Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-20

fancy touches, no sentiment, no
mystery. Was inst one of the old
style, sub head paragraphs. Old
fashioned miner scrubs along on
hard tack and beans, and saves up
u little money TO 20 home and see
relations. Old fashioned assassin
sharpens up knife, old style, loads
old fiinttock, brass mounted pistol;
walks in on old fashioned miner one
dark night, sends him home to his .
relations away back TO several gen
erations, and walks Off with the ,
swag, No mystery there; nothing
to clear up: subsequent revelations
only impertinence. Nothing for
any ghost to do-who meant bust |
ness. More than that, over forty I
murders, same old kind, committed
every year in Calaveras, and no
spiritual post obits coming due
every anniversary; 10 assessments
/ made on the peace and quiet OF the
/ surviving community. / tell you
what, boys, I've always been IN
clincd to throw of Oh the Cave City
ghost for that alone. It's a bad
precedent, sir. If that kind o thing
is going to obtain in the Foot Hills,
we'll have the trails full of chaps
formerly knocked over by Mexicans
and road agents: every little camp
and grocery will have stock enough
on hand to go into business, and
where's there any security for sur.
viving life and property, chi
What's your opinion, Judge, as a
fair. minded LEGISLATOR
OF course there was no response.
Yet it was part of the Doctors sNs-
ten of aggravation to become dis.
cussiye at these moments, III the
hope of interruption, and he con.
. tnucd for some moments to dwell
on the terrible possibility of state
I of affairs in which 4 gentleman
= could no longer settle dispute
p with an enemy without being sub.
l.. icctrd to succeeding spiritual EN-.
/. harrassmcut. But all this digres
4 sion fell upon apparently inattent
!. i've ears.
II "Well, sir, after the murder, the
e cabin stood for long time deserted
$ and tcnantlrss. Popular opinion
+ WAS against it. One day a ragged
/. proSpector, savage with hard Labor
L and harder luck, came to the camp
l. looking for a place to live and {
h chance to prospect. After the boys
Il had taken his measure, they con
re cludcd that he'd already tackled 81
d much in the way of difficulties tina
d a ghost more or less wouldn't be o
a much account. So they sent hin
to the haunted cabin. He had /
IS big yellow dog with him, about n
ugly and as savage rs himself, ant
n tl,. bows sort q concentrated them
e. selves. from practical view point
Ii. that while they were giving III
v. old ruiliau shelter, they wer
helping in the cause of Chylstlani;.
" against ghosts aud COLLINS. The
e. had little faith in the old man. bn
as went their whole pile on that dog
n. That's where they were mistaken.
"A "The house stood almost tire
n. Hundred feet from the nearest cave
&c. and on da!k nights, being in no
vs. low. was as lonely as il il had bee
or on the top of Shasta. IT you ev,
he saw the spot when there was lu'
as moon enough to bring out the lit
ed surrounding clumpS of chappar'
an until they looked like conncctln
Id figures, and make the bits of br
:cl ken quartz gliStcn like skulls, you
begin to understand how big IA co
Or, tract that man aud that yellow &c
Ike undertook.
Tx. "Thcy went into possession TIL
mt afternoon. and old Hard Times $
re out to cook his supper. When
al. was over he sat down by the 81
,ut bcrs and lit his pipe. the yellow d'
living ut his feet. Suddenly IRA
rap. comes from the door. Con
ut in SAYS the man, grutfiy. IRA
II again. Come in and he Id
sed YOU says the man, who has no Id
Of getting up to open the do'
But 10 one responded, and the ne
ace moment smash goes the only sou
pane in the Only window. Sect
this. oiti Hard Times gets up, vi
Ter. the devil in his eye and a revol,
or's in his hand, followed 10y the yell
lew dog with every tooth showing, a
all swings open the door. No G
nld there. But as the man opened
in door, that yellow dog, that b
ID a been so clipper before, suddenly
, a gins to crouch and step backwa
n n step by step, trembling and shIy