Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-29


table One or two sharp strokes cut 1t into
halves and one or two more into quarters
Then q colored brother took the quarter
and proceeded to chop 1t into chunks small
enough for individual management while
IL was being eaten. Chop, chop went the
hatchets in chorus, while the blacks bent
to their work, but not fast enough to
suit Sheriff Galloway. He knew just how
much roast pig to the cubic inch each ne
gro ought to chop up in a given time. As
we stared with admiration not unmingled
with awe at tho strange scene the sheriff
roared in his stentorian voice:
Il don't hear them hammersl You Mig
gers amt a-workin nonel Keep them
hatchets agoinP'
Mysterious Compound.
Then, with double speed and mighty
vim, the chopping proceeded. The ortho-
doN way to eat barbecue meat is in n sort
of sandwich. You take piece Of bread
plain bread. The meat is carried around
in great bowls. You hold out piece of
bread. The man who carries the bowl of
meat gracefully tlicks chunk of meat
upon the bread. Another attendant usu-
ally is near with what is called Bruins
wick stew" 1t is mysterious compound
whose ingredients l tried TO discover but
without success. 1t appears to be COM
posed of grCcn corn, tomatoes and red pep
per, but 1 don't know. 1 do know that
1t is very good. a spoonful of Brunswick
stow is ladled out upon the chunk of meat;
then another slice OF bread, n good, thick
slicc-nonc of your fashionable afternoon
tea kinds laid upon the whole. You
give them little squeeze to keep them to-
Gether and begin to bite
And how many the northern visitors did
bite that day Great heavens, how they
did eat! People who had forsworn pork
as Of the evil one and did not taste even
sugar curcd ham once a year at homo de
voured hunks OF fat roast pig, dcfying tri-
china, scrofula and satan, and smacked
their lips, vowing it tasted good, and they
didn't care if they did eat it. Nay, they
even went out Of the way to get the very
latest layers they could find, declaring if
they committed n sin it would be u good
big one while thoy were about it. The
Georgia roast pig was tenderer, juicicr
than any incubator chicken New York
people pay 80 cents u bite for broilcd
Chicken, indeed! Alongside that incom-
parable barbecue roast pig New York
hroiled chicken Is rs friZzlcd india rubber
We sat under the great awning while we
ate. Tables had been spread, and there
were white tablccloths upon them, with
the most approved of grotcsque Japanese
paper picnic napkins. AT one stage of the
proceedings souvenirs in the shape Of tiny
bottles containing n mysterious liquid
called Georgia mountain dew were dis
trihuted among the visitors,
They say the barbecue is going ont now
in Georgia. Rising young Atlantians arc
fastidious in their tastes. They are slight
ly inclined to turn up their aesthetic noses
at the feast, with the row of Africans ply
ing them hatChets,'' and the luscious
roast meat, and Brunswick stew sandwich,
as thick 81 roE,N bf Sonplin ot bn
least. They say, too, that, whether owing
to the brunswick stew or something else, |
the moral and intellectual effect of the |
barbecue rs steady thing is not TO be
commended.
A Lesson In 1t.
AS to this know not know wc had |
lot of fun that day. Some of the most
aesthetic newspaper men in America
gentlemen who justly pride themselves on
their immaculate collars and cuffs and
spike tord patent leathers-went around |
that day with both hands full of barbecue
and wearing ncgligec shirts and straw |
helmets that made them look like spooks |
in matcrializing seance. A lady who |
ut home is one of the most dignified of Of |
ticers In woman's press club rode on the |
engine that conveyed our train to Stone |
mountain. 1 wonder if it was the barbe-
cue that did it. Well, thcro is ~ lesson to |
he learned from everything. Without |
that life and its experiences would be
worth little. Every time a convention or
meeting of northern people is invited to
hold its sessions in the south it should so. |
Every time southern convention is invit- |
ed north it should come North and south |
need only to know each other. Then they |
will stand together forever like brothers |
and work together for the realization OF the |
great, perfect republic in which all shall |
be free, prosperous and happy. The ma
tiOnS of the earth shall honor it moro than |
any country thar ever WAS and its mighty |
hand shall be always lifted on the side Of |
justice. For this let us work and pray. |
1t was n woman's graceful kindly thought |
that took the International League of |
Press Clubs to Georgia. That woman was
Mrs. Louie NJ. Gordon. l believe the wo-
men Of the north and south can finally &C
complish the welding of the great Ameri-
can brotherhood.
ELIzA ARCHARD CONNER