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The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21

with the Sunburnt Calves; "thatl De
about your form"
So l pitied the crew and went OIL
in pale pink pajamas, and the ten
foot yawl boat
The sail to the head of the bayou
was simple. Then there were two mics
to be punted to the long, narrow sllVer
of lagoon which lies inside the sano
dunes of the Mexican Gulf The cy-
presses and the black pines, and the
magnolias arched above the cut, ana
fronds of palmetto. which grew on
clumps of soil slashed at one IKE
knives. The atmosphere was not,
moist stew, Also there were flies IN an
abundance, which fancied themselves
masterless dogs, and bit accorulhsly'
The subsequent sail down the Ia
COON came as one OF the sever pie ..nI
ures of life. There was a great wall
of trees on the landward side 10
southwark. from over the rampllhs
line of dunes, came the dim below OF
II, # as It creamed and crumpled
or hite gulf, sand. And down the
81, ,ples of the lagoon there blew
an d. family salt, which chilled tne
wet cotton against ones spine anu
pushed the yawl-boat on with tne
twinkle of fountains under her s'eni
The lagoon bayed to an end, ana
there opened out another channel TO
be punted through narrow, winding
canal of twirls and branches through
ouaking marsh land, waterway
ablaze with yellow lilies. Carolndl
birds peered at one from the bushes
and purple herons thrust out curious
beaks from the grass clumps.
Then there came lake with lslanus,
a lake of water called by courtesy
fresh. which was lemon-yellow to look
through. and black to look upon. IL
swarmed with fish, which took the
hook. and were supped upon for tnelr
sins: and because there was no WINS
XIV in the yawl-boat for dilutlon, IL
served as a beverage in all its SUI
phurous nastiness. Then the sun ulP
ped behind the forests at the oach'
and night followed like the shutting
down of box. One mounted puil
eve lantern on the hat band whicn
would shine down a rifles sight and
put out again in the boat, padding
stealthily. 1t is not always easy TO
distinguish between a FREELY ana the
CLEAN from an alligators eye anu
shots are apt to be wasted ana the
neighborhood scared. But on that
night fortune helped. and the iead
went home six several times. Iheh
their slayer laid him down 10 sieep Oh
the boats floor, with his head pesiue
the center-board trunk.
So passed my first night away from
the sloop The morning was occu-
pied in the process Of SHINING ana
then once more on towards the East
There were more lakes ana more ca
nails, all full OF their own new Won
ders. ana ever away In the distance
on the atsrboard hand was the noise
Of the surf. In late afternoon ] came
20 a lagoon with wooded island ~
II, and among the trees ~ the island
when they grew distinct from one an
other. / saw n man.
I bore Gown 10 him undff hnb tvI
there was q spanking bif'ee '"inl -
HI frofn fhs seal. and when we Nefs
within hsBinR a.slarce the Npat
grounded. an A..
shouted,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21
CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER II.
The miasma of the lotus was in my
veins, and 1 knew it and feared.
awoke with the first lift of the day,
and 1 got to my boat, Atcheson came
after and cried pleasant auf wieder-
sehen, and l answered with a scowl
and threw out the SOULS. I was very
angry with myself. l had been in that
kind of tempta ton before, and knew
what il was to wish afterwards that
l had fallen.
Consequently l made up my mind to
get back to the yacht without a halt,
and so put in day of savage toll. And
when l made out the sloop's riding
light dancing on fler forestry / knew
there was an antidote close at hand .
The Man with the Sunburnt Calves
was a very carnal and practical sort
of person.
He received me affably.
THE Van Sciaks have come in with
their schooner" he said, land they've
you-a Miss Wilcoxn."
All" 1 said, Il know her well
enough. We used to see a goodish
deal of one another once"
"If you mean that you were spoons
on the lady" said the Man with the
Sunburnt Calves, Il guess you'd bet
ter forget that. She's engaged to a
man from Massachusetts now, a per-
son with culture and dollars-heaps of
dollars-about ten millions Of 'em, so
I believe. And being twenty-eight, she
knows what is soft thing, and is not
likely to chuck it up. Put on some
thing respectable, and Wen have the
crew scull US across"
mot now. At present I am going
to turn in to sleep"
did you" said the Man with the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21
AN ALABAMA HERMIT
BY CUTCLIFFE HYNE
Copyright by Cutclne Hvpe
BY CUTCLIFFE HYNE
Copyright, 1903, by Cutcline Hvpe.

I don't mind if | do"
Ihen shove off again and drop down
70 the tail of the island, and huff m
sharp where you see a barked tree on
the beach. There's no deep water
TIL you come to there"
dld as he told me, put the boats
nose on a small beach of pebbles. and
waited smoking. l waited half an hour
maybe, and then he strolled up very
leisurely, with his thumbs in the waist
oeIt OF his trousers. l can't say he
seemed oVerpleased to see me. He
asked with point what had come for.
Oh, I'm hunting alligators profess
sionally. I'm here for amusement"
l concluded that he was there be-
cause he had got into trouble with the
law of the land or elsewhere, but / did
not suggest this. because it is consid-
! ered rude to touch upon family matters
unlimited. But after minute be
+ preached the topic himself.
I'm here for amusement myself" he
said. I'm here permanently"
By this time we had got into a bit
of clearing inside the wall of trees-a
patch of sorghum, another of sweet po-
tatoes, another of corn with stalks
that stood ten feet high, and a goodly
planting of green tobacco plants, with
stumbling palmetto shuck at the
back.
Faith" I said, you've queer no.
tons of pleasure resort"
I'm a man. he said, with an i'm
agination Consequently 1 make most
comfortable hermit. Come in and take
a hammock"
Ee was Harvard man. 1t was Won
derful what lot of people we knew in
common when we began to talk things
over, and it turned out that we had
rowed against one another on the Hud-
son.
"Of course" he broke out, at once,
you are the MacHinne who swan
down in your clothes the last night OF
the races because you said you hadn't
been allowed a decent dip all through
the training"
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the outer world; but presently the talk
died out of us altogether. We lay
there, hung in silence, sensuously
drinking in what the night gave up.
Then Atcheson spoke. That is my
usual concert" he said. "One gets to
like it,"
1 did not answer at once. 1 could
rot. A sort of mesmeric doze pinned
me down.
When 1 managed to rouse 1 felt an
CRY with myself for weakness. and
spoke with a sneer. You must find 1t
mighty monotonous," 1 said.
"A mistake. an utter mistake. 1t
is full of infinite variety; it never re-
peats itself; and I know. because 1
have listened to it now for three years,
in calm, in cyclone, in every kind OF
night"
Another pause Then, "Are you go
ing to write about this Walden Pond
of yours?" l asked.
Il am no Thoreau with a pen Be
sides, am selfish, and if l could set
this down l would not. One man IN
ten thousand might understand. The
others would either yawn or deride
and 1 take it this is no matter to De
profaned. Listen to the Gulf SURF
rumbling on those beaches"
at is like the roar of the Prater, or
the Strand, the Rambla, or Broadway,
as it comes to an upper window"
You can hear that; l can make out
more, because my ear is trained.
can hear the voices and what they say
= the tales of love and hope and hate.
l can read in it all without being
mixed in the dirt and the pains and
the squalor And it is very beautiful
also. What picture did you ever See
like that?'
He waved his hand to where the led
moon and patch of purple sky hung
framed in a black arch of the pines.
In the foreground the lake lay twink
ling beyond a great fan of palms. On
the flank was spread a thick magno-
liza tree, full of scented blossoms.
I raised myself with an effort, and
swore for relief. 'Atcheson.' ] said,
Il believe you are either the devil
or Gree, with a changed sex. Be mer-
ciful and speak no more. If ] listen
l shall forget the place from whence
1 am come. and stay here. and be-
come as ore of the swine
Il am sorry" Atcheson said. land
because do not want converts or
companions l will say no more. There
fore sleep you"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21
CHAPTER 1.

AS matter of accuracy nv Yacht
mate was far more guilty than I He
had gone a-fishing one day with his
trousers rolled to his knees, and had
spent eight hours sandwiched in he
tween wind and water, and had natur-
ally returned with his calves bitten red
raw by the sun. He developed a tenn
per in consequence that would have
made him Stunned in the Pit. and T
was driven into a deed of temporary
separati ton.
But first, as I am standing here on
my defense, let it be clearly under
stood that l found Atcheson before I
knew Miss Wilcoxn was yachting with
the Van Sciaks in Mobile bay. I had
seen her last in Fifth avenue draw
ing room, and Gf the complete truth
be told) had slipped her from nv
thoughts with perfunctory hand
shake.
Being ignorant of Atcheson's EXIST
ence, l naturally did not seek fol him
specially. He lived two days deep in
swampy country, which is not yet
charted in the United States maps. Our
yacht was then in the bayou of Bon
Secours (Which opens off Mobile bay),
and the Man with the Sunburnt Calves
said, with many adjectives, that move
ment for him was out of the question.
He remarked that he would stay on
the sloop and fish for gaff-topsls (as
they call the catfish), and cavallos, and
shepherds and indeed whatever else
he could get.
He also stated that our crew (of one
colored NAM would make a suitable
butt for his future remarks, and put
forward the suggestion that 1 should
take myself off.
go and hunt alligators up the la
goons, and live like a savage in the
swamps, and catch fever if there's
any throwing about" said the Man
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Harris Springs, S. G.

has a disease vulgarly known as the
hump"
ITS enjoyable enough while you
have that" said Atcheson, but when
the hump goes. the bottoms knocked
out of the hermit business altogether
What filthy. squalid brute l must
have been all that time"
But you liked 1t well enough"
Il believe l did, in my morbid way.
But it's over and done with now,
thank heaven! and I'm going to mar.
ry Yum Yum. Yum Yum, your anger
pray larry oh, bother, I've forgot
ten the words. it's so long since they
were sung. Jove! l shall have a lot
to pick up again"
That's a fact" said. Ordinary
sanity among other things. And so
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21

you're going to marry Mary Wilcoxn
after all?"
Its a sure thing. OF course, her
people were mad, because I'm not very
well off. don't you know; and the 9TH
err Johnnie's people are mad, too at his
being cut out But you're the person
they can't get over. They will persist
in it that you are at the bottom of the
whole thing. Isn't 1t delightfully."- fun
ny!"
But / don't think IL funny at ALL
make quite sufficient enemies of my
own bat for personal consumption
And, besides. as l have said, II the
other fool hadn't got his calves sun
burned l shouldn't have gone off solus
in the yawl-boat. nor meddled with
Atcheson at all.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21

barney fier an as hate to leave with
out givin' you sumthin'.. Eff you'll SEN
your waggin to the blackgum pom you
kin take the pile o. pine straw l raked
10 trash your stables. "
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21

Sunburnt Calves, lin the course Of
your wanderings find a place where
they sold whisky? I hope it's
merely mountain dew that's troubling
you, my son. because otherwise you've
come back very dotty."
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CORRESPONDENTS STORY.

London, Sept. 3.-The Daily Nails
correspondent in dispatch from Mon
astir dated August 81, tells of an in
effectual attempt he made to pene-
trate the Albanian Gordon and reach
ArmenSko.
He was threatened with death and
compelled to return under a guard. He
gives numerous instances of Turkish
brutality and treachery. The villagers
of Armensko were massacred before q
single insur gent visited the place. The
inha bitants of the village of Nevolkas.
near Florina were butchered while on
their way to Florina under guard, after
having surrendered on guarantee Of
immunity.
The European residents of Monastir,
including the consuls are in state of
great anxiety. Many including the
Italian consul, have recently been in
suited by soldiers.
Operations were commenced last
on an organized scale against
the insurgents, and bodies of troops
are operating in all directions, but
no details have been received.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-04
A DECISION FOR ATTELL COLORADO HOSIILITlES
Story of the Fight and the Temper Of
the Crowd We're Against 1t.

st. Louis, Mo. Sept. 3.-Abe Attell.
of San Francisco tonight received the
decision over Johnny Regan of New
York, in twenty-round contest for
the worlds featherweight champion
ship. weight 122 pounds at the ring
side. The contest was one of the clever
est and fastest ever seen here.
Regan showed a remarkable clever
ness in blocking and in fighting and
so perfect was his guard that it seem
ed almost impossible for Attell to ger
through. His inside work troubled
Attell considerably. Abe seemed unable
to land an effective blow. while on the
other hand Regan repeatedly sent left
and right to head and stomach. caus-
ing AttelI to vince and frequently ap-
peal to the referee.
Attell seemed clearly beaten for the
first fifteen rounds. In the sixteenth
round Abe sent in left and d right
which shook Johnny up considerably
and the tide changed to the Califor
mans favor. From then on Abe had
but slightly the better of it. In the
nineteenth round Abe rushed Regain to
the ropes and sent in several stiff
punches. ReGan came back strong. but
his punches in the stomach and cheek
landed lightly. He. however, failed to
even up matters. The twentieth was
give and take with honors about even.
The decision was receiEad with som.
signs of disapproval
James j. Corbett was present al the
ringside-
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TURKS ON TOP
InsurreCtion Seemingly not
Making Great Headway
STORIES OF CRUELTY
Which Night Most Naturally Be Ex-
pected-The Tale Told by a Cor
responder Of the London Nail.

Sofia, Sept. ga council presided
over by Prince Ferdinand and attended
by the premier and the ministers of the
interior, war and justice was held at
the palace of Euzinograd. near Varna
today. The announcement of the re-
suit of the deliberations is anxiously
awaited here.
No definite news was received today
regarding the operations of the insur
gents across the frontier. Bands
varying in strength are daily passing
over the border
The insurgent general staff has is
sued a proclama ton throughout Mace
donia asking for the support OF the
whole population and pointing out that
the revolutionaries are not fighting for
a neighboring power, but for human
rights.
More fighting is reported from the
district of Debre. The Turks attacked
the revoiutionists at the village of
Dambehia, and both sides suffered
heavy losses. A company of Albanian
troops passing through the valley of
Kitschero was slaughtered by the
revolutionists. The Turkish troops re
Gently made an attempt to take pass
occupied by the insurgents through the
valley of the Sateska river but were
defea ted with great loss
A dispatch from Rila, near the Turk
ish frontier, says a courier has arrived
there with copy of the proclamation
of a general insurrection.
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conference with Governor Peabody
since early iii the evening waiting for
word from the commission by the gov
ernor to the Cripple Creek district to
make a personal investigation. Word
was received shortly after midnight
that the commission was in session at
the National Hotel at Cripple Creek.
and that it would not be ready with
its recommendation for several hours.
The commission consists of Attorney
General Miller, Brigadier General
John Chase. of the national guard and
Lieut.. Z. L. McClelland, leading at
torney of Denver. No intimation has
been given out as to their probable
conclusions.
Specials from Cripple Creek tonight
say that quiet prevails there. Mayor
w. l.. Shockey is quoted as denying
the report that he has Joined in an
appeal to the governor for troops. He
says that from present indications he
does not expect to make any such re-
guest.
News from: Telluride Durango, Sill
verton is to the effect that no change
has taken place in the situation at
those places. The miners union is es-
tablishing restaurants and rooming
houses for accommodation of the
strikers.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-04
MONEYS REBELLION
Against the Authority Of President
Mitchell Of the Nine Workers.

Kansas City. Mo, Sept. 3.-James
Mooney, the district leader who is re-
garded as responsible for the Novin-
ser coal strike, is asserted to be holding
out against John Mitchell to further
his alleged aspirations for the presi
dency of the United Mine Workers of
America. Mr.. Mooney has, it is stated.
worked at cross purposes with Presi-
dent Mitchell ever since before the
Pittsburg, Kansas, conference two
months ago, when Mitchell went so far
as to tell Mooney TO sit dcwn and keep
still.
In any event the situation in the
Novinger district promises to furnish an
interesting fight. Now that the miners
there have violated the agreement
reached by President Mitchell and the
miners at Chicago recently. the oper-
ators say they will make nc effort to
conciliate the strikers. The operators,
furthermore. have told the national
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board of the United Mine Workers that
they expect the board to control its
own men. and that if they fail to do so
they will be unable to deal with the
officers cf the national organization at
the Kansas City conference next week,
when it was hoped all differences would
be wiped out.
Thus the situation has developed
into a question of authority. If the
men still refuse to work after Vice
President T. J. Lewis of Bridgeport. O..
who has been sent into the field by
President Mitchell. talks with the strik-
ers, the next move, it is said. may be
the suspension of Mooney and the local
unions involved.