the past five, ten or twenty years will show. NbW YEAR'S remembrances to The Southern Planter family by BURKE'S GARDEN CATTLE CO. * IN A SPECIAL DISCOUNT on WIN HcG. 38431, by Bay McGregor; dam's sire (Stoutwood) by Nutwood 60S, SHORT HORNS, HAMPSHIREDOWNS, SOUTHOOWNS. Either Sex, Any Number, Both, No Akin. Mammoth Bronze and White Holland Turkeys, Pekin Docks, White an* Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Wyandottes, Black Langshans, Brown ami White Leghorns. Our special prices will make this stock look like bargains. Not good after February 1st. Lower rates and better express service, thanks to H. C. S., of Virginia Corporation Commission. BURKE'S GARDEN CATTLE COMPANY, TAZEWELL, VA. side Herefords OWNED BY S. W. ANDERSON, BLAKER MILLS, GREENBRIER COUNTY, W. VA. A choice lot of Bulls, Cows and Heifers for sale; also,. a few Polled Hereford Bulls, recorded in the National Polled Hereford Record. Write for Catalogue and Prices. FARM NEAR ALDERSON, W. VA. Telephone and Telegraph, Alderson. THE HOLLINS HERD —OF— HOLSTEiNS Only the first four daughters of Paul Clyde have been tested. They alE made fine A. R. O. records. No daughters of Sir Henry Netherland of Hollins have been officially tested, but private records of his pure-bred and grade heifers have beencarefully kept.' Eleven heifers, with first calf, averaged over 9,000 pounds of milk in one year. Pontiac Areas Is a young sire of great promise. He is a son of the great Hengerveldt DeKol, sire of seventy-seven A. R. O. daughters. Fine Bull Calves, from 2 to 8 months old, from the above sires for sal* this month. JOSEPH A . TURNER, GENERAL MANAGER, Hollins Institute, Hollins, Va. LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER. I offer my services as a Stock Salesman to the breeders of the East In doing M, I will eay that I have equipped myself both by haying taken a course at the JW« National School of Auctioneering, and by year* of breeding and selling Pedigreed Stock. I make a specialty of Pedigreed Sales. If I may be permitted to say it, I will suggest that I believe I can render Breeders better service than salesmen residing in remote parts of the country, as I an: thoroughly familiar with conditions obtaining in this section. Then, too, I win probably not be quite as expensive as to railroad fare, etc., and besides, I must give satisfaction or I make no charge for my services. Write me or 'phone me via Winchester over Sontfeern Bell Phene for data*. Prompt attention assured. Roy P. Duvall, : g : Stephenson, 1/a.
1908.] THE SOUTHEEN PLANTER. 67 MORVEN PARK The Property of WESTMORELAND DAVIS. Esq. Imp. Large White Yorkshires. This breed of pigs Is the one best adapted to supply the ever growing demand for bacon and hams. The displacement of lard for cooking, and the growing distaste for salt pork and the thick fat sides that used to be in favor, have caused the price of heavy fat hogs to drop while there is a sharp demand for light hogs of the bacon breeds from six to eight months old and weighing 150 to 175 pounds. Fortunately, the Yorkshires are the ones to make the farmer the most profit, and the introduction of a good Improved Large White Yorkshire boar into a neighborhood confers a greater bene- fit and makes the breeders more money than an investment often many times the amount paid for him. The result Is a succession of crops of strong, hardy, thrifty and profitable pigs ready to turn off at six to eight months at the highest market price, and to make the most profitable fresh meat oi bacon sides, hams and shoulders for the farmer's own use. It is the universal testimony of those who have raised Improved Yorkshires or crosses of that breed that the meat is superior to that of any other breed for home use or market. The requirements of the farmer and the bacon curer are identical. Both require a pig of quick growth and early maturity, (and by maturity is meant early fitness for market) ; both want pigs that dress handsomely and with little offal. No pigs shrink less in killing than Improved Yorkshires. The bacon curer finds that the best pig for use is one with a long, deep body, wide and square in the hind quarters and comparatively light in shoulder and neck. The farmer finds that such a pig Is the hardiest, most prolific, most vigorous and most growthy of all the forms known to pigdom. The herd which was founded on imported animals, selected with extreme care both for their individuality and breeding, includes representatives from the most noted herds of Great Britain. With so many families we are at all times in a position to supply boars and gilts unrelated and make a specialty of foundation herds. ALSO- Regd. Dorset Sheep AND Regd. Guernsey Cattle. Address LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT, MORVEN PARK, LEESBURG, LOUDOUN CO., VA.
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