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VOL. V. JOE SPICER, GENTLEMAN. It was said of Joe Spicer at least three years before he was captured that lie was a gentleman from herd to heel, and that lie would die like a gentleman, whether in bed or dangling at the end of a rope. In the cruise of time he held up five stages, robbed a dozen lone trave¬ lers and relieved an army paymas¬ ter of his chest, but he always did these things with an apology which took a good deal of the sting away. When Sheriff Bill Johnson chas¬ ed Mr. Spicer into the hills and was shot in the leg and made helpless, Joe returned to the spot where he was lying and doffed his hat to him and said: “Really, Bill, I’m sorry for this nndhope you won’t be laid up. Heres whisky—here’s water—here’s my horse, and I’ll help you into the saddle and give you a good start towards home. 1 wish you wouldn’t chase me around any more. You are a gentleman and I’m a gentle¬ man, and I hate to shoot you. One day, after Joe had held up the Fisli River stage in his usual urbane and courteous manner, a posse struck a hot trail and van him to earth. Through a fall of his horse he was captured, and as lie had wounded two men while the pursuit lasted he realized that lie would be tried on the spot by Judge Lynch. “Gentlemen,” lie said in his most gracious way, “am I correct in supposing you wish to finish this job as soon as possible and get back home?” “That’s about the size of it, Joe,” remarked the leader of ihe posse. “I presume you brought along a rope for hanging purposes?” “Of course.” “Well, I see no reason why you shouldn’t proceed to carry out your wishes. I will certainly do all lean to make it an enjoyable occasion.” “That’s kind of you, Joe, and just what might have been ex¬ pected. Don’t you want to own up a few trifling things before you go?” “Anything to oblige you. gentle¬ men.” Ho was then asked regarding two shooting scrapes and several robberies which the were not quite clear about, and solved the mystery by iris guilt. He had about $3,000 in the hands of a friend in Custer City, and he expressed his to leave $500 towaids a public hos¬ pital and have the balance for¬ warded to relatives. He presented his horse to the sheriff and his guns to the mayor of Deadvvood, and then rose up and said: “Geutlemen, I’m sorrry to cause you this trouble, but I’m here to • be hung.” “Yes, Joe, we’ve got to hang ye. Hope thar’ won’t be no hard feel in’s.” “Not a one. Let me see the rope. Looks to be all right. Is it that limb up there?” “That’s the one.” “You couldn’t have made a bet¬ ter choice. I”ll slip my head into the noose, if you please, as I want a sure thing of it.” “Sure you’ve said all you want to, Joe?” queried the leader. “Let me see! Yes, I think I have. Where’s the grave to be?” “Over by that brush.” “That’s right. Nevermind about a head-board unless it happens to come handy. Well, gentlemen, I’m ready and waiting, and wish you all a pleaseut journey home.” There was a smile on his face as they pulled him up, and the smile was there as they cut him down. They said it was the smile of a gentleman, aud that Joe was the gentlemanest gentleman in all the Black hills country. nr' V % (mm 1 & ii m n s? m II L L. Devoted to the Interest of Johnson County and Middle Georgia. WRIGHTSVILLE, GA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1897, WAITING FOR HIS MASTER. It was only an ill-kept and ugly little cur that sat in front of a cl e serted east side shop, says a Buf¬ falo writer in the New York Press, but (he story it told was all the more patljeticon that account. The big policeman knew the sto¬ ry well enough, so lie spoke to the dog. “Hello, Jack! Ail alone yet?” The stump of a tail that was nearly lost in the unkept wool of the small- creature wagged a sad sort of reply to the officer and the entire collection got on its feet a moment, in response to the salu¬ tation, then it settled down again. It would not do to give any one the idea that anything short of a genuine watch clog was on that lonely front step. “Poor fellow!” said the kind hearted roundsman, stopping just long enough to pat the dog for a moment. “So lie is not back yet. Well, be will be here in a few clays. Bo patient a little longer.” The clog’s story was well known to people who frequent the most doubtful part of Clinton street, lie has but one friend in (he world, ancl that friend is down at the penitentiary, doing time as usual for not being able to Jet liquor alone. Time was when John Thompson was a prosperous shoe¬ maker, and he would be still, no doubt, but for his only love affair. When scarcely at his majority ho courted a fine young woman and sought to make her his wife, but she preferred another, and Thomp¬ son took a drink when she turned her back on him. He is only 28 now, but lie is an habitual drunkard, ancl he wil spend the rest of his life in that state, no doubt. Before he was jilted he was as sober ancl 'hard¬ working as any one, but as soon as Iiis lady love left him he turned recluse. He 1ms a little shoe shop, where he does some work when out of the lock up, but he lets his neighbors alone. He is just the person tc have as only companion a mite of a dog, and this creature is the perfection of devotion to his master. Whenever Thompson is locked up the dog follows as far as lie is permitted, seldom going home till kicked out of the station more than once, and then he keeps soli¬ tary watch till.his master is back again. If the neighbors feed him occasionally he eat3 and wags his tail. If they forget, he fasts. IMPROVED RAPID FIRING GUN. The new automatic Hotchkiss mitrailleuse is a gun which fired off 500 or 600 infantry cartridges per minute. It loads, closes the breech, fires, opens the breech again, throws out iheempty shell, and puts in a new cartridge as ac¬ curately as a soldier would do. A strong gun barrell is screwed in front of a movable breech box, containing the operating mecha¬ nism. A cogged piston is in a cy¬ linder which communicates with the barrell and runs on a parallel line below it. When a shot is fired gases from the powder penetrate the chamber In front of the pis¬ ton and push it back to a position where a catch holds it. When the trigger is again pressed, the catch is released and a spring causes the piston to fly back to its former place. This piston performs auto, matically the work of a gunner, by moving through an arrangement of cogs and pinions. The cartridges are placed one behind mother on on brass strips, where they are held by clasps. There are thirty car¬ tridges on a strip. The strips are so aranged in pasteboard boxes that when one is exausted it is only uecessary to liflrthe lid of the box It Is Not How Cheap You can adver tise, but, whut good results you can obtain by using THE RE— CORD’S columns. Cheap Advertise= ments Can get nothing 113-, but cheap sults. Try The Record’s columns for up to-date results to your satisfac- { tion. Em Hofifi IN DEALINGS. fl! COMMERCIAL tip! . A PRINTING '1‘ Hg 6 WE 'L___________________________________ H; . ‘ Flam am! ornamental Job Punting at Every fl Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bi“ Heads, Cards, Envelopes, Invitations, Posters, Etc! I WEI COMPETE WITH THE CITIES IN QUALITY AND PRICE- Wk! THAT OUR WORK OUTRIVALS THAT OF OUR COMETITORS BOTH IN QUAI PV~Q511KM§EEEE£L4§£EJ§M If You Were He! Yes, if you were 'the creditor and ' saw the march ant sitting idly in his shop ac cum’lating more (1 u a t ,' cobwebs and out-of—style goods than cash, you would prob ably feel like ask ing, Why don’t you . Wake Up and use the ad vertising col’uns of THE RECORD. an (1 exchange your stock for legal tender? What say you? to introduce a new strip to the feed¬ er) A radiator is fitted to draw off ft large part of the heat, ami thus cool the barrel 1. Two men are needed to manage to manage the gun with best results, hut in an emergency one can handle it. can ho fired slowly or at the rate of GOO shots per minute. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. A sheriff arrived here from the southern part of the territory the other day, laid hands upon onr es¬ teemed contemporary, and made ready to hear him hence. It was a case of mistaken identity. How on earth any one could have mixed up a hump-backed, lop-sided, skin¬ ny old critter like ourcromtempor ary with a man who was caelld “Terrible Bill” and had shot three men, we cannot possibly under¬ stand, but such was the case. We were one of a dozen to step forward and declare the mistake, and the sheriff went away without a pris¬ oner. Nothing more rediculous has ever happened in the history of Giveadam Gulch, and the people won’t get over laughing for a week. Our esteemed gave ns no thanks for swearing to his identity. On the contrary, lie has threatened to make it hot for us, believing that we had something to do with the case. We hadn’t of course, lint is it will do him any good to get out an old gun and pop away at us he is welcome. He can’t hit a barn at ten feet, and the only thing we object to is the wheezy sound his old pistol makes when lie pulls the trigger. He ought to pour in some troches for hoarseness along with the cartridges, or feed the thing over night on cough-syrup. We felt sorry for the sheriff when he went away, though he t '\id lie should have felt degraded t^h ^ir life to take such a man along him and pass him off ns a terr* Giveadam Gulcli Disapproves\ ““The Merchant of Venice.” When the Boston Ideal.- l> mat ic company reached thT ,01 last Monday to play a three-night en¬ gagement we had a little talk with the manager and tried to make it plain to him what our people want¬ ed in the line of theatricals. The man gave ns to understand that he knew his business ancl wanted no advice. The play was Uie“ Mer¬ chant of Venice,” and when we saw the curtain go up we knew what would happen. The hoys on the front, seats waited for the Indians to appear, but none showed up. They hung on in hopes of a clog dance, but no one shuffled. When it realized that there wasn’t even going to be a view of Niagara Falls by Moonlight the shooting began. In five minutes the house was emp¬ ty and the actors making for the hills. We caught one glimpse of the pig headed manager and were glad to observe that lie was paler than a ghost and running ahead of the procession. Next day three or four of the actors found themselves out of town, but it was a bust-up for the company. Let onr people have what they want and they will pay for it and enjoy it, but any attempt to force a tiling upon them always results disastrously. We want murder, abduction, rescue, singing, dancing and a fight with Indians in a play, and companies not willing to gratify us should keep clear of the town.—Arizona Kicker. The other day a little boy was heard relating to his chums his first experi¬ ence in purchasing a pair of shoes. He said the salesman told him positive¬ ly that the shoes would wear a lotig time and they had only Worn two weeks, He declared that he was going to have the salesman sued for “breach of promise,” NO 28 *•1 A STORY ABOUT THE PRINCE. Albert Edward, prince of Wales’’ is fond of going about London, either alone or with some trusted 1 friend, and sometimes when in-' dulging this penchant he meets with curious adventures. Once' while passing the mint, late at night, with'the earl of Carnarvon, a soldier was observed in the sen-' try box puffing away at a large" and exceedingly bad cigar. Both’ the priiice and the earl were so' ini dried up as to be unrecognizable' and the prince made talk with the' sentry at once, declaring that the" smell of the soldier’s cigar pro¬ nounced it of unusual quality. To' tills the sentry agreed, but declared^ it impossible for oither of his visi¬ tors to guess the price. The prince wagered a shilling with the man and after all possible sums had’ been mentioned and pronounced 1 incorrect the sentry confessed that it had cost him nothing, as he had received it as a present. Much pleased with winning the wager, the man thereupon com¬ menced guessing with regard ti the prince’s name, and anothel shilling was slaked on the question as to whether he could mention the right one or not. The soldier haz-' aided several guesses, mentioning Smith, Jones, Robinson etc., until* at last the prince iinformed him’ who he really was. “O'wly Moses!” cried the soldier thrusting his cigar into the prince’s* hand, “ere, catch ’old hov this cigar' for a minute: stick to hit while I present arms.” How the Earth is Heidi A pretty experiment, conducted by very simple methods, will show this terrestrial glole is kept in its position in space. Secure two' magnets of equal power, placing them an- inch or two apart. Their make a small ball of paper or oth-' light material, fastening on op¬ posite sides bits of steel or similar' metal. Fiace the ball betweou the' magnets, where it will assume of its own accord a fixed position, held only by the attraction of the' magnets which act on’it as do the - planets on the earth. Children’s Cute Savings. A school teacher lately put the ques¬ 1 “What is the highest form’ of life?” “The sri ruffe t” respond¬ a In - igirt member'of the class. Four-year-old Robbie ran breath¬ lessly into the house, just as the sound bagpipes was heard coming up the “Oh, iriama f” he said, “there’s man out here with a dead pig that come quick!” “How do you like your new teacher, Wallie?” asked his aunt. “Like isn't the word,” replied Wallie. “Oh! Thert you love her, do you?” “J do,” said Wallie, and then after st tong pause, he added, “Not!”.—Harper’s Bazar. “What are yer doin’, you young ras¬ cal?” said a fanner to a remarkably small boy, on finding him standing under a tree in his orchard with art apple in his hand. “Please, sir, I Was only goin’ to put this ”ere aDple hack on the tree, sir; it had fallen downy sir.”—Judge. A little 5-year-old boy, when told by 1 his mother that they would go td see his baby cousin christened on the foI-> lowing Sunday, replied with a troub- led countenance that “he hoped the would go home as soon as he was with Cousin.” When asked why he said i “Well, I’ve had enough* had the measles—and sudli awful in my stomach. So I don’t want be christened," Fixing a Pn 09 . “What’s that job worth?” they asked con trader. “Well.” he said, slowl j,“that depends good deal upon circumstances. If it was orderd by an individual I should think that a $100 would be about the limit, hut it done for the city or county l shouldn’t think of charging a bit less than $850, with a clause in tne contract permitting me to make an additional charge for extra»i’’-*-Cbicago Post*