Show YELLOW IN EN THE SOUTH while in some sparsely settled iolli ties weapons are actually resorted to tor for the purpose of holding up trains or enforcing the quarantine is in general a very reputable and sy systematic institution on the border line the inspecting officers enter the care and secure awl sworn rn statements from the passengers besides making casual physical examination si persons from fever districts are taken from the cars and compelled to remain at the detention camps in many cases the hardship is extreme sauve qui beut is the motto ot of the rural 11 districts in the case of the cruder lorms borms torms of quarantine the trains are P paged ased on through the towns locked and guarded the writer participated passively and as a victim in a holdup hold up within make a short abort run into the southern south erli apor alons of the state towards evening the train slackened up at a small station where there was only awater tank it was met by a determined looking armed posse and received a 9 preng invitation vi to move at ance LIA listening livening ening at an open car window the conversation outside out sidie conveyer an unmistakable desire on the part of the inhabitants of the water tank town for our absence besides the men with the guns a few grinning darkles darales and a dozen or so fox hounds lounged around the platform and hogs wandered aimlessly about grubbing at the razor grass or grunting and rubb imig their vianny hides bides against convenient buildings inside the office a telegraph sounder ticked and a yellow eyed operator wrote to ite dle dictation tation smoking a cigarette the while the speech of the committee on the platform wax stow slow and negligent and interspersed with dispassionate blasphemies one of erf them a tall individual in a long black prince albert coat addressed the remonstrating mon conductor cou ductor who vainly endeavored deavo red to assure him the train had not been near any infected place you all know youve got no bb business siness here an you got g ot a right to pull your jim crow train out of this metropolis right smart this committee sherely thing you better had it would make us regret to shoot yo fool heads off well it you say sa gentlemen returned the conductor reckon I 1 can get my orders cant I 1 1 I got to give the old girl a drink put in the ithe engineer calling from the cab fin in course all right enough gentlemen said the committeeman fortifying the remark in the usual manner only we aint goin to let none ol 01 0 you land here had bad down theroan the road J f I 1 a piece remarked another vigilante who carried a double muzzle loader 1 I hear theys lots 0 deaths in new Oi eana Jeems es river nobody never see so many buzzards as they Is this year they low people can travel in Mis sip now theys been some frost A drummer in a blue serge suit and straw hat bat opened the car door and stepped out on the platform there was a curt order from the vigilante with the muzzle loader and the drummer drumme r reentered the car and resumed his seat the conductor came back from the telegraph office waving a yellow order slip paull pull up to the tank jim he called to the engineer A comely young woman with red hair thrust her head from a car window do you alls ails mean to say I 1 cahnt get off and go home major hewlett hewlet she asked tearfully theres miss sally lou sharpe bless my h heart eart exclaimed the tall man he went on rather sheepishly now you just go along up the road miss sully sally your maws well an she says you must go to montgomery for a few days have you got enough money ive got a basket of lunch for miss sharpe here said the operator from the window of his little office your mother saye shell send you a letter youre a lot of ln cowards the girl sank back in her seat whimpering the engineer climbed into the cab and reached tor for the throttle the air valves hissed the fireman began to toll the bell goodby good by gentlemen come and see aee us after the frost the train pulled away from the inhospitable village and pursued its way southward A sweet smell of piney woods and wild rose hedgerows hedge rows drifted j in at the car windows and the engine gave a long shriek for it a road crossing it I 1 ever get back north again said the drummer ill stay there but it is to be hoped this condition of i affairs will soon end at this writing j reports are received of cold weather and light frosts frosto as far south as arkansas and that portions of mississippi have been touched if this Is true yellow jack will soon cease his ravages |