The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-11-30
3 Capital stury,
AND 'TazE CALI
EOEsN5A WIDOW.
a MINING RECOLLECTION OF $3.50

Yes, the boys would ALWAYS call him
"Logwood,' Notwithstanding all his pyotes-
tations to the contrary. When the name
was first applied to him he swore, threatened
and even went so far as to pretty roughly
handle one little fellow in our mess; but he
gradually became reconciled ike a true phi
losopher, to that which he had not the pow
,er to remedy, and soon answered to that
name, as well as to the one his parents be-
'queathed him-and it was about all they did
start him into the world with of logan
Woods. lie was rough, untutored speci
men of the bacsWoodsman, stood six-teet-
six in his SOCKS, and emlgTated from Iowa
early in 1899. Although the. extent of his
erudltlon went no farther than very limit
ed knowledge Of the first elements OF an
English education, and was as uncouth in
speech as in person, yet he was IL man OF
as fine feelings and as good heart as ever
ghared without snatching,) the pork and
beans OF Blunderbuss. ..,...
10 accident alone did ne owe his name OF
S'l4ogwood;" and although he countenanced
with unieigned displeasure the first attempt
TO tasten 1t upon him, yet it stuck to him
Ike pitch and charcoal to the head Of a
mourning digger. Owing TO his height he
he Tasealied Long Woods, until it was per-
Vegtod to ljogwood by an H0MBRE whose de-
fective na:al organ dGfcd with entire success
the proper articulation of the letters n and
e as combined in the worI long" he was
compelled TO pronounce it log, and log
uttered IN conjunction with Woods, made a
very near approach to logwood, and to hu
NOR the joke and enjoy the victim $ contus-
ION at having His name thus burlesqued, ;.
Logwood was adopted by the boys, until f..
nally he was known by no other.
Although lngwoeI was as peaceabls and
inoHensive as an inijnt, he was the last man
to turn his back to danger, let it come in
what shape it might. He had been raised
in the back woods, had boeu on several hun
ting excursions to the Rocky Mountains,
and had once accompanied a government
train from Independence to Santa Fe; con-
sequantly the sight Of hostile Indian had
the effect Of creating within him conscious
ness that he was still Logan Woods, man
who neither feared Bars or "lnjins' and
who could swim the Mississippi and single
handed whale his weight in wildcats be-
fore his breakfast. Yet Logwood had a
weakness; he was excessively timid in the
society OF females. He adored the whole
sex ihdiscriminate!y; but he seemed to look
Apop them as objects entirely beyond his
! reach Ito be admired but not approached. -
u ! do not know to what to attribute IT., unless
: indeed, it was consciousness of his want OF
personal attraction and accomplishments;
but in early times the sight OF white te-
male completely unnamed him 1t was
not to be wondered at when it is told that
Lsgwood's heart heartily thumped his ribs
upon making the discovery that family
"a hal suddenly settled on the Bar, within
. two hundred yards Of his cabin, in the fall
=. Of l650--espe pecially when it is made known
that one,of the females. Of that household
was a widow Of some thirty-fve years whose
husband had died on the Plains early in the
Z spring. Logwood saw he-, and it that case,
to see was but to admire, at least on his part
whether or not the widow was similarly If
tected, we will endesvor to make the scque
show.
}. .InYes in mountain parlance, Logwood
weakened to the charms OF the widow, and
the consequence was, that after one week,
he could occasionally be seen sneaking round
|, the cabin Of hiy adored with a billed shirt
peeping up around his throat. For thus
outrageousy habitating himself, he was call
ed to account by the boys, and as such sin
aguiar conduct required an explanation oi
. some kind IIdgwood was compelled to point
TO tne WHOM as the cause.
,o', or course every encouragement was given
to him; the comforts of home and the
pleasures of married life were pictured tc
him in their glowing colors by the entire
mess, and no occasion was from that time
hencei0rth sighted by any of them when in
. company with the widow of exaltlng Log
4 wood 5 excellence. The widow, doubtless
I. was shrewd enough tosuspect every thing
of that sort, and laugh at the effect; but she
could not be iusensible to Lugwood's ''tin'
If she was of his honest devotion The
fact was, the widow was a woman that had
seen considerable Of the world, and knew
a from a fifteen years experience Of matrimo
) Mai life that love and poverty might posi-
bly, exist together under the same roof We
at was father'inconsistent and, having out
grown all girlish fancies Of love andromanct
like sensible woman, she looked upon an
other matrimonial alliance with an eye tc
business, i Z, rs'I.,t,s S1, -, :. '-,'..
riT J.ogwood was pretty well supplied viii
lucre; this the widow had aseertained be-
vyend, "a doubt, and the smiles which she haf
bestowed upon him during the two or three
-snccasious on which they had met, made
" Logwood doubt, lfke Richard, whether hi
had not always s'rnistook hissperson. Blu
EHitten he was, there was po reason t.
doubt, forlpever had he been known to ex
ercise so great care 10 his dress as durini
sthe month which elapsed previous to hi
first attelnptto pay, the lady, "A regular. visit
Several times had be attemptet 4 II, but a