Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-11-30
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Where Judges and Grave scnssers nance ''Oid Dan Tucker'' with Boyish zesf.

Where Judges and Grave senasess uanes
 ''oid Dan Tucker" with Boyish Fest.
 Il have just come from Crab
 Orchard Springs, Ky.,n said Ralph
 Walderson, of Boston. ''I go there
 for brief spell, not so much for the
 benefit of the water as to enjoy the charming society of the place. It is
 unlike any health or pleasure resori
 on the continent. 1t Is a yeritsbls
 landmark in all it's characteristics, Crab Orchard is patronized nearly exclusively by Kentucfians, and there you see the pretty bluegrass woman and the vigorous bluegrass man at their best There are nc frills or furbelows about them. They represent all thatis best and noblest in Kentucky life and manners. None of your insolence of wealth CT arro- gance of position do you sec there. Everything Is old fashioned. without the least show of ostentation. The class of Kentuckians who patronize the place belong to the old reeine, and the warmth of their hospitality imparts to every phase of life a genial glow that does not character ize another summer resort of this country.
 ''I was there one summer when Senator Vest, of Missouri, and Jus tice Harlan, of the United States su- preme court, both Kentuckdans. visited the Springs, as Is their GUS tom every year. The chief dance and one from which more genuine pleasure is extracted than from all your new fangled 'Newports,' 'Bos- ton dips, etc.-is old Dan Tucker. Everybody, old and young, induiges in 1t with heartiness that is inspir. ing. Now in old Dan Tucker there must always be one more gen tleman than there are ladies, and that's where the fun comes in At the end of the set there Is a mighty rush and scramble by the men for a lady partner to escort of tho floor. One night Mir. Justice Harlan and Senator Vest were in the same set, at the end of which they found themselves in a terrible predicament as things go in Old Dan Tucker for the unlucky man who gets left by the ladies Is in sad plight indeed.
 When the last figure had been danced and the Senegambian 'prompter' called promenade to your seat the United States senator and the associate justice of the su- preme court found themselves rivals for the favor of the same lady, de hghtfully plump little creature in blue. Each, without knowing of the others predicament, made a pro found bow to her majesty, and when they straightened up the embarrass- ing situation was disclosed to them. The lady, with a grace indescribable, declined to pass upon the point at issue, and 1t is positively against the rules of Old Dan Tucker for two gentlemen to walk sf the floor with one lady. The situation grew more interesting every second, for the crowd was standing around tittering, while Vest and Harlan blushed and stammered like country boys at frolic.
 Finally the Missouri senator grab bed the lady by both hands and bore her triumphantly from the room, leaving Justice Harlan standing in the middle of the room the picture of despair and embarrassment. But Harlan got even with Vest the next evening, and the two distinguished sons of Kentucky left Crab Orchard horse and horse in the matter of Old Dan Tucker honors and penal ties. h-St Louis Globe Democrat.