The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-11

| tE3@ H/aSAV MS4I WDtl' tn'Tc WcF,
| .WSIEaAA'ESN more than fouI
G&scSS.stss1Sy& passengers the hi.
ySSSsscsfs. mud wagon WA
IssfcE put on" Thi,
2yssgeS;tsfd&1-s' WAS II buckboar,
:.ssSS.Sf day, for thcro was
| not "A sinulc PASSENGER. What WINS more
To the pplni, ~ the Gold Butte MIniu9
Company regarded il, WAS that under
the drivers scat was box with ten
thousand dollars in the newest of new
| tens and twcntirs in it.
| The driver had looked very blue when
he drove his four mustangs from tho
| postntlicc where he took on II very flat
leather ba", whlc', spoke lou,lly of the
incauacity or disiucinatiom d the
Thim,lr Spring people for letter writing
over to the railroad station, whcro he
was To take ON the box. Things were
roing all wrong at home. That was why
his brown face looked 80 haSgard; that
was why he hcld so loosely too the
"liucs;' that WAS why he Chcwcd &c
hard on the bit oi "plug' in his mouth.
"Such hard 8cratchln' I never seed
| aforc" wuS what Ic lal sail - hc
| had listl,;,ly thrown the mal-b In. inie
| thu WAGON; "cau't rit no dcccuk job now.
adlya. Nnlhin' ter be he'd Ivy prn,pcr:
| in, tried thrt time an nuin; cf | ~,
| anythIn% il peters out inside OF week.
| mirht make II strike over tcr Sand
| Gul'rh but ITS u lony way or, an me N
| Sac an tlr kids hcH moved SO often at
we can't raise n",hin' ter move Oh now.
| Why in Sam IIill did Sue hrv ter rit
| that rheumatic jos now, when we" so
| hard mp, un iLurc she wrancI the baby2
| its II Shame. Why cant Bin cit some.
| thin ter do? --Srr,L big, lunk hcalod
CuSs. Ef he'd II brother, poorer crow,
dye think l'd 90 an live on him, an'
live ON him, till char waru't nuthn' tcr
cat in the house. Sho, ZACH Springer,
you're blamed fool. Bill haiu't done
that. He ain't tor blame fer gittin' his
leg broke that timc. Bills all rignt, but
hos onlucky. Been tryin' fur u month
ter g>a inh, an can't git in nowhere.
lic'a within ter work. He'd stan croch-
deep in the creek all day long wasl,in
out taliu's CT he could make his salt at
il. Tried il for six wcrhs an didn't git
enough to buy pair o gum boots.
Whoa, l'uckskin!
And then the box was taken on, md
the express a%cnt hal somcthinG T." say.
That "Sumcthmg" was not to Zach
Spriu%rr'a liking. llu chowcd harder
than ever on the bit of plug, and sawed
the hard mouths of the mustangs by un
unnecessary yankin!s OF the rcins. 1t
was II positive relief to bc able at last TO
| whack his lash down upon the sides of
Al
| for tho forty mile run to Gold Butte.
why had he uccLcd lecture from II
hirclin" of The express company, and
| why should that smooth iowlcd n..cut
| have looked Ut him with such dark sus-
| picion!
"'rhry think cos got stood up down
Ter Black Rocks las time l had big
load q S"fd, thct nccd to bc preached
To every time so out now with full
box. ld IKE ter SEQ one ON 'rm hand
lin tho rIhhnua whcn tlmr's :, Wiuchas-
| ter iu"kin' ut 'rm with an eye ~ biz, IA a
bari hcad. Can't tell IN" they w"uldn'L I
| give in, The sweet Hccn,cd, calf skin
| booted young lndicsi Thar amt m,.ln
among 'cm.
Tarh Sprin&cr'r iudiSu,tion WAS now
IN more r"nplvtc possession uI him than
had been hiN feeling of blucncrs little
earlier. What hr lih delivered himself
of lust now WAS not whut he would have
said hai Ia voiced his true sentiments
with reference 10 thc cypress nSont 5
lecture. In between the words rau the
Thought, tiIat "thcy" bad SuSvH~tcd him
| ut hrvir,, i hanI IN the E,rk Rock ;
robbery. II h;l cone to nim before IN
| wh&t he cHl'Cd Il "irit handed" way, and
he had had other outbu,sts OF righteous
indig nation, bit u0ne in which tho up
henval was SO great as tiGt Of the pres.
cut. llnd That hccn the reason tie, stage
J company hai cut down h;a pay To ''aiv.j"
month? The chanccs were that IL was.
| It Was too blamed iucJu tor lot OF
>Niuc, hike th.c people, To- come il st
nSh hmIcdly over poor nE,a who ont
wawt"l his owr. Wouldn't it scrv,
thcm ul>r !i"hl, ii
ThG white duSl al the desert ROLLED VI
Iruu the MUSTANGS, boots IN little puiiS
aud sprays "t II, pnw'Icry fine, followed
tho turn al the whrrls halfway up, thsr,
To hc caught 10y the hrCcI. and driftC,
| behind ~ lou, C'n,rl tina; followed tn,
| buck board Tx" Il l"tuutIn" Spi,it. Some
time, - the light breeze shifted, it came
hlr! Ip"u the huchboard and lis driver
like i,.tvy thoughts ON the conscience %
= !;u.liy mnu.
II ""3id .,rvc them mt rightl b.,
%@c' HAT, only think ten thousand
WHAT would the people down in MeXic,
or Guatemala, where he would fly, kno,
OF care il somebody up in r-otf Ncyad
had dumped . box OIL Iii. blackboard an,
gone back and got it after II few days
maybe Il wcckt IL would have to he
dark might, wouldn't it? You couldn'
g" and get Il box like thu, III the dnv
time and take il anywhere, for the Who'll
country wou,d bU out look ii.n for In
man who had it. Maybe month. Tina
| would be better. 1t would nll blow owe
by that time. Lets see, would it? Tc
| thousand was good deal. Those stage
stoppcrs were always striking the box o.
the wrong day. They never got SO niue