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A STORY OF MELONS
An Early Experiences of £x-Eira Ciief
Tom Cornelius at Stealing Melons.
HARROWING TIMES SECURING THEM
Then the Crowd Like to Hare tost Friend
ship of Severn! Young Ladies By Ask- •
iugj Cbem to Help Eat Them.
Where is the boy in all the broad land,
■wherever the lucious watermelon grows,
that has not appropriated, it surrepti
ciously along the dark hours of the
night? If there be that boy his skirts
are clear only because the opportunity at
confication was never presented him.
Men who are growing silver haired
beneath the weight of years and business
responsibilities refer to the days when
they stealthily alunbed over into a
melon patch, and did it without any
twinges of conscience, pull the biggest,
juicest one to be found, smashed it-ovtr
a reck and feasted with that eest the
spirit of danger alone gives. And these
same old fellows would chuckle >esith
glee as they recalled some especially dar
ing raid, and almost long to be a hare
foot, care free boy again. Why is it
that no sense of moral obliquity ever at
taches to the theft of a watermelon when
it chines fresh from a patch? It ie one
of these inexplicable things that grows
out of custom, and that blindness with
which mcst boys look upon any idea of
wrong doing wherein his neighbors fruit
—be it watermelons, peaches, apples or
what not—and bis own unsuted appetite
is concerned. And did any one ever yet
see a healthy boy whose appetite was
sated ?
All of this preamble grows out of e
story Tom Cornelius told the other
day. One would not suppose to look
upon the sedate and well rounded
form of Rome’s ex-dire chief and ex
alderman that he bad ever snagged*
glaring cavities in the bottom of his
jeans, and left particles of his cuticle
hanging to a barb wire fences at hours
of the night when all honest folks are
supposed to be slumbering. He has a
boy now almost big enough to turn
the same trick at which his paternal
ancestor gained such renown long
years agone.
Mr. Cornelius stopped in front of a
etore where great heaps of melons
were piled along the walks and began
thumping them. Some gave forth a
hollow, unsatisfactory pank that told
of half green meat; others yielded
that musical plunk that indicated a
heart rich. red and j uicy. A bystander
remarked to Mr. Cornelius as he
stooped to his pleasant-task:
“Tom, yon thump those melons in
that knowing manner that indicates an
inbred knowledge born of long exper
ience on dark nights, and the pfoper
sauce of dander surrounding the theft ”
He straightened and glanced at the
group from whence the voice (had pre
ceded. It happened that the entire
party were at onetime citizens of Cedar
town, and Mr. Cornelius himself hails
from that bailwick. Then he said:
“That reminds me of the time down
in Cedartown, when 1 was a young
man and there was a certain gang of us
that ran together and managed to get
in as many scrapes as any crowd that
ever lived.” and he named over a num
ber, most of whom are now sober, sedate
business men with families.
“One Sunday a big back load of us
THE NEW WAY.
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kept thousands of
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For alvlce In cases requiring- special
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The Chattgv.ooga Medicine Co., Chatta
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went down to Cave Spring to spend the
day. On the wey we noticed a water
melon patch near the road, and it lay
scores of great fine looking melons. We
determined then on returning to Cedar
town way in the night, and stop at the
spot and make a raid. About 12 o'clock
we arrived at ihe patch. It was as
dark as pitch, but most of us had lo
cated a choice melon or two on the way
over. We had to be very cautions be
cause the chap who owned the pctoh
lived quite near. ■
“We all corralled two big ones apiece,
and everything went along smoothly
until we started to get over the fence.
One of the boys had a .tremendous mel
on on either shoulder, and as he clam
bered painfully on to the rail fence the
top rail broke, and boy and melons
came down making a horrible noise.
We all scooted for the buggy, and
waited for developments. Nothing
happened however, and we finally
persuaded the fellow who had dropped
his melons to go back and get them.
“W« landed in Cedartown with
about a dozen of the finest melons
you ever laid eyes on. We planned to
put them in the big spring—you boys
know that great bubbling fount of
crystal, cold water—the next morning
get a boy to guard them until late in
the afternoon, when we were to have
a party of young lady friends down to
enjoy them.
“Well everything turned out all
right. The melons were delicious and
ice cold. The girls began to tease us
to know where we procured such fine
specimens. We evaded the question
a good while, but at last one of the
boys let the eat out of the bag. Whew!
Some of those girls were mad enough
to die. The idea, they said, of grown
young men of respectful parentage
becoming common thieves. And steal
ing watermelons, too, and on Sunday
night. Then to have cheek to ask
them to come and help eat the stolen
fruit. The other girls only laughed
and made light of it, For about a
month two or three of those girls
wouldn’t speak to us, but they finally
come around all right. Oh those were
great old times in Cedartown then. ”
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Pension Swindlers at Work.
Montgomery, Ala., July B.—From
all over the black belt of Alabama come
reports of the pension swindler’s impo
sition on the ignorant negroes. Emis
saries of the fakirs, who appear to have
made headquarters near this city, have
gone through the country informing the
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pensioning ah ex-slaves and their chil
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to $2 the alleged agents have enrolled
thousands of the negroes, who are now
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pensions.
Expedition From Florida Landa.
New York, July B.—A dispatch to
The Journal and Advertiser from Ha
vana says: An expedition of Cuban fili
bustered from Florida is reported to
have landed on Sunday in Havana
province, at the mouth of the Jaruco
river. The Spanish gunboat Reina Ma- |
ria, Christina, which was cruising about
the coast, endeavored to intercept the
expedition without success.
A >n>Ali Cyclone In Katitfis.
Great Bend, Kan., July B.—The se
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culminated in a small cyclone near Al
bert, which did much damage. It over
turned many small buildings, tore down
trees and did much damage to stacked
grain Mrs Frame Kreber was thrown
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THE ROME TRIBUNE. FfflOAV. JULY », 1897
THE LUST T4XK .
Committee Bast Ttl» ÜBtii»< Figures
lu The Metter.
Atusttl .luly-8 —The investigation
now being conducted by the Blalock
committee ou the subject of taxation
is begiuciiug to bring forth fruit, and
the ind+catioue are that before the
work has been completed the yield
will be prolific. It is eimoly a busi
ness preposition with the committee,
and then again there has been so
many abuses heaped upon their heads
that they are determined to show the
people Chat there is something to be
done. In the first place, they are
drawing parallel columns, showing
the tax returns in one and the official
statements of such corporations in the
other. They take whatchey swear to
before the comptroller-general in
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the other-hand compare it with the
official statements also made out and
sworn to before some a notary public
and sent out for free distribution.
They take,da the case of a bank, the
figures ou the digest in the comptrol
ler’s office and compare that with the
published -statements made in the
newspapers, The list sbowell6 banks
and oply twenty-nine presidents have
returned the capitation tax required
by law.
In addition this, the committee has
called on the-secretary of state ’for a
list of all chaptered institutions whose
presidents are diable to this capitation
tax. The arrears, it is said, will cover
a period of ten -years and fully aggre
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