The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-24
THE ANDERSON INfaEL, LIGtENICER.

q lays thss that : : had had been brought up
almost under the shadow of the
.statehouse; that I had written up
many Q police court, and that I did
not believe I had more Of an attrac-
ton for lightning than any one
else, z i'lss -.
He grayely shook his head. tsYou
perhaps did not know" said he, /
that what is law in this part of
the state may not be law in other
parts. This division OF the state
has q peculiar local right, ceded to
1T at the time Of the Louisiana pur-
chase. He had me there, and I
could say nothing. "We get many
of our ideas from the French, and
while they may appear ridiculous to
the more Anglo-Saxon arts Of the
great commonwealth we-Dut' there.
IL no use arguing with you. T may
explain, however; that persons con-
victed under the scientific code are
rot sent to the regular state peni-
tentiary, but to prison down on
Bayou Long, It is rough place,
and / regret. to see you go there,
but there is no need to express sym
pathy."
Before direct sentence ia pass
ed" spoke up an old man who had
hitherto said nothing, "let us see
IT there is not some way Of saving
this man. There is among the old
statutes which we were permitted
to take from the French a clause
which says that when man has
been convicted under the scientific
code he may be saved by some rep
utable young woman, who shall
come forward and offer, to marry
/ him. Now, who knows Of wom-
an who would be likely to marry
this man p"
. We are obliged to you,n declared
the prosecuting attorney, springing
to his feet. I'VE can save him. /
know Of woman" He wrote a
note and gave it to Toy. ssPresent
this to Miss Lily May field" he said.
Lily! That wasn't bad. Better
to take a lily in all her glory than
to toll in q prison, and GO I waited.
We had not long to wait. "Here
She il" said the prosecuting attor-
ney. And then there stepped into
the room the most hideous creature
IahaYe ever seen. a nightmare put
upon its feyerish mettle to portray
the horrible could not produce q
more repulsiye being. L grabbed my
hat and darted through the door. /
did not look back when they yelled
at me to stop, I did not look back
until 1 had run more than mile,
but at every jumpzI could see that
horrible woman's face. IS
'isg II. a year later + was in Nashville.
The Legislature was in session. One
evening in a street car I heard
two country Representatives talk
ing. oh, yes" said one of them,
"old Bob is full Of revenge. You
remember that a newspaper roasted
him for something during the last.
session. Well, sir, I'll tell you what
lio l So Ilu I'LL Ine paper tailed, you
know, and one Of the fellows that
had been connected with it went
out on stroll, and he strolled down
into old Bob's neighborhood. The
fellow didn't know Bob, but Bob
knew him and saw hin. passing by
and put up a job on him. And luck.
came his way, for the fellow went
into Q barn, and just then the barn
was struck by lightning. I forget
how they worked it, but they ar.
rested the fellow, who was consid-
cradle of Q greenhorn, by the. way,
and carried him through some sort
of q trial and pretended that they
were going to make him marry q
woman, but she wasn't a woman,
but 9 man that had been fixed up /
for the occasion. Well, they say
that fellow skipped through the
door when he saw the thing that
was to be his wife and ran mile
without looking back. Yes, old Bob
is full Of revenge