The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-06-26
4 PEACEMAKER.
N. Quad, in Detroit FREQ Press.

virtuous; most always a sinner, as the word
goes, yet holding to some of the command
ments with grip more tenacious than
Christians. L have eaten his hoe-cake and
possum, slept before his rude fireplace, walked
and hunted with him; studied him from all
sides, and yet he is as much of an enigma as
the day first saw him.
One evening, after hard days climb in the
mountains beyond Athens, l camo upon a log
cabin near the road. l said evening because
everything after IL is "evening" in tho south.
1t was about O'clock i'll the afternoon. A
man sat on q log at the door smoking and whit
thing, three children were playing about and
q woman sat on the door sill with elbows on
her knees and her face in her hands. AS L
came near the man looked up and said:
"Howdo, stranger"
The woman slowly lifted face the color of
a sunhower. gazed at me for half u minute,
and then added:
Howdo?"
The children sat down on tho log in a bash
full way, each sucking finger, and the father
pockcted his knife, knocked the ashes from his
pipe, and continued;
MAKE yerself right to hum, stranger. Chill
dren bring the gourd, and you, Jen, hunt upa
bite to eat"
l explained that all / asked was drink of
water and some information about the route,
but he spoke up with considerable energy:
no other place for ten miles whar' they are
fixed to take you in"
demurred and he insisted, and I finally sat
down beside him. We had scarcely begun q
conversation, when the woman looked up and
drawled:
"Say, H."
"W hat?"
Better git yer gun"
',Why?"
"Cause Robinson's coming
Ip m rnuq
next moment came out with rife i'll his
hands. Ae stood OH the log and looked down
the road, and as cast my eyes in that direc-
ton L saw u man leave the road and take to o
tree.
"Yes, that's Robinson" muttered my host
stranger. you'd better Squat Children, lay
low! Jen, look out fur yourself!"
l sat down on the ground beside the log,
while the children took cover on the other
side. The woman never moved.
"Who is Robinson and what does he wantP"
finally asked
elves down on the creek and wants to
shoot me,n was tho calm reply.
HES gittin yer range, Hill" remarked,
rather than exclaimed the woman.
Next moment bullet whistled over my
head and the report Of Robinsons rifle came
to our ears.
'He couldn't hit barn at the end of his
gnnl' muttered Hi, who stood with rifle ready
to raise TO his face.
There was long silence, and then he step
ped down and said:
Guess we'd better go in, stranger. Robin
sons an emery skunk and is probably creepin'
up on us for a clusser shot. JiSt don't mind
us, but make yerself to hum"
Tho door had not been shut to after us as we
entered the cabin when bullet struck it..
This aroused the spirit of the woman, and she
exclaimed:
"There, Iii skivens, didn't L allus say
Robinson was coward :"
Eyes, you alus did"
"And you he got 10 wipe him out?'
eyes, hov faint no use upttin up with
him no NOAH"
"uave you and Robinson been at this thing
very long," L asked, as L sat down.
"Bout three years"
"Its what they call fcud, is it?"
THAT'S tho name, ! guess. I'd have had
HIM twice If my gun hadn't missed fire, and
he's hit me once"
"Only triGo, though" added the woman,
as If would regard the wound as stain upon
his honor.
'T'd like to see the man as could kill popl
eXcloimed the oldest child, girl of 10.
go long, Nancy and take that with you! :"
said tho mother, as she bestowed sound cuff
ON the ear.
Robinson now fred bullet through the
only front window and uttered war -whoop.
Coin TO stand it?' quericd the woman as
she looked over her husband
ON course not Stranger I'm sorry for this
muss. That onery Robinson has took adyan-
tage oil your BON here to raise furse. Don't
blame it on to me-"
/ excused him and asked him for tho origin
Of the feud. lie could not give a clear reason
and after ten minutes argument he consented
to let Ise go out and talk with Robinson. /
opened the door, waved the only white cloth
the woman could find in the house, and soon
after went out. Robinson was behind q tree
across the road.
"Howdy, strangcr?" he queried as 1 camo
up. HAS Iii surrendered?"
When told him that had come to act as q
peacemaler he laughed the idea TO scorn.
Didn't he tell a hull barroom full Of felers
at Athens that he could putme on my baekW
he howled.
"And what elseP"
"Didn't he call me q sassafrax-cheWer, and
make fun of my shootn'!"
/ went back to Iii, and he roared out:
Didn't he brag OF how lac could out-jump
me?"
"What else?"
"Didn't he say we run off durin' the war ?"
/ went back to Robinson, and just as dark
ness settled down L patched up truce. He
was to come into the cabin and talk matters
over, being guaranteed protection. When we
entered Iii sat on the edge Of the bed, rifle in
hand. Tho two men Rlared at each other
minute, and neither tho wife nor children
seemed 20 have quicker heartbeat Robin
son finally placed his gun in a corner, went
over TO Iii with extended hand, and said:
"We'ye bin onery long huff. / know you
kin out-wras3le me-"
eyes we've bin powerful onery," replied
iii, 81 alus knowed you could out jump
me"
"And 7 chewed sassafrax."
"And we run off durin' the war"
That settled II. The wife set about getting
supper, and 1t wasn't ten minutes before Rob
inson was trOttng one Of the children on his
knee and saying:
"Mighty poart youngstor, Iii. Seems to
take arter both Of ye Wife heyin any chills
this summerU
And the pioneer, whose rifle was Mt half
cock and only two feet away replied:
"Puriy far, child, as they run. No, Jen
isn't chiilin' any this sezun. Say, Jim, let's
fix fur a hunt tomorrow. got track of bar
yesterday up yere piece"
And they went oil together in the morning
before L was up
a jealous Mans Crime.
DARIEN, Ga, June 21.-[Special. Joseph
T. Townsend shot and killed Joseph s. Nelson at
Harris Neck about twenty-five miles from this city,
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