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DEVIL AXSE HATFIELD. Prominent Figure in Famous Feud Xearing His End. Old timers in Kentucky and West Virginia and the thousands who have followed the famous Hatfieid-McCoy feud in the newspapers are wondering whether "Devil Anse" Hatfield, one of the most famous of the fighting mountaineers, is to die in bed. Recent dispatches from Whitfield, Ky., says he is entering what is likely to be his last illness at the age of 84 I years. "Devil Anse" led his four sons in defying the authorities for many years. Long ago, when the feud was at its height, it was predicted that some day."Devil Anse" would die a violent death. In the' years which have intervened the feud has died down, and now it seems likely that the famous leader will die with none to disturb his last days save perhaps his memories. Start of the Feud. A few dayg after a pistol duel at . - Canneltown, W. Va., October, 1911, in which two of his sons. Troy and Elias, were shot and killed, Anse Hatfield embraced reilgion and was baptized declaring that he wished to lead an upright, Christian life. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, known as the most bloody of all the Kentucky mountain vendettas, began in 1890 when Floyd Hatfield, who lived on the West Virginia si<Je of Tug Fork, a tributary of the Big Sandy river, drove half a dozen hogs out of the woods into his pen in String' town. Randolph McCoy from the other side of the creek happened to ride through Stringtown one day and recognized the porkers as belonging to the McCoys, accused "Hog Floyd" of stealing them. Bad feeling was caused, but the affair was settled peace ably in the court. Another Killing. Some months later members of the rival factions met by accident and after the passage of a few heated remarks a skirmish took place in which Sam McCoy killed Stanton Hatfield. The case came to trial and McCoy gained his acqquittal. Little by little bitterness and . hatred grew until 1882, when a friend and relative of both clans ran for office in Pike county, Ky. Hatfields and McCoys gathered on election day to boost their candidate. ? : All seemed peaceful and Kentucky "moonshine" flowed without stint. Suddenly as McCoy walked up to a Hatfield and demanded payment of an oid debt. Fight at Election. Dark and threatening glances passed between the enemies. In an Instant pistols gleamed and a pitched i battle ensued. Ellison Hatfield was fatally wounded. "Devil Anse" taking the law in his i own hands captured three McCoys, and assisted by a gang of followers made off with them to an old but ! safely hidden house in the woods. ( Here he held his prisoners awaiting < report from the bedside of his wounded kinsman. j When after three days news came of Ellison's death a mock trial took j place and the helpless defendants, ] r none of whom were really guilty, were taken out, tied to paw paw J hushes and made the targets of twen- , * ty-three rifles. 1 After the occurrence a McCoy was a prepared to kill a Hatfield on sight and the feud raged furiously. Matters were by no emans improved when Gov. Wilson, of West Virginia, refused to honor requisition made out for the capture of Hatfield and his ? sons of Gov. Buckner. of Kentucky. "Six feet of devil and 180 pounds of hell," was the description given the eldest son of old Anderson Hatfield by his enemies. It was Cap who. at the instigation of his father, burned the McCoy house to the ground and killed old Randall McCoy's daughter. AX UNUSUAL WOMAN. Lid Work of a Man in Coal Mine for Fifty Years. i Mrs. Bridget McHugh, the oldest "pitbrow" woman in the Pemberton ( coal field, has just died at Wigaw, | England, at the age of 80 years. For i more than half a century she had 1 worked at the mines. j "Old Bridget," as Mrs. McHugh was familiarly called, was a hale anjj hearty, strongly built woman who < could use a- shovel in filling mine cars as well as any man and was always looked upon as an expert pit brow worker, few being her equal. The shorter working day was unknown to her and summer and winter, rain or shine, she was accustomed to leave home at 5 o'clock every morning, and was in her place at the coal bank before the whistle sounded at 6. Her day continued until 5 or 6 at night. Hrs. McHugh was a grandmother and two of her sons are employed in the colliery where she worked so long. Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. AX EXCELLENT CLOCK. Keen Ticking Since 1859 and Still Keeps Good Time. Fifty disabled soldiers, many of whom had lost a leg in the war and wore an artificial one in its place climbed the 360 steps of the house of commons tower the other afternoon to study the mechanism of "Big Ben," the giant timepiece. The soldiers are being trained by the ministry of labor in watch and clock repairing. One, spying the clock mechanism. exclaimed: "Is this the works? It / looks more like a blinking printing machine." A guide told the party that tlu clock was designed by Lord Grimthorp and was placed in the tower in 1 859. It has been working for 60 wears and is still regarded as one ot the be^t timekeepers in the world. The minute hand is 14 feet long and weighs 224 pounds, and the pendulum, which requires two seconds to complete each swing, weighs TOO pounds. The bell which sounds the hours has a diameter of nine feet and weighs 14 tons, the weigh" of the striking hammers being 766 pounds. An electric motor now winds the clock in 20 minutes. Formerly it took two men working three afternoons a week Ho complete the task. He Raised 'Em. "How did you get the turkeys the officer found in your possession?" sternly asked the police magistrate. "I?I?I raised "em, your honor," stammered the prisoner. "Tell the truth." "That's the truth, your honor." resisted the crime stained creature. "I reached down through a hole in the roof."?The Continent. ( An Early Start. "And we'll grow old together, dearest." Her father's voice from up-stairs? "Well, you needn't start doing it down there, need you."?London TitRita " I MEMBERSHIP REPORT BAMBERG COUNTY BRANCH AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATE (Continued from page 6, column 2.) of the strong endorsement of this movement issued and signed in a joint proclamation of the governors of our nine cotton growing states. The fact is realized by these leaders that the greatest material concern of this, our section, is that of agriculture, and the greatest concern of our agriculture is how can we duly and truly control cotton. Think for just a week past what has happened. What has been the cause of the ridiculous fluctuations in cotton prices? If a few people want a little more pay for working on the railroads, cotton, goes down. The iron workers are extravagant and want to live easier, cotton goes down. A prominent man gets sick, cotton goes down. Bank notes become due, jotton goes down. We have good, :lear weather, cotton goes down, etc., ate., etc., etc. Yet we have intelligent thinking people who hesitate to co-operate in the movement, but we have the hope :>f their support as w? have their promises, and before long we hope to publish additional members. Several applications have been, returned to us from State manager be:ause they were sent with less than minimum amount of dues. All details were not thoroughly understood by cme of the committees, so some little errors may be expected. Our organzation will be worked until we are mfficiently organized to do some effective work, which will be the beginning of it. I wish to quote a paragraph contained in a letter a few lays ago from state manager Mc ^eod: "if you ana your commutes *new what was being done by the inerests antagonistic to the cotton association to break up or prevent the organization, all of* you would work light and day to make the organiza:ion a success. They are writing ar:icles for the farm papers on other subjects and attach to the article a personal letter to the editor. These letters are ingenuiously and shrewdly worded apparently for the purpose of creating a doubt in the minds off the sditors as to the men who are trying to make the organization a success, and as to the possibilities of the organization for the good of the producer." It has not been hard to see that our organization has had strong opposition from the beginning. The efforts against us have been of a cunning nature. Shall we retard? It Is time for more vigorous effort than ever. When full membership has been secured, we are then ready to to execute plans and purposes outlined. Even other sections of our country realize we are hard to organize, and laugh at our efforts, that does not discourage us. Each school district will understand that it is an independent and permanent organization. Where the membership of one district is too small two or more adjoining districts mnv hp nrjrnrnzpd together as one. What we need and must have is confidence and co-operation. With these any community or district can make itself a power and be felt. Signed for Executive Committee: W. L. Riley. J. K. Mavfield, J. A. Wyman, A. P. Guess, C. F. Rizer, H. H. Kearse, W. B. Chitty. S. W. Copeland* J. H. A. Carter. J. G. Rhoad. A. G. W. Hill. .T. P. O'Quinn, J. W. Hill, C. 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