The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-02-22
Love versus ! aw.
BY c. B. LEWIS.
Copyright, 1906, by f. c. PARCELS.
BY c. B. LEWIS.

They came face to face as they turn
ed a bend in the rough and narrow
trail leading up the Cumberland noun
tains to Laurel Cove, and both stopped
and stared for half minute before
the young man raised his hat and ex-
cuSed his observation-disclosures. The
young woman blushed, stammered a
reply and passed on, and in minute
the trees and bushes hid them from
each other.
The one everybody for five miles
around knew as Abe Goodman's daugh-
ter Tilda. The other had just ap-
peared in the neighborhood, claiming
to be botanist and naturalist, and
had secured temporary home at the
cabin of Saul Markham. For the last
two years Tilda had been down to
Nashville, ''bein' dedicated" as her
father and mother put it, and was now
teaching the dozen children of the
mOuntaineers in the log schOolh0use
which the young man had passed forty
rods before meeting her.
Tilda had come from mountaineer
stock. Her father was rough, uncOuth
and ignorant. Her mother was I'M
educated and plain. The girl had
lived in poverty, surrounded by pow
erty, and get she was like none Of the
rest. Nature had given her good
figure and a handsome face, and the
time spent in the city had made, what
the natives called, Il lady Of her. The
establishment of the young man, who
had given his name as Arthur Grggs,
was but natural
The stranger who goes among the
people Of the southern mountains is
from the outset a suspected man, and
The first suspicion which rests on him
is that he must be 4 revenue spy.
Revenue men have raded and de
stroyed scores of stills in the coveS
and ravines and sent scores and scores
Of mOonshiners to the penitentiary, but
other stills are brought in, and other
men take the places of those who have
fallen under the ban of the law. 1t
was 50 thirty years ago: it is SO today;
it will be SO thirty years hence. The
mountaineer argues that he is law
unto himself He argues that he has a
right TO live. He argues that where
he has no market for his corn as corn
he has right To turn it into whisky
TO make a market The government
does not argue with him. 1t sends
men into the mountains TO break up
his business and imprison him The
moOnshiner works in secret So does
the government. He depends upon the
honor of his neiShbors not To give
him away. The revenue men coax,
threaten. bride and work in every I'M
derhand way to get an advantage.
The enmty is more bitter than in the
personal fends When the mountaineer
goes down 10 the towns, he is traiIed
about. cross questiOned, made drunk,
If possible. and bis wife or his children
are offered money to bctray him.
When the revenue men send Il spy
mp the mountains 10 nose out and re-
port on stills. he takes his life in his
hands. He may 90 as a buyer of tim
Der or coal or iron lands, as a traveller,
peddler or artist, as a fur buyer,
preacher or newspaper man, but the
shadow Of death walks by his side I'M
I'll lie has proved himself all right. In
that case he is heard of again down in
the lowlandS. In the other case he is
reported as missing.
A botaniSt and d naturalist from
Harvard was what Griggs claimed to
be. and lie was taken into the cabin
9f the mountaiDeer without question
There was DO unGue curiosity about
him. lie was free 10 come and free 70