The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29


tinent needs for the next thousand years
! There, picnicking under the shadow of
this great rock, a nameless terror at times
flashes across the visitor. He feels so ap-
pallingly weak and small beneath its aw-
ful, moveless brows. 1t is as if the en-
chantment of the sphinx were over him.
He thinks, and shudders as he thinks, how
it would feel to be falling from that dizzy
height down the granite side Of merciless
Stone mountain.
Yet man Is actually making paving
stones out of this great, silent mystery
The owners Of Stone mountain cut great
slabs out of its sides for the creature who
feels so small and weok in its presence to
walk upon.
At the picnic ground white awning
was stretched to shield the visitors from
the suns rays and under one edge of it
was fine brass band that played Yankee
Doodle" a little and Dixie" a great
deal. Many ex-Confederate soldiers We'd
with one another in showing hospitality
to the northern visitors. For their delec-
tation one of the veterans, Judge Robert
i. Rodgers of Atlanta, gave utteEance TO
a genuine old rebel 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 -Confederates whom 1 remember
were Mr.. F. B. Orchard and Colonel
George w. Adair, who told US he was the
man who could tell lie, but would not.
1t was worth going from New York to
Atlanta to see such man. So far as I
now recollect, l have met only two such
in the course of my experience. One fact
which struck me forcibly in connection
with these kindly and hospitable ex Con-
federates was that they were mostly
younger looking than our old Union sol
diers are. The Confederate veterans are
very young veterans indeed. They went
TO the war at tenderer age than the
northern soldiers did.
Preparing the Barbecue.
But the ''Q"-the "Q's" the thing.
Imagine to yourself ditch about two feet
wide. two feet deep and 40 feet long. I'm
agine next a huge fire built in the edge of
the woods at a little distance away. The
fire is made Of branches of trees and sap
inGs of a considerable size. Over the long,
narrow ditch rude scaffolding of poles
and CroSspieces is erected. Il Is a 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 viii continue TO con
sumo without much smoke \ clear, steady
heat rises from the embers up under the
scaffolding. Upon the top of the scafold-
ing you see great sight. There whole
bodies Of lambs, pigs, sheep and poultry
are stretched out roasting in their own
gravy.
A swine Is killed, skinned and split open
in front. His body is laid out a fat D. IL
can be made 10 go, and spits are put
through the joints TO make the limbs lie
straight The line Ct poles and croSspieces
above the ditch was covered with the
whole roasted bodies Of the various spaci-
mems of live stock mentioned They were
OF rich brown color. II is fact that IN
no other way can meat be cooked 70 taste
so good as it does when Drowned above q
fire OF smoldering enbers. Doubtless ther,s
Is more or less dust upon II all, especially
with hundreds Of feet tramping all about
rhera. but who minds 3 little thing like
shats The ~Q's" the thing. Perhaps IL
= because the Fest is outdoors and every
body is good humored aS well a. hungry
that that food tastes better than any ever
did in the SWEETEST restaurant with
French chef Gtsorgians 20 the manner
born have tradition that you caa eat
twice as much ~ barbecue a you Can
anywhere else, and il never hurts In
truth. however. that was not quite the
experience Of some - the visitors. not 10
the manner born Perhaps II was beer.
perhaps il was Brunswick ssev, thAt bowl
ed them over. But theirs was not the
general experiences Of the terde-fooi s.-An-