The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-06-26

"'f's run iDF TWO mltt~s NArL
they fetched up ag'in the side 81 q
stone wall and stopped. Bur Hacka-
iiaL Bascom went right on. lie sailed
through the air clear 10 the middle
Of a five-acre lot. and lii on his head.
Now. il wouldn't be natural 10 ex-
pect thar a man o'hisyears, after setch
a night as that. would git up al
tfckled 10 death. and go 70 dancin' q
hornpipe. Mr.. Hackaliah Bascom
didn't git up al all lie laid there till
some of his folks went lookin' 10 see
In what part - the district he Was,
found him. and picked him up.
Tine top Of his head was rammed in
some. and the doctor said the most
likely thing be could do to get Hack
allah on his pins ag'r Was to trepan IT,
so he pricked out a piece o. the skull
and sot an old Mexican silver dollar in
the place Hackaliah got around in
about a month as lively as ever.
One day he went 10 own. While
he WIZ there thunderstorm came up
Hackaliah Bascom had a great way o
setting in one o. the big armchairs on
the tavern stoop. tippin' it back ag'in
a post. an goin' 10 sleep.
The thunder n lightnin' Gidn't pre-
rent him dom this that day he went
TO town, and. besides 30 Uncle David
Beckendarter says. he had been lucky
10 runnin' up ag'in considerable o'the
old stun. He got his chair a little too
close to the ecge o the stoop. ard in
his sleep his head got 10 rollin' over
to one side. and pretty soon the
chair lost its balance and kerplunk.
went Hackaliah 20 the ground, -four
feet below.
The conclusion knocked the silver
dollar ont q the old chaps ;opknot.
and il rolled ou, on the ground. Hack
allah jumped 70 mis- feet. The iirstthlus
he saw was the silverdoIlar. He picked
il up.
~.sizzlin' John Snoderass.' says he
What a clap that was. struck the
bank. didn't itg
They fixed Iiackaliah up al righf,
and he gave The dollar 10 Uncle David
B~eckencarfer. Uncle David gave it ~
me for a birthday present. and I've
had ii ever Since-bGi haven't got il
with me"
The Pochuck chroniclcr paused. but
no one said a word.
a year ago he continued, after an
eloquent sigh. .-Ilackaliah Bascom
made up his mind tibet il would be q
good stroke o. business for HIM totake
out a policy ag'in accidents happenin'
to him. then when the next time come
around for him TO have somethin' hap
pen 10 him he could lay back and draw
So a week. and if he got killed. his
folks would &c, his Insurance money
..He said there wasn't any sort o
doubt but what when he died il d be
OWN Ia an explosion or a collision. or
somethin' o. that sort. and he might
as well make a little somethin' for his
out Of IT as not So lie got .
$1,000 policy.
After that he drove the skittishest
horses he could git. but they always
fetched him home safe and sound.
Billsouzer's sawmill was known 10
have a b-iler that wasn't much safer
than lightin' a match IN a powder mill.
Hackaliah Bascorn took a great fancy
to settfn' in that sawmill day afterday
md arguin' politics.
.One day he didn't go to the mill
for some reason or other. and the biler
busted and killed the sawyer. and laid
for TWO month two men that
hadn't been nigh the mill before
"A bridge fell into the creek. 50 foot
it. one day jrSt as Hackaliah Bas-
drove across Il. He got out Of a
at Bullsnip station one day and
a mile further on the train ran off
he track and smashed the car he was
all to splinters-
"He went out to shoot a chicken IN
Law. John Snavlcy. a n~eighbor
.sked him 10 let him take the gun and
mock the hen over. Hackaliah hand
d over the gun. The barrel busted,
took off four o. ~Snavely's fingers.
"And so it kept goin' all along.
Iackaliah's luck seemed TO have
hanged entirely. Everything seemed
o GO ag'in him. and az last. three weeks
go. he was tool with bilious fever and
led as peaceful as chloroformed
abbii.
"Yes. Hackaliah Eascom is dead. nv !
-ncle David Beckendarter's favorite
rother-in-law. and I'm feelin' mighty
ad about it, Mighty bad. | tell you. :
with sorrow" :
The cash register jingled merrily :
YER the purchase OF a couple Of high :
alls. The manipulation inspected his !
critically in the mirror !.
mong the glassware. Nobody said a .
ord until the man from toward :
rose. with = remark. uttered /,
some pepper in it. !.
I'm feelin' mighty bad about poor. /,
ID Hackaliah Bascom." said he. "but r
Teller might be bowed down with !,
till be doubled up like n jack !,
nife. b. cats. and nobody around !.
pour anything on to il to drown :
- !,
Then he STROBE out and went Po- =
,uckward.-N. " sun. :,
Edison Optimissic. !.
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