The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-28

der the shadow of the state house; that
! had written up many a police court,
and that I didn't believe / had more of
an attraction for lightning than any one
else.
He gravely shock his head. "You
perhaps did not know, Z said he, that
what is law in this part OF the state
may not be law in other parts. This di-
vision OF the state has d peculiar local
right, ceded to it at the time Of the
Louisiana purchase. He had me there,
and / could say nothing. I'VE get many
of our ideas from the French, and while
they may appear ridiculous to the more
Anglo Saxon parts of the great common
wealth we-but there Is no use arguing
with you. / may explain, however,
that persons convicted under the scien-
tito code + not sent to the regular
state penitentiary. but to o prison down
ON Bayou Long. It is q rough place
and ! regret to see You go there, but
there Ii nj need to express sympathy"
Before direct sentence il passed.
spoke up an old man who had hitherto
said nothing, .'let rs see II there Is not
some way Of saving this man. There Id
among the old statutes which we were
permitted TO take from the French q
clause which says that when a man has
been convicted under the scientific code
he may be saved by some reputable
young woman, who shall come forward
and offer TO marry him. Now, who
knows Of o woman who would be likely
TO marry this man?"
1--WE are obliged to you, !" declared
the prosecuting attorney, springing to
his feet. I'VE can save him. I know
OF q woman" He wrote q note and
gave IL to q boy. Present this TO Miss
Lily Mayfield," he said.
Liiyf That wasn't bad. Better to take
a lily in all her glory than to toll in a
prison, and 80 / waited. We had not
long to wait Here she is, said the
prosecuting attorney. And then there
stepped into the room the most hideous
creature / have ever seen. Al nightmare
put upon it's feverish mettle to portray
the horrible could not produce a more
repulsive human being. / grabbed my
hat and darted through the door. / did
not look back when they yelled at me TO
stop, ! did not look back until j had run
more than . mile, but at every jump ]
could sec that horrible woman's face.
Al year later / was in Nashville. The
legislature was In session. One evening
in o street car / heard two country rep
resentatives talking. "Oh, yes" said
one of them, ''old Bob Is full Of revenge.
You remember that o newspaper roasted
him for something during the last SEES
sion. Well. sir. I'll tell Jon what he
did. The paper failed. you know, and
one of the fellers that had been CON.
nected with il went out ON q stroll, and
he strolled down into old Bob's neigh
borhood The fellow didn't know Bob,
but Bob knew him and saw him passing
by and put up a job ON him. And luck
came his way, for the fellow went into
. barn, and Just then the barn was
struck by lightning. / forget how thsy
worked it, but they arrested the fellow.
who was considerable Of o greenhorn,
by the way, and carried him through
some sort Of q trial and pretended that
they were going to make him marry Q
woman, but she wasn't o woman, but q
man that had been fixed up for the 90.
casion. WE'LL they say that fellow skip.
ped through the door when he saw the
thing that was to be his wife and ran
mile without looking back. Yes, old
Bob Is full Of revenge. "-Opie Read In
Minneapolis Tribune.