The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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THE MEN MADE EYES WERE CUT INTO TWO PARTS
By S. C. Turnbo
The following amusing incident did not occur in Missouri nor Arkansas but it is so funny that we give it a place here. The account was given me by Mr. Rufus Jones who said that it was true.
"One day many years ago", said Mr. Jones, "just after sorghum
cane seed was introduced into the state of Tennessee and the farmers began
to prepare sorghum mills out of wood an old man of the name of Treat who
was a carpenter and Burrel Jones both of whom lived in Decatur County went
out into the forest and felled a tree to make rollers for a sorghum mill.
After the tree had fallen Mr. Treat laid his spectacler glass on the top
of the stump. Directly Calvin Jones came up with his ax to help them work
and as he reached the stump of the felled tree he struck his ax into the
top where Treats eye glasses lay and cut them in two but he did not notice
the glasses until after the damage was done and he says "Oh please
excuse me gentlemen. I have cut the carpenters men made eyes into two parts.
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