The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-07
SKINNER,S POINT.

had body as large as a lady bird.
Mountain View Tower is the prin-
cipal point of interest in Garrett
county. Lovers of the sublime and
beautiful will do well to visit it.
Among the Sunday visitors at the
tower this week were Mr.. D. c. Hogue
and daughters, of South Bend, Indi-
ana, accompanied by Mrs. Ben Will
liams and her children, of Fairmont,
w. Va, and Miss L. NJ. Turner, of
Morgantown, w. Va.
Jake Curns is the dingedest con-
trariest man in the whole kintry," so
Aunt Sally Ganderby says. THE
dinged old fool hammered away at
the anvil while his blacksmith shop
was on fire and staid right thar while
his neighbors put out the fire, and
the roof half burned off and his shirt
all afire.n
The register at Mountain View
Tower shows persons from all parts
of the Z. S. Among the visitors the
visitors the past week were Mrs. w.
J. Crawford and Adelaide Thomas
and F. F. Hallam and wife, of Pitts
burg, Pa; w, NJ. Spencer and wife
and Mrs. Robert Kroger, of Cincin-
natl, Ohio; Mrs. Z. Robertson, Miss
Katherine Wheat and Mrs. Robert
Dillon, of Wheeling; Mrs. F. E.
Maxey and Miss f. L. Hanson, of
Washington, D. c., and Madame Kate
Rolla, of New York City.
Jim Henline had an amazin' wind
fall one day this week. He was out
in the Big Snag clearin' a projectin
around for sang and coons. He
stopped to look at a jay bird on big
red oak snag when all ito wunstn the
snag came topping down and broke
into dozen cross sections, a hollow
stem from top to bottom. And, "by
fire. said jim, IF there WANT a coon
coined crawlin' Outen every piece
of the old tree, I'm the biggest liar
on Backbone mountain Jim has
coon skins enough to make caps for
the hull family.
Chas. a. Tower, of Oakland, and
his friends, Sam'l b. Harvest, w. J.
Chase, w. O. Michaels and Sheldon
Catlin, picnicked in the meadow adj
joining Mountain View Tower and
had towering time of it last Sun
day. The boys We're on the tower
trying to get a wireless message to
the Cumberland brewery.
Pod Dinkers, the sang digger poet,
has tuned his harp again and made
Sue Bilkins happy by writing a
'sweetly beautiful" verse in her al
bum
ION, that | had the wings OF a dOvel
would fly to the arms Of my Loye;
ON her bosom so fair
I'd fondly rest there
As happy as the angels above"
Sue looks as happy as Judge San
der's red calf adrinking buttermilk,
and it's nothing to thirty cents that
Pod wont need any wings when the
buXom Sue gets her arms around
him.
The Rev. Nicodemus SNOWFALL
preached in the A. M. E. church at
Thomas, w. Va, last Sunday to a
large congregation. His text was
about Jonah, and among other things
he said Now den, my sancifcated
brederin' and secluded sisterin'-ah,
de big book says dat God told Jonah
ah to go down to Geneya-ah and
swallow the whale-ah an show dem
misuble sinnahsah what dey might
spect when de lions's and the she
bears's come ragin' and tearin' to
eat EN- up-ah. An what does de
'postle Peter say dat Jonah did-ah ?
He say that Jonah was cotched on
de horns OBJ a colemma an dat he
couldn't swallow the whale nohow.
No stree But he say dat on de sew
enteenth instantly Jonah jumped in
de whales belly-ah, and went down
to Geneva in de steerage-ah, an was
cas- up on dey landau wifi a round
trip ticket in his pocket on de ober
land road to Jaricho, an he's done
been dar evan since-ah. An what
does de modification OBJ de tex sig
merry in desc yere scanlous times oh
trusts, strikes an hen houses wifi de
doors locked-ah? What does it sig
merry, sab, l axes de secon' time I?
Bress de Lamb it signerfies dat no
man can swallow a whale but Billy
Bryan-ah, an he kin swallow the
whale an neber wink his eye, sab,
like he's ergwine to swallow the Dim
mycrat party when he gets ready-ah.
An den | axes you de 'ticular ques-
ton: 'Whar will German an de oder
sycophantses be den? Whar will dev
beY Why, Saints in glory dey will
be left down at Jericho de same as
Jonah was-ah; an de angels of glory
will be ersingin' halleluiah hymns of
Joy!
"Brer Littlefoot will persist Elder
Hookem in passin' de plate while de
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