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AMONG MOONSHINERS.
A TRAVELER IN THE CUMBERLAND
, . RANGE HAS TO PROVE UP.
JL Philosophical Colored Boy Halted by
a Mountaineer The Process of "Prov
ing Up" iirlm Possibilities of Being
8hot Before Identification.
As I was to take a short cut over a
pur of the Cumberland mountains in
northern Tennessee I hired a colored boy
about 15 years of age to go a part of the
distance with me. He had a solemn,
serious look, and I soon discovered that
he was a philosopher. I had been told
that there were moonshiners in the Com
berlands, and that the chances were I
"Would be stopped and sharply investi
gated. When ready to part from the
yonth, I asl:ad:
"Do yon think Til meet any moon
shiners?" Dat depends, Bah."
"On whatr
"On whedder somebody hidin' behind
de bresh or rocks doan' pop you ober be
to' you kin meet. If he'nn's gun hangs
fiah yo'un will probably meet."
It was a hot day in July, but I asked
him if he thought the weather would
hold, and he looked at the sky and re
plied: "Doan want to say,' Bah. If you
should hold, you'n wouldn't give me no
credit; and if it should snow, you'n
would cuss me all day. Good day, sah.
r Keep to the right arter you cross de
fcranch. If dat doan' bring yon out, den
cum back an' keep to de left.'
I had gone about a mile when the trail
branched, and after debating the case
I took the right hand again and went
forward, with the comfortable feeling
that I had half of a big state at my per
sonal disposal to get lost in.
IS A STBANQB PLACE.
-. . The path suddenly ''ended, and about
that time a mountaineer stepped from a
thicket on my left and confronted me,
and inquired:
"Whar from, stranger?"
I told him:
"What you'n doin' hyarr"
"Traveling.''
"Look hyar!" he said, as he came near
er. "You's kin either prove np or ye
can't"
.' "That's bo."
"You's either all right or you's cum
fwssin'.".
"Well?"
t ' "Ban ye prove up?" .' '
"111 try."
' -'Then walk along."
He walked beside me, or behind me,
through thickets and over rough ground
-to a shanty just at the mouth of a ravine.
There was a man, a woman and a boy of
12 there, and my nose detected the odor
of a still. The three people mentioned
stood at the door as we came np, and the
man queried of my conductor:
"Who's he'un?"
"Gwine ter prove up." '
I sat down on a rock, and, leaving the
boy to watch me, the other three with
drew a few yards and held a consul ta
' tion. This lasted about five minutes,
and when they returned the man who
bad captured me said:
"We 'uns is agreed on it. You's either
revenue or not. You's kin prove up or
ye can't."
"Can any of you read?" 1 asked.
"We kin or we can't," replied the
woman, who was smoking plug tobacco
in a clay pipe.
"Well, perhaps you've heard of at
Monroe?"
We mought or we moughtnt," re
plied the husband of the woman.
PROVING UP.
"Well, here's a line from him, 'if
you are moonshiners you have sold him
whisky, and know him to be all right.
Here's my card, here are letters addressed
to me at Monroe, and you can overhaul
my knapsack."
. They couldn't read a line of writing,
and put up a job to catch me. After
consulting together a bit the woman said :
"What did you say he'uns first name
was George or William?"
"Neither one; it's Henry."
"And does he'un live in a single or
double log house?"
"In a frame house."
"Which eye is he'un blind in?"
"Neither one. - Come, now, he's a big,
fleshy man, wears long whiskers, is bald
on top of the head, and has a front tooth
out His wife is a little cross eyed wo
man and has two children."
That settled it, and I was at once given
' a bite to eat and told to make myself at
home. I had some tobacco for the man
and pins and needles for the woman, and
the present of a harmonican set the boy
wild with delight. '
" 'Sposin' you'n had shot he'un down
thar!" suggested the woman to my cap
tor. "Then he'un would hev bin dead, of
co'se," he calmly replied.
By and by the men went up to attend
the still, and the woman unrolled the pa
per of pins to the last row, opened the
paper of needles, and, placing the two
spools of thread, beside, them, she called
to the boy:
"Danny, cum hy'ar."
. "Yaas."
"Look in my eyes."
"Yaas."
"Is I flighty?"
"Skeercely, ma'am."
"Well, Tze either flighty or the richest
woman on these yere mountain, an' I
wish pop would hurry back an' tell me
which!" Detroit Free Press.
v The Other Thing.
An Iowa justice of the peace didn't
actually fine a man $11 Tor declaring
that the world was flat, but because he
knocked the postmaster down for insist
ing that it was round. It was a narrow
escape, though, and the defendant was
cautioned to look out next time. De
troit Free Press.
The Same Thing.
"That let's me out." exclaimed Miss
l&eecker. -
"Yea," assented Miss Beacon Street, of
Boston, "that permits your exit."
Judge.
STAMP SAVINGS BANKS.
A SYSTEM OF SMALL SAVINGS THAT
IS POPULAR IN DETROIT. .
It Appeals Especially to Young Children,
bat Men and Women Are Also Anion,
the Stamp Book Depositors How the
Method Is Conducted A Boon to Many.
"The 'saving stamps' have let us into
an almost new and profitable field of
business," says Edwin F. Mack, cashier
of the Citizens' Savings bank. "It has
increased our business more in eight
months than we were able to do by other
methods in five years. The beauty of
the arrangement is that it reaches a class
of people who ordinarily .have no busi
ness with any bank. When it is consid
ered that we get this new business at the
rate of less than one-half a cent on the
dollar, and that this expense is more than
covered by the actual operation of the
system, we are pretty well pleased.
"The cost of the stamps is only one cent
for fifty," the cost of the books is very
small, and the expense- of -getting the
stamps in the hands of depositors is also
very slight. To offset this we have the
use pf the money from the time it is re
ceived for stamps until the stamps are
turned into us as record of deposit. The
persons buying the stamps let them ac
cumulate for weeks and even months
before having the amount entered on
their regular bank books. We get in
terest on this money for that time with
out charge, and as this amounts to sev
eral thousand dollars the profit is quite
an item.
HOW IT WORKS.
"Of course we are not philanthropists,
but we take much satisfaction in know
ing that the system is inducing a large
number of people to save money who
never did before. We have agents in
many of the large factories, and . the
young employes after getting their pay
buy a few stamps, while otherwise they
would spend every dollar of their wages.
They would not come down to the bank
and open up an account with the small
amount. . But after they have a little
start with the stamp process they very
frequently come to the bank with a five
dollar or ten dollar deposit. We have
some depositors with hundreds to their
credit who made fifteen and twenty
cent starts. These are the ones that are
liable to be the big customers of the
future, and we are very glad to have
their early trade. v . '
"The corner grocerymen, who are our
agents, tell how the system works. For
instance, a woman goes in with $1 to
buy groceries, and has five, ten or per
haps twenty-five cents left, which she
invests in stamps. ' She leaves her book
with the grocer and he cares for the
stamps. The children, if they have no
books of their own,vare instructed to in
vest part of the small change in stamps.
Her husband, instead of spending his
small change for cigars, lends a helping
hand by -placing a few stamps in his
wife's book. ' - ..
"With the children the stamps are
like the merit cards which you and 1
used to get.at school. Each Sunday we
got a little card and when we got a dozen
of those we got a large card, and so manj
of those deserved a still larger and more
brightly colored card. The delight of
accumulating these cards you can well
remember. It is the same with the chil
dren and these stamps.' They hustle
around until they get twenty stamps to
fill a page and are much tickeled when
they can make the first entry in their
bankbook.
"We have ninety-five agents in this
city and agents in Saginaw, Port Huron
and other cities. Of our thousands of
depositors a large per cent, of them are
children, but : as many of them brought
their parents with them we are well
pleased."
HIGHER DENOMINATIONS.
"The stamp" saving system has proved
to be a very good thing for us," said E.
C. Bowman, cashier of . the Detroit sav
ings bank. "Unlike any other stamp
system of savings, our stamps are of dif
ferent . denominations' and different
classes of customers are accommodated.
For instance, we have 5 cent, 10 cent, 25
cent and 50 cent stamps, and $1, $2, $3
and $10 cards. That is to say, when u
card is filled it has these respective val
ues. Our customers have learned this,
and those who make enough money so
that they frequently can deposit 25 cents
at a time do not bother with 5 cent
8 tarn pa, which require so much 'licking'
and 'pasting.' We were somewhat sur
prised ourselves to see the popularity of
the larger denominations.
"Of course the working of the system
is pretty well understood. We have 125
agents at present, and the stamps are
placed in their hands. It requires i sev
eral thousand stamps a day to supply
their demands. The depositors place
the stamps on a card, and when this card
is full they get a credit on' their bank
book. We make the feature incidental
to our banking business, and think it ad
mirable because it enables us to reach
every class of people who may be induced
to save money. It has largely increased
our business, not only by the depositors
who use the device, but the. people who
come with them. Fully 75 per cent, of
the., depositors are children,, and, of
course, their accounts are small, but
very frequently their fathers come to
the banks where the children are doing
business.".
While the reporter and Mr. Bowman
were in the basement .of the banking
building looking over the record of the
stamp business, the cashier called atten
tion to several wooden cupboards which
he said contained all the saving bank
books issued by the bank from 1849 to
the present date. They were numbered
from 1 up to 73,000. Then he showed
No. 13, which was issued to a young man
who was then employed on a railroad.
The man is still a depositor .in the bank,
and there has never been a time since
when he did not have a small balance.
He stOl has the same number, is still in
the employ of the same company and
ought to have a snag bit of property by
this time. Detroit News.
A PALE OF PET LIONS.
ANTICS OF THE TERRORS OF THE
FOREST THAT ARE AMUSING.
They Were More Playful Than Kittens.
Seemed ' to Have a Human Lore for
Pan They Played Havoc, However,
with Tame Animals at Pint.
Previous to making up country trips
in South Africa I always laid in a sup
ply of calico dresses and pound packages
of tea to serve as presents for the wives
of the Boers in the outlying districts.
Tea is used by them only in cases of sick
ness, and the donation of a calico dress
is always met by an interchange of dairy
and hen roost products. In one of my
trips, while in the neighborhood of an
old vtouw, finding that the larder needed
replenishing, I jumped on my shooting
pony and cantered over .to her house,
followed by my Kaffir henchman "Jan
uary," carrying a basket containing the
tea and dress. The noise of my pony's
hoofs on the sunbaked earth caught the
old lady's ears, and she met me at the
door with the explanation:
"I'm so glad you have comer
"Why?" .
"Because I have a pair of young lions
for you."
"Where are they?"
"Knocking about the house some
where." . -
I immediately dismounted,' handing
the reins to January, started' indoors,
and finally brought up in the kitchen,
where I found the whelps asleep on the
hearth. On asking how they were capt
ured she informed me that some two
weeks previous ' her son had shot a
lioness, and, finding her in milk, hunted
around until he picked np the youngsters.
I immediately bargained for them with
the understanding that they were to be
given all the milk they would drink, not
teased, and kept until my return, some
three months ahead. The tea and dress
were then produced, and January had to
enlist the services of one of the farm
Kaffirs to assist in carrying to the wagons
the butter and eggs which were received
in exchange.
On . my return I found the cubs had
been partially weaned, which was fort
unate, as it would have been impossible
to get fresh milk for them daily. Taking
them in my arms I started toward my
cart, which had been driven up in front
of the house, for the purpose of throwing
them on my bed; but the oxen bolted on
catching scent of them, and it required
a deal of patience before they would al
low them to be loaded.
On coming up with my train of wag
ons, loaded with antelope, guns, etc., the
cart was prudently kept some distance
in the rear, for fear of a stampede of the
teams, and it was fully a week before
the oxen became thoroughly accustomed
to lion odor. .
. The whelps would pass the time while
traveling lolling about on my bed, which
I shared with them at night, but as soon
as we stopped and the-oxen were turned
loose for grazing their heads would be
thrust out from the front of the cart
waiting to be lifted out, so that they
could have their customary game of
romps with the dogs and myself.
We had reached the more thickly set
tled portion of the country when one
day, just as - we were outspanning, a
couple of young Boers cantered up to
the wagons, one of whom carried a fine
chacma seated behind him. "On dis
mounting the reins were handed to the
baboon, who had seated himself just in
front of the horses, and I started for the
cart in search of the "square rigger"
i. e., gin flask in order to pave the way
to purchasing the baboon.
On reaching it the heads of both
whelps appeared, expecting to be lifted
out, as was customary. On catching
sight of them the baboon gave a scream,
the horses a snort of terror, and each one
took a separate path across the veldt,
followed by a pair of blaspheming Boers.
I saved my gin, but lost, the chance of
buying a fine chacma, and sulkily re
fused to join-in the usual frolic.
The trip home was made without fur
ther incident, and on arriving the young
sters were allowed the run of the house,
but at night they would persist in shar
ing my bed with me. After having been
nearly smothered by a trick which they
had of lying across my face, I finally
compromised matters by arranging a cot
alongside my bed with a stout wire
screen intervening. "
Of course the arrival of the young
lions was soon noised about, and I did
not lack company, especially on Sunday
afternoons, when -my establishment re
sembled a miniature zoological garden,
and the female whelp seemed to select
just such occasions to play pranks on the
bipeds of her own sex. '
Her favorite ambush was under the
table of the dining room, the door of
which opened on the passageway through
the house. So long as males passed she
would remain ' quiet, but as sure -as a
single female or a party of them - at
tempted to pass through she would
spring out and crouch just in front of
them, invariably causing a hasty retro
grade movement, accompanied by a se
ries of screams. Once, while in the rear,
giving some directions to the Kaffirs, I
was startled by a piercing shriek, and
turned just in time to see a frightened
female dart out of the back door and
come at racing speed toward me. In so
doing she had to pass directly under .a
tree in which was chained a baboon.
So soon, as she was fairly under it
the brute dropped on to her shoulders,
whisked off her bonnet and wrap and
was up on his perch in a jiffy. She
dropped in a dead faint, and before I
could dash some water into her face and
bring her to her senses the bonnet and
wrap were torn into shreds, and on look
ing toward the house I saw the head of
the lioness lyinjg over thedoorsill, seem
faagly enjoying the" mischief she had
wrought. Forest and Stream.
. ? . Indignant.
Mr. ' B. Have you attended "Die
Walkure," madam?
Mrs. S. (superciliously) Certai 1 y.not.
I dont feel the slightest interest, ia these
pedestrian matches. Demarest's.
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THE DALLES.
The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving, prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural an grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the wool from "which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest original -wool shipping
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being
shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 -which can
and -will be more than doubled in the near future.
The products of the beautiful Blickital valley find
market here, and the country south and east has this
year filled the warehouses, and all available storage
places to overflowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its
money is scattered over and is being used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un
limited! And on these cornef stones she -stands.
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