The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 02, 1896, Image 9
THE LEDGER: GAFPNET, S. 0., JITLT 8, 1896.
HOUSE’ -OF GLASS.
no pooi ’o 1 know hnvn rtirlonn wny*.
Hn'T will conHiiro tnont nil of munklnd.
Thf.v'll hunt for tb« flims In thvlr nclghbon
next door.
To tln-)r own they worn mthrr blind.
There's many n man irono wrong In thl« world
Through trouhh-iMibroad or at homo.
Bo don't push them down with a kick ore
frown,
But give thorn n chance to atone.
^ou'vo all heard the st >ry 'bout house* of glam,
' »tcn you’ve picked up your atone.
>re you have shattered that cottage next
door,
by, just take a look at your own.
id a air.all piece in the paper today
•teh caused me to ponder and think—
a poor Imy had fallen a victim to crime
uile enslaved by that dread demon, drink,
"on yearn you must serve,” said the judge
on the bench.
^ooor mother cried, with n moan,
entcnco my boy, my hope and my Joy'
But give him a chance to atone."
—Walter Fletcher in New York Bcrold.
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A TIN CUP VERDICT.
Tho sun was low toward tho western
< peaks when old Jones aud his nephew
halted their teams for tho night Old
Jones aud his relative were freighters,
and the crack of their long, shot filled
muio whips aud tho creak of their heavy
wagons had been heard in half of the
camps of Colorado.
The four wagons tonight were swung
into tho segment of d circle, aud the
mules were cast loose from the straps in
which through tho day they pulled.. At
this relief these grateful slaves stood
about and attested their joy in tho load
‘cries peculiar to their kind, but which
are so unfortunate in their lack of har
mony. To stop this the nephew went
about giving them their vesper feed.
This he placed in morrals or nosebags.
Which ho hung to their hungry heads.
Old Jones built a little fire and began
the compilation of an intricate but sa
vory dish known to those happy ones who
have the recipe as “freighter's stew."
Supper over, the two freighters sat
about in the lurking shadows made by
Arc's blink aud glimmer, smoking
All at once there was a
commotion in the band cf iffjUifc.
patient folk, who had scrambled and
pulled all day over a rough mountain
trail with wagons loaded on the princi*
plo of 1,200 pounds to n mule, and who
now in tho proprieties of male life
should be at peace with the world, were
charging about and snorting in a very
alarming way.
“Injuns!'’ said old Jones, shoving
back into the gloom. “Injuns for
$1,000! There ain’t no animal on earth,
bar Injuns, ever makes mules take on
that away.”
Tho nephew thought so too. Old
Jones and the nephew did not fear at
tack. There were no Injuns about that
were not described as friendly.
What they did fear was that the
mules might be stampeded. Stamped
ing stock is a great aboriginal indastry.
The Indian will sneak np, Aap a blanket,
stampede your cattle or mules and then
claim $1 a head for Auding them for
yon. Thus do these wise sous of natnro
All their coffers and exact a revenue
from those who cross their lauds.
Jones’ nephew took a winchester from
a wagon aud begun to work his can-
tions, si lout way toward tho mules.
These last were still snorting and shy
ing as if prey to wild alarm. The
^ nephew disappeared in the darkness.
Old Jones placed his hand over his pipe
bowl so its Aery eye could not be seen
and peered after him into the gloom.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!” It was the
winchester speaking. It told tho Indian
policy of tho border, and a very snffl-
cicnt policy it is too. Old Joijeg at the
sound heaved a sigh, but never moved.
After a little the nephew came in to the
Are. He seemed alert, hopeful and unre
lenting us to the winchester Indian pol
icy.
“Did yon stretch oner” said old Jones.
“I think most likely I did,” said the
nephew in a sanguine way. 4 ‘Wo can
tell in tho morning, shore.”
Tho males were now quiet. Firearms
had no terror for them. They could
stand the odor of gunpowder, bnt of In
dians—ball! No mule of taste could
stand it a second. . After another half
hour old Jones and his nephew kicked
ont tho embers of their Are and went to
sleep.
Old Jones and his nephew had visit
ors in tho morning. The whole Uto tribe
and their agent came to the freighters’
camp. The inembors of the Jones family
at once seized their winchesters and
•lacriously prepared for war. The Utas
ran about, jumping and yelling and de
manding vengeance. Old Jones and his
nephew stood silent and grim behind
their wagons and showed their iron
teeth. The agent insisted on peace.
Wonld the Jones who had killed tho
Uto tho night before give himself np?
He would be guaranteed from harm, bnt*
the Utes insisted on bis arrest They,
the Indians, would attack the wagons
if the criminal did not surrender. Bo
spoke the agent, a nervous little incom
petent, us many an Indian agent is.
“(live up nothing, ” said old Jones
derisively. “Yon tell them Utes if
they want anything round yere to waits
in and get it.”
The Utes howled and danced still
border aud higher at this, and the agent
talked more earnestly than ever. He
threatened the Joneses with the power
of the government. This was too much.
They would Aght the whole Ute tribe,
but they were afraid of Uncle Sam. Aft
er a brief parley tbe nephew stepped ont
and gave himself up to tbe agent He
would have displayed more sense if he
had remained behind his wagon and
died in the smoke of his winchester.
Tbe agent, the nephew and tbe Utes
did not go a mile toward tbe agency‘‘be
fore the Indians took the nephew, and
tying him to a pine tree spent se era!
blissful boars in tortaring him to death.
The agent was powerless to interfere.
Jones, the elder, knew tbe trntb tbe
evening of tbe oume day. He tarned a
little pale under the BO years of tan
which browned bis face, bat said noth
ing. As well us he could he managed to
hitch np
His course was slow. NVhere the o 0iuA
was easy tho nephew’s team—eight
mules—could follow the others aud got
along all right. Where it was rough old
Jones halted thorn and after driving his
own team over came back for them.
Two mouths later tho old man un
loaded his freight at a camp in the Gun
nison country. He told the story of his
nephew’s death and charged it to the
ageut. The populace agreed with him to
a man. Old Jones insisted that the
agent should likewise suffer death. Pub
lic sentiment rushed to the same con
clusion. Every man in the Tin Cup dis
trict who heard of tho matter at once
advised Jones to go back and kill the
miserable agent or to hire some one who
would. Never was public sentiment so
nuiform in a matter before. It was
beautiful.
“Hire some one to go back and kill
tho ageut”
This struck old Jones, who had strong
commercial instincts, as a good thing.
Ho inquired for some oue who would
undertake the enterprise. He did not
think it should cost much.
"It is dead easy to do,” he said.
“Just ride calmly up to tho agency aud
beef him aud thou ride away. That
oughtn’t to cast no fortune. ” Aud he
was “willin to give a boss and ontAt
and $o00.”
“I’ll go you,” said a bad looking
gentleman called Curly Bill.
Curly Bill was certainly a very bad
man, os any oue might see by examin
ing his six shooter. Ho had Aled away
tho sight, us superAuous to oue so sure
and keen, and had taken out the trigger,
trusting to explode his interesting
weapon by the simple process of letting
the hammer fall from his thumb. These
changes in the ground plan of a Colt’s
44 always speak a bad man tho wide
west over, aud such was Curly Bill,
the personage who wanted to hire out
to kill tho agent.
Preliminaries were arranged, and the
horse and outAt were turned over, in
company with $200 of tho $500, and
Curly Bill rode away on his long pull
for tho U te agency.
Six weeks and their happenings were
history, and so far nothing
floated ba&k from Curly Bill Oue oft
ernoon he
Gunnison .
Jones crowded about'tfOr'he«’A? , Curly
Bill entered a saloon. The public itiu"
old Jones followed in and at his request
took a drink with him. At last old
Jones put tho question:
“Did you get him, Curly?"
"No,” said Curly Bill.
“Why not?”
“Well,” said Curly Bill, with an
amiable drawl, “I’ll tell you what’s the
matter. You see, tho cuss offered me
$1,000 to come back aud down you.”
There was a profound silence. Old
Jones seemed thoughtful and cast down,
and tho public waited. At last old
Jones put another pertinent inquiry.
“Well, whatever do you allow you’ll
do about it?”
“Whatever’ll you do about it?” said
Curly Bill “Will you raise him?”
“S’pose I don’t raise him?” said old
Jones. “S’pose I don’t even call him?”
And an ngly glare began to shine in bis
watery, gray eyes, albeit his voice was
low and his face calm.
“Well,” said Curly Bill, with vast
nonchalance, “in that event I reckon
I’ll have to go him. ”
Tbe public took a deep breath at this
announcement, aud old Jones seemed
plunged in thought again. At last be
found his voice.
“I’ll think this yere matter over,
Bill, and I reckon on Axing np some
thing so you won’t complain none of
me. Yon be yere, and I’ll come back in
an hoar. ”
Then old Jones proceeded .raight to
his wagons, got his winchester, aud com
ing in tbe back door of the saloon
wherein Curly Bill was refreshing him
self after the campaign blew that cele
brated head off without a word.
Old Jones gave himself up to the citi-
sens’ committee and demanded a trial.
It was had at once. Every man in camp
knew of tbe killing and its entire his
tory. They all approved it toa It was
esteemed, however, not a proper thing
to allow tho plot to kill the agent to go
abroad to the world. The account might
in unskillful mouths become garbled
and hurt tbe camp’s reputatiou. Bo
when old Jones was acquitted, which
denouement was rapid in its coming,
the verdict read thus:
“JestiAed killiu on account of Curly
Bill iusultiu of old Jones’ wife.”—Ban
Francisco Express.
AN ENGLISH JAIL CHAPEL
A View of
i rotte again into camp in the
comtoy- The public aud old
the rrUoner* at the Sunday
Mornlna Serrlee.
After breakfast nothing much happens
until tho chapel hour. Now those pris
oners who have “gone sick” are visited
by the surgeon or his assistant, and if
the cases are urgent are sent across to the
inArmary at once. There is no regular
cell inspection; the governor or his
deputy makes no round; there is no
“taking of reports,” no adjudication of
pains aud penalties for misconduct. All
this will stand over until Monday; even
those awaiting punishment, unless it is
for outrageous acts of violence or de-
Aance, turn ont to go with their fellows
to chapel. About 9:30 the chapel bell
rings for the Arst service, that of the
Roman Catholics, who in largo prisons
are usually “located” or lodged in one
part of tbe prison, near their own chapel.
The bell for the Church of England serv
ice follown at about 10 a. m.
Both on marching to chapel and when
seated within it tho various classes and
categories of prisoners are kept strictly
separate from each other. Males and fe
males approach the chapel by different
roads, enter by different doors and oc
cupy different divisions, pews Br places
apart. Among tbe mules, too,'the con
victed are kept from tho uuconvicted
and tho debtors from both. The women
are generally seated Arst, behind n
screen or within n curtained off, railed
in inclosure. They are, of course, visi
ble to the chaplain, bnt to no one else
but their own officers. Except for their
treble voices heard in responses and
hymns, their presence nt tho service
would be unknown. Now and again,
however, an attempt to signal or com
municate has been tried by individuals
of opposite sexes; when a dry cough,
persistently repeated, in tho female pew
Auds an answer in another part of the
chapel, it affords a shrewd suspicion
that friends are trying to use some coda
made np outside before imprisonment.
Oue other class is unhappily to be
found at times in tho jail chapel—a
very distinct class, but seldom containing
more than oue representative. This la
sometimes a "condemned” man in pris
on—one on whom tho extreme penalty
has been passed, and who, by the usual
custom, is allowed "three clear Bun-
days” before the awful sentence is ac
complished. A condemned convict, al-
tbongfeibeJa never left alone, being as
sociated day Tmf ’nigfit wkll Jtwo war
dens ns guardians, is never permittee! t#-
seo or be seen by other prisoners.—Lon
don Quiver.
Not tbe Place For the Soup.
A famous French primn donna when
acting delights in a big basin of sonp,
smoking hot and well Aavored with
grated cheese. On one occasion she was
engaged for a few nights at Marseilles,
and her Arst thought on arriving there
was to inquire where she could order her
favorite dish. She was recommended to
patronize a humble restaurant just by
the theater, and going thcro gave her
order in person.
At 0 o’clock, ns arranged, mine host
called his serving maid, and placing a
gigantic tureen in her hands told her to
take it to Mme. C on the stage. He
added that orders had been given to let
her pass with her bowl, and on the
girl’s assurance that she wonld recognize
thecantatricoseut her off with the soup.
Everybody gave way before the servant
carrying tho sacred meal of tho star,
when suddenly between tho wings she
caught sight of tho prima donna, who
was singing tho Anale of tbe Arst act of
Lucia. ”
Ravenswood and his betrothed were
just about to begin the passionate scene
which brings down the curtain when tbe
maid entered and placed tho tnreen on
tbe momybank in front of the fountain.
Then lifting up the cover and plunging
in a spoon she exclaimed to the stupe
faction of actors and audience alike:
"Begging your pardon for interrupt
ing yon, sir, and the lady, but here’s
the soup. ”—Loudon Tit-Bits.
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The laugh is on a Milo (Mo.) farmer.
He prides himself on regularity in feed
ing bis live stock, esjtecially his pig.
The other day he found he would be
obliged to be away at the usual hour,
so be told bis wife to be careful and
feed the pig just on the stroke of 12.
This advice was repeated several times
before he started, aud, as he drove off,
his parting admonition was, “Remem
ber the pig. ” His business took him to
• neighboring town, and be had been
there but a short time when a telegram
was handed to him. Fearing the worst,
be opened it and read, “Bball I feed
tbe pig on local or standard time?” and
the message was “collect.’’—Boston
Herald.
Hwsbewdlat the MlaaUs. ,
It is wonderful to see how many hours
prompt people contrive to make of a
day. It is as if they picked np the mo-
meqfs tbe dawdlers lost. Aud, if ever
yon find yourself where yon have so
many things pressing upon you that yon
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yon a secret—take bold of the very first
oue that comes to hand. Yon will find
the rest will all fall into line, and fol
low after like a company of well drill
ed soldiers.—Examiner.
Still Frond.
“Yes, brethren,” said tbe convert, 44 I
am a bnmble Christian now, bnt in
my unregenerate days, I flatter myself
that yon wouldn’t meet a finer u more
— thoroughbred sinner in a day’s walk."
bis teams and went ancad. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
To Karoo Springfield's Four Hundred.
It has been seven years since a Bine
Book was printed, and in that time there
have been many social changes. Some
have dropped out of the charmed circle,
some of tbe buds have developed into
matrons, while others are still serving
us bridesmaids. Aud some of the ple
beians have acquired property or gained
culture and are knocking for admission
at society’s gate. All that is needed is
official recognition. We need u Blue
Book, tbe stars to indicate the grade of
patricians. It will bo well for the com
piler to remain unidentified until the
book bos been published, and then, as
iu the previons case, to promptly leave
town—to g"* far away and stay away.
Tbe Price & Lee company, which has
been compiling dry and accurate direc
tories of Springfield, has the temerity
to announce that it is prepared to classi
fy Springfield society. The preliminary
circulars are out. Now is the time to
get into line if you want a three star
grade iu tbe Armament of tbe Four
Hundred. Tbe Blue Book enumeiator
has not started on her rounds yet. En
tertain and go to entertainments. The
sheep and goats are to be divided, and
it may again be seven years before an
other Blue Book division is made.—-
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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Imest At Once.
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Communications
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Take a bicycle, balance it with one
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the rear of the machine.
Which way will the bicycle go?
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Most people think it will go forward,
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He—Wise men make proverbs
fools repeat them.
Bbe—Yea; I wonder what wise man
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