Show NOTE FROM BILL NYE His Well Is Doing Quite Well at Present Letter From a Cowboy 7isbine to be Informed In-formed on Certain Questions itory or a Pair of Colored Shoes JCopyrlpht 1892 by Edgar W Nyc BOCK SnOALS N C August Times here are quiet but tho weather has been cool and delightful the western North Carolina mountains and health coarse ruddy healthmay be seen on every hand Water was struck in my well in paying quantities a short time since and tomorrow tomor-row I will go down into it to wash off the powder stains and kalsomino same I shall put in pumping works in September and lay a wire screen to keep the largest of the children from falling Into it and giving a chalybeate tnste to the water H A DiEAM or THE PETCRE Berries have been very plenty this season straw black and wbortle ot five cents per honest quart They are very fine indeed and grow in great profusion everywhere I never saw a country BO well provided with berries and small fruits Everything in the way of fruit and colored people grows almost spontaneously here One nickaninny seems to call lor another as I heard a man say in Buncombe county not long since And what are we to do with the race problem at the south Everywhere I hear that question especially where there aro no colored people Hence there seems to be no more probability of a race difficulty than there was when the first shipment of colored people was received from the coast of Guinea There are no strikes where colored labor is employed Wages aro very moderate and while a state militia has to be called out now and then In cities where there is no race question the south with an her former woes has had very little trouble of that nature The colored man will yet prove no doubt c blessing when new industries open up in tbe south and with his wonderful powers of imitation and quickness to learn all sorts of manual work he is most assuredly a safer man to employ if he could have the training than a lire eating disturbing dynamiting outcast from Europe I hope I am saying nothing that may weaken my social position which is now the wonder and delight of all who have ex urn mod it but if some philanthropist like Mr Carnegie or Mr Gould would start a colored kindergarten for the training of young colored men in the trades so that a peaceful but dependent race might have a job it would make a disturbing element pay attention and be a great and good work applauded by God and humanity There is little news hero In our country except that it has not rained since I began this letter and a neighbor from Trdnsyl vania county who agreed to supply us with butter from last February until our arid cow should again gtvo milk and who Ls never been here since just dropped into in-to say that ho had no more milk than he needed himself but would be glad to supply 1 sup-ply us with frogs legs next spring The following item I take from the Sky I land iduancc published at Skyland this state The other day as we were taking a walk a I wotherly blue hen sailed down upon TJB with I her hair branding on cud We knockedher over vi itb a strip of bark and tired ITO stones at her and retreated and talked about it the rest oft of-t Jx day She mistook us for the editqc fit that Iron dhoet attain which has had to suspend 1 biioatlon because they lost a letter S tfhoshe could run till over town I This shows that even in Skyland there are bickerings and jealousies among 3 urnalists unworthy the age in which we i lIve Will the class please parse the sentence sen-tence She mistook us for the editor of that proof sheet affair which has had to suspend publication because they lost a letter swho could run all over town The following letter has bean received from a Texas cowboy whose name is suppressed sup-pressed BnA iioNT Tex July 20 Mr E W Nyc MY DEAR SmI have a friend over at Beaumont Beau-mont who take a newspaper which pUblishes your most highly pleasing letters and he some ti mes brings them out to the ranch for we fellows fel-lows to read and HC have a regular mulebray laugh when vo look at your pictures and read about your chlrkens yonr well and your farm lag and your neighbors We imagine you arc Quite a nice and polished gentleman and would lhro to have you visit us that is If you crer leave borne Ourranchis nn alligator bayou V and we boyS havo had a great deal of fun this ut ring branding and marking our stock which consist of cows horses mulcsand theirdcscend nuts and as we are about through for this season and as it has been the custom for two of us to get a leaf of absence each summer and R this is the summer fur Jim RnVestraw trad me would like to know ot you if your part of the country is a summer resort and If bO bow should a cowboy dress to come among WIn and farther more would it be in keeping of propriety pro-priety should I come if you said so to bring my spurs and riding habit quirt saddle and lassoc and bow those tar heels what n native Texaian is and what he can do with a bOrso I nm to bo married this fall that is Wo have screed to do so hut if you should think we co uld enjoy the month of August up thero I tin burry tho affair up and give you the pleas jj TO of Jmertaining a bride and groom She ia said to be under a good character too Yours truly JOE Thanking you for your cordiality Joe I would say that we dress horo in an offhand way to suit the season It you come now your leaf of absence would answer very well I think Your Texas clothes would not get you into In-to trouble hero if you were under a good character You could ride in one of our tournaments also We had s passage at arms last menth here at Asheville Each sir Knight wears what suits him best We had one sir knight who wore a suit of quoted mall He was tho homeliest man ever born in captivity We also saw in the lists a fat sir knight with tin trousers and a white yachting cap You could wear almost anything as I say The joust consisted in filling up the peasantry with lemonade and warm watermelon water-melon at so much apiece and then giving them what is called the grand laugh Two thousand of our yoemanry from Sandy Mush bought seats in the grandstand grand-stand and when they had seated themselves them-selves surrounded by sour watermelon and all that goes to make life enjoyable the directors moved tho show to another place over toward Biltmore thus leaving tho grand stand to amuse Itself by playing beanbag to the music Of the Skyland Silver Cornucopia band The field mar shale were pretty plenty and looked well on their nice ambling steeds The sir knights also looked ferocious especially ono of them called Little Lord Fauntleroy who wore a velveteen waist and knee panties and rode a livery horso costing three dollars per day The officers of the day were so thick that while they were trying to keep the peasantry peas-antry back several of them got run into and several injured One sir knight fell from his horse and the brute it is said stepped on his panoply I did not hear how the tournament came out for it got so late that I had to go home and do the chores right after the trial heat and just as the show was being moved again toward Bus beeI do not care to be a sir knight I would rather sit in a hammock and keep the flies off the queen of love and beauty I can ride a hammock longer and with more grace than I can a tall horse with his tongue out and froth onto him Once I had a fierce horse with a flashing eye and bright red goomsbut he tried to go through a barbed wire fence with me and when he got through he was short several vital organs I passed over the fence describing an arc I described It at the hospital after P regained re-gained my senses such as they were North Carolina has a beggar lady who is known as the flower girl of tho land of the sky In the springtime she sells trailing arbutus that has been a good while on the trail Later on she sells laurel and goldenrod golden-rod to people who are new here and to do good or elevate the lower classes Early in the spring the flower girl of of the land of the sky ran out of wormlesp apples with which she had been supplying the trade in winter and went on the road for the purpose of begging as she found times dull at her home in Asheville owing to a temporary sag in real estate So she took to the Hendorsonvillo road sleeping at evening wherever night overtook her Returning from California three years ago I bought at Spokane Falls a pair of tan colored shoes made of undressed olkskln They were very comfortable though perhaps per-haps a little too pronounced I wore them here last year during the tennis season BO that they were well known west of Salisbury Salis-bury and along the Richmond and Danville Dan-ville road This summer the flower girl of the land of the sky who is no longer young she and the war of 1812 having been brought on togetber in her tour of Buncombe Bun-combe county and the French brood paused at our house and appealing to us for aid showed that her feet were almost out and also that her limbs were barely healed up after being apparently very much injured so that when I say them I turned away and burled my face in my bands Now thought L is a fine opportunity to do good So I gave her my tan shoes and a pair of long bicycle hose and then read a book while she put them on Vl A r a KEEPING FLIES OFF TUE QUEEN Soon alter thai she got more forehanded fore-handed aud traveled in the oars Now in almost every mall I get several letters and quite 11 lot of postal cards saying that the flower girl is wearing my tan oboes and bicycle hose but that the writer will not say anything regarding it if I will send on cigars etc Last week I got telegrams from all along the line of road to Charleston signed by friends and saying Beggar lady wearing wear-ing your undressed tan shoes and bicycle hose passed hero at 035 a m bound south Do you know of it1 Shall we turn her over to the authorities It is said that the sweetest joy in this earthly life akin only to the joy of a celestial reward at the close of B pure and noble life is 1 to do a kindness in secret and have it discovered by the public but this is different I was telling my physician about the flower girl awhile ago and how iny heart bled for her when my wife told mo how the limbs of the poor thing had been barbed and battered by travel through the briers and woods Yes he said II took an interest in her too and examined lIAr injuries My diagnosis was that she had tarred her legs to excite sympathy She does that every spring Ah hero is a telegraph boy He has a message with seventyfive cents due on it It is Gated Hendersonville last evening and says Beggar lady wearing your tat ta-t t J shoes and bicycle hose arrested here tonight to-night for vagrancy How did she come by eamo Your reply will bo treated as entirely en-tirely confidential Hereafter when 1 do a kind act it will be done publicly and found out in secret |