The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 09, 1914, Page 6, Image 6
UNCLE JOHN'S STORY.
Started With Bears and Drifted to j.
Boys.
Want a story do you, boys? Well,
'pears to me like I've done told you
putty nigh every story they is, but if tl;
you two little fellows'll come set on
my knee I'll see 'f I can ramble back
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through the days when your ol' Uncle r
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jonn was a uov au uiiu suuiym
that'll interest you. .
Uncle John, hale, ruddy, and nigh ^
onto his three score years and ten,
6hifted his quid of tobacco from the K
left side to the right, spat reflectively p?
?and accurately?into the glowing t
oak wood fire, gathered his two neph- ^
ews, aged ten and twelve, each to a cf
knee, and began. er
"Fust and foremost, boys, I'm a- gt
) goin' to throw away this chaw of p?
terbaccer, 'cause I can't talk good ^
with it in my mouth, an' I don't be- ^
lieve it's a good example to set you h
boys, nohow. I been chawin' it for
nigh onto 60 years now, but if I had
i it all to do over again the stuff'd nev- ^
er go in my mouth. Oh, I guess
I'm too old to quit it now, for it's
mirhtv hard, as I've told you before,
to teach an ol' dog new trick6, or ^
to break him of his ol' uns for that
matter; an' besides, I don't calcalate
T got so many more years to stay
here, nohow. But if I wuz ten years
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younger I'd <iuit it or bust. Same ^
way 'bout smokin', too. It's a sorry
ne
sort o' habit we picked up from the
Injuns, they say, only we made it aE
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wuss by eatin' the stnff as well as
P'-j smokin' it. Guess leavin' sich a
dirty habit with us wuz 'bout the
only way the poor Injuns could get ga
even with us fer stealin' all their
land from 'em, and from what the fe
t s lo<
gov ment says we pay fer terbaccer
every year, I guess the debt's about
even.
"Yes, I learned how to use terbaccer
when I was a little fellow, only so ^
high an' I guess I learnt mainly
'cause I thought it was smart, and
like a man to do it, jest like I s'pose ^
lots o' young boys think these days.
We started by smokin' cross-vine and
corn silks "and sich stuff, and then, er
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when we got big enough to git a
little terbaccer we got to goin' off in
the woods to smoke and chaw that. "
All the time we thought we wuz
~ doin' a big trick, 'cause we'd seen the
men smokin' and chawin'.
"Now, boys, I ain't sayin' that a?
chawin' and smokin' terbaccer is sich ^
a turrible crime, for I've knowed
some mighty good men that done it.
In my opinion, the meanest man is
the one who wrongs his neighbor, an' po
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tells lies and sich things as that, and
generally the feller who uses ter- '
baccer don't do these things any 0
more'n the feller who don't. But I
been a thinkin', boys, that there's a
mighty sight o' good money bein'
spent for this Injun weed! What
I've spent fer it myself in the last ey
t* ?rg
60 years I figure would buy a good ?
farm, and there's lots o' men that e
use more'n I do. There's neighbor ?
Bill Johnson?you know him. To a
my certain knowledge, Bill's boys 00
an' gals aint goin' to school this winter
'cause they aint got no shoes,
and Bill's wife still makes the family's
clothes with her fingers 'cause
Bill's too poor to buy her a sewin'
machine. Still Bill chaws . reg'lar
an' when he goes to town with the ^
boys he thinks it's mighty smarl to ne
set 'em all up to segars. Now I hg
don't want to be unkind to Bill, fer I ^
hold that a feller orta be 'lowed to do
as he pleases, so long as he don't re
hurt nobody else. But blamed if I th
don't believe he's hurtin' somebody ar
else when he keeps them pore little ^
kids out 'o school jest because he
wants to smoke his segars and chaw
terbaccer. Then they's another
thing: Don't pear to me like a man's
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treaun ms uojs jest nsm iu
'em sich an example. It's the nat- ju
uralest thing in the world for a boy
to think his daddy's the greatest
feller they is, an' to want-a-do whatever
he does. Small wonder, then, I wj
say, that if the ol' man does things pe
that ain't exactly right the boys is a- 0I
goin' to come mighty near doin' 'em, ^
too. t0
"Boys, do you know what I think's br
one o' the finest things in all crea- fe
tion? I'll tell you: A young man. br
tall, clean, strong, an' straight as th
one o' them pines down in the woods; 0f
a lad with a clear eye. a clean skin jji
an' a clean heart; a feller who don't pj
tell lies an' who believes in treatin' -y(
all men square. I've lived a long
time, now, an' it seems to me that fa
the young fellers who's amounted th
to most wuz of this kind. Fact is, jn
these days a boy who uses licker or eE
terbaccer stands a mighty pore show vj
geiun a gUOU JOU ui uiamu a. ouv- I gQ
cess of anything. Men who hire boys | ?
don't want fellers all pizened up ro
with whiskey an' smoke, an* that's awhat
they is?pure pizen. - pe
"You boys is eomin' on to be men, te
now, an' you musn't forget what your dc
ole Uncle John has told you 'bout or
these things. Don't ever think you'll cli
have to use terbaccer and whiskey to he
be smart an' manly, fer the time's nc
already come when the strong an'
manly man knows these things is th
bad. ' tli
"Well, I declare." said Uncle John, lil
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ENGINEER KILLED.
M. Easterby Meets Death in Wreck
Just Below Colombia.
Columbia. July 3.?In a wreck on
le Southern Railway at 6 o'clock
lis morning, four miles South of
olumbia, Charleston division, Engi;er
J. M. Easterby, of Blackburg, S.
was killed.
The passenger train which was beg
driven by Engineer Easterby was
o. 114, Charleston division, bound
r Charlotte from Columbia via
ingville and Rock Hill. While
issing through the Southern yards
Roysters, and within the Spartanlrg
division of the road, No. 114
ashed into the rear end of freight
igine No. 701, which was standing
ill at the time. A number of the
tssengers and members of the crew
! No. 114 were badly shaken up,
it no casualties were reported with
a oveention of the death of the
tgineer, who was crushed in his cab. |
The passenger engine was badly
imaged, but none of the coaches
ihind it were derailed or smashed.
The following is the official ac>unt
of the wreck given out from
e offices of the Southern Railway.
"At 6.16 to-day, 3d instant, passiger
train 114, in charge of Engiser
Easterby and Conductor Whisint,
struck engine 701, in charge
Engineer Kirby, at Royster, Engi:er
Easterby remained on engine
id was mashed to death. Fireman
i passenger train engine and enneer
and fireman on engine 701
mped and were not injured. Baggeman
and expressman, mail agent,
ie colored and two white passents
slightly injured. Dr. Taylor
oking after injured."
Singlehanded He Fights Bandits.
Pendleton, Ore., July 2.?George
acDuffy, a deputy sheriff of Hepp:r,
Ore., fought a singlehanded bat>
with train robbers in the aisle of a
air car fifty miles east of here to
,y, killing one and wounding anoth.
He narrowly missed death himIf
when a pocket comb, in the upr
left hand vest pocket, turned a
illet aimed at his heart. The car
is on the Oregon-Washington railad.
The dead man was identified by
inscription in his watch as Hugh
hitney, a desperado, known for
predations in Montana, Idaho and
voming. His wounded companion
d a third robber were killed by
sses. They got about $200 from the
press car of the train, one diaond
ring valued at $700, and a few
liars from passengers.
The robbers boarded the train
len it slowed down to drop a helpengine.
They herded the crew
to the express and finding no monthere
decided to rob the passenrs.
A request that the women be
ft undisturbed and one robber was
ft to guard the crew. The others
ter robbing several passengers enuntered
MacDuffy.
.\EGRO SLAYS EIGHT MEN.
ills Them \A'ith Axe and Escapes
After Arrest.
Branchville, Texas, July 3.?Shell
annings, a negro, killed eight other
groes here to-day with a shortndled
axe because he suspected
ey had charged him with hose
eft. Twice this week, when arsted
at small towns near here on
e charge, Mannings broke jail. He
rived here to-day before daylight,
fter the killing he was arrested,
II esfapeu IIUIU a. naiu cm uutc 1.U
il. Posses are searching for him.
CRAZED WITH DRINK.
imps From Second-Story Window.
Remembers Taking a Drink.
Anderson, S. C., July 4.?Crazed
ith drink, Lawrence Trewol, a carrnter,
threw himself from the secid-story
window at his home here
is afternoon, falling about 30 feet
the ground and escaped without a
oken bone, although physicians
ared for a time that his neck was
oken. The man says that the last
ing he remembers is taking a drinkwhiskey
before he left the city for
s home and he cannot imagine what
ompted him to attempt suicide.
>-night he has practically recovered.
One of the neighbors seeing him
11 from the window, concluded
at the house was on fire and turned
an alarm, with the result that the
itire fire department and all the
^jjtors in the city rushed to the
ene.
using himself, "here I been settin'
talkin' to you boys 'bout nothin in
:rtic'lar, an' I had it in my mind to
!1 you 'bout the time me an' my ole
>g Crockett treed the bear down
i Talhalla, an' how that 'ere bear
lased us. Been a-talkin' to you
.'re fere an hour, an' ain't told you
) story at all."
"It was a good story. Uncle," said
e elder of the boys, as they bade
ie old man goodnight, "and we
<ed it."?Progressive Farmer.
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