The daily sentinel., 1909-02-26

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the way.
A fog was still on, and we were
30 miles from Mobile But, when
morning came, we were at the city
wharf, for which 1 was very thank
full
l had to wait until 2 pm. to take
the train for my sisters home in
Shipman, Miss. Shipman is 81 miles
from Mobile. There is a gradual rise
from Mobile, and the country here is
htlly and covered with pine. There
is creek or stream running through
the town with plenty of fine black
bass and trout. | had a delightful
day in the woods.
My brother-in-law, Mr.. Shields, is
vice president and general manager
of the Interstate Lumber Company
here. The company has 9 miles of
railroad. Their passenger cars are
all fiat cars for hauling logs to the
mill.
When Mr.. Shields one morning in
quired il l would like to spend the
day in logging camp | very prompt
ly accepted the invitation. My sis
ter and father were also of the party.
While waiting for the cars we Wis
tied the negro quarters near the mill.
Their shanties or cabins have fire.
places at one end and the chimneys
are made of mud. We visited the
colored boarding house, and was en-
tertained by the host, who had a pi-
ano and played rag-time for us. His
wife, who was only II years of age,
had a 5-months-old pickanniny. the
cutest little thing.
When our train was ready we
climbed into the engine and started.
Myi but it was a rough road, up hill
and down. They often have wrecks.
and my sister was frightened-she
thought we were going to be killed.
We arrived at the camp boarding
house at II O'Clock. The cook was
not expecting company; SO we had
just what he had prepared for the
men. and we ate first before the
men came in. We sat at a long ta-
BILE without a cloth and sat on bench
es. We had fried pork, an inch
thick, collard greens, beans and rice
cooked together, canned corn, hot
corn bread and molasses, baking pow
der biscuit, the size our mothers with
numerous family used to make. no
butter dried apple sauce, coffee with
condensed milk and cereal pudding.
We all ate with an appetite which
our breezy ride through the pine
woods gave us, and enjoyed it.
After dinner we saw the logs
hauled to the cars by COX teams on
log wagons with two wheels s feet
in diameter, and then loaded onto
the cars by means of chain pulleys
The pine trees in this section are
called the long pine. 1t is called by
the natives long straw and short
straw pine. | gathered enough for
a pillow.
On our return we had an engineer
named Waite, who said he had been
a member of QuantrelPs band of des-
peradoes, and that he Joined the band
when he was 1 5 years old. He had a
wicked-looking old face and was
grabbed, and tried to see how fast
he could run in order to frighten us.
| sat up on the water tank and en-
joyed it. We arrived safely at home
at 6 O'Clock.
| know now what it means to
Flourish like the green bay tree.
Along the banks of streams and in
marshy places the bay trees grow
riantly-sometimes so feet high.
The leaves are a bright waxy green
resembling the magnolia very much.
There are enough bay leaves in this
Immediate vicinity to flavor soups for
the whole world. When my sister
was convalescing from typhoid the
doctor prescribed barley water for
her. Her husband sent to Mobile for
pounds of pearl barley: the grocer
sent pounds of bay leaves.
EMMA KEENE SULLIVAN.