The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-27
LAND OF FEMALE INDUSTRY.
Evenings spent In Country Fifty Years
Behind the Times.

Evenings spent In = Country Fifty Years
Behind the Times.
My first night IN Arkansas was spent
10 camp on a creek bottom about one
mile from the Observation-Disclosures state
line. We camped few rods from farm
house and In the course OF the evening
called on the inmates. The house pos
sessed no windows whatever, and the
and couple OF beds. A fireplace was
built 10 one end OF the single living
room.
When we entered the house the lady
was busily engaged In spinning cotton.
She explained during our visit that she
planted the cotton, hoed and picked IT,
carded, spun and wove IL, colored /; and
made IL into dresses and aprons. She
had never been farther away from home
than town twelve miles distant. One
OF the children, a boy, was studying a
book. and his mother informed us that
| he walked two miles to school every day.
| They have hut three months free school
during the year, yet the pupils, were
| they given any chance for improvement,
would doubtless be as bright and smart
as their more favored northern neigh
bors.
A few nights after the one above men,
toned we pitched our tent near large.
old-fashioned plantation house, and
shortly after supper some of the young
folks gave us call. They brought with
them a violin and entertained us in fine
style. While one OF the young men
played in the ordinary manner another
beat tattoo on the ''G'' string with two
small sticks. The music was not as bad
as person would naturally think. This
is the kind OF orchestra that furnishes
music for their rags"
1t was during their call that / first
noticed the peculiarities of their Ian
guage. just as they were about to re-
turn to the house, one of them said he
"reckoned as t'how youuns must have
a right smart O. snow up north bout
this time"
The northern people are not in 1t with
the south in regard 10 hospitality. They
do not have very much as general rule,
but you are always welcome to the best
they can furnish.
There is one very dsagreeable feature
about that section-snakes. Every kind
Of snake almost that a person can think
OF ADMINISTRATORS. blacksnakes, cop
per heads, water mOccasins, hoop and
joint snakes, cotton mouths, spreading
vipers. whip snakes, etc. Also scor-
pions. centipedes and tarantuas. The
people. however, have become so used
10 them that they pay no attention. The
writer killed one tarantula that was
My as large as mans hand They |
look something like fifteen or twenty
large spiders all thrown into one, and
covered with short, yellow fur. The in-
habitants often find them In the houses
and yards. When angry they will jump
about four feet and their bite is deadly. |
One inhHbitant told me that he had seen
the olher reptiles SO thick that the rattle |
snakes would crawl up into the sage [
brush to get away from them. / think. |
however. that be stretched" the story
IA little. Comparativeiy few persons are
bitten in proportion to the number of |
poisonous reptiles. and as there is weed |
growing wild in every body's yard that |
IS almost IA sure cure for their bites. We ry
Re deaths from this cause result.
Laird, Mich. FRANK +. WEBB.