The leader., 1900-10-31
TIGER" DAY.

Last Wednesday, the day Sells
and Gray's show was here, brought
an unusual number of blind tigers
to town, some of whom we're
quite bold However, all did not es-
cape the just penalty of their lawless-
ness. Alec. Graves, white, was caught
selling by Marshal Hurst and on be-
ing arraigned before Mayor Daughtry
Thursday morning, was fined S25.00
and costs and given a 80 days job on
tho county farm.
Late Wednesday night Constable
Hardy Magee made an unusually good
haul. VIM. Bowling, tiger of the mi
gratory tribe, was pounced upon at
that time and his whole stock in trade
captured by the Constable. The
aforesaid stock in trade consisted of a
valise containing 20 half pint TASKS
of red eye, and a box deposited at
Henderson & Turnbough's stable, con
tanning 100 ditto.
Lanier, Monday morning, there was
such a dead sure case against him
that Bowling plead guilty and threw
himself on the mercy of the court,
which proved to be fine of $50 and
costs and steady job on the county
farm for three months. Bowling Lad
no lawyer, but friend -wbc. evidently
considered himself a friend in need
Appealed 20 the court for a modifi-
cs..Ion of the sentence, in so far as the
county farm job was concerned. He
represented that Tiger Bowling was a
young farmer of Pike county, of good
character, that he had wife and four
children, and that this was the first
time he had ever followed a show
around and sold red liquor as a sub
stitute for red circus lemonade. More
over, if he was let off this time with only
fine and allowed to return to the
bosom of his family, he would draw a
dead line on all his meanness and new
er get caught in such a snap again-a
pledge to which Bowling echoed amen
with almost tears in his voice, for at
this stage of the proceedings he was
feeling and looking anything but hi
| larious.
To this pathetic appeal, Judge La
nier thoughtfully responded that it
appeared to be the irony of fate that
it was only the good people of the
country who ever got into scrapes like
this and they were always the ones
who had to suffer; that Lincoln coun-
ty had good convict farm and some
thing had to be done to support it
aud as for this being the first offense
it was his private opinion that the
best time to teach follow to have 6
wholesome respect for the laws of hi:
country was when he first commenced
to break them.
Saying which the Judge gave anoth
er puff to his cigar, referred Bowling
and his friend to the Board of Super
visors, if further appeals for mitiga
ton of his sentence were to be made
and proceeded to fill out a mittimus t
the sheriff.
About this time, Bowling was mott
fed by Constable Magee and Nigh
Watchman Forsythe that he would
Nhave to appear before Mayor Daughtr,
for violation of the City's ordinanc,
and he was soon hustled off to tn,
Mayors Court.
On being arraigned before the May
or, he plead guilty and again threy
himself on the mercy of the Court
which proved to be identically tn
same unstrained sample he had TASTED
over in Justice Lanier's bailiwick
His Honor intimating that long
haired, striped beast from Pike ough
to have had better sense to start wit
than to come to Brookhaven and ge
on the grass of our home tigers.
BY this time Farmer Bowling froI
Pike, like the young man who came t
himself in FAR country, began to r,
alize the truth Of the Scripture whic
says "the way OF the transgressor