Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
HUNTING I'M ARKANSAS.
The Record Of the Christian County
Hunting Club.
BY AUSTIN PEAY.
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Is riding high through clOudles
sky, and the mist that rises from thu
lake is of the hue of old gold
through which the beams Of the sun
reflected in the dancing waves
pierce like flaming lances.
Sunday, when we sit and moralize
and scan our neighbours deeds with a
telescope eye, and see our owr
through glass darkly. Does Sun
day ever come in Arkansas ? l have
heard it disputed, but l believe il
does, but no one ever knows it,
Mans calendar alone procIaim5 the
fact. Nature is God here, and these
mighty forests, with their broad eX,
panse and gloomy depths, and the
deep canons which overflDWing
waves have cut, are silent and ever
present memorials. How true the
old MOhamedan war cry, "Alhh
Ackbar." God is great, and nature
is His hand maiden.
Take the religion Of Jesus Christ,
as laid down in the bible and written
by the Masters hand, and shorn OF
the sophistries, additions and dog
mas which priests and cericals have
attached to ii, and how simple and
all sufficient it is for mans saliva
ton. And our Savior, even without
his divine attributes, is the lovelrsi
character in any history of tine,
either sacred or prOttne.
How the sun does shine, and how
warm and glowing Our cook is
abroad in the land and is preparing "a
dinner for this Sunday which shah
eclipse all his previous efforts This
boy is born discipline OF Demon
leo. His name il Harry. Ii ne has
any surname it has never been pub
lished, at least to me. H. is a man
and brother in whose veins the bl Oh
of several races struggle for the mas
terry, and the compromise has been a
curiosity. He is tall and gangling,
with pronounced leaning toward
the dude; wears his hair in bangs at
the front and bold p thWay through
the center, and has a moust tche, s.
young and i'll defined that one won.
ders what will be the future outcome,
and to all this add a constantly sa
and plaintive air and you have the
tout ensemble Of as rare "A specimen
of the genus Africanus as one ever
saw And can he cook ? Friend,
come over some d Y aud he will give
you meal that will bring to your
Imagination fpa5t5 from the Nocles
Ambrosi1n. He is cook from old
Kentucky, and the only consolation
you have in finishing breakfast is
the knowledge that dinner and sup
per are yet to come
Letters just come in from home.
God bless old Kentucky ami all her
noble and generous people is the
prayer of one who loves them well.
Amid the crown jewels Of this Union
Kentucky is the Kohinore. and to
me the gem that flashes brightest
there is the one that glitters to the
name Of Kentucky.
Our good friend, Mr. sam LemoX,
came into camp this evening and we
were truly glad to welcome him
The moon in eclipse, and we have
splendid presentation as she sails
over the lake.
The Captain with CaudIe and Bar
ker went over the Arkansas river
prospecting, and report much sign
and saw four deer.
Monday Nov. l5,-Ed. Drane kill
ed fifteen fine mallard ducks, and
Garnett and Lowry also brought in
some from Hand Lake Lowry
killed one 40 yards with his Win
chester.
Carlos, White, Barker and yei
scribe each killed a wild goose.
We got seine from Bl1kemores
and seined the shallow water of up.
per Jefferson and landed "A most re.
markable catch o. fish. We caught
seventy-five pounds of Buffalo and
drum, and ninety four gar that will
average over four pounds each-in
other words, more than thousand
pounds of fish. Among these were
some alligator gar with long heads
like the true alligator. No wonder.
you can eaten no fish Nitha hook aud
line, for these savage gar destroy the
game fish, or make life a continual
terror.
This camp is in no danger Of
famine, hut this is verify Goshen
lani
The day is damp and threatening
rain. Make the wildcat drive and
before eight o'clock have two fine
deer down. The dogs spraug three
point buck which ran TO Mr.. Parrsh,
who fired long shot at him and
sent him on to Henry Drtne. Hen
nv says he was jumping eighteen
feet at leap when he fired his first
shot and planted four blue whist r