The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-04-06
FIFTY CENTS LOST OFFICE.
Lawyer Cheated Bes sss hiaesia es'
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Hard by . seldom traSelee rsan IN
the state which gave "a this esunHy
lis most remarkable presidents 10 an
unmarked grave. Not long ago a
| eler passed over this road 10 : fsmhy
carrr-su Of ether days. and the driver
peiuted on, the neglected spot. AZ
cordiaR to the driver, several stones
have marked this grave, Each has
beer knocked down and broken 10
pieces. but no one ever tried 10 DIS
cover by whom. "A tree stood near
hy onse.p 1aid the man who jerkee
the ws~aher-beatsp relns which guided
the animal hitched TO the rig. aus Il
was hit three time, By lightning. Ths
last time the tree fell. and. a. i was
deader than q mackerel. Il caught IRE
aud burned TO ashes right on the grave.
Then a big wind scattered the ashes''
Nearly . mile had been made before
the driver again spoke. The l%nteriuds
was broken as 70 there Asd been no
stop, relates the Chicago Tribune.
MAYBE he nightnt have been Presi-
dent but the man who came after him
was. Gtup. Funny. what . little thing
in a mans life settles his hash."
Then followed the remainder Of the
story as Il follows here;
s'He stood mighty well in the minds
Of the people when he started out. Nv
erythinR seemed hxed for him 10 20
right ahead. There was . lot Of boy
babies named for him before he ever
rAu for Office. When he used to ride
over this road everybody he met
knowsd him, and he knowed every
body 90 well that he called them By
their Arst name.
r'0ne day he was IN town and met
a young farmer lad. aRd he says to
him, calling him by his nickname: III
you want 10 make four bits Easy - fall
ing OF q log you 60 to my barn, cleaah
out. and curry and saddls my horse and
fetch him in
There was q circus coming to town
the next day, and the lad jumped AZ the
Job. II was . purity hot day. The lad
worked on his fob until helooked, when
he got through. asif he had been doused
in the creek. When he rode the horse
to town the owner didn't know the
animal, be looked 30 sleek and that
fine. The owner made a mount. and,
turning to the LAD. he says: Much
obliged and rode OF, leaving the lad
by the stile-hlock, for everybody TO
laugh at.
"The lad got to be 4 man and had
become a storekeeper in the town
where he had got the NIT from the law
yer. Every farmer In this part Of the
country had bought goods from the
merchant, mostly on credit He had
helped them sell their corn. and osts,
and when the women folks went to
townto trade the merchant always gave
their children . stick Of candy or .
lump Of sugar.
"'Bout this time there was to be
an election. The lawyer had got It
into his head that he would begin hli
political caresr by being elected Judge.
One Of his hackers was . man who
become president of the United States.
"rhe young merchant had KEEP bis
mouth shut All these years, but when
the lawyer began to run for judge the
young merchant hired IN sxtrs clerk
in HIS place IN the store and went out
into the country. There wasn't q
farmhouse where he didn't ssay all
night and when he left IN the ~rserning
the lawyer had lost az many yotes a.
the house had. Purity soon 1t got nsisss
abroad what the merchant WA doing,
and then the man who got 10 10 prssl-
dent Of the United States went to the
young man and asked him what h
meant by Logging against his cssA.
date.
"The young merchant tniA hiu, A.s-
the lawyer had peat him out Of fous
bits, and thereby caused him to lose
. chAncs Of seeing the circus.
The man saw that the young wer
chant was terribly In earnest and went
and told the candidate. A half = dozen
of the e~andidate's friends called q NE
young merchant and tried 10 patch
things up. but be wsuidn't have Il.
Te make it ne longer, when the slsctisn
was ever the lawyer didn't know he had
been running.
"Twict after this the lawyer cane up
again for ofaoe, and the four-bit story
went the rounds again, just as II Il had
been new, and each time the lawyer
got LAID out.
Then the leaders says: 'It's no use.
He'll never do and then they took M
the man who had done 80 much for
the lawyer, and he was elected 10 con.
greSs, and thsn he got TO dsbztin' with
Steve Douglas. ard finally he got to BE-
president of the United States.
"Tbe lawyer quit practice cause the
four-bit story chung TO him like . tick
on q country log. and then he took Il
drinking, and thar was his grave tina,
We passed back yondsr. There's q
heap Of difference tween bis gray.
snd Abe L~incoln's. down At Spring.
field"
At the mention Of Linsoln's name
looked at my driver, but he seemed "a
be wholly unconscious Of haviag telt
a singular story. On inquiry IN III,
little town, which was the end Of the
journey, two old msp eorroborated thu
drivers tale. One sddeat THAT law.
yer had the start u Abe Lincoln, bu,
he lost his gait"