The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-19
BLUkE STovALL.

t0pie P. Read. in Texas Siit,nES
 Bluke Stovall lived among the noun tains of a sparseiy settled district. Hi, farm bordered a little creek, following with its fertile points ot rish soil. ths curves of the stream. His wife had beer dead for years, but he lived tn happy re. tirement with his boy ya bright child of ter years reach into human existence. Stov, all was man of some education al least of some reading. tor the old books tn his house were marked by the fingers ol honest search.
 One day, while Ssovall and his son were standing al the rude gate m fronl of the house. shelling corn to lot oi young pigs, Dick Spiliers, an old fellow who lived in the neighborhood, rode up and nodded.
 Wont you light. old man ,'
 Wall, ef do yer'll wish hadn't
 'How's that ?" balancing zn ear oi corn on the fence and regarding the old fellow curiously.
 "Ser know l amt man Q much grammar Bluke"
 Well. you are not thinking of look. ing up a school. are your
 ~Wai, till ge, through. 1in', a man 0 much grammar, and l ain't got no fine way Q git,ln' a, p,nt. SC what I've got ter say. I'll halter say II right out. How long have yer been iivin on this place ?
 Why, my father lived here before me. You ought to know that"
 Vas Wall, and did |, ever strike yer that the ole man didn't hev no title ter it."
 What do you mean! Y
 Tn tell yer. Tuther day when wen, ter town dropped in at the state land office Lookin' roun' over the books l diskivered that this farm was public Ian so entered IL Don, wanter cause yer no oneasiness. Blake, but yer1l halter move off
 "Great God man My father, mother and wife died here. You certainly don | mean to say that mus, leave here ?"
 That's the law
 ID such law. 1 won't go and le, me tell you, if you bring any Of your pre-emption papers around here. I'll hur, you
 Now, took here said old spillers. dismeunting. thar amt no use'n yer talkin' that way Fl yer father before yer, an yer after him, didn't have no more sense than ter negieck this prop erty. wy the consequences must be took. that's all
 You miserable dog yer air a smart man, but I've got the law on yer"
 Do you mean to say tha, you would rob me of my home didn't know iha, there was anything wrong with the title If you had teit the prompilngs of 4 man. you would have come and told me. SO tha, could have remedied the neglect oi so many years.
 "Yss bu, yer sec I'm no, ,ellln' peo- pie 'bou, thelr own bus ness. Thought I'd come over an give yer ~ainin though Here. brat, hole this hoss Ill show the docym.n,s,
 Like the average man of fondes' affct tons. S,osali was also man of violent temper. onaily he would seem ,o be losing all control of himself and then with mighty eifor, he would appear ,o swallow his wrath ~I;h series oi gulps.
  low the most nauseatlng pills bu, when Spilier threw, with an imperative gesture which ignorance and iis twin brother. cruelty. can so readily assume, the brdle reins To the ooy ;nrlstisg insult on hun whlie robbing his father Stovali could no longer s.al.oa his wrath. He sprans over the fence and seized Spillers by the throat. He shoyed him agains, pile Of wood The stomach of great forbearance had los, It's own control. and was throw ing up the non -aigesied morsels of insult and injury.
 Hole on. sasped splllers stop you'll cho eho
 S,oyall showed him over the wood They soth fell The old man $ eyes were starting, with horrible stare, from hls head.
 Don't |, pa.' cred the httle boy.
 S,ovall was s,rangllng ghas,ly titie to real estate. which. ghoul-formed and mercenary, seemed 10 be within his grasp. The old mans tongue came out, and its blue veins. swollen into shocking relief. looked like the blis,ering tracks lef, b, the crawl of deadly serpent.
 |" There" exclaimed Stovall, arising The mex, land office he goes into. the devil ~;.! sha~ him the books. Hes dead Dead--l,ke the wolf ,ha, the buzzards leave in disgust. But, grea, God turning to his terrified son, they will hang me. l will not let them take me Kun over to Iohnsons. Stay there i'll come for you.7
 The tragedy created an indignan, sem sation. A sheriff $ posse secured the country. Once they drove stovan into a mo -ntzin niche, put he shot two men and escaped. His souls ann, nos, was 10 see hls boy again. One night, when the moon Ii, up the leaHess woods, he made his way toward Iohnson's house. He had passed his o~n house, and was nearing Johnson place, when some one met hin-
 Hello"
 Hello
 :. Ina, you, stoval ~
 .Yes that you. Johnson