The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29

tIhl hlIthT AllN VI " blth NOOlNill1l Nlfl VIC
face OF u, statesman 9. combination frequently
met in this region. lie hWl the idlomi Of the
good pure English TINT expressed his Ideas.
light slhat wind comm up. said ho ,rhe
M wSs a IN ins So SEN nor across as Sh s1e h hoaci.o 20; IN IN
the first station below heah, and then cut
through the woods TO the river. | mostly can
fin some OF the folks from down my way about
there with a boat, aud they'll set me down tie
river; My little place is ABOUT thirty mile be-
We done lost one OF our, men down that
wa" ye lS,t wi ,In Joe H RlogHt' W RSyIIkGn i y%H t %"st
plenty down therc1l lie glad he's gone"
Of T 16. nRS IonS 3 nmJ Mmv % n,Sntv the iSoJ pGT'SGn e.. ,ttG
q his death; led to the telling Of a curious lit
tie, story of life In the Georgia forest.
Joe Blopnt' y 9pncarel, was tle agent OF a
and indefa'iGable In his efforts to protcc, their
property, a service for which the larger own
ers mnde u combination aud paid him SO u
week. The prinCcliness of this salary. IN the
hackwoods can, hardly he appreciated by. II
man Of Importance but his work mndc him
many enc !, III, business wa. to see that
stolen, no small task where the owners lines
ran for miles.
Elonnts life, ~ owner would have his tract
SURVEYED. and drive stakes ar blaze trees TO
them To- prominent trees. Before lac knew II
some renegohe would buy q few ncrcs adioln;
Ing the line. or perhaps only squat on It. and
n.kih cutting MS own timber, IN a few diNs
the newcomer would he over tie line. cutting
trees As fast AS he could for his own land was
only To give him n reasonable excuse for cut
ting everything around him. News travels
SLOWLY IN the back woods. but after n few weeks
Joe would hear that some one was 'utting his
timber. Then Off he would starr, for tho spot
only to find that some acres Of his bcst trees
had been cut and carried away. Very likely
the stranger was hacking way AZ a one tree
When Joe arrived, and II conversation like this
bI"nnt What YOU dom we're. soh. cutting
stranger Aint a cuttin' on yo' land cuttin'
Bl3nnt .Nothin,. Of the sot, sab; don't YOU
see the notices ugin trcspnssin'?
Stranger Notices; hin seen no notices.
Blount Come yeah. sab, tell | show EN- to
yon.
He leads the stranger to a tree where ore of
the notices wa, nailed. but no notice ia there.
pom searching lac hnds. it stuck ny five or six
hundred yards back of " here IT bel, ngcd. Then
lac begins to look for the stakes. but they are
gone; and the bln2cd trees have all been rut.
There Is not n mark TO indicate the proper Inc.
A vast amount of Clatfrring follows. md the
Straneer agrees to stop 'n,ting IN the linz can
is on the premises, hut as soon as he Is gon" the
cutting begins again. The surveyor is sent for.
Tic land. and the line is drawn anew. Hv dis
time some acres of, good Il nher have been cut
and hauled away but at last the stranger is
fairly c0rnerel. There Is no law within reach,
but Blount carries. his own law with him
either a rifle over his shoulder or a gun" IL
Wal, l ,'clar." say, the .qpa'.cr. when he Is
81 Nli'IouklIN ''IN'ltl UNIT lIl''t - III IllIItF /
excuse 10 make. II dom thot wa- n|.cuttin'
my own timbrr all the tine. Mr.; Bl%pnt. But
stImIagc for What I've took" !
~"Stnmpage is the forest way Of LuNin ms bv
I lane F to- cut %" 4 ' "sam faEs. a and I"Tf ItW. ' aHay q id
his hearts cont INT. When 10 i. done the
lump bear witness TO The number of trees
L. 'hall pay so many cents for every tree cut.
There is no getting around the evidence of the
stumps; for I" remove them would cost tar
more than the price agreed upon for the tree.
p, dhi, i is th h. only rsmedy ,lat is LEFT for
no money or property. and to prosecute him
criminnlly would be too irouhlcsorn. and too
what stninpaGe means with such n man. II
means that he takes the logs To market and
sells them and roskets the money, and goes off
Another way of getting timber is 10 buy "A
large tract OF land NJ II fair price, perhaps Sl.50
very small payment. With this much title
the newcomer, cut; al. the timber he wants. on
throws up his bargain; the second payment is
not made; But now that Zoe B!ount is deal,
great rate. The ,icorginn says the trees will
suffer some considerable before his successor
can lie appointed.
Precisely what It was that happened in this
Gcorsian's secluded neighIorhooh a year pr
know. Tie only certainty j. that a aoIorcd
man Vas Killed there. and TINT lis murderer
of in low tones; and the snail planter Looked
carefully mp and. down the car before vrntur-
ing upon the subject.
1T wasn't the niger they were after. sir,
II was his boss, said he. They hadn't moth,
Ing Ing @ ,sak til the ;, niTfs Eo.o }.nns see the ", wI'i, t, man
three nigg"rs, They didn't want t" XIII the
commotion. So they thought they'd Just kill
3ne of his ringers, to civ" him a lit,lr hint
ger. was found dead. shot through the head,
We'll. sir, the man took the hint, and lit
but Imt is r.ncS y woTRfn, " iisSTf no ont inH tinWly maze" Ne
didn't mono of US want to he too prominent
n Ihi%! t ITnaEiGI, q 1h tn IcoG fr cn we Weight Sc get is so me,
worLin' itself oHi. We su~pi"ion"d one man
pretty near worked out: The man that killed
that Niger will swing for it yet"
The small planters story shows that even in
not happen in the settled districts. but in The
wilds every man must be largely u law to him
W,aker' Tn, is not peculiar TO This country,
bermen who was in the business for some years
on the Cuban const. 'whcn a Chinaman buys
q Thousand feet Of lumber he gets 500 feet; n
Getting the timber down to the mill involves
a s" good 'G deal " Of sio TH' i Tlse 'G logs ,t are ,p h%"ied fH
mules or oxen, generally oxen, to the nearest
with binders down the sides, mud 50 put to-
gether thnt 1t is capable of bending into "A semi
II W. any " i'lS Runway 'lh'la lIlS btlilS
necessary on account OF the many short bends
IN the river. Two hard wood trees are cut.
each 40 or - feet long, 10 be hcwn into the
shape of oars, with blade ut one end and handle
at the other. a big peg l. set in at each end of
the raft, and corresponding holes are bored In
the oars, ju I about at the middle. With the
oars fitted over the pegs they are So nicely bal,
anccd that one man can handle an orr with
ease, and thus steer the unwieldy cr,ft down
the winding river, where in ordinary times the
insurcs II speed of three or four miles
an hour.
To steer a big log raft down the river requires
as much skill and cN pcricncc as taking
IA icrrylhluat into her slip IN the ia c OF n sirung
tide. The big oar AT Cnrh end gives CONSIDER
able leverage, hut the secret lies in making the
Itself do most Of the work. Ia making
a sharp turn IL the LETT, for instance the
point must lie Rugged very closely or the ratt
will inevitably he driven against the right bank
lust below the turn. ~llugging a point IN this
way is called "trimming the %willows;' aud If IL
Is not done well the raft Is either firmly strand.
ed on the opposite bank or broken IN. In the
first case IL must be taken apart aud rcmalc.
and In tho second the loose logs must be- chased
down the river and recap, urcd.
From four to six men bring a raft Of any size