Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1909 Page: 8 of 8
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ONLY LOOKED TH« M«T.
WH Differ*nt Whin He Cam* Own
from tha Pidntol.
The model had sat, with the neces-
sary rests, for three houra In one
poaltlon, the pose of a splendid sena-
tor of Washington, elegant, aristocrat-
ic. He had a fine head. He was
quite noted for that. He had been
model for Illustrations of many heroic
figures.
But the model with the fine head-
Wore about the rustieBt suit of clothes
you ever saw. His cufTs were frayed.
Hla collar stayed up with difficulty, it
was so old.
When the three hours were up he
gave a sigh of relief, for posing is
hard work. There Is no work harder.
The artist drew forth his wad and
paid him. The fnodel thanked him
With a grateful smile.
"He Is down and out," suid the art-
ist when he had gone. "He^ hadn't
a penny to get his lunch with."
And ho looked at the picture he
had drawn of him as a splendid sen-
ator of Washington with a complacent
amllo of satisfaction with the fine
dignity of it.
BEAR REVELED IN LUXURIE8.
Bruin's Feed Somewhat Expensive to
Railroad Company.
■essssse
MOONSHINE
SIM
By GEORGE W. SUMMER*
' f * t Copyright, by Bliurwiorj Pat. Oo.)
"We, the Jury in the case of
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the
•ar two or three tare. ■«(, iota*,
when I started to tit a kite far 'em.
they wasn't a eup o' meal la the house
or a slice o' bacon. They wasa't noth
In' In the houce to eat at all, an' 1 be-
gan to think aa how't maybe It wasn't
fever ao much as It was hunger 't was
the matter with Bill. I was pretty
hungry myself by that time, so I went
on up to my house, and got out some
meal and made some bread an' fried
some bacon an' taken it down to Bill
an' his ole woman. You never seen
United States against Sim Bailey, do nobody eat like they did. I don't be-
flnd the defendant guilty aa charged ! Ileve they'd had a bite fur a week,
in the indictment." After that they dozed off asleep an I
Such was the verdict of the jury, 'lowed t maybe agin' mornin" they d
and Sim Bailey, the moonshiner, stood , be feelin' pretty peart like.
up, in obedience to the order of the 1 *'
court, to receive his sentence.
He was a handsome specimen of the
West Virginia mountaineer. Six feet
and one Inch he towered in the air,
and his figure was as straight as the
barrel of the rifle which the officers
had taken from him when he was ar-
rested. He was only an ignorant, un-
couth mountaineer, but his gaze was
But the fever come on 'em agin' an'
thar they laid, helpless as kittens.
They couldn't do nothln' fur their-
seives, and they wasn't nobody to do
nothln' fur 'em, so I stayed right thar
as much as 1 could and taken care of
'em. 'Feared like as t they didn't
have no appetite fur bacon, so I went
out wunst with my rifle and killed a
mess of squirrels. That seemed to
steady, and he did not quail before brace 'em up a bit, an' so I got another
the court as he arose, with a kind of mess fur 'em.
awkward dignity, to receive his sen- j "The physic given out wunst or
tenco for having made corn whiskey twicet, an' I had to go down to the
In violation of the laws of the United store for more. When I come back,
States. | one day, with physic. Bill 'lowed 1
Not far away from the prisoner's hadn't orter done that, because he
box sat Bill Duncan, who had been his never could pay fur all that physic
chief accuser. As far as dress went, he'd drunk up—him an' thff ole woman
Sim and Bill looked much alike. But i —an' it hadn't done 'em no good no
there all similarity ceased. Bill's ahoul- how. But I told BUI he could rest
A large brown bear, the property of ders stooped, his narrow forehead easy on that pint. I had a leetle mon-
the traveler, Count Schoenborn, whs j sloped abruptly backward at the top, ey 't I didn't have no use Jur, ^auMf
being taken by train to his
master's
estate in Saxony, when he broke the
bars of his cage and turned his atten-
tion to the contents of the luggage
van. He smashed two egg boxes and
sucked 112 eggs, and then exploited
four butter casks. What he did not
devour he smearsd over himself and
the sides of the van.
Some crates containing poultry for
market next attracted bruin, who con-
sumed three fat geese and several
ducks and fowls. He quenched his
thirst with a hamper of cherries and
was discovered at Halle in the act of
sampling some cheese.
The officials, threatened by bruin,
fled for their lives. A long time
•lapsed before the animal was per-
suaded to re-enter his cage, during
which time the train was delayed.
Worth Thst Much.
I was standing in front of one of the
"paper from home" stands in Broad-
way recently, when a seedy gent with
a feeble eye stepped up and bought
papers from Oshkosh, Kalamazoo and
Wheeling. My curiosity overcame my
manners and I ventured to inquire re-
garding the purchase. He only slipped
rapidly away and I followed. Finally,
after a chase of two blocks, he stopped
and made a motion of mystery.
"Sh-h," he whispered; "are you a
confidence man?"
"No. I merely want to know why
you purchase papers from such
places?"
"Oh, I do that to throw any confl
denrc men that may be following me
off the track," he retorted.
He only got my Ingersoll. It pays to
carry them.—Beau Broadway In New
York Telegraph.
his eyes moved restlessly from place 'the physic pulled him out all right, I d
to place, though he gazed most of the jes' as lief spend it that way as any
time upon the floor. His hands moved other.
nervously, and all the time he ^eemed "Bill wanted to know how 1 come to
to liavo a frightened look. A faint have money up thar in the mountings
trace of a smile came over his face, wliar thar wasn't no money spent,
and his dull eyes lighted up a little as 'Sold eggs an' bought it,' says I to
the foreman read the verdict of the him. Becase, you know, Jedge, I
jury, but he gave no other sign of emo- didn't think it was none of his busi-
tion, and almost Instantly relapsel ness if I did sell a little llcker now an'
Into his former listlessness again. j then.
Bill Duncan was Sim Bailey's neigh- "One day, after Bill an' his ole wo-
bor. They lived not half a mile apart' man had begun to mend a little, Bill
up near the head of Raccoon Run, one says to me, 'Sim, 1 reckon me an' the
of the wildest mountain regions in the ole woman had a pretty close call,'
state. In many miles they had no i says he.
other neighbors. They lived alone, | " 'Well, you was pretty had part o"
Sim in a small house by himself. Bill the time,' says I, 'but you're a-mendln'
with his Wife, and each one tilled a
little plot of ground. Each owned his
home, for It was built with his own
hands, of logs.
It began to be whispered about that
Sim was making moonshine whisky.
Bill Duncan know that the govern-
ment ofTers reward to Informers who
locate illicit stills and lead the officers
" "Pears like it's mighty slow mend-
In', though,' says he. 'You know, Sim,
I feel 's If a dram o' llcker would go
pretty good, only I know 't I ain't got
no llcker and I ain't got no money to
buy none neither. Maybe that's the
reason I want it, because I can't git It,
but It does seem as how't would taste'
to them, and, having from Sim's lips powerful good.'
How Men and Women Face Death.
How do men and women face death
when the sentence Is pronounced by
the doctor? A medical man tells us
• his experience. Tell the man of
higher type and greater intelligence,
he says, that he Is facing death, and
he begins to fight, demands a con-
sulfation, talks about going to special-
ists, and fights grimly to the finish.
Tell a woman the same facts, and she
"*• lies back to await her fate. All women
are fatalists. On the other hand, tell
a man that he has one chance In a
thousand to recover If he will undergo
an operation, and he will trust to his
own strength and endurance rather
than undergo the knife. The woman
will choose the thousandth chance,
and submit to the operation with as-
tounding calmness.—Chicago Journal.
Momentarily at a Loss.
The eminent detective had found a
clew to the mystery he bad been try-
ing to unravel.
"Ha!" he exclaimed. "I have it at
last! And now—"
Here he hesitated.
Mopping his perspiring brow, he
took out his pocket edition of the
Sherlock Holmes stories and eagerly
■canned lta pages to ascertain whether
the proper course after having discov-
ered a clew was to follow it up or to
run it down.
Grammar His Forte.
A Kansas school ma'am had a
world of trouble in teaching one of
her charges the intricacies of arith-
metic. The Job finally became so
arduous that she complained to the
child's father.
"Oh," said the fond pater, "never
mind my Jimmle about that. He
comes by It honestly. I always was a
. good graromatist, but a mighty poor
arithaieUcker."
Too Mueh of It.
Chauffeurs are ticklish things, and
the millionaire would proceed cau-
tiously.
"But," he said to the applicant,
"have you had much experience?"
The ruddy young man laughed loud.
"Experience!" he cried. "Experi-
ence! Why, I've held down 17 dif-
ferent Jobs in the last nine months."
Then 8ome One Would,
"If you conllhue in flip wny you are
going no one ^111 evor bo sincerely
aorry lor your death."
"Oh, 1 don't know, my wife may
Barry again."—Houston 1'osL
sufficient evidence, he set about to
convict his neighbor and bring himself
the reward.
And now Sim stood convicted. He
was about to receive his sentence,
after whicl^ Bill Duncan would receive
his reward. But Bill was not as happy
as he thought he would be. He tried
to look at Sim, but could not raise his
eyes. They wandered aimlessly across
the floor, seeing nothing, while a
strange sensation came over him, and
he wished he were at home.
"Sim Bailey," said the court, "have
you anything to say why the sentence
of the court should not be pronounced
upon you?"
"I don't know's I have, Jedge," said
film, "leastwise as to why you
shouldn't sentence me. But they's a
few things I would like to say so's to
git 'em off'n my mind, If you don't
keer."
"You may proceed," said the court.
"Well, first," and Sim stretched him-
self to his full height and gazed at his
accuser, "I want Bill Duncan to
square himself around here and look
me in the eye."
There was a dramatic pause. Sim
stood firm and erect, and every eye
was turned upon Bill Duncan, who
fidgeted nervously in his seat and
looked in every direction except
toward Sim. Once he attempted to
raise his eyes to look at Sim, but he
could not meet the firm, fixed gaze of
the man he had convicted, and he
dropped them quickly to the floor
again.
Sim turned toward the court. "You
see, Jedge, he can't do It," said he,
"and I couldn't neither, if I was In his
place. You know, Jedge, me and Bill
lives neighbors up on Raccoon. I live
nigh up to the head of the holler,' and
Bill he lives about half a mile furder
down. They ain't nobody else as llvos
nigh either one of us, but Bill la sort
o' curious like and a little hard to g^t
along with, so we hain't neighbored
much. But when I go apast his house
I most glnerally Btops to see how him
an' his ole woman is gittin' along.
"Hit was Jest after I had got my
corn crap cut 't I drapped in ons day
afore sundown to see how Bill an' his
ole woman was a-comln' on. I tiled to
holler 'em up, but couldn't ralae no-
body, only the dog. Then I went In
and opened the door, and thar laid Bill
an' his ole woman, both flat o' their
backs in bed.
" 'What's the matter, BII1T' says I.
" 'I reckon I've about come to the
•nd of my rope,' says Bill, sort o' fee-
ble like, and then he rolled over and
groaned.
"'Well, you do look pretty poorly,
you an' the ole woman, too, but you
hain't nowheres near the end of your
rope yit,' says I.
"Hit didn't take me long to find out
as how Bill an' hla ole woman both
had the fever. An' you know, Jedge,
when you got the fever you got to
have somebody to look after you and
give you physic. So I drawed some
water out o' the well and fetched a
gourd full and set It by the bed so's't
they could help thlerselves an' then I
started down t' the store to git some
physic. Hit's a right smart piece down
t' the store, an' fore I got back hit was
comln' nn night. But I given 'em both
some of the physic, an' then 1 'lowed
I'd git ' em a bite to eat, bocuue 1
kuowed they hadn't bad nothlu' to eat
"Now, Jedge, what would you 'a'
dono? I didn't want Bill to know 't I
was a-sellln' llcker, but he 'peered to
hanker so after a drink 't I went to
the still and got him a pint o' the best
I had. Bill's mouth watered when he
seen it, and he says, 'Sim, it ain't
right fur you to spend so much money
fur me—buyln' physic an' llcker fur
me jes' becase I'm too poorly to git
about. -I don't reckon I can ever pay
you back,' says he, but I 'lowed 't I
could spare all I had spent on him, an
't If he wanted to, when he got up
agin, he could help me hoe some corn
to make up for It.
"Then Bill, he taken a drink o' the
llcker an' smacked his lips an' says,
'That's "mighty fine llcker, Sim. What
did it cost you?'
"Now, Jedge, I never wanted to lie
so bad in all my life, fur I didn't want
Bill to know't I was a-makin' llcker,
because he never could keep nothln'
to hisself. So I didn't say nothin' at
all; but pretty soon BUI took another
swig an' smacked his lips agin an'
said, 'Sim, this is powerful fine llcker.
Where did you git it an' what did you
have to pay fur it?'
"Then I says to BUI, 'To tell you
the truth, BUI,' says I, 'It didn't cost
me nothln' only a little elbow grease.'
"Bill's eyes opened wide an' he said,
'Seeln' as how It don't cost you noth-
in' you might give me another bottle,
sence I'm so poorly.' So I give him
another bottle, an' the llcker seemed
to put new life in him. It wasn't long
till BUI could git about, and then his
ole woman she got better, too.
"One day I told Bill he would have
to care fur hisself now. I had cared
fur him nigh onto four weeks, an' fed
him an' the ole woman, an' now I had
a little work to do fur myself. You see,
Jedge, I wanted to make a little more
llcker, fur I was most out. I taken him
a bottle o' the llcker and a piece o'
bacon an' some meal, an' BUI said
he wished he knowed some way o'
making a little money so's't he could
buy some llcker when that waa gone.
An' I jes' laughed an' said 't It would
last him a right smart while ef he
didn't make a hog of hisself over It.
"An' the next time I seen Bill Dun-
can was the folierln' week, when him
an' the marshals ketched me makla'
llcker, and cut up my still, an' now
you aee why he won't look me In the
•ye.
"Now, Jedge, I don't deny that I
been makln' llcker, an' I hain't paid
no tax on it neither, but I swear to
God I won't never make no mora. I got
ketched an' I reckon It would servo
me right to go to Jail. I hain't got
nothln' to say why you ahouldn't send
me up. But with the penitentiary look-
In' me in the face, I want to ask you,
Jedge, to look at me an' then to look
at thla here man't has convicted me,
an' I ask you, Jsdga, or any other man
In this here courtroom, If you wouldn't
rather be Moonshine Sim than ole Bill
Duncan ?"
Sim Bailey stood In silence awaiting
kls sentence. Bill Duncan, stooped
and quivering, was gaslng at the floor.
Every other eye In the great court-
room wss upon the sturdy, bonoat
mountaineer, and the sllenoo waa
broken only by the Judge, who in a
husky voice remarked: "The court
will entertain a motion to set aside the
verdict of the Jury and grant Sim Bai-
ley a now trial.
5-Reasons Why-5
Reason No. 1 • Why was our sale «o well patron-
ized yesterday?
BECAUSE We advertised facts ^nd didn't try to
fool the public.
Reason No. 2» Why did the people buy in such
large quantities?
BECAUSE What we advertised we sold without
misrepresentation.
Reason No. 3 Why will our sale be a financial
success?
BECAUSE We only have a sale once each year
[ and do not try to fool the people with
a different story every week. WE
DON'T NEED THE MONEY.
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Reason No. 4 Why is this Proclamation Sale so
different from the so-called sales
that sprout up over night?
BECAUSE This is a genuine Bargain Feast.
Reason No. 5 Why do our competitors fight us
so hard?
BECAUSE It is life or death with them, they know
we are telling the people facts and will
do the business for 16 days and they
will try and get busy. But, alas, too
late, they have been dreaming and
have just awoke.
a
An Apology
to the Public!
We owe an apology to the buying public in
not being able to accommodate the immense
crowd that jammed our store during the day
yesterday. It was more than we expected on
the opening day. We were compelled to close
our doors off and on during the day in order to
wait apon the throng of people waiting to buy.
We have enlarged our selling force and for the
remaining 15 days we will be fully able to handle
and wait upon the customers.
If You want Real Bargains Look
for the Red Front
4
E. Leadbctter.
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