The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-10

tWhood ! began to find partisans,
And this bitterness became more in
le1Se. Finally, when only three
Ftnlles from BOwman's, whose farm |
WQlld reach first. came upon 8
Nuad" close beside the highway,
swGh woman smoking a cOrncob
tile on the do0rsiIl. l was passing
lN9ha nod when she, called out:
ss Arter Bowman or Jordon. stran-
d as{SA's-z-@ss.Ai. sss, s.ssssH
FkNeither one," l answered as l
cahe to stop.
'Nhen who might you'un be ?"
IN only traveller"
War de ye speak from ?"
'"Th north"
"Doyclaim From way up north !
And Wat might you'un be doing
down yte?"
"Oh, lam travelling around bit
among tn farmers to see how they
get alongA
She was moking the dried leaves
OF some plant, and l presented her
with a new Aipe and some Irregular"
tobacco. Tntgift highly pleased her,
and she gav me the doorstep and
took log AMI said:
'Im glad b meet up with you
reckoned you might be gwine down
yam to mix in with the fussing.
Heard yesterday that the JOrdOns
had peppered Dan Williams power.
fully bad. Dan sticks for the Bow.
mans. ye know"
"Can you tell me the cause of the
trouble between the two families ?"
"Kin /! Wasn't mem the ole man
right thar when it headed out
Sartin, L kin tell ye. 1t was at AN
auction down by Miller's. Bowman
bid on a bureau, and JOrdon bid on
the same. Both got mad and neither
would back down, and the crowd
divided off in two parts, and directly
thar was fuss and the sale was
broke up and everybody got bad
bl0Oded."
V "How long ago was that ?"
Nigh ten y'ars. reckon"
"And has anyone been hurt? ?"
~ nKta, hi hnI a.,
duzen killed and all of twenty hurt
ed. My ole man has got a hunk of
lead in his shoulder on account of it,,
and mebbe you'un has noticed this
scar on my cheek ?"
"Yes."
"Well, / was a sittin' right whar'
you'un is now one afternoon a year
ago, an some one fired from that
bush over yam to kill me-"
"But why ?"
cause he'un was for BoWmans
and we'uns is for Jordons."
Don't you think it foolish to keep
up a quarrel which started about such
a trf1e ?"
"Then why don't the Bowmans
give in?"
l had been directed to stop at Bow
mans for the night, and [ reached
the farm about 5 o'clock in the after
noon. A boy 10 years old, who was
posted near the house as a sentinel,
gave warning of my approach, but,
as il was seen that | was stranger,
my reception was not hostile one,
although Mrs. Bowman and her two
girls regarded me with distrust for
time. The father aud oldest son were
hOeing corn a quarter of a mile away,
and when they came up to the house
at supper time / saw that each had
shotgun. The family as whole,
were far above the average in intel
leet and manners, and the first parlor
organ had seen in a month was in
the paIlOr. Nothing was said about
the Jordons until after supper, when
all of US sat down on the grass for
smoke and talk. Then l began il
myself by saying:
sis it true that man named Dan
Williams was shot by the Jordons
yesterday ?"
"Then you've heard of the Jor>
dons ?" queried Bowman in reply.
"Yes. The trouble between you
two families is known thirty miles
away"
"And who do they say is ahead p"
asked the son. Tom, as he drew him
self up,
"They don't say anything about
that. They say you are keeping
people away who would like to settle
here and help clear up the county.
They say you must be queer folks to
keep up a quarrel like this over an
old bureau worth two or three dol
lars. They say this quarrel is the