The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-12-19
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CASE OF BuE IA VISTA.
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found that he must again sentence
ituena Vista Peace he little iudge
worried the night through. and morn.
ing found him in the Jail holding con.
Verse with the big black.
FROM the moment Sercphiny Peace
had gone by the "aicohol route.' aud
left her pickaninny yearling, he had
been handed knocks. knocks that Oft
tlmes pushed him into unriShteous
paths.
Countless months he had contrived
To partake of the ~iailkeeper's hospi-
tally; the workhouse had been his
hosiery days without number, and
before he was so the states prison
a for three years furnished him a
rooftrce.
But the Sins which brought unfail-
ing state punishment to Buena Vista
We're MOI ordinary conventional law
~hreakings. but the uprisings of some
uncomfortable spiri; within him.
You've got some qualities of a
good nisger. Buena VISTA" the Judge
said TO him: 'you don't swear nor get
drunk"
Buena Vista shuffled his big feet.
"Da hain't no credick comm to me
fuh not cussin' and b1ozin'. judge"
he said. II nubhah WIZ no. sasser,
and cussin' hahn. norhM' but splitting
sass in de face o de Great Maker.
Poah nanny rid de red eyed boss o.
drink ontel hit fell down on huh and
killed huh. III I hain't nubboh felt
no cravin' to mount dat boss! Nav,
subj"
And Yet" Went on the judge,
you're always in mischief. What
puts YOU up to it. Buena Nista??"
Buena Vista scratched his head.
Hit jests bus1s 'out in me jedge. I
reckon 'caze l hain't got nothin' to
hold hit down."
Two terms in the penitentiary.'
the judge remarked presently-.a
year for helping tar and feather a
Jew peddler: then two years for blow
ing up Addison Harney's Hereford
pull with dynamite. and now Won steal
the old parsons COW. paint her hide
with peroxide Of hydrogen, ana sell
her for SIS bill! If I followed pre-
'eedent- in regard to third terrners
you'd get a life sentence. Had you
thought Of that, Rucna Vista? Once
back at Frankfort. with the doors
smut on you,' there'lf be no more fish
ing in the old Clear Water, in the
springs: no more eating watcrmclons
at old Caesar Sprowle's patch in the
uo NuOTe poSSuIn nunIlnS
i'll the fals-forcver! But the peni-
Tertiary to the last minute of your
life-thc very last minute!."
Euena Nista's head sank and his
jam trembled. 20 Lawd, jedge,'' he
suffered, don't put dat on me!
Gimme IL NOAH chanst!"
In the previous week the case OF
Palm Tree Ashes had been disposed
of by Judge Bennett. Palm Tree, a
widow with FIVE offspring, had been
trying for a year to hold her family
together by the washboard. But ris-
ing at 3 in the morning to begin the
battle saponaceous and %loosening her
hold Of the fiatiron at midnight wore
on the weakly little negress. When
she took to fainting Owe her ironing
board her neighbors reported her con-
dition to the u The judge had
then remanded Palm Tree and her
brood to the poorhouse until arrange
ments could be made to convey the
pickaninnies to an orphans home.
h woman's grief and despairing
protests against this summary break
ing up of her home and the ipfictlon
on her of the ignominy of the poor.
house had been pitiable. Her cry
when she had flung herself at his feet
/ hal been like Buena Vista's cry: oh,
Lawd. ledge, doan put dat on