The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-22
OLD MAN FROM GEORGIA.
He Looked Like a HaySeed but Could
Tell Good Stories.

Mystery of the Jumping Beans-Flynn
Could Pick the Winner Against the
Field, but the Pricks of Conscience
Were Too Much for Him-A Shabby
Yankee Trick to Victimize the I'm
tutored Sons of the Forest-A Queer
Race During the Warmly the
Sandwich Man Got Mad.
From the Washington Post.
The old man from Georgia was a merry
old wight, with the looks of hayseed,
but with suspicious twinkle of mischief
in his bright eyes. A crowd had gathered
in the cigar store adjoining the Post.
The enterprising proprietor was exhibit
ing a collection Of jumping beans from
Mexico" popping up every now and then
like patching corn on a red-hot stove, or
doing the glide waltz, in a shallow paste
board box under the influence of some
mysterious power of nature
He had struck his pace, had the merry
old wag from Georgia, and he was max
ing the best of his opportunity, for he was
talking to an audience that was ready to
listen to him.
Then beans grow in Mexico" he be-
Kan Sllblya bub We IC uON IdlSluR EN- IN
Georgia by the bushel. You wonder how
they git around so lively, don't you? Well,
listen. There's an insect inside of every
/ one Of them ar beans. Just pick it up
and look at il. There's no hole visible
through which the insect could have got
inside It's just as it grew on the plant
no fake about that, not at ali; but Just
the same, as been tellin you, there's
/ worm inside Of each of them beans that's
I dom all the lumDin' -
He gazed around the circle of faces to
mark the effect of his explanation, and
| apparently satisfied that there was no one
| present TO dispute him he struck into the
! scientific feature of the phenomenon.
This animal lays its eggs in the bios
som of the plant on which this here bean
! grows, BY and by the blossom turns into
the fruit and the little worm that comes
out Of the egg lives ON the meat Of the
bean inside. When the bean falls off the
meat grows hard, the worm keeps CROWN
stronger and hollows the kernel by feed
! ing on it, When it devours all the meat
1t Just bores hole through the shell and
| comes out.
HE TELLS STORY.
CHOW, I want to tell you story about
this jumpin bean business which | could
| easily back up with a stack Of affdavits.
Down IN my town in Georgia there
used TO live a fellow named Flynn. He
was curious kind of man always bet
tin, bettin' on everything in sight, like
Jim Smiley. One day he proposed TO start
runnln' race between any number of
these here iumpin' beans, and offered TO
bet s. he could pick the winner. Well.
all the boys backed the tield, and thar was
$50 in the pool when the race com
menCed.
THE boys picked their beans and put
'em down on the table where a large
white sheet Of paper had been spread,
with two circles drawn with a lead pencil
big circle for the outside stretch ana
little circle in the middle for the startin'
base. That fellow Flynn didn't put down
his bean. No, sir. lie just kinder care
less-like held il in his hand while they
was DRAWN the distance lines and fixin'
the preliminaries. When everything was
/ ready each man put his bean in the small
| circle, and Flynn he put down his. Then
| the word was given, ana the boys began
/ TO watch what Elyrn's pick would do
by and BY" continued the loquacious
/ old party, there was signs o. life; the
/ beans begun TO turn over and iump
4 around. Then the boys see they'd made
/ a mistake in not putin FIynn's nick
| under handicap; for, would YOU believe
! II, that particular bean hoped clear out
| OF the outside circle in three hops FLYNN
! he cabbageu the money and walked away.
smllln' knowingly TO himself, while the
! other fellows hung their heads and
/ showed they felt kinder mournful. for
! they was wonderin how Flynn could
/ have picked the winner
he tried To catch EN- after that again
! on MS little game. You takes your