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The Huron Nevus -Record
Wednesday. November 16. 1887
THE WEST HURON PIr'QTES7'.
As we mentioned last week it is
seldom that revenge aud , persecu-
tion results in good to an indivi-
dual or a party. The wire pulling
and persistency of a few; grit law-
yers and office seekers in West
Huron has deservedly come to
naught. Here we are uta to the
150, and the trial is sot down for
the loth November, and not a sub-
poena served on the alleged "brawl-
ing brood" of Clinton bribers who
were to he called upon to Mini -ludo
'thoinsel-ves, and as :agents unseat
Mr. Porter. Tho blow aucd blus-
ter and bravado of the very small
wing of tho Reform party called
Grits, has come to "aught. Their
vile selfishness has recoiled upon
themselves. They have to publicly
ackno•ti'lodge that Mr. Porter was
not guilty of personal bribery, and
Xthole withdrawal of the protest al-
together on payment, wo uader-
staud, of a portion of the costs, is
proof, strong as holy writ that they
had not a leg to stand, upon if they
appeared in court. When we look
into their bill of particulars we feel
confident, from the names of alleged
Clinton bribers given therein, that
so far as.this town was concerned
the party's as well as Mr. Porter's
skirts were clear. The selecting of
such mon as W. Doherty Esq.,, and
I. Rausford Esq. as Where, as crimi-
nals guilty of one of the most Ser-
ious offences known to the law, is a
piece of effrontery equalled only in
msliciousuoss by the despical1e
spirit and fetid •brain that could
coucoive corruption at the hands of
two such citizens. W. Doherty and.
John Ransford set down by the few
Grit manipulators of the Reform
Ivtrty, in West Iiuron ,as chief
sinners among an alieged brawliug
brood of bribers 1 •It is not any-
thing strange that the ere Era man
is said to have exclaimed : "Wo
are fool's- in- -thin ;ase, -whichever
horn of the dilemma we take. We
were foolish to taro entered the
protest .without intending to go on
with it. Having eutercd it we
•
'vete foolish to withdrew it." Quite
true. \'silly, whom tho gods ods +visit to
destroy- they first iniike toad. The
,factious Grit wing of the Reform
party on their own ackuowledge-
iuetlt were "tad, foolish, and have
destroved themselves politically.
The ending of the case in. this man-
ner gives a still darker tingo'than
that ofpci•secutiou and revenge to the
•eutcring of ilio protest against Mr.
'Porter, It affords colorable reason
for saying that the whole procodure
looks very lila-au attempt at black-
mailing: Why single out men
whose lite -long characters are above
reproach, estimable men in business,
of high Fneial standing, and promi-
nent in good works in their different
churches, and say'" "pay part of our
cots or we will cause you to public-
ly appear. in court as witnesses with
the sti'<{ni'l of criminal lvl•ong doing
attached to.your.names?"' \Vhy in-
deed ? Wes it 'uot for the purpose,
as we have said, of bleeding the
(,conservative party, of blackmailing
them inti,, c,.mpromising with the
protest pushers rather than have the
innocent gentlemen we have re-
ferred to dragged in to court with even
only the; su.atit;ion or criutin•tl wrong
dying tucks+l un to their ire !,runch-
able characters ?
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Wonderful revulsion Of feeling!
Postnt.,t-•i (leneral :1dcd,ohan was
elected tt the general elections last
winter by a majority of 627. On
account of the indiscreet practices
he some overzealous supporters
resigned and was re-elected by about
700 majority. Sir Charles Tupper
was elected at the general elections
by 668 majority. IIe also resigned,
and was re-elected by 1400 major-
ity.
Sir John A. Macdonald has made
an excellent selection in tho person
of Mr. John Macdonald, the mer-
chant prince of Toronto; to fill a
vaeaucy in the Senate. Mr. Mae-
49441 has always.beea. a RsftyPprt
but of that liberal stripe that condi
hardly be disti•ngu,ishod•from. Liberal
Conservative. tie is a Canadian at
heart, is in favor of Iarottictiou 'and
-Opposed to Commercial Union. He
is a Ieading Methodist and has been
liberal in giving pecuniary aid to
the best purposes of that body. He
is also a sound temperance man, but
what his views ou Prohibitiou are
we do not know. At all events no
better selection could have been
made, as Mr. Macllonakl is a practi-
cal business man, thoroughly versed
in the needs of the country and
hugely interested in its material
progress.
The Premiers of several of the
Canadian Provinces met in Quebec
recently and "resoluted" some pro-
posed amendments to the "British
North America Act." 'They also
adopted it resolution in favor of a
"fair teeaeu1•0 providing uuder•llro.
per conditions for ' Unrestricted
Reeipiecal trade reltatious betweeu
tho 1)ominiou and the United
States." This is very like the. bar-
gain betweou the mother and hos
boy : "Joituny, you may .go and
swim but you must pot go neer the
water." Tho wise- Premiers in secret
conclave say they are in favor of
Unrestricted trade "under fair eon
ditious." 'The boy could go to stint
under fair conditious. It' trade is
to be unrestricted it canuot be re-
stricted by any conditious. Their
resolution, if words mean anythiug,
means Restricted Reciprocity which
the Dominion has been anxious to
bring about on fair conditions for
tho last eight or ton years. But if
the Americans want anything in
this way it is reciprocity on unfair
eo editions, and a factious minority
of Canadians aro willing to give it
to them.
The one -law -for -all 'party hail a
entagteificeet-.st.ictory.-_,in__ laIddimnd
last Saturday. At tho general. elm -
Mons Montagne, Conservative, was
elected on the Judge's recouut by a
majority of one. Tho election was
protested rind an appeal against the
ruling of the County Judge taken
before Chancellor Boyd. A com-
promise' was. afl'ecterl, each party
paying their own costs, aura new
election agreed on, which conclu-
sion _was applauded by the Chau-
eellor. Now Dr. Montague has been
elected by 19 majority. He foaght
the battle single handed against such
shining lights as Cartwright, with
his reversible shield, "Commercial
Union and Canada for the Yankees"
ou one side, on the other "Canada
for the Grits." As it was six of one
and half -a -dozen of the other with
the electors as to which was, the
best side of the shield, they rejected
both ',and voted •Conservative.
Then there was Globe Edgar•, the
veteran chieftain of the Toronto
black bottle brigade, and last,
though not least, Mr. Makes' suc-
cossor in the leadership of the tat-
tered and tote and demoralized
party of ,all the talents, Shoot-the-
velunteers Laurio r. But Heldi-
inand, though it took pity' on mis-
taken Lyn McKenzie ain days of
yore, rejected the pleading. of, tire
blood -thirsty leader of the Grit for-
lorn hope and his associates. All
honor to the liberal' men of Heidi.
manes some of whom at least have
preferred their tocountry to fac-
tion by electing Dr. Montague.
They have honored the dust of
Canada's he nobly slain in .1512,
1837 and 1885.
'1'hc world "de move," and that
is a fact. .last think of a man
being hros'eutsd fcr seditious libel
fur making this public declaration
"In four tvot•rls lies all our pover—
noivcrsal emancipation and repre-
sentative legislature." Yet in the
first years of this century Archibald
Hamilton Rowan was twee:tented by
the English Government for using
those four or tether Rvo words. In
Rowan's defence Curran immortali-
zed himself by saying : "I speak in
the spirit of British law which
makes liberty commensurate with
and inseparable from British soil ;
which proclaims oven to the
stranger and sojourner, the moment
he sets foot upon British earth, that
the ground on which he treads is
holy, and consecrated by the genius
of universal. emancipation. No "tat-
ter in what language his doom may
have boon pronounced; no matter
what complexion incompatible with
freedom, en Indian or an African
2
(An Inv have burnt upt z. him; na
matter- in what distant bottle hie
liberty may have been cloven down ;
tt,o (natter with what suleliinity Ile
may have been devoted upon the
altar of slavery; the first wt
he_ •touches ..the sacred soul of
){3ritain, the altar and the God.siuk
-together in the dust ; his soul walks
abroad in her own majesty; hi.s
body swells beyond the measure of
his chains that burst from around
him, and he stands redeemed, re-
generated, disenthrallud by the
irresistible genius of universal en an-
cipation."'Though freedom of speech
is alleged to ko denied the people
of Ireland to -day the language used
would have to be somewhat stronger
than the "four words' to justify
prosecution Ruts.
BLOODY MURDER EXPIATED
On Thursday last, Spies, Engel,
Fische: and Patrons, four of the
seven Anarchists who were 000-
tlentiiud to cle,<tlt for the murder of
sere" policeman and the disabling
or eleven others, and the soa•iously
injin•ing of fifty persons, at tho Hay-
market, Chicago, ou the 4tir of May,
1856, deservedly paid the extreme
peWelty of the haw. They were
hanged at noon. The last words
of some of the unfortunate "ten
show that the world is well rid of
such bloodthirsty wretches.
Spica--"'l'hcri will comae a t'into
when our silence will he more power-
ful than the voices they are strang-
ling to death nota."
Engel—"Hurrah for Anarchy P'
Fischer—"Hurrah for Anarchy 1
This is the happiest moment of my
life 1" '
Parsons—"May I be allowed to
speak ? will you let me speak ?"
There was no disturbance, al-
though from the character of the
Anarchists it was supposed there
would be. The hanging of these bray-
ing agitators will likely havea whole-
some effect upon professioual defiers
of the law. Not.oue of the execu-
ted nteu was a working man in any
sense of the torni,except as a "jaw -
smith." They gained cotoriety and
obtained a living by infl;ntiing the
passions of the ignorant. It might
be• well to give a synopsis of the
history of the affair which resulted
80 disastrously to about seventy
innocent persons and so deservingly
fatal to four persons. It may bo
noted that of the seven "ten con-
demned
dentned one his head off in
prison the day before that fixed for
his execution, and two had their
sentence commuted to imprisonment
fees life as, though agitators, they
had other regular employment—Wt.
were considdered le a greet extent
the dupes of the executed men.
The •4tlt of May, 1996, was the
date of the Ilaymarket bomb
tragedy. After two years of secret
meetings•aud violent appeals to the
laboring "ten to unite in hanging the
capitalists and coufis •!eteug their pro-
perty,the approaclrof May 1, 18S6,
found the workingmen of Chicago in
a highly excitable state. The in-
auguration of the eight'hour moye=
ment occurred on Saturday, May 1,
which was fixed as the day on which
the business of the country was to he
paralized by a rapid succession of
strikes.
At 1 o'clock an the afternoon of
May 8,.2,000 striking workmen of the
Blue Island.. avenue manufacturing
district were massed together near
the corner of B$ue Island avenue and
Wood St. They were there to talk
over the McCormick strike, Nearly
all were foreigners, and most of them
wore a red ribbon on their coats.
Presently August Mies appeared,
end, leaping on an ein ty freight car,
proceeded to harangue the crowd.
His speech, so say these who heard
it, was more recklosely -incendiary
than any he had yet delivered. His
remarks wore directed exclusively at
McCormick, and when he had ceased
speaking a mighty roar of "On to
McCormick's 1" arose from 1,000
husky throats, and Bine Island
avenue was choked with hurrying
men and boys. The roar grew
mightier in volume as the enob
surged into a vacant lot in front of
the McCormick works. A solitary
policeman was on duty at the ,gate,
and he was chased away with. a
shower of boulders, aiul In a few
minutes there was not a whole:' pane
of glass left in three stories of the
great factory. At this instant a
patrol wagon dashed into the crowd,
'and a dozen policemen formed in
lino at the gates. The crowd surged
forward, and was met by a double
volley from the policemen. This
was answered by a storm of missiles,
and as men on both sides were fall-
ing right and left two more wagon
loads of policemen carne tearing up
at a gallop. Others followed until
100 policemen faced the rioters. A
battle ensued, which lasted abort
five minutes, and then the rioters
fled in all directions, letiving a half
dozen of their number on the field.
The rest of the wounded got away.
Only two policemen were seriously
hurt, Elevy:u rioters were arrested.
Tin, CALL TO ARIN.
August Spies, having watched tho
procession start for McCormick's
coolly boarded it street car and rode
to his office. The noxt morning a
violent editorial article appeared in
.ho4d o for 04ugz fa*M ag, ,gees",
App-Wtl?tkl!fmfin tA e. tketr
brethren 3410 14a4 been QWt4 4
the instigation ,of .the. P,,04000ttie,
beasts,"' Thie Wee felhoved, at b
o'clock in tlt.aftet;noou lay the issue
ie famous "Demme' circular,
rch, it was developed, wa6 written
by Spies in his office immediately
after the riot at McCormick's. The•
circular was as follows:
Revenge 1 Workingruon to arms 1' Your
masters sent out 'their bloodhounds, the
police. They killed six oryour brothers
at McCormick's this afternoon. They
killed the poor wretohes because they
dared to ask for the shortening of the
hours of toil ; they killed them to show
soli, tree American citizens, that you
must be satisfied and contented, with
whatever your Nessus condescend to allow
you, or you will got killed. You have for
years suffered unmeasurable iniquities ;
you have worked yourself to death ; you
have endured the pangs of want and
hunger ; your children you have sacrificed
to the factory lords. In short, you have
been miserable and obedient slaves all
these years. Why ? To satisfy the in.
satiate ;;recd, to fill the collets of your lazy,
thieyiag waster. When yup ask him how
to lessen the burden, he sends his blood-
hounds out to shoot you—kill you. If
you are met, if you are the sons of your
giandsires, who have shed their hlooil to
free you, then you will rise in your slight,
tierce/eau, and destroy tho hideous mon-
ster tltztt welts to destroy you. '1'o arms !
\Vc call y.,$,,
r a to amts
Vora Buo•rui,us.
The revenge circular was followed
an hour later by a handbill printed in
flaming type, and extensively posted.
It read :
Attention, workingmen ! Great mass
meeting to•nlght at 7,1 o'clock at the Hay-
uierket, Randolph street, between Des-
pluince and Halstead. Good speakers
will he pre,, et to announce the latest
:tt<al,rts •u•1e attic police—the shooting
of our fellow woikinen yestenlav at'ter-
uoon.
Tuts Excrr•i•tt'E Cunnt•i<•rl:r.,
pill IIAYMARKET TRAGEDY.
\Vith the approach of darkpess on
the - ovtlu-inn of Maty 4, the; atmos-
phere seemed pregnant with current
forebodings of impending danger to
life and property which were suffi-
ciently shared by the rnuuicipttl
authorities to result in the issuauce
of orders by the 'Chief of Police
arming and stationing a strong detail
of police at the Desplaiues street
station, a short distance from the
Haymarket. At er o'clock a large
crowd lied collected ou the Hay
market in a dimly lighted spot, near
which were mauy wagons and trucks.
August Spies was the first speaker.
After a long, rambling talk on the
labor problem he said:—
What mews this display of Getting
guns, caunous, bayonets, patrol
wagons and 'clubs ? What means
the calling out of the militia ? is it
an entertainment for you,geutlemen ?
There tare 25,,000 or 80,000 families
in Chicago suffering starvation to•
day because husbands and fathers
are not men enough to stand up for
their rights.
Loud cheers followed this speech,
and cries of- "The lake 1" and "The
rope-!" were heard frail hoarse
throats, A. R. Parsons was the next
speaker. He went into labor statis-
ties largely, and defined tato. differ-
ence bitveeu trades unionists and
Socialists. Ho closed by an appeal
to arms by all men who loved their
wives and children. Sam Fielden
was the next and last speaker. IIe
harangued the mob in a lourl,ttlatent,
recdless 'way, and. asked what was
the crowed before hire. He said :
We who come hero to address you
are Socialists, rebels of the law.
Legislation will never help you—
never. When "the rich pian under-
stands-that-i't as•noteheattlty.xa d ive.
among a lot of diecontentud workmen
wo shall be able to get legislation,
• and irot before.
Fielden continued in this st aiu
until 10:20 p. m., widen 150 policemen
left the station near by and marched
north. Fieldeu stopped when the
first line was ordered to halt opposite
the, wagon from which he spoke. A
thousand men had meanwhile gather-
ed.. The police marched toward the
crowd in platoons, headed by Inspec-
tor Bonfield and Capt. Ward. The
line of the first division , filled the
street (role side to side, The police
marched into the crowd, sweeping' it
to the pavements and pressing it be.
fore them. When the front column
reached t1Je speakers' wagon, Inspec-
tor Bonfield ordered "Halt 1" Capt.
Ward cried : "In the name of the
State of Illinois I command this
crowd to disperse."
FEARFUL WORK OF THE BOMB.
As the word left his lips, a splut-
tering spark of fire arched through
the air from the opening of the alley
and over the speakers' wagon.. It
was the burning fuse of a dynamite
bomb. It was well aimed in its dead-
ly mission. It fell directly in the
middle of the street, and between
tlio first two double columns of police.
The instant that it struck the ground
it exploded with a terrible roar. It
did its work well. Twenty-nine
mangled men fell groaning to tho
ground. The bomb broke the ranks
of the police. A Gatliug gun could
not have cut a wider swath. A
scene of horror followed, the details
of which will never he known. The
policemen were demoralized for o
moment, but 'they soon closed 'anti
stood their ground. They needed na
orders to fire. In au instant every
mat's revolver was in action and
every man shot to hill, For an in-
stant after the explosion the croft•:l
seemed paralyzed, but, with the re-
volver shots cracking like the tattoo
of a mighty drum, and the bullets
singing in the air, the mob plunged
away tato the darkness with a yell of
rage and fear. It was an indescrib-
able scramble for life, Scores of
mon were knocked down by those be-
hind them, and trampled upon like
cattle in a car, unable to rise. Those
on the inner circle of the crowd were
at the mercy of the police. In a
moment after the explosion tho
streets were cleared, but within a
radius of 100 feet of the spot where
the bomb had fallen fully silty men
lay wounded on the ground. The
centre of the street was full of writh-
5r'
•
1
Q -1? -&T
antic Gift sai
Commences on MOJ DAY, NOVEIV 13ER 14th, w ,en
every Cash Purchase from 50 cents and upwards will
entitle you to a handsome present.
RV—There areCl_:�-' NO DODGES in this, NO
CHANCE WORK -HO. GUESSES -but
STRAIGHT, HONEST DEALING,
Save your money until the 14th, and thea (we speak in
your own interest) spend every cent you can scrape to-
• gether at
BERTSO
Great Cash Store, Clinton.
ing, groaning men crying out for
help. East and west on Randolph
street wounded uteri lay in doorways;
wounded "tun had crawled into alley-
ways ; wounded men had fallen
"down basement stairs in their frantic
efforts to escape further punishment
at the hands of the thoroughly
fronzleil police, and trails of blood
leading from the battlefield in all
directions told of wounded Auer•
chtsts who had crawled off to•their
secret dens, desperate from loss of
blood and the deadly fear of arrest
and vougcauce from the police. The
Desplaines street station, whither
the wounded policemen were ear -
tied, looked like nothing so much as a
slaughter house. .It was filled with
men iu every stage of mutilation. By
11 o'clock the streets were clear and
all was quiet, but the vigilance of the
police had by no means slackened.
They. had already planned the arrest
of nearly a huudred of rho best known
Anarchists who .wero known to have
been prosect at the meeting. Police•
man Mathias Degan was killed out-
right, horribly mutilated by the
bursting bomb, and six of his corn.
fades, torn and maimed_alntost be-
yond recognition, suffered 1 nights
and days of agony, and then died
martyrs for the sake of the law which
they had protected. Besides the
seven men fatally wounded, eleven
were permanently disabled and fifty
seriously injured.
The trial cif the Anarchists was be-
gun before Judge Gary in the Crimi-
nol Court, Chicago, June. 21. .0n
Saturday, Oct. 9, Judge Gary sen-
tenced Spies, Parsons, Fielden,
Schwab, Fischer, Lingg and Engel to`
hang, and Neebe to fifteen years'
imprisonment, in .accordance with
the verdict.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Ike wish it
to be distinctly understood that we do
not / id ourselves responsible for the opinions
expressed by correspondents.- b:D. Niers it,.
CORD.
Editor Nerve -Record.
Dun Suri—An item appeared in•
last weeks issue of the New Era stat-
ing that some boys'were in the habit
of meeting in a roomfor titsKsisrpose
of gambling. Mr. 'Tedford was sent
to investigate: the matter, and declar-
ed the rumor •to be correct as he
found them in the act bf playing a
game of cards. This statement is clear-
ly false, as the boys were not playing
at the time, but were enjoying them-
selves over a lunch (a very common •
thing for them to do), which Mr. Ted -
,ford was kindly invited to partake of.
He declined, however, as it would
hardly be proper to accept under
the circumstances. What we under-
stand by gambling is, playing for
money br for something of value.
The boys are all prepared to take
their oath that nothing of the • kind
was indulged in. The report was not
correct and we sincerely hope that in
the future when Mr. Tedford makes
an investigation he will report more
correctly than he did in the •,present
case- " Signed,
'itis CLUB.
In and About the County,
--Joseph Stothers, of Dun,
gannet) is about leaving for•Aus-
tralia.
—Arthur Heston, aged 21 years,
a miller by trade, ,and belonging to
Chatham, committed suicide in
Detroit by shooting himself in the
head. When 'dying he ifiurinured
that he had no money and was tired
of living,
—Tho Smith's Falls Independent
Kays ;—Our Lentberdy correspond..
eat informs 08 that the wife of
Adam Lia'sen gave birth to n sou
last week. The father of the child
is 75 years of age and the mother
50 years of age. -TIte child is
reported in a healthy condition and
weighs over the average.
—Smith Bros.; cattle dealers, of
Woodstock, have purchased of Jas.
Swennrton 'his farms on the Lake
Roars, near Exeter, containing over
200 acres, paying therefor $14,000,
The property is well situated and
perfectly adapted for stook raising,
the Sauble River passing through
both premises, '
--Recently a'registered letter,post-
ed at Whitechurcli3Ont.,and address-
ed to McLaren Bros.of Montreal,tvas
missed. The letter has riot yet
been found, but it has been traced
to Montreal post office, where it
was acknowledged, and the clerk
through whose hands it passed
had to pay $190, which was trade
good to the Grit
`—Janlee Hamilton J. P., MI, of
the oldest and Rtostwrespeett u 'n•sitl-
ents of the f.Iurou district, died
very su,ldeuly last Wrdueeday at.
his residence, in Sttntfir<!, soca 71
years. Mr. Hamilton carte to
Stratford in 1846, having !+rei•inus•
ly carried on bueiulws at Markham.
He was a native of Etniskiller, 1r••
land.
—The Waterloo Assizes this
fail were' about the, shortest on
record. The court did not open
until about four o'clock on Monday
afternoon, and by 110011 on Tuesday
the business was all concluded, and
the judge had left the bench. • This
is i,tft a had record fcr a county
of ,.early 50,000 irihabitanIs, which
is not under the Scott Act either.
—Thompson Hansoir, a resident
of Cathcart, writ to Norwich on
Thursday,, and got •au ounce of
lacdanum.from Tidey's drug. store.
bir. , Tiley was informed that
Hanson was eccentric, and he at
once drove after him. He soon
overtook Hanson, and found that
be had swallowed the drug. Mr.
Tidey brought him back to Norwich,
and after several hours work with a
stomach pump and emetics, Hanson
was restored to consciousness, and
sent home in charge of a const-
able.
—The Presbyterians of Niagara
Falls South (old Druinutondville)
came to the conclusion that they
ought to have a new church, but
they did not want the latest 'modern
improvement'—e mortgage, en a
long and fruitles. discussion as to
'ways and a:esus' ensued. Listens
iug to .the debate for some time, Mr,
das.Lowell arose and said bethought
that their was no use of trying to
collect enough money to build a
new church such.as they would like:
He therefore proposed to build a
seven thousand -dollar church for
them at his own expense and furni4h
it. This solved the difficulty at once,
and.the church is itt course of erects
ion.
—Rev. Mr. Snowden, of Elmira,
was last week summoned before four
Magistrates for driving overa bridge
there at a rate faster than a walk.
A constable and two other witnesses
sworn that, though two hundred
yards off;, they had seen him drive
at a trot over the bridge,
while the minister swore that he
had drive;, slowly till near 'the other
aide, when his horse shied and made
a, bolt. Tim cruse paused much
excitement in the Village, and the
magistrates had a horse driven over
the bridge at a trot and at a walk
'to see if the difference in the gait
could be told at such "a distance.
The result of the test left • matters
as unsatisfactory as ever, opinions
differing, but the rev, gentleman was
acquitted, three magistrates being
for and.one against.
—The Brockville Recorder
publishes the following :--The
writer was on the road to Farmers-
ville and had to wait some time
at the Elbe toll -gate, which was
blocked up by a waggon with a hay
rack, As we finally drove and
handed over our four eents the old
lady in charge of the gate said: If
you will wait .long enough I'll
.tell you why that man was so long
here. You see. this morning ,he
went past with a load of hay so
largo it would not go through the
gate. To help hint out of the
trouble, my husband end myself
got roils from the fence and fixed
up the side of the road so he could
drive around the gate without
unloading. When he came back
just now be refused to pay only one
way, as he said he had only gone
through the gate once. What do
you think of that 9' said the old
lady as we drove on.
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