St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1896-10-24

clothes chist and got out his bulle
| molds and three new bars Of lead, ant
went to moldin bullets. As to me
/ soon had to go out and look for a
| shady place on the back poreh-whicl
I you understand | want nobody's part
ner in the bullet business. But the frs
/ hit roared and the bullet molds they
ratified. Old man Pleas got so worked
up and hot till by gatlins he was sweat
I in like a free niger on election day
whilst could hear him taflsin and goin
on with himself alta high and scan,
dlous rate:
"Let the rtimblin go on and let the
war come. isss ssztsS -.
"There is plenty of lead il town, and
my old army musket she amt gone no,
where's.
| "We will, fight 'em, sdadblame 'em, til!
the cows come home and the evenin
| stars sing together
'They call me old man Pleas Warner
now, butt fit plum through one war
| andsgot my horse drownded in the Ten.
nessee river, and dadblamc 'em, I will
| pick my fints and try 'em another bar
| rel" 81 LA
When the sun went down the very ma,
tive air was thick and hot. But in the
main time I had throwed two buckets
of water on the fire and got the old
man in a notion to go down to the
spring and cool off.
Now you mought maybe think old
man Pleas Warner is crazy, and to be
plum honest I don't raley think he
knows anything for certain right now.
But he don't have to do all the war talk
for the settlement, and if he is crazy
he can find lots of company around
Rocky Creek. There are plenty of peo-
pie in this pleasant skirt of woods talk
in about blood and war and the like OF
that. They haven't got it quite as bad
as old man Pleas yet-which I believe
he is the. .onlyest one that's started to
mouldin bullets-but they have heard
so much Internal fool talk about poll,
tics and free silver till they have come
to the conclusions that sonlethin ter
rible is bound to drap.
1t will take a whole passle of salts and
ssnakeroot, and maybe dost of calo-
mel here and there, and then about
three good frosts to bring this country
around on her feet onct more. But it
will come.-sWe. must live in hopes if
we die in the crazy Sloan. 4.
"Pure Meanness and Pfzen Stfnginess."
The onlyest plain and reglar spell of
crazy that has come to pass here lately
was Jude Collins, which Jude he lives
down in the old Panther Creek country,
and politics and free silver didn't have
anything to dowith the case.
From what they tell me. Rufe, and
from all the general appearments, I
think it was pure meanness and pizen
stinginess that made Jude's headgear-
ins jump cog" said Ben Chris Weaver
in givin out the mainest facts to me.
"Of course you are bound to recollect
the Collinses, which lived over there on
The ridge and on youder side of what
we use to call Stinkin branch Well,
after the old folks died foff Jude he
turned out to be the mainest man in the
family for business. The other boys
was all wild and wayward, harum-
scarlm youngsters, but Jude he was
reglar and steady as rale old man be-
fore he got good grown. II the rest-of7
the family made livin Jude was dead
shot tojmake; some money, and3if there
was anything, in the way of money
from shin plasters to free silver-foatin
around the Collins place it was more
than probable to land in Jude's tank
pockets.
Whereas naturally of course in the
run of time it come to pass that the
old Collins place belonged to Juds,
and the other boys didn't have a blame
thing to do but to pack up a few old
clothes and move. Then I reckon 1t
was so1nethin better than year ago
some time in the fall of the year, atany
rates-when a stranger from the city
tlement and took up q notion all of
a suddentt that he would love to own
the old Collins place. The stranger
had plenty of money on hin-which
as everybody knows, Jude loves that
stuff better than a town hog loves
slops-and it didn't take him long to
make a deal and close up the trade.
He" paid Jude $500 smooth and even
for the whole entire place. .sz,.
s'Well, j tfde never did git married
he was too rotten mean and stingy
for that-and, consequently, heSdidn't |
have no big store accounts and feed |
bills to pay off. With what money he
had saved up and what the old place
orung in he had a gracious plenty
70 make any one man feel easy in re-
CARDS to this worlds goods.
4 But durin the winter the stranger
which had bought the old place sold |
nut 10 a big company for $4,000, and all |
IN account of that big spring up there
1t the head of Stinllin branch. You re-
member that big spring, Rufe, and you
ire bound to recollect how bad it slne1t.
iYe use to think somebody must of
broke a hamper basket full of spilled |
.ggs into it about the first settlement
If the country. Now, bless goodness,
hey say that water is out of sight for
'ick and sufferin humanity. They say
tbs choclefun ofsoda and alum and iron 4
md sulphur, and the Lord knows what
Tot. And they are now buildin q fine
lotel over there and boomin the old |
NolJ y II.