The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-07
WHERE PEOPLE LIVE TO SHAKE.
Pleasures OF Life in the Chilly Mississippi
Bottoms.

Arkansas Traveller.
Down in certain sections OF the Missis-
sippi river bottoms there is such an air OF
uneoncern that the first thought of a
traveller Is: These people are too lazy to
entertain hope" 1t is, however. not
wholly a condition of laziness that pro-
duces such an appearance of Incidence.
Laziness may play its part. and, moreover,
may play il we'll, but it cannot hope to as
sumo the leading role. What, then, is the
principal actor? Chills. There are men in
those bottoms who were born with chill,
and who have never shaken it off,
Some time ago, while riding through the
Muscadine neighborhood, came upon a
man sitting on a log near the roadside. He
was saliow and lean, with sharp knob
cheek bones. and with hair that looked like
soiled cotton. The day was intensely hot.
bat he was sitting in the sun. although
near him tangled grapevine cast a most
inviting shade.
Good morning" said 1, refining up my
horse
Hi"
''You live here, suppose"
Jest about"
Why don't you sit over there In the
shade?"
"Wiil when the time comes
What do you mean by when the time
comes?'i
When the fever comes on
Having chills, are you?"
"Sorter."
How long have you had themr"
Forty Odd year.
How Old are you?'
Forty odd year"
Been shaking all your life. ELI ~
Only half my life. fever was on the
other hall"
why don't you move awsv from here p,
'Because we lived here so long that I'm,
afraid might not have good health nowhar
else"
Gracious alive. do you mean to saw that
having chills all the time is good health o.,
Wall, health mout lie wtSs. Old Ma.
sarver moved up in the hills some time
ago, was tuck down putty soon with some
new sort oi disease and didn't live more'n
a week. Don't b1ieve in swoppin' off
sathin' that I'm used to for suthin | don
know nothin' about Old-fashioned. every.
day chills air good enough Io- me. Some
folks, when they git little up in the
world, mout want TO put on airs with dys-
catarrh, but as | lowed Ia my wife The
other night. old chills and fever war high
enough for us yit awhile. 4 chill NAV
have its drawbacks, bu, it has its enioy-
ments, too
can DC enjoyable.
Jest OWN 10 how YOU air raised "a Tho
Teller SAYS. When | have a chill il does
fyar 4 MON NJ
you that fus t-rate stretch when a Teller IL
IN the humor amt 10 lie sneexed at. I'd
leave waiermillion most any time 10 have
good stretch. High-o-hoo Z"
lie gaSped. threw out his legs th~aw
back hts arms and stretched himself across
the ioc.
It's sorter like the i.ch. he went on.
" The Itch has - drawtscks. but what a
power Of good it does u man IL scratch.
lie had a uncle who cotch the itch in
the army and he lay thar and scratched
ami smiled and scratched asin. In order
- keep up with the demand Of the occasion
he sprius!ed lot az sand in his bed ami
tuck OF al hls clothes, 81 that every time
lie turned he'd he scratched all over. He
KEEP this ap all the itch Killed him, bat he
died a ~cratcha' and a smilin' and reckon
- " go HNfhN* a. *afAt'lfN - tstaA man As ever
Iiycd. Wall. nay fever is conain'S on nox
an re- kon III git up thar under the
shade "
He moved into the shade and stretched
himself again.
Hos long will your fever last ~ asked
w al. / Goat know exacktv. th-es
hears. nseohy.
Then shat"
Wan, III iuaser around az bile. che,
up Lttie wood 70 e.; bite 10 eat wj,b
swap boss wita some fei.er. fnehby. an.
tacn ~ myself for another chill"
" Have yuu asagh % . family -"
Wife and Ego@n son. Hes about n
shlest cAiiiFr in tae Coaagry: wav. 81,
sc E,c' rAlc gos3 ch.H ora be can -
h-iid cf = trse aai shake OF green rersi.
s-oas- Way, be ain, al tae n,ofsrs g.
nlsEers bave s0t sAakia' dice. Wal. a.
ToE 500 20 sog"
les"
" Vast I'll nv fever eoags Down LII.
ana "a beat yea osten that nag yo.. r.
Yis.s4
Ne ,;ou q care 10 walk
"tieolsy. then Wheu vou ct tire
r.aiE ~ thar among them new-lansged