Arizona republican., 1897-10-03
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 HIT AND MISS CHAT.


The passing of Judge Constantine \ Buckley Kilgore of Texas, so soon After the death of Senator George of Mississippi, calls to my mind a good story which went the rounds in Wash ington year or two ago. Senator George, typical southerner, had the true southern contempt for the letter R. Like Senator Daniel of Virginia, a door was a dough" to him, and t'ho''' always did duty for floor"
 Senator George appeared at the door of the house of representative one afternoon, wearing his celebrated coon skin cap and chewing a generous quid of plug
 Here boy" he called to a page, Hook in and see if MT. Kilgo' is on the f1o'''
 The page, who knew the senator and his peculiarities, disappeared behind the green leather swing doors. In a minute or two he returned. ''Mr. Kilgo'," he said, looking straight into the senator's eyes, isn't on the flo. He went out of the do about fo' minutes ago, and won't be back befo' fo'.''
 sHumph,'' said the senator, and he walked away.
 'sYou didn't do a thing to him, did you said the smiling doorkeeper to the unblushing page.
 
 There is man in the county jail whose career is a striking illHstra- ton of the far reaching effects of in temperance. He is confronted by a term in the penitentiary and the pen alty I believe will be g punishment inflicted for sin Of the third or fourth generation back He is charg- ed with forgery against which he has no defense. The proceeds of his crime were less than S10. Though he had plenty of time between the com mission ana the discovery of his Eime to escape he nude no effort to L6 so. He is a man of much more than QFdinary intelligence and experi- ence and knew that his capture would be attempted. But from the time he cashed a forged check until he was arrested several hours later his path way was blazed and when he was finally overtaken he did not seem drunk, but regarded the coming of the officer as something he had expected. met him in jail the other day and he told me story much of which is cor roborated by persons who knew him at another time and under other cir cmmstances. He did not tell it as one who has something to gain by the telling, such as the creating of sym pathy, setting up a plea of eXtenu- ating circumstances. He did not urge that he was drunk and remembered nothing about it, a common but in effectual plea. especially of murderers
 Said he, "I know what I did. For myself alone I would not. care, but I have wife and children You've asked me why I didn't think of them before I forged that S6 check. Well. I thought of nothing only that I could get whiskey by forging the check. I don't know whether I thought of my self then or not. I may have done nso. I may have known that the end it would be a term in the peni-
 Nary or I might have been cer- tain of hanging or hell. That would not have stopped the forgery Then he told his story. He was a victim of hereditary alcoholism and so was his father whose different environ ment in town where he had lived from boyhood had preserved him. IheH WHO Hdu SIONn up WlUn nlm from boyh0od had checked him and he is now a trusted municipal official still liable to fall if left alone, but always watched by friends and sus- tained. The candidate for the peni- tentiary did not know what ancester had contracted the disease of alco- hol. His father had not and his grandfather had not Tt may have come down from the next preceding generation, or the one before and still 'i he himself would be within the scope of the scriptural curse.
 But to begin with himself. He was warned by his fathers affliction and