The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-04
BY JAMES r. GILMORE.
Edmund Kirke.")
Copyright, 1895, by S. S. Mcclure,
Limited.)

to say that the scout was the eyes and
ears of an army. Whenever one of his
scouts returned to camp from an i'm
portant trip, he was required to report
personally to him. ana doubtless to this
may be referred the wonderful pre-
cision with which all his marches and
campaigns were planned and executed.
Through his scouts he was able to see,
as with his own eyes over the whole
extent Of any section of country in
which he was operating.
Bible Smith at Home.
With one of his scouts ! was person
ally acquainted, and he was a man in
many ways, 50 remarkable, that had
he received even the common rudi-
nents of book education ne could
scarcely have failed to acquire distinc-
ton in the civil troubles then upon the
country. 1 met him first at his home
among the mountains OF Tennessee in
the autumn of 1850. Going through
that country on horseback I was one
afternoon Overtaken by a storm, and
sought shelter at his house for the
night. 1t was one of the better class Of
bacllwOods dwellings-what is termed
a double-barreled cabin-a log house
with two rooms on the ground floor
separated by an open passageWay It
was simply. bur comfortably furnished
and everything about Il indicated that
ale was, in the phrase ~ the country.
fright well fOrehanded"
His family consisted of his wife and
three neatly clad children, the Oldest
about years Of age. His wife was a
comely young woman, who could read
and write, and had very thoroughly
STUDIED the half dozen volumes that
composed the family library He could
himself neither read nor write You
see, stranger he said to me- sally
has a. the larnin' Of the family. 50
she says par instead of dad which is
the natural way"
Bibles start ia Life.
soon discovered that he as an
original character. with A talent for
dote that 1 never knew eQUalled. He
regaled me with his best stories till
past midnight and in the course of
the evening gave me something OF his
history, which i will repeat nearly in
his own words, as soon afterwards
took them down in my note book
He was born on a farm not far away
and worked for his father until the
day he was d, when, he said: Dad
aXed me out ter the barn. an tOterin
out a mule brute as had been in the
family ever since Adam Warn't no
higher nor little Sally. he sez ter me.
SEE he. Thar Bible, thar's my last will
and testament Tuck it, an go an
seek yer fOTtdn.
y hedn't nary chise, so I tuck it. an
mOseyed out to seek my FORUM
Squatted down right squav Onter this
dead min. hired my mig Jake q owns
him now, and me an Jake and the
mule brute went to work giike blaZeS.
all but the mule brute, he was too
tarned lazy to work. he was so lazy
had n hire an OK ter help him draw
his last breath Well Jake an me
added acre ter acre. an mule brute to
-fr,frr
7 had a thousand acres and fifty mule
llrutes and tho one day / sez
ter Jake. Jake SCI /, yes SOt a wife.
an re knows what d'Irmestic furlicity
is. ter be shore We has ter keep it
seven miles away, an It blongs ter a
burned ristOcrat; but what's that when
gives We Saturday afternoons an
SUNDAYS all ter yerself. Now, I hahn t
nary furlicity at all; what shall I do?'
Git a wife. massa,' SEE Jake, git a
wife. Saddle de mar. massa, an go
out on a 'splor'n expedition. jakell
look arter de farms while you'rn
away
Now that mig has a head longer
the mortal law. 50 I saddled the mar
an sailed out arter Sally"
He found her and the result was
the double barrelled cabin. and as hap
py a family as might be seen in many
a days journey.
How Bible Fit CIingman.
Many Of Bibles anecdotes were
worthy of record, but I have space for
but one of them. which was in regard
10 Thomas Z. Clingman, the godfather
OF ''Clingman's Peak, and long q
member of both the Union and Con
federate congresses. Go" said Bible,
'iye never yered how 1 fit Clingman,
that pig Wing chap, over thar in west
ern North Carolina. Well, it was just
afore the last election, when We put in
they had a big barbecue down ter
Jonesboro, an Clingman an a whole
lot of EN- went inter speechifyin' ter
kill In the course of Cingman s
speech, he said that Cass, our candi-
date, was a nigger-trader down ter
NeWbern way Chere was one Of that
name at Newbern at that time), an
rw&S in Jail for passin' counterfeit
money an if we lected him we'd hev
ter bail him out ter nougerate him.
couldn't stand tibet nohow. so 1 right
up In meetin' an telled Clingman he
lied like blazes. Well, he stopped short
ter once an aXeG me for my redress -
Address,, said his wife, pausing in
her work and looking pleasantly at
me
..Thet's so, Sally" responded Bible.
81 telled we, stranger. Sally has all the
1arnin' Of the family. I guy Clingman
my name and where l hung out an
shore enough, just after dark. a Teller
TO0e up here with a challenge
y Eible accepted, and as the chal-
Ienged person has the choice of weap-
ons, he chose swords mounted at
''sun up" The next morning. Il had
he said "a drefful smart oX-brute that
Use raised up for my private ridin'
The brute he don't like d spur, an
when We puts one inter him, he'll pitch
head Foremost inter the fust thing he
comes Ter, be it man or beast. In the
morning [ tuck out the cow-horn-ye' d
think Gabriel war a soundin' the last
trump when I blows it-got out the
ox-b1ute, tied a red rag ter his horns,
put or him my wife's best kiverlet fur
4 saddle, an moseyed off ter the duelin'
grounC ClingmGn he was thar with a
second, a doctor an a hull pothecary
store of cUttin instruments, ali waitin'
an ready to make nincemeat Of my
carcass. Soon as he seed how I was
'coutered he up an 'jected ter hghtin'
hui I counted out the terms of the duel
swords Inounted-an' 1 telled him if
he didn't stand up an fight Ike a man.
I'd post him all over the state of North
carolina for a coward. Well. fnerly
he 'cluded ter do ii. So we tuck our
sfaScs. the seconds they gey the word,
Slingman he put spurs into his horse,
an 1 put spurs inter mine, an stranger,
ned better believe when my OK