Show IN THE cumberland RANGE INGE A traveller falls in with Moon shiners ra 9 and gasto bas to prove up detroit free press As I 1 was to take a short cut over a spur 0 of the cumberland mountains in northern tennessee I 1 hired a colored boy about 15 years of age to go a part of the distance with me he lie had a solemn serious look and I 1 soon di discovered a covered that he was a philosopher I 1 had bad been told that there were mo moon on shiners in the cumbers Cum berlanda a ads and that the chances were I 1 would be stopped and sharply investigated when ready to part with the youth I 1 asked do you think ill meet any moon shiners dat depends bah sah 11 on what on somebody aidin bebin de bresh or rocks do doan pop you ober bofo you kin meet if beana gun hangs fiah fish oun will probably meet it was a hot day in july but I 1 asked him if he thought the weather v would bold hold and he looked at the sky and replied doan donn want to say bah sah 11 II it should hold youn give me no credit and if it should enow snow youn would cusa cuss mp mo all day good day eab sah keep to de right arter you cross de do bra branch rich if it dat doan dean bring you out den ten cum back an keep to de do left I 1 had bad gone about a mile when the trail branched and after debating the case I 1 took the right band hand again and went forward with ith the comfortable feeling that bat I 1 had lia d half of a big elate state at my disposal to get lost in the path suddenly ended and about that lime time a mountaineer a stepped from a thicket on my left and confronted me and inquired whar from stranger I 1 told him what youn doin ayar traveling look ayar I 1 he said as he came nearer youa kin either prove up or ye cant EO to either all right or cum aussin 11 well kin ye prove up ill try then walk alo along 11 lie ile walked bea beside me a or behind me through thickets and over rough ground to a shanty just at the mouth of a ravine there was a it man a woman and a boy of 12 there wa and ll 11 my nose detected the odor of a still the three people mentioned stood at a the door aa as we came up and the man queried of my conductor whole li heun elun dwine ter prove up I 1 eat sat down on a rock and s in d leaving the boy to watch me the other three withdrew a few yards verde and held a consultation sul tation this lasted about five minutes in I 1 n and when they returned the man who had captured me eaid said we uns ia Is agreed on it youa revenue or not kin prove up or te ye cant I 1 can any of you tou read I 1 asked we kin or we cant replied the woman who was smoking plug tobacco in a clay pipe well perhaps youve heard of at al monroe 0 broo we or we tnt replied the husband of the woman well heres a line from him if you are moon shiners you have sold him whiskey aske and know him to be all ahl right t heres far a my eat caid d hero here are letters addressed a I 1 to mo me and you yon can overhaul my knapsack they read a line of writing it ng and put up a job to catch me atter after consulting a bit the woman said what did you eay say belais that namo name was george or william neither one its harry 11 and does beun live in a single or double log house in a frame houpe house which wh ach eye la Is heun blind in neither nei t her one como now hes a big fie fleshy aby man wears long bald on top the head and has a front tooth out his ilia wife la Is a little cross eyed woman and has two children that I 1 hat bellied settled it and I 1 was at once given a bite to eat and told to make myself at home I 1 bad had some tobacco tor for the man and pins plus and needles for the woman and the present of a harmonica set tho the boy wild with delight S 0 alit youn had hail shot heun holun down th a r 1 I suggested the woman to my captor then houn holun would have been dead of coee he lie calmly replied B by and by the men went up tip to attend the still and the woman unrolled the tile paper of pins to the lart row opened the paper of needle sand placing the tile two spools of thread beside them she called to the boy tann danny come baylar 10 anas 1 look in my eyes I 1 Is I 1 flighty cely inaam 11 well izo either flighty or the richest r I 1 c bleil eat woman oman w on these yere mountain sin on n I 1 w wih pop op would hurry back an toll tall roe me w which fivek I 1 father robert chapman one of the oldest of ogdon ogden at 1250 yesterday morning of old age go at his ilia residence he was born dec 1 1809 the services will bo be held at tho the fifth ward meeting house at 2 p in m monday friends invited 10 I 1 1 I 1 11 1 k I 1 t I 1 ai |