The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-06-09

sharge one mother nuthin fur lit
tie grub when they git tight run, an
there's alters or grassfeld handy
FUR the steers this time year,
1T is a good long drive to Attain
la
Eyes, fur a teller that's in hur-
ry. We take our time and kiver
the 200 miles 'thout feelin it
'Bleegod 10 do sump'n, We know.
We live 40 miles from the highest
railroad, an the miles Is mighty long
thoo the Cohuttahs, whar it's up
hill all the way thar and back" and
o feeble attempt at smile gave his
wrinkled face grotesque express
sion.
Pretty hard to make living I'M
der such circumstances, eh?"
eyes, purity tough; but, We see we
don't need much. We raise few
cattle i'll the mountains an our cab
biges an pertaters an our Gavin crop
but thar amt no money in Gavin. "
How about making moonshine of
! it?"
II don't know cussed thing
bout that" he replied, his face
iarkening again. "Ef ye wanter
fin out anything bout blockade, go
to them blasted revenoo deteoters.
They s the ones what does the devil
ment an packs it off on us pore
armers--dadburn 'em--jist to git
ther costs. Every internal son of
q sarpint un em orter be hung"
Again the bright eyes of the maid
on in front were turned upon me,
and quick movement of her right
hand disclosed the cleaning barrel
of winchester rife concealed under
o part of the wagon cover.
| well, have nothing to do with
that said / in a oonciliating way,
only / believe they ought to leave
you alone. It is a small matter for
q big government to make such a
fuss over.
"Ye're jist cayrect, stranger. 1t
is mighty small thing. Eff they
knowed how hard it is to make q
Twin in these mountains, they'd be
easier on US, and of they'd Tow us
to still our Gavin an apples we could
put in few jugs what'd Load down
a wagon, an we could sell it out
quicker an git our money back, but
they won't let us alone Informers
Is as thick as fiddlers in bad place.
They re meaner by burned sight
than the revenoo fellers. People
didn t useter cheep on one 'nuther,
but TIERS so burned many un 'em
gone over to the Yankees now tell
ye can t giner1y tell jist who is an
who isn't
IVY, when my dady fus come to
Geowgy Their want no revenoo,
an Teller could make jist as much
ticker as he wanted to, an it war
| good truck, too, an none Of your
fghtin pizen.
He useter sell it at 70 bits gal
Ion an made money on it. Now,
here / am, halter haul load of ap-
Piles an cabbiges hundreds o miles
over the mountains an don't git pay
for the feed O. my steers eff / had ter
buy it. hearn teller readin in
the Derlonegy paper tother day
bout them perfection an free trade
schemes of the politicians. Them
jist what we fellers needs, an eff
ever oyast another ballit it'll be
fur the man what's fur perfection an
free trade. Eff the governmental
perfect US an give US free trade, we
don t care dod rot fur no outside
competition. We kin read the Dec
laration of Independence then
shore
But free trade and protection are
different things. They are just OPP
posite.
THAT may be so in your neck o.
the woods, but we need both in
Rabun county, an the man what
runs on that tioket'll carry every
single vote in my deestrict, an it's
big un, reachin f'om Little Hia-
wassee to the Tennessee line.
Is there any mining going on in
your seotion?" / asked to change
the subject little.
mo, Stree; no mimi. Most O.
the men who owns land in my dees-
triot have got their land posted.
When Jim Rankin war in Atlanta
las fall he seed guards stuck up in
some of the windows O. the groceries
what read, No minors allowed in
here, an he begged Teller out'n one
IN EN-, an he kerried it home to
Rabun, an his neighbors said it
war jist the kink an had some struck
off, an most in ginerly now you II
see ther lands posted. No minors al
lowed in here. It works we'll, fur