The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-19
Uncle Gaba's Troubles.

The scene opens in q San Francisco
lodging house, where Il lot Of drovers arc
preparing for bed, among whom is Tn.
Gle Gabe, the genius Of the crowd
Thirty years ago was a tolcrable
young man and lived in Texas, and in
| the summer OF 1912, some folks moved
out thar from Eas, Tennessee, old friends
OF ourn, and they had three likely gals,
the Oldest Of which had kinder hank.
ering artcr back in the old State. Well.
they had been out here five or six weeks
aiorc heard of it, but the Sunday after
determined would strike out, / bought
me pair Of ten dollar pants and q fancy
ready.made shirt Of 4 jew.
1t were all Of thirty miles to my gals
house, and a. ] started late didn't make
It till late, and nothing to eat since
breakfast arrived tolerabc wollish.
They had just got into new double
log house, the end they were living in
was ali dobbcd and chinckcd, but the
other end only had The roof on. The old
man helped me put up my mustang pony
and we went up to the house.
Well ! was kind Of bashtu and so,
down in the chimney corner, and rite
along the side OF me sot n long handled
trying pan, the kind they use on the
plains you know. got to running first
one finger and then another in the hole
IN the handle, and ut last got my mid
die finger in and fast, and couldn't get
it out. for pulled and ,yca,ed, but it
wcrn't no use, it were there. Just then
they asked me to &c, up to supper but
| said had eat late dinner and wcrnt a
bit hungry, but Lord were orfu hun
cry, and grub cooking made me wuss.
| ,t |
finger outen the hole We'll, talked to
my gal till about 10 o'clock, then she
showed me a bed in the unfinished end
| of the house where turned in for the
| balance of the night tOlcrable happy and
miscrably hungry. The wind blowcd in
through the cracks between The logs on
my head pretty cold, so took my new
cashmere pants and stuck in the crack
and l went TO sleep. was woke up in
morning by hearing the gals getting
breakfast, 80 though youlh get up,
and reached for my .uts in the cracl;
but they wcrn'. there, SO . thought they
had dropped outen the crack and | riz
up and looked thro'-and cu>s my old
buttons If some young calves hadn't
found them and chawcd them all to
pieces.
Pretty soon one Of the gals come to the
door and asked me to get ready and come
to breakfast, but told her was sick
and couldn't cat. nt the same time
could have en-, briled dorg, just then.
They all eat ther grub and the gals
went TO milk, and | could look through
the crack and see them when they got
thro' milking, and then they come back
and sot the milk buckets inside the back
door of my room, at the foot Of the bed,
and went back to part the cows from the
calves 30 thinks, |, now is my chance to
get good drink of milk, out of bed l
jumped and gathered big wooden buck
ct by each side, and was just letting it
run down my throat when the pail drop.
ped back over my head, and heard the
gals coming. | knowed | was in bad
fix, 80 | stood my ground-open come
the door, in pranced sll three OF the gals
for the buckets, and they did not appear
to see the show until they got purity close
to me, then they give little yell and q
whist. and was by myself; then give
the bucket twist and got it off my neck
and kicked it under the bed, and crawled
back in my nest.
Purity soon the old man come in and
told him of all my miserable luck, and
tho old sinner just laid down, rolled over
and LATED Mt me, but he lent me pair
OF pants, and they was HI much too big
rs my shirt was too little. got my
mustang pony to start home, when they
asked me to call again, but did not.
| went home and eat enough to make me
sick fur week, but got over it, and
lit out for kalifornin, and | don. &c
much on milk, young calves, ETC., since
that notable scrapc.
"A young lady made narrow es.
} cape ut :: i;ra in New York few nights
since. About half ni hCI back hair was
burned. Fortunately she was not in The
house at the time, having put on hel
other hair and left the house only half
an hour before the fire broke out.
|. kAHoKA, Mo-. Feb. Q, 1880.
, purchased five bottles of your Hop
Bitters of Bishop & Co. last fall, for my
, daughter, and am well pleased with the
, Bitters. They did her more good than
all the medicine she has taken for six
years. WM. II. MCCLURE.
The above is from very reliable far.
mer, whose daughter was in poor health
for seven or eight years, and could ob.
tain no relief until sne uAed Hop Bitters.
She is now in rs good health az any per.
sun III thc Couutry. we nave large
sale, and they ar, making remarkable
cures. W. II. BISHOP & Co.
= They were speaking of n young lady
who sings beautifully, and one Of the
party asked "Is she mezzo soprano 2"
; mo, guess not. think she is a
Swcde," was the innocent reply Of high
school girl.
Puny, weak, and sickly children are
made healthy and strong by using
Browns Iron Bitters.
"A young man married against the
wishes OF his parents, and in telling a
friend how to break the news to them
said: Tell them first that l nm dead,
and gently work up the climax"
= A little boy was out with his big