The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1899-02-16

Iu-Ab anu N"ldA'u-llh, diAN VIC HtO "SOuO
well. l am 70 years old and my wife
is GO. When we commenced to take
your medicines we were not able to see
after our work, but now she can tend
to her work and l see after my farm.
You can use this publicly If You want
to."-A. ?. Collum, Giddings, Tex.
would manage to find its wav into an
others field and this would continue
from time to time until the two men
became bitter personal enemies. Hhis
friction kept up for a few years would
lead to collision and ultimately to muir
der. | will give one example which
will answer for all the others: Jones
and Smith lived on adjoining farms
and became %estranged by disputes
growing out of damages from breachy
hogs. Mr.. Jones was a vain, selfish
and d|omineering man in disposition.
He claimed and exercised the right to
utilize the public road as a hog pas
ture, and was the owner OF an old razor
back SOW. She was very prolific and
brought her owner great gain by the
number of pigs she produced in a year.
One day Mr.. Smith found her aud her
pigs in his corn field tearing down his
crop. She had been in the field for
two or three days and had committed
| great waste of grain. Knowing he had
no remedy at law for damages he be-
came angry and called his dog put the
hogs out in short order. The weather
was hot and the SOW loaded up with
green corn went home, took collie and
died. Mr.. Jones became furious at his
loss. There was blood in his eye.
| Mount Sinai was stricken from ,he map
OF the world and the ten commands
meuts as well us the moral law were
scattered to the winds By the binding
storm of passion that convulsed his
frame. He loaded his pocket gun and
started on a man hunt. Smith was
found dead the next day and Jones
went into hiding until his friends coulG
get up money enough to go west. Here
were two families overwhelmed witt
grief. Jones had killed a man for {
hog, and sent an immortal soul into thu
presence of his Maker unprepared. Blu.
in two years he returned and submitted
his case. 1t dragged along in court TN
til a new Judge and an Attorney Gen
eral were elected, and the Judge finally
called over the trial docket and asked
"Mr. Attorney General are you ready
to try the case of the State vs.. Andrew
Joncs?" May it please your Honor
we will be ready as soon as l have time
to confer with the prosecutor. Brother
Shyster, are You ready for the defense
If your Honor please, Col. Slicktricl
is leading counsel in the case and vii
not be in court before morning, / would
like the case passed until morning. Thu
next morning the court house was
crowded with people eager to hear thu
murder trial, but the Attorney Genera
rose and said: IF the court please, thu
indictment in this case was drawn BY
my predecessor without a full knowl
edge Of the facts, and the proof show
it was a case of defensible homicide
That being true, by consent of tht
Court, if the prisoner will secure thu
costs including my fees, | will enter
mol. pros. and let the CASE be stricken
from the docket" Thus ended tins lie
gal farce, and one more human life haC
gone ont to the credit of our savage ant
unwise fence law.
But Jones had been very active il
the last election and had a politica
pull. Besides, the widow had found
stepfather for her little orphans. Til,
softening influence of time had drie(
up the widows tears, she had exchang
ed her mourning habit for the mort
cheerful apparel of the wedding gown
and there was reyelry, music and dane
ing in the Smith farmhouse. The pitt
full wailiug and lamentations Of thi
helpless little orphans had ceased t,
fret the public ear. The storms ant
beating rains of three summers has eff
faced all the tracks of the assassin o
the unlucky Smith, and the fckl'
multitude no longer demanded the pun
ishment of the murderer. There vii
be no further investigation and n
more judicial trayesty of the crimina
law in the case until the earth and Sc
shall give up their dead. Then th
books will be open and the Recordin.
Angel will read from the things writ
ten therein. When he comes to th
name of Jones the Judge Of all tn
earth will say; ANDREW Jones, yo1
can take your place on the left han
with the goats and the big and littl
demagouges who enacted the dealt
trap you call a fence law, and all tn
small politicians who have kept it i
force for nearly a hundred years.