There was no exception of age or sex or
color. Here to our right comes an aged
darkey leading by the bridle his old blind
horse. A venerable spring wagon full of
shuck-bottomed chairs comes clattering at
the horses' heels over the steep mountain
road full of rocks and stumps The
women of tho party, arrayed as Solomon
in all his glory never was in bright-colored
dresses with variegated ribbons nnd
most marvelous head gear, walked behind
the wagon, and when level ground is
reached, climb in and settled in their
chairs, join the interminable procession
on tho pike. There are people in buggies
and in wagons, cavelcades of horsemen,
women with babies in their arms, riding
horseback alone, and sweethearts sitting
(tideways on behind their lovers, holding
the manly form before them in a chaste
yet lovelike embrace. Ah, the town will
be a wilderness of human souls to-day!
And so it was.
Thero was never such a crush in Frankfort
before in all the hundred years of her
existence. There were never such decorations
in any town so small as it is, and
never higher breeding or more unbounded
hospitality in any town. Train after
train came in with loads of people, and
the'ears could hardly pass along the track
because the crowds filled up the street
from curb to curb. Thousands were congregated
in the State House yard around
the stand, and thousands' more stood all
about the steaming burgoo kettles and the
smoking pits where the meat was barbecued.
Every fellow had on his best
clothes and hia best behavior; every man
in Frankfort had the stoppor out of his
bottle and all the doors of his house open.
