River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-22
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF FLORA.
singular Effect OF Shouting "HeIlo,
Mae I'm Some Parts of
North Carolina.


"I was waiting for train at way
side station in Moore county, N. C.,
one day." said John Gilbert, the trav-
cling groceryman, according to the
New York Sun, "and in man that
came out of a store up the street
little way and was crossing over to
another store / was sure 1 recognized
Joe Mccain, fellow travelling man,
although wondered at bis being
down in that country, so hollered at
him:
Hel-1o-o-o-o, Mac!
"Three men were walking up the
railroad track at least hundred
yards away. They instantly stopped,
turned around, and each one of them
shouted back:
"'Hello!'
1.-TWO men came hurrying out of the
waiting room Of the station and
asked what was wanted. A man who
was mailing a board on fence two
blocks up the street dropped his ham
mer and walked smartly toward the
station. A window in house across
the track was quickly raised, and a
man with shock of red hair stuck
his head out and hollered:
"'Hello!'
-Four other citizens came hurried.
ly out of store on the other side of
the railroad, and looked inquiringly
toward me, but Joe Mccain didn't
look around, and in moment / saw
that he wasn't Joe Mccain at all.
"The train came along just then and
got aboard, puzzled at the commo
ton that shout of mine at the sup
posed Joe Mccain had caused among
so many citizens of the hamlet.
II was followed into the car by a
man who was standing on the station
platform near me when I hailed the
man Of mistaken identity, and who
seemed much pleased at the result of
it. He sat down in the seat ahead Of
me and said:
"'That was the first time you've
tried 'em, see. You didn't get a
rise out of as many of 'em as you
will after you get used to it. II /
had hollered EN- up, now, you'd have
thought there was a dog fight in town.
the way they'd have bobbed out to sec
what | wanted. You want to put
more lung in your holler to see 'em
show up right smart.
II began to think that the hamlet
was a fresh-air lunatic asylum, and
that here was another of it's patients
out for holiday. I guess I must
have looked my thoughts, for the man
quit his grinning and said:
"'You was trying 'em. Wasn't
your
81 told him wasn't trying any
body that / knew of, and explained
why I had happened to raise the shout
that seemed to have turned everybody
crazy.
"'Oh!' said he, that's funny. Then
I'll have to tell you about it,
"It's all on account IN Flora.
Flora Macdonald. You know the
story of Flora, of course? The beau
tiful Scotch lassie, who saved Prince
Charley.
"'Well, after she saved him she
married a Scotch muckamuck Of the
same surname as hers, and came with
him and big colony of canny Scotch
to this side of the water. They set
tied on the North Carolina coast,
somewhere about the present site of
Fayetteville, and got along first rate
when the colonies began to fight
the mother country, Flora Macdonald
didn't like it. She and her folks re
turned to her native land, and quite
number of her colonists went along.
"'But there was plenty of them
left when the war ended, and their de-
scendants are thick in all this part of
North Carolina. Thus it is, go where
woods full of Macs-Macleods, Mac
donalds, McBrides, McNeils, Mac
phersons, McCrummonses, Macivers,
McDuffies, Mackenzies, McDades,
Macleans, Macintoshes and hosts of
other Macs. One man back here in
the place we just left is what you
might call a triple Mac. His name is
Macdonald Macleod McIver
$50, IL you step into almost any
settlement around here in Moore coun-
ty, and along the Cape Fear river, and
boiler .Mac!" as you did back
yonder, only louder, you'll be apt tc
have pretty much every able bodied
man in the place answering the call.
And that's why 1 thought you were
trying 'em. SO, If you ever do try
'em, put more lung in your boiler, and
you'll get a rise that would make
Flora Macdonald weep tears Of joy
If she could only see it.
81 never tried it, but from what |
saw at that little hamlet I don't be-
lieve the man was giving me very
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