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William Tripp’s
Old Mother
Cj M. QUAD
Copyright. 1913. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
William was wicked.
Wlien 1 pick out one man from a
mining camp made up of 300 run
aways, debt jumpers, cutthroats, gam
blers, horse thieves and murderers and
call him wicked I mean for the reader
to infer that he was right up and
down bad.
Which was exactly the case with
William Tripp.
Wicked! Well, he was that!
Such a swearer as William was! He
would begin as soon as his eyes were
open in the morning and keep up a
fire until 10 o'clock at night
■ And he was a cheat and a liar.
* You wonder that we didn't run him
out or hang him.
Well, somehow we always Intended
to. but always put-it off to a more
convenient date. The success of
bouncing a man depends a good deal
on who the man Is. On our first gen
tle hint to William Tripp that unless
he was packed up and out of camp in
side of thirty minutes his anatomy
would be riddled with bullets he pro
duced a couple of revolvers, backed up
against the Red Eye saloon and cainn
-1 ly observed that he was aching for a
little excitement. I think his actions
at that particular time trad something
to do with our giving him the rope
and seeking to get along with his ec
centric traits of character.
“1 move." said Elder Beacon one
night when we were talking about
William’s bad ways, “that the com
mittee get the droii cm him and then
run him into the hills.'"
Just so. but who were the -commit
tee? That was another point we could
never satisfactorily determine, and that
was another reason why William con
tinued to a brie with ns.
Shoot? Well, you never saw such an
eye and such nerve. Just as far as he
conid see the bowl ef a pipe in a man’s
mouth he canid smash it with a bullet
Almost every hat su camp kad an air
hole made fey one of his bullets, and,
though I was prejudiced against Wil
liam. T had to admit that he respected,
men’s heads in sheeting at ftheir hats.
But then© came a halt to William
Tripp's mad career, and it happened
in a -queer way. A tire in has tent one
night burned np a Sot of his traps, and
he had to make a ride of thirty miles
ouCotonel Cooper's old mare to replace
(SHahi with new. The morning he rode
oof camp was the last time we saw
him. but we heard from a dozen dif
ferent ones just what happened. About
twelve miles from our camp was the
Overland trail, and Just where onr own
trail struck in was a pretty little val
ley with plenty of water and wood. Lt
was a favorite camping spot with im
migrants. and the day Wii&am Tripp
reached it he found half a dzen wag
ons and as many families halted for
a breathing spell.
■ The deviltry in William’s nature bub
(Sbled over when he struck that valley
Ifand beheld such a scene of peace.
Pbhildren were playing around, women
were washing and mending, and the
brawny men were repairing wagous
and harness and whistling over their
work. William drew rein and gazed
upon the scene for a few minutes.
Then he out with his revolver. Seated
before one of the fires was an old wo
man with her knitting in hand and a
pipe in her mouth. It was a long shot,
but the evil one urged William to try
It. and try he did.
What happened?
Something even worse than murder
The bullet went straight for the old
woman's head and crashed into her
brat®. Then somethin* awful follow
ed. She rose to her feet, whirled
around to face the shooter, and true
as you lire she seemed to look at him
for thirty seconds before she tottered
forward and shrieked out:
' ‘‘Williaml Oh. my son William!”
Then she pitched forward on the
grass and was dead in a second, and
the red blood oozed out and made a
terrible stain on the green grass.
And William—what did he do? He
was like one turned to stone. The old
woman's words plainly reached his
ears, and be must have recognized her
face. In the awful moment in which
he sat gazing at the corpse on the
grass it mus| have flashed across him
that bis poor mother bad made that
|Hong Journey with neighbors for no
purpose than to hunt him up—he
j§be boy who had left her years ago
.Jknd bad been the subject of her nigbt
jMfej I ",ever since. Wicked as he
■Pas he must have felt her devotion
■find sacrifices.
And then?
He sat there in his saddle, his eyes
fastened on his mother's corpse, and
the revolver still in his hand. The sit
uation had petrified him. While he sat
thus one of the immigrants, who. be
lieving that the camp was to be at
tacked by a force. leveled his rifle
over the wheel of the wagon and sent
a bullet p!crwhiß through William’s
heart.
Ah., well:, lt|s years and years ago.
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Miss Emmaline McEver of Pen
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section.
There is going to be some wed
dings in this section before the
Christmas bells shall cease to
ring.
There is a young lawyer of
Athens who has been visiting in
this section. We know not his
motive at present.
Miss Roena Shedd, who is in
school at Winder ,was accompan
ied home by Miss Sadie Appleby
last Saturday night, and "spent
Sunday here.
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Well, County Bine Sunday
school is still on a boom with a
large attendance e' cry Sunday
We are having good singing from
our new song hooks. We had
good singers with Us Sunday
and we cordially invite you all
hack.
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ward to the time when they can
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the heat of the day wdl be sfttis
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whisked clean the moment the last
mouthful wus swallowed. They find
the lingering on a little while over the
coffee and nuts most delightful.
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solemn a festival to drop in this hasty
fashion the moment the clock strikes
midnight, for any occasion which
needs especial preparation also needs
an adequate closing, and particularly
is this true of those things whose val
ue lies in sentiment.
There are many tilings to be done
after Christmas. There are letters to
be written, houses to be put in order,
gifts to be arranged, and every one of
the countless details may be done ei
ther with gruce or without it In the
theater the final curtain falls with fit
ting dignity or appropriate gayety. It
has all been a play; but, even so, the
actors do not walk off after the last
word is said and allow the stage hands
to rush on. That would offend the
mood *of the audience. How much
truer this is of Something which is not
n play, but a very real part of life!
The days after Christmas should be
as mystical in their way as were the
days before*Christmas. The ornaments
that decked the tree should be put
away with the same care and pleasure
with which they were brought out. the
greens taken down with the same mer
riment that accompanied their going up.
The afterglow is sometimes the most
beautiful part of the sunset, and some
times It is even more beautiful than
the sunset Itself.
,-y P-.Jt? ,
Inconsistent.
Poet—You said the other day in your
paper that poverty is not a crime. Ed
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say they are jwor.—ruck.
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enddying for four years.” Detroit
Free Press.
DAD AND MOTHER AND ME.
‘TU’OnODY’S like old Hunta Claus
With his red and lolly face.
There's not. another around the globe
Can travel so swift a pace.
His twinkling eyes and his merry laugh,
Hla chuckle of bubbling glee—
Nobody else la so dear by half
To dud and mother and me.
TTE doesn't forget the baby sweet
AJ- As she rocks In her cradle white.
He has time to wait for the lagging feet
Of the old by candlelight.
He has gifts and gifts for the young and
gay,
Who encircle the Christmas tree,
And he has the love to his latest day
Of dad and mother and me, / *T
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fPHE frost is chill In the nipping blast;
Smooth Is the icy mere.
The short, fleet days go hurrying past
To the last of the waning year.
And never was rose of the Hummer's prim*
So royally fair to see
As the rose that blooms in tho winter’s
rime
For dud and mother and me.
-Collier's Weekly.
What of Vour Christmas Spirit?
The Hpi.it of Christmas, as the ideal
ists have It, is not recognizable by the
real thing, according to modern meth
ods.
Theoretically everything is bright
gay, full of peace for oneself and good
wishes for the rest of the world.
Actually Christmas may mean any
thing like tills.
Grudging glviag and discontented re
ceiving.
Splurging on one's rich friends and
stinting where it is not likely to count.
Overgenerosity to the point of ex
tra vagaucs.
Hushing until you detest Christmas
and everything connected with it.
Overworked nerves and overwrought
tempers from a false conception of
Christinas giving.
A generous spirit for your own im
mediate circle and utter indifference
to whether any one else has a happy
day.
Gorging oneself in the interest of
Christmas cheer with no thought of a
tortnred digestion and rockiness of the
day after.
• A Christmas with not one thought to
the real meaning of the day and what
the world would have been had there
been no “birthday of a king” to oeltc
brate.
CHRISTMAB.
THE world his cradle is.
J The sturs his worshipers,
His "peace on earth” the mother’* kiss
On lips new pressed to her*.
For she alone to him
In perfect light appears.
The one horizon never dim
With penitential tears.
-John B. Tabb.