The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-22

pity, mixed with sarcasm, replied:
LAS Moses made you, l guess Aaron
must have made me-"
81 hearn as how old Aaron made a
calf once, but who'd a thought the
derned fool would ever a found his
way into 81 court house," the bow re-
piled.
The judge decided the boy was a
competent witness, and, on his evil
dencc the jury gave a verdict against
the lawyers client.
have great admiration for the
legal profession, and without an ex-
ception, | think highly of all the law
yers that l know; and will add, con
SlderinG the rascalities with which all
lawyers have to contend, and the bad
atmosphere, morally, they are COM
PEELED to breathe, and the bad COM
pany they are obliged to keep, much
OF the time, | guess they do, as Tom
Rhodes used to say of himself, about
as we'll as mout be expected consider
in
Who was Tom Rhodes? He was a
man, of my bOyhood days. who had a
gold mine; or thought he had, which
was all the same to him, so far as his
feelings were concerned. He imagin-
ed he was rich, and like other rich
men, he gloried in his riches, and
therefore talked Of nothing but his
gold mine. He pretended to have a
little farm, but he paid so little at
tention it, it yielded him next to
nothing: but, all the same, he kept in
good spirits, and looked forward to
the time when he would dwell in a
palace, and his daughter, Narcissa,
would ride in a coach and four, dress
in silks and satins and have more
han1Y hn 50,
of the gals in the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
eXceptin' DR.. JOnes's darters." He
spent most of his time digging holes
in his field, and breaking rocks
"sarchin' for speciments." And when
he came out to old Pleasant Springs
or the Red Meeting House, on Sun
day to preaching, he generally had
his coat pockets so full of rocks that,
as he walked, his half bent posture
would remind you of a peddler with a
pack on his back. The men, seated on
logs near the church, seeing him COM
ing, would begin to frame questions
to ask him about his mine, and to
make up stories to tell him, pretend
ing like they had heard this or that
man, who was skilled in mining, de-
scanning upon the immense value or
his mine Soon he'd begin to unload
his pockets, and from then until the
preacher went Ill anu bCSciI w Oils
children of the Heavenly King" Tom
would be explaining where he found
this, that and the other 'speciment,"
and relating what John Cullers and
Capt. Stevens Che meant McCullers
and Stephenson). and others had said
about the value of each rock, and the
probable wealth of his mine; provid-
ed his specimens" turned out to be
gold. When the others started into
the church Tom would begin TO re-
load his coat-tail pockets and when
he went in, he put on the air of mill
lionaire, and didn't like it at all if the
preached had too much to say about
rich men, they that have riches"
etc. Thought that was a personal hit
at him. He dug so many holes in
the woods, as we'll as in his field, that
peoples hogs and cattle were con-
stantly falling into them; and, so, his
mining operations finally became a
nuisance to the community. About
which time the gentleman from whom
he purchased the land. seeing that he
would never pay for it, required him
to move off. which he did; but always
felt and said that he had been cheat