The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-27

opinion thUt an this thing called hern-
ism depends on circumstances. When
brave mans cornered he ain,t any
better "a a coward I've butted up
ag,in fortyaeations, and I've legged it
to get ont o the way o shot and she'll :
The boat was moving swiftly down
with the stream. and the pilot was now
pulling the wheel with ali his strength.
then letting 1t tiy around ike Fourth
OF July pinwheeL
"But don't have TO draw on myself
for an argument. was a stars and
bars boy myself. III take one o. your
fellers. as brave a man as ever fought
under the stars and stripes. Dye see
that bank over thar? remember u
day when there was good deal dom
on that bank. 1t was about fou' years
after the close OF the war. and the car
petbag business was hunpin'. The
gineraI idee of a carpetbagger, both
north and south, was low down cuss
without any decenCy whatever Some
of EN- was. But Major Machinery was
different sort. He had risen from the
ranks in the Union army. aud when the
war was over. bein' only twenty
years old, lie concluded to settle in the
south and grow up with the country
after Its; new birth There was lot of
no'the'n officers TUX that fever, and /
reckon they all come to grief.
'"The major bought plantation over
thar. He didn't pay much 10 it, 70 It
wasn't wo'th much. His neighbors
tried to drive him out in var'us ways,
but he was good pluck and refused to
be driv. One day when 1 was pilot o.
the TaIladega we come doatin' down
we're just as were doin' now. and,
rOundin' to. putin her nose upstream,
we tied up Mt u WHAT boat over thar
TO deliver the mail. l wanted to git
some tobaccer. SO l tOle the cap'n I'd
take the mail bag up. He toIe me to go
ahead, and. rOllin' 1t under my arm
TO thar wasn't much in It'll struck
out. l found a big crowd on the blum,
and they fOllered me to the postoffice.
handed in the mail bag. and just then
In walked Major Machinery. There was
one letter in the bag, and that had the
majors name ON 1t. The postmaster
handed it out to him.
That made the crowd mad. One
man said that yO' couldn't expect moth
in better from Yankee gov ment than
to deliver only letters TO- Yankees. The
major, who had seen all the fightin' he
wanted in the late war. Tux his letter
and went out. or, ruther. he was goin'
out when one of the crowd put out his
foot and tripped him. The major
stumbled. but didn't say nothin' He
knowed 1t was intentional but II he
said anything there he'd have to fight
for his life. There was man he had
on his plantation in the crowd and two
or three south'n Unionlsts that had set
tied thar to he under the majors wing.
When the man that had tripped the
major saw it didn't move him to give
'em chance to kill him lie rOared out:
"'Yo' Yankee carpetbaEger. what. a.
yo' mean by carryin' of the mail with
yo'? We don't want no hogs dOwr
yerer
1.-The major whipped ont u revolver
and stuck IT under the mans nose SO
quick that the Teller fell back. and the
moren few minutes when they jam
med the man that woked on his planta-
ton ag'in the wall. aud he hit one of
'em on the head. The Union men tried
to get at him to get him out q their
way. and pretty soon twas Il stand OF
between the two factions. I got out
> the way o the flynn bullets. AS l
was maxim Off heavy man that had
been shot fell on me and knocked me
down. 1t occurred to me that 1t would
be well To- me to lay whar l fell
Ieastaways there's no use to kill
dead man, an / concluded I'd he dead
TO- awhile. till the shootln' was over
Il didn't see nothin' more-I didn't
want to-but the major, heArin' the
fracas, went back, aud lie and his little
gang KEEP the fire eaters at bay TO
some time Then most OF the majors
hackers was killed. AS l was tellin'
yo', didn't see nothin that was goin'
ON till there was notllIn' but few
stray shots left near me; then got up
aud made tracks 20 the boat.
Everybody on board had left the
WHAT boat, and some of 'em had lock-
ed themselves in staterooms. The
deck hands had all tumbIed into the
hold. and the cap'n had hid in the pilot
house run aboard and. seem no
one. run out to the WHAT boat ng'in
and mlooSed the cables. We drifted
of, and, yankin' the engineer out o.
his hldin' place behind the engine,
tole him to be ready for signals as soon
as l got to the pilot house. In half a
minute l was ut the wheel Her stern
was just touchin' the shore when ]
runS TO go ahead. and we steamed out
into deep water.
Putin her nose downstream,
looked back at the scene of the night
and saw the major comm on the dead
run with crowd an eighth OF n mile
behind him, all firm ut him. sig
nailed to stop her and would "a sent
a boat TO- him, but there was no one
to send. When he got opposite us lie
took to the water, and when he reach
ed us one OF the hnnds pulled him in.
"Ha was the wo'st used up man !