The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-01-09
let him have charge OF buckshot in the

The recorder, n humane man, ordered
the change Of destination in spite OF Mr..
DIS insistance TO the contrary. A
cousin Of Mr.. d. g was a medical student
there. When he came to report to his
kinsman that the fellows superhumar
constitution would phil him through,
Mr.. d. burst into volley Of vociiera-
tons against the cruelty Of heaven at
sparng the miscreant who threatened
his life.
"If they let that niger ont, even for
transfer to prison, am dead man."
he replied.
Then he, knowing how poor his cousin
was and what visions the Young man
cherished Of becoming light Of surgical
science il only he could walk the
European hospitals under Cooper and
Dupuytren, detained him for a whis.
pered colloquy.
The next morning the chief Of the
hospital was surprised to find the robust
culprit show the reverse OF his prognos-
tication over night. In fact, Jake had a
fever, the insignificant "peppering'
mortified, and he was doomed to lose his
left arm. They cut it off. Believing
the manned man literally disarmed, no
doubt precautions were relaxed. At all
events, d., who had been at ease since
the intelligence Of Jake's amputation
and illness, was anew plunged into hot
bath Of apprehension on his cousins ar
irving post haste, before embarking for
Liverpool, with the news that Jake had
Drained the infirmary nurse with his
leg irons, snapped them asunder by re-
viyed strength, and dashed the police.
man at the hospital gateway aside be.
fore leaIiDg into n physicians carriage
and driving of like Jehn.
GOOD bye" said d., silently and
absently to his kinsman. 81 would |
were going with you, but must not let
that monster know nv route.
Indeed, Mr.. D. sold out and disap
peared.
Nevertheless, though no one would
say positively that either ID. or the negro
had been seen by him, public rumor
soon had it that some forty outrages
perpetrated in the next two months,
men beaten in their own grounds, stock
killed and form implements damaged,
were all the work Of the negro, now
called "Onc-armed Jake" and done to
punish those who sheltered Mr.. ID.
Indeed, nearly all the persons maltreated
and injured i'll their property were re-
!ations Of the pla ter or connected with
him by former affairs
Though Jake-if the ogre who terri.
fled the Delta was Jake seemed TO have
taken all the human species III detesta-
ton, the magistrate Of New Orleans
HI GENTLY feared that he was forming q
gang Of outlaws and fugitive blacks.
They redoublcd their pursuits, and lust.
ly, offered 50 900 for one-armed Jake.
The Picayune iQh. office was long en-.
gagged III printing bills, and soon they
shone upon tavern walls, house ends,
gateposts, trees, etc, all over the coun.
try. They were in English, French and
Spanish.
Some time afterward Spaniard named
Jack Bermudcz, having sold boat load
of sea fowl saw one Of these appeti2ing
offers against the pile TO which he hal
moored his skiif by the ferry landing,
st. Anne street.
Six thousand dollars meant the "big-
gest kind of spree" to such II man. He
read it ten times over, from the "mur-
dercr mt large" to the signature Of the
mayor and governor.
"That il good enough for me, he re-
marked "Im on the trail"
Instead Of rowing off. he went with
his old fowling-piece to gunsmith and,
lacking his offer to swap it for II good
new double-barrel piece with most of
the proceeds OF his recent sale, he oh
tanned II weapon more fit for the hunt
ing such dangerous "wild fowl M One
arm Jake. Thus fortified, Bermudez
went seward, with his square sail
spread, into one OF the innumerable
creeks among the Expresses that feed
old Mcschaseba. Father of Waters"
At eve he discmbnrkcd on one Of the
islands, where he hid to tic up and re.
pose, for the wood wns impenctrabe
at night, almost NO by day, from the
thick meshes of the crceper and the
Spanish moss, flashing the cypress and
live oak stems together M If to form nm
enormous raft.
At midnight or 80 pair of haggard
eyes, set deep in face tanned and
stained out of all resemblance to nor
nal Caucasian hue, appeared in the
'hlckct and stared firmly, though fear
fully Mt the first, at the sleeper.
mo, said tho voice, equally strange
as tho aspect OF the face to which it an
pertained, "this is white man, and not
That cursed Jake in bnild or color" and
noiselessly, this apparition stole away in
the chapparal.
The six thousand piasters seemed to
he an attraction for others than our
Spanish man-hunter.
Before dawn the latter arose. with the
instinct of II marauder who never let's
the sun surprise him, and staying his
hunger with mere bite and SUD ont of
his TASKS, looked to his new gnn and
glided into the underground like SER
pent. AT every step he stopped to listen
and peer about him. Soon after he
dropped on all fours and wormed his
way onward. Atlength, hearings sonor-
ous breathing, he proceeded like an
alligator, by dragging himself at full
length.
AT the foot Of n magnolia evergreen.
majestic and hoary with moss which
connected the verdant monarch with the
trees by many graceful garland,
Jake was slumbering. His single hand
held tho butt of huge smoker placed
across his massive chest.
Intent upon his prey. who seemed.
rom his wondrous proportion, a wood.
demon safe amid his liege subject, Ber-
mudez was perfectly unaware Of the
same eyes which had scrutinzed him
over night being now on the glare at
the object of his own bloodthirsty greed.
All at once a reflected CLEAN of sun
light pierced the foliage on high and n
cold Whit of sea-air thrilled the whole
Jake trembled and with one !
bound, in the very act of opening his !
Eyes, sprang to his feet. The Spaniar,