Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-22

morning" He couldn't eat dinner. AS
home soon that evening and go with
her to the meeting. He said alright.
His wife led him to the front seat.
He had A Colts on him as usual
and a double-barrel derringer in his
pants pocket. He said that before
services were over those two guns
felt as heavy as q ton Of coal. Reach
ing home he took out his two guns,
goodbye; he never expected to pick
them up again. The next morning he
took a front seat. Then the devil ap-
peared and said to him: You know
you make your living gambling and
that you will starve to death II you
quit. It is the only way you have Of
earning your bread"
1t was on the third day that he
decided he would give himself up and
surrender to the Lord. Then he
thought about his game chickens that
he had fought hundreds Of times.
Then he thought of his bull dog. He
had just ordered the finest bull dog
to be bought. He had just received
him from Kentucky and his name was
Trouble" He wanted to try out
Trouble before he quit and asked
the Lord to let him fight Trouble"
just one time, then he would be ready
to quit bull dog and chicken fighting.
The Lord said no" Then he fully
made up his mind to quit then and
there.
He thought Of his old friends that
be would have to give up. God knows
he loved his friends and he always had
O dollar or a drink for one.
He attended the last meeting at the
tent. He was leaving and had reach
ed the edge when good woman said
to him: Have you settled it, Baxter?"
Then he announced that he had. The
gamblers picked him up on their
shoulders and cheered him.
Going home he picked up his little
black eyed 1S-months-old son and
kissed him. 1t was the second time
he had ever picked him up. Then I
told that child 1 was going to make
a preacher out Of him. Before I had
told him that I was going to make
gambler out Of him.
He said his mother hadn't slept
soundly for IL years. He then told
her that all was over and hereafter
she could sleep peacefully, for he had
given himself to the Lord. Her hair
was prematurely gray and he had
been the cause Of it. Where his home
had been a hell, it was now one Of
happiness.
After reaching home from Asbury
college, where he had gone to study
for the ministry, he went into the
store where he had knocked down"
the dollar bill and laid another on the
counter. The merchant asked him
what that was for. He told him that
he had borrowed" 1t from him when
he clerked there and wherever he
went it stared him in the face. He
now returned 1t.
Two incidents in Cyclone Mack's"
life that he did not tell In his story OF
his life at Wednesday nights meet
ing was the shooting Of two men on
the streets Of Bennettsville. The first
was a bad negro, who bumped up
against him. Without words, he
pulled his gun and let the negro have
it. He was not badly hurt. A few
days later he was tried for selling
whisky and a relative had agreed to
go on his bond. A merchant Of the
town tried to persuade the relative
not to do it. Mack" heard Of this
and walked into the merchants store,
shot him down. He leaped into a bug
gy and escaped. He went west and
worked in coal mines. A few years
later he returned, paid the bills Of the
wounded man and was not prosecut-
ed.
Before closing the services and for
the second tnme, Evangelist McLen-
don called for reporters to come for
ward. About forty answered and gave
him their hands. The night before,
the first call, sixty-five came forward.