The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-12-12
WHY ABE RESIGNED.
Political Honors Are a Mockery
and Delusion.5 y


Il hear th't Abe Fendle has resigned
ez constableo' the Lost Crow Barren
deestric', Squire, . remarked the Old
Settler, with a-show of unusual inter-
est in the subject
He has, hayp' said the Squire.
"Wall. faint noways likely th't the
ship O State is gointer be shuck up
much or be slammed and banged agin
the rocks to any alarmin' degree, is it,
cause Abraham liant gointer con-
stable no morcp Is TIL any danger O.
the Constitution befn' splintered,
Maiorp Is the commonwealth.sh alsin,
from center to ei'cumfersnceP"
We'll. 9mebbe not" replied the Old
Settler he 's4ffpze State an the
: Constitution proberly is sailin' plumb
an holdin' stiddy, but FIN all th't |
hear Lost Grow Barren is in the agi-
tatinest state O mind over Abe's quit
tim ez constable th't any deestric'
ever We're. Nobody didn't hex- no dee.
th't Abe were gointer quit. an it
dropped down on the deestric' like a
ton o lead. They don't talk bout
nothin' else. The dominio's APP
proachin' donation. an sign o bar,
even, has had to take back seat. Do
We know Zek'el Glazer O Lost Grow
: Barren, 'Sguirep'
1--WE heerd th't he were man ez
had made his mark evGr thar" said
the Squire
$50 he has, b'gosh!' exclaimed the
Old Settler. Hes made his mark
over thar, and it's mostly made on
notes AM ue@bfttst Eek ell IS
mixed up in this Constable business
him and Gabe Owens an brindle
COW. II were Abe Fendle I'd hev it
out O. somebody's hide fore | got
through with it, or I'd know the
reason fer why. Abe were runnin'
fer constable ten or fifteen year fore
he got elected. Every town meet
in he put hisself in the hans
OF his friends, jest CT regular ez
town meetln kim round, but the han s
of his friends didn't never seem to git
clutch on Abram strong enough to
lit him up an -hifir in the sptfnt
bottom cheer at the constable's office.
So las, spring Abe he stuck himself in
the hans of his friends some more, an
tot en- b'gosht'lmighty. th't if they
didn't snatch him an tumble him inter
bein' constable that time, he'd jist quit
an lay down, an mebby pass down in
sorrer toran ontitnely an dissyp'inted
grave. He tor 'em tht he 'spected
EN- to rally like one man, am show
the t'other side th't some things KID
be did ez we'll ez others, il not more
SO, Wull, they rallied, an that night
ven Mrs. Abram Fendie went to bed
she were a constable's wife an no mis-
take. fer Abram were 'lected. Some
folks said he wouldn't ha' been 'lected
If the man th't were run min agin him
hadn't up an died with appleplexy
fore the lection were over. so th't TIL
want no one to vote fer but Abram
but mebbe that were campaign lie
Abram were lifted clean up an
chucked into bein' constable O Lost
Grow Barren, an | s'pose he an his
family growed lmore'n foot apiece.
Him an his rallyin' friends had re-
j j'icin', an Billy Crunly made a speech
an tor Abe, b'gosh. to go ahead, to-be
just an fear not, pledged but to truth,
to liberty an law. No faver sways
ye, says Billy, am no fear can awe,
2 an hew to line, says he. let the chips
fall where they may Abram said he
would, or else he wouldn't deserve to
hev the right to run his feller-citizens
to the county Jail. an to levy on their
goods an chattels whenever the
statues in setch case made an pervided
called him to his duty, b'gosh, an he
hoped they wouldn't forget it, Abram
were quite stumper. an he made a
speech tibet folks said a mebbe land
him in the sheriff's office, or mebbe in
the Legislature, An now he's knocked
over the bull business an quit con-
stabiin' an Til amt no tellin W at the
eend II be, fer Abram is cut up wuss' n
hog at killin'. Is
eSSN "a - hebHSi Eop AhtAOd up llD
constable business suinpln' bout ~
follers: He had a neighbor. an this
here ,neighbor were achin' to build a
smoke house, but wen he looked the
matter over he found th't he didn't
/ hev no lumber. He had brindle COW,
but no lumber, an ez he couldn'tthink
O. no way th't he KID work his brindle
COW up into the shape O a smoke
house, he done the mex best thing an
give up. the idee O. building one, ez
money were a lcettle tight jist then in
the deestric', anyhow. Long bout
that time 'Zek'el Glazer's wife were
negotiatin' fer blue mereener dress
th't she'd got her eyes on at Jugson's
store at the Barren. Ali th't she he'd
to do to get the dress were to pervide
TUCSON with butter till the dress were
settled fer. Tn want but one thing
In the way o her dom that. an that
were the trinin' obstacle O. havin no
COW. II ahs'a ha' had = COW right then