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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
Warner Ben's Sister-in-Law Susan

sizin' each other up their eyes looked like four live
Goals and sreaks O. fire shot out of EN- like strikin
steel on flint. They wa mt more than twenty yards
from the cabin, and Susan could see EN- pant and
their long tails swish most as plain as day. They
didn't scrooch there and glare and spit and snarl
at one another long Suddenly one OF EN- give
screech that Susan said made her most deef and
leapin rds each other in the air they bucked in,
and the skirnsh goin on.
Joe, says Susan, tellin him of that night after
they had rescued the calf, that was the first time
in my life had anything to feel sorry fer, says She
WHAT? says Joe. Fer painters?'
Fer Palnters says ousall. ~ course s not
know that sech skirnlish was gon on right onto
his own harthstun',' says she, and that he want
there to it. Pap never got over the disappint
ment of it till his dyin' day, says she.
Well them painters fit and tore each other
around that openin and yelled and screamed in
way that most cheerin' to a ten-year-old girl
all alone in backwoods clearin, and Susan said she
always felt obleeged to them painters, cause she
wouldn't missed it, not fer farm all ready made
an Waltin ter the seed. Sometimes them painters
would stand up like men a-wrastlin' and gnash
away at each other and then tumble and roll on
the ground. first one on top and then t'other I'M
on top and then ron out O sight in the
dark edges O the woods and then bouncin out
agin into the moonlight of the openn, all the
time rippin' and tearin' away with teeth and claws
and yellin' with fury and screamin' with pain.
BY and by in O. their rollin' and tumblin
rounds the two painters come divn and pitchin
straight lords the house and KEEP on comm till
they banged ag in the door till everything shook
and shivered. Then Susan seen that both painters
was slit and tremendous, jest if it mowt been
done with knives, and they was bleedin like stuck
pigs Susan didn't care nothin, about the bleedln
but when she the way the skins slit and cut
she most turned cold
"'Massyful mani! says she. What in under the
CANOPY have | been thinkin about? Them skins II
be sp lied if this skrnsh goes on, says She Unless
somethin is done poorly quick to stop it, them
painter skins won't be worth the shuckin' of EN-
off O. their pesky bonesi I've got to take hand in
this, says she. Ten years old, mind you sonny, and
two big painters madden than fury and gttin madden
'Susans pap's gun hung on its peg ag'in' the
wall. Susan had to turn sap bucket upside down
a bench to stand before she could reach
the gun, she was so little but she got it. The
windows in the cabin want made to raise, so
Susan had to open the door git shot at the paint
ers. They had rolled and tumbled
away from the door, and there they
stood on their hind feet, mebbe fif-
teen yards off, locked together and
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Then the biggest painters ever killed in
think O. the size O. the killed tonight, says
she, it makes ashamed that l woke you up
Joe says she instead O goin out and dealin with
it by myself, says she
And then after awhile Susan she took to laughn
so it made the covers shake and Joe he up and
wanted to know what ticklin of her SO, and she
says to him. Well, when pap seen them two big
painters that had killed at one shot,, says She he
says to that the bravest girl he ever heerd
on And, SUSIE" says he, you'll marry the best
man in the county, says he
Then Susan she took to laughn ag'in and by and
by Joe he says: 'Well?' and he was toler BILE huy
Well says Susan, pap the best hunter in
the district; but as fer prophetin',' says she, he
wa mt worth shucks.',,
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frequent reference among his "reminiscences of by
gone days to his brother Joe's astounding wife
Susan and her accomplishments in dealing with the
contingencies and genCIeS of the wilderness; but
had brought forward tangible illustration OF the
talent he boosted for her. although he had given
to understand by what he had suggested of her
proves that what might be told about her was
much and amazing.
So next morning 1 dropped in Ben at his snug
little cabin He mending a net he used in
catching bait fish, and looked up in apparent sur
prise as | entered.
Why!' said he. Did you to go fshin's
hain't got bit O bait.
"Fshing?" l replied. No; Susan. | want you
to tell something about Susan.
"Susan?' said he, taking his chin in his hand and
gazing abstractedy out of the door, as if Susan was
a subject entirely new to him. Susan? Oh, yes.
You mean my brother Joe's wife!
YES" said l. That astounding girl you said
Joe married.
Well, was there anything particular you wanted to
know about her, sonny"
And the whimsical old dissember drew his brows
together and looked around for all the world as
though he wondering whatever could have
induced the bringing up of the subject of Susan.
The pretense palpable and SO amusing that
/ more than smiled, and Warmer Ben put aside his
work and smiled with me
Why come to think it, said he, with the
twinkle peculiar to his deep-set eyes, seems to me
there was somethin' said about Susan last night,
that's So And | told you about how she got to be
astoundin' even before Joe met her or ever heerd
of her, didn't L? And she only jest comm ten year
old at that? | didn't? Well, that seems sing lar
Ben picked up his net and fingered it in an aimless
way for awhile. To one unacquainted with his ways
it would have seemed that he was bordering on
how it had happened that he had failed to narrate
that incident in the life of Susan; but he was only
thinking it up.
We'll, anyhow" said he, having fully recalled
it, she had got to be astoundn before Joe her
or ever heerd of her. and the beauty of it that
Joe never knowed thing about it, not till they had
been married year more. He wouldn t a knowed
it then either, if him and Susan hadn't got up
night to rescue a calf O. theirn that hungry
painter had come down from the mountains
to levy They rescued the calf and got the pain
ter's hide and talow and after they had gone back
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eTS. 1ney naQ TOlleQ ana Iu1nDled
away from the door, and there they
stood on their hind feet, mebbe fif-
teen yards off, locked together and
tearin' away at each other, as Susan
stepped out; The moon lit 'em up
good and glistened on the gun bari
as Susan run her eye along it fer
second or two and fired. When the gun
cracked, both painters dropped to the
ground. One didn't git up, but t'other
un' sprung in the air all O ten foot,
Susan said, and with a yell that beat
all the rest O. the yellin' she had heerd
that night fell back kerchunk. Susan
trotted out to where the painters laid
and give 'em few kicks to see whether
they was dead. They was. Then she
drug 'em into the house.
Powder and ball was terrible
skeerce in them days, says Susan, tellin'
Joe about it, and wouldn't a used up
any O. pap's on them painters that
night, if it hadn't been fer keepin'
'em from sp'ilin' their skins, says she.
Susan's father didn't git home till
next nornin', and Susan said she was
powerful glad he didn't, cause if he'd
a come that night he wouldn't got
wink O. sleep fer thinkin' what he'd
missed in not seem that skir1nish.
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FARMER BEN BUDD delightful old back
" woods vagabond he was, with his suggestive
sobriquet well bestowed) during an even
ing at the old Buckhorn Tavern had made
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to bed Susan SAID that the painter
didn't begin to be half as big as either
one O. the two painters she killed at
one shot once when she was girl.
"If I'd a knowed that this un'
wa mt no bigger than it was, says she
to Toe, wouldn't woke you up,
but d a gone out and gethered it in
alone, says she.
And Joe he riz right up in bed and
says, Why, Susan!' says he. How
you talk
Susan she didn't say no more about
it, but Joe he couldn't git them two
painters at a shot outen his head,
and after awhile he says to Susan:
Susan, says he, how did it come
to happen?'
THAT | woke you up?' says she,
No, says he; the two panthers
at one shot?' says he.
oh says she. Didn't never
tell you about it?' says she.
why, no, says Joe, of course not
Must a been then that it's cause
/ hain't never thought about it, says
Susan. It's SO long ago, says she
that l most fergit it; but this here
is somethin' the way it happened,
'cordin' to the way it kind O comes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
BOND CASE HEARD
MONTGOMERY MATTER SUBMITTED
 TO SUPREME COURT.
Argument sn the l.. and N.-GFay Case Is C0ncluded--The Justices Hand Down Ten Opin-
 

The appeal of the City Council of Montgomery from the injunction pro- ceedings in the Montgomery City Court, brought against It by Mrs. EssIe L. Reese. to prevent the issuance of the refunding bonds at 1-2 per cent, was argued in the Supreme Court yesterday morning, and an opinion will be hand cd down probably this week.
 Upon this opinion will depend wheth- CT or not the city has the right to issue the refunding bonds for which it made provision some time since. or whether q new issue must be arranged for in order to pay the s460,000 old bonds which mature January 1.
 The arguments, which took up the greater part of the morning, were upon the overriding of Judge A. D. Sayre in the lower court, of demurrers made by the city against the injunction. They followed the concluding argument of Gregory L. Smith in the Gray vs. Lou isville and Nashville Railroad Com pany litigation. over the custer de- cision granted by Judge Sayre. The opinion on this decision may be with held for several days.
 Ten opinions on cases previously sub mitted were handed down by the Stu preme Court yesterday. Tn one, the appeal of the West Pratt Coal Com pany, from the decision of the Walker Law and Equity Court, in awarding e4.250 damages to Richard D. Andrews for Injury incurred by falling from trestle, the finding of the lower tribu- nal was affirmed. Andrews was an em- ploye of the coal company, and in the discharge of his duty, he fell from a trestle, a distance of forty feet to the ground, breaking his wrist and a rib, and injuring his windpipe and leg. Andrews had sued for s10,000.
 In another damage suit. in which Julia E. Taylor had been awarded $4O0 in the Birmingham City Court, on ac- count of alleged slanderous and de- famatory remarks made by Charles B. Allen agent for the Singer Manufac- turing Company. the lower courts tind- ing was reversed, and the case remand ed The original suit was based on remarks made by Agent Allen in a dispute over the amount of a payment for a sewing machine. The plaintiff brought suit against the Singer Com pany.
 Two criminal cases were reversed and rernanded. One was on an appeal of Tut EuBose, from the Circuit Court of Clarke County. who was convicted year ago of the murder of Charlie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
WILL DISCUSS CITY CHARTER Four Municipalities to Be Represented. TO ASK FOR LEGISLATION Mayors to Determine Upon Re- quests to Assembly.
  Bir,ninghRla, selma, Mobile and Mont Eumery E1prcted to Have DeIe- gates at Meeting In City
 Hall Today.

Representatives of the four largest cities in Alabama convene today in the City Hall for the consideration of a uniform charter for their municlpali- ties. and it Is possible they will deter mine to ask the next General Assembly to enact Legislation affecting .every town in the State.
 The legislative committee of the Montgomery City Council met last night and decided tentatively upon what it would urge for adoptionl
 Today's conference will Lc atteadcd by delegates from Montgoineryl Bir- mingham, Mobile and Selma. Mayor George E. Ward of Birmingham. Mayor v. E. Atkins of Selma and Mayor W. M. Teague of Montgomery, 1t seemb sure, will be present, with otha' reBsesen- tatives from each of the Tilu.a ciRalities, and it is probable that Mayor Pat J. Lyons of Mobile Will attend tile con- vention. In any case, however, Mo- bile will have a representative,
 Mayor Ward will preside over the convention.
 It canot be foretold what legislation the delegates will determine to ask from the Legislature. One plan which seemsto be popular is regular classi- fication of the cities so that the gen eral legislation for municipalities can be employed more advantageously. giv- ing corporations an opportunity to en- joy what Is practically special enact ment By this plan, there would be a uniform charter for each class, and the ability of each corporation to reject certain portions of the charter would afford to each municipality exactly the provisions 1t wished.
 The session today is expected to have sa kesult the adoption of report which will embody the legislation de- sired and which will be the working basis of the petition to the Legislature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
A. B. TANNING IN JAn
YOUNG MAN IS ACCUSED OF EMBEz-
 ELEMENT.
Former Clerk of MattOx Cigar nnd To- bRecO Company Arrested Upon Charge Filled by a Surety
 Company,

Arthur B, Tanning, a we'll known young man, connected with some of Montgomerys most substantial families was arrested and committed to the county jail at .5:Se o'clock yesterday evening" charged with embedding funds from the T. J Mattox Cigar and Tobacco Company, a CommercC Street firm. where Tanning was em- ployed for three years as city sales man.
 Two warrants were sworn out against Tanning, before Justice B. C. Young by T. J Mattox, owner of the tobacco company. at the request of the Nation al Surety Company, which was on the young mans bond for $500.
 From all he could learn, MT. Mattox said last night Tanning was the victim If gamblers in Montgomery The to- tai amount of embezzlement, he said, was $511. There were fifty different embezzlements. One of the two war rants sworn out charges the emhezzlc- ment of $19.29, and the other charges Tanning with embedding s1a.53.
 MT. Tanning was in my employ as city salesman for three years and had always considered him a reliable and honest. a model young man." said Mir Mattox. He was prompt in his busi- neHs affairs and he attended to his du- ties as well as any man could have done. About October began to dis cover his shortages. As city salesman he did great deal of collecting in the city. discovered two irregular ties and asked MT. Tanning about them. He explained them asl oversiEhts My suspicious were immediately arous- ed and started in my buggy to set all Of my city customers and ascertain had At once MT. Tanning made a clean breast of his entire shortaRe. dis missed him from my service on Orto- Der 6.
 "The misappropriations occurred dur ing July, August and September, the greater part being done during August while [ was in New York under gamblers. and I have been informed he was ai easy mark for them"
 Mir Mattox said he reported the shortage to the National Surety Com nany. which was on Mir. FahninR's bond. and he was compelled by The terms of the bond 10 swear out tEe warrants for Mir. Fanhing yesterday afternoon when the company requested 1t.
 Tanning went with MT. Mattox and a representative of the surety com nany to tte office of Justice Young late yesterday afternoon and surrendered The warrants were sworn out there and the young man was committed to jcii in default of $150 bond in each case.
 He declined to make any statement when seen by an Advertiser repre- sentative early last evening.
 The young man is 32 years old and has resided in Montgomery the greater portion of his life For a long time he has resided on Randolph Street It was said that he had been recently of- fered a lucrative position.
 Tanning had not succeeded in mak- ing bond at a late hour last night. His preliminary hearing before Justice Young is set for Decembe" %.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
DROWNED IN THE TENNESSEE.
Unknown Man Swimming By Steamer
 When He Sank.

Unknown Man Swimming By Steamer When He Sank. Decatur, Dec. (Special)-A white man who was employed on one of Capt J. N. RIkes' steamers on the Tennes- see River here was drowned yesterday up the river near Bridgeport and was buried there. .".. The man fell into the river and was swimming by the side of the steamer. pole was thrown out to him and he took hold of it and held to 1t for a while but finally let go and sank to the bottom. His body was recovered in short time. Had he held on to the pole he could have been saved easily.
 But little was known Of the man He told Captain Rike that his name was Fred Woodman and that his home was in Indiana. He told others that his name was Stephens and that his home was in Georgia and that he had travelled with circus. The man was a mystery to all who knew nlm.
 An old fashioned fiddlers contest will be given at the Lyceum Theatre on December 3l. Governor Robert Taylor and a number of other noted fiddlers from all sectins Of the country have bee invited to take part in the con- test.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
To Open oklahoma Lands,

WashTngt0n, Dec, Ig.-WIth the ap- proval of Secretary Hitchcock, Commls- sloner Richards. of the Generak Land office, has issued an order to the officials in charge of the sale of pasture and wood reserve lands in Oklahoma to open and announce bids for the lands each working day between the hours of a m. and D. m, and to omit au- nouncing and recording the technical descriptions of the lands for whck bids are made. The object of the or der is 10 facilitate the occupation O. the lands by the purchasers and 1t is expected 1t will advance the olcupa- ton of the lands by at least two weeks and perhaps longer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
NNnrn, wcn.her InurunI.

New Orleans. Dec. 19.--Records in the local United States Weather Bureau for a period of thirty-two years show that New Orleans up to Monday, when a cold wave struck the city, has been experiencing unusually warm weather for this season of the year For No vember the average temperature wal five degrees above normal, the maxi mum at times going above so degrees and for the present month up to Mon day conditions were almost unpreee' degrees shove normal. The minimum for December has been 56 and the max imun IL
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
Jackson. and sentenced to life impris-

Jackson. and sentenced to life impris- | onnent.
 Walter Pittman, negro, convicted of assault to ravish Tiny Collins, q gnegress. In the Monroe Circuit Court and sentenced to ten yeeys imprison- me1t, also secured the right to sec ond trial by the reversal of the Iowor | courts finding.
 The list of opiIiioPs handed down yesterday follows: Tyson, J.: Eagle Iron Company vs. James Ma lone, appeal from Marshal Circuit Court reversed and remanded. Singer Manufacturing Company vs. Julia F. Taylor, appeal from Birming- ham City Court; reversed and re- manded
 Haralson, J.: Peoples Home Telephone Company vs. Charles w. StreIt, appeal from Jeff ferson Circuit Court; appeal dismissed by agreement of parties. Tut Dubose vs. The State of Alabama, appeal from Clarke Circuit Court; re- versed and remanded. Simpson, J.:
 II. T. Young ct ai vs. J. B. Garber. appeal from Hale Circuit Court; af- hrmed.
 walter Pittman vs. The State of Ala bama, appeal from Monroe Circuit Court; reversed and remahded Denson, J.: West Pratt Coal Company vs. Rich ard D. Andrews. appeal from Walker Law and Equity Court; affirmed.
 John A. Bolen, Jr., vs. R. G. Allen. Sheriff. etc, ct all. appeal from Clarke Chancery Court; affirmed Per Curiam:
 FIX parte Emil Ahlriche, petition for mandamus. rule Issued returnable Thursday the 17th day of January, 1907.
 Mobile Transportation Company vs. City of Mobile; motion to vacate judg- ment and set aside submissions; motion overruled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
DEPARTURE OF DIR. McNEiLL
Minister Leavea PrnttYIIle Saturday
 For Mobile.

For Mobile,
 Prattville, Dec. Especial. )-Dr. H H. McNeill who has served the Meth odist Episcopal church at this place faithfully for four years leaves for his new charge at Mobile. St. Francis Street NJ. E. Church, next Saturday morning and will arrive in tifffe to fill his pulpit Sunday morning at il o'clock.
 PrattVilIe church has prospered un- der Dr. McNell's pastorate as 1t prob ably never has before He added dur -ing the four years of his Tninistration here more than 250 members to the church, and leaves this one Of the largest churches In the Alabama com ference. He and his excellent family have many friends here who regret to see them depart. Rev J E. McCann who was assigned to this church by the conference is ex- pected to arrive here Friday from Un- ion Springs, and fill his first appoint ment next Sunday morning. Presiding Elder C. A. Rush was retained here over the Prattville district This church Is considered one of the fortu- nate churches of the conference in se- curing the services of such good men.
 A quiet wedding was celebrated at the home of the brides parents, MT and Mrs. Charles T.. Kent, this eve ming at o'clock, when MT. John Cor don McCrary led to Hyr:en's altar Miss Ila Mae Kent, Rev. E. F.. George of ficiating.
 The home was artlstlcally decorated with holiday green, and here gathered many friends of the parties to wit- ness the linking of two young lives to- gether for the journey of life.
 The bride was tasJefully gowned in sllvery gray silk with lace, and ear ried white carnations and plumosa.
 Friends and relatives crowded about the couple after the ceremony to offer congratulations and Bsod wishes and those kind expressions with the numer- Ous beautiful presents received were evidences of the hign esteem in which tn coupe ere held by their aequain- tances.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20

Electric LSnted dialnS s...s are "A tairS 1,rS Snd DstWsen E9l4tALnSnhtn 1uu New Of- issMs Lebanon and CiAS!hnath also on trains and between SSn cS.. lS"tne'S anu Nsw and handsome chair ears tseats z, NY NY oS.srated on trans ] and { between tlssl oPyI and New OTleanS High back S,nt coaches and chair cars are a.so r9a on ali through trains 6stwstshl SMnnSts MSinia.iis SSsisyiiIiIe' EsshSiiie and New orleonA ,,,,.
 Train No r, carries '9TouSs tn Nsw PooInSns oEIssaa firm firm ,broueh Pullman New York to New orleans No carries through Puilmans .s lsetsI t.ssI,ncinnati and New York to New Or isSns Also through day coach and sleep, eise tnronRh Tourist sleepers to San Fran
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
Ertntn na tthrlntlnn Penrr

st. Louis Dec. 19---A second suit to partition the estate Of the late Christ. Ian Peper. who was a millionaire to- baceo manufacturer has been filed in the Circuit Court by Frederick (. Peper and Christian Peper, Jr. After week of argument at the first suit contesting the will was dismissed last Monday. Frederick Peper and Christian Peper, Jr..e were defendants in that suit, the latter being styled Christian cornelius.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
J. Q. sINGLETARY DEAD.
We'll Known Farmer of Robinson
 Gnranna pnNnAn AnrnY.


 Springs Passes Away.
 John o. Singletary, well-to-do far mer of Robinson Springs. and a man we'll known in Montgomery. died last night at 7:3 Oo'clock at St. Margaret's Hospital, where he went about week ago for treatment.
 Mir. Singletary is survived by his wife and six children. four boys and two girls. His sons are John A. Singletary and Owen Singletary of Montgomery, and Isaac B. Singletary and Willie 2 SingletaTy Of Robinson Springs. His daughters are Miss Lniora Seneletary and Mise Mabel Slngletary of Robin son Springs The deceased was 5s years old.
 The funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2:3o o'clork at the resi- denee of John A. sngletary, zR5 South McDonough street. Rev. J. W. Rein hardt pastor of the Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, will officiate. In- torment will be made at oakwood cem- etery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-20
,Tra, snre Lentls Monev.

New York. Dec. l9.--Mrs. Russell Lands Purchase Company on a piece of property on South side of Wall street just west of William. The mortgage on tho property is at { 1-e per cent due February 1, 1910. This makes Hlearly s7,000. 900 that Mrs. Sage has loaned on Manhattan real estate re- cently