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by and. b. freeman. For the Calhoun Times.] A Sit el Real Experience. BY W. H. 8. WOOD. The fall of 187- foupd me in one of those mushroon towns out on the great American desert, with no pros pect of employment for winter, and a scant pocketbook, so I decided to try that invariable resort of the unemploy* ed—teaching school. Obtaining the usual credentials, I tried at one or two of those sod school* houses of the Platte Valley, but with poor success. School District No. 1, being recommended to me as a No. 1 place, the best in the county, I made application, and received in reply: “Kum an pitch in ef you think you kin teech akule Deestrect No 1." A week later, just at evening, I jumped off the cars at the nearest railroad station, a coal mining place,, and found I had five miles to walk to reach my “winter quar ters.” Next morning I started across the plains in good spirits, but not a little dreading the coming interview with the school committee. The sun was shino iog brightly* the air was iofigoratiog as only Colorado atmosphere dare to be, and fourteen miles westward the noble Rockies reared their mighty forms in every conceivable shape, the different colored rocks of the “hogback,” the waving pines of the timber range and the snowcapped peaks seeming to tap the very centre of the clouds, all com bined to make a grand spectacle, some 150 mi.es of the range was clearly vis ible. To the east the plains sloped gently on until far away they seemed to meet and hug the distant horizon. The South Platte meandering on re ceiving many branches from the moun tains, and ita course easily distinguish ed by the huge cottonwoods on its banks. Away to the southeast a little column of smoke told me the iron horse of the Kansas Pacific was bringing its living freight in the onward march of civilization. Occasionally I passed a bunch of sage brush or “bayonet grass” yucca, giving a variety to the usual sameness of dry vegetation cactus and sunflowers. Small herds of Texas cat tle and broncho ponies were grazing on the rich, nutritious gramma grass, al ready cured by nature for winter. Now and then a solitary jackrabbit would jump from its hiding place, startled by my presence, and dart away to find an other, or a herd of the sleek gentle antelope would lope up a distant knoll, look wildly around and canter down the other side. The deep stillness seemed to favor solitude, and I thought of former days and friends in the old Peninsular State, and almost wished I was home again, when the monotony was suddenly broken by the approach of a stranger Stopping to inquire the way of him, he asked : “Be you the teacher ? Wa’ai, neow, who’d a tho’fc o seciu ysow.” Then an Irish man joined us, and stopping to watch some prairie dogs, as they cunningly stood on their hind legs, tipped to one side, eyeing us saucily, then with a chirp whirl into their burrows only to re appear a moment after to do the same over again- An aged owl would sit moodily at the entrance of the burrow, or perhaps the dreaded “sauger.” all living together like one happy family. A mirage, a curious phenomena, as of trees in the air or a rolling river, or cows transformed to elephants, called our attention t> another direction, when a boy approached carrying an owl. The half tipsy Hibernian, ever ready to show his wit and strike a bargain, com menced bantering him by saying, “An its a foin mornin’ this mornin', it is, an how much will yee take for yees tar key this mornin.” “It’s not a turkey,” said the boy, “it's an owl.” “Divel a bit do I care how osld he is if he is only fot,” said Erin. Leaving him to finish his trade alone we marched on, and soon came in sight of the valley, and, as l saw several nice, white ranch houses I congratulated myself at the prospect of pleasant homes and well-to do people. Proceeding to the director, who lived in a comfortable log house, a half score of savage, lean, crosseyed yeliow dogs bounced out to herald my arrival, and were followed by a thick set Dutchman, wife and several chil dren. Introducing myself, and well aware that much depended on first im pressions, I tried to keep my best con* trol, while a lump was continually ris ing in my throat, as I looked at the dogs all ready to swallow me at once, and the ludicrous look of the dozen ur chins, with tattered hair and garmeuts, hare feet, and eais, mouth and eyes wide open, made it hard for me to con ll*'**; ;i/shto rc Tt flat* eyfi;: /‘ l .1.. t — t,* Calfyotm trol my visibilities. “Veil/’ says the director, “you bleeves in capital pun* ishment in skool maype ?” and going on telling me a long history of how the summer before the scboolma’am was locked cut by the scholars, and the last male teacher only kept his place by keeping his “shooten iron loaded as a moral restraint on the beples.” Ward ing off his question by answering indi rectly 1 saw I had got his good will, and so started for the assessors. He was an Ir shman and owned a largo ranch and a good house and seemed more comfort ably situated than the rest. As I ad vanced to the yard several huge speci mens of the canine species disputed uiy passage, but were called off by a strap ping big girl c if “sweet sixteen.” She is described as “her neck was like a crook neck ed squash, lier eyes' were lightning big, and her gait was like a foundered horse in a hen canter.” Of course I was enamored. Merciful Heavens ! deliver me thought I as I thought of “git while you’re gittin,” in “Hoosier schjolmaster.” Well it was decided that I was to commence school on the next Monday morning, and was to commence board at Geo. Warner’s. He was a well-built man who had been a Boston fireman for several years, and finally concluded to follow Greeley’s advice : “Go west and grow up with the country.” His stentorian voice in common conversation would make a Newfoundland foghorn take a back seat. Strolling out next morning I came to a long slat house, some twenty hogs lying around the doorstep. Coming unexpectedly to the door I found the whole family on their knees, and saw at a glance that they were devout Cath olics. One of the boys making a slight noise, the man of the house reproved him by shouting, “Pat herick, Father ick, be gof, shure an’ if yce don’t hur ry up an’ say yees prayers I’ll be aftlier bustin’ yeho head open.” This man went by the namQ of “Big Dad,” and boasted of the day when he was the only man in Denver who could raise a whisky barrel up and drink out of the bung. There was to be a bee to grade the school yard that day, and so we repaired to the scene of action. By some mistake the school house had been moved and set on “Big Dad’s” land.— He condescendingly allowed it to re main if “no ’ipocrittera were allowed to use it,” meaning Protestants and temperance lecturers, 3 hat afternoon I was introduced to old man Grosscusse (and he was a gross cuss, too,) who was very solicitous that I should go and stop over the night with him. I had examined the school house, and found iron slats in it, and every convenience of modern times, in fact, far above the average. I felt delighted, but as my friend remarked, “You can’t sometimes most always tell beforehand.” I af terwards learned that these were pre sented Dy an Eastern friend, and the inhabitants dated them as the cause of the downfall of progress. “New fan cied notions won’t do "here,” says “Big Dad;” “we’re 59 er’s and know how things awter be.” Consenting to be the guest of Mr. Grosscusse fo* Satur day night we started across the prairie, and reached his claim about dusk, and was ushered into the log house, and told to make myself at home. While the boys were putting away the team I made a survey of the room. It was about fourteen feet square, one sash serving as a window, and had a stone fire place. The wind was blow* ing iu the wrong direction, and the smoke filled the room so they had t<* keep th e door open to let the smoke out and the fire burning to keep warm. — The old granny sat in the only chair that had a bottom in, hovering over the coals, smoking a clay pipe, and dreaming a dream of the long, long ago. A dark-colored young man from Mis souri, some six feet seven inches tall, with a coyote skin cap on and a pair of buffalo shoes, claiming to be a trav eling photographer, stood by. I no ticed a six shooter aod bowie knife in close proximity to his hip breeches pock et. A young Spaniard lay on the floor in a fit, kicking like a dying horse. — Children of all ages, sizes aod sexes stood around the room. The names of the tribe are interesting but too nu merous to mention. Big Gross, Little Gross, Big Ant, Little Ant, Johnny Copeek, Lickum Stickum, Sally Ann and Mary Jane are a beginning. Even ing advanced and I was under embar o rassing inspection. A hearty laugh went round the room when I could not comprehend that “duublc A, double Ed? dy, Addy, T—U—double eckes,” spelE ed Waddy Tucker. However, as the room was darkened by smoke, I felt relieved from their scrutinizing gaze. CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18.1877. The old granny occasionally breaks the silence by saying, “Sech is life.” “Yes,” says Big Ant, “it takes us all to make everybody.” * Jess so,” says Big Gross, Nine o’clock come, and we are saluted from the back slat out-of door kitchen, with “Grubs ready, pitch in., one that gi® 'most is best feller.” Not wishing to be taken as a tender foot, I sat down with great apparent relish, and what do you suppose we had to eat ? Mutton chops and sour krout, and they said they had gone ten miles the night before “to git the sheep fur the tacher.” Old Mrs. Gross kept tell ing that she had as good “gals as ever trod a piece of shulealher,” only so many men folks around to help do the work had been their ruination. Then i learned that the grasshoppers had eaten up megt of the wheat that sum mer. The potato crop was a failure, and although most of them had laige herds of cattle, they didn't believe in ‘milking, and I was not to 6ee butter and milk all winter. Adjourning again to the “parlor” we sat till long past midnight. The boys took the only tal lbw candle and went up iu the loft to play “freeze out,” and the old man told me to make use of the library if I liked to read by firelight. Examining it I found “Quartermaster’s Report for Southern Indiana,” and two or three “Patent Office Reports,” and “Messa ges and Documents.” After heariug a few stories of “yee olden time in yee injeany,” the inhabitants began to stow themselves away on shelves on the floor, etc., whilo the man, wife and “darters” occupied tho only bed in the house. A buffalo robe and a horse blanket were thrown on the floor, and I was told that I might bunk for the night. Scarcely had I landed in bed before I was wel comed by innumerable “boogars,” and as the old granny groaned away up in the corner “sech is life,” I almost re^ 0 lied, “yes, you bet, old gal.” The close atmosphere of the room had be* r come unbearable by this time, so I arose as quietly as possible, and vanish ing into the open air concluded to study astronomy till morning. The air was chilly. The distant mountains looked weird and wild, and the coyote’s bark and gray wolf’s howl made things seem forsaken. I have often laughed at that morning’s experience since, but can you blame me for feeling downhearted then, as I stood gazing at the starry heaveus and repeating “sech is life.” Morning came at last, and reaching friend War ners I ate breakfast in silence. Bor rowing a pony I started for the nearest town to church, found the only church to be a Welsh one, so returning, my broncho concluding to show me a trick or two, such as only a wild Western broncho knows how to do well, “buck* ing” and trying to stand on one foot and throw its rider over its head. Some of the ranchmen were breaking colts, some branding cattle. At any rate they knew not the meaning of Sunday.— School commenced next day. Area school district was five by seven miles, in a county as large as the State of Massachusetts. I had twenty scholars and found thirteen different series of reading books, used probably through several generations. Geographies da ting away back to 1848, when Colora do was a territory unthought of. Mon day night I commenced boarding at Bill Turner’s He lived in a log cabin some three miles from the school Louse. One-half of the small room was used as a granary, the other half for living purposes. Turner was well-to-do. He owned a stove —old—to be sure, crack* ed and rusty, but a stove or resem blance nevertheless. lie was the only religious man in that part of the coun try, and I shall never furget how he and his devout wife used to keep my tired brain from sleep and rest by con tinuing their rattle-te-bang Campbeliite songs till long past midnight every night. Yes, he was pious—loafed around all the week, and did his work on Sundays. He was one-eyed, bald neaded, a little deaf, had a stitch in bis back, and was an inveterate smoker His wife had the St. Vitus dance Supper ready we sat down, our appe tites well whetted up by our long walk, and as usual, were told to “pitch in.” That table was well filled, and the most fastidious might relish that feast, What was it, do you ask ? Well, we had chicken, fattened on grasshoppers, and here I may say that I have always rec ognized that age commands respect, but for all that I don’t like old sitting hens that the flies have roosted on all sum mer, and that hen actually sit on that tihle every meal for nearly three weeks. There was also beans—beans so black you could not see what was cooked with them —and so much soup you couldn’t find the beans, and every little while a piece of sand rock would land in jour mouth, and have a battle with your molars till you interfered. Any desert? Yes, didn’t I tell you old Turner was well-to do—yes—we had wild plums, cooked without sugar, wild plum leaves, pits, stems, branches and all. Yes, sir, on the European plan, and when night came we waltzed up a ladder to bed— had to lie down under the rafters to un dress, ('that room wasn’t very high be tween joints) and every time we turned over we were in danger of raising the roof, and when morning came found it had snowed, and we were drifted in. Before breakfast I was asked if I want ed to wash, aod directed to follow one of the boys, who led me to an irriga ting ditch some ten rods from the house, and breaking a hole tlngh the ice commenced scrubbing. Then the boy told me I had better l%hfc out for the house, if I didn’t want to freeze. Ar riving there I found my hair frozen solid, and icicles hanging over my ears and eve-lids. Was told to dry off by the fire, and so thawing out again and drying the best I could, made my way to the breakfast table, to examine again those rare viands—the sitting hen, those ebony beans and native phuna. yße* peating this process every morning 1 noticed the fire was fed at tithes* by coal/ again by cottonwood branches, then by pine knots, buffalo benes and chips,,,or by cornstalks and sunflowers. School went on prosperously, and as I had a large correspondence with friends in tho East I did not get lonesome nor homesick, but only grinned at my situ' ation and said “such is life.” Thanksgiving came, and mentioning it in school fouud they had never heard of it before. One little urchin came to me one day and said his “pap had done gone to Denver, and bought a right smart lot of apple,and, teecher, dagpned ef I wouldn’t W .tiv know ef apples grows like taters.” Don’t laugh, kind reader, at the ignorance of this fifteen year old Rover. Some people in the East have fully as vague ideas of West ern life. A man, a schoolteacher and book agent, went to a person about to leave for the West from Michigan in ’73, and said he wanted to go out there to see the country, would be glad of a chance for work, and thought he could irrigate very well. “They irrigate by spriifkling the ground with a watering pot I s’pose,” said he. Two months passed off quickly, and I had a week’s vacation at Christmas, which I passed pleasantly with East ern friends on the Cache-a-la-Pondre, and followed one more month of “sech is life,” and reed I tell you that then I concluded to change my business. I have already told you more than 1 had intended, and don’t think the sketch is highly colored, for the half has not been told. I was then sixteen years old, and that was my first term of teaching, and though my three months in “skule Deestrect No. 1” may not be interesting to you, it was indeed to me “a bit of real experience. Emigration to the South. The tide of emigration has begun to flow to the South. Two or more colo nies of Irish people are looking for lands iu North Carolina. Colonies have already Settled in Tennessee, South Car-, olina, and Alabama. In 1873 one hun dred and fifty Swiss families, making a company of seven hundred people, purchased ten thousand acres of land on Cumberland Mountain, Tennessee, at one dollar per acre, and already each head of a family has a comfortable home, surrounded by an orchard and gardea. There is a large store which is managed for the colony, members of which obtain their goods from it at wholesale cost. They have dairies and cheese factories in successful operation, and all their products find ready sale at fair prices. They own herds of cat tle, and shelter their cattle in comfort able barns. Another colony near Greenville, S. C , also Swiss, is almost as large and as prospeious as the Tennessee colony.— The Germans established a colony three years ago upon Sand Mountain, in Al= abama. There are now six thousand souls in this colony. They have made thousands of acres of a former wilder ness blossom as the rose, and have built up a flourishing town, which pays thou sands of dollars in taxes to the State. The grape interest is profitable. One German, on half an acre last year rais ed 8200 worth of grapes, and this year he will raise £SOO worth. The tobac* co grown is equal in quality to the Vir ginia leaf. Tobacco, cigars and wine, the chief products of the colony,, find a leady sale in Louisville and Cincin nati. The coloLists destined for North Carolina also seek the mo intainous re- - •gion, where tobacco can bo cultivated as well as grain, and where the grazing lands are rich and plenty. The South ern papers report a flow of strangers into the South looking for homes.— N. Y. Sun. The European Plan. Yesterday evening a strung* r, clad in a duster, and carrying a carpet-sack, entered a hotel on Delaware avenue.— He marchel straight up to the oounter, .where the amiable landlord stood pick ing his teeth, and the moment he set his bag down the amiable landlord whisked it off and set it down with the pile of other baggage behind the bar. “Please register your name,” said the landlord, passing him a pen. “How much is it, mister ?” “That depend? on what you get.— We keep hotel here ou the European plan.” “I say, mister,” said the countryman, all in a tremble, “please give me that bag, and I’ll go right out and not say a word.” The landlord gazed at him but made no movement toward the bag. “Please, mister, give me my bag.— There is nothing in it but a few shirts, indeed there isn’t. Here’s the key.— I'll let you search it,” continued the sti anger, trembling still moro violent" [ y The landlord passed him the bag and as the stranger instantly shot for the door, the former exclaimed : “Well, blame me if I a ; n’t puzzled to know what kind of a fool you are.” But tho stranger paused to hear no compliments, and was a good half mile away before he took courage to lean against an awning post and mutter : “Gracious! What an escape! Keeps a hotel on the you rope in p*an, does he ? I suppose he wanted to rope me in and perhaps kill me. Lord! What wicked places these cities are. I’ll go home immediately.” And he kept his word. Fan Talk. The signs of Fan Talk are as fol lows : You have won my love—The right hand points with closed fau toward the heart. VVh n <n:ty I Ece you—Touch the right eye with the closed fan. I should like to be ever near you— Fan the pefson in question with an open fan. We are watched—Hold the closed fan over the mouth. Dare I hope to win your bve—Un fold the fan quickly. Do not be so cold—Move the closed fan backwards and forwards with the right hand. Do not be jealous—Rest the closed f;in against the eyebrow of the right eye. f You may kiss me—Piess the half' open fan against the mouth. Yes—Rest the open fan against the right cheek. No —Rest the open fan against the left cheek. You are the darling of my heart— Press the onen fan against the heart. Explain yourself clearly—Look ear-* nestly at the closed fan. I give my consent —Slowly close the fan. Why do }ou wish to leave me ?—Fan violently with the half open fan. — < ♦ A Good One. During the first year of the war, says a Vermont paper, when change was scarce and some large firms were issu ing money of their own, a farmer went to a store in a neighboring town and bought some goods and gave the mer* chant a five dollar bill, of which he wanted sevetfly-five cents back. The merchaut counted it out and handed it over to the farmer, who looked at it a moment and inquired : “What’s this V* “It’s my currency,” said the mer chant. “Wall, tain’t good for nothing where I live,” said the farmer. “Very well,” replied the merchant, “keep it' until y.m get a dollar’s worth, and bring it to my store, and I will give you a dollar bill for it.” The farmer pocketed the change and departed. A few weeks after he went into the same store, and bought goods to the amount of one dollar, and pay ing over the identical seventy-ffive cents, he took oat a handful of pumps kin seeds and counted out twenty .-five of them and passed them to the mer chant. ‘ Why,” said the merchant, “vrhat is this ?” “Wall,” says the farmer, “this is my currency, and when you get a dollar’s worth, bring it to my place and I will give you a dollar bill for it” Someone said to Hugo once upon a time : “It must be very difficult to write good poetry ” “No, sir,” replied the poet ; “it is very easy or utterly impossible.” A Michigan farmer abused his moth er-ioJaw, and then asked her to lower him down the well to recover the lost dipper. The Coroner decided that the rope broke, though others thought it had been cut. An Irishman engaged in fighting a duel insisted, as he was near-sighted, that ho should stand six feet nearer to bis antagonist than his antagonist did to him. Fair Warning! All persons due u* notes or accounts prior to January Ist, 1877, who do Dot come forward and settle at ouce will find their claims in the hands of a coL lectin? officer. A word to the wise is sufficient. REEVES & MALONE. CilhiUQ, ai, 8 ip. U, IS 77-4 t. GRAHAM & BARNETT. ij STEAM SAW MILL Three Miles from Calhoun on the Sugar Valley Road. * Lumber. A gooxl supply of Lumber ou hand, and auy bill cut to order on short notice. Shingles. We are prepared to fill all orders for Shingles, and guarantee satisfaction to purchasers. Lathes. Lathes supplied in any quantity on short notice. Our prices are in accordance with the hard times. Ve solicit the patronage of those wishing anything in our line. Our facilities for supplying the public are not excelled by any similar enterprise 11* this section. WHITE OAK LOSS WANTED. We want good White Oak Logs, and will pay the cash for them. GRAHAM & BARNETT. jun 2 3m. Interesting to Farmers M< ARTHUR do work cheaper than it can be done any where else in Oalhoun fo cash or pro luce, You will do well to call,and get t heir prices and test the quality of ttyeir work. You will get satisfaction. Mr. Smith is an excellent workman, a polished steel smith. All work doile at prices conforming with the present scarcity of money and the pres* sure of hard times. Call and have your horse shod, and see how reasonable will be the bill. Also bring in your wagons and buggies for repair mar3l-9mr LOGS WANTED 1 We will pay CASH for Logs, Good POPLAR, 12, 13 and 14 feet long. WHITE-OAK, 14 and 16 feet long. A few 12 feet long. PINE, 16, 20, 22, 24 and up. A few 12 feet long. WALNUT, of good quaUty. A good supply of LUMBER constantly on hand. Also Lathes and Shin gles. which the cash can get cheap. L. HILLS & CO. Resaca, Ga., March 28, 1877. 6m. -JL‘. dVt. ELLIS’ LIVERY & SIJ STABLE. and Buggy Horses and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sait-. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will p.iy the cash for corn in the ear and odder in the bundle. feb3-tf. H. A. DORSLY’S SALOON, Railroad Street Always on hand choice Liquors, etc., and the wants of customers willl at all times be attended to with prompt ness and politenesss. 3-lyebf J. M. LOVELACE, —DEALER IN— BOOTS, SHOES, Leather, Shoe Findings, &c„ BROAD STREET, - - ROME, GA. Having purchased the largest and most complete assortment and selection of Boots and Shoes, Hemlock, Oak, Sole, Upper and Harness I eather, CaK and Kip, Skin*, Toppings &c. The fu lest line of shoe findings ever cf fered in this market. With twenty years experience in the bur. iness 1 am satisfi and I can offer very ra.r and special inducements iu my line of goods. Warranting everything an 1 obligating myself to have repaired free of charge, all rips, &c. W hen I say I can make it tc your r.dvan tage to call and examine my stock I mean what I say. Call first door above Ronnsn ville k Brother. My Home made Brogans can’t be beaten in material or wear; price $1 .50. Give me a trial. J. M. LOVELACE. P. S.—l will pay maraet price for dry hides. sep22-3m. VOL. VIII.—NO 8 ESTABLISHED 1800. GILMORE & OOi, Attorneys at Law, Successors to Chipman, Hosmer & Cos., , 629 F. ST., WASHINGTON, .0. American ami Foreign tanent. lrten*s procured m all r.ointries. No* fees in advance. No Charge unl eßS ,he patent is granted. No fees for making pre linnnarj examinations. No additional fees for obtaining and eottdtielihg a rebcarin- Special attention given f 0 Intervene* cases before the Paten* Office, Kxte n ions before Congress, Infringement suits in dif ferent States, and all litigation appertain ing to inventions or patents. Send stamp for'pamphlet of sixty pages. United States Courts and Depart m • manta, Clams prosecuted in the Supren * 2ourt of the United States, Court of laiirs Court of Comrnissiomrs of Alabama lainis'. Southern Claims Commission, an a class es of war claims before the Exe . ve De partments. Arrears of Pay and Bot * y. Officers, soldiers, and sailors of be late war or their heirs, arc in many c es en titled to money from the Governra t rf which they hare Xoknowfedge. Wr .te full history of seriee, and state amount of pay and berontv teethed. Enclose stamp. And a fuFl reply, after examination will ha given you Lee. Pensions. All officers, soldiers, and sailors wound ed ruptured, or injured in tho la*- war however slightly, can obtain a , nriou.' many now receiving pensions are ititled to an increase. Send stamp and i orma tion will be furnished free. United States General Land tfdre Contested land cases, private land c s iuing pre-emption and homestead rosecuted before the General Lana c nd Department of the Interior Old Bounty Land Warrants. The last report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office shows 2 807 600 of Bounty Land Warrants outstanding Ihesc were issued under act of 1865 an 1 prior acts. We pay cash for them. Send by registered let ter. Where assigns ont are imperfect we give instruction* to per fect them. r Each department of our business is con ducted in a separate bureau, under the charge of experienced'lawyers and clerks l?y reason of error oi fraud many attor neys are suspended from practice before the I elision and other offices eaeb year Claimants whose attorneys have Wen th‘ n , suspended will be grah itoariy furnished with full information and rope* papers on application to us. " As we charge uo fees unless successful stamps for return pes'age should be sent Liberal arrangements made with attor* lieys in all branches of buginefin Address GILMORE & CO Box 44, C. Washington, D. 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