The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-06
HIS LUCK In HORSES.
BILL NYE TELLS ABOUT VARIOUS
ANIMALS he OWNED.
He Began by Dealing in Mules, and
Wound Up by Giving a Brute in
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man who buys him, sometimes. | bought
some horses during the past year. Shall l
speak of it here for the benefit Of those who
are on the eve of purchasing good, kind.
sound, young horse, or pair of those for
home use! have succeeded at this writing
in getting very excellent pair of steeds, so
that now if had good road to drive them
on l would be almost happy.
Allow me to digress fora moment while
speak of the wagon road of North Caro-
lima. The system has been a bad one for
some years, especially in the western part
of the state. For that reason the roads
have been practically impossible a good
deal of the year. The Asheville and Hem
Jacksonville road, for instance, is kept now
IN the same repair that the road is from
Zanzibar to Lake Victoria Nyanza. 1t was
formerly a toll road and though the tolls
were used mostly for personal expenses by
the owners of the road, the bill was always
made out for those who desire TO rided over
the route.
THE ROAD sTREwN WITH BONES.
l speak thus plainly of these roads, hop
ing that it may result In great good to those
who live thereon. At present the road above
referred to is simply an ill-kempt trail,
along which are strewn the wrecks of busted
vehicles and the bones of people whose
necks have been dislocated in trying to ride
over them and who have been left alone to
die. Though public road of great inn
portance, very few people drive over it I'M
less under the influence Of liquor.
There are places on this road where
mountain springs soak up through the road
bed, and have done SO for centuries, while
the roadmaster has been waiting for them
to dry out. The result is that stone boat
is the only vehicle which will safely make
the trip. Hitch two-year- heIfer with
claY-bank mule, and then on the lead put
a lavender jackass, and if you are careful
driver you may take your children to
Asheville, but if not you will surely be
short two or three on the way home. Lots
of North Carolina families have only eleven
or twelve children left out of possible
twenty, owing to the condition OF the roads.
This reckless outlay of children it seems to
me, il nothing else, should teach US to i'm.
prove our roads.
HE IS EXEMPT FROM BURGLARIES.
Twas saying the other day that after a
pretty general knowledge Of North Caro-
lima for five or six years | was astonished TO
notice that there had been no buFglaries
within my observation. This is reniarka-
bic, especially to me. for have lived where
burglary was not unc ommon, and where
have suffered myself, having lost a silver
plated butter di6h in that way eight years
ego also what butter we had in the house
butter dish. l also shot a burglar, eleven
years ago. who was breaking into my resi-
dence, but he had only 80 cents on his per
son at the time, and even that the coroner
took away from me on the following day.
The burglar has it all his own way at the
north, but here in North Carolina, where
the mosquito never lives and the politician
never dies, burglary is a capital offense. All
burglars over IL years Of age are executed.
This tends to turn the attention of bright
young burglars toward politics
never felt so secure before IN my life. l
leave my large, massive, solid silver watch
On the escritoire every night now, whereas
l used to put it under the mattress. II is a
very comfortable feeling, assure you. OF
course chickens are not safe, especially dur
ing a colored revival.
REVEALS AND THE CHICKEN Roosr.
l do not wish to be misunderstood regard
ing this matter, but was told on the start
by deyout Christian of the Caucasian race,
that If cared anything for my 'broilers'
would watch them most carefully during
colored revival for at that time the more
earnest" negroes were all so torn I'D In
their minds that they could not work at all
during the day, aud the revival took all the
night, or nearly so. Therefore, when the
pangs OF hunger and the rumblings and
retchIngs OF a sin sick soul had been prey
ing on an ordinary colored man for week
or ten days he was hollow clean into the
ground, and his better Judgment didn't
stand any chance whatever.
got some chickens when | first came
here. Some Of them had cholera. but did
not know 1t ct first. Quite number of the
chickens were almost Immediately stolen.
but three OF them were not. They seemed
to be spared as monuments of African
mercy. Finally found that it was because
they had the cholera. Come down and see
us some time. l don't mind killing the last
ben in the house when company comes. P.
S,-Brlng some butter with you: ours might
keep you awake nights.
POPULAR TO BAY HORSES.
But we we're speaking Of the horse
mans best friend l began fifteen years
ago by owning a little pack jack called
Boomerang. He cost me IS, but 1 was poor
and could not buy horse. Also it was un-
popular to get one in any other way. II
you got one in any other way, in the
language of the vigilance committee, the
community generally threw in q halter at
its own expense.
Boomerang was bright young ass. with
a dark cross on his back and a sawbuck sad.
die on which | used to pack sidepork and
other tidbits to tempt my appetite and
tickle my palate while prospecting for gold
in the bowels Of the earth. Also 1 carried
salt with which to salt my mines il found
might get too gamey.
Boomerang bad no home ties. IL he had,l
any relatives they did not correspond with
him. He and l grew up together on the
Medicine Bow range; almost like bows and
girls together, you might say. But he was
not happy. Sometimes l thought possibly,
as he got to knowing me better, perhaps / |
was disappointment to him. He acted
that way. Anyhow he would sob and cry
while he thought l was asleep, many aud |
many night.
HIS LUCK WITH Yellow FEVER.
After that 1 got more forehanded, and
when got the first payment on one of my |
justly celebrated picked mines l bought a |
mule called Yellow Fever This mule was !
sold to me as good, kind family mule, and |
l intended to raise yet other mules for the |
market. Yellow Fever was almost always |
fatal, however, no matter where she broke |
out. Our first grave on Vinegar Hill was |
taken charge Of by man who partially |
reached the tail of Yellow Fever. She is |
still alive but childless No little feet |
patter about her corral. No little croupy |
voices salute the silent night in her simple |
home.
Five years later l bought an American |
horse off a comparative stranger. He was |
a spirited horse, with a piercing eye on the |
side where l stood. o, he was a corker.
He had lots of pop and enterprise and high |
purposes into him, also bright red nostrils, |
and he was checked up real high. The man |