The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1912-12-05
AWidow sHog
BY NJ QUAD
Copyright. 1912. 10y Associated m
crary Press

ordinances against him, hUt they can
not Ice enforced. The hog Is turned
loose to make the village picturesque.
ana he never quits his job until called
upon to nil the pork barre.
The village Of Stamford had its hogs
aud its E.udhulcs % comfort them. sam
Harris was one of the fifty hog own
ers. and VIXEN ne died lie left his wild.
Ow a house ami lot aud g hog Il
wasut porhcr in a pen, bat a hog
that was running at large around the
streets OF the VILLAGE. II was against
the ordinance for live stock 10 run at
. large. but everybody te,t sorry FOR
Sans widow. ana the hog was not Gis.
turbed. Il Was only when Josiah Flint
was made village marshal that the old
black purkCr was driven Gr 10 the
pound one day. There We're folks that
said It was right and folks that said
1t was wrong, AMI there was SO
much feeling about il that after two %,
three days a public meeting was called.
There was q big turnout, and the first
speaker was Squire Flatbush III,
squire always starts every one Of his
speeches with the landing Of the pil.
grims ana gradually works down.
Abraham Fuller came next Abe had
an undeIivorcd Fourth Of July address
that he had been holding on 10 for sew
eral years. and he had determined to
ring it in on this occasion lie began
with the battle Of Lexington, and hC
got down TO BENEDICT Arnold before he
brought In the hog. From that time
until the colonies won their iudepCud-
ence, liberty and the widow Harris,
the American eagle and that black hog
were sandwiched in TO make a power
ful speech of it, and when lie closed IL
was amid applause Had a vote been
taken then the hog would have been
released, but there was delay of two
or three minutes, and 1t was fatal
Moses Taylor got his feet under him
and rose up and began on that speech
of his about the rise and fall Of the
Roman empire. He had got it off a
dozen times before, and It had always
weighed IA ton. Moses was the only
man who was way up on the Roman
empire, and he knew 1t and made the
best Of It. In eleven minutes he ere
ated and destroyed the empire and
Knocked out the widows hog, and his
own OratOrical effect was decided to be
equal to anything Of Clay's.
Ebenezer SchOolcraft had ranged
himself with the anti-hOg anti-wldow
party. He had resurrected a political
speech he made when General Grant
was candidate for a second term.
Everybody was wondering Just how
he could swing the hog into the
speech. but he did It as handsome as
you please and made IL tell. 1t was
over half hog and had there been n
campaign on it would have elected the
whole county ticket When he had
concluded and sat down with a broken
suspender. there was a general feeling
that the widows hog would never
emerge from the public pound until
the fees had been paid in cash.
1t was then that the prohogs put
forth their last card. They had got
hold of barbed wire fence man who
could take the top off liberty pole,
and be rose up with his ears working.
His speech was n happy combination
of Napoleon, Washington, Judas Is
carlOt, American independence, the
Missouri compromise and the widows
hog, and he didn't give anybody any
time to rest. He was as gentle as
baby and as savage as meat Ak by
turns, and some of his thunderbolts
made the shingles rattle. He was be-
ing paid cash for his speech, and he
wanted to Introduce his brand of barb
ed wire to our community, and his
shirt collar was wilted in the first
four minutes A windmill man or a
sewing machine agent wouldn't have
had one show In n thousand against
him. Every time he jumped two feet
high and came down to bang on the
desk with both fists he lifted two
thirds of the audience off the benches
and when he sank his voice In q whis-
per and softly waved his arms he
melted hearts
There were ten men shedding tears
and feeling for that hog when the man
sat uOWU, anu lOT INO vi lhieo
minutes everybody chewed tobacco
and kept his feet still. A vote was
about to be taken as to whether the
hog should be turned loose and per.
mitted the freedom OF the town the
rest OF his life, or held for the fees
and turned into the pork barrel, when
LIsh Billings came sauntering In.
Lish is always little late at public
meetings, but his opinion goes a good
way.
WED Ike 10 hear from Mr.. Billings
on this case" says the chairman.
But what It isY' asked Lish.
ITS a hog case"
"Who's hog?'
"The widow Harris"
whats your ldeaT' asked the chair
man
81 hain't got none. While you have
been arguing the matter he's starved
to death in the pound. and II there's
any more talk here It had better be
about saving his brlstles"'
Then Josiah Flint felt II his duty
20 mike a call on Mrs. Harris and an
nounce:
"Wi,1dpr II IL with sorrow that |