Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-06-13

paper. Civil suits must be filed in
the inferior court clerks Office twenty
days before the term. Dabney, Tor
rance approving, decided to have copy
and process of the last put in the hands
of the sheriff, with instructions to
serve them upon Amerson on the day
of the appearance of the advertise
ment of the other in the Southern Re-
corder
There is a curious combination of
cowardice and bravery in men like
Amerson. 1t seems wonderful what
risks they will take when considerable
moneys or other stakes as precious are
at the end of the perilous roads they
undertake to travel. There seems
some degree of insanity in their au-
dacity. Amerson had learned to stand
with apparent calmness before out
spoken, severe, angry condemnation
of some of his practices, and, when it
was over, turn away and go about his
other business. 1t was the unexpected
ness of the civil suit far more than
the newspaper advertisements, that
made him pale in the presence of the
sheriff For moment he was thrown
off his guard; yet in another his long
white teeth appeared behind a sardonic
smile, and he said:
''Old saying, Mr.. Ennis, when it rains
it pours; but | think I'll be able to
show the people of Baldwin county
that it isn't anything but shower
after all the laundering. don't know
what made my father give me the big
gest share of his property, unless be-
cause he thought I'd take care of it.
l don't know that you know it, Mr..
Ennis, but Hannah knows that have
been always ready to allow, and allow
more than she could have any lawful
right to calculate on. Cullen knew it
too, before he died, that, being my own
brother, couldn't but think heap of.
But it looks like, now, that she just
simply wants to bother me and perse-
cute me, when she knows perfect well
that there's no woman / think more of
than her, being as she is my own and
only brothers widow. 1t looks rather
hard, Mr.. Ennis"
"Of course, Mr.. Amerson, you under
stand my persish, which I'm simple
officer of the court, and isn't supposed
the case"
Certainly do, Mr.. Ennis; aud you've
been sheriff long enough to know that
often where there's great cry there's
mighty little wool, as I've no doubt
you've heard the expression. I've al
ways respected you, Mr. Ennis, as a
man and as sheriff, not to say any
thing as a friend. Occasionally, L
wouldn't undertake to say how often,
it's been my pleasure to help you in
your election and other times and
things, in trifling little ways, we won't
say how, it not being worth while. l
hope that next time they won't press
on you so hard. But if they do, I've no
doubt you'll know who are your friends,
and that they'll continue to stand up
to you. Good morning"
Yes, he made point always to have
the sheriff on good terms with him.
In the case of this one, who in his too
yielding indulgence to defendants in
execution had several times been ruled
for not having the money in court,
Amerson had come to his rescue. ....
Yes" soliloquized the official after
he had turned away, you has holp me
sometimes when you kncwed wasn't
any danger, although, which you don't
believe / know, you voted ag'ins' me
when first got in, and you'd "a done
y apain last time, eXceptin' you see |
had the field. Go long, Vile Amerson.
! You've been dodgin' and bamboozlin'
the hounds 50 fur. Go long"