The Opelousas courier., 1896-05-23

Y#Saa xAj tiee, Rufus
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"NNNHE">' sesna sort OF
weather." Well, the longer live and the
deeper | go into this vale of years and
tears the more palmer I can see wherein
the good old lady was right, touchin
the great question of weather. We
have had some sort of weather-in
fact, we have had all sorts Of weather
here lately-and as usual the fruit crop
got caught out in the cold snap.
They "Helt' the Wrong Man.
Along with that general wave of
trouble and confusionment in the
Rocky Creek settlement - which [
couldn't write it all up in my last let
ter-Jule Majors he got tied up at the
Crazy Sloan.
BIZ this time no doubt you will recol-
iecf two or three things concernin julie
Majors. He is one of the most unhap-
piest and down trod citizens in the
round created world. He is forever and
~eternally at outs with the general gov
eminent on the common grounds that
the "fich git richer and the poor git
poorer" as the days are goin by, or
words to that extent. But the mainest
trouble with julie Majors is that he is
crippled under his hat. Understand
me nov [ don't throw no heavy blame
On the man for that. He didn't boss the
job of maxim himself. and the good
Lord don't make no mistakes in His
business. But to the best of my recol-
lection, the whole entire Nabors genera
ton never was afflicted with any brains
to speak of. And as to Jule-well, he
dom know anything for certain. He
can't even tell what is the matter with
him wi en- he is hungry. He will go to
bed for sick and take medicine and send
for the doctor, when all he needs in the
round world is a square meal Of
victuals.
The naked, unwashed truth in
regards to the Majors family is that
they are too monstrous fresh from the
hill country. They first moved their
washin into the Rocky Creek settlement
some seven or eight years ago, and they
come from somewheres in the neighbor-
hood of a place they call Possum Trot-
way back there in the hills, where the
women folks are still knittin socks for
the confederate soldiers. whilsts@1nen
ere still votin for old Hickory JACKSON
for president every four years as r. glar
as the time rolls around. T.
Now along in the Christmas, you IN
derstand, julie Nabors put in his I'D
On the contract to carry all the crl.fzy
people off to the Sloan. and F-1sAhed
II they didn't give him the job. So con-
sequentially when Steve Goodman let
his head gearins jump a cog and went
blind stayin crazy it was Jules business
to take him to the place prepared for
crazy people. But in orderment to
s~oft-soap and hornsnoggle Steve into
maxim the trip, they told him that
julie Majors had lost his wife and went
plum crazy and that he (Steve Good
MANI would have to take the ravin idi-
OF to the Sloan. Steve lowed he want
no candidate for the job, but he didn't
see how he could go back on his old
friend julie Majors in times of trouble
and of sorrow, and on them grounds he
would go.
So that was the general circumfer-
ence of the surroundins when they got
en- the cars and went off together. julie
was takin Steve, and Steve he was takin
julie. And by the twelve epistles, when
they got there the general manager
the Sloan turned Steve out and
kept julie in. Naturally, of course,
julie Nabors come up missin for several
but the people in the settlement
know what in thunderations
had went with him till he writ a letter
home givin out the facts and calm for
help. The county board then had a
called meetin and sent the papers on to
he Sloan, tellin' the general manager
hat he had helt the wrong man.
It was the last of the week before
tulE lCtuIIICu OdSh AoLlO. AAIu L1G
rang put in and give him such a scan
1lous draggin about his crazy scrape
now, bless gracious, he won't even
the big road for fear be will meet
1p with somebody that has heard the
news.
The general manager of the Sloan
writ back in a letter that he tried his
evel bIamdest to find out which one
II the men was the most craziest, and
inally at last on general principles
md from general appearances he had
% hold the man which give his name as
[ule Nabors..
In the meantime Steve Goodman had
lit the grit and hit it a movin. In givin
lis accounts to the county board julie
exported 'all present or accounted for
,ut one, and he is out and gone"
Now, if they ever find Steve Goodman
md bring him back to the settlement
I reckon they willard he is still
fttin candidate for the Crazy Sloan
[ule Nabors will give up his job and re-
ire back to the pleasant shades OF pri-
ate life.
asThem Same Blue B~reeches."
Amongst other things that come to
Ass in durin that stormy week was a
,uicls and student weddin match down
the Flat Woods.
Old man Sol Simpkins has now been
married. three different times since the
var. and oncst before the old soldiers
arms under the famous apple
rec. His first wife carded the wool
nd spun the thread and wove the cloth,
nd made him the most loveliest pair Of
lue Jeans breeches you ever saw per-