The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-15
SARGE PLUNKETT.
The Old Man Has Been a Close Listener
During the Snow.
Atlanta Constitution.

The Old Man Has Been a Close Listener
During the Snow.
atlanta Constitution.
Brown nor couldent do much of any.
thing during the snow but listen, and we
listened.
We have known for long Time that
the moon affected the vegetable kingdom,
but it does more than that.
Boards put on a house in the new of
the moon will warp and twist I'D turn
up al the ends out of all reaps
Lay fence worm in thSdark of the
moon and the rails wilZ sink in the
ground-in the light they will lay above
ground dry and nice.
Meat killed in the light of the moon
will have no grease-it will puff and
spew but won't grease the dinner.
One of our scientific friends denied all
this and told US just how many candle
lights the moon affected the earth. This
fellow had US about convinced that the
moon wasn't nothing, but in the very
next breath be swore that she Controlled
the tides, and the tide is big thing in
| our eyes ever since we went to Savannah.
Brown swapped for "moon eyed" horse
once, and he knows what he knows, and
| so We have compromised on the moon
complications by just letting her rip-she
is older than US, if statistics be correct.
Speaking of statistics reminds me that
we had one visitor who was entirely de-
voted to this line. If he stopped in the
snow one minute he was figuring and
could tell you anything you wanted to
know about the inhabitants of the earth
and all that is therein If it has been
printed anywhere in the world within
the last forty years. This is worse NAL
ady than the moon business, we think,
for we do hate figures. A fellow came
along just after the war aud showed us
as plain as could be how We could raise
cotton to buy corn and meat just so easy.
We tried it and we haven't liked to listen
to Figuring" man from that year to
this. But this fellow last week was
harmless. He dident try to figure you
into trouble, he just wanted to show his
learning. He was great supposer along
with other things. He would auppose
this and suppose that and whirl away
aud figure like mile minute to prove
his supposings. Suppose tank of wa
ter one mile square," said he, land SUP
pose that tank had a hole at the bottom
one inch round, take the stopper out and
the water would shoot q hole into China,
or turn It and it would throw a stream
of water over to London and back again"
How he would figure as he related this
6gure and chew gum and take his spec
tacles often his nose und put 'em back
again-no harm though.
1t was pleasure for US to be relieved
from this statistical figuring man--that is
what we call him-by set of jolly col
lege boys. A set of young medical stu
dents had been given holiday and they
were out romping through the snow after
rabbits. l think the figuring man was
scared worse than any rabbit they met
that day, for as they began to pelt him
with the snowbslls his beaver hat got
lick and column after column Of little
printed statistics scattered to the breeze.
He cut the "pigeon wing" and did some
supple Topping and turning like show
folks, but the suowballs flew, and as one
took him between the eyes he grabbed
his handkerchief outen his pocket snd this
turned new supply of statistics loose to
the breeze, and he took to his heels with
the whole of the Atlanta Medical College
after him. A rabbit was scared from his
bed and this saved the figuring man.
Several States we're represented by the
young students, and here was fair race
through an open feld. The rabbit had
no chance; they soon picked him up,
but shall avoid giving the winners"
as it might be an index to character.
After the race the boys took rest,
and as I sat and liatened and looked
thought to myself of what pity it was
to spoil such fine set of plowboys. To
plow is the highest calling, in my notion,
and it made me feel sorry when I
thought of what a great field there was
for plowboys as compared with the pro-
fessiou they are mastering. Some of
them, with the prestige of rich daddy,
may get established without trouble, but
the ones who are to build up practice
along with making living will spend
many q day of anxiety, The boys used
jaw breaking words, but it was alright,
they are technical, aud then anything
oeats ngurlDg.
could say nothing but pleasant things
of all these students, but one fellow gives
me chance to say more of him, because
he had something out of the regular
order-his own invention aud don'tsee
why it should not suggest some way out
of the practice of robbiDg graves and
using human beings in the dissecting
rooms of medical colleges What
speak of was perfect human beipg-as
IN anatonv-molded in wax. Eyery