The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-26
breeding DEsPERADOEs.

BREEDING DESPERADOES.
There is something thrillingly
unique in the manner in which the
great State If Kentucky has gone
into the breeding business. Not sat
i-fied with her horses, Jacks and
berkshire pigs, she has gone into the
business OF propagating a line of pure
bred desperadoes who ought to be
entitled to registration in u book kept
somewhere in Hades for that particu-
lar breed Of ANIMAL. Logan Muir
ply, of Winchester, KY, Is one of
them. He is one OF the bluest of
blue-blOOd cut-throats; not drop OF
that ignominiOus peaceable cold
blood, 80 natural to common mortals,
flows In his royal veins. He was
born while there was "blOOd on the
moon ;" he learned to fight before he
could talk at swaddIing age he tod
died into the back yard, picked fuss
with the turkey gobbler, and in a
hand to hand conflict, to use his own
language, "he cut his gizZard out"'
lie did not go to school. oh no I;
nothing spoils the entire system OF
training the royal cut-throat des-
PrrAdO like going to school. AS we'll
think OF hitching Salvador to a ma
nure cart or Hal Pointer to a milk
registration OF the pure blood of Ken
lucky desperadoes is "the young APP
plicant must never be allowed to go
to school; it might blunt the edge of
his keen villiany." And as for
church and Sunday-schOol-such a
thing would be All insurmountable
obstacle to the entire proceedings.
And Logan grew up a perfect can
didAte for this royal registration. He
skinned the kitchen cat alive to see
IL another skin would grow out; he
threw his little brother in the fish.
pond to see, as he said, "if all puppies
can swim before their eyes Is open"
He was q wicked, wicked bOy-a
beautiful interesting candidate for
Kentucky registration.
He was not like other boys. He
never did know who made him; nor
did he seem to care at all, at all. He
stole because it WAS natural, lied be-
cause he couldn't help it, and was
ready to murder before he was six
teen. And thus he climbed up the
royal ladder of cut-throAt fame and
received his certificate OF registra-
ton" one day after he had killed his
own father in cold blood.
The people of his native heath
hated to see so promising . william
hung, and as the community itself
was too deeply biased in this same
registration business to sit on the
case, and wasn't sane enough them
selves to get up the plea of insanity,
they put him in the Mount Sterling
Jail for safe keeping. Even there his
splendid blue-bloOd qualities asserted
themselves like the keen scent OF the
claimed blood hound when the
wounded stag is nigh, and this
royalty bred gentleman made q pOck-
ct knife out OF an iron hoop aud stab
bed hAlf-bred fellow named Archie
steele to death, because, forsOOth,
Archie admitted that he hadn't got
for enough advanced in the registra-
tiOn business to forget the fact that |
he once knew the Lords prayer. He |
killed another man before the COM
munity OF Mt. Sterling decided it was
time to put on him "the kingly robe"
Of the completest degree of the inner
most courts OF regal registration, and
so last Monday they threw . rope
over his neck and carried him to q
railroad trestle and asked him to be
uuiSk about saying his say.
=. S2Esat g Kentucky Ii the breeding
oAihsSt, and East Tennessee 10 Ike
her.