Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-17

fifteen drops Of the cold fluid at her counte
nance. Then she shook her her head three OF
four times and went about her duties--washed
clean.
Six passengers came up to the hotel from The
wharf on the botel coach, and the males of the
party evidently imagined Il was cold, for the,
had their hats pulled down over their eyes and
their coat collars were turned up.
HOW THEY DRINK.
Leonardtown has no industries, 20 was in
formed by one of the natives, and when asked
him what the people did there he said. "well
We drink more whisky and play cards more
persistently than any other community in
Maryland" Once in great while native get
r-hArdened old darkey who haunts the
wharf when the boat is there and watches
eagerly for an opportunity to capture swal
low or two got more than he calculated on
be made q stump speech to q number OF the
passengers and was rewarded by one OF them
with thirst producer that made the old mans
eyes sparkle before he tossed it down. They
don't drink at Leonardtown; they just throw II
into the orifice and taste ii as it trickles down
into the lower system. The mixture given the
orator was composed Of about three fingers
each OF whisky and Jamaica ginger. When he
mad gulped 1t down he sat on the sand and tried
to breathe, but the boat was well out into the
river before he succeeded. The next time the
Sue came around the old man sought out Capt
Geoghegan and asked him what kind Of Q
drink that gentleman had given him.
That was genuine old rye" said the cap
tain.
''Doan want no mo- ole rye" the sufferer
CALCULATED; "pine Juice good huff fob me- Dis
yeh niggeh wuz drunk fob three DAYS an
didn't git up from de WHAT all at night Doan
want no mo- ole rye"
Yankee push Is what Leonardtown needs
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place and If it was in the north IL would be one
of the principal summer resorts. It is healthy
and has every natural advantage, but it lacks
the getup-and-dust spirit which is at the bot
tom of true success.
Breakfast filed up good deal of the interval
between Leonardtown and Piney Point, where
the boat arrived just before am. The Point
is quite pretty this season and rejoices in
numerous brilliantly white buildings, several
flags and large assortment of trees with white
washed trunks. Several of the pretty girls who
are stopping at the hotel came out to greet the
Few new arrivals and to smile at those who
were unfortunately booked through to Balti
more. Here, as at all other landings. the
steamer receiveda good deal Of freight The
bulk OF the cargo shipped from Piney Point
was tobacco; it was in homemade hogsheads
which contain from 600 to 800 pounds each
The tobacco business as conducted in this part
of Maryland is, as DAndreary so truthfuly and
so frequently remanked of other matters, lone
Of those things WHICH no fellah can find out y
Everybody in all the region round about knows
that it does not pay to raise the weed. but they
keep on doing II just as regularly as though
there was fortune in every seasons crop.
TYPICAL FARMER.
have an unfortunate way of poking my nose
into other peoples business, and was bound
to find out why men who are apparently sane
will insist on sinking themselves and their
farms i'll a slough of mortgages which ulti-
mately must swallow up so many homesteads;
SO drew young farmer into conversation on
the subject and found him to be a most lntelli-
gent and delightfully."- frank specimen OF his
class. He had some tobacco on board which
was being taken around to Baltimore to be sold
1t was poor grade, he said, and he did not
expect to realize more than ~ cents pound.
he was not bit unhappy. ''All we want" said
he, sis a comfortable living, and that the most
of US get. We raise a little corn or wheat, a
fair quantity of vegetables, and a good
deal Of fruit. and with the exception of
the fruit, most Of it is only for consumption at
home. The river provides us with solid mate
rial for breakfast, dinner and supper-all the
fish and oysters anybody wants--and what to-
bacco we raise provides us with about enough
money to buy guano for the next year and per-
haps to pay the interest on a mortgage or two.
If you can afford to hire lots of labor then you
can raise superior grade Of tobacco, but there
is no money even in that. know a man who
has big family of boys. all hard workers;
they are doing very well and reckon they are
laying up money. III our land didn't need SO
much fertilizer we might make living off to-
bacco or wheat, but with low prices for both
products, distant markets and heavy guano
bills we are like the frog in the WELL who
climbed up one foot during the day and slipped
back two feet each night"
THE CONCLUSION.
During the day talked with a number of
and Virginia shores. There was only one con-
clusion to come to when the evidence was all
in. and that was that the country is in a worse
condition today than it was ten years ago.
Large tracts of land are held by people who
will neither rent nor sell and who are COM
PEELED to work at some trade or profession in
order that they may be able to pay the taxes on
their holdings. There is less activity and more
whisky on the Maryland side than in Virginia,
but neither of the shores are prospering as they
ought. Very few of the men are there who will
not forsake the little work they may happen to
have on hand to participate in game of cards.
Woe betide the stranger who allows himself to
be drawn in, for while he may be smart
enough to hold his own with one opponent he
Is helpless as babe in the hands Of three ex-
perts who are being aided and abetted by all
the bystanders.
MUNDAYs POINT
was the first place on the Virginia side touched
by the Sue after leaving Piney Point; in fact
it was the first Virginia port entered since
Alexandria was left behind. The point is a low
but picturesque place. where L. W. Courtney
has his business headquarters. Mr.. Courtney
Is refreshingly enterprising; he deals extern
sively in fish and oysters and has a large
general store. The Columbia fishing club OF
Washington has house near the
point and for the past fifteen years the
clubs enthusiasts have visited this spot to fish
This year those members of the club who can
get away will go down to their favorite ground
on the first Sunday in September EVERYBODY
In the vicinity of the national capital has heard
OF Mundays Point oysters, and. of course
everybody will be very sorry to hear that they
are rather scarce this year. Over the oyster
beds up Yeocomlco creek went the Sue. AMI
after a devious trip, which kept the captain
at the wheel, she sided up to the
wharf at Lodge Landing. Leaning gracefully
against the store house on the wharf was col
ored girl, who is known as the Sues angel
1t may be raining cats and dogs, or there may
be heavy thunder storm in progress, or the
snow may be filling the air with its feecy chill
illness, but the angel never misses the boat
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