Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-01-20

party 0lu tney say tnat III IL lunny
when fellow learns to like it, but
| tell yon frankly, Mr.. Editor, that
going ont for a twenty mile ride
in the q rk, with the mercury
humping lis head against the big
end of tie thermometer and the
wind blowing at the rate of a
thousand miles an hour-or less
is too rich for my Southern blood,
and then when the whole party
men, women and children, sleigh,
horses and all-go ker-plunk into
a snow drift ten or fifteen feet
deep, and each fellow wakes up to
find himself appointed chairman
of a scratching committee" with
instructions to scratch out the
best and quickest way he can, my
pleasure in the thing takes on that
"fainty feeling" that even floods"
will not cure. Then l think of
this poem, which I have never
heard attributed to Shakespeare,
though it must have been written
by genius of large experience in
sleigh riding who had limited poet
ic insight and training:
A boy once took it into his head
That he would exercise his sled.
II took that sled into the road
And goodness gracious how he slode.
And as he slid he laughing cried,
"What fun upon my sled to slide"
But as he laughed before he knewed,
He from that sliding sled was Slowed.
Above the spot where he was laid
They carved this line: This boy was Stayed.
In Tennessee l do not remem.
Der to have seen a snow drift, but
here the snow in many places
drifts until the roads are impas.
sible. In the lane in front of my
house is a drift that is passed by
sleds and sleighs with difficulty
and there is drift in my garden
deep enough to hide man stand
ing. Today is a sine day" accord
ing to the local notion of fine
weather. The mercury stands al
four degrees above zero in the
sunshine and the wind is only
blowing a moderate gale-just
about fast enough, for instance, tC
cut a fellows ears off the first CLIP
if he is silly enough to leave
them Topping out in the open.
But fellow don't go out offer
until he learns that it is best t.
protect his ears in some way, ever
if he only pulls pair of stocking,
or umbrella covers down Oyel
them as a shield. So far as l an
concerned, do not have a grea
hankering to go out much, ant
the weather does not trouble me
as | can sit by the fire and reat
without being disturbed from thu
outside, though yesterday morning
early a friend who lives six milel
away came by in his sleigh ant
wanted me to 60 to Washington
Is niles with him.
Washington is our county tOwl
and has about $4,000 inhabitants
Situated on the B. & o. and Penn
sylvania railroads, with coal mines
gas and oil wells, factories, etc.
makes it live town; and thil
week the teachers in this county
500 strong, hold their institute il
Washington, 80 that educationally
this is a great week with our PEG
Pile. Washington and Jefferson
College is located here and thu
tanks of the oil region are also 10
Gated here, so that we feel that W.
are almost as large as Greater
Pittshurg, 80 miles away, will
only 100000 inhabitants; and ther
we are building a new courthouse
at cost of a million and a hal
dollars besides what we have now
Here it is a little difficult to tel
where one town ends and the
other begins. We are in the
country, for instance, hut we have
free delivery, get the morning
papers and have huckster service
and so on. But l quit, Yours,
I. M. HURST.