The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-02-07

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brutal and ignorant minds, was the
greatest crime of which any man could
be guilty they could not receive with
respect the religious teachings of the
old man. T. was known that Het Ma
goone's hatred was due to the fact that
Ella Peters had rejected his advances
and that her father insisted that the
ruffian should cease his visits. Despite
the encouragement of these rebuffs the
fellow would have kept on had not
Strong Dick Bradley led him to one
side one day and told him, with much
of his old time vigor Of speech, that if
he did not keep away from Father Pc
ters' house he, Dick Bradley, would
consider it his duty to clay him out,
preliminary to which he would "break
his neck like pipe stem."
This particular Sunday morning Het
Magoone staggered about like man
who felt himself to be master of the sit
uation and wanted others to acknowl-
edge the fact. He stood in the meeting
house door, and with much profanity
shouted his salutations to the newcom-
ers When the clergyman and his wife
approached, it was thought that Het
Magoone would bar their entrance This
certainly was his purpose, as he after
ward confessed, but the appearance of
the blacksmith on the scene induced
him to postpone action.
Father Peters walked back to the lit
tie platform at the farther end of the
meeting house, and here as was his
custom, he knelt down for silent pray
er, and few of the congregation went
through the form Of following his ex
ample.
As but very few of the congregation
could read, hymnbooks were not used.
The clergyman read out a hymn two
lines at a time, and the singing that
followed, which Ella Peters and her
mother tried to lead, was not very
high order of sacred music. Father Pc
ters adjusted his glasses, cleared his
throat and was about to announce the
hymn when Het Magoone stood up near
the door and called ont:
Hold on thar, Father Peters !"
"What is it?'' asked the astonished
pastor.
"Afoah yo' ans ken do amy NOAH
preachin in these var hills we uns' d
like fo' to know jist how yo' stand, +"
and Het Magoone fondled his rifle as a
mother fondles her child.
This is certainly an extraordinary
proceeding in the house Of God" said
the old man tremulously, but with dig
nifty.
so hit is, continued Het Magoone
''but these har is mos stormy times, ez
every one'il allow. Now, Father Peters,
want you to answer me some ques-
tions. viii yo' do hit?''
Let me hear them.
''Hain't yo' Yankee?" this with a
wink to his friends.
II was born north of the Ohio Il
that makes me a Yankee, - said the old
man with spirit, Il suppose am one -
''Waal, yo' couldn't "a denied hit
without lyin. Now, some of we uns hez
been talllin this ovah, and we allows
that yo' KEN Down here ten year or so
/ ago to play tho spy.
/ THAT is false, - said the old man, his
eyes aglow and his form trembling with
excitement. ''As God is my Judge.
came here with my wife and little one
that might be the humble instrument
of saving the people, What, | ask you
could l spy out that is not Known
1--WE uns know that yer black Re-
] publicanl" shouted Het Magoone, and
/ he added an oath that shocked even hi.
associates
II am not black Republican. II is
! perhaps unnecessary for me to say that
neither in the last election nor indeed
in any election within my memory has
Republican vote beer cast in Laurel
county, KY"
1t was the case of the wolf and the
lamb over again. Het Magoone had
come prepared to worry and humiliate
Father Peters, and the fact that he had
not the slightest ground for his attach
did not change him from his purpose.
/ "Yo'd "a voted the Republican ticket
ef yo'd had chance" shouted ma
goone. Then. with the manner Of mar