The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-19

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the doctor, who was of 3 speculative
mind, afterwards said that when Sam
appeared al the door he showed the
first Pike face in which he had ever
seen any signs..of soul.
Sam went to the sod house, where
lived the Oldest woman in the camp,
and briefly announced the end of his
wife. Then, after some consultation
with the old woman, Sam rode to
town on one OF his horses, leading
another. He came back with but
one horse and q lsrge bundle !; and
soon the women were making for
Mrs. TrotWine her lsst earthly robe,
and the first new one she had worn
for years. The next day q wagon
, brought coffin and a minister, and
the whole camp silently and respect
fully followed Mrs. Trotwine 20 q
home with which she could fiad no
fault.
For three days all the male Pixies
IN tha camp sat on a log IN front OF
Sans door and expressed their sym.
pathy, as did three friends Of job
that is, they held their peace. But
on the fourth their tongues were
unloosed. As a conversationalist
the Pike is lot success, but Sans
actions were so unusual and utterly
uuheard of that it seemed as if even
the stones must have wondered and
eomuuned among themselves.
81 never heard OF such thing
said Brown Buck she's gone sn'
bouoht new clothes for each OF the
four young 'uns .
eyes" said the patriarch OF the
camp, ssan' this mornin', when l wen
down to the bank to soak my head
,cos last nights liquor didr't agree
with it'll seed Sam with all his young
'uns as they wus awashin' their faces
an, hands with soap. They'll ketch
their death and be on the hill with
their mother fore long, if he don't
look out. Somebody ort to reason
with him.
~Twon't do NO good,' sighed
Limping jim. "He's lost his head,
an reason just goes into one ear an
out at tother esr. When he was
scrspin' around his front door 10th
er dsy, an asked him what lie wns
a.layin' the ground all bare and des-
olate fur, he said he was done keep
ino nio-nen- His heads gone, Just
mark my words.
On the morning of fourth day,
Sans friends had just secured full
attendance on the log, and were at
work apon their first pipes, when
they were startled by seeing Sam
harness his horse in the wagon and
put all his children into it.
"Whar ye bound fur, Sam ?" asked
the patriarch.
Sam blushed as near as q Pike
could, but answered with only little
hesitation:
"Goin' 70 take 'em to school to
Maxfeld-goin' to do it ev'ry day"
The incumbents of the log were
too nearly parslyzed to demonstrate,
but after few moments OF silence
the patriarch remarked, in tones Of
feeling, yet decision
Hes had tough time Of it, but
he's no business to ruin the settlement.
I'm an old man myself and l need
peace of mind, so I'm going to pack
up my traps and mosey- When the
folks at Maxfeld knows what he's
doin' they'll make him constable or
a Justice, an I'm too much OF man
to live nigh any sich"
And next day the patriarch wheeled
his family and property to parts un-
known.
A few days later Jim Merrick, q
brisk farmer q few miles from the
Bend, stood in front of his own house,
and shaded his eyes in solemn won
der. 1t couldn't be-he'd never
heard of such q thing before-yet it
was-there was no doubt of It-there
was Pike riding right towards him
in open daylight. He could swear
that Pike had often visited him
that is, his wheat field and corral
alter dark, but daylight visit from
a Pike was unusual as social cell
Of Samaritan upon Jew. And
when Sam--for it was he-approach-
ed Merric and made his business
known, the farmer was more aston
ised and confused than he had ever
been in his before. Sam wanted to
know for how much money Merric
would plough and plant a hundred
and sixty acres of wheat for him,
and whether he would take Sans
horse-a fine animal brought from
the States, and for which Sam could
show q bill of sale-as security tor
the amount until he could harvest
and sell his crop Merric so well
understood the Pike nature that he
would have paid handsomely for the
chance.
/ A few days later and the remsir-
ing Pixies at the Bend experienced
TIE greatest scare that ever visited
their souls. A brisk man came into
the Bend with tripod on hIs shout
der and q wire chain and some pins,
and q queer machine under his arm.
and before dark the Pixies understood
that Sam bad deliberately constituted
himself q renegade by entering q
dusrter section Of land. Next morn
ing two more residences were empty,
and the remaining fathers Of the
hamlet adorned not Sans log, bal
wandered about with faces vacant Of
all expression, save the agony OF the
patriot who sees his home invaded 10y
corrupting influences too powerful fol
him to resist.
Then Merric sent up plough
gang and eight horses, and the ten.
der green of Sans quarter-sectioI
was rapidly changed to dull brown
color. which is odious unto the eye 0
the Pike. Day by day the brown
spot grew larger, and one morning
sam arose 10 find all vengeance upoI
him by taking away his dogs. An.
in his delight a. their disappearance
Sam freely iorgsvs them all.
| Regularly the children were carrie,
to and from school, and even to Sul
day School. Regularly every eve
ming Sam visited the grave on the hill
side, and came back to lie by tn
hour watching the sleeping dsrliags
Little by little farmers began TO re
slize that their property was undi7
turbed. Little by hgtle Sans whea
grew and wsxed golden, and thel
there came dag when man iron
Frisco came and changed it into
) heavier gold-moJe gold than San
had ever seen before. Ard the farm
ers began to step in to see Sam, an(
their children came see to his, and kind
women we're unusually kind to tn'
orphans and ,as day by day Sam tooi
his solitary walk on the hillside, the
: losd on his heart grew lighter, Until
he ceased to fear the day when ne
! too, should lie there.-CdS.f"T'''0
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DxxrxR AND HIS OLD OwSEE -
The Chicago Tribune says it IS uAdGI-
.,ood that Mr. Faweette, the weii-
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