The Lincoln County herald., 1872-09-18
The Picnic u Hawk Point.
what MOnest John Saw and Heard.
HAWKS BrAK, Sept. IL.

Ira0Eht Win alI-aOsoro'nS slghlncance
to the people Of Lincoln county, and to
those who reside 10 the romantic aud
umbrageous regions Of Hawks Deak"
in particular. Agreeably to long aud
we'll understood arrangement, the peo
pie of steady habits in this and adj joining
vicini,ios, not excepting the beauty, clio
quence and intelligence Of your eater.
prising village, here met together to dis.
cuss the proper measures by which their
great enemy, "Old Rye" could most
effectually be suppressed. As is usually
the case with great and spontaneous up
rising, Of the people, the Insignificant
individual to be so rummarily wiped out,
was nowhere to be found, and as "eppo
sition is the life Of business" there was
psrforce but little l,fe hero. The FIRST
speaker, whom, unfortunately, We did not
hear, delivered, We will trust, an eloquent
and conclusive argument in favor Of the
immediate, total and unending convc
ton, suppression and demollshnent Of
the long endured and much accur.ed
criminal. After this burst of eloquent
denurciation, the meeting adjourned to
decide the case Of large pile of ediblos
and small supply of drukables, near
at hand. Judging by the interest here
, l. l.,
to have been the principal object Of the
gathering, The chickens were good, the
cakes and pies better, and the female
portion Of the gathering, to our unso
phisticated eyes, the sweetest and best Of
all. After we had done justice, or in
Justice, as you please, to the edibles, and
sufficiently, though modestly and with a
proper degree of shyness, admired the
sweet faces, and blushed meath the curl.
Gus and no doubt secretly amused smiles
of the ladies', we with the Others assem-
bed gathered meath the protecting
shade Of the scrub oak arbor, aud for
nearly two long hours submittte1 to the
dull "borlngs' of a half dozen OF so Of
the assembled eloquence of the occasion.
No doubt twas good for digestion; it
ought to be.
The 6r,t speaker began by stating that
he, like some noted speaker in times past,
had unfortunately stuck his speech into
an auger hole, and couldn't get it ou, f;
but just as the faces of the audience
were lighting up with secret thankful
ness that they were thus to escape, he
suddenly stuck his thumb and finger into
the hole, which proved to be his vest
: pocket, and drawing forth the "lost notes
proceeded to deliver an eloquent and
effective discourse upon the evils and
probable cures Of that very unpleasant
curse to down fallen humanity-lntem
perance. He vas followed promptly by
one of those pleasant, jolly, poetical
speakers, who make you laugh in spite
of yourself he began by saying that
he hadn't anything whatever to say, and
proceeded to sny it, First, he told a
funny story, laughed at 1t and made
everybody laugh to see him laugh. Then
he became poetic and scared aloft on the
winged Pegasus Of poesy in such elo-
quently poe'icAl strains as
"I'll strike at the monsters head, whatc'cr Do
And if see its tail IN give that lick, too"
Then no told the story of The boy that
they "found out was fool anyway" and
applied it to himself; and then he waxed
eloquent, and made the scrub oaks trem.
BILE like aspens in on autumnal breeze,
the sounding aisles of the dim woods
ring and the feathered denisens of the for.
est to fly away in terror at the thuudcrs
Of his eloquence, and then, with an ex-
preston like that of frightened school
boy who had "spoke his piece" he
= subsided, and was followed by an aged
and wrinklsd veteran, who frankly
admitted that the "prsvious speakers had
taken all the wind out of his sails" To
prove his assertion he made on unmis
takably windy" speech of at least half
an hour, We tremble when wo think
what we must have endured had not the
). "wlnd been taken out" He handled
those church members who favor the
prisoner on trial. "Old Rye" without
gloves or mittsns either, and compli
msnted the ladies like youth Of twenty
;, He was followed by one. who from being
an intimate friend and boon companion
of the poor absent prisoner, has become
his most invsterate foe, and goes abou,
J. the country for the sole and openly