The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-27
Too Much for the Cyclone.

They amt no doubt but Kansas is a great
state for whiskers." said the man with the
ginger beard. land what's more. this here
connection between wind and whiskers AIM
the funny ioke some folks thinks II is
Fer instance said the grocer, winking at
the indianapolis Journal man, Il low, now,
that ef you was to shave them (here the gro
Ger gave an imitation Of the bleating of
goat that you wouldn't be able TO tell them
windy yarns, ehs'
The man with the ginger beard was so busy
picking the tail and inns of dried herring
IN such manner as to lose none OF the meat
that the grocefS sarcasm missed It's mark.
AFTER the herring had been disposed of and
| washed down with drink OF water, the man
with the ginger beard continued;
as was sayln the connection between
WIND and whiskers was showed to me out in
Kansas In durn funny way. You see. they
was old feller out there that. eff he hadn't
Deen republican, could "a started out on
the reputation Of his whlskers and teat ole
IeHer SO fur Ter the Senate that Corbett an
MltcheIl wouldn't been in it for a sample
OF a sure thing Well, one day this ole feller
goes out on his farm and runs right square
Up agln one OF the finest sample OF cyclone
mat Kansas had put up for many day.
One OF the hands over in the field, about
quarter OF a mile away, sees the cyclone hit
the old man. an started on q dead run
for the house to git the wagon TO haul in his
mangled remains, though he lowed he might
nave to go TO the next county to lind EN-.
NOW, what do you think? He gifts out to the
neld where he last see the old man, an
stead or nnd1n airy remains, he hndS him
standin there live as ever and lookin puz-
zled Didn't see twister comm your way?
4 asked the hired man. 1 guess you did says
| the old Teller. an that what's puZZlln' me.
| 1 he thing come right along and run inter me-
and then the next thing Enowed it was gone.
| Dldn go up in the air or nothin else. Near
as can figure it out, it musI Nv been mystic
| rlous dlspensatOni The ole feller was stuck
! on schoolma am that had come from back
| east, an that very night he asst her to marry
| MIN, which she said she would eff he would
| take OF them WhiskerS. 1t nigh broke his
| heart, but he knuckled under So the ext day
| he goes TO barber shop in town near by and
| tells the barber to cut EN- loose Well, the
| barber turns loose on EN- wlskers. an in the
| next minute that there barber shop was
| scattered all over the county. half the town
| was flowed down an the other half was shook
| out OF shape. 1t was the Gueerest thing any
one ever heard Of, an l don suppose itwOuld
| ever ha been explained If teller who came
| along with show, and was selln' patent
medicine. hadn't a explained 1t. He said
| that the fact was that the cyclone had got
| tangled up in old Atner's whiSkers when 1t
| disappeared so sudden, an had been stickin'
| there until the barber cut the whiskers OF and
| gave 1t a chance to escape
There was crash and a smothered ex-
| elimination. and the grocer at first had Wild
| hope that the man with the ginger Geard had
| been struck by lightning, tut an investigation
| showed that ii was only the man from Potato
creek, who had fallen from his seat on the
| counter into the tub of eggs.