The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-21

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der the shadow Of tho state house; that
had written up many police court,
and that didn't believe I had more of
an attraction for lightning than any ono
else.
He gravely shook lis head. "You
perhaps did not know" said ho, "that
what is law in this part of tho state
may not be Law i'll other parts. This di-
vision of the state has peculiar local
right, coded to it at tho timo of the
Louisiana purchase. He had me there,
and could say nothing. 1--WE get many
of our ideas from the French, and while
they may appear ridiculous to the moro
Anglo-Saxon parts of the great common
wealth we-but there is no use arguing
with you l may explain, however,
that persons convicted under the scien-
tific code are not sent to the regular
state pcnitentiary but to q prison down
OH Bayou Long. 1t is q rough place,
and I regret to SEQ you go there, but
there is no need to express sympathy"
Before direct sentence is passed."
spoke up an old man who had hitherto
said nothing, "let lib see if there is not
some way of saving this man. There is
among tho old statutes which we were
permitted to take from the French
clause which says that when man has
been convicted under the scientific code
he may be saved by somo reputable
young woman, who shall come forward
and offer to marry him. Now, who
knows of woman who would be likely
to marry this man?''
owe are obliged to you," declared
the prosecuting attorney, springing to
his feet. 1--WE can save him. l know
of woman" He wrote Is note and
gave it to boy. present this to Miss
Lily Mayfield," he said
Lily! That wasn't bad Better to take
lily i'll all her glory than to toll in q
prison, and so l waited. We had not
long to wait. Here she is" said tho
prosecuting attorney And then there
stepped into the room tho most hideous
creature have ever seen. A nightmare
put upon its feverish mettle to portray
the horrible could not produce more
repulsive human being. 1 grabbed my
hat and darted through the door, did
not look back when they yelled at me TO
stop, did not look back until had run
moro than a mile, but at every jump
could see that horrible woman's face.
A year later l was in Nashville. The
legislature was III session. One evening
i'll street car heard two country rep
rcsentatives talking. ooh, yes" said
one of them, 'old Bob is full of revenge.
You remember that n newspaper roasted
him for something during the last ses-
sion. Well, sir, I'll tell you what he
did. The paper failed, you know, and
ono of the fellers that had been con-
ncctcd with it went out Oh a stroll, and
he strollcd 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 OH him. And luck
camo his way, for the follow went into
q barn, and just then the barn was
struck by lightning. I forget how they
worked it, but they arrested the fellow,
who was considerable of n greenhorn,
by the way, and carried him through
some sort of q trial and pretended that
they were going to make him marry a
woman, but she wasn't woman, but q
man that had been fixed up for the oc-
casion. Well, they say that fellow skip
ped through the door when he saw the
thing that was to be his wife and ran a
mile without looking back Yes, old
Bob is full of revenge ''-Opie Read in
Minneapolis Tribune.