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The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

dressed in an old hunters coat, with
a seaman's oil skin cap on his head,
d double headed ak on his shoulder.
and a gun slung under his arm. But
the large piercing eyes. even at that
distance, and the tangle of brown
black beard and hair were what riv-
eted my attention and proclaimed the
identity of the man. There could be
no mistake. it was Devil Anse" Hat
field, the man of many murders and
a lifelong feud. His sudden greeting
left no opportunity to introduce my
self. So. l met his demand for my
dog in kind.
Calling Devil Anse's" Blur.
'You can't have him. Mr.. Hatfield.
but l want you. I have come all the
way from Logan TO see YOU"
The silence that followed this was
far from comfortable. The old man
never moved muscle, while those ter
rible. fascinating eyes of his seemed
to be eating out the very heart of my
mystry." Devil Anse" is, of course,
perpetually on the watch for detec-
tiyes and my reply startled him. It
took some little time to gain his con-
fdence after this. However, l had
letters from two of his personal friends,
each an Ex-Governor of West Virginia,
and a show Of these finally prevailed
on him to come down and meet ME.
After l had read him the letters. his
keen, hawk-like eyes never leaving
mine during the operation, he express
ed great satisfaction. greeted me most
cordially, and shouldering a bag of
meal that his remarkable mill had
just ground, led the way to Island
Castle.
The latter is a large plain structure,
scantily furnished. and filed with
huddle of fierce dogs and children be-
sides an arsenal of guns. knives and
hunting paraphenalia. 1t is a desolate
structure, little meriting its title Of
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would hardly cover what he has lost
in law suits and sacrifice of property
since the feud started.
1t must always be difficult for an
outsider to get a rational idea of the
story of the feud except in the vaguest
way. First, there were a couple OF
hogs, then a woman, then an election
a quarrel. anG a murder. BY this time
the feud with it's growing list of
blood thirsty killings and implacable
revenge, was fairly launched.
After the first murder that of Eli
son Hatfield, by three McCoys twenty
years ago, the two families organized
themselves under armed bands that
Were under oath to exterminate each
other the Hattields making raids
for this purpose into Kentucky,
the McCoys into West Virginia.
From the beginning the two
states have taken sides in the trouble,
each successive Governor of West Vir-
ginia refusing TO hand over the Hat
fields to the Kentucky authorities,
while the McCoys have found like pro-
lection at the hands of the Kentucky
Governors.
Thus, when any member of either of
the warning factions is brought to JUS
tice 1t must be through the efforts of
some private detective, working for
reward and kidnapping his victim and
bringing him into the state where the
indictment against him is drawn.
There has been no deaIth of detectives
engaged in this occupation and despite
their efforts fresh murders are every
now and then committed. But the
original feud is slowly dying out
I've been in many a tight corner
and just skinned through. l don't
know how" old Anse said to me- rive
fit a good many people, and would do
the same tomorrow if need be. I've
been abruisin' around a mighty SPELL
and all / want now is to curl up and
die when the natural time comes with
out no mans help to send me of,
neither"
Devil Anse" Tired of the Feud.
As I was leaving Island Castle the
next day, the old bear-hunter took me
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
IN FEUDAL AMERICA.
"DEVIL ANsE" HATFIELD WANTS
TO STOP THE FEUD.

EdcCoys Reply That 1t Cannot End
Until Every Hatfield Who Has In
jured One of Their Family Has
Died-NO One Knows just How
Many Lives Have Been Lost in
This Twenty-Year Fight Between
Former NcigbbOrs-started in n
Quarrel over Two HOEs-"Anse"
HatheId Has Lost $4,000 in Prop
erty, Lawsuits, Etc.-BOth West
Virginia and Kentucky Have Be-
come Involved in the War.
BY Clifford Smythe.
Copyright, 1902. by Clifford Smythe1
Pikeville. KY, April 4.-When civil
ization took up it's westward march a
century ago. it skipped strip of coun-
try on the border line between West
Virginia and Kentucky. The hardy
nountaineers then living there were
descendants of some of the best Vir-
ginia families who forgot in the trans
planting to establish with their homes
the schools and churches their fore
fathers had considered all important.
That is why we have to-day a feudal
America in the heart of an educated
and progressive country-a region
which has not changed materially save
for the gradual degenariton of its in
habitants since its first settlement by
the whites.
One day-now twenty years past
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

When the modes of music change,
morals change and l am sure that the
appeal and influence of much of the
music women listen to in New York
is unhealthy, unreal and disturbing
Mr. Howells once said to me, THE
appeal of some music is infamous
Some other Causes of Divorce.
There is to-day too widespread a
desire for mere sensation. This mood
snatches at physical pleasure careless
ly and ruthlessly. 1t has no faith in
spiritual pleasures. or it does not know
what spirituality is. Men and women
rush from pleasure to pleasure more
for distraction than for enjoyment For
instance, the worst of the bridge whist
craze is that it prevents its votaries
from thinking. But this is precisely
why many of them play. This mood
reverences no sanctities and can even
laugh at decencies.
when our wealth perceives it's duty,
when our luxury realizes its wasteful-
ness, and when faith is discovered to
be knowledge of the spiritual law. then
this love of mere sensation may change
for the love of the life of the spirit.
THE freer habits of life permitted to
men before marriage are a very fertile
cause of family disunion. pleasure
wearied man and fresh girl are not
in the same spiritual class. Her ideals
and his own, even their senses, are so
different, as in time inevitably to lead
to disaster.
1.-The manager of a house of mercy
told me that unfortunate young women
under his care declare that their class
is largely sustained 600 such wonien.
A spiritual defilement destructive of
marriage. is found in these facts, for
which men are almost entirely respon-
sible.
Besides these causes there are many
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Shipping Memoranda.

Pensacola, Fla, April 5.-Cleared and
sailed, steamer Winifred, Armstrong,
New York.
Note.-Capt. Merrill of the barge Ia
Dor, which has been adrift in the Gulf
thirty-two days, arrived here this
morning from Scranton, Miss. having
reached that point on the schooner
Yara B. Roberts, which took him off
the Tabor March 80. All hands aboard
are well. A tug will be sent out to
tow her to this port.
Carrabelle, Fla, April 5.-Cleared,
schr Ira B. Ellems, Pinkham, Boston.
Charleston, S. c., April 5.-Arrived,
steamers Vale (Nor), -, Cuba; Ara
pahoe, Kemble, New York, and pro-
ceeded for Jacksonville; steam yacht
Kanawha, Miller. Havana, and pro-
ceeded for New York.
Sailed, steam yacht NADIA, Darling,
New York.
Pensacola, Fla, April 4.-Arrived,
steamer Granton (Br), Leisk. Teneriffe;
banks Adele (Ger), Langhoop, Algoa
Bay; Titania GtaD, Leboffe, Cape
Town, via Barbados; steamship Nard
(Nor), Enger, Mobile.
Cleared. bark Lincelles QtaD, Melto-
la, Huelva.
Sailed, steamships Betty (AusO, Par
avieh, Venice, not as previously; Ceres
(Ger), Clausen, Troon via Ayr; Neptun
(Ger), Brink, TroOn via Ayr.
Philadelphia, April 5.-Arrived,
steamers Roanoke, Jacksonville; schrs
r. T. Maull, Fernandina; r. M. Walls,
Savannah; Collins w. Walton, Jack
sonville; Mile r. Bohannon, Savan-
nah.
Baltimore. April 5.-Arrived, steamer
Itasca, Savannah.
Norfolk. Va, April 5.-Arrived, steam
ers Waccamaw, Georgetown; Cleve-
land, Savannah; Doris Brook. Perth
Amboy; Earlswood, Port Tampa; Jer-
sey Moor, Galveston.
Jacksonville, Fla, April 5.-Entered,
steamship Westover. Joy, Philadelphia;
schrs Job H. Jackson, Williamson,
New York; Omega (Br), LeCoin, Ha-
Vana.
Cleared, steamship lroquois. Chiches-
ter, New York. Westover, Joy. Phila-
delphia,
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
EXPLOSION FOR RHEUMATISM.
Was That the Patient Didn't Have
to BE Present.

Was That the Patient Didn't Have
to BE Present.
From the Washington Star.
1.-THE blowing up of the Maine is re-
sponsible for many things in recent
history, but 1 know an instance in
which it cured effectually a bad case
of rheumatism" observed a War De-
partment official, land case which
is worth telling about.
1.-THE man cured is Brig. Gen. Fran
els S. Guenther of the Artillery, who
was retired to-day. In January, 1898,
a month and half before the blowing
up of the Maine, Gen. Guenther then
lieutenant colonel, was a member of
the court-martial which tried the IA
nous Capt. o. M. Carter case at Sa-
vannah. There were fifteen army Off
GERS on the court, which was presided
over by Maj. Gen. Otis, then a briga-
der general. Down there, as well as
hereabouts, there was considerable war
in the air long before the disaster to
the Maine.
"A couple of weeks after the trial
got under way Col. Guenther had an
awful attack of rheumatism. His legs
swelled UP so much that he had to be
lifted about, and when he sat in court
they rested upon pillows on a chair
under the table around which the court
was seated. The case got to be so Sc
rious that the War Department sent
an army surgeon down to Savannah
from Fort Mcpherson to attend him.
Now. every one who knows Gen. Otis
knows that he does not have much to
say on any subject. and writes even
less, as was evidenced by his reports
on the war In the Philippines. 1t is
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seem unnatural in any section outside
% West Virginia. But in the south
ern Dart o this state, all roads are
creeks, the road builder having found
1t simpler to utilize the waterways
provided by nature rather than cut
roads through the mountains.
Island Creek may bear some SEM
biance to a roadway in summer, but
assembled it shortly after a. flood in
early spring and for three-fourths of
the distance 1 was compelled to wade
up stream, the water at times reach
ing the top of my waist-high rubber
boots. Here and there are, a few
scatterd log houses and a picturesque
nountaineer, with a muttered how
dy, occasionally slouches along
through the water on some long suffer-
ing horse. No signs of civilization or
wealth are seen except as they are
suggested in the rich seams of coal
that crop out here and there and the
pine timber that covers the sides and
tops of the hills.
At the end of fourteen miles I
reached a primitive grist mill turned
by the waters of the creek. 1t was
an indication that Island Castle. the
home of Devil Anse," was not far off.
The mill is not much to boast of, GER
tainly. Every timber in it bears the
rude mark of the mountaineer's AK,
the only implement, apparently. that
was used in throwing together this lit
tie tumble of logs and planks with their
serene contempt for the refinements of
lathe and plane.
Through the open spaces between the
boards a boy could be seen lowering
about the hopper. where a thin stream
of meal answered to the noisy lumber
ing of the wheel plunging about in The
icy waters below. 1t was a pleasing
idyl to stumble upon after a day of
hard travel, and l stood in the water
looking at it with unconcealed salts
faction. Presently, from right over
my head IL seemed, came the chal-
ienge OF a rough. hearty voice:
Il want that dawg!"
I looked up an shall never forget
the figure standing on the cliff above
me. 1t was man Of middle age.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

into his room, and, at the bedside of
his wife, who was Jest bit dauncy"
QlD, he informed me, made a solemn
request.
Stranger he said, there's no telR
ing when you'll see this ugly face
again, but 1 want you to do old Anse
a favor before YOU clear forgit i'm, jest
for the sake of the bar meat and hon
ey we've ct together, and for the old
oman lying here.
Il want you to go to ole Ran'nle
Mccoy over in Kaintuck and tell him
that / say this here feud is no use to
neither of us no more.
We've fit a powerful spell and lost
a sight of kin and money and none Of
us is the better for it. Tell him l say,
let's quit!
Both of us KANT dodder along here
much longer and while we air here we
mout as we'll have peace between us"
Mrs. Hatfield, the mother of thirteen
Hatfields. most of whom fought in the
feud, seconded the old mans request,
and as ! was on my way to Pikeville
Kentucky where Randolph Mccoy
lives readily assumed the
responsibility of the strange message.
1t would be a benefit to both states if
these two families could become rec
onciled and the bloody feud forgotten
Its continuance has been a great detri-
ment to the counties involved, delay
ing their development and deterring
strangers, oftentimes, from even trav-
cling through them.
But 10 found a very different senti-
ment prevailing with the McCoys in
Kentucky. Trouble has undermined
the mentality of old Randolph. Mention
of the feud excites him and his pathetic
and impotent anger at any discus
sion involving the name of his ancient
enemies compels one speedily to drop
the subject.
1t was, therefore, to his son, Jim Nc
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

others too personal in their nature to
be preached even in as frank discussion
of facts as this paper has undertaken.
An honest man. a church member, the
secretary of a legislative committee in
a state where divorce proceedings were
intrusted to the legislature, told me
that he had heard thousand divorce
cases. In almost every case, as he
heard it fully and freely set before the
committee, there seemed to be a just
ground for divorce. He said, however,
that many of the true causes of divorce
were never published in newspapers.
The newspaper reading public conse-
quently often estimated the grounds of
divirce to be more frivolous than they
really were. Many women (and two
thirds of the divorces in the United
States are granted to women) petition
for divorce on less offensive grounds
than they might in law set forth. They
do this to protect their name and their
children, and to cerate as little public
ity as possible"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
THE CRUx OF COMPOSITION.
1t Is Not Parvum in MuIto, but
Multum in Parvo.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The Records London special CORE
spondent, mentioning that 1.-The corona
ton sermon will be preached by the
Bishop of London-limited to ten min
utes." remarks:
"One wonders, not in idle curiosity,
what can be put into a ten-minutes
discourse, delivered upon so great an
occasion, that will be worth the preach
er's efforts and the listeners attention
and memory"
This is perhaps a natural wonder,
yet, in point of fact, ten minutes is
good while for one who is master Of
his subject. At public meeting in
New York city many years ago, we re-
member, Parke Goodwin made pithy
speech, which he prefaced by referring
to a famous clergyman of the city, then
no more, who used to say: 81 have
found by experience that I can tell
about all know on any subject in ten
minutes" We all remember the anec-
dote of the preacher who apologized to
his hearers sSor the length of his sermon
by saying that he had not had time 10
make it shorter. For our part, m
stead of sharing our correspondent
wonder, we are disposed to wonder, not
"what can be put into a ten-minute
discourse" on 80 great an OCCASION
but rather how, between now and the
day of coronation, the preacher can nno
time to write it. Parvum in multo Is
easily done. ANY writer can do it. Mul-
tum in parvo is feat of intellect. II
takes a journalist or a genius to 90
that.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

compromise between us. He and his
have shot down my kin, and l have
made 1t my duty never to forgive them.
There is no more to say. l have my
duty to the dead. Let the law do its
part. have made myself a poor man
in order to bring these murderers to
justice. Not until every Hatfield who
has injured a Mccoy has been punished
will be satisfied. That is my message
to Devil Anse."
Those who know the man say that
Jim Mccoy will never alter his pur-
pose, and that not in this generation at
least will the final chapter be written
to the Hatfield Mccoy feud. 1t is
strange commentary on our boast of
progress in these United States that
this border land must continue to bear
so unsavory a reputation that few
strangers dare to venture into it.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

coy, that / delivered Anse Hatfleld's
message. In all matters of business
or family Jim Mccoy stands in his
fathers place. He is an excellent
specimen of the strong. hardy, noun
taineer, a man universally liked in Pike
county. Kentucky, where for years he
has been deputy sheriff. He has ten
children of his own, and his genial,
hearty manner seemed a favorable
augury for the peaceful settlement of
this ancient feud. But as soon as ne
heard Anse Hatfield's message every
token of cordially vanished. His ex-
preston hardened, the lines on his face
grew tense, his words were slowly and
quietly uttered, but there was no gain
saying their decisiveness.
You can tell Mr.. Hatfield" he said.
that so long as l live there win be no
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

ohieiuS' APli o'-oaneu' AIis' odNdH-
nah.
Bremen April 5.-Arrived, Inchmona,
Pensacola.
Middles borough, April 4.-Sailed, Am
arantha, Charleston.
Key West, Fla, April 5.-Arrived,
steamers City of Key West, Bravo,
Miami, and returned; Concho, Evans,
Galveston, and sailed for New York;
Arbutus, Murphy, Mobile; Olivette, AL
len, Havana, and sailed for Port Tam
pa; tug Osceola, Norcutt, Tortugas.
Sailed, schr Goodwill, Roberts, Mas
Sau.
Baltimore, April 5.-Sailed, steamship
State of Texas, Savannah.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
Notice to Maripers.

Pilot charts and all photographic in
formation will be furnished masters of
vessels free of charge in the United
States photographic office, in Custom
House. Captains are requested to call
at the office. Reports of wrecks and
derelicts received.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
Freights and Charters.

Brig Jennie Hurlburt, Savannah to
New York, or Upper Hudson river, lun-
Der, private terms.
Schooner E. ]. Berwind, Baltimore to
Savannah, coal, private terms.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
DIVORCE AMONG TIE RICH.
ChiIdIess Marriages often Lead to
Divorce-Music as a Cause.

Rev. Percy s. Grant in Ainslee's.
ut is among the rich-or, at any
rate, in classes above the so-called
working classes--that divorces most
frequently take place.
Opponents of divorce laws not in
frequently urge in support of their po-
sition the many marriages and di-
vorces of certain popular actresses. 1
thing matrimonial habits of actors
and actresses should not be permit
ted to compllcate the modern problem
of divorce. The Kaleidoscope alli-
ances of Miss Blank give the ordinary
sober citizen moral vertigo. He usual
ly knows little about the men whose
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Continued from Fourteenth Page.
Yes.els sniIed Ye.terday.

Steamship Kansas City, Smith, New
York.
Steamship Hudson, Robinson, Balti-
more.
Steamship D. H. Miller, McDorman,
Philadelphia.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-06

Earrings are still the fashion with
telephone girls.-PhiladelDhia Record.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-07-10

Ccrx<1<ot<r<e II Ne BIC c'crc esp foFt
fter. VA. lssv 2-on the evening Of
the Sptb . f5sne, there arose = great sfofn
cload: rising from the southwest, srd
after the roaring OF the winds n the tree
tops sfsr .~ry n rssn'i hat . thought mn
tu the sind as t~iriiag and tristing Tie
trees "a The worst that has bees recorded
Tor A century hi0~lnE trees across the
road. NATL Il = impossible 20 travel horse
back. Aed blown All the fence down
e~sertNAere. ard teelye Of james o~eus
apple trees are down. We hope neVcrtv
have 20 erpesionce sucb a hurricane
aKsin.
Mr. Cooper. representing Oaid Gtocer,
Co, 81 Norton. vas trading With our metz
chants this wee< lie Vas telling "a Of
the good prospects 81 = nice entertain
meat - castleWood aud Big stone Cap.
Frank Routh. Of Lebanon. Represent
ins Hut. Asdre~s aud Thomas Company.
BiusEcit. ". Va. ~as in oar midst Fast
week snd part 81 this. He Vas herc two
days and nights.
ANr. Blake aud Mr.. Jones, &c Raleigh.
\. c.. passed down the other dav with
quite a number Of colored men for the
railroad.
:. u. Sutherland vent 10 Wampier 20
take Acknowledgements 60 some deeds io1
IL. II. and G. Y. kasuate-
r. L. Sutherland. OF near here. ~ea; &c
see bis girl last Saturday morning aud Is
not back yet. We cant see the point
hut probably be can. itdon't seem as II bs
would have 20 20 very often 10 he STAYS %
long ON each irip. nout let ANYBODY get
q Joke or you Linden.
Mr.. and Mrs. ,. Il. Sutherland, OF Bucu
we're visiting their mother aud mother
.n-iaw Saturday night ard sunday.
James Dixon Is having Nc. Hughes
lamher hauled across the mountain 20 th'
tram road.
Mr. MARSHALL Sutherland. OF near here
has gone io Clint0ood to- dive a team f'
BIZ. uucic. ". L. Sutherland. ~ho has re-
GENTLY moved here. formerly of CollY. y d
Baxter MusicL. Of ST. Paul. DO her
working in The coal field. nov ior Hon
". p. Harris he SAWS Do thinks there b
some very good ooni con the boundary
ID. Sutherland Co. sill get ia
hHl OF shoes iuat they bought ct McNii
isn. Haaen a Co. o. fow DAYS ago amount
ing lo &3lf4s this week.. also o. bon
DE-, goods amounting Co $500. frpsrcrii
Boz the country. Luck io thc Post
Oir bL,ls joi
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1902-07-10

Dean swim j. credited Nth "0fesd i
The stat Of life.
n vas Keats Who said A tbias q
beauty ir = joy brewer
aNss proposes. hut God dizposes, re-
msrkcd Thomas a kcmris.
Fraukiin j. Authority for God helps
those Sho help thsmselvesF
n va an observation ofThemas South
esR that "pisy's akin 10 love.
All cry aal no WOOL Is an expression
foaDd IA Buser's "hSai4r@f
~wass Greeks jsiaed Greeks. thea vas
che ting u var. was written bs Nathan
iei Lee.
variety the spice OF lite" aud Net
much the worse Tor ieat" ~ere coined 10y
Co~Pcr.
We are Indebted to coiley c,hter. not
20 Shakespeare, FOR "Riobnsd j. himself
sssiu
Edward Coke. the Esgii-h iuri-l. wa
OK the cpiaiou nat "a mans hcuse h. bic
~cssiic.
Edgar Young tell. rs "Dsaih loves a
shining mark sud "A fool az forty is "a
fool indeed
Charles P'ekncy gave the patriotic sem
iimcnt. millions for defense. hut NOT
eno cent for tribute
~of two c,ls I have choscn thc least
aud "The end must justify the means are
from Matthc~ Prior.
To Milton We owe "Thc paradise OF
fools "a Wilderness of sweets. and
"MoPing melancholy and moanstracl
madness.
The poet Camhoii found chat "ccmiae
events cast thcit hadows before ss'
"Tis distance lends cuchantment Go th'
view.
Christopher Msriurc gave loarih Oh
Invitation so often repeated hF bis hrifh
crs iu a ie.s public utr Glove mf utiio
Iowa me long
30 DE-. johnson hciun1- A e.oi hafer.
and Co MarkIuinsh. in linl. sine nhfa-r
often %sttrihutcd 90 John Rand .inh W.,
and uastcny Inactivity
Thomas 1asscr.a writer of thr siAfrcnt
%ccuarr. said. "lt. au 90 sind tuins u.
gpoa. Better later than newer. L4ok CO.
thou icar. and ~Tho sfrut taff i- rHi.
ing can gather no moss
"First Boz war FIRST qcaDc. spi nr-i i
the hearts OF Dis lcllnu -rifVcrs .nf
"his country meu'. appeared Boo ttc re.a
%iufiaus presented to thc House oi Repre-
scutrtiNcs Boo December. 1893. iY Ucuer'
Henry Lee Selected