The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-01-21

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the girl who had swung his team
round the curves, and the miners nod
dcd to each other and winked their en-
tire approval OF Abe's performance,
for this was his speciality.
every decent follow, Abe, but his
talk wouldu't print"
Here Craig paused, as If balancing
Abc'S virtues and vices.
"Wcll," 1 urged, "who is she?"
ooh, yes" he said, recalling himself.
"FShc is III Edinburgh young lady; met
lewis Mavor, n young Scotch-English-
man, i'm London, wealthy, good family
and all that, but fast and going to
pieces at homo. His people, who own
large shares in these mines here, as Il
last resort send him out here to reform.
CUriously innocent ideas those old
country people have of the reforming
properties Of this atmosphere. They
send their young bloods here to re-
form-hcrc in this devils camp ground,
where II mans lust is his only law and
when, from sheer mOnotony, Il man
must bctalIe himself to the only ex-
element of /the place, that offered by
the saloon. Good people in the cast
hold up holy hands of horror at these
goddess miners, but l tell you it's ask
ing these boys IL good deal to keep
straight and clean in a place like this.
l take my excitement in fighting the
devil and doing my work generally,
and that gives me enough, but these
poor chaps, hard worked, homeless,
with no break or change-God help
thom and met! And his voice sank
low.
"Wcll," 1 persisted, "dld Mavor re-
form?"
Again he reused himself.
Reform? Not exactly. In six
months he had broken through all re-
straint, and, mind you, not the miners
fault. Not Il miner helped him down.
1t was Il sight to make angels weep
when Mrs. Mavor would come to the
saloon door for her husband. Every
miner would vanish. They could not
look upon her shame, and they would
send Mavor forth iii charge of Billy
Brocn, Il queer little chap who had be-
longcd TO the MAYORS in some way in
tn" old country, and bctwccn them they
would get him home. How she stood
ii puzzles me to this day, but she never
made any sign, and her courage never
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~ oU"'V' "m' as Sne rs
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thouoh mo oorr,mo moror hioh a,4 ~,
onnnoI onnonIi = oorld homo nad
| oinrL Emo corso of hor misnrr ~ m'ont
for tbr nitv Of II Rnroro rom M "p
v.os hnrn 10 soon,o1 10 n,I nin,ao,r ~
pethcr ror, Inc was ouitn mnn nhomt
hgr. ANA from tho dov tho hohv cono.
talk about iroclns,-rro fhot Ioy
he never DRAM; n dron. Shc onvo the
bohy ovo, 70 linn and tbo hohr sir,nIv
absorbed him.
''IIo was n now man uo oou,d NOT
drlnL whisky and kiss his bohy Ana
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'S l"S' i'Ne my own
lou cail understand thlS, II 10
men WHO nave ilNeu so II IN the
hlouh'"lllS lhaC theN nave forgotten
"li"I Il papE looks IKE, VINO nave had
experience OF humanity onlN IN ITS
roush"S'' louleSt lorlh' inns lttle mite,
S""cI "hu cic"h' WAS ike an anger
,r'.h from hcaN'h, 'le oh"YihK IN all
tll'C plock camp that pound them to
"ha1 was pufest ana Dest III their past
ma 10 see tle lhoillcr ana her baby
ii"uic 'ile liili'erS-oh' III was all beau
II'ul beyond WORDS! Shall never for
G'1 the ShocK got one night when L
lonhd Old ltlcKettS nursing the baby.
N uru''N'n oid beast he was, but there
NC WIS S'I''Hs, sober enough. making
extraordinary races at the baby, who
WIS sr"hplnS ~ ms nose ana WhiSkers
ana cooih% III DllSsiul delight. Poor
Ciu iNlcketlS rocked as Ill ne had been
CHUSll SlcilllnS ana, mlnttcrlng some