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year geati* bdy*, w 11*14 to
fcm**’* ph"^. tl^ n%hi h*re
OkUed seed 00m, moving on with
and faariMi brow toibe onrnf-
and I bare alao looked npon
their knapaagki Md mmketi
aeemed heavier than the boya, and my
ayes, partaking of a mother’s weaknem,
filled with team. Those daye hare pasted.
Many of them have found nhmelem
graves; hat they are not dead. They
Uve in memory, and their spirits stand
oat a grand reserve of that oohunn which
is iftamhing on with unfaltering steps to
ward the goal of constitutional liberty.
[Applause.] :r 4
“It were in vain if I should attempt,
I have already said, to express my
gratitude to you. ;I am standing now
very nearly on the spot where I stood
when I took the oath of office in 1861.
Tour demonstration now exceeds tliat
which welcomed me then. This shows
that the spirit of Southern liberty is not
dead. [Long and continued applause, j
Then you were full of joyous hopes.
You had every prospect of achieving all
you desired, and now you are wrapi>ed
in the mantle of regret—and yet that re
gret only manifesto more profoundly, and
does not obliterate, the expression of
your sentiments. _ •
“I felt last night as I approached the
Hxehange Hotel, from the gallery nf
which your peerless orator, William L.
Yancey, introduced me to the citizens of
Montgomery, and commended me in lan
guage which only his eloquence could
yield, and which far exceeded my merit,
I felt, I say again, that I was coming to
my home, coming to a land where liberty
dies not, and serious sentiments will live
forever. [Applause.]
“I have been promised, my friends,
that I should not be called npon to mnke
a speech; and, therefore, I will only ex
tend to you my heartfelt thanha God
bless you, one and all, old men and boys,
and the ladies above all others, who never
faltered in our direst need.” [Loud and
long continued applause.]
When he retired the shouts were so
long and loud that Mr. Davis had to go
to the front again. He bowed his ac
knowledgments and thanks.
Governor O'Neal, when it was possible
to be heard, made a handsome speech in
refereaee to the cause of the gathering,
and of the love the people of the Month
feel for the statesmen and soldiers of the
South, and introduced General John B.
Gordon, the orator selected to deliver the
address, as in Mr. Davis's feeble condi
tion it was understood he could only
speak a few mingles. General Gosdon
received a grand welcome, as many sol
diers that he had commanded were pres
ent
In opening his address General Gordon
wtsde on eloquent allnakm to Mr. Davis,
in the course of which he said:
“As I saw him in that first great conflict
of the Confederacy, with the shouts of
victorious legions in his can, and the
glory of battle on his face, be was in the
meridian blase of his fame, commanding
the unqualified confidence of his Mouth-
era countrymen and the attention of
Christendom. But as a prisoner, strip-*
ped of all power save the power to en
dure, sustained by tliat majchtic spirit
which no force but death could conquer,
awaiting his judicial trial and all its con
sequences with a repose of mind, an
equipose and digigty of demeanor randy
equalled and never excwtj«d. it was then
that ho bound himself to the hearts*of
his people in deathless affection and row*
to the subliinent height of the morally
heroic. Of these two scenes, the one In
the fortress was more profoundly im
pressive. Its lesson is of inestimable
value to the young men of our country.
It teaches that no revulsion in political
fortunes, however sudden or extreme,
can overwhelm or crush the man whose
aims are lofty and whose life is blameless.
To my mind, great and grand as he was
in the hour of his most splendid triumph,
he was greater and grander still in the
hear of his deepest humiliation. And
when alienation and bitter memories
gone, when the crucial teat of
analysis shall be fully, fairly and truth
fully made, then his name and his fame,
his conspicuous services to the country
before the war, his unrivalled State pa
pers and manly uttenmees (Inring the
war, and his moral elevation end match
less fortitude as prisoner of State atlnr
the war, will command universal respect
and challenge unqualified admiration. ”
In alluding to the achievements of the
Northern and Southern armies, General
Gordon said: _ _j-
“I acknowledge inferiority to no man
in admiration of the broad liberality
which prompted the efforts of Charles
Sumner to strike from the flags of the
Union the names of the battles between
his estranged and embittered country
men; yet I subscribe neither to its policy
nor to its justice. All honor to the spirit
of the man who, facing a storm of politi
cal-wrath, could rise to the lofty purpose
of destroying all mementoes of Northern
triumph over his Southern countrymen!
' All honor to the eloquent utterances by
Lee fiiS Me barefoot NoItTH
sad hungry heroes, who for four bloody
yssrs kept those vast numbers at bay,
and in the space of three years defeated
and forced from the augme command
at least five of these Mmwned Federal
fcaptaina.”
At the oondusioa of General Gordon's
oquent address it wss announced that
Mr. Davil would receive his friends at
the Oity Hall. As he started from the
Capitol portico the artillery boomed forth
and fired a salute of one hundred gtfiks.
The same scene of cheering and waving
of handkerchiefs was-/enacted as when
the procession moved up the avenue.
Mr. Davis was carried to the Oity Hall,
where general handshaking was indulged
in by a vast number of callers, only per
mitting a moment to each. This ended
the day’s demonstration. It was a grand
success, rain daring a portion of the day
being the only drawback. Universal
good humor prevailed. It is impossible
to estimate the crowd, but it was fully
twenty thousand in the streets and on the
groonds.
THE SOlTHSn^"BAPTISTS.
Thirty-Pint HcmJod of the Coarrntlos-A Large
Gatborlag Expected la Maatgomery.
The thirty-first session of the South
ern Baptist Convention will he held in
Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday. The
Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, of Georgia, will
the Convention sermon. The
preflA
Bouthei
luthem Captist Convention was organ
ized at Augusta, Ga. There are now
in the United States 2,572,288 Baptists.
Of these 2,000,000 are in tliat scope of
country over which the Southern Baptist
Convention extends. The Convention
does its work through two boards, viz:
The foreign mission board, located at
Itichmond, Va., the Rev. H. A. Tnpper,
D.D., corresponding secretary. The re
ceipts t)f this Ixxird last year were 881,-
289.59. The board lias missions in
Mexico, Brazil, Africa, China and Italy.
The Rev. Charles Mwnly, Lb D., of
Greenville, is vice-president for South
Carolina. The second is the home mis
sion Ixiard, located at Atlanta, Ga., the
Rev. J. T. Tichenor, D.D., correspond
ing secretary. Last year’s recepts were
$71,431.68. They re]x>rted 185 mission-
aries, 2,981 baptisms, 4,664 additions in
all; three chuivbcs organized. Among
the colored people the board lias Ixvn
holding institutes, theological, at which
179 preachers and deacons have been
taught. The mission fields are in Arkan
sas, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and In
dian Territory; in Key West among the
Cubans, and also the Levering School in
the Indian Territory. The Rev. R. W.
Handers, of Chester, is vice-president for
Mouth Carolina. The officers are elected
annually. Those of last year were the
Rev. P. H,'' Mell, LL. D., of Athens,
Ga., president, and the Rev. Lanmug
Bnrrows, D.D.," of Augusta, Ga., and
the Rev. O. F. Gregory, of Baltimore,
secretaries.
The rates of travel for delegates liave
lieen fixed so low by the railroads tliat a
large attendance is ex]iocted from Month
Carolina.
Tb*
Pallar* la Ufr.
4 aa*y af Pa
A literary client of the great Romeike,
who has originated a new Industry in the
paste and actaaora lua has given that dill
gent newspaper.cllpper an order U> colk-ct
information regarding eausea of failure in
life. Uonreike, therefore, with bis usual
zeal, has isaued one of the crueleai of cir
culars '’to all curates of more than40years
of age, to all unknown barristers, and to
certain members of Pariisuwftt and piddle
men.” We wonder what the unfortunates
think when they find themselves ttrav
stamped with tire Romeike brand as (wUut
failuras, an t a list of guesses at the names
of the certain members of Parliament and
putdic men who have ukseiyo} circulars
Gigpeu OUTLAWS.
B MOST OJT A XAM l
bkcore
U BKCOROKD ON A P<
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A Narrmtlr* af Bong Vary Ltvaly Napa-
rlanoas Among tha Maanstilners—Tha
Narrow Escape of a Venturesome Pal-
law. 1’
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(“BuKturM" in <A« Ktm fork Star.)
About the middle of last December
Deputy United Stales Marshal Kellet
was mu rdered by moonshiners in
the mountains of North Georgia- An
account of his killing, published in a
New York newspaper, ’ said that
another notch was cut in the big pop
lar that guards the entrance to Sleepy
Cove, the retreat of the ' outlaws,
making five in all,* each ftgniflcant of
the death at tht? hands of the illicit
whiskey makers, of a revenue officer.
Now, I was until recently a Avenue
officer, and I can without fear of con
tradiction say that no one is better ac
quainted with Sleepy Cove and that
big poplg. than mhyself. I kneww<i :
three of the poor fellows whose epi
taphs stand gaping there, silent but
awful warnings, to all who would dis
turb the lawless men of that lonely
cove; the fifth notch is for Keilett, but
for whom the fourth was cut seems
still to be a mvstcry to the surround-
ing neighborhood Moonshiners sel-
Tfam ffifi
murder, but In .this instance I think
they have lost their reckoning. That
fourth notch was cat for me. I saw it
done, with death staring me in the face.
Is it possible that the outlaws still be
lieve my bones are bleaching on the
damp ground in Smoky Hole? *
When notch No. 3 was cut there
was a great stir in North Georgia.
Country people were wild with ex
citement. Revenue men riding through
the mountains had a sort of itching in
the back, and were inclined often to
tnrn in the saddle. We laid the mur
der of W— at the door of the noto
rious Cap Hawkins, the daring leader
of a tearless baud of outlaws iu the
Cohutta Mountains, and as soon as
possible we were on his trail with 'a
good pack of bloodhounds. The scent
was cold, and when we had penetrat
ed some .eight miles into the range the
dogs became disheartened. . Alter
circling round ns time and again iu
search of the trail they gave it up, and
wc were foroed to retreat without
having accomplished anything.
It was dusk when wc got out of the
deep woods, and began to look about
for a place for the night. A log^cabiu
of two room*£was not inviting, but the
do
JouioalUm, if a man passes 35 without
achieving success in his avocation, Romeike
dubs him a failure, and sends him "a form
of inquiry. ” This “fonp of Inquiry" is too
curious not to be printed in Us entirety. It
runs as follows;
T “To what causes do you attribute your
failure in life? I. .of—jjrofasaion
, attribute my failure in life to tha fol
causes: 1. Drink; (say what drink.
2. Gambling, (turf, curds, or what?)
Dishonesty. 4. Unfortunate acquaintances
5. MwrlsgP- 0- Single life. 7. Disiqclina.-
Uon to work. M. Lending or borrowing,
(say which.) 9. Ifapepvta? views, (politi
cal;) unpopular vi«#s. (religious.) 10. To
bacco, (in what form.) 11. General 1104
pacity. 19. Other causes, general ro
mariu.”
If any of ow readers feel tempted to uq
bosom themselves to ftomeike and his lite
rary client they can fill in ILU confession
and srmd it to our office, to be forward^
after perusal —/Wf JfaB Gazette.
old aroue who came to the door said
she could provide for one of the party,
and that the others might find accom
modations at another .cabin a mile
down the road. In some way it was
arranged that I should stay at her
house, and join the party next morn -
ing. She made me as comfortable as
possible. For supper I had pure corn
bread and molasses, with a tin cap of
something hot which she called coffee.
While I ate she smoked a clay pipe,
sitting in the chimney corner with her
legs crossed and her fool swinging iu-
cesssntly. When slie spoke to me,
which site did oflpnsr than j liked, I
could not lielp feeling that she was
trying to pump me. Khe wanted to
know entirely toomucb about the moon-
shinqr* *nd the revenue men, and
before I finished my meal she made me
lodk ii|ion her with suspicion. ( Ouce
or twice I allured to tier lamily* for I
thought it strange that she should live
alone, £itd even went so far as to
inquire about &;r husband, and ask
when he would be at iioice. But she
replied evasely, and all 1 learned was
that her old man and three grown
boys were up on the mountain, tend
ing tvops. It did not require much
exercise of my ipiaguuUioo to deter-
ntiiH* what kind of t'i,ro{;s they were
tending. Iu thinking of (uam my -
band went instinctively to my trusty
revolver, and the timeh *of the cold
Aw, Lardy I
famel, *
torn in’?
ye a takln’
a-goiir tar
agin?* . ” .
Ota laughter echoed tbrbi
woods and sounded fienisB as it came
hook from the mountain side. I knew
Cap Hawkins well Lawless as he
was, there was in his composition a
me this mornln’? Air ye
look old Gap Hawkins up
the
whor air air arter ns hottiffti demnition
They air done ’cross the
line.
«- ^ easwaaavavij . vv Ulvil A Lli&WmUf lltaYIIlM I/vvl
A *0*Yi wishing _tnat I could throttle ifener for nearly twenty hours
the villian. Whnn ota i*aAaV*A/1 fhA V»li
certain wild chivalry peculiar to these
men of the mountains. * Brave as a
lion, he bad an unbounded admiration
for courage in others; cunning as a
fox, he respected a man who could
outdo him in craftiness. Knowing
this, I determined to assume a bold air
and affect a supreme indifference to
my fate, whatever that was to be.
“O, Cap, dry up,” I began, winking
slyly at him. “Don’t frighten the
revenue men; thev’11 be after you
again.”
Again ho roared as if he would
split his sides over the joke. He was
immensely tickled.
“Say yonr prayers, Cap,” I
tinned. “It’ll be -a long
you see daylight again.”
a-drivin’at,
, x con-
me before
would be instructive and eutmatm*r Jt ^ me up . j wondered how
A Uoo4 Many Failure*.;
During the year 1883 there were 10,568
failures In business in the United States
and Canada. Some of these were big con
cerns, and some were very small. Failure
is sorrowful business to any man, especial
ly if it is health that fails. A great many
times 10,568 people fail in health in the
ceurse of a year. Many of them might lie
saved if they would take Brown's Iren
Bitters, the peat family medicine and re
storer of wasted health. *
The great majority of English medi
which he sought tiTmake"practical ^ I <*1 women undoubtedly marry either be-
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magnanimous conception! But I utter
ly dissent from the opinion that such
obliteration was either essential to the
fraternisation of the sections or just to
the intrepid armies of the Union. The
one thing essential to the manhood and
•djf-respeot and, therefore, I repeat, to
the patriotism of the people, is that ex
act historic justice Aall be meted to each
Aany and all sections. Let malicious
detraction cease; let envy, which en
slaves ignoble minds, find no place i» the
breast of any lover of truth. 'With
what naeasnre ye mete, H shall ba meas
ured to yon again, ’ A just appreciation
of the motives that impelled and of the
heroism which sustained each army and
■action in*lheir Titanic conflict, is the
eymbol as well as sostenanoe of patriot
ism. Hhberal criticism is not only un
patriotic—it is irrational - Merited en-
Mtariinus cl Boathemheroism is implied
' __ ‘ Nhieb, in-
t byderotioa to the Union of the
privations
convic-
MtiKb
On the
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of
tha
fore or soon after (hoy complete their
curriculum; in fact, one almost fancies
that men either perversely seek as wives
the very type of women whose intelloc
tuai tastes Urey pretend to detest, or pro
dently apply matrimony ps $ sojyent of
sexual competition. ^ N
—The French Minister of the Interior
has issued an order to the Mayors and
Prefects of France that they are to do all
in their power to dissuade emigration.
The French are the least migratory of
nations, the annual average of emigrants
being under 5,000 out of a population of
87,000,060. ^
—Senator Bowen, of Colorado, says
that Attorney General Garland will not
resign. In his opinion “the investigfc
turn has developed riSfeinjfbut the fact
that Garland was unjustiy accused and
mercilessly abased. ” ^ ~~~
^ BegtSat missionary in China writes
home that what an AxnericMi lamily
throws away in a year would keep a dozen
Chineae families, and what a Chinese
family ^throws away in tha same tin»a
“Whut air ye a-drivin’ at, Knrnel?”
he asked,., seriously, casting his eyes
about him. My shot had missed, but 1
kept firing.
“Well, you see, Hawkins, now that
I’ve got you in my power I’m going to
pnt you out of the way for good. You
come along with me to the Cove.
There’s a warm hole in the side of the
mountain in which you can spend the
winter, board and lodging free. Come,
brace up, Cap; when you see how
c mistakes in their matters of comfortable it is in there yen’ll want
to lease the place tor life.”
The outlaw made no resnonse to my
random talk, nor did he langh as be
fore. Something seemed to worry
him, for he fidgeted about, scratched
bis uncombed head and ran his bony
fingers through his grizzled, tangled
beard.
“Look a-hyar KnrnoJ,” said the
moonshiner, leaning close to me and
boring into me with his black eyes,
“air ye ever been thar?”
“There? Where, Cap?”
“That thar hole ye air a-goiu’ on
ahCqE-” I, - ' .. ommm
• “Why, of course, don’t I know every
bole and crag in the Cohuttas?”
-.‘'Then that settles it, Knrnel., I
’lowed ye war jokin’. Waw, Patiy,
waw, Stick, wawp.”
He reined in his horses and stopped
the wagon. Taking up an ax he banded
it to some person on the ground, aud
said a few words which I did not un
derstand. I tried to raise myself to
look out, but fell back helpless, full of
sharp, shooting pains. My joints re
fused to bcnd,~my neck creaked when
I tried to tnrn my head and the strug
gle of the night came back to me like a
horrible repetition. At Jhe first sound
of the ax Cap Hawkins pnt his arm
under my back and forced me to sit
upright.
“Lobe air a-enttin’ yer tombstone,
Knrnel, au’ I ’lowed ye’d like ter git a
last look.” |
To the right of tho wagon stood a
! ;iant poplar lifting its shaggy top 300
eet above the road. In its trunk were
three gaping wonnds, and a moon
shiner in broad hat and big boots was
cutting a fourth. Two other ill-look
ing men stook near, thefr guns in their
hands. ' '
“Km ncl,” continued my guard, “do
ye want ter write yer epertapb?” Tho
men ii.tighed at their chieb “Them
other ilircc jievies didn’t git nary
chance tey wrrtc ihoim. Boys, air any
o’ ye g<4 a pencil*>
Ton well 4 knew the meaning of that
notch from wiiioli tlio sappy chips were
flying. My heart quivered as the ax
ate its way into the soft wood. My
face must have reflected my thought,
for the outlaw, giving me a gentle
push, sent me on my back
“Lay down, Kurnel, an’ don’t git so
allfireu skccred,” he said. “That air a
mighty comf’table hole up. in the hill*
—board an’ lodgin’ frec.” ,, Aud quot
ing my own words, he fairly made the
welkin ring with his coarse laughter.
me,
“That air jes about it, I reckon,
Knrnel. Ye air ’cross the dead line,
an’ yer epertaph air done been writ
Before I could say more his three
companions climbed into the wagon
besiqe me. Clucking to his horses he
drove on at ^ tyot through the jMsg,
aud as the sun rose over |L>e mountain
we entered the precincts of Sleepy
Cove. It must have been 10 o’clock,
yet Into that lonesome spot the sun
was just beginning to pour his rays.
By 2 p. uuJie would disappear behind
the jagged cliu that formed the west
ern boundary of the retreat, and the
long (wijighi would set in with its
sptectrftl‘shadows chasing each other in
the dark wood. Often had 1 heard
the country folk talk with batea breath
•f the horrors of Sleepy Cove. Gob
lins, they Mid, dwelt iu the mountain
caves, coming forth at dusk (p frolic
with the fearless moonshiners, and
dancing at midnight upon the slippery
crags. * Ghouls^ armed with ‘*
of imwleretfineifri
the narrow pass,
being approached from the outside
the men w^re "citing on -down at the
other cabin, anft if dviy ^ould hear a
pistol shot that far off.
When the old woman tuul shown me
to my room, site returned to her chim-.
uey corner and her pipe and her foot
swinging. My bod wps an old fash
ioned one, with ropes for spring; aud
bear skins for mattress ana cover. I
didn’t undress, but crawled just as 1
was between the skins, and laying on
my back, thought t should not do
much sleeping. When my eyes grew
accustomed to to the darkness and
walldered aimlessly over the open ceif
ing, I saw something about the size of
the bed hanging directly over me. It
seemed to swing slowly back aud
forte. I stood up and touched it,
examined ‘H, as pquutoly as possible,
andkgain lay down. Tt nothing
but three or four bed quilts elr&cfced
across fwb boards supported at the
endrby short ropes. If it grew colder
in the inghj I would reach up to them
for more cove*-.
I intended to stay awake, but must
have been nearly asleep when a crook
ing noise aroused me. The next
moment it wap kcnested,'and the ouilta
above me descended rapidly, n It flash
ed upon me that I was a trap;
Drawing my weapon, I attempjtechto
it of bed, determined to sell
dearly, but Js I straightened
up the quiita covered me. and qpfbre I
could tbroir them off strong bands
were at the corners, jt .seemed as if a
toil weight had Mien upon mo and
doubled me up. My head was bent so
close upon my breast that my neck
would break. My breatit came short
knd fast.
With a frantic struggle I cocked mV
pistol and placing Unc muzzle close
against the quilt pulled the trigger. I
fired at random, trusting that fate
might guide the ball into the heart or
head or sopm one of my cowardly
assailants. Thp concession was awftil
ib that narrow spgce. Tijto $pojps
filled my eyes, nope and ears: the shot
rang through my brain; J felt that m
last hour had coma, My God, bow
foa all you
murderer,”
smile on every free. An axe was pro*
cured, and, while four of the men
guarded against surprise, the fifth
cut a window in my jail, through
which I crawled, having been a pris-
“Now, Kurnel, don’t
It air mighty comf
lodg
’t git out o’ sorts,
’table inrbyer—
iifept nighily vigil at
aud if any human
around the giant poplar
till the
pproached
they gathered arou
and (Mat upon the bark till the fright
ened man qisgppeared in the direction
whrince he caioe. iso m^n bat the
moonniiners had ever been' known to
come from Sleepy Cov6 alive, consc-
qtmnjly none ev6r volurttarily entered
that wild uncanny place.
These thoughts were passing through
’ su**
ifd
de? of attention, gr&pp-
an<j casting ’furtive
my mind when suddenly the wagon
* id the fbnr men threW them-
.stopped. —
selyesi^oafti^
Wg their guns
J
-The fund for tha widow of
aoock, now beiac aataad m Boaton, ia
tincthaanmof 110,00a
suffered! I remember a derisive
aagb that seemed to have come from
another world, then something struck
me on the head.
When I recovered consciousness I
gras lying on my back in a jolting
wagon, with my hands and feet
securely hpufitj. Ths pale blue of the
sky above mo and‘the ha^y onMinea of
the three-tops reaching overhead tdkj
me that day was breaking-
“Wai, Kurnel, air ye eome roon’ all
right? 0 said a deep voioe at my bead.
Raising mf free, I mw leaning over
me the grizzly' face of the outlaw.
Gap Hawkins. He broke Into $ wild
laugh at my look of astonish men*.
^ ‘'Didn’t ’spect tar saa me this awn-
W, tiki ye, Kurnel r be said, |
i'hnwl hoi—na’ jar
ng their gun$ *0,9 casting'furtl
glands at rach other. Straining my
ear I thought I beard the feint yfclp of
a bound. Cap Hawkius lashed bis
horses into a gallop, and we sped on
through the woods for half a mile,
stopp.!}" *g*in in the shadow of a cliff.
At their leader’s order two of the men
lifted me opt of the wagon, and half
dragged md to a spot where the earth
formed a kffid or bench gainst the
rock wall. Placing me on toe ground
they beran prying at & bowlder which,
gradually yielding to their hand-sticks,
rolled oyer on Its s|4&, exposing a hole
in the clifl. into this they uogged
me for some twenty feet,' and tossed
mepp a hod of leaves. Then one of
the raon brought fh softfe'food, and
another water aud another wood.
I turned to the outlaw leader and
aaked how long he intended to keep
me prisoner. Uo laughed at the ques
tion, but made no reply,^ Going to the
cave’s month be peered stealthily out,
listened awhile aud cai{$* back to me.
There ■•was aa ominous glitter in his
eyes, h loflteff’Tike murder. Mv
Godi W*s he going to bftry me alive?
I begged him to shoot me, cut my
throet, hang »s^-anything bpi' leave
me there to starve. But be pejd po
aiteotion to my appeaU.
ir ’live wIm
“E? ye fir ’live wbea
Kurnel-.I fit back,” he
I git beck,
«aid, M wby,
put e leetie
.board an’ lodgin’ free. Boys, air ye
ready? Them hounds air pickin’ us
OP* (Light the firp, Cobe. Kurnel,
hyer air a kuife ter cut yer loose arter
we leave ye. Don’t git skeered 0’ the
ghosts, an’ ''member yc air mighty
comf’table—board an’ lodgin'free; an’
yer epertaph air down on the big pop-
y Kurnel.”
The outlaws were already placing
the bowlder in position, and when Cap
Hawkins had squeezed bis wav out
the rock was rolled into the opening.
With a crundbiug sound it settled into
E lace, and I was a prisoner iu titnoky
tole. »
I listened for the baying qf the
bounds, hoping that they had tracked
me to the cave, but not a sound pene
trated the door of my prison. The*
fire burned briskly, and Smoky Hole
f lowed iu the light of the pine knots,
t was the work of a few minutes to
cut my bonds with the knife the out;
law had given me, and then I took au
inventory of the contents ofthe cavern-.
Tho place had evidently been fitted up
for the illicit manufacture of “moun
tain dew” and “tanglefoot” and,.,“red
rye,” for there were the wornont
copper still, the worm, the mash tnb,
jugs and flasks aud other apparatus of
ttie moonshiner. The cave was about
the size of a railroad box car, except
that the roof was higher and more
arched. I jabbed my Kiiitc into every
square foot of the walls. They were
solid rock. In a vain, mad effort to
roll the bowlder from the entrance, 1
drew the blood from my shoulder. It
was all ot no use. Unless help came
to me from without my doom was
sealed. 4 ■
A dull, heavy .feeling came over no
and I sat down near the fire. Tkc*
confined air was getting close. Snd-
Jenly, on looking up, I was appalled
at the discovery ot a new danger. The
roof of the cavern was no longer
visible. The dcn*e, black smoke ol
the pitch pine, nuahie to escape, was
hanked above me like an ominous
cloud, ever growing denser and black-
cc and descending stcodilv, remorse
lessly, upon me like a veritable
shadow of Death. *
Already the asphyxiating gases
were causing tnv brain to whirl. 1
crawleil to the fire and stamped upon
the blazing knots until cvcav spark
was extinguished, but they continued to
send up their stifling smoke. 1 could
feel it ascending, hot and pitiless.
Falling flat upon the ground I satu
rated my coat sleeve with the water
the outlatV* had left me, and placing
if against my mouth secured a full
breath of strained gas. But it gave
me little respite. The high pressure
of the atmosphere made my veins
swell almost to bursting, inr baud-
and feet were benumbed, and I was
unable to move a mu«cle. Then [
longed for death.
Suddenly tl eie‘ was a loud explo
sion, followed by a falling of loose
earth and rock and a rash of air. A
fant ray of light appeared in the cor
ner of the cavern over the still, grow
ing broader aud stronger as the smoke
cleared away, With life and-strength
renewed, 1 made my way to the
iiing, where .1 drank in the fresh
f) 1 swelling ( cart and a lighter
cons* |euce than 1 hud ev< r hoped to
possess, The explosion had *orn
away some rough masonry with winch
the moonshiners bad slopped up a
fissure in the rock. Itoicver occurred
to me in my investigation ot the cave
that there ought to l>e some way of
exit for the smoke of the still. Itnt
everything was plain enough now.
I had ffiund the chimney, and it wa« my
determination to use it to advantage.
In a moment, forgetful of pains and
brnises, I was climbing for freedom.
It was a tight squeeze now and then,
but I made rapid progress, and .felt
sq good over my prospects of escape
that I w anted to shout. But prudence
restrained me.
Moon the rocky sides of the chimney
gave place to wood, and the opening
changed from fiat to round. Still T
climbed on, ay spirits rising with my
ascent. My progress wa> compara
tively easy by the IthUafldu- of Brer
Rabbit’s method of climbing a stump
hollow—that is, by bracing my back
against one side of the chimney and
my feet and hands against the other.
But the opening grew tighter and
tighter, l|ke an inverted funnel, and
sttll the top seemed a long way off- I
must have ctruibed some thkly feet in
all when I ztopped to rest, propping
my foot against a knot-hole protection,
which suddenly breaking oil left a bole
through which the-daylight streamed.
Then, for the first time, it flashed npon
me that I was in a hollow tre*. A
glance through the knuthole proved'
this to be the case, for there was the
ground ten feet below me—the bench
of earth had npticed when the .out
laws were making ready ibr*wy in
carceration. v
Escape uow seemed certain. The
wall of my prison wqs only two inches
thipk, and though the wood was dry
and hard from 3gp and exposure to
smoke and heat, my knife was soon at
work enlarging the knothole. As jhis
faced the Cove, I could keep a lookout
for the moonshiners, aud stop cutting
at the first suspicious noise. Night
soon set in, and with the darkness
there came peculiar sounds from cliff
and woodland. But T paused not tb
think of £b 0l U or gbbljn. It would
have taken something far pjorp terri
ble thau ghostly warnings to check the
steady going of my knife iu the weary
hours that followed the sunset, for'I
hoped to turn juy back on Sleepy,
Cove ere the dawn' of another day.
But when the sun rose my task seemed
not nearly done. The knife was dull
ed, and my strepgtb had slowly ebbed
The baying of a houud reached me.
It was repeated, and iu a moment the
thrilling music of the pack waked
again &nd the ' sleeping
echoes of Sleejfy Cosre. Nearer and
nearer if cime; until'a dozen blood
hounds burst through the dnderbrush
and dasheft up jp the bowlder at the
entrance to Smoky Bote. Then open
ing again, they sped away on the cold
trail of tbe moonshiners.
“Dgu, here Dan. down, sir!” I
shouted to the Wer with' all my
might The obedient brute, reCC£*
When we reached the bi^,
that guards tbe pass to Sleepy
fastened in the fo '
1
jf-poplar
»y Cove, I
ourth notch a piece of
these words:
ins, beware. The Colo
nel is bn your trail. Go look for his
bones in Smoky Hole.
“Euiurlee.”
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