The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-15

! At druggists. Ten cents for a trial
 bottle
 Write for book to The Shakers, SC
 Reade street, New York
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 talking and evidently approaching from
 above. Presently q woman about thir
 ty-five years of age with an ordinary
 garden hoe in her hand, followed by a
 boy of fourteen with an ax in his hand
 and small single-barrel shotgun, was
 seen approaching from the direction we
 judged the settlement was. We per
 mttted them to pass unmolested They
 climbed the low fence. The woman laid her bonnet on an empty box after she had set her hoe down, while the boy
 threw his axe over before him and set his gun down within the inclosure.
 At this moment the local deputy and
 marshal appeared and I followed from
 the opposite direction. The woman never uttered word, but regarded us for a moment with as much contempt as felt at being placed in such posi-
 tion. Finally she spied our guide
 standing off about twenty paces. She scanned him closely from head to foot and said: You are the poor, miserable
 skunk that piloted these men here.'
 Turning to me, her eyes by this time flashing with indignation, she said: 1T do not blame you'ns. You are only do- ing your duty, but that miserable whelp wonder Che had gone) ought to be shot
 He got my whiskey as long as would let him have it, and when refused him
 he runs off and brings you'ns here.'
 Do you know him?" Know him! I
 would recognize him if his miserable old head was off, let alone blacked and trimmed with the skin of some sheep
 that he stole!" I asked her name
 You know my name, That white-liv- cred scoundrel gave 1t to you" I as sured her that he had not, but, on the contrary, told us that he was ignorant of it. The sneaking liar! He has been here a dozen times, and owes me now twelve dollars for whiskey" She then gave me her name. I told her it was my duty to place her and her son under arrest and destroy the property At this she broke down and commenced crying. Her son walked up to where she was and tried to comfort her by as- surfing her that they could make liv- ing some other way; that he would go and hire out.
 told her that would take her per sonal recognizance to appear before the commissioner at some future time when 1t would suit my convenience and hers, and that I would pay her if she would return to the house and prepare us breakfast and let her son feed our stock. My unexpected kindness sur prised her, and she commenced crying again, and started to the house on the hill. I sent one of the party with the lad to get the horses, and when they were all gone cut up the copper and worm and emptied out the beer, leaving the barrels for her use about the house when we were gone. While waiting for our breakfast, noticed small &C., count book on the mantel board, and curiosity prompted r1e to examine it's l found the entries made in a masculine hand and accounted for the sale of whiskey, receipts of meal, etc.
 When breakfast was finished and we to the room where had found the book, the only room they had ex- cept shed affair that served the dou- ble purpose of kitchen and dining room, I took the book from the mantel board and asked her to explain it's con .ents. Her statement was as follows: My husband bought the still that you'ns have destroyed from a neighbor whose name I cannot give. He paid about half on it, when he died, leaving ne with six children that you see here lround me. I had helped him about he business before we moved here, and IS I understood it, the gentleman as owned 1t and sold it to my husband lowed that I could continue the busi- less and that the officers would not be likely to disturb me. I told him I had 10 education. He said he would help ne, and he fotch that book and sets Town for me what whiskey he gifts and what others git, and who is entitled to vhiskey when a run is made, on &C., ount of furnishing meal I fatten my logs and get enough meal to make my bread out'n it, but if it was not for the ascals and deadbeats that git 1t on a redit and never pay I could do pretty vell" I asked how much the guide wed her, and she said she thought it vas twelve dollars; that it was "sot'' own in the book. She was especiauv