The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-09-05

afternoon. The slough Is bayou OF
the upper Mississippi Fishermen
sometimes ind corpses there attached
to their lines.
See said Bristow. the story teller.
pointing TO bay on the western shore
OF the river. "sebastopoI was thex
once--a bloody town that went out In
the night. How do know who laid n
out or what became OF those who were
there? Perhaps the river swallowed II
up; perhaps lightning blasted IL out. 1
wasn't there. But right where the wa
ter's breaking on the bank now thu
town stood. and because the bluffs and
the hills bound II In they called II Sc
bastopoL and the sugar and wheat
boats came and went. the women and
children kidded about the streets, and
the men waited for the town TO make
'em all millionalres. All towns In that
Sioux and winnebago country were
gold mines In those days-days when
everybody had dream.
"a boat throws out her lines one
night and ties up, and when the cap
tain comes ashore and the best OF the
town Is going down his gullet he tells
as how the south Is for secession and
going to quit the north. He says In
the cotton fields men are working with
guns by their sides and that there IL
a new flag. one with stars and bars.
what was put up over the other with
stars and stripes. And II was all about
the niger. Sebastopol didn't care for
niggers. There wasn't one In town.
and those what come up on the boats
stayed on 'em when at Sebastopol. One
what come ashore they put at the foot
OF hill with the oak and the elm SO
thick that you couldn't see the top, and
they started him on the climb I'D with
the hounds after him. And II was mu-
sic TO the ears below when the hounds
reached him and his yell OF despair
was shut or with the yelp OF the dogs.
Did he get away? Nobody went to see.
He didn't come back, but the dogs did.
Fifteen hundred miles away from
washington. Sebastopol learns OF Sc
cession and decides it'll 20 out OF the
Union, too, and on a vote seventy-one
men Is for destroying the town dag.
which is n proper banner OF stripes
and stars. There was one man, a Yer
monter, whose name was Jessup, who
voted for the flag and he got his notice
that night 10 follow the niger over the
hills, only he didn't get the dogs after
him. He takes his rife. and he goes TO
the top OF the highest blum what over
looks Sebastopol. so high up he could
look right down into the town, and he
sets there all night l heard as how
when morning came some people, may
be women. sees him kneellng as II he
had prayers to say. ..--.. 49,.
Ten o'clock that morning the town
folk all meet In the little square what
was the landing place for the boats.
and there's some wood piled up there,
and over the top OF the wood two men
stretched the old flag. And then. TO
show they wasn't afraid, they brings
out little girl all dressed I'm white.
ana she has little torch. and she puts
that TO the wood, and II lights up. Per
maps In ten or twenty minutes the dag
and the wood are all gone. and Sebas-
topol Is satisfied that it's seeded. The
men was so excited that they didn't
work, and the women hung about the
doorways and wondered what would
come next. Somebody said as how the
south was going 10 take everything
along the river from New Orleans To
81 Anthony and as how Jen Davis
would he king. Some OF the Sebastopol
people knew him, because he'd been NJ
Fort Prairie du Chen when he was IN
The regular army.
While they We're all Specializing
looks up TO the top OF the hin
where Old Jessup had gone. ana there
hey sees the stars and stripes waving
rom pole and Jessup standing By n.
Gaming on his Gun aud looking down.
suppose he must have had Il IN his XII
or long time. II wasn't a big flag.
'ut big enough for all Sebastopol 10 see
and get redhot mad. The men goes
or their guns, the women get inside
he houses. and there's going 10 be
rouble sure. There was Just one way
D get M 20 Jcssup. and that was n
traight climb through the brush 10
There he was. couple Of men took
shot at him from the town. but he
ever moved. and the FIRST fellow that
OF anywhere near him Jessup gave
I'm warning and shot him dead. That
topped the others. and they went 10
oeculating They speculated all day
nd night and for several days, but
essup and the dag didn't move unti
hey got ready to.
When they did go nobody saw them.
al the next word what comes 10 Sc
lstopol was that the regulars at Fort
nelling had been notified OF what the
'wn had done and there was going 10
trouble. SebastopoI laughed, but
st like n woman who has the lung
ouble. not bad, but coming slow and
adual the town fades away. This
mily goes and that one, the docks
eak away, the flood comes, the
Nsts. l.