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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1(5, 1880.—TWELVE PAGES.
OVKlt THE STATE.
Hogs are dying o£ cholera in Worth
^Montezuma is to be mode a signal service
station.
The Hotel Georgia, at Camilla, is not yet
formally opened.
Hon. Geo. T. Barnes has returned to
Augusta from Washington.
Emma Abbott drew two of the largest
houses of the year in Augusta.
A man and a woman and a trained bear
are performing through the state.
tn Albany, Sunday, Walter Jackson acci
dentally shot himself in the foot with a
parlor rifle.
The artesian well at Reynolds is now 560
feet deep, with favorable prospects for
water near at hand.
A new postoffice is in successful operation
n Burke county, by the name of “Hillis,"
with Mr. H. C.'Hillm as postmaster.
n ev J J. Farmer, of Newnan, has been
elected pastor of the Baptist church at Rey
nolds, vice Dr. B. F. Tharpe, of Ferry, re
signed.
The people of Hampton have decided to
have a newspaper, and the services of Rev.
N E. Edge, of Canton, have been secured
to edit it.
jfr Oscar Reid, of Carrollton, has pur
chased the Kedwino plantation, in Coweta
county, for $4,080, which is said to he not
half its value.
Eev. Paul F. Brown, of Virginia, has
accepted the call recently extended him by
the Presbyterian church of Brnnswiek, and
will arrive about the middle of March.
Copeis Walker, colored, while cutting
timber in tbc park at Waynesboro, Monday,
had the misfortune to cat his foot so badly
that it will probably be necessary to ampu-
lute it.
TheMftcon & Dublin Railroad is now
graded to Allentown. The sight of con
victs at work is a novel one to the people
of that section. Yesterday the depot was
laid out.
In Albany, Sunday, Shelby Woodall,
fourteen years old, was accidentally shot in
the face by Willie Wallace, another boy.
The hall entered the right cheek and finally
worked its way out through the nose.
Yesterday in Lexington the work of tear
ing down tiro old Courthouse was com
menced. The old house wag built in 1819
for $13,000. The new building will cost
$20,(HW, and is to bo completed by Jan. 18,
1887.
Jackson county now has restriction from
the sale of liquor by the drink, and it is
sold only by the quart. Two or three pe
titions are now in the ordinary’s office,
calling for a contest to prohibit the sale al
together in the county.
Mr. N. F. Tift, of Albany, has engaged in
the dairy and stock raising business. It is
his intention to supply Albany with fresh
milk and butter, and buy and sell fine
milch cows. His herd embraces some very
fine milkers, including a number of full-
blood Jerseys.
The Athenian club gave a dance at their
clnh room and chartered two street cars to
carry the young ladies home. Some mis
chievous boys put rocks on tho track
which caused the street cars to run off.
The yonng men in their clawhammer coats
hid to get out and lift the car on.
Cspt. Richard Hobbs, of Albany, went to
Americas to invito the Ohio excursionists
to the Artesian city. After extending this
invitation he button-holed a man, and for a
level half hour talked Albany and artesian
water to him, to finally find out that ho
had been wasting his eloquence on an
Americas cotton buyer.
In Bolingbroke the other day Master
George Taylor encased a gallon oil can in a
brick furnace for a boiler, and while urging
another boy who was acting as fireman to
pile on the wood so as to “get up two hun
dred pounds of steam,” tho boiler burst,
severely scalding the engineer and frighten
ing his little sister, the wood-passer, nearly
to death. ’
Practice of Judicial Itinerancy.
The Macon Tepemupb is strong in its
rebuko to judicial electioneering. The
sentiment of the bar of Georgia is against
this practice on tbo part of ita judges. Yet
iwraevemnce in it sometimes pans out well,
bongressmun Crisp pursued the practice for
si! it was worth, ana he won. As he was
successful nobody cares about the means.
Bat the practice of judicial itinerancy still
will become in time so offensive that a law
»;ill be passed forbidding it.—Albany
THE OHIOANS IN AMERICUS.
How the People of Sumter County Enter
tnlneil Tlielr Gaeitt,
Ausnicus, B'ebruary 9.-Yesterday the
Ohio visitors together with a large delega
tion of citizens accepted an invitation kind
ly extended by President 8. H. Hawkins for
a trip oyer the new Americus, Preston and
Lumpkin railroad to Lumpkin.
The party, consisted of about 250 guest,
left Amentus at 10 o’clock a. in., and after
a two hours ride through p. beautiful, fer
tile and attractive country, reached the ter
minus of the rood, which at present is
Sawyer’s mills, three miles east of Lump
kin. Here a short stop was made, after
which tho train returned to Richland,
where dinner was to be served. The hos-
pitablo people of that place, headed by
Captain T. H. Myers, had prepared at the
residence of the latter a most elaborate
and bountiful renast, consisting of'nearly
every conceivable viand from roast tur-
IN THE SIEUHAS.
key down to pork, and to which tho party
were to “fall upon” and demolish.
After dinner speeches were called for, to
which call Mr. Longaneckor responded for
Ohio and Editor Glessner, of the Recorder,
for Americus. After several musical selec
tions by the ladies of the party, “The Sweet
Bye and Bye” was sung with a chorus of a
hundred voices, after which tho ride to
Americus W’os resumed, where we arrived
safe at 5 p. m. At every stop of the train
the Ohioans would rush around wildly
after canes, magnolia boughs, palmettoes
and moss—mementoes to be carried home
by them. This excursion will be of incal
culable benefit to Americus, as quite a
number of the party will remain ana settle
among us, and many others announce their c ^ n * Then they pulled on
intention of returning here in June nnd S lo T“ #n ?«carfs and :great coats and reluc-
buying lands. Our people have shown I tan ‘‘-\ H ; ld P“ 8 rcg L°^ “
them every hospitality and kindness during l’ 01 * 01 for cither the boater or angler,
their stay among us. and if any of them go re axe the headquarters of the north fork
back home, it will not be from the want of 2? tbe Amencun and South Yuba mere.
honest effort to keep them here. £nch 1 “ f tb f e Rtream8 ftboun ^ “ tbe ™‘ lve
brook trout—a very gamey fish—and they
DRAINING THE FLORIDA SWAMPS, have also been stocked by the fish commis-
sioners with Eastern and McCloud river
Canal to be Cut Through the Everglades | trout. All three varieties are now plenty.
The McCloud river fish requires very cold
water, and, apparently, does os well here as
He is mnch larger
Governor-Muking.
Camilla Clarion.
Oar exchanges inform us that non. A. O,
“Won and Judge Simmons, both of Macon,
in tho race for the Democratic nominn-
'ion for governor. As between thu two,
onr information is that Mitchell is a unit
tor Bacon. It is a hog and hominy connty,
Jon know. Onr folks like the very namo.
i .j . , w . Qus Bacon down this way and
I s. b '"?.!? i ! u ,or bi* brilliant services and
,. Be *bilitioa. Against Judge Simmons, on
I .!!! 0 , r band, none of us have a word to
} and will vote for bitu cheerfully if he
onld be nominated. Don't forget, ye con-
vention workers, again we say, that there
®* b in theses who have not yet
nattered on the surface.
Flour Corn.
I!,:, I A. Hutcheson, who has planted
? f fbi« corn for the past two year
I ''■'■i some sample ears of the mm-
’ also a sample of the flour mado
I corn > which we had made into
1 A'.? lt “t ita virtue ns such. The flour
ry much in appearance the
flour made from good wheat,
r . -—n our judgment less gluten.
I ami brca “ from or of it is very good
I , ‘O test Its l
I bwud.l.s Very
I wt grades of ilo
I ®ontains in r
Miles of Honor Shed, and Tunnels—Mid-
Winter In the Mountain..
Correspondence Newark Advertiser.
The forty-two miles of snow sheds and
tunnels that lie between Bluo Canyon, on
the western slope of the Sierras, and
Trnckee, on the eastern side of the moun
tains, hide gome of the grandest scenery on
the great overland route. Trains in either
directions pass over this portion of the road
at night, and only the summer visitors that
stop at one oi the “way stations" have any
idea of the picturesque summit. Bine Can
yon, the first of the shed stations, is 1G8
miles from San Francisco. It has an eleva
tion of 4,093 feet, and lies at the lower end
of the heavy snowfall. Four
teen miles above this point is Cisco,
with an elevation of more than
5,900 feet, and here I stepped
ont cf the main snow shed into nn alley
that looked like n covered cattle-chnte, and
after a descent of fifty feet reached the
building that nnswered for a hotel, store,
post-office, express office and town. The
only view of the outside world was through
the hotel windows. No house was in sight
in any direction. Threo feet of snow lay
on a level, and save tho brown, dreary rail
road sheds, the mighty tamarackB, and a
few naked crags so i wept by the wind as to
make snow lodgment an impossibility,
lamps were lighted and night falls very
early in the mountain valleys—a trapper or
two or two came in for potatoes and bacon,
and beguiled- tho evening with yarns until
the hour of eight warned them
of their long journey to the
though Donner affords better sport for the
angler. Tahoe is more of a summer resort,
and every visitor, from the gray-haired
capitalist to the little school miss in short
dressos ninst whip the lake with a fly rod.
But at Donnes lake the fisherman can he
undisturbed in his apart, and, if he be an
adept with rod and reel, many a three-
pound trout, and an occasional flvo-pounder
will yield to his seductive arts.
LIFE IN LIBERIA.
Ilardihlp. In
"Don! Fail to See Me,”
If You Need Any tiling in My Line.
I am prepared to Furnish
II CARRIAGES!
Bugffies, Wagons, Harness,
PLOW GEAE, Etc.,
Cheaper than they have Ever been Sold.
for themselves.
—Other Feature* of Interest.
New York Tribuno.
A well-known civil engineer who hag re-1 in”his'native" stream! ...
cently returned from an extended trip in and more showy than his eastern brother.
*"--.a-*-.. t.i—it.. —*- 1 — - • • prefer the
. and, con-
, ..-quently, the brook trout know no other
the most charming regions that I know of bait save tho fly.
for a man who travels with his eyes open. Deer are plenty on tho American river
Unfortunately, I was obliged to give up hills. At this season the does and year-
what would have been one of the j lings are to be found nearer the valley, but
most interesting excursions. IVhen 11 the 'many-pronged bucks prefer this more
was at Orlando I was invited to form invigorating climate. They will dress from
one of a party which was starting from 150 to 250 ponnds, while the deer of the
Kissimmee to go by steamer down through foothills and coast range will, when dressed,
tho everglades to L&ko Okeechobee, and I seldom weigh over ninety ponnds. Black
then wostward through the new canal to the and cinnamon hear are not rare in sum-
gulf. The party was made np by Mr.Rose, mer, but they are hibernating, and the only
the superintendent of the company which I species of the ' genus usub to bo found
Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, has or- abroad is some old and ugly grizzly, who is
ganized to drain the Evorglade swamps, guaranteed weather-proof. Trappers de-
Although my engagements would not allow I rive their principal income from tno pelts
me to take the trip, I got much vnlnablo 0 f the silvcr-gray fox. This beautiful ani-
intormation about tho work that this com- m al is found only above the show lino, and
pany is doing. is not easy to capture. His skin brings in
"The Everglades proper, as set down on the New York market from $2U to $-15, ac-
the map, occupy over 20,000,000 acres in cording to condition. Few trappers get
the extreme southeastern part of the State. mo re than six in a season, though last win
In the central part of tho State, however, ter one Rear Volley man secured sixteen,
extending from latitude 26:30 to latitude The flora of Cisco is decidedly Alpine in
28:30, is a net-work of little lakes, rivers I its characteristics, nnd many botanists
and swamps, which was long considered from different portions of the country
nnfit for any of the purposes of civilized spend some port of the sninmer collecting
life. This region is, nevertheless, between specimens in this vicinity,
forty and sixty feet above the sea level, so \ few miles above the hotel the South
that there was no reason why it should he Yuba springs, like the Rhone, beneath a
considered nndrainable. The lakes and glacier. From the depth of ice and snow
swamps have been formed by the rank veg-1 in the canyon I suppose the river to ooms
elation, which for centuries grew, 1 out in the same manner in mid-summer,
decayed and fell into the rivers, I excepting in an unusually warm and dry
thus damming them np and season. The water boils with snch fury sa
partially flooding the surrounding country. t 0 appear black, and any tront desiring ice
The company organized by Hamilton Dias-1 water alt the year round can certainly be
ton obtained from tho goverment a grant of satisfied here.
nil the lands which should be drained by it. The track of the Central Paciflo railroad,
The company brought down dredges and at the summit of the mountains, is 7,019
began its woik by clearing out of a channel feet above the level of the sea. The cold,
from lako to lake, from Lake Kissimmee to I to one accustomed only to the temperature
Lake Okeechobee. This whole country is 0 f the valleys, is intense. The large force
so extremely flat that this single channel, 0 f trackmen, carpenters and linemen who
which only lowered tbo water in the north, attend to and repair the tracks, sheds and
era lakes a foot or two, reclaimed about wires over the mountains, makes a hotel
4,000,000 acres of swamp land. A canal was 1 necessary in winter as well as in summer,
then cut from Lake Okechobeo westward to This winter colony is dependent solely
theCslcesahatohee river, which completes the 1 upon internal resources for its fond of
system of drainage to the gulf: It is now amusement. It has a snow-shoe club,
proposed to cat another canal eastward sfiow-shoes being a necessity for tho line
from Lake Okeechobee to the Atlantic, a I repairers at the summit. The shoes are
diatanco of forty miles. If the project is I long and narrow, being built after the
ever carried ont, it will ahorten by about 250 I snow-shoes of the Lapps, and not in Se
mites the sea voyage between points on the corJsncc with the eastern or Canadian
Atlantic coast and gulf ports. The company model. The hills afford good opportunities
also intend to drain the southeast Ever-1 for coasting, the only drawback being the
glades by the same method employed in lock 0 f proper terminal facilities. Two
reclaiming the northern swamps. small lakes near the station are frozen over,
•Ibis region has never been surveyed, and occasionally the men skats on them,
but recently one of tho company’s employes Fifteen years ago the fish commission
made on expedition into the heart of the stocked these ponds with Silver Lake
Everglades, pushing himself through the trout. They have failed to breed, but the
nwaisps in a Hmull boat. He reports that I origins! fry Lave grown to immense tire,
tho project of draining is completely feasi-1 and a few of them are caught every sum-
ble. In this way tho company hopes to no- me r.
qnire ntmnt 18,000,000 acres more. The I An average depth of snow at tho summit
government grant included Pine Island, at | j» fifteen feet; but the snowfall diminishes,
Land That la Quite Un
known.
A correspondent at Brewersvilie, Liberia,
writing.to the Gate City (Mo.) Press, says:
This place, Urowersville, is fifteen miles
tSmi Monrovia. It is fifteen years old. It
is the largest settlement in Liberia outside
of Monrovia. All the people who have
emigrated out here in the last ten nr fifteen
years have settled in this place. The peo
ple in tho settlement are poor, and one
isn't able to help the other in a business
sense of view. There are no horses,
no rnnles, and no oxen in the
whole settlement. They have to do all farm
work with the hoe, the rake and the ax. 11
have been ont here now six months. Peo
ple are in a suffering condition for some-1
thing to eat and for clothes to wear. There
settlement is too poor to support one. The BABY CARRIAGES, LAP ROBES, WHIPS, HORSE BLANKETS,
inhabitants number 556. Calico is 25'
cents per yard. A common laborer, when
he can get work to do, receives 25 cents
per day. Pickled pork is 25 cents per
pound, shoulder meat 25 cents per pound.
All the flour and meat used here is im
ported from England and America. Cora
meal is 10 cents per quart. Common flour is
$15 per barrel. This is the greatest
place for sores I ever saw. There is here
an insect; its name is jiger; it is very dan-
geruus. I have seen grown people, and
children, too, with their toes eaten off,
Shoes are more needed than in America.
It is necessary to wear shoes all the time so
to protect your feet from insects. The
people are unable to keep shoes on all their
children nil the time, and n good many of
them have to wear sore feet all the year
round. My boy's feet have been bo sore he
conld hardly walk.
Tho only way the settlors have to make
any money here is by raising nnd selling
coffee. It will take a new-comer like my
self from flvo to six years to get a coffee
farm in trim for selling coffee. The pnblic
schools are in a poor condition. There is s
class of people here who do not want the
true condition of things written hack home.
22L5 olr th hcrtt e themcome n and h s°ce Ia tbo P^o to look for or write to when you need anything
ing, and I will convince y ou that money can bo saved by trading
If you can’t come, write for
I. L. HARRIS,
98 and 100 Cherry St., Macon, Gu.
HE DANCED WITH MA.
Experience ot a Bewildered Tenderfoot m | high prices, but send to me, or call in person before purchaa*
the Rockies.
Detroit Free Preee.
Hi yes! Whoop ’em up! Swing yei l
partners! First lady lead to the right; a t headquarters. It won’t cost you a cent to be shown
1 jent follow amt! Ltidy in the center an
througl, my establishment.
grand right and leftl Whoop 'em up—to
yonr seats!” prices.
They were having a little "hoe down” 1
at Jack’s cabin.
"A kind of a holiday blowout,” Jack
himself said.
Tho cabin was in a gulch in one ot the I
Rockies, and the boys from Camp Provis
ion and White Cake gnlch and Saltillo park
had como up with their "gals” to “jine in
tlie Jubilee.''
One creaky old fiddle and a one-legged I
fiddler on a greasy pine table comprised the
orchestra.
Old Jack kept a hotel, and one ot his |
guests that night happened to he a mild-
mannered minister of the gospel, journey
ing in a missionary sort of a way through I
the mountains, honestly trying to "pluck
brands from the burning ?” and here was a
whole bonfire before his horriflad gszs.
He had descended from his garret chsm- Tho undersigned have opened a targe and complete stock of (»merles at J 'it Tit I nl
her to warn the revelers ot their peril Strert, and respectfully invite all in need of Bnppliee, to call on ti.em beforo pureba
Jack met him at the stair door. elsewhere. The stock includes all the staples used by farmers, and has been solo
“That's right, stranger,” he roared. I with special reference to their wonts. It has been marked at
"Come right down an' shake yer leg I Jine
the month of the Caloosnbachee river, on un< i the intensity of the cold increases _
the Gulf coast. This island is probably goon , g u,, cte * t 0 f the mountain is passed,
destined to become a point of considerable the Trnckee and^evada side having
importance. It was sold by Mr. scarcely any snow, and yet baring a G’anu-
Disston for $1.25 an acre. Phe dfon temperature. In the snow sheds,
purchaser sold it for $2.50. At the next gbont the summit, an average winter night
transfer it brought $5 an acre. And now it would he about 10 o above zero, and
has been bought by some capitalists, prin- the noon temperetnre about 25®. The
cipoUy Boston men, for $10 an sore. It is average temperature between Truekee and
intended to build on this island s town, Renols st least 10 o lower than this Water
which shall form the 8oathcra terminus of freezes in • very short time when left stsnd-
the Florida Southern Railroad. The town fog fo the sleeping rooms either st Summit
will be ou the line of the most direct com- 0 r Cisco.
mnniestion between Jacksonville and the For eight miles east of tha summit the
North and Havana. There will probably hfo e „f snowshed and tunnels is unbroken
he s line of steamers between Pine Island and the traveler cannot get even a glimpse
and Havana. A ahip-load of lumber, with 0 f the beautiful views below him. If, how-
which the first booses of the town are to he e ver, he crawls under tho abed st the east
built, started from Maine on Nov. 8, and e m end of tho summit tunnel and looks to
arrived at Pine Island a few days ago. ward the southeast he will find a scene that
"One of the most interesting districts in can hart y he surpassed even among the
_ , , Florida is Levy and Marion counties, jnst Alpine lakes. Range after ranga. peak after
a | Ifonn i “i*’ roughness not east of the bend in the Gulf coast This is peak, white from base to apex, lie'scattered
■ ■ l«on ln w “®at bread. Mr. Huche- s limestone country and is olmoat without | {„ every direction. Here and there some
the estimate oi
ltinnZra Te tu8ill y bushel, per sere men-
I3* din oarUst issuo was not his esti-
ItimnA 1,ls “®ver thoroughly tested its
ItaST" but M satisfied from the
I if , Kiven it that ita yield per sere,
LVATA "‘•‘‘rated, will far exceed that
. from same land. Having
v,ttUo ‘1 bread, we are satisfied it
I'.nr tobe * valuable acquisition to
cr °P« cultivated. As it grows
Is Y.ln M™. 0 * “ Ulks -undoubtedly be
croi> #u ° for ,tock '-' ?or -
The XTrang Brother.
t Now » tells this for s fact:
>f on A De i laH i“st come to light on one
n.tr /r„ ner0 e. antt « follows: When a drum-
11,. bl * store, this merchant invaria-
Fjssslnte.hfo, , ith .. how aro yon broth .
ItrsniA l J onR * ,nc * • preacher who was a
liianuL 1 *" 6 -*? ,e,ed fh® aforesaid mer-
|re von , h >r tiT‘ 1 ^ a i“ hand. How
said the merchant,' Tie
^m^ r 1 l K *' ,,U * m .' u, lbm king be had *n-
In-l rA l ; * ne ”} ber of iS denomination,
IW- a!25 * fofgetteu acquaintance n-
1 A,',r T rninit bro,h ". “'1 instant-
uffi"* Are J"" • member of onr
sss'fJiZ 2*“* still finite sure that
C ‘W'u. r ‘ h' *i id sksk'ng the band of a
L ..’" ri’i'rt, “not hy a d-n sight"
kL TiB * finiekiy said I am a preacher
r.7~7,. •. '“st imagine the
ot foe merchant at this junction.
country and is almost without I [„ every direction. Here’ and there some
streams or lakes. All the rivers sre Bub- deep canyon makes a dense shadow on a
terranean. There are numbers of caves at distant mountain's side. The only sounds
the bottom of which one can heur the wa- » r e the echoes of avalanches, and there is
ter flowing. At Silver Springs one of these n o sign of the presence of a man. It seems
underground streamea emerges abruptly like primeval desolation, and yet, in the
nnd forms a river 156 wide and seventy n „dit of the dreary scene, two thousand
feet deep. In the same region is Lake feet below, winding in and ont among the
Weir, which has no visible outlet nor inlet, irregular mountain - bases is Donner
bnt is supplied and drained by subterre- Lake, a sheet of silve. ’ Around ita
nean channels^ sides are stately pines, whose reflection
Tboss who stUl think of. the Hawaiian is- •“ th **“. cr “ ** e “ even this distance,
lands ssslsndof half civilizedbeingswould From the lower end of the lake s delicate
be surprised to see the items of the daily I* nsrag «3nstanly t save the coldest
paper published there. The advertisements weather, and this tones down the glaring,
show every variety of profession and busi- Iff.i7of^hbm* V ratfi ^ rackeo . bi j*»
ness carried on by people whose names sre |. tried to reach the
unmistakably English, while from the local the mouth of the tun-
columd we glean that the city of Honolnlu “f!, but the snow dowii the canyon was all
has ita basediaU dubs, ita circus, its roller- tk* way Jrom five to twelve feet in depth,
coaaten,-a contrivance only recentiy “dwoffid not mraport my weight rfow.
seen in New England,-its opera (brought Vf!’"m, * lx “ U< * M»».
all the way from 8»n Francisco by s pnblic 1 ^? lbl *.° t ^5 ln J
subscription of $2, WO), and last but not w*y to the water. It is seldomthat Don-
least in theevUenceof civilization, a po- “*r take freews'entirely'over. The water
lice court where the customary "drunks" •*?"“ temperature, and
and "aseaulta” are recorded each morning, ^is “onntain lakes of
Even-tha Chinamen there is pelted “J «“• peculiarity applies to
by tboVys in the streets as ha is by their {**•'***".!! TjfJ* the,n « “ J“n« b •»
little Christianized brothenjn Amettaa. | ££“^1 I^Ld‘thratafo
Tub first umbrella svsr seen in England freeze it Alt water token from Truekee
was carried by a footman named John Me- river has to be Urns treated.
Donald in 17,7. and it is a remarksbls fact Donner lake abounds in trent, tbs
that it belonged to somebody else, and was spedm that inhabit Laka Tahoe being
UktTi “by nuitake for bit own, and that J found there. Tha Tahoe trout grow to be
hae been ita fortune tyer since. 1 somewhat larger than thoae ol Donner,
I. L. HARRIS,
f)S and 100 Cherry St., Macon, Ga ,
in the above line. Don’t buy from small dealers who ehargo
GROCERIES!
in! Be one of mil Here, mal Gets
partner for this gent 1”
“Sir, I-I-”
“Hurry np, ma! Tho’ro makin' up the
next set Drag Mrs. Betts or Liz. Johnson
in here, an' give 'em a knock down to this
;ent He's dyin' to crack his heels together
n the mazy 1 Hump yourself, ma 1”
"They're dancin' tnree seta ont in the
kitchen an' all the gals is spoke fer,” cried
out “ma,” a great, red-faced, wild-eyed
an in a yellow dress with green and
blue flounces and pink ribbons.
"Bnt I'll take s turn with the stranger
myself."
‘Madam, I-I—’’
'Yon don't know how? Land o' rest I
That don't make a might o’difference.
Any fool kin dance old Dan Tncker. I'll
slap yon right through easy os failin' off'n a
log!
"No, madam; I never jret Indulged in
th^practice of dancing, and I never will,
"What’s that yer givin’ ns?" Jack asked,
his face aflame, while “ma” stepped back
with her fists clenched. "Yon don't dance,
eh? Yon don't and you won't, eh? Not
even with ma, a lady, ba gosh, from way
back? A lady which is fit to adorn better
society 'n what yon ever poked yonr nose
in, by jacks ! A lady which kin play on the
orgin nnd write po'try, begosh 1 And yon
won't dance with her?”
"Bnt, air; I-I-"
"Not a wort ont'n you; ma grab 'im!”
Ma grabbed.
Jack pulled out a revolver and said:
"Hey, you fiddler? Saw out ‘Ganny,
Will Yer Dog Bite?* the faatesteat ever
you sawed it out iu yer life! It’s goin' to
Im danced by a professional. Ma waltz
him ont in the middle o' the floor, and the
tint break he makea to get away I'll drnp
'im.
Jack raised his revolver.
"Ms” waltzed her trembling, white-faced
partner out; the fiddter struck up the
classical air named. The other dancerf
stopped "to see the fun!”
"Crack away, ma?"
There was a rush, a wild whirling aronnd,
snd round, a mighty hobbing strait up ami
down, a jump, a whoop, a mad whirl,
a dying of thin, black-robed legs in the air,
more whirling, bobbing,; jumping, and
whooping, and the final dropping of a limp,
breathless man into a chair, whan he sat
staring widiy aronnd, grasping for breath.
"I rekon tint fellow won't toon forget
the time be danced with ms,” laid Jack, as
bis guest crawled up stairs to bed.
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