Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1915 — Relics [ARTICLE]

Relics

A Chattanooga man recently met on the highway an aged darky of hie acquaintance with his arm In a sling. “Is your arm broken?" asked the Chattanooga man, solicitously. The old fellow grinned. “No, boss; It ain’t broken —only sore." “Ah! been hunting?” “No, suh; ain’t been huntin'. Been shoutin’ at trees.”

“Target practice, eh?" “No suh; ain't target practice. Jest shootln* at trees." “I don’t understand."

“Well, suh, Its jest like dis. I goee out Into de woods an’ I selects my trees an’ I shoots bullets Into ’em. la a little while de trees grow round de bullets. Den I cut ’em down to sell to persons from de,North as relics of the battle of Lookout Mountain.”