The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-05
Brave Living.

That thunder shower was one of the
worst things of its kind ever took II
nand in
Would you replenish your glass and
tell us the details?" asked the heavy
man, politely,
ut was in the winter of 40 said the
stranger, stirring his glass rehectively.
I'D heerd there was good deal o.
walnut timber in them sections, and I
was keen to get H. So me and my son
took steamer and went up on the
Northern Coast, where no white man
had ever been before. AS soon as we
landed we knowed we had struck it rich.
Gentlemen, there was millions of acres,
all cut and ready for the market"
"Might enquire who cut itp' inter-
rogated the heavy man, solemnly.
You say no white man had ever been
there"
"The polar bears had gnawed it off
searching for honey!' replied the
stranger calmly.
600 on with your thunder shower
well, as | was telling you, We
started right in, and in three weeks we
were richer than any eight men in the
states. There was no end to the luck!
Everything went our way from the start.
We had all the logs down on the dock
and were only waiting for the boat to
come and take us Off when seen
clouds making to north ard and | know
ed 1t was going to settle in for thick
weather. l told my son to look ont,
aud in less than half an hour there
broke the doggondest storm I ever seed.
Rain! Why gentlemen, it rained SO
hard into the muzzle Of my gun that it
busted the derned thing at the breech!
Yes, sir! And the water began to rise
on us, too. Talk about your floods
down south! Why, gentlemen. the water
rose so rapidly in our house that it
flowed up the chimney and streamed
800 feet up in the air! We got it both
ways that "trip, up and down."
'Do we understand that you are re-
Ating facts within the scope OF your
own experience demanded the heavy
man, with his mouth wide open.
Partially mine and partially my
sons. answered the unabashed strang-
er. HE watched it 90 up, and watch
ed 1t come down! But YOU can get
some idea of how it rained when | tell
you that we put out n barrel without
any heads into it, and it rained into the
bungholc of that barrel faster than it
could run out at both cnds!'
(Which Of you saw thatP' inquired
listener.
eve each watched an end, my son
and me, y returned the stranger. 'I'm
telling you about n storm now, gentle
men. But the worst Of all was the
lightning. 1t wasn't in streaks, it just
stood still in one flash, and when il got
through. you should have taken look
at that timber That timber was chop
ped into the finest saw-dust you ever
got your eye on! Fine Us snuff. Wasn't
a stick left half an inch long! You never
saw anything like III There was over
Sl2,OOO,OOO.OO0 gone! We thought wo
might save the saw-dust to mix paint
with and save a couple o. million out
OF the wreck, but while we was think
ing that over, the wind sprang up, and
then there was music I've seen some
wind in my time but no such wind as
that ever blowed before or anywhere
else' Well You can get an imperfect
notion Of how that wind blew. when
tell you that II bowed that saw.dust
right back into its former shape, and
when that storm passed of, there stood
them trees just where they stood before
tho bees got after them.