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Show ' jj mi t mI "yjMil & iT'Jry , l?5 V M? i :)1 W:- - f! Jfti ,sri i! fV, 'Ul ;..j awl yoox sad" ct thing SB'11 ' U ?nui!.i::: d ptnt me ft cl the Remarkable Function That e Was a Feature of AO Tennessee Campaigns Stay fctivi ihoilh IM trto;' - hi Serial nr- - I ea Old-Tim- Hill' VM ilMi tOi'P 1 By MARTHA McCULLOCH WILLIAMS big barbecue came off in and Folk'a year to be in 1844. Aa a State THE Tenneaaee was a debatable land, yet held nndebatable in spots, inch, for example, aa the district where Billy, the younger of the Ua-jor- a boy a, made the race for Congreaa. Billy had been to Texaa the fall before, and waa ao hot for annexation that he flung himself into the breach to lead what all regarded aa a forlorn hope. Each and aeveral of the Majoraea were Democrats, but they had shown a great knack of marrying into Whig families. Old hi an Burton, for instance, Squire Johns father-in-lawas a king-pi- n among the Whigs. He laughed mightily when ha heard of Billy's running, saying to his "Lordy, Jack, that boy oughter have better aense. He's got nigh as little chance o aeein' the city of Waahin'ton as Mister Jeems K. Polk end he ain't got none at alL Pity Billy wastes hissclf sol He can talk-d- ing my buttons if he cain't I've hearn Davy Crockett, and 1 know. If only he had Harry o' the West to talk for, thar ain't no tellin' what he mought not doP I reckon it don't matter ao much he'a got Thomas Jejferson, and Andrew Jackson, na Texaa all to talk for," Squire John said, with a chuckle. "Besides, us Democrats have pot plenty o shoats, and lambs, and kids, and even wether mutton and pa's en- Tobe Simpkins and Little Saged McGee to barbecue em whenever we call for em." "Pore old man I I hate to think about him robbin' hisself that away," Old Man Burton retorted. But Squire John knew Old Man was not pleased, 1 although he added, after a little: d'know as it raalely matters, though. Yer pa, he's pretty warm all he spends now, you children won't have left to quarrel over when he's cut down like a cucumber of the, ground and transplanted to bloom in glory K l i w - son-in-la- round the throne o' grace." Old Man waa an elder in the church, and liked churchly phrase, but there were those who said his piety took a vacation election years. However that may have been, tnis election year he certainly did make things lively all up and down his eounty. Thus it became more than a party matter with the him, and Majors contingent to out-d- o thus, remotely, the big barbecue came to pass. Old Man bad had his barbecue ten days before, choosing Antioch camp ground for the seat of it Naturally the Majorses pitched upon White Bluff camp ground for theirs. It had a bigger country to draw from, better water, and a greener and shadier rove about the camp meeting shed. rats were set up in the grove. So great waa the regard tor things churchly, so strict the separation of Church and State, that no political assembly would have gathered in the shed proper, unless driven to it by rain alter the speaking began. Anybody's barbecue drew pretty well the whole countryside, and rightly enough it swelled the crowd, gave a chance for proselytising, and kept things from getting monotonous and Hut the getting up and one-side- d. How They Do Business on a The landsman has no idea of the infinite variety of commercial transactions which are conducted upon a warship, especially on those in the American and British navies. More business is done on the average battleship than in many a large village. On h first-clabattleship in the British Navy, example, the first lieutenant has to manage a provision shop in which the turnovrr, consisting of articles sold to the men. is over $30,000 per annum. The turnover in the pursers department on an American battleship is nearly double that amount, owing to the larger pay of the men. Iut this is bv no means the only business done. Many of the men have a keen eye to business and make a good deal of money "on the side" out of their comrades. Seme of them aboard and carry sewing machines cloth in the make up garments from energetic ships stores for their lessThere was or less skilful comrades. a man on the United State gunboat Marietta who used to make over $400 a year in this way. The man who is a good barber can add materially to his pay. for his services are called for by the officers as well as by his own comrades. Wash and hat ing clothes, making are also profitable lines of work. Everything is done on strictly commercial lines. Ready money is generally paid, but, if not, a settlement is a1was made on the monthly pay day. Many sailors earn more by outside work in the course of a year than their regular pay amounts to. The "Jackie usually works for his own little world on shipboard, but sometimes he makes quite a tidy sum out of the landsmen. There was an Austrian seaman on the U. S. S. Bennington who occupied his spare time in translating German books into English for New York publishing houses. He made an average of over $700 a year by this work, and had it all put to his account with the purser, so that when he came off a cruise he was one of the wealthiest men in the ss ir mat-maki- Man-of-W- ar But this is a serious breach of naval regulations, and has to be carried on in the strictest secrecy. Unique Advertising. Some of the Japanese tradesmen in the smaller towns of Nippon have a curious way of advertising their business. On their right forearms they tattoo figures the shoemaker a shoe, the wood cutter an ax, the butcher a cleaver. Underneath these emblems are such inscriptions as, 1 do my work modestly and cheaply, or "I am as good at my trade as most of my fellows. When they are hunting work they bare their arms and walk about the streets. rriiiill Sninr of the liniiil- (kiius of llielr tiwn.1 hard-iiead- Black Cata' Island. There is an island in Puget Sound, not more than half a mile across, which is so thickly populated with cats that they may be seen covering the rocks, on a sunny day, from the riggings of passing vessels. The cats number many thousands, and the strangest thing is that they are all black. Every evening a boat load of fishermen land on the island and lay nut a seine a quarter of a mile long. They null it in with never less than a ton ol fish, but next morning these fish are gone. The cats devour them all. These cats have been placed here by men who are supplying the marOnce a ket with women's muffs. and year there is a great round-useveral thousand pussies lose their lives. p, agreed to do ao after dinner, left the matter up in the air. He wanted the speaking to match tha dinner therefore he bad been at tha pains to secure some very great oratorically. Little Kedge Sns who had been at other earlier barbecues, confided to all who would listen that the reason Billy wanted to hold his tongue this time was "Cause he felt twould be unpolite ter ask them other fellers, an' then turn in an' knock the aocks clean offen 'em Bil ly could plumb do hit, and not half try." When aomebody reported the confidences to Billy, he blushed like ajgirl, but only laughed and aaid:Tell Little Kedge to mind hia barliecuin'. T won't be good for him if I ever catch him listenin' again. The trash we talk may apoil his taste and that would be a calamity. If the home barbecue ain't what it ought to be, 111 thrash him sure as Im goin to be lected. Billy had been to Transylvania, and could upon occasion speak the purest English. 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There ai sa dMhaudr WIFE'S MESSAGEi otottoa; senwloclcsl A volume of 540 large octavo pages, beautifully bound in A very green buckram, untnmmcd edges, gilt top, etc. Far ialt ty leading Stthtlltrt, or will handsome volume. he sent to any address oo receipt of price, fj.oo ntt (add sS cents for postage), by the publishers 3$ Nassau Street, New York f Ol Wtslsssls slssl Wilsou Sset., CkicsfS, Cured Her Husband of is : 1 r Mk t Rifllhsia-ScUcli- ta -- A Moody's Manual of Corporation Securities." "You all better hough it, ef you want dinner I Thars cake an' candy and reasons, besides barbecue, Little Kedge shouted at the contestants. He lay Instantly they ran away. back, pillowed hia head on his arm. and in half a minute was sound asleep. The tables were long and stout, but hardly long enough or stout enough for their weight of good things. Old hams, chickens broiled, fried end smothered, beef, boiled chipped tongues splotched and blotched the expanse of barbecue. There were at least nine sorts of bread, and fifteen nf cake, not to name custards and Not a man there turnover pies. but had brought a noble appetite not a man, either, but felt it disgraceful to eat until every woman and child had been served. Billy Majors was here, there, where, looking out for everybody ex life-res- Sseisiisftrrrkcft to se Maims arris, hr sarto, i a if By JOHN MOODY Editor S Tin of the American Trust Movement cats.1 mint THE MAN ROOSEVELT" warm fa la wHUktr, vex flier. Salt A description and analysis Whigi ride in gigs, and eat fat pigs.Democrats rata, and eat pole- pern btea mini of Mr. Francis E. Leopps Book ttU A Over against them a smaller band of embryo Whigs shouted lustily, heedless of time and tune: t$ UtJ! oh The Truth About the Trusts ; Geras such? said the visitor, after she had ! i S skilfully steered the conversation V " around to the household larder. Why, yes, said the hostess, recall vl ing with pleasure the fset that her mother had that day sent i The Only Really Hygienic down a quantity of canned things, Underwear Existing "And I suppose, forehanded body I It facilitates the excretion of im that you are, you have enough for all of the skin. the winter, and maybe a little longer? purities through to pores tho give greatest "Why, yes, I think I have. mount of satisfaction. Prevents cold "Then, sweetly, "I know you're and that damp, chilly feeling from just dying to give me a half dozen cans for my church bazaar booth. perspiration. It does not felt or shrink b wash ing and it more durnbla than any Too Many Brains a Detriment other mesh underwear. Too many brains are liable to bring Relieves Rheumatism and other effects which are worse than those ailments caused by impure blood. which result from the use of too few. 1 'it, himself. Bob looked ifteTJH visiting speakers, especially theWvf ones. Squire John took Old Burton in tow, and saw to it thatS was not less well served thin own father. Old William Mijor, JS his wife stood side by faces beaming, as on every hud thn heard praises of their son. One Whig neighbor said, as he wrunfiS hands: I cant vote for Billy--S. v! blamed if anybody's goin' ter nub me vote against him." A more Whigs shook hands as wirSJ without saying anything at all Pn.' haps they voted for Billy in the end even though he could not be pteviiled on to speak. About politics, that is. After then had been argument and rejoinder hr turns tedious and sparkling, batiQ cheered to the echo, everybody bens crying his name. There was no quit, ing the crowd, so he got up, ah.. facedly enough, and said that he did not dare undertake to instruct bk neighbors, his elders and better whom he had so long known and re erenced, but that he would, and fid thank them for being the men the were, whatever their political men, gentle and simple, jacor. ruptible, brave and true, daring to do right as they saw the righi not perfect, but with fanlu md foibles that made them brothers with the weak and erring. He did sot, he could not, he would not, ask man's vote against any mini uj After all, it wu coudtsce which must pass upon the thing he stood for annexation. It wu how- thing bigger than any party, this ill parties. Perhaps it meant war. If it did, he was ready to face the crest, whether it found him a Congruous or a high private. This, at much greater length, a Billys rich, ringing voice, with hit mother crying softly as she listened, and the other women keeping her company. Half the men, too, were suOld Mu Burton spiciously dim-eyesaid always it was that speech which elected Billy, although after it there were hardly any cheers. And people recalled it, too, some years later, when Captain Billy Majors was shot through the heart, while leading hit men up the heights of Cherubntro. cel BARON SPECK von STERNBURG Cm fa Money lenders are to be found on nst American and British warships, id sometimes they run a regular wn broking business and take any tie? of a tesman's kit in pledge. Tie at'nic ants had managing were matters of strict partisanship, although often there were opposing speakers upon the hustings. It was considered a sign of strength to invite somebody from the other side, and show whoever came the most distinguished courtesy, even going so far as to see that his most tcUiing points were properly applauded. No real stump speak was ever deceived cheers; they were by such washed from his ears by the hearty roars that greeted the sallies of his friends the enemy. Billy Majors was reckoned nearly the best speaker in the State, but here in his home neighborhood he wanted to give way to others. So did his brother Bob, who was also his at the law. Majors & Majors partner led the county bar, in fact. Bob lived in town, owning the best house there, hut Billy stayed with the old folks, riding eight miles back and forth every day. He was a bachelor, and to his mother still a boy, although everybody outside the family recognised in man of him a genial yet business, quite capable of looking after his own concerns and those of the State. Naturally, the neighbors insisted that Billy and Bob muat speak, whoever else did or didnt So Bob Spectator among the books in his saddle bags. He thought Sir Roger de Coverfey the finest gentleman in the world of course, after Thomas Jefferson and all unconsciously modeled himself in many points after the good knight He was especially ready to believe with Sir Roger that much might be said on the other side. lienee his fetching Whig orators to the barbecue. They might say their say he had no fear of the result Little Kedge McGee had no fear, over the dinner.a His name seemed ironic; he stood six foot three, and had the brawn of an ox. Notwithstanding, Tube Simpkins, who was but little bigger than a midget ruled him with an iron hand, and hardly let him say his soul was his own, save and except politically. The barbecue pit was down beyond the spring well, out of sight and smell from the speakers' stand. Big log fires blazed here and there along it. They were lighted when the killing began at sundown, carcasses By midnight the fifty-fiv- e were cleaned and cool, ready to split in halves along the back bone, and lay upon clean hickory sticks over the pit. It was a trench two feet deep, and something wider. Live eoals from the fires were spread six inches deep in the bottom, and kept constantly renewed. The meat roasted above them for rather more than twelve hours. It was turned once, watched all the time, and carefully basted with salt water throughout the cooking. At the very last it was plentifully bedaubed with "dipney a delectable compound of lard, vinegar, black and red pepper, with some mysterious herbs known only to Tobe and Little Kedge. The meat itself was crisply brown and of the most delicious savor. Tradition says barbecue came into existence through lack of pots and pans. If that be true, humanity has, in this one instance, room to be grateful for pioneer lacks. Thar, bless Gawdt One mo trouble's done an over with. Now Im goin' ter sleep. You tell Billy Majors if he lets them fellers holler so loud for him they wake me up Ill vote fer t'other feller, Little Kedge said, about one oclock, as he sent the last carcass from the sticks. Tobe Simpkins glared at him. Tobe was Billys worshipper. "You talk like a fool and that aint half yer failin, he said angrily. "Ef you wus ter go an vote agin Billy I d pound ye so yer own mother wouldn't know ye. InLittle Kedge did not answer. stead, he danced away in time to the "Eighth of January, played upon two fiddles. By the music he knew the crowd was streaming to dinner, so he balanced and set to himself all the way to the spring, dropped down and drank lying at length, then got up and began laughing hard. The spring branch was hardly a foot wide. On one side of it half a dozen very young Democrats, barefooted and happy, were chanting shrilly: "Jeems K. Folk and George M. 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