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Show BUILT THE WRONQ WAV. Why Uie Jo.k.fs rkttltr II. . Tack Ma rrlset lit CltNtrgla. "I Dover shall forgot an incident which oor-urresl at the first fair I ever aileiided in Onnrula." uld a retired f'lntnuuntl meat Jineker. "It sjerss at Mnoou. and I think theycalli-d It a state fair. At any rate it was a big thing f.ir the town In lllosss dnya. They had soliio linn stock on exhlbliou. anil a I'cmiarl. vnulnii bad sent down ulxnit uu of tlm tlntsst looking bogs you ever saw. Thev wure niuslly Cheater V, lilies, and If 1 reeollect aright they were exhibited by Tbuiuaa Wood, a great hug and cattle fancier of 10 anil 30 years aga lie 11 wis wbo Introdnes-il that fauion. brood nf hog., the I'hester Whlto, and he mnde a great deal of money out of his fancy .tuck. He waa a Krlt nd a IVua-ker, IVua-ker, you know wlm used tho plain language lan-guage smhI w.rrr. a hroad brimmett hat. He was a .mart old gentleman, honest anil nrisqieroua. Ho went his hogs from slam fair to stale fnlr, and they took so many prises aud bine ribbons that each hog l.,kd hko a boy who hail s-ient all his money uiuklng ucolltx-lion of bulges. "Wheu iho Mucou Jndgiia Hindu ttieir awards, ihey gave blue rlhboua very liberally lib-erally lo tne riianr bai ks, but not otie of the fat, .leek IVniiss leauia bi gs got a prlre. The tiwuor of thn eihibit did not understand II, so he limited up one of the judgie utd nuld lu the uniguugo of the Kriends: " '1 kuww thee to be en honest uiin, and I do mil qQoetlou thy fairness in the award, but to gratify toy own unrioaity 1 Would be glad to have thee tell me why thee gave all the rriiea lo the native na-tive st.s'k aud what fault thee found lu miner' " 'My friend, the rommltlee admired your hog. greatly,' the jodgo replied. 'They nrt certainly baudsouin, and I have no donbt that in your section tltey are the bivd Lnwd to raise, but they nro not lulled for this country. They are so abort lrggod and fat that a nigger nmld eatob tlirm In two minutea. What we require tn a hog In the south is legs aud wind. We five our prlaea fur indeed. ' " Atlanta UoriaUtation. |