The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-05

c~ STA WOAiCA WcHt ltltO Il9t thavn.
thing, en- the contest wuz nightly -na..
ed. tell We. Some the men had lived :.
sz NANNY ez evenly diffrunt states a.
two or three of the women had lived,ts
fifteen. Lem Hull tried II, en- Lew Mn
ticks wife jist sot thayre with hsr ev..
glued onto his features. En- Lem him.
se'f wuz no SLOUGH at playin' in this deai
Beginnin' with Newbrasky, whayre hs
wuz horned. he went east through Iowav
en- Eeiinoi, en- Indiany. TO Ohio: en- the,
he come back Through Kentucky, Tennss.
ee. Arkansaw, Mizzoory, Kansas en- IN.
Injun nation TO Oklahomy-au on sr
good countin' states. He made ga pints.
en- about tibet time Mary MuIlieks hooked
ez eff she thort he wuz a tAn-spo< herr
en- 'ud win out shore. Then they wen,
along, no feller a-scorfn up with Len,
ontell they come TO Prairie Dog Smith
He's been all over the world mighty nigh
He begun with New Jersey, WHARF he wrlx
horned, en- he come through PennsJyvsuy
Ohio. Indianny, Eelinoi, Mizzoory, Kan.
sas en- so on west to Calfforny In 20
Crossed the plains with a OK team he
toie me afterwards, en- went clear through
to the gold diggin's, which wuz shorelv
more'n many a Teller did. En- he STAYED
thayre fer three year, en- then come back
by way of the istmuss. En- then he
went South durn' the war. en- come West
when il wuz over, takin' in purity near
ever thing on the way. Wuz even IN
Texas awhile, runnin' a sheep ranch out
west of San Antoine wheyre 1t never rains
aney. 1 don't know how many pints he
did have when they counted 'em UP. but
it wuz nearly ez many ez all the rest put
together. En- the pipe went 20 him, fair
en- square. Saw him the other day, en-
he's a-smokin of it Wit
EN- when ii comes the women's turn
en- they fingered up the pints, ole Mrs
Langham got the work box. She is a.
soldiers wilder, en- thayre's a whole lot
of ole soldiers in the deestrict, en- they
wuz mighty pleased at her a-gettin' it.
Her man wuz with Sherman, 1 guess, en-
he got hurt purity bad down thayre aroun'
Atlanta. When she heerd on it, blamed eff
she dden't get right up from her home in
Minnesoty EN- go to him, en- nuss him. But
he died by en- by, en- left her a wilder
She's been a-drawin' of a pension ever
sence, en- says she thinks more of it than
aney man she ever seen, excep Bill
Langham. She stayed down thayre in
Georgy fer a spell, en- then worked her
self West gradually, ontell she got to
Kansas; en- then 1t was only one jump
over into Oklahomy. OF course, we wuz
ell glad to see her get the work box, fer
she's jst the kind of a woman to set
store by SIGH things-allus a-piecin' quilts
en- a-sewin' carpet rags, en- so forth; en-
ever ole SOtQl6F III tn6 QSSSlTlCt, Union en-
Confederate, felt ez proud ez could be OF
her. en- of the purfesser for a-honorln her
that away. Some of the women felt kind
of Jealous, though, and thort that ez she
had a pension a-comin' in reg lar she
could afford to buy work boxes eff She
wanted 'em. En- We jist orter heerd the
purfesser's presentation speeches. They
wuz away up in the clouds. En- then he
dismissed the crowd, en- we wuz all
In hon oil to- rnatt
almighty screech in the middle of the
schoolhouse, en- we all turned aroun', en-
thayre wuz Lew Mullick's wife with her
arms woun' clar aroun Lem Hubs neck
en- a-kissin' i'm like she wuz locoed. En-
Lem had his'n aroun her, too, en- thayre
they wuz right thayre in the crowd 1ist
a-actin' ez eff they'd both been In the same
fam bly,, though we all knowed the Hulls
en- the Mullickses wuzzent akwainted at
ALL
About this time Lew run up en- wuz
a-goin' to hit Lem fer huggin' his wife,
but Prairie-dog Smith grabbed him, en-
the women pulled Mary's arms loose, en-
somebody else grabbed Lem, en- by en- bx
we got things quoted down en- ruther pre-
sentible like. Mary though, wuz kind Of
hysteericky fer a SPELL en- ever onct in
awhile she'd break loose from the women
tibet wuz a-ho!din of her. en- make anoth-
er dive fer Lem, a-cryin' en- a-hollerin'.
My brother! my brother!
En-, sir. when we got em ca med down.
soze they could talk rational, eff they w,iz.
cent brother EN- sister shore enufr They're
foxes died when they wuz kids en- Lem
got sent back to his grant, ap's in Ohio
en- Mary wuz adopted by some foxes in
Newbrasky; en- they'd drifted around en-
drtfted aroun ontel they'd been ALVIN
five year in mild en- a half of each other
en- never got akwainted, er knowed they
wuZ aney relation. Jist lost track of each
oethr, We know, en- never expected to see
each other agin er even thort much about
it. But Mary said she shore knowed it
wuz her brother the fust time she got a
square look at Lem, even eff his name wuz
changed; en- Lem said he felt kind Of queer
too. but dident know jist whut it wuz. He
laid it at fust to havin' swallered a part
of his terbacker But 1t wuz jdst the
blood-kin blood in 'em We know.
'WulP sir, tibet jogafy match at Tail.
holt wuz the best and most civ1lizfn' thing
ever wuz. Thet bizness of Lem en- Mary
made us all feel mighty good en- happy.
en- we got akwainted with one another
right off. We go a-visitin' aroun now
about ever week. II air a sooiable en- a
profitable thing to do. When want to
know aneything about Californey. I jist
hunt up Prairie-dog Smith er Ham Her
rington. en- larn all about 1t free of charge.
Newbrasky or Virginny, jst hunt up the
proper neighbor en- swop knowledge with
him. Thayre amt an intelligence er
more sociable community in the United
States an Tail-holt deestrict. En- the pur-
lesser put us all on the right road We
abr regular ensiklopeedy of geographical
information en- practical idees, en- no mis-
take"
] learned from Bills neighbors THAI
other consequences of especial importance
to Bill are likely to flow from that geog-
raphy match. His Oldest daughter will
soon be married; and it is whispered that
Bill has become so interested In the peo-
pie, climate resources en- geography OF
the Emerald Isle that he has TO consult
the widow on the school section at least
once or twice a week. Bill has been a Wild
over for six years, and the proba bilities
are he will get so much interested in Tall
hollis encyclopedia of geographical infor-
nation that he will add another volume
of it to his home library shortly in the
person of Mrs. Dugan. who can speak
United States ez well ez a native Of Ar
kansaw."
Scraps From and About China.