Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-29


tincnt needs for the next thousand years.
Then. PicniCkinG under the shadow of
this great rNck, a namclcsS terror at times
flashes across the visitor. He feels so ap-
pallinEly weak and small beneath its aw-
full, nuVClCSS brOwS. IT Is rs il the en-
ChantmCut Of the sphinx wen, over him.
He thinks. and shoulders rs ne thinks, how
il would feel 10 lr falling from that dizzy
height down the granite side of mcrcilcSs
Stone mountain.
Vet man i actually making paving
stones ont Of this great. silent mystery.
The ownrrs W Stone mountain cut great
slabs cut ii its sides for the creature who
feels - small and weak in its presence TO
walk upon
At the picnic ground a white awning
WAS Switched IL shield the visitors from
the suns rays and under one edge of IL
fine brass hand that played " ankee
Doodle" q little and Dixie" a great
deal. Many rx-Confcderatc soldiers We'd
with one another in showing hospitality
10 the northern visitors. For their delcc-
tari0n one of the veterans, Judge Robert
L Rodgers Of Atlanta, gave uttcrnnce to
q genuine old r,'bel yell which would have
made the Indians that utter the war
whoops in Buffalo Bills wild west show
turn pale with envy. Among other cour-
teous cN- ConfederateS whom l remember
were Mr.. F. r. Orchard and Colonel
George w. Adair who told US he was the
man who could tell a lie hut would not.
1t was worth going from New York to
Atlanta 10 sCS such man. So far l
now recollCCt. l have met only two such
in the course of my experience. One fact
which struck me forcihly in connection
with these kindly and hospitahle tx Con
federates was that they were mostly
\
diSrs are. The Confederate veterans arc
very young veterans indeed They went
to the war at a tcndcrcr age than the
northern soldiers did
Preparing the barbecue.
But the "Q''-thc "Q's'' the thing.
Imagine 10 yourself ditch about two feet
wide, two feet deep and 40 feet long. I'M
azine next a huGc fire built in the edge of
the woods at a little distance away. The
fire is madC Of branches Of trees and sap
linGs Of Il considerable size Over the long,
narrow ditch a rude scaffoldinS of poles
and CrOSSpicCes is erected. 1t is u foot or
more above the level Of the ground. When
the limbs and saplings are half burned
and approach the charred state, they are
carried and thrown, still burning, into the
ditch. They are carefully covered with
ashes so that they will continue to con
sumo without much smoke. a clear, steady
heat rises from the embcrs up under the
scaffoldinG. Upon the top OF the scaffold-
ing you see great sight. There whole
bodies of lambs, pigs, sheep and poultry
are stretched out roasting in their own
gravy,
swine is killed, skinned and split open
in front. His body is laid out rs flat as 1t
can be madc TO CO. and splits arc put
through the joints TO make the limbs lie
straight The line of poles and crosspicces
above the ditch was covered with the
whole roasted bodies of the various speci-
mems of live stock mentioned. They were
Of a rich brown color It is a fact that in
no other way can meet be cooked TO taste
So good as IL does when Drowned above a
fin, OF sInoldering embers. Doubtless there
+ more or less dust upon it all, especially
with hundreds Of feet tramping all about
there, but who minds little thing like
thatf The "Q's" the thing. Perhaps is
Is because the feast Is outdoors and every
body ia good humored as we'll as hungry
that that food tastes better than any ever
did in the SWEETEST restaurant with q
French chef Georgians to the manner
born have q tradition TINT you can cat
twice as much at o barbecue as you can
anywhere else, and v never hurts. In
truth. however, that was not quito the
experience Of some Of the visitors, not to
the manner born. Perhaps it was beer,
perhaps Ii was Brunswick stew that bowl
I'd them over. But theirs was not the
general experience of the tcnderfoot stran-
gers, who mostly found that the Georgia
dictum was oorreot
The sheriff Of q neighboring county Mr
Calloway-bless his kindly soull-who
knew all about running a barbecue, came
over and gave his servioes all day. We
shall never forget him. He did run IL glo-
riously. So long as live I shall remem-
Der Sheriff Galloway, with q body as big
as his heart, standing under o tree, giving
directions like q general issuing orders to
his army. He was in his ahirt sleeves,
for the day was warm A great broad
brimmed straw hat shielded his head and
shoulders It was thrown back from his
brow and revealed the tollissk rosiest Of
and en- eye that took In ev-
cry detail Of thai 30" &C once
A long table stood not far away from |
htp- In front Of q was row Of negroes |
with hatohetA You would hardly guess |
wh&s they were there for. but these were
tie gentlsmen who caxyed the havpeqns