The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31
~ GEOI,tE ABE.


ING sound, European. because
Z n. ...r'. were served in the house--the
obi. .,.a knowing was Calvin Horne,
calf. Do, Horne by his famiiars.
% Ul, cannot be given. He never
w. lie was bald on the top of his
n,. His face had the fulness OF
,o. hut it was wrinl>led. The chin
N...| was white. When 81 is said. fur
ur h.t he wore clothes such 1s
ru.. uc worn by any old gentleman
S.. d ceased to be fastidious on the
p.... ut personal adornmrnt the reader
. knows ls much as any one would know
r .Rne q first glance at Doc Horne
Oh. .l- In the office NJ the Alfalfa
European Hotel with his satellites
u..n.l about him.
o. daily employment called him 20
m. federal offices. where he checked
p,,-.. lists or classified vouchers or
p,. u,j some other kind Of labor
OIL. .asuItcd to him Doc ovcrshad-
uu.H his occupation. and il is doubtful
r.rc will be another reference to It.
N.u 10 is related that Doc and his
.n. Mons moved in and about the
t.. 10 b.. not to hc concluded that they
.. 'Hr hotel to themselves Many
......,rs came to the desk and claimed
r.r Keys and rode upward in the trem-
uus elevator Men whose names do
goo. appear ana whose comments will
I suppressed stood at respectful
u..Irc, and hctrd what Doc had to
ST., If love and life.
Mr. Ike Francis proprietor is some
Were In the office, smoking pipe and
uf.ur persons are in the background,
reading newspapers. These are mere
details Of the setting and will not be
pointed out again.
one evening Doc sat in the office and
told a chapter to an actor from farm
Boo Ohio. a drinking man from a village
u New York, a lightning dentist from
an interior county Of Indiana, and
rd,ytrick man from tn" blue grass part
W Kentucky.
They were talking of women. and the
topic lasted we'll at the Alfalfa Hotel,
o.. elsewhere. The actor had said that
once upon a time he went mp a ladder
.. into a burning house to save
s.u- woman. That reminded Doc
lluc Of Croshyvlllc.
let's sec--T spent two or three years
l Croshyvnlc. Of and on" he began,
md this must have happened in the
fl If ~ or the spring Of 80. I re-
m,mhcr that left Croshyville just
about the time Of the Presidential cam
pI.Gn and that as-wcll. il must have
been about June, So. No matter; the
date doesn't make any difference.
an order that you may understand
this story better. I'll have to go back
uttlc The first time I ever visited IN
Cro,byvllle was invited out to a
shooting match We didn't shoot At
glass balls or live pigeons in those
days. We usually put a white square
N paper up against a tree and blazed
away at it with rifles and although
our firearms were Of defective bore I
Ou assure you that some Of the best
shooting | ever saw was at these old
lm. matches out in the woods. How
ever that has nothing To- do with the
story.
'Onc Of my friends invited me to 60
o. the shooting match, and after got
o., there | was asked to enter the con-
t.t Wen. l went in and | happened
To- get rifle that sighted just right
Tor me. and | won. \ man who had
been introduced to me as Capt Jaynes
made the next highest score.
1T seemed to me that the other con-
iestants took their defeat good naturedly.
hut on the way home my friend told
ne to look out for this Capt. Jaynes. He
vas a hot headed Kentuckian, and I
seems that this was the first time he
had been defeated in years, and it wor-
red him a good deal. My friend told
mt that he had taken a dislike to me
and would probably try to pick quar-
ri at the first opportunity.
Well that same afternoon I invited
an the men who had been az the shoot
ing match to come over to the tavern
II was customary for the winner of the
match to stand treat to the others. capt
james came in rather late, while we
N,r, AN sioting around and talking.
arose and asked him to join the party
d. lowed very coldly and said that he
w. not in the habit Of drinking with
s.I.-rrs. Now ! was rather touchy
~ my Younger days. I sad:
Very well. captain; | withdraw the
,p'iuu. made the mistake of sup
posing that you would feel AT home in
.mp1ny OF gentlemen
knew what to expect when ] said
r.. He started to draw knife, but
before he could lift it I had hold of
lu They pulled Ms apart and tried
t.uuot him. but he went away ravng