The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1881-09-08

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fselines. have always tSied . make
e pleasant for the m0usuesB. Whoa
Mayoe 6tockley's fhthe9-Who after
ward buried-iost . little boy and VA
speaking Of Mn. 6tockley's distress,
I Recommended the adoption Of little
one Of the same age belonging to Mn.
Ward, Whom I buried, too, and sure
enough they did and he grew mp BE-
side Mayor 6tockley. and distinguish
ed himself In Mexico until I buried
him some years ago. You know q
great many commit suicide that no
body knows anything about but the
doctor and undertaken. Many . one
I've buried no one knows but me 70
this day they had the rope arUund
their necks. / used to always carry q
crooked needle to sew up gaGhee In
threats Found II handy to have
around. One lady-very rich and ele-
CANT she was, and had IN A No. COT.
fin when she died-showed me her
husband who had just cut his throat,
and said, oh, what shall do?' Dor
said I, - commenced TO sew up the
cut and put . clean shirt on him, Don't
tell living mortal, for it's my expert
ence that II you tell anybody . secret
you might ~ well put II In the news
papers don't tell . living mortal and
TIN he all right And sure enough Il
was. His own brothers don't know
to this day but that he died q natural
DEATH"
HORSES AND GHOSTS.
"GhOsts, did you say? Do under
takers believe In then? Fiddlesticks I!
But strange things happen. The most
curious thing IL the horses. It's very
common for horses to refuse to pull .
dead body. I remember one time one
Of our best teams had Just started of,
when they stopped trembled, stuck
up their ears. and wouldn't bulge one
inch further. Coaxing was no use,
they wouldn't 60. We had to take .
team out of . hack and put them In
the heArse. II was q child that time,
but another time the same thing hap
pened when We were burying q man
and his wife together"
With this the conversation closed.
uC O1u 0ICW hktA1SCII "
his fullest height, listened to the
words Of parting shouted through the
ear trumpet and bowed his visitor
out.
With age he has lost none Of the
urbanity peculiar to him In his sturd-
lest years. Constant intercourse with
grief often assumed has shaken his
faith in many things. Half q century
Of hand to hand familiar intercourse
with the dead has given him . quaint
pensiveness mixed with q peculiar
grim humOr.
Careful habits leave him in COM
plete possession of all his faculties,
except that of hearing. One can still
imagine what he was I'm his best days
when it was said that Billy Moore
looked more truly mournfuf than all
the other mOurners put together.
Among the many stories told about
him il this one concerning the ceme-
terry, the name Of which was some
times jOcularly applied to him in the
appellatiOn, Of Laurel Hill Moore.
After scores of years of constant fu-
neral attendance, it is related, Mr..
Moore was called upon to Officiate at .
wedding Of relative. In his long
black coat and longer face, with his
hands crossed before a. usual, he stood
ready to nod for the carriages, as soon
as the minister had finished. One by
one the carriages came up. With q
slow step and look of resignation Mr..
Moore escorted the bride and groom
down the steps, and a. they sprang in
and the driver cracked his whip, the
oh svaot1ou,au tho .,,IsuU hal,;t c~,o-