The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1864-03-04
AN ARKANSAS HERO.

! age. sm ALL slender and effernina,e looking.
with ligh, hair, almost bearde face, and
lark blue eyes. His dress. though not
-xac,ly soppi.h, WAS altogether too fine.
| neat and precise. to suit the taste Of men
| Who alwasa seemed prepared for roughing
! i, in the backwoods az most Of them had
done at one time and another; he was.
| moreover a stranger from the North who
had perhaps come there to display his
learning. and pick up their money. so thu,
from the frat he was regarded with aver.
sion and contempt.
The first six or eight month. he got no
prscrce whatever, notwithstanding ne was
| regularly at his Office, or the court room
| waiting and horing he was about to give
| up in despair. and hetake himself to anoth
er locality when one day tail. Tank in
dividusl came scufing into His apartment,
ard after surveying him keenv from head
to foot. said, Is he bel ped himself to =
seat:
See here young hop thumb, is there
ANYTHING in you -
"Ye., INV breakfast!'' replied the
Young LAWYER.
The other stared a, him few moments
and seemed Undetermined whether TO CON
slider tbs reply An insult or a joke. He
finally grinned and proceeded:
mean do YOU know anything"
ooh, yes. something" answered the
other pleasantly. 81 know the differ
ence he'wesn a horse and horseback :"
"Can Won write 2"
have wrote nv name before now '"
The stranger drew newspaper from
his pocket opened it deliberately, pointed
out an article handed it to the young man
an,iban sad:
Read that ~
ALOUD {"
eyes"
The Young man complied, and read a
TRADE Of the most scsndling. acafh'ng ma
| ture against one Miles Gregory the demo-
cratic candidate for the Legislature
"Wpll." demanded the stranger, "wha'
DO You think Of tina, ?"
IT is pretty severe
81 believe you Do " II think there IS
another man IN the state Of Arkansas hat
can write "a scorching thing agin the
wing candidate
"If there were fact. to Justify 1t.
doubt no. such an article could be pro-
huced"
"To thunder with YOUR facts crieG the
stranger exci,edlv; "fasts hain't got
nothing to do with politics there's no
facts in that it's al lie. from beginning
70 end Pm that Mile. Gregory. and
OUCH. to know, ~ give fifty dollars to
ANYBODY that will write as savage thing
agin Joe Perrin"
When DO you want il =
"To dav"
Without regard to facts :"
"Thev hahn, nothing to 60 with it, |
tell YOU"
Every we'll in a couple OF hours if
You'll call in I'll show YOU something to
match it,"
"Tf You'll do it. or the half ont, III pu,
YOU in a way to make fortune
He wen, out and returned At the ap>
pointed time and the Young man bad the
article resdy Wi,hou, descending As low
a, the model in vulgar epl.het-, it was ev
en- more terrible in its whitening sarcasm,
Gregory could scarcely contain himself
| while tho LAWYER was reading it, and As
sooo a. he WAS done he bounded from his
seat with veil Of triumph. and Selling
the delicate little hand OF the writer al
most crushed it between his grea. bonv
! fingers.
You've done it - be cried with an
oath. g and youl have something to do
better than staring at blank walls -
| Herr. vour money only difference
| is. I've concluded TO make it IA hundred
instead Of fftv but that's nv business
| 50 none of vour nonsense"
He rushed OF, with a triumphant laugh.
leaving the Young LAWYER to rUn1nste mp
on his first fee, and the possible conse-
euences of his becoming conspicuous IN
dividua in that fighting region.
The next week the article appeared ia
the democratic paper, and created grea'
sensation One political party WAS de-
lighted with it, and the other chagrined.
Who was the author? Nobody knew
The guild nunes were puzzled Ever
known writer's stvle was duly considered !:
but something in the article differed from
each Could it be that = new Junius had
come among them. The democrats were
anxions 20 End out, to do honor to their
champion and the opposition that they
might contrive a way TO silenre h''n.-
Nobody suspected the beardless lawyer -
In fact, if he had openly avowed it the
chance. WAS ,ha, he would have been
kicked for b as,ing liar
Three individuals only knew anv,Nlng
about 1.-THE writer. Mr.. Gregory, and
the proprietor Of the paper N which 1t ap
neared 70 the last, indeed. was due 'he
fact that the secret had been kept so close,
The moment he first read the article, he
acknowledge the power of thu -rl'er, and
demanded his name Gregory gave 1t
without hesitation The Journals, was
surpri.ad He had seen the pnny lawyer.
he said. but never dreamed there was any
.nch srnff in him . ....- ......
GLOW did YOU ind him out, Gregory 2
BY blnnder | got into his Office
BIZ mistake, aud then something JUS kind
Of .,rnck me to try the hing on "a sort
of experiment YOU know"
Does any one else know ny'hing
about j = .s.....
"Narv one" Ar -r. ....... ..
Then sea here-;his must De a secret
Of honor between us | AN going 10 -e