Show wonders of indiana mazeppa ga march 13 A citizen of this place toll tell thos thes following story A man with a drove of mules tho the in man an claiming to bo be from Indi indiana aaa stopped for tho the night wit with li the citizen citizens Iti zens father tho the family had an idea that in diana as near tho the north pole and L s i asked a great many questions about the country in answer to questions tho the indiana man said yes tho nights are shorter but they have a dd sight diloro of them and thoy they aio darker darher ho had seen it so dark thoro that you see tho the headlight of a locomotive thirty feet ho he also said it was a good fish country that you co could not rido a horse across ill tho crook without hi knocking loching out a two iiorio borso wagon 0 load of fish but that ho had only gono foshin fishing once ana and then only caught 0 one utah and when lie ho pulled the fish out of the mississippi river tho the river fell six in chos ches from froin its mouth to cairo lie also said it i wa was a fine timber country A fow few days more before he leit homo lie ho cut down dowil a tree that measured exactly one hundora Y yards ards lonn long ho he drove a wed wedge 0 in the end mid and it ii burst criff icly open and split splat a thicket three dundom yards that was so thick that you run a illing dialing role polo into it endways MEW S the place ope opened lied oy splitting tho the lor log 0 was therl then used for a wagon road ho also staid said that it ii was a vor very y healthy country that only ono one man had died in twenty years and the had to pull his last breath with a corl corkscrew A young clock cloch peddler was also spending 0 tho the night wit with hIlis his father batho and lie he asked if it il 1 would bo a good coun country try to soil sell clocks the indiana man said no thoy they had no uso use for clocks that they kept hopt time by th the growth of 0 pumpkin vines shiell grew five feet each hour he said it i was za 3 the best vegetable 0 country in the world evavy kind grow grew well except beets bebel ig and they grew row so long they stuck through 0 11 into china and the China nien pulled tho them al through V in answer to a quo question whether choth r it was a cold country or not ho said it was a voul cold ho he had seen a blaze ablaze of fir fire e f fitez i ooze to the back bach of of tho the chimney and they had to knock bilock it booso with anith a pole poleaxe axe atlanta constitution |