News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-03-19


would term our envirOnments-h have
| developed some unique candidates for
the favors Of the dear people. Among
these was a man Of considerable native
wit, one Arch Worsham, commonly
known by the nickname Of "Pegleg."
Among other positions to which he as
pired was that of legislator. Many
lien at many times have found or
thought they had found many devices
for catching votes-have promised all
sorts of things to all kinds of people,
hoping thereby to win them and read
their titles clear if not to mansions in
the skies then to good fat Offices. But
"Pegleg" concocted a scheme star
Ting in it's originality and pregnant
with gorgeous results if only possible
of fultillment. Perpetual motion would
not be a marker to it. His platform
was this: That if he should be elected
to the legislature he would have a law
passed to the effect that the eastern
half of the Mississippi river should
run north while the western half ran
south, so that his constituents could
indulge in the amusement and bust
ness of latboating both ways the year
round.
Whether his constituents doubted the
capacity of the Missouri legislature to
suspend the law of gravity don't
know, but for some reason "Pegleg"
failed of election, and consequently
both halves of the great river flow
southwark and finally commingle with
what Senator Vest POLITICALLY denOmi-
mates 1.-THE seething waters of the sun
lit gulf"
AS a stumper "Pegleg" was bold
and breezy. Among other stunning
propositions he enunciated was this:
That he could demonstrate beyond all
question that Pike county had 100
county judges. and here is his modus
proband: Judge X is one, and Judges
Y and z are two naughts, and one and
two naughts make 1000. e. D." 1t
is safe to say that by this method of
reasoning, which may be justly called
the "Pegleggian" logic, more counties
than Pike have in the course of human
events possessed at one time 100 coun-
ty judges.
A Duel With Rifles.
It's an accepted saying that old sol
dters like to fight their battles DER
again. Consequently when l run across
a veteran of the civil war interrogate
him as to his experiences during that
10 II,
tory.
Everybody about Washington knows
General John B. Clark, Jr., universally
called Young General John B. Clark"
tn distinguish him from his father
who is always denominated "Old Cen
eral John B. Clark" Young John B.
was a Confederate brigadier by the
time he could sport mustache, was
ten years member of congress, six
years clerk of the house and for many
years has filled a high and responsible
position in the treasury department.
preserved man.
Not long since | ran across him at a
place where we both had some leisure,
and to overcome his natural modesty
and to induce him to talk of his mill
tary life l said, General, were you
ever wounded during the warp yes;
several times" he replied, land the
worst | was hurt was by a wound in
the groin from spent grapeshot which
neither broke the skin nor drew drop
of blood 1t made black spot about
as big as a walnut which suppurated
and kept me in the hospital several
months.
"At Lexington, Mo-, l received a
wound which did not disable me in the
least, but which made me bleed like a
stuck pig and which came within
Georgetown Craze of nipping my mill
tary career in the bud. 1t is amusing
to recall it now, but if the bullet had
gone two inches farther to the right l
would not be here to tell the tale.
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