The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-04-04
The Second Book of the Chro
CHAPTER I.
THE THREE WICKED BRETHREN.

1HE IHREE WICKED BRETHREN,
In the days Of the reign of Ulysses
the Great King, who ruled over the |
mighty Nation of the West, there arose |
out of the land Of Tar and Turpent,ne,
three men of Belial, of great stature and
rotundity, and mighty in their own
conceit.
And the name Of the one was Timo-
theus, who was surnamed ''The Bald"
because his head was bare from his
birth, like unto the palm of his hand,
and he was political acrobat from his
youth up. His cheek was of brass; his
legs of spring steel; his back of whale
that he could leap more political high
fences, and fall squarer upon both feet
in the camp Of the enemy, than any
other man that lived in that generation
Now, Iimotheus was Hubite, and in
those ancient days, when Ulysses was
captain of the hosts of Abraham the
King, there was war in the land, and
| the Hubites sent armed men unto the
King. to fight against his enemies, even
| many companies, with guns and swords
and horses and chariots, a great multi
tude sent they him, like unto the sands
Of the sea; and they placed over them
| captains Of thousands. and of hundreds,
and of fifties, and of tens, to go with
them into battle; and these were mighty
men of valor. Now, Timotheus was
| captain of tens in the ninth company of
| the Hubites. On his shoulder was
| blue coat with brass buttons; red
sash was girded about his loins, and he
carried sword and looked fierce-for
| the enemy were yet many days journey
| away when he thirsted for their blood
and their spoil.
| But it came to pass on the second day
Of the eleventh month, in the first year
of the reign of King Abraham, that the
two hosts met and pitched their tents
over against one another for battle, and
behold it was night, and darkness
spread over the land as blanket-that
they could not distinguish one from an
other So they laid themselves down
and slept, and when they rose on the
| morrow for battle, 10 Timotheus wasn't
there for he had gone On long Jour
ney upon urgent business In the way
they had come, and they wist not that
he would return, for he had been dis
missed the Kings service! So they
chose from among them a captain in his
stead, and he was known among THEM
no more forever.
Now in the fifth year Of the reign of
King Abraham, in the fourth month,
and about the twentieth day of the
month, the hosts of Abraham the King,
having overcome all their enemies, were
, assembled in certain place in the land
Of Tar and Turpentine, and they were
resting from their labors, for peace had
been proclaimed, and there was to be
; no more war in all that land. And
about that time there came forth from
, the assembled multitude of armed men,
one of giant stature, arrayed in the garb
of camp hummer; and he lifted up
! his voice and spake. saying:
"LEAvE NE HAVE TIN DOLLARS p
: And they knew him for Timotheus the
sutler; who was also the father of then
that were called carpet-baggers in those
days. And he abided among them.
And the name of another was Loge
who was also called "Coon," because
: he hasted to "come down" when thu
assembly of people looked darkly upor
him in the Temple of Justice where h'
!, dwelt, so that he died, politically; an(
q it hath come to pass because there wa
: none to bury him in the tomb of hi
u fathers, that he walketh to and fro ant
l up and down in the earth to save fu
neral expenses, doing evil continually
even unto this day.
And To- be is a daisy from way
:; back!
And the name Of the last is Ralesch
y surnamed Up-at-t -tbe-Church, becaus
e he afecteth piety, and prayeth there G.
his knees all day Sunday, and on hi
l. neighbors all the rest of the week
J.; Moreover, unlike David the king, q
a. the threshing- of Oman, the Jebu
n site, he taketh that which is not hi
d | own, and offereth burnt offerings with
=; out cost.
Now it came to pass In his salad day
when he was green-when the elder
K down, that sweet forerunner of the tog
Of virilis. was yet a stranger to his lip
D. that he grew bucolic and joined hin
self unto the Home Guards Of the Ian
in which he then was, and, lourneyin
e unto the camp of the men of war take
a. in battle, he was set to guard the sicl
:, the wounded, MANNED and dying of th
u enemy who were lodged there, less the
ur raise up their legless trunks and cray
r. upon their empty bellies unto the cam
of the army of King Davis and devor