Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1896 — Page 18
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, HAY 10, 1890.
may be called old before they are oat of their teens; whereas American women as xi cla3 are at their finest development and most aerteably fill the eye when they have jia5ej beyond the age cf thirty." Kathryn Kidder paid: "Many of the lovliest and most popular women I know might be classed as oil mails, if any one wished to use that term In describing them. But I think the real meaning of the words is a ?upy. meddlesome busybody; queer in dress and manner; fonder of cat3 than of babies, and with no gool feelln;? and charity of heart toward her fellow beings. SJ-h women are old maids, no matter what age they may be. Hut on the contrary, think of the eweet. kind-hearted old maids that Mary K. Wilklns describes In many of her stories. While they have chosen to remain unmarried through some early disappointment in love, which would have left lighter natures untouched, they spend their days In doing good, ir looking after the sick aril the poor. Such old malls, I think, make the world a better place." ' LOCKER'S ru:3UMSCKXCES.
He Recall Some Interentlnjc Thine Aboat, George Eliot. itevicw in rsew a one un. Of George Eliot and George Henry Lewes Or author saw a good deal, and he gives us a vivid idea of both cf them. He say3 that "Nature had disguised' George Eliot's apparently stoical, yet really vehement and sensitive spirit, and her soaring, geniU3 In a homely and insignificant form. Her countenance was equine she was rather like a horse, and her head had been intended for a much longer body she was not a tall woman. She wore her hair in not pleasing, out-of-fashion loops, coming down on either side of her face, so hiding her ears: and her garments concealed her outline they gave her a -waist like a milestone. You will see her at her very bst in the portrait by Sir Frederic Burton. To my mind George Eliot was a plain .woman. Sne had a measured "way of conversing, restrained, but impressive. When I happened to call, she was nearly always seated In the chimney corn:r on a low chair, and she bent forward when she spoke. As she often discussed abstract subjects, she might have been thought pedantic, especially as her language was sprinkled with a scientific terminology; but I do not think she was a. bit of a pedant. Then, though she had a very gentle voice and manner, there was, every now and then. Just a suspicion of meek satire in her talk, iler sentences unwound themselves very neatly .and completely, leaving the impression of' past reflection and present readiness: she spoke exceedinly well, but not with ad 'the simplicity and verve, the happy abandon of rertaln practiced women of the world; however, l was in a way that was far more Interesting. I have been told that she was most agreeable en tete-a-tete: that when surrounded by admirers she was apt to become oratorical a different woman. She did not ktrlke me as witty or markedly humorous: she wa3 too much in earnest) she spoke as if with a sense Df. responsibility, and one canrot be exactly captivating when one i3 doing that. Madame de Sable might have said cf her. 'elle s' -ecouta en parlant She was a It appears that when our author first became acquainted with them he was told that she and Lewes had been married In Germany. Assuming this to have been the case, he asked them to dine with .Mm. to meet Dean Stanley and his wife. Lady Augusta. The Stanleys appreciated the dinner; they dfd not think Mr. Lewes attractive, but they were interested in her. The Dean was considerably taken aback, however, when he , subsequently learned that Mrs. "Lewes was in no way Mr. Lewes's wife. It is well known that George Eliot'a mere transcendental friend3 never forjrave her for her second marriage. In a morally Immoral manner they . washed their virtuous hands of her. Our author, for his part, thought it the most natural thing for the poor woman, to- do. She was a heavilyladened, but interesting, derelict, drifting among the breakers, without oars or ruddr. when, all at once, the brave Cross arrived, threw, her a rope and gallantly towed her Into harbor. Mr. Locker feels sure that "she was very sensitive, and must have had many a painful half hour as the helpmeet of Mr. Lewe3. Ry accepting the position she had placed herself in opposition to the moral instincts of most of those whom she held dear. Though Intellectually self contained, I believe she was singularly dependent on the emotional side of her nature. With her. as with nearly all omen, something was needed to lean upon. Though her conduct was socially Indefensible, it would have been cruel, it would be stupid to Judge her exactly as one would Judge an ordinary offender. What a genius she must have, bad to be able to draw so many high-minded people to her! I have an impression that she felt her position acutely. - and was unhappy. Mr. Locker adds: 'Those who saw more of George Eliot than I did tell me that as Mrs. Cross he seemed a changed woman: she was more natural, more cheerful, happier." e fnnnnt pvpn mess what is meant by the following enigmatic sentence: "A good deal Is known of Georgo Eliot's early lift whlch,city." As" "for George Her.ry Lewes.' he Is here derlbed a very clever, acuteand vivaclous, with an essentially all-round Intelligence, able to turn the talent that was in him to full and immediate account. His hostile critics sa'd that he was literary among men of science and scientific amongliterary men. Unquestionably he was one cf the ugliest men in England. Nor was his ugliness of the grotesque, startling, haunting type exemplified in Victor Hugo's VL'Homme qui rtt." He was slmp'.y a commonplace, uninteresting, repulsive plalnWe are told, nevertheless, that he is credited with having been a Lothario, who could have boasted "personne ne connalt la puissance de ma belle laiJeur." but when Cdr. Locker knew b!m It was said that George Eliot cr time had tamed him. He had lonsr hair, and his dress was an unlovely compromise between morning- and evening costume, combining the least pleasing points of both. The opinion is here expressed that Lewes was a good-tempered, person, and it is averred that nothing could have exceeded his devotion Jo George Eliot, for he was ever on the alert to shield her from worries and annoyance. nCTEOnS THAT REACH THE EARTH. Xlaose) StruBKe Vlnltors from Space Are Alike In Their Nature. Gt. Nicholas.' - Ail of you have been out of doors on a cloudless evenlag. and have seen a star apparently fall from its place In the sky and glide la a Ions line of liffht toward the norizon. ' Perhaps you have wondered, as I used to do, how .'long .it. would be before the stars would all be gone from the sky, since one fell so often. I did not then know, what I have learned, since, that "shooting stars" are not true stars at all, but only bodies which appear for an instant and then disappear forever. Let us call them meteors, and thus avoid confounding them with real stars, for ral star are as enduring as anything in the universe. In common, speech, however, the term meteors is largely confined to those shooting etars which are very large and bright, and are seen only now and then. Sinfe they do not, however. dltTer from the shooting stars In any important respect, so far as we Know. most of the learned scholars who make a study of. such . subjects consider them the same. '. Now, If meteors never came any nearer , the earth than do those which we so often see we should know nothing more about them than what we could learn from their lLrht. and that would be very little. Rut It sometimes happens that one of them can be seen coming directly down to the-earth. It makes a bright little light as It falls, sometimes so Intense as to out shine the sun when that is in the sky. Sometimes "tho meteor carries with it a t am rr M mnA fall m ft V a hiulnc spluttering noise, throwing out showers of c parks as It descends. L dually, too. loud a.. A. a a a . . . . . ...... " a . n . reports are heard as It passes inrouvn tho air, as if aerial armies were cannonading one another; anl as the sound of the con flict dies away, long rolls of echoing thun der shake tha earth. Vh;n the astonished peoo!i thereabout M . a rave recovered irom ineir in;nj anj m.ten to the spot where the meteor has struck the earth they sometimes fini buried in the soil If the soil has any depth i piece of stone or metal, orten no larger than a hen s egg, but sometimes olj enough to le of eeveral hundred pounds weight. It is usually still hot if p,.",l:M up very oon after its fall, and its surface will be found to be covered by a thin crut or arnish, male by the melting and flowing of Its outsile. This crust on he stones is usually Mack, while the Interior is light Cray In color; on the pieces of metal it is of a rusty brown color, and th-? interior of the mass nlckeltwaue. The surface or thfse bodies can b scn. too. to be i.-dentei by little -nits or. hollows which lxk fvr all the world as if the mass had onc- teen soft as a piece of iutty. and some one had pressed It With his tnurr.D in many Diac.3. . She Mlnntlertool. lies ton Transcript. Out at Arlington helots there 5s an ex cellent veteran of the war. a pensioner, who ften we?.rs h!s blouse of blue and Grand Army hat. and who on occasion takes peop.e up on the heights ar.a explains to them the wonderful view, that Is spread out before them. Not leng ago he performed this pleaeant service for a couple of young ladies. who were much int-rsted in his discourse. He had with him the fine o.d military field glass which h always carries to the hill tops, and on the descent he chanced to re mark to th' young ladU that he had "carried it all through the service." "All throurh the service." ai 1 one of tho younj? Udifes, musingly; "what for? To look at the minister?" And the veteran is still wondering whether it was cf any use to fight, bleed ted die for one's country after all. ... .
CURE OF CRIMINALS
Jilt. CHAIILCS DUDLEY 1VARXEII JIECOM3ICXDS A HEROIC IIE3IEDV. 'risona for Flmt Offender Should De Reformatories Life Term for a. Second Felony Other Views. New York Mail and Express. The gradual and continuous increase n the number cf criminals In the State of New York has reached a point which thoughtful students in sociology regard as a grave menace to the peace and safety of communities, and the seeking of a remedy is beginning1 to awaken gen eral attention. The annual report of Secretary of State Palmer shows that there were 71,431 con victions in this State last year, against 63.14C In 1834, an Increase of 3,343 In one year. The classifications of the convictions In the courts of record are as folows; For crimes against the person 1.0S6, Increase 543; against property with violence 376, increase 42; against property 1,913, Increase C63; against the currency laws 90, increase 2; offenses not under these heads 611, increase 278. No crime of any description shows a decrease. As a matter oi pudiic im portance and Interest the Mail and Express has sought the opinion of several gentlemen qualified to speak from study and experience on the subject, and to secure from them suggestions as to how the alarming growth of the criminal population may be diminished or at least retarded. They do not all agree as to the means, but they are unanimous as to the necessity for the Introduction of re formatory methods superior to those now in practice. Charles Dudley Warner, litterateur and author, has given the subject of criminology careful and patient study in all Its aspects. lie believes in heroic treatment of the Incorrigible and reformatory discipline for the reclalmable. "Sentimentality has no place In seek ing to devise the best system to treat the criminal population of communities," said Mr. Warner. "We muat go at it practically and deal with It s we would with any important social problem. Our present penal laws and institutions are admittedly absurd and Ineffective. We have prisons in every State in the Union, all filled, all filling, and all emptying and all refilling with the same material. It is a sort of rascally rotation. The num ber of criminals, instead of growing smaller, grows larger, and the law-abld-inc: citizens of all towns and cities are I a . a kept in a constant state of apprehension instead of feeling that sense of security which the knowledge of tire existence ot such a number of correctional institu tions should give. " - I "The records of our courts speak for themselves. They show that felons are captured, indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced and sent to jail to serve a specified term, and then liberated to resume their unlawful occupation and con tinue it until again captured, again con victed and again sentenced. The people pay for the support of their enemies, and without any guarantee of immunity from depredation.' The average State s prison releases a convict In a worse condition physiologically and psychologically than when he entered its door. He is. in nine cases out of ten, not as good a man morally when he comes out as when he goes in, simply because he has been kept in confinement as one of the lower animate might be kept, without any at tempt to reach his better nature. If he has any, and to expand and change his warped and distorted ideas of the duty he owes his fellow man. TO JAIL FOR LIFE. "I do not believe that the habitual criminal the man who refuses to live except by preying upon his fellows should have any interval of liberty at all. He should be kept permanently con fined, and when I say permanently I mean It in the fullest sense of the word. A second offense of an aggravated nature should be sufficient to indicate that the offender had deliberately chosen to declare himself an enemy of society, and this declaration should be sufficient to restrain him of his liberty forever there after. There Is no half-way ground In my opinion. "The Idea may not commend Itself to kind-hearted but credulous old ladles. who would feed crlmlns on a choice diet, give them soft beds to sleep on and make their stay in Jail a pleasure Instead of a punishment. That sort of treatment, instead of repressing crime, encourages it. The thief, the thug, the burglar who knows that he Is to be treated with ten der care Instead of with firm but humane severity, has nothing to deter him from continuing on in his course. When he knows positively that there Is no possi ble loophole by which he can escape a life Imprisonment in event of his apprehension he Is likely to seek a method of livelihood that will not make him amenable to the law. That is the hard, practical view of it and not the sentimental." "What would you substitute for the present system?" "In the first place," replied Mr. Warner, "I would change all places of confinement of criminals to places of reform of crimlnils. The Idea is not chimerical. It is not theoretical. It is based upon tried and successful application. The Elmira reformatory has demonstrated that it is possible to actually reform. The records of that institution show that 80 per cent, of Its inmates abandon a criminal career upon thdr release. This Is due to the awakened and cultivated faculty of self-respect, which. In the ordinary State's prison, is permitted to lie dormant, and is never roused into activity. In Elmira the theory which has been found to be most excellent practice Is that the inmates should be convinced that they can work out their own temporal salvation. They are given to understand that they are there to pay a certain debt which they owe the public, and "that after it fs liquidated they will be reasonably assisted to keep out of further debt thereafter. "An endeavor is made " to stimulate them Into an appreciation of what it means to be honest, straightforward and manly. Genuine effort to advance Is rewarded. " Dogged refusal Is punished. The mental activity that competition brings Is carefully developed. Those Inmates who evince a genuine desire to reform and the officials quickly detect hypocritical Intent are encouraged to go on by being Invested with a certain amount of harmless authority In the various departments into which the Institution Is divided. They are kept at work so that ' idleness will not be a temptation to plot mischief. "The only trouble with Elmira Is that its offlcials are not given sufficient power In the matter of determining how long x prisoner should remain under their control. That Is a most important matter, and really one of the fundamental principles In the discussion of the subject. I believe that sentences should be Indeterminate; that the men in whose care the criminal. Is placed rhould be the Judges of the length of time which he should remain in confinement. I apply this not only, to Elmira, but to the reformatory system generally if the Elmira plan should be substituted for our present methods. AMBITION AWAKENED. "With a fixed and definite knowledge of the time he Is to walk out of the prison doors, the average professional criminal keeps himself on his good behavior. Not because his nature has changed, but because he knows that misconduct will add to his time behind the bars. So he is good for policy's sake. MIf he were serving an indeterminate
sentence under the constant observation of. keen and alert watchers, whose sole business" was to study him and distinguish sham reformation from - genuine reformation, he would soon bend every energy toward gaining his freedom. This very effort would call ambition and pride into play, and with these faculties in constant use the grosser faculties would become subordinated and under more complete subjection. "In order that there could be no deception even after this elaborate precaution had been taken I would have the man report regularly to the police at certain intervals for, say, a year or eighteen months. If at the end of that period he showed no disposition to offend a second time the surveillance could close. To carry this out logically It would be necessary to have It plainly and distinctly understood and made a matter of general public knowledge" that a second transgression meant irrmediate deprivation of liberty and. a ife Imprisonment without the right of appeal. "I believe it is possible by the means which I have briefly outlined to divide the criminal population into two classes the reclalmable and the Irreclaimable. Society should not be forced to bear the burden of expense which the complicated machinery of the law now entails in winding this endless chain of crime. It vfould cost less and be of vastly more benefit to' the community to keep the habitual criminal continuously under lock and key than to arrest him, release him and rearrest him, paying roundly for each process." W. M. F. Round, of the Prison" Reform Association of New York, who is one of the best known penologists in the country, in speaking of Mr. Warner's views on the subject of criminals and their
treatment, said recently: "I agree with Mr. Warner In many respects, but It seems to me that he goes a little too far In what he says. He is a little too severe and intolerant, it seems to me. Those who have had. most to do with criminals know that many who are at first considered hopeless coses eventually have been reformed. There is really no such thing as an irreclaimable case. The only difficulty is that we have neither the time nor the means of reaching the cases which seem to us hopeless It is right that it should be so, tor. Our time must and ought to be given to those who really wish to reform. We might reach a hundred men while lighting one stubborn case. It is for this reason, really, that we term certain classes habitual criminals. Mr. Warner saj-s that he thinks that after a second conviction for a felony the felon should be committed to prison for the rest of his life. I think that is going a little too far. The law in Ohio seems to be a pretty good one. There after a third conviction for felony the offender receives a life sentence. The plan works very well. A REFORMER'S IDEA. "Then, too, the indeterminate sentence Is Imposed In nearly all cases in that State. It rests entirely with the managers of the penal and reformatory Institutions how long a prisoner shall, be detained. Of course, under this system it is necessary to have men of the greatest knowledge and skill at the head of such institutions. ' I myself wish that our reformatory work , could have a wider field. There should be plenty cf prison labor and the prisons should be made reformatories. The men should be shown how to earn their living and taught how to be honest and upright. The idea of parole is, of course, good, and we have found that it works very satisfactorily in the case of men who are paroled from Elmira. They are most uf them paroled in the care of our association, and they report here at designated intervals. "The cry has been raised that if the men released from State's prison were treated in this .way they would not report. I think that they would. The plan of police supervision is, of course, out of the question. The police have other things to do, and they do not take much stock In the reformation of criminals. As a rule the police would not believe that a man had reformed. A criminal once, a criminal always is their motto. "We find, however, that the young .ien who come from Elmira do report with considerable regularity. "The most available figures in regard to this point I have at hand are for the year ending Oct. 31, 1894. In that year there were paroled from Elmira 406 young men. Of that number ninety-two stopped reporting and broke their parole. Of this ninety-two fifteen were returned to the reformatory and five were sent to State prison. That; I think, 'Is a pretty good showing. It certainly shows that most of those who have had the benefits of the reformatory are reformed, and that, of course, is all that we are aiming at "I wish heartily that we could see an indeterminate sentence law passed; that we could see all prisoners under reformatory treatment for the first and second offenses, meaning by offenses felonies, and after that life Imprisonment. It would be a good thing for every one. Criminals, would be fewer, property would be safer and the expense to the State would be much lighter. ' Chief of Police Conlln was too busy to give very much time to a consideration of Mr. Warner's views, but he at'orue had something to say about the posslbility of the police keeping watch over paroled prisoners. He evidently under stood "surveillance" to mean that the police should be employed to watch re leased convicts, when Mr. Warner's id?a was that "surveillance" meant the per sonal report of the ex-prisoner. "Such a course would be utterly Im possible. How could we follow these men? Even now there are about four hundred men paroled each year from Elmira. The great . majority of them ccme here. The only way we could keep track of them would be to keep them al ways in sight. The absurdity of such a proposition does not have to be demon A A. siraiea. air. warner is pretty severe upon the offenders, it seems to me. There are many cases where a man will be trying to reform, and yet commit a second offense. "Would it be right to send that man to prison for life? To give him no other chance to. reform? It seems to me we have still enough of the teachings of Christ left in our hearts to know better than that. Is there any mercy or charity In such a proposition? I am afraid Mr. Warner has not given the subject of crime and criminals very deep thought or he would not have taken the stand he. has. Iffiilly agree with all that he says in regard to trying to reform prisoners. There cannot be , too much of that sort of work attempted." IV II EX A WIDOW WEDS. The Proper ThlnR When Contracting? n Second Marriage. Philadelphia Telegraph. The widow's engagement ring is now a peridot," which, in reality, is an Indian chrysolite, and a deep leaf-green in color. The peridot ring is set -about with diamonds, and when it arrives the lady gives her first engagement ring to her eldest daughter and her wedding rin? to her eldest son. One week before the wedding a stately luncheon is given to the nearest and dearest of clJ friend of the bride-to-be. After the engagement's announcement she appears at no public functions. At the altar her ilrr gs may be of any subdued shade. To make up for the absence cf veil and orange blossoms profusions of white lace trim the skirt and waist of the bridal gown en secondes noces. Even the bonnet is of white lace, and the bouquet is preferably of white orchids, and up tae aisle the lady goes, hanJ-In-hand with her youngest child, no matter whether it Is a boy cr a girl. The little one wears an elaborate white costume, holds the bride's bouquet and precedes the newly-married pair to the church doer. Where there is a laree family of children and a desire, on the widow's rart for a trifle more display than is usually accorded on such occasions all of her daughters In light gowns and bearing big bouquets, support the'r mother at the altar. An informal little breakfast now follows th? ceremony. Such a breakfast is scarcely more than a light, simple luncheon, served from the buffet, wound up by weeding cake and a toasting posse:; but the bride of a second marriage does not distribute cake nor her bouquet among her friends. Her carriage horses do not wear favors, either, though shoes and rice can be freely scattered in her wake; and, to the comrort and economy of her friends she does not expect anytr :ng elaborate in the way of wedding
M'COY-HATFIELD FEUD
THE GREAT INTERSTATE STRIFE OF THE LAST DECADE. It Started Over a Uer Coe and Lasted Many Year ReruuclIlatlon, 3Iarder "and Retaliation.' New York Times. The recent" myste'rjous murder near Huntington, W.- Va cf Robert McCoy, of the. mountaineer 'family, of Pike county, Kentucky, "arfd the suspicion that the Hatflelds werenalxerd up in his disappearance, 'recalls '.memories of the great McCoy-Hatfield feud,r which was one of the most sensational subjects for the last generation'. . me icv;oy-aineia reua nas iong ucen considered an incident, of. the past. It was believed the twb factions had become so scattered and .punished that they .would not renew It. . During the time it lasted, however, it formed one of the most romantic episodes in the history of the two States Concerned Kentucky and West Virginia. The utter disregard of human life, the frontier lawlessness jfrV" the center of Eastern civilization, the daring rides of parties into the two,SJates, killing, burning and kidnaping, and the actions of the two Governors, each apparently endeavoring to shield his? own outlaws, furnished details of a romantic story that caught the attention of the wnole Nation. The Americanized "venifetta was more interesting than the Original. Several causes forthe feud have been given. The real causeY however, was the utter lawlessness of the region in which it raged. The region is mountainous, without railroads, and with only ill-kept wagon roads, unfit llor any but the roughest wagons. Schools were hardly known among the mountaineers. Few' churches were to be found within a day's journey, and these were generully kept open only during revival time. Education and christian influence, therefore, had but little opportunity for operation. Added to this, there was tut little disposition to enforce the law. Officers and courts yv' so incompetent that the, settlers generally found more satisfaction to themselves in taking the law into their ownhands, and bettled their disputes by main force. The traffic in illicit whisky was a fruitful source of contempt for the law. Many mountaineers kept their quiet stills where they manufactured their "moonshine" whisky; ind the men of the country round seemingly felt called upon to aid this illegal trarnc, while the women, who had buttery litle influence with their lords and masters, did not count. Few of them, anyway, could comprehend the enormity of the conditions under which they were living. The Hatflelds and the McCoys were the leading families on the opposite sides of the Little Tug river,-which separates the two States. "Olcl Itand'l" (Randolph) .McCoy, the . head of his family, lived on the Blackberry branch of Pond creek, in Pike county, Kentucky, while near him, in Logan county, -West Virginia, lived "Bad Ansa-(Anderson) Hatlield, the head of hlsvfamlly. The two factions wenl very large. All the mountain famillies are unusually large, and these two"1' -were extremes. Kinfolk, bound to the; head of the family by the strong ties that are bound up in the Southern term "kin," lived all around them. The two families were also Intermarried In a few Instances. . BEGINNING OF teTROUBLK. The trouble arose during the days of the war, wlien'the McCoys had a band of riders on one side and the Hatflelds on the other. These bands were ostensibly organized for the protection of property during the war, but they, were often engaged in pillage, and-they often came into each other's territory. . The first death in the feud came about through a dispute overtwo of the sharpnosed, razor-backed hogs that are the indispensable possessions of almost every mountaineer family-, Floyd Hatfield, who lived near old Rand'l McCoy, was accused of stealing two hogs from the latter. He retorted that the hogs were his property, and the "case was brought before a local magistrate and settled in favor of Hatfield, i- u . - Soon after the trial Randolph McCoy and two of his sons "came upon Floyd Hatfield. Deacon Eltison Hatfield, the latters brother, young Bill Stayton and some others, who were , fishing. A dispute over the hog cae; arose, in the course of which Randolph McCoy ac cused young Stayton's" father, brother-in-law of Floyd Hatfield, of having. perjured himself at the trial. Young Stayton, a boy of eighteen,', resented this and knocked the old man down with a stone. The younger McCoys were prevented from taking vengeance then, but six months later young Stayton .was shot dead at one of the Pike county creeks. There seems to be no doubt that he was waylaid by Parish 'and Sam McCoy, nephews of Randolph,"-though the two boys, when arrested, were acquitted in the court of Justice Wall Hatfield. A truce was effected," however, through the influence of a candidate in Pike county, for whom both -of. the families were working on election day, the Hatflelds showing their neighborly feeling by coming Into the State of Kentucky and helping their friend.! Another cause of Ill-feeling, however, came up soon after. This was a case of love, not ideal, but .having elements of romance In It. Rosa. Anna McCoy had become intimate with! "Jonce" (Johnson) Hatfield, and thus the-heads of the two houses had paternal motives for keeping peace. After a time, however, "Jonce" Hatfield grew distasteful to the McCoys, and two of the sons of Randolph, with a party of others, set out. to bring him to justice, many indictments being out against him in Kentucky. He was caught at ly rendezvous with the McCoy girl, and was taken Into custody. She secured a horse from her father's barn and made her way over the terribly rough roads,: in the dark night, and alarmed "Bad Ahse" Hatfield .and his household. The Hatflelds soon made up a strong party, lay in wait for the McCoys and their prisoners." and rescued the son of their leader. It seems almost miraculous that no blood was shed on this occaslony.'as both parties were ready to fight. The girl was afraid to return to her father until a year later, when she and her child were turned out from the house of the Hatflelds. No bloodshed marked the rivalry between the two families for the next two years. At the Pike county election, in August, 18S2, however,-came the fatality that started the reign of murder. A relative of both the Hatflelds and McCoys was a candidate for office, andithe leaders of the two factions again came together to work for his election. A DESPERATE FIGHT. During the day Illicit whisky was freely given to the men of both factions, and in the afternoon' they were feeling very belligerent, and only a little Incident was needed to start a fight. This came when Talbot McCoy met Ellas Hatfield, known as "Bad "Lias," and demanded $1.75 that . had been borrowed from him. Hatfield denied the debt, and McCoy immediately threw him down and began to poured him; In the midst of this operation. Deacon Ellison Hatfield, carrying a large pocket knife, and EJia's, his brother, carrying a
pistol, appeared, and several of the Mc
Coy faction gathered around, armer McCoy carrying a pistol. The constable pretended to arrest 'iaibot McCoy, but the generally peaceful Deacon Hatfield, now fired with corn whisky, dared the other fight a man his size, and Talbot drew out a knlte UKe that held by the Deacon. The two closed and fought for a long time. After cutting McCoy once Hatfield's knife closed on his hands, and he threw it away and used only his fists, while McCoy used his knife with terrible effect. and little Budd McCoy, only nine years? J um, biuuu in me trowu aim uscu auumn 1 ,3 n 1 f A 1 s a . . a nnnhf I knife on Hatfield whenever he had a chance.. ' " In snite of this, however. Hatfield threw McCoy to the ground and seized a large jagged stone. He was holding this, and about to strike Talbot when Farmer McCoy shot him and knocked him over. Farmer McCoy Immediately droppeox his pistol and fled up the road. Ellas Hatfield shot at him five times, and then, with constable Hatfield, pursued him on foot. They overtook him and arrested him, with Talbot and young Randolph McCoy, who was accused of having cut Ellison Hatfield, though it was af terward proved that he was mistaken . for, his brother Budd. - i Ellison Hatfield died the. following Wednesday. He had been cut xwenty-i seven times, besides being shot. The three McCoys were taken to the house of John Hatfield Monday night by the officers, but in the morning about seventy Hatflelds gathered and took them away from the officers, drove them along to a secluded cabin, tortured them in many ways, and waited, to see if , Ellison Hatfield would die. , - When his death came Wednesday, a swift messenger took the'ttewstd,.'thei Hatfield party and they notified - their prisoners of the fate that was in store. The pleadings of the mother and wife of Talbot McCoy had no effect on their captors, while the men of the McCoy family did nothing to help them. That night they were taken to the Kentucky side, tied upright, and the men were shot, while the boy was left there to moan. It occurred to the party afterward, however, that the boy knew them all, and one was sent back to kill him. A man, supposed to be Alex. Messer, returned to the boy and fired -two barrels of buckshot into his head. The coroner's jury next day, under Coroner Joseph Hatfield, brought in a verdict that the men had come to their death at the "hands of persons unknown," and the bodies were delivered to the McCoys, who had them decently buried. They made no attempt, however, to take vengeance. The Hatflelds seemed now possessed of a determination to kill old Randolph, the head of the McCoy family. They made an ambush for him in June, 1884, when he was known to be attending court, and only a mistake as to the Identity of the men prevented their success. Two witnesses at the trial happened to be dressed precisely the same as Randolph and Calvin McCoy, and to bear very much the same appearance. In the dusk they were the recipients of the bullets from the Hatfield rifles, and were maimed for life. A WOMAN KILLED. Soon after this a Hatfield raid was betrayed to the McCoys, and they escaped. The wife, and mother-in-law of a Bill Daniels, one of the Hatfield faction, were suspected of betraying the secret. Consequently, one night Captain Hatfield and Tom Wallace went to Daniels's house, cowed him by covering him with a loaded shotgun, and brutally beat both women, breaking ribs and other bones, 6o that one died and the other Buffered the rest of her life. As a result of this another McCoy was killed, this time Jeff, brother of Mrs. Daniels. He was enticed into an ambush by "Bad Anse" Hatfield, who agreed to help him catch Tom Wallace. He was taken prisoner, and was being led along by a mounted man, when he saw a chance to escape. He ran across fields, crossed the Tug river, and was escaping on the hillside, when one of the several shots fired after him killed him. The Governors of the two States now became mixed in tha affair. Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, offered. large rewards for the "Hatflelds chiefly con-, cerned, and asked for a requisition from the Governor of West Virginia, Governor Wilson, however, refused to grant it for a long time, and it was not until the close of 1887 that the real work of suppressing the feud was begun. In that year, however, a noted character, one Frank Phillips, a deputy sheriff, took the matter In hand, revived the spirits of some of the McCoys and their friends, and began raiding West Virginia. ' Phillips had supposed that a requisition was coming from the Governor of West Virginia,, but he did not wait for it. He set out for the heavy rewards that had been offered for the Hatfield leaders. His first raid was made Dec' 9, 1887, in company with some of the McCoys, and he brought to Virginia one Tom Chambers. The second raid' was made Dec. 20, and Selkirk McCoy and Jeff Christian, two of the Hatfield faction, were taken from McDowell county. West Virginia, to the Pike county Jail, in Kentucky. The last raid of the Hatflelds was 1- J At-t A. i T maue in revenge ior mis action, ixew Year's night nine Hatflelds, led by old Jim Vance, attacked the house of old Rand'l McCoy. Two girls were In one end of the house, and one, Allaphare McCoy, who answered the knocking at che door, was shot by Ellison Mounts by order of Vance. The house was then set on fire and the door on the other end was shot to pieces. Old Rand'l put out the fire with buttermilk from a churn, and shot off the four fingers from the hand of Tom, Mitchell as he was reaching up with the torch under the roof. Calviri McCoy from the attic also shot at the attacking party and drove them under cover. . Mrs. McCoy started from the door to go to her daughter who had been' shot, but Jim Vance broke two ribs with the butt of his gun and struck her on the head with his pistol, stunning her. Cal vin McCoy was driven from the attic by the fire, and ran for a corn crib one hundred yards away. He was killed when he had almost reached it. 'The old man ran the gantlet in safety, however. Then the gang went away, and two girls and little Melvin McCoy, . the son of Jonce Hatfield, ran out. Phillips led another raid six daysjater and killed old Jim Vance after a hard fight and captured several of the Hatfields. A number of raids followed, until the Hatflelds were driven to take refuge in the mountains, and the feud, was prac tically ended. There were a number of incidents afterwards and complications between the Governors of the two States. Some of the Hatflelds were sent to prison and others were hanged. The feud, however, became almost dead after the raids of Phillips. PROFITABLE PEDDLIXU. Lucrative Ilualnesa Done by a MllHlppl Man In Africa. Buffalo Courier. If the story of Henry Moore, peddler. Is true any man with gumption and nerve can make millions in Africa, and that without digging for them in King Solo mon's mines. This Henry Moore used to live In Cor inth, Miss., and made little stir in the world. He had a Job now and then, but It never lasted long, and he drifted from town to town In an aimless way. One day he shipped as common sailor on a tramp steamer for the east coast of Afri ca. The vessel stopped there long enough to show him that In that region some sorts of merchandise were worth almost their weight in gold. The ship traded her cargo for Ivory and woods and sailed for Liverpool with Moore aboard. The moment he reached England he Invested all his wages In trinkets and worked his way back to Africa. Filling a pack with his goods he strapped It on his back and set out to cross the dark continent afoot. 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