The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05
a M ORMIN" STORY.
PICKED UP IN THE NORTH CAR'LINY
MOUNTAINS.

Plucky Young Women Beat the
Game of a Rascally stspfather -
Pathetic as Well as an Amusing
Story.
ESTAroE CREEK, n. c., Oct. L-Aftel
riding some 600 miles during August anc
September through the widest, nlost beau
tiful and picturesque country 1T has ever
been nv lot to see, ! am now set out on the
road that will take me home. There ara,
however, some 400 miles yet to be made
before l rest: the route lies directly through
the country of 10" and the names Of
Standing Indian, Vengeance Creek, Blood
Rock, Hanging Dog and Chunky Gal con
front me.
60 now directly to Qualletown, the
priucipal Sc tlement Of the North Carolina
Indian reservation. Myself aud my black
mare Phoebe 90 alone; but like Poll Sherl-
dan I've are not afraid" OF discomforts
can encounter none III IRE formidable than
have already experienced, of dangers there
are none, have reduced my baggage 70 u
minimum and am always sure OF bite
aud a sup for myself and Phoebe at some
wayside cabin.
l long most earnestly TO see the noble red
man on this section of Lis native heath.
havo seen him in the west, where somehow,
he seems more appropriate. but this odd lit
tie pocket of aboriginalism-to coin word
for the occasion-here in the midst of alien
usurpers, in the midst OF a civilization that
has grown over a~d around If, as the bark
of a tree grows over tle nail driven int Its
trunk. ought to be somethng 10 philoso-
phize and wonder over. 1t IS likely shall
find him as soiled in ralment, as pronounced
in his dist ste for water for any purpose as
II crix RI
loauacity or likely to satisfy my curiosity
concerning him. We shall see.
| came to-day upon romance, ready
made TO a novelist's hand. Phoebe and |
had Jared on all morning under gray skies
and came at noon, in burst of repentant
sunshine, to a tiny cabin perched on "a spur
of Big Black mountain, overlooking one OF
the mos. wonderful views Of this wonderful
country.
Nv customary "hello" brought out n
woman with baby in her arms, who said
could get some dinner.
she hustled in the house to get me some
thing to ea,, a merry, resolute little body
with great head Of the reddest hair ever
saw, .'tip-Jilted" nose and a mouth that
was continually smiling and left me to
talk to an old woman smoking pipe on the
porch, whom she addressed as NAV"
Your daughter don't look like the noun
q little. Nav, said the old woman who
showed traces of having been typical
mountain beauty, her thick. half gray hair
having still n riotous crinkle and wave that
filed me with envy
Nav her paw wuz yankee soldier. |
mary'd him enjurin' Of the wah, en- all my
folks lowed he'd desart me, but he never.
Jist lived hyer ayfter the wah tell Biddy,
he named her Bridget after his NAV, was
bout yer ole. an then died Off" As the
woman in the house began TO siGg noun
tain hymn in a mellow contralta put two
and two together. "Ycur husband must
have been an Irisbmau,n / said NAV"
she answered, 'he wuz yaukee-cum rum
up nawtn," and seem TO think she had set
tied his nationality conclusively.
While l was eating my dinner l noticed
hung on the wall of the cabin pair of fine
buclxskin riding gloves, embroidered in col
ored silks l have pair almost exactly
like them at home sent me from Utah by
friend, and was of course surprised to see
anything of the sort here Ny surprise
increased when, asking the old woman in
regard to them, she replied, II brung 'em
FUN Salt Lake City,"
suppose 1 must have looked impolitely
astonished and inquisitive, for she chuckled
softly and said: ''Ye didu't low I'd ever
bin 50 fur frum home, did yea Well, bin
thar, an lived in Tennessee fer two YER
too"
Ny face must have continued to express
the liveliest curiosity, for she went on: "If
ye'd like to hyer how | come to go thar I'll
tell ye bout it while yer restin' Ayfter
Bid6y's paw died / lived hyer for nigh six
yer. l wuz n only chile. an this yer fahm
was mine. You'll say / didn't hev no call
to may no mo, an | didn't, but er man
come up hyer from Tenn-essee, an he fairly
pestered me till tuck i'm. His name was
Sively," abiding to him in the same imper-
sonal way in which she had mentioned her
first venture.
81 mayr'd him an we rented out this
place and went down to live in Tenn-ss Sec
That there fahm 'er his tibet he'd Dragged
so much on way in the valley, an bein'
mountain born an raised went ter chiilin'
fust thing. Crops wus bad for some sevrul
yers, an we run benint. am ter cap ALL thet
man had ter git fever an lay fiat or his
back fer six months. Biddy and mo made
the crop thet year. Biddy was fo'teen an
fine, well-growed gal.
thine he got up en- ter creepin' round
ergin he got terrible tuck up 18th some new
preachers t come thru. We represent the
church NV our Lawd NV Latter Day Saints
SEE the preacher ez bold ez brass fust time
byrd i'm preach.
'Thet's no mo- ner less then sayin' Nor
min, seq |, ter Sivelv. ez we wuz goin
home. We jawed about tibet businiss bac
en- fo'th fer nigh YER. He'd hev them ell
6ers. ez they called themsefs, come en- tall
ter me an tell whut fine kentry Youtau
wuz. en- whut fine religin' the Latter Day
Saints wuz, en- how they ed the last wurt
f'om Gawd, an all thet, an nary wur,
bout hevin' morn one wife
''They needn't do thet, they sed, less'r
they pleased ter.
"'Huh,' seq I. 'I'd like ter $50 tier oh
onery man thet wouldn't please ter-bu
the wimmin-air yer so pottickler ter ge
Their cornsint"
well, / was all broke down with chills
an hard work, an Sively lowed we'd b,
rich out Their an cud make q lady outer
Biddy-he wuz alwuz powerful sot or
Biddy-an' tn eend ont all wuz that w,
went.
Pm boun' ter say them Mormins don,
ez they said bout lenden' Nv us money tel
start weth an agriculcha1 Instruments an
SIGH, an we done we'll, though never die
git back my strength.
"When we'd bin thar risn' two year
Sively come from church one Sunda,
evenin' an said they @uz layin' off ter maxi
i'm deacon er a elder er SIGN, an the
fu'thermo' they he'd picked out man fe
Biddy.
81 wuz plumb 'shamed ter say word gi,
that, fer she wus turned II year, an W
alwuz said L home tibet or gal t wuzn'
mayr'd by IS. er didn't hey her pegs So
fur't by thet time, wuzzent gointer git no
dody.