The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-08-05

of beW1lderment in the Majors eyes.
What made you think so, Henry"
Colonel, l heard you say So"
"Why, Henry, l have never mentioned the
subject to you"
Not directly, but back in that unhappy time
| drove into town day and went into the
bank to see George Johnson, who was carrying
a loan for me. Wood had written to me stating
that he must have five hundred dollars at once,
and | went to get this money for him. Ohm
not in at the time, and | went into
of the rear rooms Of the bank to wait for him.
| must have fallen asleep, for | awakened
by the sound of voices, and | heard you and
Johnson talking. | heard you say that you had
gotten letter from Wood Shelby stating that
he had forged your to a check for five
hundred dollars, and l heard you tell Johnson
that when check in, should he be doubt
full about the signature, to pay it by all means.
This almost broke my heart and | went out of
that room quietly and drove home. My boy
had been wild as boys went in those days but
he had always been honest, upright and truth
full with me, and it seemed to me as though
there was little left in life worth while living
for"
Henry, that surely mistake, and had
| known that you knew anything about it, 1t
would have been corrected long ago. Wood,
here" and Wood walked to the
Coloneps chair Henry this boy was trying
my son, but l want tell all four of
you a little story. Years ago in old Kentucky
there fine old side by side,
and the families that owned them had lived on
them for generations A boy was born in each
family within few months of each other, and
their early lives were spent in continual COM
panionship, each loving the other a brother.
One of them, at the risk of his life, saved the
life of his chum. They were educated together,
and the first break in their cOmpanionship
when one of them visiting relatives in the
north, fell in love with beautiful northern
girl. Then the Civil War, and through
strange workings of fate, Of them
enlisted in the northern army and one in the
southern army. Happily they did not meet
on the battlefield, but when the war was
they met the train returning home.
"The vanquished in gray forgot the bitterness
of defeat in his affection for the victor in blue,
and they again became the same friends as
before the One of them married his
northern sweetheart, and the other beautiful
Kentucky girl, and their sons became intimate
friends just as their fathers were. They entered
the same college, each sharing the others likes
and dslikes. They both generous hearted
and lavish in the expenditure of money, and as
college boys do, accumulated many debts which
their fathers paid, although of them could
i'll afford to do When the second year
of their college nearing its close,
they both found themselves so heavily in debt
that they hestated to tell their fathers of it,
and instead of doing they resorted to bet
ting horse races. For short while they
slightly successful, but not enough to
help themselves very much. One day they
ceved information from a racing friend of
theirs that a certain horse to win, and
while they did not have the money they Dor
roWed $500 TO bet ON the race nrnn1isinp I'M