The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-09-18
/ RECKLESS RIDE IN
: old CaICKlSAWHAYCHEE.
,c TALE OF TWO YOUNG MEN
IN A DENSE SWAMP.
,oron's Fire Department EcIipSed
world,s Record for Fast Driv-
inn m a Dark Night Broken.

1oonned that a new novel, OF
!. .r;nr faatu ~es, is soon TO be issued.
en' authors wiz be two Dawson young
~ and the title will be "Rufus'
mat,,ass Ride, or Franks Fearless
[,'sina-a Tale of Midnight Run"
pv permission OF the authors asynop-
~. ~ the exciting episode is given the
s ,ooders Of THE NEWS, the names used
nsipg, OF course fictitious ~
- seems that several nights ago two
Van beaux. whose surnames cannot
b p Ieacped, but whose given names are
pnfns aod Fran =, HE'D themselves to
classic shades of CDickasaw-
s,,cbee village. AS is often SO, there
a,a ladies in tbe case. Soon after
'hov left Dawson three other boys de-
ia mon some len, and with them 10
>,:,l, was to acU. Climbing into a bug
thew followed in the wake
- the preced;og ga'lants an hou"
two Iater. A wing at Chickasaw-
tn,obee swamo they tied The horse
n l'v,a distance from the road, entered
81: go swamp ard, plunging intolt, halted
ton or fifteen feet from the roadside,
where thew awaited the two swans on
heir return tip home
They had not long 10 wait Soon toe
,onvevance of The unlucky pair was
5oard coming at slow trot down the
biT at the entrance 10 the swamp.
t 10 it is sad, The pages of the forth
onn,ino novel Will fairly bristle with
intnnseJy thrilling interest, ec'ipsing,
IN fact, any accounts of the operations
of Rube Burrows or the James toys.)
The two boys, yclept Rutus and
Frank, entered the swamp unsdspl-
oiouslv and i'll prepared for the ghoul-
isb orgies which were so soon to fol
low,
don, spoken in a sonorOus voice, came
the command, Halt, there! This
was followed by a fuoilade of Shots.
The actions of an adept at legerdemaln
are prodigiously speedy, but tbs whls-
nered that it can't compare with those
Of the two boys in the buggy that fate
fnI night. Rufus, who was driving,
made dive for the whip, yelled to his
mariner in peril to ''let 'em have 1t,
and struck the horse a resounding
wback Mid the fire and counterfire
the faithful horse tore through the
swamp like a fend possessed. Then
funny thing happened. Not a breeze
was sti"e;ng, yet multaneously two
hats rose from Two heads and fell to
the ground behind The swift flying
buggy. There is only one reasona able
explanation, viz the Two boys hair
stood straight up and forced the hats
Of, Said the boy who was firing, my
bats gone" Said the boy who was
irving, $50 is mine. D the hats.
Git up" This part of the occurrence
is indignantly denied by the two al
legged to have made the remarks, but
the denia. is useless, as they were
heard.
"Are you hit ?" queried the intrepid
driver in the buggy. "Eo, but I'd just
about as soon be, replied the otner'
Although it was as black as Egypt IN
the swamp, tits said that the waYlay-
ers could easily DISTINGUISH the pale
ness of the faces in the buggy. lis
also said that the drive from the
swamp to Dawson, a distance OF six
miles, was made in twenty-five minutes
by the watch Jack Cameron fire de-
partment. would have made but poor
comparison with the stable turnout
that night. When asked why they ran
one of the two boys in the buggy re-
piled twas because they couldn't fly.
Several other interesting features OF
the case might be told, but it wouldn't
be acting fairly toward the authors OF
the novel. Wait and read it.