The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-06-05

T,rGS ordered TO get m
In two minutes / was outside the house Il
/ the hands Of nay cartors. They took me :
a deeply shaded hollow in the hill, ahol
| half a mile distant going east from ScruJ
| mountain. Had the country been Iunge
settled il would have been christ"uad b,
/ some al!owably proflne appela,ion, witt
| lust enough dash of Internal flavor to give i
! .pir, But there had been 40 time at Bul
| Bar for such delicate slaliugs in expression
| They went directly TO the point AMI called j
| "Hclr~ Hollow Roughly dc-criicl it wa
! hole. perhaps half an acre in area, the wal
| on thrgc of It's Irregular side; being oC over
hanging rock Their submits, thirty Of
forty feet in height, were thicl;y screeueC
by bushes Sve in the direction by which
il was entered. there was no sign of the sud
den depression until one came TO the vers,
of the cliifs overlooking it,
said nothing while on the way thither
Any appeal for iustcoor humanity, thought
then. would hc wa I'd on men who were thus
taking the laws in their own hands, more tC
CRAFTY their own brutality than aught else
Call dog mad, raise a hue and cry after
him, and You furnish rare sport for a cla'>
CAD Of any excu for stouing 20 death any
dog, mad or not mai.
That portion of Bull Bar represented by
my six midnight judges and jurors were
hungry for little fun A man had been
called, if not mad, dangerous. They were
about the good work OF relieving their com.
muniiy Of thrtejror, and having some needed
recreation beside.
How, BY an outrage and disgrace, they
proposed putting on me, worse than death
itself
Their fins. act on arriving at the Hollow
was to kiudle fire. The effect of the glare
on rock, brlshand masked men was decidedly
dramatic think the committee We're alive
to such impressions also in their own crude
way, us gathered from despatched
novels or blood aimed plays, for their pro
cccdings were marked by certain delibera-
ton and groteSqrr formality They intended
making night of it also. OF this the surest
e, idence was the gallon demijohn carried by
one of the "commi tee"
4 kettle was placed over the fire Shortly
a re-inou, odor pcrvaled the air Their i'll
tent then Flashed on me.
Tar aud feathers,
II seem, as if the spirit of an event and its
results tor year in advance can be felt by
one in IA single moment SO, as If by flash
of lightning, did see myself thus diSgraced,
set adrift, wandering III that Wretched, hui
initiating plight over til. land, not daring to
enter village or town out Of pure shame, pos
sihy compelled Mt last FROM physical ex-
hailstibn 10 throw myself on the mercy Of
some one and in the end to he pointed at
ever aftcrward rs ono so diSgraced, and
liable, go here / might, to be revealed by
some medde,ome tattler. As saw this, one
instinct and emotion perygde1 me-regenge
on these villains.
! said: Now, men, if you do to me what
| see You mean u DO you'd better Kill me
first, for as sure rs you disgrace me in that
why, and leave me alive, just 50 sure will
spend the rest OF my life in getting even with
Won Maybe don't know you, but I'll try
and find out, anl if | do III have your
hearts blood, every one of you Now be
careful, for it's not such light matter to
start II man ont for life with blood on his
brain, rs you'll start me if You do this thing
To ue'
There was but one reply from the evident
master of ceremonies. That was, "Gagp A
wad of cloth was thrust in my mouth /
que sod at the leader from his height, despite
an assumed bend of the shoulders. | took
him for Long Mac
The party then RANGED Themselves IN line,
fronting me, and one, in n thick, mumbling
voice, proceeded to inform me that The
Committee of Mighty High Binders had
thought it hest for tha good of Bun Bar to
start john Holder out OF it, and also that
for the young mans good and a., Il token of
the committee, in behalf of
the Bar, would present the aforesaid John
Holder with an entire new suit, which they
trusted he would long wear
80 mote it bcm cried all, simultaneously.
The next order was;
Refreshments" And the demiiohn again
Travelled along the line.
The next word was Business" | was or
dered to take OF my clothes
what are you going to do with that
mani The voice was that OF a woman. 1t