Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-07

I'VE DRUNK BAR'LS OF HUMAN GOREP
Kept the best liquors, and his poker
rooms have given the squarest deals.
He's had to kill seven men in that
time, but in every case the coroner
has complimented him on his shooting,
For ten long years Tom Hoke has
been Judge Hoke. He has mixed JUS
tice and common sense together and
ladled it out the best he knowed how.
In arriving at his legal decisions he
has been careful Of the honor of the
great and only west as well rs the
rights of plaintiff and defendant.
Where honor is lost all is lost.
You all remember the case of Joe
BIZ versus Tarantula Jim. | sent Joe
TO the pen for five years for highway
robbing Jim He appeals to higher
court and gets the decision reversed
on me, and | am directed to give him a
new trial
MY friends. go back with me year.
1t is perfect fall day. The birds are
singing and the kyotes yelping. and
every cFitteF in Sandy Bend is a-thank-
Ing heaven that he's alive and kick
ing As he dwells on the thought that
he's son of the west his heels lift
up as If he had been drinking cham
payne
Down from the mountains on a
spotted cayuse comes riding Tarantula
Jim. We see him when he is yet afar
of. He sees us. He rides his cayuse
IN circles He makes him stand on his
tall. lie shoots up the sky. He utters
TdrwhO0ps. We look at each other
in doubtful way. Is bad. bad man
coming into our midst!
Enter TarantuIa Jim.
And then Tarantuln Jim comes n.
EaIloping and a-yelling and a-shooting
ana a-frothing at the mouth and We
nave him among us. Bad: On. yes
lie was grizzlies, rattlpsnakeS. cent.
i'edes, scorpions. timber wolves and
mountain lions all combined and mixed
Win pruSSiC acid He had a voice like
a thunderbolt. He had an eye that
uasned lightning. He had q roll to his
Ea4I and when he sat down he Jared
The town of Sandy Bend from center
10 circumference.
VI what use TO go on? You all
SNOW him. You all know bow he has
staggered and Iorded 1t over us. Far
~ N the game | was asked my opinion
VI 1arantula Jim. May heaven forgive
.ne' out sized him up as bad bad
I'oin halr TO heel. | thought he carried
'ue true brand This ere court. not
oH'y as court, but as Tom Hoke of
sue hed Dog. has seen many, many
va" men. He has dropped n few OF
,neH, lie has had years of experience
81 SIZING up human critters. I'm say
's lnIS' and I'm saying that Id have
9'' tne Red Dog agin an army mule
'"", IaFantula was the worst of the lot
D., uaIn saying that any of us trem
o'eu 10 his presence. but we was rath
~, 'a'eIuI IN addressing him. and we
-'u" win from him in poker beyont
ler'aln point We ginerally agreed
WI" hIm in all he said. and if there
Wy any drinking we paid the shot.
The Unpretendino eiff.
g. mas Iarantula ever killed n man IL
sandy Renl? Nary ana H., md,
w W. u'a" Oh several, and he's yelled n
..1e'S till they was made TO leav,
w., d, but as for shooting he's with
leu ms hand His excuse was thai i.
A. vas once aroused he couldn't hol(
,r ,sset' and the town of Sandy Benz
~ TT'u oe laid in sackcloth and ashes.
OOe biff is not bad man. He nev
pretended II be tie, aItn, papr
,'' 10 admit, lie the rue genie
ua ue is, that he's more'n naf kyote
l ,g uaIh got but one sound Jung. nnc
81 'o'heyed in The left eye
zoe Is over TO Wild car hin on hi,
,ar, He's got lame back and /,
n ans VI "oVk. On Sart,u day Tar
4 n "a i'm comes a-cavorting hut WAY
n ,as Ig1 AZ somebody and keep his repu
seoa 1u at the head Of the class. II,
and I've ana he draws a long breatl
Il ,yv, Se''S' That ere yell was hearC
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