The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 25, 1885, Page 7

CYNTRY. ED TAR A Tragic Story of the Mountain Be- —_. gion of Virginia. QuEH Abso free from Opiates SAFE. ately i tics and Poison. | | SURE. ere, 2 a ” to sell out and <0 to tow 1, and do my still—t ; the ness tab H | 1} tdon’t | ! t law s So l’ma goin : ioe + file! - 1 tose! our, 1, and Cynthy has | varden is mhevei feaw bil F Gone promised to marry me, and bab ce t Ly ; Pm a goin’ to town and be some- | Ae . - j thin’ more thar 2n be hereabouts | sterile, unwil s y le, | Sight detour to drink once more |” Vv more than I ken be hereabouts, ? ( fsmail and lean, put hardy as the | from ‘Olid Jake’s’’ tamous spring. | proud on me. [ain't ‘ Y ! ! : r, He was i is Ost i a bot and ¢ | down upon hrs re any PeEOSITE i ic r- coon | a hickory stick Vea aoe | cle At my approacl ms Bey: BORE) fOHN P. WIL™IS, AucTIonNErn. pumas ley Mace alle : hope and i acted igen pee when thr en rode up, and Dethweaie exery | square 1 h puncheon floors|tace. ‘*Hev you seen my boys?’ | : ORE Peat AREY ees Anction cen é ‘ : a y | }e¥noo men and arter Jim and Tom, fid stock io id p ard \ rags stuc g that 3 | , ’ {SO I Was € PasVv E rne y th delter. It vou have | logs to keep i dropped on | > - ear ee Cynthy, wction sales A ibe (Cea Co 13 forensic ial with her hair z } : } a-streamin’ down her back, run past, = the room is a vas fashioned fire: | ge t had} a bisiesx, : i : ee | : i Leer intoGreen’s | #24 [knowed ina minute thet the 2 & gait? Oise ne Fat nen hed putup at the tavern and _ Wc Ay ich x ae va a ue oe | she had hearn their pians to take the 1 i¥ uU 5) roclatie-ch hed Courts take alsent | Possum Crick still, and old Jake’s er | | | down—it’s only a littie ce,yonde NORTH MAIN ST, | Is. and a spinning ae 2 aS its only al tle ce,yoader | pavauunes | beyont that pint thar—and as I got isi furniture. i ' i ; jto the pint Isee Tom run into the these an old man croons over | porch in front of his place and talked V : ie - - i I rand I knowed it the his c¢ > pipe. ] of old times. I spoke of having seen | : j : ; t jest as the revnoo men Wis which rest upon his | old Jake. and expressed my curiosity } a é 6 ise aathaoilss fe abe |e hic uesnen concerns | ee | t to shoot at poor jim, who was : : : , > }’atween the crick and the still, Cyn- wife smoking while she | \ pissed over Green’s face as | * > asic nd pele al Cyn Hee io oa thy jumped atore him, yest in time knits, dropping her stitches now and | he said: ‘Didn’t you never hear oe . ooh wee ; ‘ j to ketch the ball that was ment fur then as her eyes, wearied with years | tell of it? I answered that I had | ji 5j \ i } a " > om im. im jest cot her im his arms of wat close in slumber. The] not. ‘tYbu know the Jedge? To}* i j : ae ieee SA > r 4 { and went to shootin’, but purty soon 3 DEALER IN § | ‘hoys”? are going coon-hunting, and | begin at the commencing of it, it’s a ; é me 4 “ y He ‘ ve tell, sull a-holdin’ Cynthy, anc : 4 the musket that their grandfather | purty long story. But see the old}? y : ‘ . z , : : looked around and thar stood the 1 carned is being cleaned in one cor—| Jedge had a boy—Si we called him. Jed i : eed ; . : ° ry > edge under the old deac walnut Hl IES ditle eS ner of the room, while the degsjump | Well, Si got thrown offen a_ raft aaa 4 ‘ j 5 < é i + Paes : trees, his hoss- pistol in his hand, his noisily about in anticipation ot the | onct and soon arter that he got 2 3 ee ‘i tace white, his teeth sot, and the i E é sport. This cabin, which stands upon } ’ligion; whether as how it was the A Snape : i SPRING WAGONS, & = moonlight shinin’ on his hair. He I *pears like he wasn’t ratt or whether ‘twas the dunno, but it no ’count to nobody arter that, so he the side of the mountain overlooking ligion, little distance from is the house of Jacob Etc., Etc. Brandon and a the stage road, pues eee _ | Stone, or “Old Jake,’’ as he as fa— | went away and we hearn that he had PThe Largest Assortment to Select From in 3 : : Southwest Missouri.<@u millarly called. I tound it while | gone to town, and then we hearn I the Latest Styles And Patterns on Hand, and Sold at the Lowest Rates that he got marned, and then we hearn that tne Jedge hed a grand- searching for a tamous spring, from which a little brook leaped over the Old and Tom, were chile. Well, the fall arter you war here, when the fever it war so bad, what did Si do but lay down and die, and his wife she follered him, so the Jedge went down and brung rocks into the tiver below. Jake’s > >Jim well known in and around the town. clez boys 7 an- Jim, tall, slender, with a telligent face, the best shot, the most ae Pecos come direct from the manatactor 22 aan ee Ss — au 1 abe his igs = aka d sie : — = cae Ae eet Ge the st graceiul dancer in the country. | pert little thing, and everybody celebrated patent Tom, rt, stolid, good-natured. | thought a heap of her, but bein’ ULHOLLAND and ignorant, was in great demand | brung up in the city with book larnin’ tor miles around on account of his} she warn’t fit for a place like this, I Ss P RIN proficiency with the violin. No]reckon, We am’t much given to is the best becouse there is no | dance was complete without Tom | parsons and skooltechers here’ bouts. Bune oe fain be stonrese con and his ‘fiddle’? to furmish the} But the store the Jedge took in that Hest riding spring made. : music, or without Jim upon the} chile and the way he’d tote her floor. round! Of evenin’s she would set ALWAYS in the LEAD! Allis quiet in the town; around | in his lap and actooly larn t —emerase {ihe village Stores little groups are | to read. an’ he would make nustakes BELDINC’S ot his letiers, as she called he sayin’ th guthered. playing queits and marbies, | in Sim while Green, the it, and ther would purtend | storekeeper, is playin } couldn’t see and wipe his specs on the counter w old “Jedge”’ | his sleeve, and draw her to I sud- lock. ny vears have these two] deht like and kiss her, and I believe eth, Strength a9 contended for the championship in] the Jedge would actooly sometimes therr cherished game. The Juage| cry when he couldn’t make no sense gaa toe ne abate a i warded HIGHEST PREMIUMS at = cs of the town, | of his letters And she would + rark land MINDUSTRIAL Exhibitions. his tauier being the first to disturb | outen the Bible to the Jedge ull he rity is due solely tothe | the Indian in bis possession of this | became downright ‘ligious, though Ro | beautful valley. Tall, strong and | he used to swar and cuss powertul. IMNING £COMLE Stlouis, Mo. ] ludge trong in} The old Jedge couldn’t bear he Agate for the WEST and SOUTH. Mies SHORE Ot : = as: ILLS { Bop aeat, Sititba. heart,strong | outen his sight nohow. When she Perse ay AMB'TON, Mase. native imtel-| got to be most a woman she uster le b Dealers Eve ag : : ss ; t > 6K. ci Sitk. § despre te tages sugh, with- | go with Jim Stone, old Jake’s boy Siik and Kensington nanner rht smart Yr 2@ ir he Sadery Si ‘ail the pamnts of Su et Or manner ht smart, und to see Jim, as he hat distinauish their Spoon STILE Facquired by ow ner civilization, | could cut more jogs and throw any i bur with a certain ease { man in the country, be su keeriul of | taught in schools, commanding re- | her it was touchin’, and she j spect wherever known. For sixty i him to read jest like she hed | ee fe use 25 was th f hung ar ody two massive uld rev 5 trer ANOS-ORCANS *” demand for the improved Masox & Hass ee So large that a second i mn to the ire @ DES On the p Consnit Catalogue, free. SS, $2 te ied ntert ain- > da S ays cume, were crowde coun ame to t ve Pre never moved nor carried on. but the Jedge war changed. He never comes nigh the store nor speaks to nobady ; he jest sets on the porch with his hat on the floor and his white hair a-blowin’ around, and he looks up the road as it he expected some one, step he starts and trembles as if he thought it war Cynthy. When we got to Cynthy and Jim the revnoo men had torn down the still, and seen thar war no arrestin’ We couldn’t foosen one from t?other,and we buried themso. ‘Tom we buried clost to them. IL told old Jake thet his boys went down the river. It would kind o’ onsettled him it he knowed they war dead, and I can write a leetie, me to write te Jim the iver: and I keep the postoffis, so I answer | and when he heers a to do—only burryin’. and he gets and Tom down It don’t do and it His thet lonely stranger if they’ve I reckon the world’s iis letters no— no harm, I reckon, do man up, woman is dead, and he’s he asks body chirk the old old ot evry seen his boys. ratters and the shootin the same as it was, and go down the river a a cussin’, and the boys play marbles and checkers as they allus did, and | they've got another fiddler fur the } dances, and when it comes evenin’ {and I get to thinkin’ of how tall and heasum him war that night aud of j how purty and smart Cynthy war, | and how they war fust to go, hen we could hey others better, spared and how the Jedge uster play check- | | ° - b. | | ers here, instead 0” settin’? down at | ® Bn H lishers have couducted THE TIMES for ! the tavern all alone, I feel curus and | 15 yearsand have learned by experience | sae | : : : that genuine merit wins more friends | and as it things war different. 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