Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-09-22


grave, being more agile, squinel-like ran
up large tree, whence he could safely,
with thumb on nose, wag his fingers at
the bull but portly Warner, unfortun-
ately, found only smaller sapling, where
he was scarcely out of the reach OF the
bull, who kept paving, believing, and
pushing against the small trunk-per-
chance instinctively perceiving the slight
hold of his man, and that "all things will
come down to him who waits" Then
Warner, very thoroughly terrified at the
CORY prospect, sang out Justify to Mus
grave:
"Jake Jake You mach Sciens ofer
dare"-or,in military parlance, he wanted
Musgrave to make diversion and direct
the attack on his safe position.
Perchance it was the same bull who
cornered old General B.. He, finding
no pontoons to cross the fence, turned
on his bullShip, and not metaphorically,
but actually, seized him by his long horns,
and by sudden twist threw the bull over
on his back, and thereupon gave him a
good piece of his mind, in strong German,
about his bad habit and i'll manners in
butting in where he wasn't wanted.
This is not so good story as OF the
Irishman who, seeing bull paving and
believing over the fence, thought it
would be such pleasant joke to get over
the bars and rub his bullship'S nose in the
dirt he was paving; but on trying 1t, was
thrown over into a pile OF broken stone.
He rose up, rubbing his bruises, and re-
marked:
elisa dom good thing had my laugh
before tried that joke"
Yet one more. Hans Somebody, in a
chase OF the kind, just reached the fence,
but the bull reached it at the same time,
and as Hans was Scrambling over, deem
ing that "man's extremity was his lord
ships opportunity" gave him parting
butt, precipitating him rather forcibly over
and on the ground He went into court
and sued the owner OF the bull for dam
ages; when the defendants lawyer, and
it sounds very much like our old friend
Henry Berry, rebutted that he couldn't
see "why he wanted any damages-he
was going that way anyhow"
1t is not far cry from the Revolution
to the times of Tippecanoe, and some
anecdotes that circle around that name
may be not out OF place. The famous
election of 1910, and the log cabin and
party cry of Tip and Tyler, are yet well
hereabout. The ardent
Wings had engaged Parson Kimball as
spellbinder 10 ride through the country
and waken enthusiasm. Just over the
river, where number Of lriShmen were
digging the canal, he rode among them
and cheerily shouted, "Hurrah for Tippe-
canoe and Tyler too" A perverse Hi
bernian put down his shovel, threw up
his hat and cried, "Hurrah for hill!' Par
sou turned on him approvingy. "IhatS
right, my friend; ] always like to see a
man hurrah for his own country"
Here in this town they built a genuine
log cabin, with sure-enough barrel OF ci-
der, and to add TO this, they placed there
in veteran who fought under General
Harrison at Tippecanoe. He was an old
German, very slow and low OF speech.
Our guardian friend, Eli Conley, was as
ardendy on the other side-one OF those
who burned Harrison in effigy at the place
of Miller's marble works on Main Street.
When they took the Log Cabin and Orn-
dorff over to Sharpsburg, he followed 10
help throw cold water on the affair. Old
Peter Orndorff was asked to tell OF his
war experience at Tippecanoe, and as
he recounted this in an indiStinct numb
ling way, was interrupted by Eli with:
"a little louder, Mr.. Orndorff." He did
not, as Max ORePs Englishman at the
Philadelphia grilling club, when for the
sake of disturbance they kept calling
'Gouder. louder" reply: Gentlemen, ii
| speak low, il is for the purpose OF get
ting down to the level OF my audience
but at the third interruption, he peered
over the crowd rather fiercely at his an
mover and spoke in a loud voice:
"You, Eli Conley, you tam nuttings-
YOU goes to. -, you hears dot2"
The reply came: ''Yahl Yah! hears
dot" and Eli subSided. 1t was at this same
procession that Col. Hamtramck, COM
panion-in-arns and personal friend OF
Harrison, invited the boys in the ranks
TO his house for drink of punch, for
which a large washtu5 served as punch
bowl, but the crowd was so great that the
gentleman who gives this reminiscence
did not get in until all the punch was gone.
II must be noted also that Col. Hamtramck
lived in the house, wherein it is avened
that Washington and Lafayette sat togeth-
er at the open fireplace in high confer
ence.
Ii is strange that this old town, now
ecIipsed in population and wealth by the
places in close vicinity, should have been
so prominent in the Revolution, and that
by the last census it numbers nearly the
same as a century and half age, when ITS
merchants sold their goods as far as East
en Tennessee. Nevertheless, it is now
very different place from the rude col
lection of frontier cabins, and can boast
of a progress in quality, which is tar pre-
ferable tofthat in quantity or mere count
of heads.
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