The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 25, 1913, Image 2
My LadT?fU
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TJr LOVK STORY <f
A GRAY JACKET
By Randall Parrish
"Wke>WU4trMU^u Kbf"
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
AkTHUR B. WILLIAMSON
lofyftfjht by A C. \U< lur? * <-?>.
M ftuttauct't M*J? Limiten.
A dip of the flying hoor had cut a
?hallow gasb acroea my forehead, and
my hslr was wet with blood, yet
bruised sad half stunned as I was
from the bard fall, my sole longing
"That's 'Bout All I Know, Csp, Till
I Lit Ysre."
wss to reach and throttle that mad?
man woo had ridden iuu down iu such
demon style.
You unchained devil!" I cried
savagely, whirling him over upon his
back, I spared your life once tonight,
but. by all the gods. 1 11 uot do it
egale!"
"Gosh, Csp. Is thet yuu?" asked the
voice of the other, feebly.
I started back, and lost my hold
upon him
"Bungay?" in an astonishment that
nearly robbed n>e of utterance. "Good
God. man! Is this really you?''
"It's whut's left 'o me," he answered
solemnly, sitting up and feeling bis
bead as if expecting to find it gone.
"Thet wus bout tber worst ride I ever
took."
I should think it likely." I ex?
claimed, my anger rising again as I
thought of It. What, In Heaven's
uaiue do you mean by riding down
on me like that?"
"Holy Gee. Csp," he explained pen?
itently, "ye don't go ter think I ever
did it s purpose, do ye.' Why, tber
gosh-durn?ti old thing run away."
"Ran away?"
"Sure; 1 ve bin a hangln' on ter
ther mane o' thet critter fer nigh
'pen three mile, an' a prayln' fer a
feather bed ter light on. It's my last
'llstmeut en ther cavalry, ye bet. I
never seed none o' yer steam keers,
but 1 reckon they con t go no faster
ner thet blsme boss Gosh. Cap, ye
sin t got no call fer ter git mad; I
couldn't a stopped her wfth a yoke
o' steers, durned if I cud. 1 sorter
reckon I know now bout whut Scott
meant when be said, l ite turf the fly
lug courser spurned, - yuu bet this
one did "
Jed rubbed his cheek as If It stung
him, aud I lookc-d at him in the taint
dawning light of day, and laughed.
HIm peaked head and weazen face
looked piteous enough, decorated as
they were with the black loum
through which he had ploughed; his
cost wss ripped from tail to collar,
while one of bis eyes was nearly
closed where the bruised flesh had
puffed up over It
It Is a fearful strife, for man en?
dowed ?Ith mortal life, " he quoted
mournfully.
"You're right." 1 assented "No
coubt you had the worst of it. Hut
hew came yuu here? '
Why, I wus a huntin fer a hoss
tbar et thet picket post whin ye
scared up tber hunch, an' by some
sort a fule luck I pot hoi o* thet on. ,
su' tuke arter y?. tho' in cum sc I
d'du t know who It was raised liefe a
rumpus, it wus mo durned dark Ther
whole blame Yank* ,, caboodle tuke a
blaze et me, I rckon, leastwise they
wus most dern keerless ?Ith ther
shoottn Irons, an' I rode one feller
?oc. knocked him plum off his hoss
dowu ther bnnk, Serslush 'rtci ther
weUr, by thunder, tin' list I thet deni?
ed critter I wus a struddltn' bolted
'I Let's 'bout all I kno?. Cap, till I h'.
yers."
There, was no doubting the truth of
his story, and I held out my hand.
"You re a good man Jed,'' I said
heartily, and *o long as we are both
alive, a few hard Jolts won't hurt us.
Ixet's mos If the horse* are iu any con?
dition for e? s Ice."
A single a'aheo told the story Tim
blsck mure w am browsing by the road
side aponie||tl\ little the BJOfSe fur
tbe shcek. although a thin line of
blood tickled slow I v down lor Hank
lSof the bb loan had not he* n sc for
tuaate. uLd lay, bvad under, stono
desd 1n the middle of the narrow road
Hungay gazed at the motionless fig
ure mournfully.
" 'Woe worth the chase, woe worth
the day. that cost thy life, my gallant
gray.'" he recited solemnly, ' only it's
a roan, an' 1 aiu't bo durn sorry
either."
Rogretl of any nature, however,
Were vain, ajid as the little man posi?
tively refused to rid*-. 1 mounted
again. He trudging along manfully
beside me. the two of us set forth once
more, our faces turned toward the red
duwu.
CHAPTER XXI.
Reinforcements for Early.
"Come. Wayne, wake up, man!"
Captain, 1 say, you must turn out of
this."
1 opened my eyes with a strugg e
and looked up. The golden glow of
sunlight along the white wall told iue
the day must be already well ad?
vanced, and 1 saw the lieutenant of
iny troop, Colgate, bending over me,
attired in service uuiform.
"What is it. Jack?"
"We have been ordered north on
foreed march to join Early, and the
command has already started. 1 have
delayed calling you until the final
moment, but knew you would never
forgive being left behind."
Hefore he had fluished I was upon
the floor, dressing with that rapidity
acquired by years of practice, ray
mind thoroughly aroused to the
thought of active service once more.
' Was it the news I brought In yes?
terday, Colgate, which Las stirred this
up?" 1 questioned, hastily dipping into
a l1 i'm of water.
"1 Imagine it must have been, sir,"
replied the Lieutenant, leaning buck
comfortably upou a cracker-box, which
formed our solitary chair. "Things
have been on the move ever since, and
it certuinly resembles au advance of
some Importance. Staff officers at It
all night long. McDanie. s division off
at daylight, while we go out ahead of
Slay ton s troops. Heede was in beast?
ly good humor when he brought the
orders; that usually raeuDb a fight."
"Any artillery?"
"Sloan's and Rockes batteries are
with us; did not learn who went out 1
with McUaniel's. Longstreet has
crossed the White Hrlar."
"Yes, 1 know," 1 said, drawing on
tqe lust of tuy equipments, and quick- ,
ly glancing about to ussure myself 1
had overlooked nothing likely to be
of value. "All ready, Jack, and now
for another dance of death.'"
Our regiment was drawn up In the
square of the Utile town, and as we
came forth into the glorious suulight,
the stentorian voice of the Colonel ?
called them Into column of fours. Staff
officers, gray with dust from their all
night service, Wttl riding madly along
the curb, while at the rear of our men,
Just debouching from one of the side
streets appeared the solid front of a
division of infantry. We had barely
time to swing into the saddles of the
two horses awaiting us, and ride swift?
ly to the head of our command, when
the short, stern orders rolled along
the motionless line of troopers, and
the long, silent column swung out to
the northward, the feet of the horses
raising a thick cloud of red dust
which fairly euveloped us in its chok?
ing folds
"With the ardor ot young manhood 1
looked forward to the coming battle,
when 1 knew the mighty armies of
North and South would once again
contest for the fertile Shonandoah. It
was to be Aiuerican pitted against
American, a struggle ever worthy of
the gods. Slowly 1 rode back down
the files of my men, marking their
alignment and accoutrements with
practised eye, smiling grimly as 1
noted their eager faces, wai worn and
bronzed by exposure, yet reauimattd
by hope of active service. As I
watched them thufe, 1 thought again
of those many other faces who once
rode as these men did now, but who
had died for duty even as these also
tLlght yet be called upon to die. Otie
hundred and three strong, gay in
bright new uniforms, with unstained
banner kissing the breeze above our
proud young heads, we rode hopeful?
ly forth from Charlottesville scarce
three yearn before, untried, undis
clplined, unknown, to place our lives
willingly upon the scared altar of our
native State What speechless years
of horror those had been; what his
tory we had written with our
naked steel; what scenes of
suffering and death lay aloug tlr*
bloody path we travolled! Today,
down the same red road, our eyes still
set grimly to the northward, our flag
a torn and ragged remnant, barely
forty men wore the "IT between the
crossed sabres ou their ?touched
brown hats, in spite of all recruiting
The cheer In my heart was for the
living; the tear In my eye was for
the dead.
"Colgate." I ta!d gravely, as 1
ranged up beside him at the iear of
the troop, "the nu n look exceedingly
well, and do not appear to have suf?
fered greatly because of short ra
Hons."
"Oh. the lads are always 1n fine
fettle when they expect ? light." he
answer* d. his own e\es dancing as he
swept then over thai straight line of
backs In hll front "They'll scrap the
better for being a bit hungry, It
gaakei tlx in savage Heats all Cap
tain, what foolish notions some of
those people on tin other side have
of us Bout he men They seem to
think we an entirely different nYom
themselves; yet I reckon it would pufl
zle any recruiting officer up yonder
to show a luor lot of fighting men
than those fellows ahead there"
I POde slow I) forward to my own
position at the need of the troop As
i swung uij uoiee lute out aucusiviusd
position 1 was too deeplv burled 1 n
rollection to be clearly conscious of
muco that was occurring about ine.
Suddenly, however, 1 became a wate
that some one, nearly obscured by the
enveloping cloud of dust, wati riding
without the column, in an lndepend
ence of military discipline not to he
permitted. In tbo ?t?te of mind I was
then in this discovery strangely ir?
ritated me.
"Sergeant," I questioned sharply, of
the raw-boued trooper at the end of
the first platoon, "what fellow Is that
riding out youder?"
"It's ther pesky little cuss as come
in with ye yesterday, sir," he rut.urnea
with a grin. "He's confiscated a muel
somewhar an' says he's a goin' back
hum 'long o' we uns."
Curious lo learn how Jed had
emerged troiu his urduous adventures,
I spurred my horse alongside of him.
The little man, bending forward
dubiously, as if fearful of accident,
was riding bareback on a gaunt, loug
legged mule, which, judging from all
outward appearances, must have been
some discarded asset of the quarter?
master's department.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WILL ELECTION BE HELD.
People Interested in Report of Super*
visor Hilts on Dispensary.
Will an election he held In Sumtel
bounty for the re-establlahment of
ths dispensary? This is a question
Which many people all over the coun?
ty are asking just now and a matter
which is of great Interest to every
body In the county. Supervisor I'itis
is holding ths matter in the bal?
ance just now ami is saying nothing
of what he Intends lo do or what the
prospects arc for either side.
Those In favor of having o dispen?
sary who had the petition circulated
haVS little to say and seem hopeful
of having enough names on the pe?
tition to require the supervisor to or?
der an election, On the other hand
the anti-dispensary people are ac?
tive In their efforts to prevent the or?
dering of an election. They .-ay that
It Is extremely doubtful that an elec?
tion will be ordered by ths supervisor,
as there will not be a third of the
qualified voters of the county on the
petition. Some assert that the super-'
visor has no authority to go over the
registration books and revise them,
of names of persons dead or who have
moved away, it is asserted by soms
of them thai should the supervisor
order an olectlon an injunction will be
taken out to prevent au e
being held.
The matter is one er?
interest and being dlSCU
sides, the principal que
'?Will the election be held?"
I I?.?i <?I: s<)LI> IN t ilt HOIKS.
Alderman Chlcco Writes an Open
Latter to the Governor.
Alderman Chlcco yesterday address-1
ed an open letter to tin- governor, In
which he charged that liquor was
sohl in some churches here, His let?
ter was the result of the governor's
remarks in Spartanburg Wednesday
about efforts at suppression of Char?
leston blind tigers, Alderman Chicco's
letter follows:
"Dear Governor: Your statement
as above is noted, and 1 eolemly pro?
test against sane- as untrue and un?
just, and call upon you t<? withdraw
the charges under the penalty of hav?
ing the proofs of Its Incorrectness
thrust upon you. Von should not ex?
cept the churches, as I can show you
soms edifices of that nature wherein
llqor is -old regularly. This whole
agitation is hysterical and foolish.
Tlu ie are three things which cannot
be regulated by law: Rum drinking
women and gunpowder. History from
the days of Adam. \oah and Roger
Hacon will prove this. V. Chlcco."
News and < 'oUricr,
XEtJIMI LYNCHED AT AMIJIK l s.
Slayer or Pollecnian swung up ami
Shot to Hieeos.
Americus, Ua., June 21. A mob of
.'.mi persons attacked the county jail
at v o'clock tonight, broke down the
? ell door wherein a negro, Wlliium
Redding, was confined and dragged
him through the principal streets of
the city to the liuchanan corner
where they lynched him. A thousand
shots, it Is estimated, were fired.
Tins was the climax of the shooting
earlier m the evening of William C.
Harrow, who has been chief of po?
lice In this dtv for tin- past twenty
live years, and the wounding of four
negroes.
Heath of a Little Hoy.
Manning, June 19, -Little- Theodore
Moii/on. the elder son ol Mr. and Mrs.
T m Mouxon, dnd last night after
two week-' 11111. from measles and
pneumonia, aged about seven years
i le bud lust i ompb ted his llrst \ < ar
lit si hool w ben lie was Itiken sick.
The funeral and interment look place
iu the rlt> cemetery at r..;;u this uf
teruoon
The Sherman law. bun. considered
a dead letter, Is now aftei a reputa?
tion .c> dem Jot Louisville i '<? mi
e i Journal
PtU >P< >si I) \ DM IMSTR \TI< >\
MEA8URE is MADE
PUBLIC.
Purpose of Rill Threefold?Means
lor Rediscount! ng Commercial Pa?
lters?Baals fo Elastic Notes and
Provision for Foreign Banking Bus?
iness?Federal Banks In Reserve un?
der Government Control.
Washington, June 19.?The admin?
istration currency i>ili was made pub
lir tonight bv Representative Glass,
chairman <>f the house committee on
banking and currency, it will be In?
troduced in the senate and bouse al?
ter President Wilson has delivered in
person Iiis address to congress <>n
Monday.
An outline of the measure prepared
by Mr. (Jlass, describing i' as a "hasis
for legislative action," states that it
will be gone over in detail for altera?
tions, and sets out. that its purpose is
to accomplish three principal objects:
Provision of a means for redis
countlng commercial paper of speci?
fied types.
A basis for elastic notes properly
safeguarded.
Machinery for doing foreign bank ?
Ing business.
The measure's essentials remain as
they have been outlined from time to
time since the president began a study
of the subject with house and senate
leaders. Secretary McAdoo and other
advisers, providing 12 or more federal
reserve batiks Which will rediscount
paper, deal in government securities,
exchange and conduct government
fiscal operations. National banks and
stub State banks and trust compa?
nies as conform to standards would be
Stockholders of the reserve banks.
The government would hold no stock.
The government would control the
federal reserve banks entirely
through a federal reserve board of
seven members in which the bunks
would have no representation. The
board would be composed of the sec?
retary of the treasury, secretary of
agriculture, the comptroller of the
currency as members ex-officio; four
other members Would be chosen by the
president and confirmed by the senate.
The national bank note circulation
would remain undisturbed a id no
proposal is made in the bill for retir?
ing approximately $700,000,000 - per
cent bonds upon which that note is
rests. An amendment or sep
to refund those bonds into 'I
bonds may be introduced
... audition to the $700,000,000 ex
Istlng national bank notes, not more
than $500,0(10,000 in what are to be
known as federal reserve treas?
ury notes might be issued at the dis?
cretion of the federal reserve board
solely for the purpose of making ad?
vances to tin* federal reserve banks,
Which would do no business with the
public, deal only with their member
banks and receive deposits from the
United states.
While the notes would on their
face purport to be the obligations of
the United States, they would be re
quired to be secured by a gold reserve
?d l-:: per cent provided by the
federal reserve banks, would be a
first and paramount lien on all the
assets of these banks and would be
redeemable in gold on demand at the
treasury department in the city of
Washington or any federal reserve
bank.
Stringent provisions are made
against counting any of these notes as
a part of bank reserves ami the sys?
tem is guarded against inflation by
lodging power with the federal re?
serve board to exact an interest
charge upon the treasury notes in or?
der to secure their prompt redemp?
tion. The notes are not made legal
tender but Would be receivable by
the government and every bank of
the system at par without exchange.
No change would be made in the
protection of other existing notes.
The federal reserve board would re?
quire one federal reserve bank to re?
discount the paper of another and
would establish a rate of discount not
in- 'essarlly uniform for all reserve
banks but made with a view to ac?
commodating the commerce of the
country and promoting a stable price
level.
For recasting the present bank re?
serve system, the bill proposes to
transfer the reserves from national
banks in the present reserve and cen?
tral reserve ?nies to federal reserve
hunks, carrying the process of trans
fer over 3H months to avoid shock t"
markel condit ions.
The bill proposes, according to Mr
Glass' statement, "ultimately the es?
tablishment oi a reserve system in
which country hanks will have l r. per
( tiii oi reserve (namely, 15 per cent
<d' total demand liabilities), such I?
I'd celll to l.e leid. 6 per ?eilt ill tilt!
bank H v anils, per cent With the na?
tional resei v <? hunk and ?'? per ? t ut
either ill home ..r with the reserve
bank, while reserve ami central re?
serve iitv banks have reserve* ol ~"
per . em ot demuml liabilities, of
which '-'" per cent .' HI be .it home, >
pet cent with the reser.'e bank ot the
di tiet aud 1 pel cent either at home
or with Th?- reserve hank."
The statement says:
"The presunn-d effect <?f this plan
Will be to end the placing Of re?
serves with central reserve <ity banks
for use In Stock market operations,
to keep reserves In some measure at
home and to require speculators t??
get the funds they med in their op?
erations either by directly borrowing
them from persons who hold them
and want to lend the (ash for that
purpose or else by borrowing from
the banks in the places where the
operations are to be carried on.
"In the belief that tin* present re?
serve By ate in Is antiquated and un?
satisfactory, thai to the massing of
lands in New York and other finan?
cial centres, of which so much has
I
been said In recent years, is largely
due to the present reserve require?
ments of national banks ami that in
order to get the real benefit of the
system of rediscount which has been
proposed as a remedy for many ex?
isting evils it is necessary to base
such system upon an actual control of
reserves, provision has been made for
recasting the present bank reserve
system.
"The bill is based on the belief that
no one should participate In the con?
trol of the system unless he is finan?
cially interested himself, or chosen
by those who are, except in so far
as the government steps in and as?
serts the authority of the whole com?
munity. With this in mind, the sys?
tem has been devised so as to pro?
vide for the continuation of exist?
ing national banks with their organi?
zation, powers and functions unchang?
ed. In addition there is established
a system of federal reserve banks,
which are Incorporated institutions
holding federal charters and in all
respects managed like national banks,
except as to the election of directors.
"There are 12 of these federal re?
serve banks, eac h managed by a board
of nine directors, three of whom will
be expert bankers selected by the
hanks, three will be members selected
in the same way but representing the
commercial, industrial or agricultural
interests of the district and subject
to removal by the federal reserve
board in ease they do not fairly rep?
resent these interests. The remain?
ing Once dirctors are to be chosen
by the federal reserve board.
"The object of the bill is to effect
a moderate division and classification
of banking business along Indicated
lines, the result presumably being
summed up as follows:
"National reserve banks will be
strictly limited to rediscounting ac?
tual commercial and industrial trans?
actions evidenced by very short term
paper and on rare, occasions, under
carefully prescribed conditions, to
financial operations protected by col?
lateral. They will also be able to
engage in foreign exchange opera?
tions, etc.
"National banks will be subjec t to
precisely the same restrictions as at
present with a relaxation in favor or
a moderate amount ot real estate
loans by country banks under care?
fully guarded conditions.
"By a revision of the administrative
features of the national banking act,
provision w ill be made for < lose over?
sight of national institutions with a
View io holding them strictly up to
the requirements of a legitimate bank?
ing house.
"In oicb r to possess themselves of
the kind of paper entitling them to
rediscounts, national banks will lind
themselves obliged to keep a rason
able proportion of their assets in the
form of paper eligible for reclis
counting.
"It is believed that the present sub
treasury system is unsatisfactory,
clumsy, injurious to business and dif?
ficult to manage in lime of stress.
The hill therefore provides for:
"The placing of all current funds
of the treasury in federal reserve
banks and the payment of govern?
ment creditors by check thereon.
"The equalisation of the public
funds between the different reserve
bunks by direction of the secretary
aitd subject to a rate of interest to
be tixed by the federal reserve board
"The trust funds of the treasury
are to be hold as at present in the
vaults of the treasury.
"Under the terms cd' the bill the
federal reserve banks, alter the pay?
ment of all expenses ami taxes, arc
entitled to pay an annual cumulative
dividend of 6 per cent on paid in .
? apital to its stockholding members.
One-half the nel earnings of the banks
must be paid into the surplus fund
until said fund shall amount to La
per cent ol the paid in capital of |
tin hanks The remaining one-half
oi the hank's earnings shall !??? paid
ot the United States and whenever!
and so bmg as the surplus fund of
ca?h federal rese rve bank amounts i<?
L'u per cent of the- paid in capital,
the shareholders having received their
permissible dividends ol .'? per cent
ail excess earnings shall lie paid to
tin- rpited States Kvery federal re?
serve oank i.- exempt from federal,
Slate and local taxation, except In le
speel to taxes upon real estae."
The terms ol office of four mem?
bers ol the federal reserve board ap?
pointed o.v the president are to be
eight years, with tin provision that
those, first appointed will serve two,
f??ur, mx and eight years, respectively.
"Thus it will be noted.' says Mr.
<Ilass statement, "the government will
have absolute control of the system.
"The salary of eaeh member, ex?
cepting the cabinet members, will be
$ 10,000 a >car and the comptroller of
the currency will receive $5,000 in ad?
dition to the $5,0??0 salary he now re?
ceives.
The chief points in the new federal
reserve bank ure described as fol?
lows:
"The number is to be 12, with pos?
sible increase later as provided.
"The ownership is to be in the
hands of the stockholding banks of
the \i districts in which the reserve
banks are situated.
'The nations! banks :ire compelled
to be members and State banks and
trust companies are permitted to be
members.
"The capitalisation Is to be 20 per
cent of the capital of the stockhold?
ing banks, one-half paid in and one
half subject to call.
"The business of those federal re?
serve banks i? to be a.s follows.
'Rad UM-outing of paper presented
by stockholding banks, under specific
conditions, provided such paper grows
out of actual agricultural, commercial
or industrial transactions, and does
not run more than a specified number
of days.
"Buying and selling government se?
curities, gold and silver bullion and
foreign coin, foreign exchange, and
open market bills of given maturity.
"In order to meet the views so often
expressed in commercial circles to the
effec t that the preservation of Amer?
ican business in foreign countriee
would be greatly helped by Improving
banking facilities." Mr. Glass' state?
ment continued, "the bill authorizes
any national banking association with,
a minimum capital of $1,000,000 to SSjifj
tabllsh branches in foreign countries, |
for the furtherance of foreign com?
merce of the United States, and to.,
act as fiscal agents of the United .
States abroad."
The federal reserve board is re?
quired to pass upon all such a p plica*
tions.
The federal reserve board would
be clothed with such administrative
powers as examination, reclasslflea- ?
tion and designation of reserve hanks, '
discipline of officials of federal re?
serve banks and receiverships. Cer?
tain portions of the existing banking
laws would be repealed, the Aldrich
Vreeland emergency currency
would be completely superseded
in a separate bill a general re
of the administrative provisio
the national bank act is to be p
ed. The hill would provide that
within UO days from the date of its
passage the secretary of the treasury
shall designate the federal reserve
districts, the organization of the fed-.,
eral reserve banks shall begin and .
the "transition period," during which
the reserves shall be adjusted to the
new plan must be complete at the
end of 38 months.
Administration officials started
day to smooth out the differe:
among Democrats over the prop
to act on the currency measure dur?
ing the present session. President
Wilson asked Democratic members of
the committee Of banking and ear
rency to meet him at the White
House tomorrow night. Senator
Owen invited the president to confer
with the Democratic members of his
committee at the capitol next Wed?
nesday and he SCCCPted.
Secretary Bryan was In conference
with Repreoentattvs Henry of Texas
and Samuel Untermeyer, counsel tot
the house money trust investigating
committee Of the last congress. Mr.
Henry had advocated a renewal of
the Inquiry. It was reported that an
understanding had been reached
whereby if the investigation were re?
sumed it would not conflict with the
consideration of currency legislation.
SPAIN ACCEPTS IDEA.
Washington, June 21.?Spain has
accepted In principle Secretary Bry?
an's proposal for international peace.
Eighteen nations now have accepted
Mr. Bryan's invitation to consider his
plan.
ITnatinas' Philosophises.
I have notist that it is the cur that
keeps up the harking after the row
is Off.
My old COW, boasting of her good?
ness to her daughter, remarked that
it sometimes hurl her much to be
c,.i. .lust then site strained at the
end of bet tether to get at my nei*h
bor's coin, when I saw her wince for
very pain be cows the rape had cut
deep in Then I saw how lilte a let
of us the cow is "we just don't he
cause we can't."
It v..u have eny thing good pass it
around, tor folks love to laugh, but
although the Bible tells us to weep
With those that weep, I ken we don't
love to cry. The com plainer is mis
crable company. "Kusticus."
The verbosity of a man is about the
same as the garrulity of a woman.
With the exception t'.'ut we just ?im
Ply give our led) friends credit for
iheh wonderful conversational gifts.
? Wilmington Star.