The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19

AMONG INCONSISTENCIES.
4 TRAVELLER IN THE CUMBERLAND
RANGE HAS TO PROVE UP.

4 Philosophical CeiersA Boy-Halssa By
Mountainser-Ths Process OF Prov
ing Up"-Grim Possibilities of Being
Shot Before Identi6catien.
As was to take q short cut over q
spur of the Cumberland mountains in
northern Tennessee hired colored boy
about Is years OF age to 60 . part Of the
distance with me. He had solemn,
serious look, md / soon discovered that
he was a philosopher. / had been tod
that there were moonshinEs in the Cum
berlands, and that the cnances were /
would be stopped and sharply investi-
gated. When ready to part from the
youth, asked:
do You think I'll meet any moon
shinersg"
dat depends, sah.7
"On WHAT"
"On whedder somebody hidin' behind
de bresh or rocks doan' pop you ober be-
TO you kin meet. If he'un's gun hangs
fab yo'un viii probably meet"
1t was q hot day in July, but asked
him if he thought the weather would
hold. and he looked at the sky and re-
piled:
Dean want to say, sab. II you
should hold, you'n wouldn't give me no
credit; and if it should snow, yoc'n
would cuss me all day. Good day, sab.
Keep to the right arter you cross de
branch. If dat doan' bring you out. den
cum back an keep TO de left"
had gone about mile when the trail
branched, and after debating tho case
/ took the right hand again and went
forward, with the comfortable feeling
that had half of big state at my per-
sonal disposal to get lost in.
IN A STRANGE PLACE.
The path suddenly ended, and about
that time a mountaineer stepped from a
thicket on my left and confronted me,
and inquired:
"Whar from, stranger"
/ told him.
what you'n doin' hyar:"
Travelling"
Look hyarr' he said, as he came near
er. 'sYou's kin either prove up or ys
can't"
That's So"
sYou's either ali right or you's cum
fussin'."
"Well?'
"Kip We prove upT'
"I'll try"
"Then walk along"
He walked beside me, or behind me.
through thickets and over rough ground
to shanty just at the mouth Of ravine.
There was man, q woman and boy OF
- there, and my nose detected the odor
of a still. The three people mentioned
stood at the door as we came up, and the
man queried of my conductor:
who's he'uns'
"Gwine ter prove up
sat down on a rock, and, leaving the
boy to watch me, the other three with
drew a few yards and held a consu
ton. This lasted about five minutes.
and when they returned the man who
had captured me said:
eve 'uns is agreed on it. You's either
revenue or not. You's kin prove up or
ye can't"
"Can any of you readT' asked.
I'VE kin or we can't" replied the
woman, who was smoking plug tobacco
in clay pipe.
well. perhaps you've heard nf - al
MonroeY
"We mought or we moughtn't," re-
piled the husband of the womso-
PROVING UP.
"WeIl, here's a line from him. II
you are moonshiners you have sold him
whisky, and know him to DO all right.
Here's my card, here are letters addressed
to me at Monroe, and you can overhaul
my knapsack."
They couldn't read line Of writing,
and put up job to catch me. After
consulting together bit the woman said
What did you say he'uns first name
was-George or William
Neither one; it's Henry"
"And does he'un live In single oil
double log house,?
I'm a frame house"
(Which eye is he'm blind in?'
Neither one. Come, now, he's big
feshy man, wears long whiskers, Is bald
on top of the head. and has front tooth
out. His wife is q little cross eyed wo-
man and has two children"
That settled il, and was at once giyer
a bite to eat and told TO mako myself Al
home. / had some tobacco for the mar
and pins and needles for the woman, and
the present Of harmonican Sc. the boy
wild with delight
"'Sposin' you'n had shot he'un dowr
thar suggested the woman to my cap
tor.
Then he'un would hev bin dead, o.
co'se," he calmly replied.
By and by the men went up to attend
the still. and the woman unrolied the pa
per of pins to the Last row, opened th.
paper Of needles. and, placing tho two
spooIs Of thread beside them, she called
to the boy:
Danny, cum hy'ar."
"Yaas"
'Look in my eyes
"Yaas."
as fighty!7
''Skeercely, ma'am-'
well. TIE either f.ighsy or the inches
woman On these yere mountain, an
wish pop would hurry back an tell u,
whichf-Detroit Free Press.
The Other Thing.
an Iowa Justice Of the peace didn1
actually fine man I'll fer declarin: