Arizona republican., 1903-06-03

The old man-Hackaliah was conIin 77 then-grabbed this end O the wagon tongue and throwed his feet up around it. There he hung. The horses run for two miles, when they fetched I'D agIn the side of a stone wall and stopped But Hackaliah Bascom went right on. He sailed through the air clear to the middle of a five-aCre lot, and lit on his head.
 Nov it wouldn't be natural to eX pect that d man O his years, after setch a fight as that would git up all tickIed 10 death and go to dancin hornpipe. Mr. Hackaliah Bascom didn't up at all. Tie laid there till some of his folks went loolzin' to see in what part O. the district he was. found him, and picked him up.
 "The top of his head was rammed in some. and the doctor said the most likely thing ne could do to get Hacka- | liah on his pins ag'in was to trepan it. ] So he pried out a piece O the skull and sot an old Mexican silver dollar in the 1 place. Hackaliah got around in about month as lively as ever.
 "One day he went to town. While he was there a thunder storm came Iup. Hackaliah Bascom had a great way O setting in one O the big. arm chairs on the tavern stoop, tippin' 1t back ag'in a post. an goin' to sleep.
 .'rhe thunder an' liShtin' didn't ore vent him doin this that day he went to town. and besides, so Uncle David ! Beckendarter says, he had been lucky l in runnin' up ag'in considerable O the old stuff He got his chair a little too 1 close to the edge O the stoop, and in | his sleep his head got to rollin over to one side. and pretty soon the chair lost | it's balance and kerplunk, went Macka- Iiah to the ground, four feet below.
 ''Thc concussion knocked the silver dollar out O the old chaps topknct, and it rolled out on the ground. Hack allah jumped to his feet. The first thing he saw was the silver dollar. He picked it up.
 'Sizzlin John Snodgrass.' says he | What clap that was. Struck the bank, didn't it?'
 "They fixed Hackaliah up all right, and he gave the dollar to Uncle David | Beckendarter Uncle David gave it Co me for d birthday present, and I've had it ever since-but I haven't got it
 with me-
 The Pochucl1 chronicler paused, but
 no one said a word.
 l "A year ago." he continued, after ar eloquent sigh, 'Hackaliah Bascon
 made up his mind thet it would be a good stroke O business for him to take
 out a policy ag'in accidents happenin
 to him. then when the next time come around for him to have somethin' hap pen to him he could lay back and dra a
 $25 a week, and if he got killed, hi.
 folks would get his insurance money.
 "He said there wasn't any sort O
 doubt but what when he died it u D, Iowin' to au explosion or collision, U
 somcthin b that sort, and he migh
 as well make a little somethin' for hi
 family out of it as not. So he got ; five -thousand-dollar policy.
 After that he drove the shittishes
 horses he could git, but they alway fetched him home safe and sound
 Billsouzers saw mill was known | have a biler that wasn't much safe 5 than lightin' match in a powder mil t Hackaliah Bascom took a great fanc to settin' in that saw mill day afte : day and arguin' politics.
 , "One day he didn't go to the mill fo , some reason or other, and the bile
 busted and killed the sawyer, and lai I Iup for two months two men that hadn' $ ever been nigh the mill before. | "A bridge fell into the creek, flft f foot below it, one day jest as Hacka | iiah Bascom had drove across it. H
 got cut of a tram at Bullsnlp static