The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, July 23, 1896, Image 3
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JTOY 23, 1890.
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FROM OLD ROCKY.
People and Things at tho '* Conflu
ence of tho Streams."
The American People ■■ a Race of Poli
tician*—The Story of the Widow
Mixon and Her «oid Faded
Umbrella.”
Ro far as I can now recollect, and eo
fRr back os t.he family records run,
American poli
tics have always
been American
politics. A n d
under the gener
al circumference
of the surround-
ins it looks plum
natural nnd ripht
to me that we
have been born
nnd bred ami
bring up « race
T of politicians. Ef
It now comes to pass that we have more
elections, and more various and sundry
different sorts of polllics than anybody
else In the round created world.it is be
cause we live under the broadest flaif
nnd in the greatest country on the
brood bosom of the earth perhaps.
They “Left the Umbrella.”
"The weather is swelterin hot, Itufus,
but if we can figger on the future from
the general appearances of the present,
there will soon be cne more weddin
match and two old fools made happy
down in the Panther creek settlement,"
«a}-H Aunt Nancy Newton to me and
mother at the dinner table one da3'.
"As for me, 1 don’t make out like 3*our
Aunt Nancy knows ever3’thing for eer
tain,” the dear, delightful old soul went
on. ns she backed her coffee cupdown to
the tank for the third time; "but bless
gracious I aint stone blind if I do wear
specs. You know, and I know, and
ever3 , bod3' knows that old Miscs Mix
on is now a poor, lone widder for the
•econt time, whilst Elder Butler has al-
rendy followed three wives to the grave-
jml over at Pilgrim’s Rest. Now they
nre both full of 3’ears, as the Scriptures
would put it, but they are likewise also
full of fool notions, as 3’our Aunt Nan
cy would say. On Tuesday before the
Fourth of .July the widder sh** went
around to the Butler place to see if the
elder didn’t want to bu3' a fine I’oung
beef which she had to sell. From what
I have since learnt the}' closed the beef
trade quicker than you could say scat
with }'our mouth open. But that want
the maincst thing, Rufus. When the
widder started back home she left her
pld faded umberejla over there at the
Butler place—wept off apd forgot It as
clear as a whistle, you understand,
ronssnuentiolly^ on the inornln of the
Fourth when the elder started to the
big barbecue nnd political rnlliflcntlon
down nt Tucker’s mill he had to drive
around by the widder’s to take her um
brella home. Then naturally of course
It just happened that the widder she
Was also fixin off to the bnrltecue, anil
so she got in the bugg}* with the elder
and the}' rid on down to the mill to
gether under that same old faded uni-
berella. To be certalnl}' I don’t know
everything for certain, Rufus, but hu
man nature Is powerfully human nnd
any hotly can put two and two together
and coisnt up four. And In the main
time the widder Mixon’s old faded um
brella nlnt gone nowheres."
In the general runof politics this year
I have seen a right smart to put me In
mind of Aunt Nancy’s story of the Wkl-
der Mixon nnd her old faded umbcrolln.
Way last spring tho free silver demo
crats they went over across the creek
to see the third party people, and when
they returned back home the}' left
their umlierella over there. Here late
ly It would seem like the third party peo-
ple have come over to fetch the um-
berella home nnd return the visit, nnd
from nil the general appearments nt
the present writin you needn’t to faint
and fall over in It if you see a big po
litical weddin match this summer. Fhey
are all under the same umberelln now
and keepin step to free silver music at
the rates of sixteea to one.
**Do you want a pen nnd Ink, or •
pencil nnd paper to write with?”
"Nary one right now mister. Reckon
my brother Bill nnd his folks have got
gome writin flxments nnd we can do
cm l>oth up together nnd send ’em off
when we come through on our return
hack home.”
A week had went by when bright nnd
early one mornin a covered wagon
halted in front of the post office, nnd
the ninn which hailed from the regions
af tar, pitch nnd turpentine come bulg-
In right in nnd tackled the postmaster
ancst more.
“Blamed if they alnt fixed upnow,mis
ter, nnd fixed up occordin to law," says
he, ns he shoved two postal cards
through the window’ to the postmas
ter. “Bill’s wife she writ ’em both,
whilst Bill nnd me nnd my wife told
her what to set down. Aint they fixed
right, mister?”
"They nre fixed right," says the post
master.
"Now how much will It cost us to send
’em on through to the old folks back
there in the states?”
"Not a continental red. The govern
ment will take them through for noth-
»n\”
"Thenative h’ll you say! Well, durned
If fever would of thought it. And mo-
like the blasted idiot w hich I am—I have
Wen dead square ngin the government
for thirty-odd years. But blamed If 1
ain’t with her, right or w rong, henco-
for ward s from now on. Say, mister,
the next time they git up a w ar you jest
let us know, and durned if me nnd my
brother Bill don’t fight under the old
flag till the evenin stars sing together.” j
The two postal cards nre shuffled into ,
the mail pou«h nnd then tossed on the !
nooa train. The covered wagon, the
dogs nnd the tar bucket hnvc moved on.
The man with the smell of rosum in his
clothes returns back home, whilst the
wide nnd wicked world wags Its way
nnd oil is well.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
The Smell of Roaatn TTaa There.
Rome people mought maybe think
that all the natural born fools nnd
greeti goods on the earth live right
down here in the Rocky Creek coun
try. But I can tell you a whole lot
Wttcr than that. Mind you. now, I
don’t say but what the fool killer could
pick up n few scattcrln jobs in this
skirt of woods. But you must recol
lect that the whole entire human fam
ily don’t live in the same settlement.
Oncst upon a time, sortie three or
four years ago, I was laid up for gen
eral repairs nt ft little rnilrond town
In the pincy wood belt of East Texas.
The people around town didn’t have
anything in pnrtielar to do butgodown
to the depot nnd see the cars, nnd come
back by the post office nnd wait for
the mail. One day a covered wagon
rolled up in front of the post office load
ed with n family of jieople. There was
likew ise three dogs and one tnr bucket
nnder the wagon. The man crawled
out nnd walked In nnd said he would
)qve to see the postmaster, wfileh it
wftVt no tremendous heavy job for
filfn lo find what be w-as lookin for
"Me and my folks wc live down here
ip the sawmill decstrict, nnd we nre now
goln up yonder in the Turkey Creek
settlement to see my brother Bill and
his folks," says the man which had drlv
pp In the eovcrcij wagon. "The old
folks back in tho states they writ u«
a letter nigh nbout three year ago. nnd
J™'’
comii, Ii„ mn|I rnr ,,,- h *”
mister?” . ’
“Do .you mean postal cards?” asked
the postmaster.
”1 reckon I do,” says the man from
the sawmill country. "What do you ax
for a card?”
"One cent."
"Gollya, but uint that cheap, m j Pa t
take two at a pop so’s me and Bill and
honie” 111 ^ CWn *" dr ° P * ,,ne h***
•• HU Was Old Mart’s Treat."
My friend nnd fellow citizen. Mart
Mayo Is such ntremendiusbigliortill it
would l>e mighty hard for people to be
lieve the cold nnd solemn truth If ho
told It. Andy Lucas gives it out free
gratis as his public nnd private opinion
that Mart Mnyo couldn’t tell the truth
w ith a dead rest. But when Mart owns
up to It that he has been nnd backed
himself agin a great big sung and brings
himself out ns the. under dog in the
fight, I reckon you enu sprinkle on a
little salt nnd take it for truth.
For somethin better than a month
past, old Mart has l>cen gone off some-
wheres, nnd when he turned up in the
settlement onest more last week all In?
would tell the boys nr. to where he went
was to the general extent that he hod
been over i» the mountains of Tennes
see brulsln nround for his health. But
It has now leaked out in the settlement
that he fetched back a wagon load of
"the first runnins of the corn," which
the ixjys tell me is particular smooth
and fine.
Anyhow', Mart is now tellin a bully
story, which the most funniest part tot
me is that It shows him up ns the under
dog in the fight nnd brings him out
way down nt the little end of the horn.
“You understand, boys, I had come
Into town one day from the mountains,
where they don’t use nothin but pure
spring water—I mean they don’t use
nothin else vunnin off the corn—nnd
consequentially I was feelln mighty fresh
nnd promiscus. Then nil nt onest I
thought I would mount the railroad
ears nnd ride up to the next station and
back, jest mainly to see how it felt.
When I got on board of the ears I saw
a man, which it seems to me like I must
of seen him somewheres before that day.
I looked nt him nnd he looked nt me, we
did, till finally at last I couldn’t stand it
no longer. I went over there nnd
■lapped him on the shoulder, social like
•ml friendly, nnd says I to him, says I:
"Mister, your face looks powerful
fnmUious like to me. Where in the hell
did I meet up with you?"
"Raley I haven’t got the answer to
that question along with me," says h-.
“What jiarticlnr place in hell do you hail
from?”
“Well, I could see. right where I had
backed my fool self up agin a scan
dalous big snag,” the great and gifted
liar went on, "and I reckon you boys
can see wherein it was then old Mart’s
treat.”
News from the Settlement.
Squire Doogin nnd John Andrew Mil
ligan have both cut a double buck ac
tion summerset in politics. They are
l>oth out for the legislature, and to a
man on the grand stand it looks like
they are also out for the stuff. At the
start John Andrew was a gold demo
crat, and tho squire he was a free sil
ver populitc. But the .democrats and
the populites all got together on a six
teen to one free silver platform, and
blamed if the squire and John Andrew
didn't jest natmally tear up the earth
and split their under clothes to see
which could slide onto tho free silver
plank first.
The Galloways and the Stlmson boys
got together at a picnic over on Huckle
berry ridge last Saturday and had u
lively shootin match. They didn’t hit
nothin but the open air nnd didn’t hurt
anybody to speak of. Jule Nabors, the
deputy constable, run out from under
his bat nnd tore down thiec panels of
a stakc-nnd-ridercd fence in the general
neglect of his official duly. Old Miscs
Galloway missed the foot log and waded
both forks of the creek in. orderment to
take a hand in the fight, whilst two of
the Stinson women folks fainted and
got run over in the general senttern-
tion. But tho storm has now blowcd
''■ er, and all is lovely nt the confluence
of tit, *t reams.
RUFUS SANDERS.
Ho/c-ott ’’harch Hupprm.
The ladies of one \f the Manchester
(N. If.) churches butt wit an example.
Cutting away from nutoin, they have
resolved ’ against clurch suppers ami
•greed to lax themaeire* to raise money
needed, and will no Vmger seek it
rough the laborious methods of
church entertainmenta.
—Mrs. Jane Robertson, who has Just
died at St. H.vncinthe, Que., at the age
of 79 years, was a cousin of Longfellow
and Nonh Webster.
—Miss Gamble, M. B., Melbourne uni
versity, has been retained by the Vic
toria Order of Odd Fellow:; ns siiecialist
in the diseases of women and children,
nnd is the first medical woman in ^ ic-
toria to hold a lodge appointment of
the kind.
—Carome, who was the chef to C/.nr
Alexandria, of Russia, and was paid
$(>,000 n year, says In his reminscences,
written in J«92, that Murat, Junot,
Fontanes, Emperor Alexander, (ieoige
IV., and l)e Cussy “were the enters of
my time.”
—A corres|>ondent who recently
visited Empress Eugenie contra
dicts the reports ns to her ill health.
The empress, who is now 70, was look
ing exceedingly well and very handsome
for a woman of her years. Her features
still preserve their clear-out beauty.
Her eyes nre bright, nnd her hnlr, which
is quite white, add much to her air of
distinction.
—Col. North loved children, but was
not wildly enthusiastic about kissing
babies miscellaneously. Once, being
implored by n handsome lady to kiss
nn exceedingly unwholesome-looking
infant, of which the mother stated her
self to lie the living image. North sa'd:
“Well, here goes fof the image,’’ nnd li%
forthwith imprinted a sounding kiss on
the fair mother’s check.
—It is said that the young queen of
Ifolinml has already given promise of
remarkable ability ns a painter. Her
principal models are her own guards,
nnd almost every morning, dressed in
a simple little frock of the green tint
which so well suits her bright com
plexion nnd fair hair, she seats herself
nt one of the pnlnee windows, where she
has nn uninterrupted view of the sen
tries on guard.
—The late Baron de Ilirsch once deep
ly offended M. Lavlsse, the famous pro
fessor of history, who lias consented to
give the Imron’s son lessons in ids spe
cialty. After dinner on the day of the
first lesson or so the baron picked up a
cigar from ids table. “Try this, pro
fessor,” lie said; “you don’t have that
kind nt home, ns they cost me 2.’> sous
each.” The professor gave up hisduties
n few days Inter.
—A statue of President Kruger will
soon be erected in Pretoria. It will be
to feet high, and will represent the
Boer statesman in the quaint garb, bill
hat included, which he affects on Sun
days nnd special occasions. The statue,
which will be of bronze, will be mounted
on n pedestal nnd column of granite,
ami nt rneh corner of the pedestal there
sill be a figure representing a Trans
vaal burgher in nn attitude of defense.
BRING IN MILLIONS A YEAR.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Sam Jonos Rogretn Sorao of tho
Results of Modern Invontion.
UrltUh Ketv Fisheries Far More Vsluahlo
Thau Generally Sui>|)CMe<l.
A return has been made by the board
of trade giving statistical tallies relat
ing to the sen fisheries of the United
Kingdom. The statistics relate mainly
to fish landed on the coasts of England
and Wales, hut suinmuri/.cd statements
are also given of fish landed ou the
Scotch nnd Irish coasts. For purposes
of comparison the statistics are given
of the sen fisheries of Norway. Holland,
France and Canada. As regards Eng
land and Wales the total value of the
fish landed was £ f>,4.'is,<)<)0. The cor
responding values for ItSD.'i and 1m‘>4
were £5,171,000 and £5,291,000 respec
tively. For Scotland the total value
was £1,8.10.000 nnd for Ireland 12<>9,-
500, In Scotland, during the year 1895
there has been a slight decrease in tin*
quantity and an increase in tin* value
of the fish landed as compared with
1894. In Ireland there was a decrease
both in quantity and value. The ag
gregate value for the United Kingdom
during the year 1895 is C7..Vt7,000, as
compared w ith a total value of £7,200.-
900 in 1894. The figures for ot her coun
tries during 1895 nre not nt hand, but
for 1894 the values were: Norway,
£1,C72,000; Holland, not accurately
known, but probably less than Nor
way; France, €4,0,si.0(;o, and Canadian
dominion, £4,917,000. More than half
af the total weight of fish landed In
England and Wales consisted of had
docks and herrings. But their value
was less than a third of the total value,
viz., £1,004,000, out of €5,129,000, The
more costly kinds of fish soles, tur
bots nnd plaice—nre, It appears, decreas
ing slightly In quantity and increas
ing in value. As regards the value of
ill fish, however, the average value per
hundred weight has slightly Increased
luring the ’ast three years. As re
gards shellfish, th“ figures in 1894 and
1895 are very similar, but oysters show
1 continuous decline, the numbers
landed being 32,425,000 in 1893, 27,747,-
M)0 in 1894 and 25,270,000 in 1895. Grlms-
l»y steadily maintains its |>osition as the
leading port, with a total of 83,000 tons.
N’ext in order follow London, with 52,-
100 tops; Hull, with 40,000 tons; Lowes
toft, with 31,000. tons, and Yarmouth,
with 28,000 tons. London Times.
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Curious Vegetable Fabrics.
The department of agriculture, for-
»*try division, at Washington, lias a
tollectlon of rare trees and plants
jnly second to that belonging to
the famed Kew gardens, London. A re
rent addition to this dendrolngicnl
museum is n “lace hark tree” from Tu-
mnien. The inner bark of this queer
tree is composed of many layers of fine
»nd intricately woven fibers which In
terlock with each other in all directions.
Caps, ruffles nnd even complete suits
ot this curious vegetable lace have been
made. It bears washing with common
laundry soap nnd when blenched in the
lun acquires n degree of whiteness sel-
loiu excelled by artificial laces made
.if cotton, linen and : ilk. The intricate
web of this unique bark makes it com
pare favorably to the last-mentioned
productions for both beauty and dura
bility. It Is lo be sincerely hoped that
the agricultural department will see
that the Jamaica lace tree is introduced
Into tho United States.—-N. Y. Sun.
Fulthrulni'ss of tho Horse ami Hog-
Fate of a Hoy Who Was Cruel to
111* Cat —Tho Darky ami
Ills Mule.
As wc progress and time with its
inventions come on, we ate leaving far
behind us many things that were once
cherished and held dear by the |>eople.
We are now reading of the horseless
age—the age when horses will be ex
tinct and the donkey will cease to ex
ist. Electricity, the* bicycle, the moto-
e}ele and the aerial machines we are
told are to take the field and oecujiy
the ground. I am glad I have lived m
the day of horses and buggies, mules
and wagons, the old wooden plow Mock,
the old oaken bucket, the old tallow
candle. To those of us who have
crossed the meridian line of life there
are many sacred and jireeious memories
clustered around the things that are
jiassing away. The buffalo with his
companions of Hie west have given
way before the trend of civilization,
and it seems now that the horse, the
noblest animal God ever made to serve
man. that ins days are also numbered.
God made the horse and man invented
the mule, for the mule is a hunu.11 in
vention. and had it not been that God
made negroes, man never wouN have
invented the mule. Art and nature with
their eountcrjiarts meet in the negro
and the mule. We often quote from
the Scriptures that “a horse is a vain
thing for safety,” but the faithful,
docile, honest horse serves ids day and
generation with a fidelity that jiuts to
blush the majority of the human race.
The horse and the dog have been our
companions nnd friends as good a*-- man
ever had. The Arabian loved Ids horse
nnd made a comjiaidon nfddiii, and nil
true men are Arabians in that sense.
A man who does not love good horses
and jiure women is devoid of the holier
instincts with which God crowns all
the better part of tho human race. The
self-sacrifice of the dog, tin* disinterest
ed friendship and kindness which he
has shown leads one sometimes to be
lieve that there is a dog Heaven, for
Mr. Wesley taught there was a horse
Heaven. I never go down to my lot
and look nt faithful old Henry and
Dave, who have, been the faithful serv
ants of my wife and children for more
♦ ban eight years, never hurting or
harming one of the loved ones of my
home, and I think of the hnopy hours
they have spent riding behind these
faithful horses, but what i wonder if
somewhere there is not a horse Heaven
with its Elysian fields and rippling
rills nnd sunny jdains nnd shady groves,
where they will live forever, free from
the unkind, cruel deeds of man nnd
smiled upon by the great Creator who
made t hem ns well ns man.
I have a dog. faithful and tried and
♦ rue, that I would like to know that
he would have n |>lnee in 1h« rrent
beyond where he could enjoy uninter
rupted canine happiness, lieeanse he
has been faithful in his time and pUieo.
The faithful horse, when you mount
his hack to ride him or pull the Enos
over him to drive him. knows his duty
and delights in doing it. Horses have
been ten thousand times more kind
to man than man has been to them.
Men have killed a thousand horses
where horses have killed on<* man. I
c\pret the horses think man “is a vain
thing for safety.*’ 1 have no respect
for a man who will overdrive a horse
or underfeed a horse, or in any way
he unkind to him. I have never known
a nan who was cruel to h's horse or
dog that did not reap a harvest of
suffering himself, for l know one lioy
who built a firo in a cook stove and
caught his eat and joit it into the oven
rf the stove ai d baked it to a crisp. That
hoy had one of hiseyes knocked out with
a rock, one of his Kgs broken, was
fearfully burned more than once, nnd
ea Ties Hie marks of many accidents
that have brought jiain and suffering
to him. “Whatsoever a man soweth
that shall he also reap.” If he sows
erm Ity towards men or animals he
will reap a harvest of pangs and pains
to himself. I say again I nm glad I
have lived in Hie day of the horse, nnd
am sure my day will be done before he
passes away. The greed and genius
of men may supplant the horse, retire
the mule and nullify the dog. but greed
and genius many a time has robbed it
self while it has been robbing others.
1 would not live in n conn try where
there were not horses and mules and
Jogs, and whatever may be the innova
tion brought on by genius and inven
tion. so long as I li»e and the sheriff
will permit me 1 shall own a horse nnd
a dog and a eat and a ••hirken and n
hog and a cow. These may not only be
the jiroperly of the rich, but they are to
he found among the poor. The |>oor
white man with his one horse that he
plows and drives to church nnd rides
to mill would be broken up without
his faithful animal. The king in his
chariot does not enjoy the horses of his
stalls more than this poor man; but
t rue earthly bliss is only known by the
old darky who has his mule and owns
his mule and loves his mule. He
hitches his mule to one end of tluvplow
and hitches himself to the other, and
thereby provides bread for the chil
dren of his home. The mule seems to
understand all the time that lie was In
vented esjicclnlly for the colored brother
who works with him in the field or
drives him on (he highway. A many
a time the old colored brother with his
w ife and children have sat down nnd
cried like their bruits would break
when the sheriff would take away their
mule to meet a creditor's claim. How
cruel to take away the old darky’o only
mean* of Mipport and leave him with
his family heartbroken besides. Fut
whethc rthedaiky has a mule or not ho
usually has as many dogs ns he has
children, and that means many dogs,
and the darky will divide his Inst
crumbs with hie dogs, for they are de
voted to’theiu, uud the fondness is mu
tual. The negro with his rabb’t dog,
with his coon dog, with his ’possum dog,
is n negro complete.
I never want to sec the day when the
dog shall have jmssed away. The mil
lionaire nifty sleep safely with burglar
alarms attached to c cry-door mid win
dow of bis house, but the.bnrkingof the
faithful dog ns he guards the premises
at night is a burglar alarm and a thing
of life, and, besides, it is a pleasant
thing to hear bis faithful bey welcome,
us ns we draw near home and know
that there is “nn eye that will mark our
coming and feel brighter when wc
cone.” The neighing horses, the low
ing cattle, the barking dogs, the mew
ing cuts and crow ing thickens furnish
to the average man much of the pleas
ures of life, and you would make a deep,
broad hole in the ground were you to re
move them out of his sight nnd hear
ing. The horses to ride and drive nnd
work, the dogs to stand vigilants nnd
guard, the cows to furnish us milk nnd
butter. Hu* eats to rid 11s of the j*es-
tiferoiis rats, the chickens to lay nnd
cackle and set and hatch. I nm not
uneasy nbout my boy if I know bin
faithful horse is his comjinnion while
he is away. I nm not uneasy almut my
little girl as she roams in the barn lot
gathering eggs in her ajiron or play
ing with the kittens ujion the back
porch. Thank God the association nf
my children with the faithful brutes
about my home has never hurt them in
character or debauched them in life.
Then let the crowd come on with the
bicycle, the motocycle, the electric car.
the aerial machine, the oleomargarine,
the incubator, the burglar alarm, and
so 011. I have had a better time with
the things of thr old days than they will
ever have with their new inventions
w hich siijijilnnted the old things.
SAM P. JONES.
SENTENCED HIS SON TO DEATH.
.1
YonnffO't Marrletl ( onpic.
Probably tho youngr-st married
«on pie in Hie United States are now liv
ing in Tennessee. Claiburn Lawson,
aged 14 years, nnd Annie Knne, nged 13,
were trnrried there nbout three weeks
ago, 'Hiis young jinir live In a large
cleft or hole in a bluff on the Cumber
land river, about four miles from Hunts
ville.
A:i Uxpcnstro I.usury.
Kgliert—They say that Chib on is go
ing through his fortune awfully fast.
l’o|\so;i—Yes; 1 notice Hint he keeps
hU bicycle iu excellent repair.—Truth.
Nervous
People often wonder why their nerves are
so weak;whythey get t ired so easily;
why they start at every slight but
sudden sound; why they do not sleep
naturally; why they have frequent
headaches, indigestion and
Palpitation of tho Heart.
The explanation is simple. It is found in
that impure Hood which is contin
ually feeding the nerves upon refuse
instead of the element s of strength and
vigor. In such condition opiste and
nerve compounds simply deaden and
do not cure. Hood’s Sarsaparilla feeds
the nerves pure, rieh. red blood; gives
natural sleeji, perfect digestion, self-
control, vigorous health, and is the
true remedy for all nervous troubles.
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
Is the One True Hood Purifier, ft; six for SS.
Prepared only by 0.1. Hood & t'o.. Lowell, Mass.
., . cure Liver Ills; easy to
I lOOQ S FllIS take, easy to operate. i!6c.
Tntgle Scene DuMng » Trial for MarOsr
In tho West.
“One of Hie most tragic scenes I ever
witnessed,” remarked a western judge,
“occurred in a courtroom in a small
town in one cf the new western slates.
That is to soy, it was new then, but that
has been 40 years ng6, nnd I was out
there growing uji with the country
nnd showing people how itiuch law a
youngster of 21 or 22 hnsnt his fingers’
ends. The judge wns a man of GO or
more, nnd in addition to a most vener
able and dignified appearance and man
lier, he was the saddest-faced man I
ever saw. He had come to our town ten
or a dozen years before from the enrt.
and we knew little of him, except he
was an able lawyer and jurist ami his
wife, who wns the only other member
of his family, nnd himself had some
great sorrow which they had sought
some eseajie from by going into a far
country.
“Ours w as n quiet town nnd the Judge
nnd his wife seemed to live serenely
enough, but they were evidently grow
ing old and feeble ahead of their time.
One night our town wns all tonf upover
a rohlx-ry nnd murder nnd the enptur**
of the killer and thief almost in the act.
For n wonder he wasn’t lynehed then
and there, but he wasn’t, and ns soon
as daylight <time proceedings were in
stituted against the prisoner, nnd 1 was
appointed with another youngster to de
fend him.
“Really there wasn’t any defense, nnd
I was fiank enough to tell h'm that he
might be thankful if we eonld save him
from lynching. lie was a strang-r in
the town, evidently !cd there by some
stories he Lad heard o f nnTlld miser we
had among us, nnd wnsa man of j'erhnjv<
33 or 34, with a most unprepossessing
appro ranee, greatly accentuated by a
week Vgrow th of rough whiskers, years
of (lissi|xition and hard living. In those
days and in such eases the law’s delay
was not much in force nnd by six o’clock
of the second day the jirisoner was
standing before the judge to receive
sentenee. As he stoid there that day,
a harder looking customer I think I
never saw.
“’Have you anything to ray why
sentence of death should not be pro
nounced ujion yon?* said the judge,after
all the jin limiunries were over.
“‘I have, your honor, if yon are to
pronounce that sentence.’ rrpPed the
prisoner, with an air of almost im-
jiertinenee. ‘At least,’ he nddsd. half
njiologetieally, ‘jiossibly under the cir
cumstances you might not care to pro
nounce it.’
“This wns entirely i.ut of the ordinary
and 1 touched my client on the arm nnd
wns about to remind him of the customs
of the court when the judge requested
me to leave the jirisoner to him.
“‘Will you bo kind enough to ex
plain?' lie saal, in a strangely excited
♦one,
“ ‘Well, your honoi,’ rrsjvonded the
prisoner, without n quaver of voice.
I’m your only son—’
“But t he judge heard no more. It wns
evident that he knew the iirisonc* was
telling the truth, for with n groan lie
threw iiji liis hands and fell forward
across the desk in front of him. dead,
nnd ,i-little stream of blond trickled
from his lijis. The excitement was ter
rific, and in the midst of it the jirisoner
dashed through ti window and would
have rscnjied, but n timely shot from a
rifie in the hands of a man on the out
side settled him forever. And. best of
nil, his mother never knew. She lin
gered n few mouths after her husband's
death and the entire |io|iiilnt!on of the
town.considered it to In* a snored obli
gation to lie to her nlniut the whole af
fair.’*—Washington Htur.
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a gem ml Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burghir-
I’roof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Snf< ty DejiosiL Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your l>u<iiu><s soliciteii
n
Monumental Works.
(Inmite Monuments a
specialty. Agent for
IRON FENCES.
No. 235, W. Trade St.,
Charlotte, N. C.
T. L, ELLIOT.
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Nos. 87 and 88—Washington and Bonthweat-
•m VestUmln Limited. Through Pullman
absuMirs ls-tw<*en New York and New Orleans,
via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery,ana
Ulan isitween New York and Memphis, via
Washington. Atlanta and Birmingham. Thi»
train also earrlea Kb-hmond Augusta sleentng
cars Is*tween Danville and charlotte. First
class thoroughfare coach Isitween Washington
and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals an
route.
Noa. 35 nnd 86—United States Fast Mail. Pull
man sleeping cars between Now York, Atlanta
and New Orleans.
Noa. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars between
Richmond and Danvtllo.
Tho Air Line Bidlo train, Noa. 17 and 19, will,
from June 1st to October 1st, Isui, tsj operated
between Atlanta and Mt. Airy, Ga., dally ex
cept Sunday.
W. H. GKKKN, J. M. CULP,
Gen’l 8upt„ Traffic M'g’r.,
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C*
W. A. TURK, 8. H HARDWICK,
Gea’l Pass. Ag’t , Asa't Gen’l Pass. Ag't.,
Washington, D. Q.Atlanta. Ga.
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