The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1916-01-07
AN INTERESTING TRIP.
A Walking Trip Through Virginia
--.by an OREGON
Boy.


Christmas, and was out Of school for
the Christmas holidays and had no
one here TO whom It mattered wheth-
er stayed or went. ! concluded TO
spend Christmas and part Of my hoIi.
days on walking trip. After study.
Ing the question and getting all the
information | could concluded to
walk to Luray, Virginia, and see the
great natural cave there. ] decided 10
start Thursday morning, the sd, so
the evening before made up small
pack Of necessaries. The next morn.
ing the landlady gave me my break.
fast and I started of about 100.
The road to Alexandria was good
and the eight miles took only short
time. Upon reaching town ! asked a
cop the road TO Manassas, and he mis-
directed me so that lost about two
or three miles II turned out that
there was no direct road to Manassas,
and that the route led through Fair.
fax, so that l lost altogether about
ten miles at the start. The road be.
came steadily worse, very billy and
entirely covered with rocks, and my
feet soon became very tender. Upon
reaching Fairfax ! got lunch and
rested a while, feeling pretty well
done up. After few miles ! began
TO feel better and by evening was
walking quite easily. A. six o'clock,
after walking some - miles, began
TO inquire around for lodging Ey.
erybody seemed TO be inclined to "lct
George do II, so went down TO the
country store al Hull Run T. -. and
hung around waiting for something
to turn up.
Tie stock was about the
Iuaintest assortment Of goods
ever had the pleasure Of
beholding. one shelf had several
score Of small tin boxes labeled some.
thing like this: Reliable Scotch
SnuI" II seems that the ladies' are
all strongly addicted TO the dipping
habit, most OF them u Ing snuil sticks
for the purpose. In these more en-
lightened days, however, many have
discarded the old.fashioned stick and
eat II with spoon. In many cases
. lady will eat q box day In an.
other section Of the state family OF
nine spends ell . mouth for snuiI
The storekeeper conhded to me that
his toothless condition was occasioned
by the fact that he had once kissed
his best girl whose breath had started
the decay.
Later In the evening two brothers,
Wells, dropped In to pass the evening
and they and the storekeeper chased
dull care away with frequent drains
Of "old Gray" Whisky they took Il
straight) and between times DISGUISE
the demise OF three prominent citizens
within the past year or so. The talk
went something like this: Lets
See. whiskey and laudanum finished
Bill. Schnapps got Ed IL was ia.
maica Ginger that wound Tom up
Bill never woke up the next morning.
Ed, went and died In the drug store
right away and Tom went and died
down by the river" Two or three
darkies dropped In at various times
during the evening and they were a
very respectful and industrious class
Is q whole.
As time passed John Il Wells mel.
lowed more and more under the re.
nial influence Of "Old Gray" and he
tween him and the storekeeper, his
tenant, there ensued a dialogue like
this; IL treated Fred pretty liberal
didn't "" deed you did, John. ~
~ am going TO take this boy home
with me and III see that lie doesn'
starve. They don't starve when they
stay with me, do theyY' "'Deed they
don't, John. Snf, Snf,' lie had q
cold.)
Mr.. Wells was q very interestinp
parsonage, having been In the store
business several years and also having
followed the track game for quite a
period OF time. lie was quite familiar
with all the tricks OF the trade, such
~ doping and sewing q horse hall
through the skin between the ten
dons In the back OF the
lex to make horse appear
lame. In the barn thsre were
two tine hunting horses, one OF which
had jumped six feet four, which Mr.
Wells said was quite high enough fol
him. There Is quite . bit Of hunting
to hounds done In this section, o.
though II is gradually te:oming dim
cult on account Of barbed wire fences
Upon reaching home my host tool
another dram before retiring and ther
showed me to the bed. There were
not enough covers, SO he folded Z
r,iaca NJ n n not ovar fha hod a nd 7 a.,