The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1908-07-10

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equality-that is, it is the man who
counts, not any position or anything
in the world but his personal merit
The floor Of the dance han was
crowded with every type of the min
ing community, two-thirds splendid
faces and figures, Just glorious men;
the other third dwindling from an
ordinary assortment of Fasteners
to really low type Mexicans. In all
this heat and exercise not the slight
est smell Of common people and
'funstian, ike there would be
even in a clean cottage in England,
and among the dozens who were
presented not one had a trace of
awkwardness, though their dress
was the rough miners, with great
boots, all clean and smart, and all
with a pistol gun, beg its par
dom in their belts, although it is
against the law-but grim death
turks here.
The dancing was the finest ! have
ever seen, the poetry of motion -
absolutely smooth and graceful.
They held their partners "a little
more clasped than we do, and the
woman's hands on the man $ should
ers, but the movement of the feet
perfect grace and rythm and glide
is unsurpassed. One could see it
was pure delight to them, and
they felt every note Of the music.
There was nothing rude or suggestive
in any Of it, only perfect motion
a muleteer in poor, shabby clothes,
with a hole in his boot, was the very
flower Of a courtierl All with that
poise and ease of well-born gentle .
men, none of the servants hall
would-be gallant" supremacy vuI- .
gar way of ordinary people at home, /.
or even in New York.
One tall miner was the image Of I
our Winston Churchill, and had all .
the easy nonchalance Of bearing Of .
a Beau Brummel. This quality is
the most striking, the perfect ease /
of courtly gentlemen. 1t is difficult /
to give a good description of the air
and atmosphere Not the least bit
or pretentious, no
boasting of Mayhower or ancestors
landing in 1920" They are more
like Englishmen Of the sans gene,
highest class, who are the real thing
and need not demonstrate the fact
in words.
One scene impressed me deeply
1t was in a private room Of a sa-
loon, where seven men were playing
very high at poker; and when the
bartender went to a cupboard to get
out more checks, we saw seven re
volvers pointing from it. | asked
why this was, and the proprietor
explained that on occasions when
the play was high they often end
I'd in shooting at each other. He
had to make it a rule for them to
put their guns up before they be-
gan! 1t was the grimmest sight one ,
'ould see. Another interesting in
,ident was listening to the prelim-
nary trial of man who had shot
another for peeping into his tent.
bout fifty men We're collected in (
he tiny shack which served as court
house, all more or less in shirts
md high boots and corduroys, and ]
most splendid creatures most of I
hem were! Three among them t
we're the most complete specimens
# what We call breeding in England,
hat Undesirable balance of line
md slenderness, exemplifed in a /
ace horse-lithe and hssome, and
heir Threats coming from the I'M
blue flannel shirts, with the y y
points Of the collars sticking up and {
10 tie, showed proportions Of young :
purely English in type. {
observed their names. They were a
English, too, but quite American to a
peak to. Q
Other types were like English :,
ailors, not more than ten out OF the b
fly suggested Latin or America, . n n
hitch was curious. They behaved p
18th the usual courtly politeness, s
nd might have been the Elton elev-
n in fannels or the Oxford eight.
All this goes to prove that fight pi