Show F ws A UNCLE LUKES OATH HEARD BY I Glidden Tour our Pathfinder Crowd Responsible for Tennessee ans Mild Profanity f While the Glidden tour pathfinder has stimulated much Interest In good goodroad roads road and nd along Its Ita ouo from Cincinnati through the th south and west It Il has haa offset In somo treas Joaa treasure z oas ure un this benefit by 11 y ruining the th epu Deputation pu tation of Uncle Luke Crosswalk up on Buffalo creek In Tennessee Uncle Luke has haa lived on Buffalo creek since Ince Davy Crockett was wu a mall child Ills Ilia log lo cabin hugging bugging a hill hillside aide side on tho the border of th the creek creak bottom ottom has hILI come to be as natural a part of the tho landscape oa IUS the gum pm trees and anC oaks Dal Dill Lewis one of the greatest living and persuaders and driver of the ear oar succeeded In setting getting Uncle Luke to admit the travelers They were fed the Inevitable supper of fried pork and eggs egge but was Willi relieved In Inthe the morning by ay a change of menu The eggs eg e had been fried on both sides III ea the night before but for breakfast Mrs Crosswait permitted them thelia to gaze upward Uncle Varia Luke Sunday dawned bright and clear olear with Buffalo reek crook rapidly subsiding The Tho Thead road cad ad hunters had made the discovery that Uncle Luke was Intensely re religious Ills theology wan wall of the sturdy sturdy dy d uncompromising type that actuated sterling forefathers of ours oura In their highly commendable efforts eUort to weed out In Salem some me years eana an ago lOG Will wm ill eu rou please niton up your team and pull our eur machine s the creek asked Dal Sorry brother but I f possibly bly do It drawled Uncle Luke Id much like Uke t to e give gave you all a lift but this Is the holy Sabbath and labor laor laborIs Is forbidden by It the Good Book Beok Her was a situation but Dal rose ree manfully to the Ion He Ile 11 carried carded the family Bible le out on the porch of ef the Croswait Cre cabin and hunted dill dili diligently gently therein At last wet he dug up the verse vo concerning eone the righteousness of pulling an ox out of 01 a pit Into it had bad fallen en on the tho Lords day He HeaU augmented aU tole with a passage pa Ge refer referring referring referring ring to tu brotherly kindness and first aid to enemies Aged Ased Pair harnessed eed lie won the day and Uncle Luke got out the double and har Mr I Jessie and Kate a gray and roan whose total tol ages agN were 61 6 years The horse ho e were run out into the wa WIL water WILter water ter and aad Uncle Luke with a freshly cut hickory gad In his hla hand gave sae the alg sig signal nal to pull pall Instead In they both stood up on their hind legs and apparently endeavored to e shake hands hand with each other Ua Uncle le Luke applied the gad vig vigorously ami aM shouted at Itt the top of 01 his old erack vote voice More aerobatics but no BO pulling pelting lIIn It was aa Uncle Luke Lukes first automobile and here her was wa his team and himself elf on trial ulal Ills His dander was wa up and he be hopped into the tile creek sad and waded wadd to his horses honea heeds heads Again he gave the command to proceed emphasizing em there It u th u the gad and again there was rearing and champing of ot bits but nothing else Gathering the reins relM tightly in one hand nolo Luke brought the tho down over the tile flanks of ot the mar mares with a mighty swish and at the same time shouted l Ged Ced an aJ a yuh yub god ged ap got gol ern rn yeti yeh Uncle Lukes Lukos fame tame In the tho district was blemished He lie had used expletives ind nd all his kinfolk heard him His Ills nd wife says It will be months be fore she abe will look her relatives In the face file |