St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-08-08
CYCLONE STREAK.
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3Gi1se'S Gausatry:
II you want to see the most loveliest
strip Of country on the broad bosom of
49, the earth per-
!
Ss3 haps = il you
would love to live
forever and then
turn to somethin
49, good to eat, you
~ will please he
- member that
- Rocky Greek is
EI9N ksNAE stili runnin down
Nm ~yMS.SM stream and amt
W#NEWNNNAW ~ gone nowheres.
WNkMNNNEAM No doubts you
have likewise also heard tell OF
them pleasant places In regards To
which I have sometimes spoke
Trot, and Huckleberry Ridge. AMI
Viewers Woodgarden. and fuckers
Mill, and the Panther Creek settlement.
But when the crops are laid by and the
fish won't bite, If you want to take few
days of and make the time pass quick
and pleasant pack up your buds and
come with me and we will go over into
Cyclone Streak. -
Plenty Of wildcat stills.
So far as know, and 80 far back rs
tho records run, notllin very good has
ever come out of Cyclone Streak, unless
1t mought be few great gobs of fun.
It In . wild and rough and reckless
scope Of country, with a strange and
pecurious people. The woods are full
Of wildcat stills, and they make moon
shine whisky in them parts even unto
the third and fourth generations. 1t
would seem like everybody il kin to
everybody else In Cyclone Streak 1t
would seem like the revenue officers
got in there amongst EN- and found a
big copper still and two or three barrels
Of white ink" - Aunty Lucas were
wont to say. They tore up the still and
emptied the barrels right there on the
spot. In the meantime they had run
In ON Billy Bledsoe and two or three
OF the Hankins boys runnin the thing
in the dead hoprs Of night-caught EN-
in the act, as itwere. So consequential
" Billy Bledsoe and the Hankins boys
have now gone to Jail in reply to papers
Of compliment from the general gov
eminent.
But from what they say about 1t
neither one Of the gang knowcd any
thing for certain about the still to start
with. They had started on . camp
.;sh that night and Jest happened to
stumble up on the ''ding thing" over
there In the swamp Under the circum-
ference of the surroundins they didn't
think IL was any harm to shove up the
chunks and take a drinl. in passin.
That il the way they sung the song at
first, but the revenue officers were
on the trail. and they het the
ground 90 hot under the boys till they
had to change the time. Then they all
owned mp to running the still for
that one round, but they swore
the thing belonged to old man Steve
Hankins, the uncle Of the Hankins boys.
Now old man Steve swcars he never
heard tell Of the concern before. To
hear him tell 1t, he never did sec but one
wildcat still In all of his born days, and
that belonged to old Buck Ridley.
'Oncst upon time old Buck loant his
still to me-" says old man Steve, land
made ono runnin on it. For all know
this may be the same concern, but l
couldn't say for certain. rs haven't
saw one in 10 years."
Since writin the afovc Luke Blctlsoc,
: secont cousin to Billy, rid by to tell
me that old mar Steve Hankins is row
talkin through q different hat. The
Saturday and called on hin: for the his
tory Of that still. Whereas old man
Steve went over there in the swamp
and examined the shattered fragments
Of the thing and then swore by the
Twin and the dead that it was the prop
erty Of old Buck Ridley-the same one
which he had borrowed to make run
10 years ago this summer. Neverthe-
less, old man Steve had to pack UP a few
dirty buds and 20 to Jail.
BY this time things are warmin up
considerable over there in Cyclone
Streak. am lookin every day to hear
from old Buck Ridley, which, accordin
to the evidence in the case, he is the
man which owns the still at the presen;
writin. But when you get the next
news I will bet the best mule ON the
place that old man Buck never owned
40 wildcat still. Raley don't reckon
he would know one if he was 70 meet
IL In the gig road. FF = "
As everybody knows there are
stills and stills plenty of stills over
there in Cyclone Streak. But i.
would seem like they done belong to
anybody in particular. Billy Bledsoc
and the Hankins boys got caught run
min the machinery and climbin up
around the producements thereof, but
they jest Mapped to find the "ding
thing" II it didn't jest naturally grow
up there out of the ground. reckon
the last cyclone must Of bowed it In
from somewheres up in the hill country
1t may be that the revenue men thin.
they have got dead open-and-shut case
for the government but they don't know
the people Of Cyclone Streak. They
may break few kindred ties, and bring
On . general family disturbance, and
blow in . whole lot Of time and money
But finally at last they. will find out
that that wildcat still has belonged to
everybody in Cyclone Streak more or
less, but to nobody for certain.
Oae Bottle Of Sorry Goods.
'.sTalkin about the troubles in Cyclone
says Andy Lucas to me the
other day." that makes me think Of the
time when me and Will Tom Pickens got
holt Of the onlyest bottle Of rale sorry
goods have ever saw. Inever did run
very deep on the still business, you un-
Rufe, but don't have to stop