The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-11


is sorry, ard pays for enough cheap cigars
to 20 around. But some lines the gro IN
is stubborn. Charley Bio and Al Bald
win, two commercial trave ers from Spring
vile, fell in with such groom once, only
1t was over in GAINESVILLE, in Ozark, another
border county
The young man was from Arkansas, of
course and he vowed he would die or kill
somebody before he would be compe led to
say he was sorry, even If the expression
didn't mean anything He'd smelled pow
der and heard bullets whistle as he fed
with his sweetheart. That is not an I'M
| usual condition of affairs in this country,
but it made an impression on him that de-
termined him to resist the "ballers" He
stood the racket bravely. The upper half
of the windows of his room at the hotel
were shot out, the pieces of glass covering
the bed completely. The powdered glass
was mixed with powdered plaster plenty
The boys got a ladder and proposed TO
charge up it and drag the young man out.
He shouted, when he heard the ladder, that
they'd better not try to break in,
for it would be lawful to shoot them,
and he'd do it. So they abandoned that
Finally at about midnight the racket
ceased for a short time The hosts were in
consultation. They had hit upon plan.
One of the boys went to the store aid got
half pound of red pepper, another got an
young mans room, bored hole through
the flooring, laid there, and poured the
pepper through that hole and down through
the bullet holes in the clustering into the
room. That fetched the groom and his
bride both. He gave 1t up, and sad he was
sorry, and treated the crowd, like man, to
two cigars each, instead of one. They were
so tickled over their success that they
bought the best cradle the town aft 9rded
next morning, aud, filing it with fixings
for housekeeping, gave them to the young
couple with the usual speech-making in
which the heart Of the MiSsourian delights
There are all sorts Of girls in the Ozarks
just as there are in other regions, but there
are more attractive ones here in proportion
to the number of people than in most
regions As co impaired with the mountains
of West Virginia and eastern kentucky.
for instance, the OZarks are away ahead
II is different people here, anyhow. Along
the Big Sandy the men shoot each other
from the brush; here they jump ''out into
the clear" in some way, and, although the
quickest man lives, the man who dies has
bad some sort of chance for his life. The
quick fellows pistol might have
failed to work, for instance.
Naturally daughters Of men who
scorn to take a mean advantage have
somewhat of the characters of their fathers.
and their characters show in their faces
L ne CIluldU0 tlDSS IuuCu LOT U06m also, and
there is an air of robust health due to
open-air mountain life, that compensates
for any lack Of knowledge of social require
ments. They are not only handsome aud
well formed, but they are vivacious and
affectionate. They have a frankness of
speech that though somewhat likely to be
misunderstood by a stranger at first, is
nevertheless one of the characteristics that
makes them charming.
Thare are hOwavar dra vvbacke 20 oo,,r4
ship when carried on by a stranger. Among
these are the differences in language. A
New Yorker, for instance, on coming here
and talking to a young lady, would be very
apt to say II beg pardon" if he failed to
hear something that she had said. That
would be a 'stunner" for the Ozark girl,
as she would say She could not comDre-
bend an apology when no offense had been
committed, so far as she knew. IL she
failed to understand something which he
said she would say inquiringly, "HuhF' That
might be a sumner to the New Yorker. IT,
after proper acquaintance, he should fool
ishly ask for instead of taking kiss, she
would say, sharply: "Huh-ub," with
downward infection in the voice equaIled
only by the downward tendency of her esti-
mate of the young man. But should he
win her heart and ask her some evening if
she loved him as much as she did the even
ing before, she would close her full red lips
into the p ettlest pout imaginable aud muir
muir sweetly:
"Um-hum-m-m, I love you a sight,
dearle.n
Another drawback to an Ozark courtship
is the necessity of being quick with gun.
In the Ozarks 1.-The gum is a big revolver.
Not that Ozark lovers must always or even
commonly fight for their swsrthearts. But
they must always be prepared TO do SO.
The Ozark girl fears neither man nor beast.
4 - Il l.
the man who flunked even for one instant,
No New Yorker without long practice, not
even the skilled patrons of Conlins shoot
ing gallery, could live through an Ozark
shooting match, and it would be uncom-
Portable, if heroic. to die even for an Ozark
girl, especially as she would be sure to
marry the survivor.