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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-15
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milk Cove had collected mighty nlgh every Cracker male and feemale, for twenty miles; most of em barefooted and chawin' away on their sweet-gum snuff brushes. There was one awful booty gal there. She was a human hollyhock' pig, and strong and eyes like stars, and the mint l seen her 1 begun to cotton up 10 her as soft as goose-grease' "a9 right smart of a good looker' myseh' on this ocea' shun, as l had on lot or glad rags from Atlanty red cravat, Ian shaes blue shirt. and q green cellulold collar; and as 1 could talk like nut fer mill. it warn't long before l mad a ,inn tomato mash on that mountain non evsllclxle I danced with her the rust set and the way l handed them hupe ihe latest thing in the way of cuttn the DUCK and the buzzard lope and the Plney Wooas prance and other terpslchorean stunts, jess simply made their eyes pulse out like busted grapes. Them gangling jays iess stood round in the corners, when they warnt out talxin' a drink, and glared at me same as wildcats. When the secun dance was called l hoped out on the floor mighty spry with my podner ana handed out some more miscellaneous ca pers not invoiced in the first shipment; greatly to the admiration or my slii. When we quit each of us had compla- cent smirk as tckled as kid with his first long pants. l shore felt that she was the belle of the ball, and l was the bell weather. and that Old Terpsy the inventor of dancing would have felt proud of us if he could have been thar
 a Hadn't moren got to our sets arter the dance when a lop-sided youth with waller hair and brooches so loose that they looked ias if 8 whole family had moved out'en 'em. sidled up to where we were sitting and drawled. Stranger
 I.ifus Higginbottom wants to see yer in the naixt room.
 a.Who Lifus IIigginbottom? l asked
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dialogue where he can't lie, he post-pones
 the conversaich to the next day. In d
 play whur mendacity is the stakes the | Atlanty drummer is the whole deck with | five aces and a. hoss-pistol on the side. Me and the snuff drummer was argy- | fyin, about diff unt breeds of men, ana l their habits, and reelatin to each other train robberies and divers fracases Whur tubs of blood had been shed, and sich, when Old Snuffy cuts in with eepisode with a catch in 1t, which your Uncle Bunk bit at, and got chawed good fashun. Sez he, ''You moonshiners has some booty | hectic scrimmages, but the casooalities re- sultin tharfrom don't add up like it does l among your cousins, the Crackers. over | in Georgy. If thar is any diff5unce be- tween the moonshiners and the crackers, | besides that of climate. and locality 1t | is that the Cracker is the fiercer, more | blood thirsty and more ready to devour his prey after slayin' him than you'uns | is You fellers are homicides, all right, | but you don't mutilate your victim-you | simply slaughters him and lets 1t go at | that. Now the Geory Cracker aint built | that way His thirst for gore ain't sat lated until he piles up a fust-class holo- l caust and sheds blood enough to paint | a car-shed
 | lover on Hefer creek, at Bulls Gap,
 in Buttermilk Cove Coweta county. Ga, I saw the most people killed in fight | all of 'em Crackers. that his'try makes | any mention of, and I was a innercent ] participant in. the ruction at the time. 1 That section of the country is a days | ride from railroad and their habits and customs is adzactly similar to what they | was when Noah come outen the Ark. | Them folks is mighty earnest about ! drinkin likller, and havin' dances, hunt in coons, fightin chickens and maxim sorghum syrup but they ain't so fervid | on work, 1earnin' and shavn'. They are | free and onfettered, all right. but they are that g'nunt they don't know 'B' from | Bulls foot. Simplest gang of outcasts
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every lection for Gin'nul IIaick'ry Jack con and they'd lambaste feller booty nigh to death if he told 'em Old Hick was deceased and not Twin any more. They are shore simple to the limit. They blow with little red bulls, hitched in with
 bark and raw-hide harness, they pick blackberries and gnsing roots for sale and peddle dried apples and rabbit skins for q livin' and in addition to all this every blame critter of em is d artist at stlllin corn likker. They dip snuff and
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CHRONICLES OF DON 0.
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to accompany the bearer of your letter. No -more.
 T repeat" stammered Majad, that it is impc ssible. How unlucky for you," You are chivalrous-she is a woman," pleaded Don Felipe. !. "Senor." said Don e.. in his softest manner write the letter: and if you have any influence with Dona Rosita as .You say you have, use 1t to bring her here"
 Resistance was hopeless. Majada's shaking hand produced the words
 You have hnished? demanded the chief gently
 Yes" puffed Don Felipe.
 Then add this postscript. If she loves you it will cause her to fly io your s.de.' The exquisite courtesy of the brigand's manner only depened with each sentence. Write senor; Don O. desires me to add that if you are not here by o'clock I shall be buried at quarter past"
 "senor." protested Maiada misea5ly. sthis-is-'
 1The iruth--no more"
 s1t'Whtn she comes we will have a .nlk and apportion the guilt" returned the chief agreeably. .She is an important witness. Now, senor you know the course that events Will take Let us dismiss all thoughts of the future: the future Will take care of itself. In the meantime the air of our mountains is excellent. have packets ol tobacco from Havana, also excellent: and most excellent of all, some wine of the dora- dillo grape. I foresee that we may sing song together. and gossip of the old romnnces You shall tell me of the life from which have divorced myself. and ] will relate to you how many of your eid acquaintances came to me in the mountains, and how some of them Jeff me-
 But not even this programme appealed to Don Felipe Majada. He drank wine but more and more he steeped himself in ~~ gloom of terror. Talk he could not,
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The Yarn of the Snuff Drummer
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I.three shakes of a sheep's tail. Sc l gives
 you a fair chance. Git ready to take your medsin I'm gwine to cyarve your hide into doll-rags"
 'Skurcely knowin' what I was doin'
 and literally skeered into jim jams pick
 ed up one of the knives from the table
 and faced that murderer. In second
 Lfus sprang forward like a panther
 and saw his arm poised above me as
 long as a telephone pole. l was so badly
 rattled that my knife dropped from my
 hands to the floor. In another second
 fifus' weapon would have plunged mo
 my unprotected breast, but a sudden
 inspiration flashed into my dazed mind.
 Acting on the providential idea, l seized
 the candle from the table and touched
 him with il as quick as lightning. When
 l recovered my senses l was lying In
 the yard with the window sash hung about my neck. and the ruins or the house was scattered over haif acre. Here and there stuck np an arm, or leg of the lanky fellers who had lately been in the room and the groans of I4ifus' unfortunate podners who had been usher- ed into eternity by the force oL the ter rife explosion was somethin awful
 Just here l couldn't hold my grip on | my'sef any longer and so l butted In l with q question: What explosion are i you torlxn about2
 Why. Lifus," replied that malignant 1 snuff drummer. the explosion of Lifus l Higglnbottom? He busted into ten million 1 fragments. You know l told you at the | beginnin' that Lfus was a Cracker, didn't l l. eh? Flaw. Hawl Yah. har sold ergin. l by gannyn
 1 "Wen suh I considered that the bev- erages was on me, and l got out the 1 jug, and the ingredients. but the next
 time your Uncle Bunk gifts caught by
 CT travelin' man with a ranikaboo sell l Ike that want my friends to make application 10 have a ardeen appointed
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IN ALABAMA


s..
 That thar Lige boy went projectin' oyer to sam Eddurd's Unfair las night, whur they had somepin to eat and a dance, ahd weddin fxin's ginnully; and heafeels like he was grown man this mornin. He reels off to me some of the eepisodes of that soshnl function, which was a record breaker, for the Scratch- ankle nayberhood He lows to me. Had the bullfest time jevver seed. Ike Raw son got drunk and disremembered Whur he had his liklxer, out. doors, by the hltch- in post and me and thur Ross boys fouho it. onbeknowenest to Ike. Bill-Posey ana Pee Nicely fout a fist and skull f1te, re- sultin in Pee chawin' off Bills left year Then one of the fddlers had a fit, and fell off'en the table, breakin one of his slats. The floor sagged in the middle, stampedin' all ther dancers; an l eat so much grub I had to take kinds or fisk atterwuds.'
 "It aint often your Uncle Bunk gifts sold out by a rank stranger as Is gifted with gab, but the mention of our humble half baked style of dances sorter fetches to mind a unhappy 'casion when 8 Att lanty drummer for a snuff factory treed me and got me crar out on limb. It was along about last Easter-recollect it was that date cause my young snap beans got Killed that same mornin, when me, and a lot of leadin' citerzens was collogin', and canoodlin about Bud Rawsons still house. swappin lies and quaffin' hoss liniment, and gitting amiable as pictur of Liddy Pinkham. Arter we had tucked a gill or so of inspiration onder our belts for the severalth time. the snuff Pilgrim onlimbered hissef and lets the whey out en us with a loorid lot of yarns which 'ud make the widest fiction blush like a rose. N. R. Mus the boss prevaricater of of Scrptur ain't in the same class with CT Atlanty drummer Munch. Hausen is a Sunday school infunt-class. pupil as compared to him. Whenever a traveller from that Gate City gifts to place in a
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the female hollyhock. She sorter squgee' ed ai ound twittered a little. and gurgled; "Teel heel Oh, me- and Lifus is goin' to git spliced nex' week. Lifus like as not. wants to kill yer, but 1 likes yer stranger, more'n 1 does Lifus, so what you do is to git hump on you, fight Ike wild cats, and eff you put out Lifns chunk I'll morry you stead of that catawampus' ateful vilyun.'
 "T warn't hungern' for immortality so abrupt. and | thinks to myself that l am the balmiest brand of Idiot that ever left his parents shelterin' roof to go buttin' in to Lifus privacy thiserway' but the gal was lookin' d me with them big shinin' eyes, and l jess had to pun myself together and make a biuH at soih in to see what was wanted, tho ] made up my mind to make all sorts or humple apologies and take all kinds of water before 1 would arouse the wrath of q Cracker with a name like that.
 About a dozen long haired, lank SIX footers was loungng about in the next room, waitin' to see the fun, and my yaler haired guide pointed finger and said, That's Lifus" l5e was indicatin
 q hairy giant six feet four, with neck like bull, who stood by a table on which there was but one single light given foarth by a sputterin tallow cam dle This yere shaggy and forbiiddn' outlaw threw couple of bowie knives down on the table, the long nine-inch blades of which glittered coldly in the candle-light, and 1 could feel the goose bumps begin to break out all over me at sight of the cold steel, and then he said mighty sooperellious. Stranger. you pick up one of them knixes and git q move on you, case Pm gwine to crawl your hump a lot I'm due to kill you. OF you to butcher me in less'n five ninits | An don't you hang up no bluff that yoe l Is sick and can't fight tf yon don't foul ! we'll string you up to T oak limb ir
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A Horse of Another Color.

From IIarpers Weekly
 other guests $ man whose greatest pride Is in his stables. Knowing of this, and wishing to pay him some little compl- ment on his recent track successes. the hostess directed that the ices be moulded into the form of horse heads, and there was also brought on a group of horses made from the same material.
 That. l suppose. one of the guests remarked. pointisg to the group, lis the chefs chevsl de bataille."
 "Oh. no.' another laughed: his she- yaux de frlse."
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eat dirt, sing out en these old four-note fiat hime books and wear homemade clothes dyed with poke-berries and cop peras.
 At fust I used to have heart-falure at sight Of these crackers. but the moun- tain store keeps bought so lavish of snuff for 'em that l got so | didn't heed 'em, and sorter looked on em as nearly half civilized and finully 1 onbent to that de- gree that l occashunnally attended their shin digs This we're dance in Butter
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But a beautiful tgress," he amended.
 Pray accept my warm congratulations. cannot answer for her qualities as a wife, but 1 am very sure the Sonora Majala will make very charming widow"
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trT1HIS mounting country is ex- i, nberent in athletic amoose-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01

The southern cook says that ono se.
cret OF making the turkey tender is to
make Il rest on its breastbonc instead
OF ON its back when IN the pan. In
this way the juices are more evenly
distributed Rnd every part Of the bird
IL tender and delicate. A biz OF pork or
bacon tied over the meat while cooking
adds a iino navor 90 the meat stun
the bird with bread or celery, chest
nuts or oysters. according 10 taste aud
purse.
In France they are apt 20 pnrboil NJ.
Dnde. or they roast him without stun
ing. lie isn't as good as when cooked
In his native land
In Russia they split him and broll
him before a big open nro. lie Il usu'
ally hlackened aud burned before be
ing served. and when he comes 20 the
table he IL smotherq1 In hot sauce.
In England they know nothing about
making him tonder. They cook him as
they would a roast-until the blood no
longer runs-and then they wonder
why he II tough and marvel that be
should be- our national bird of feasting
In Germany they get NO the bird
beautifully. but look out. In the inte'
rior win lurk bologna sausage, put
there 20 flavor the meat II n all right
II you like II
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
New ren peIIeaeIes.

A popular girl. with gift for cook
cry. found means Of Increasing her
income by booming certain preparn.
tions supplied 10 her by n Wholesale
house IN 30 clever n manner that no
one suspected her OF having any inter
est In any business
She Instituted a series Of afternoon
teas. 20 which she invited all her large
circle OF friends and acquaintanees'
and soon became noted for her dell
clous tea. The tea was not made 10
the ordinary way. but was sweetenod
with rock candy, maraschino cherry
being added 10 each cup. Hhe next
made q speciality Of cakes and Dew
erages Ia which she could use whipped
cream 10 which vanilla fagoring had
been added. This gave % both tea
and chocolate a most fascinating Ma,
yoF. These essences were changed
from time 90 time and included almond
and orange rayoring.
A great deal cf interest was aroused
by the success OF these afternoon teas
Questions began 70 be asked BY Der
numerous friends. and Il can readily
be seen how valuable an agent shs
uroved 20 that wholesale house. fof
she popularity Of their speciaities %
came established without any erpen'
awe advertising or booming.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
Tnkcs Fire Prccnntions.

Lieutenant Frank Lahm, who Is
now the worlds champion ballonist, "
said an aernaut in New York, us a
young man with a muscular figure
and a resolute face. He is remark
able in aeronautics for his skill and
his prudence.
Il once heard an inventor describ-
ing 10 him a rather poor invention
in the way of a safety anchor,
"a safety anchor, eh?' said
Lahm, Well. with that anchor
should be about as frightened as the
old lady In the skycraper hotel.
This old lady, on being assigned
to a room on the nineteenth floor,
asked the bellboy neryously II the
proprietor had taken any precau-
tions against dre.
Yes, ma'am. said the bellboy;
he has. The place Is insured three
times lts real value. Indianapolis
Star.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
SOUTHERN RECIPES.
Z Few Famous Dishes OF Historic
Hostcssez.

Few Famous Dishes OF Hiatortc
Hostcsses.
A delightful book for the housekeep-
er's table is Famous old Recipes" I"
sOmpiled by two Philadelphia women.
Here are few of the recipes:
sally Lunu. by Mrs. ID. Ii. Maury,
Richmond, Va.-Take a quarter pound
OF butter. one pound -four. two eggs,
one-half gill Of yeast or one-half yeast
cake dissolved In a little warm water,
milk enough to make soft dough-
one-half teaspoonful of salt. Cut no
the butter and melt In the warm milk.
When the milk is lukewarm stir II into
the flour with the eggs beaten very
light, then add the yeast. Butter the
mold in which II is 20 be baked care
fully, pour In the mixture aud In win
ter set near the fre to rise. When per
fectly light and risen TO top of Turks
head bake in moderate oven.
Wafles, by Miss Logan. Kentucky
One pint OF sour cream. two pluts Of
flour, three eggs. one tcaspoonful Of
soda, three tablespoonfuls OF melted
lard and q little salt. Beat the eggs
separately and put the -four and sour
cream In with the yellows Make the
batter very thin with sweet milk.
Add lard then soda dissolved In a lit
tie milk ana lastly the whites of the
eggs Bake quickly In very hot irons.
Okra Gumbo, an old Creole Recipe.
Fry slowly toyether one sliced onion
and tablespoonful OF drippings or a
slice Of salt pork Add u pound OF lean
beef cut In small pieces and stew
quickly Dredgc with n heaplng Ia.
blespoonful OF -four aud cook until
brown Add three pints Of boiling wa.
ter, one pint OF peeled aud sliced to-
matoes ana one pint OF sliced okra.
Cover and simmer for an hour and a
half, adding salt and pepper 10 taste.
Chicken may bc used instead OF beef
or crabs or shrimp In the latter case
these should be previously boiled and
the meat picked out aud added last.
A little chopped ham is always an I'm
proyement serve with boiled rice,
The gumbo should nc very thick when
served
Dolly Madisou's Whlm; This Ii Mrs
Dolly's own Favoritc cake and Was
Taken From the Original Book.
pound OF -four, one pound OF sugar
one pound OF butter. one pound OF raj
sins stoned aud chopped six eggs. u
wlneglnss OF brandy. one nutmeg. u
tablespoonful of mace. one dessert.
spoonful OF soda dissolved In "A wine
glass OF hot water Beat the butter q
cream. rub the y1lks OF the eggs
aud the sugar together and the butter
whip the whites OF the eggs 10 a stin
broth aud add alternately with the
-four then the brandy and the nut
meg aud lastly the soda. Stir the
whole mixture lightly and quickly aud
bake In a deep pan with the same heat
required for poundcake. - New Yori
Te egram.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
THE BEAUTY QUEST.
Happiness. smiles and Exercise
Roads 90 Coed Looks.

Happiness. smiles and Exercase
Roads 90 Coed Looks.
The more beautiful a woman is the
more painful is the road that leads tc
old age and vanished charms. and ev'
cry one should study how to retain
them. Great Is the shock when. after
few years absence, one sees the
change that time has wrought IN
friends and consequently must feel
sure IN themselves, but years deal far
more kindly with some than with 9th
ers, ana the difference generally lies n
the persons themselves Those who
look we'll. as some do 20 the end. have
preserved and not given In 20 the as.
saults Of time.
But happily there are not nearly such
marked changes apparent nowadays In
a few years as there used 20 be. be
cause people devote themselves TO the
culture OF the appearance aud tread
the road that leads to good looks aud
to their preservation. The present
methods OF beauty culture do not as
sert themselves, and there Is little trace
OF how II Is done. II there Is visible
makeup" the success has only been u
half and half one. for there Is much
moral restraint required TO be beauti
ful. Look round at an assembly OF
people over thirty or forty. II is not
thclr features only that give them age.
but the expression. the worried. hard
look In the eyes. the pcevish, dlscon.
tented lines OF the mouth, the lack OF
hope and JOY visible on the face.
Cultivate happiness. smiles aud
laughter. They keep you young. Take
exercise In the open air daily. Air Is
ali essential Begin from your earliest
days TO sleep with your window open
and not only have bath every day,
but rub and stimulate the skin In your
bath from the head 90 the heel. Never
neglect 20 20 through some exercises
which will keep the muscles In order,
the head erect the shoulders well
thrown back Carriage stands you IN
good stead even IN old age Aud re.
member that beauty " complexion de
pends upon four things perfect dlgcs.
ton, good blood. an active liver and
good circulation. To improve all Of
these functions the same prescription
viii answer. and Il n; Deep breathing,
plenty Of pure wnter eight glasses n
day y-frcsh vegetables and salads, suih'
Client sleep TO keep the nerves quiet.
outdoor exercise every day, little or no
alcohol, tea. coffee or drugs OF any
kind and particularly the powders and
potlons taken for nerves and insomnia,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
Remarkable Cure.

Il was much afflicted with sciatl-
ca" writes I'd, c. Mud, Iowaville,
sedgwick Co., Kan, going about or
crutches and suffering a deal of pain.
l was induced to try Ballard's Snow
Liniment, which relieved me.
81 used three soc bottles. 1t is
the greatest liniment | ever used I;
have recommended It to number
of persons; all express themselves IA
being benefited by It. | now walk
without crutches, able to perform a
great deal of light labor on the
farm"
25c, soc and S1.OO. Sold by d. }
Fry's drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01

sYou must have bad faith In my set
ting we'll" said he eonFaleseeiil
brightly. -or you'd never have brought
me something pretty 70 wear" And
Immediately she tried the dainty lace
turnover collar on
That sst t1e Visitor a-thinking.
Ehs had brought that partieulnr SORT
q Gift simply from a eesiTe 20 tkSs
somsthing that was ouf of ms oftl
nary. But n it really snggerind SO
fing vel aud getting out. why. thers
wns mueh more suDgiefy IN Ne cnoiss
Il ssfsH mat miEnt b taken inte 40
aou1l Wien oeallng WITH leEaii0&
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CURRENT
TOPICS
TODAY
Prepared for the Public Schools
and the Family Circle.

Japan Is making extensive pFepa'
rations In anticipation OF war
with China. The dispute between
the governments arises over the
claim Of Kando island by corea' Il
being also claimed by China. Japan
will back COrea.
At a Thanksgiving service In New
York. held by negro churches Rev
W II. Brooks bitterly denounced the
President for diseharging negro
troops. and demanded that congress
return them 20 service.
The cathedral Of the Sacred Heart
N Richmond. Va, was dedicated
THURSDAY, the most distinguished
catholic prelates in the country par
The interstate commerce eonnis-
slon viii propose the government
Withdraw all coal lands from the
market. and have the coal lands
leased. The commission believes
tbis would prevent coal inmines' ana
.lso combinations 10 raise prizes
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
sure Cure for piles.

Itching piles produce moisture and
cause Itching. this form as well as
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Pilos
are cured by Or. Bo-san-ko's Pie
Remedy. Stops Itching and bleeding.
Absorbs tumors; soc a jar at drug
gists, or sent by mail Treatise free.
Write me about your case. Dr. Bo-
sanko. Phila., Pa.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01
A nrNurNE srEcIMrs.

period. The shape is but slightly mod
lhed; the dolphin feet instead Of claw
feet mark Il as rare. It's comparative
length furnishes fair index 10 i's
genuineness. as most Of the new "an'
tlques" are manufactured on shorter
lines.-Good Housekeeping
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-12-01

As surely as children learn to
speak the language OF their parents.
so surely will HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea make them well and
keep them well. Tea or Tablets. 80
cents For sale at Or. Stones store.