Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-06-01

the impulse was-whether the act waa
strictly defensible or not. Had deceased
any religious convictions? That is to say
did be feel dependence upon or acknowl
edge allegiance to higher power?"
More reflection.
Il reckon you've stumped me again
pard. Could you say it over once more
and say it slow? 2"
"Well to simplify it somewhat, was HI
or rather had he been connected with az
organization sequcstered from secular con
Germs and devoted to self-sacri6ce in the
Interests Of morality?"
"All down but ninc-set 'em up on the
other alley, para."
"What did I understand you to say?"
"Why, you're most too many for me
you know. When you get in with your
left, 1 hunt grass every time. Every time
you draw you fill; but don't seem to
have any luck. Let's have new deal"
"How? Begin again ?"
"That's it."
"Very we'll. Was he good man, and
-"
"Thcrc-I see that; don't put up an.
other chip till | look at my hand. A good
man, says you? Pard, it amt no name for
it. He was the best man that evcr-pard,
you would have dotted on that man. He
could lam any galoot of his inches in Amer.
ica. 1t was him that put down tho riot
last election before it had got start; and
everybody said that he was the only man
who could have done it, He waltzed in
with trumpet in one hand and spanncr
in the other, sent fourteen men home on a
shutter in less than three minutes. He
had that riot all broken up and prevented
nice, before anybody got chance to strike
blow. He was always for peace, aud be
would have peace--he could not stand dis
turbances. Pard, he was great loss to
tho town. It would please the boys if you
could chip in something about that, and do
him justice. Here once, like when the
crowd got to throwing stones through the
Methods Sunday School windows, Buck
Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his
saloon and took couple Of six.shooters
and mounted guard over the Sunday
School, He was the bulliest man in the
mountains, pard; he could run faster,
jump higher, hit harder, and hold more
tanglc foot whisky without spilling than
any man in seventeen counties. Put that
in, pard; it'll please the boys more than
anything you could say. And you can
say, pard, that he never shook his mother"
"Never shook his mother?"
"That's it-any Of the boys will tell you
So"
swell, but why should b. shake her?
"That's what say-but some people
does"
"Not people Of any repute?"
swell, some that average pretty $3.50"
In my opinion man that would offer
personal violence to his mother ought
to-"
"Cheese it, pard you have banked your
ball clean outside the string. What was
drivin' at was that he never Mro,1ed of
m his mo,her-don't you see? No, iu.
deed. He gave her house to live in,
and town lots, and plenty Of money; and
looked after her, took care Of her all the
time aud when she was down with the
smallpox, I'm damned If he didn't set up
nights and nuss her himself! Beg your
pardon for saying it, but it hoped out too
quick for yours truly. You've treated me
like gentleman. aud I ain't the man to
hurt your feelings intentional. I think
you're white. / think you're a square
man. pard. I like you, and I'll lick any
man that don't. I'll lick him till he cant
tell himself from last years corpse! Put
it thero!" (Another frstcrnal handshake
and exit)
The obsequies were all that "the boys
could desire. Such marvel Of funeral
ponp had never been seen in Virginia.
the piumed hearse. the dirge.breathipg
brass hands, the closed marts Of business,
the flags dropping ut half-mast, the long
ploddiDg procession Of uniformed secret
societies, military batal'io0s and ere CON-
panies. draped engines, carriages Of off,
cials aud citizens in vehicles aud on foot,
attracted multitudes Of spectators to the
sidewalk. roofs and Windows; and for
years afterward, the degree Of grandeur
attained by any civic display 10 Virginia
was determined by comparison with Buck