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Show A MOU.NTAIX TRAGEDT. T1IK SAP FATIt OF THE JIOOXSIIIX-' KltS KIIVITIVOI. DAroiITKB. ChatUti&oga. Tcnn.. OaU 23. In Uie nututun of 15 I wriu up Into the mountains of eastern Kentucky ti IiMk at Mui timber Isuu I wain-etl wain-etl to Iiuy. It was one of those oIilen diys, auJ I c-iultetl in the-beauty the-beauty of Uie scenery. The last yellow rays of the Kiu were still llogtrins on the mountain tops, when a tall man with matve frame and loufj white hair which werellon-inic over shoulders which were bent a with av-; passttl us, walking slowly down the mountain nsth. I could not see his fact, but there was something about his movement which attrat ted my attention. at-tention. 'Who Is llutt ntar.?" I a'keJ of the mouDtilmtr who wa. aelinK as uurirultle. Thet air ole John Wileon. llu. nluo brn't quite right since he lol his (laugh, r He' been to her grave now, 1 rccKou, au'Isrpiri liack t thnrave wliar he meks his home, lie don go sith no oue no more." Wheu tl!J his daughter die," I asked. "Wall, I reckon Ifn len about twoyar. I'll show you u-Jiarliea lAirl-ni dlreckly." Wo Iiad iirocpttletl but a few yarJs when we come to a dtserteit cabin, the windows of which were tightly .-iuecd. liilront of this cabin w a mound, and at itf heal a rude sUliou which was tinted In bold k-ttere. ? "Susis: "The only one who loved me and I shot her. J6HX Wilso.n." I liad a sense of horror as I reau the strange Isscrlplion. The slorj (io-iesl n peculiar fa'dnatlon foi me. Iartly from my guide anu partlvlram others I learned thefacU, and here tbeynri-: i ears belore, when John WlNou as but a youth, he came to tbU nounlaln and builthls cabin. Then, in the creek in the valley, three .uiles l!ow, he orintd a country .tore. He was far fujrior to the shii!c motintaiu foil", and his im-tncuso im-tncuso ftrrngtli, his itron Intellect, Intel-lect, and his knowledge of books mule him n h-ader. .No oueltucw from whence he came, except that he wai rald lu the city, aud at first his neighbors w ere distrustful jf him. Hut this toou wore away, and nothing could te done on trie ujutitam ride lu wnich he did Uu, ike the most prominent pirt. Mr rought a youni- wife with him.anu togetlicr tlit-y lived lu the cabin be had built. 1 lie jean -assvd by, and for tlint country, where niouey is .oarce alul iiceus are few for whhh uunry Is wanted, the ttorckccei ;rc- to be a wealthy man. Lie w a: i natural athlete, aud cculd ruu fiter, leap farther, shoot straightei and ride lielter than any man in the spniveiy settled country. For years JiU life WW aliappy iue, and a little daughter Was iwru unto the young -vniplc. In the morning; and cveuins Vi!on Cheerful whlille could ue beuru as ne los-eil from the cabin to the stole aud luck again. A the baby icw he ti.iil tn take her on his loci; and carry her to the store, n he re i-hc was eoutent to play until he was ready to jo home. Sht was the pride of the in junUln s !e. Hut one day a stranger nprearcd ou themouutain. Hewaswrlldret-d, md tne simple mouu al leers re rartied him with susplcun. Tli. ext day he was gone, anJJohii Wilson's wife had ilL-n;artil, never to return. Noone knewanj. thing further; but the stortlietjvr no lontrer whNtled as he went to the tore. An almost savage tierceneu came npvii lilm espvp- to little Siu-Ie, Alio wasalitays i,y uls tide, or l-ing l-ing e-arrled on his hack. If she hi eliiud a lxt.-c in the store, It Wu.-jathclic Wu.-jathclic to hear hjm call, "Susie, iv l,atiy'" And the elilld wuut. run out and throw her arras nrojnJ nun and lauh. wnl.f the tran ild come tiuelddru to the slrunP uan'j eyes' aa he stroked her hal, tud ihbled her for frightening liin. y ninuingaway. When she tta iider tliey would sit in their cabn loo.-, and lie would tvoeli herb ead. Vcver for a moment wert diey separated, these two; and a Jie years pasted bysomtthing of tin ild time gaiety came Ia': toJohti Wilson. I1ti1lI3-ears0IdSusI0 wa3scn o the city to school, and there she remained fouryears. Oncca month uer father went to vWt her, anu Jien he would come bak aud tah jp his ordinary duties inn jierfuni-tury jierfuni-tury way, as If his thoughts wen Aith his daughter in the distant tty. livery night a little knot ot aen met at Ills l;o-;e,atiti it was not long liefore thegavtrnmeut olllclals learucvi that the atrunsest ori-anizA Uon of the moonshiners in the State ve-re ojieratlng somewhere ainonft there mou lit ttni, and the,) believed that John W1U011 was tile leader. During all these years he had helu aloof from these men, except thai they knew him to be a man who cuuld be trusted, and v. lieu he built tsilll down 011 Hits creek below his store they at, once acknowledge) him as their leadtr. Why lie went into it 110 one will ever know. Raid after raid was made, but John Wilson Wil-son was too shrewd to l-v captured, and the cH'ccrs went away without having detected him or any of his men. For I u-o years he ran hU still, the largest In to mountain?, when lib daughter, now grown into joung womanhood, returned from school. She was a beautiful girl, and het pretly drt-s.es neeroed strangely out of place among thie rude mountain folic. She went with her father to thet-tore ai t-he did "her. a child, an! the two wero again Inseparable. He could not liear ta liave her out or his slhl. The moonshiners, however, continued to make the Wil-mi cabin their rendezvous. "Why do these men come here, father?" his daughterasked. "I have business with Iheru, my elilld. .it won't bis long. I am a rich man here, Uit I would be a poor man In the city, "extycar 1 will have enough, and wo will move to the city." With this she was content. Im o the week passed l,y she learned the truth, and Legged her father to atop. "Only a few weeks now, my child," he would answer. One night two men came running to the house. She heard her father go to the corner where he kept his ritle; then he hurried outof thedoor. Dresslu? quickly, she ran to catch him. Stiehnd learned where theftill was. and she divined that there was trouble there'. She ran as to never ran before, for fear tent sliced to her feet. Approaching th still, she saw the revenue cllicer.-i riding up tlio creek Just behind her. Never heedingtherillebirrels resting inthc crevices between the logs of the still home she ran on, when the sharp crack of a rllle rang out on the night air. rihe threw up her lands and fell ou her" face, shot through the heart. It was her father who had fired; nnd as he pulled the trigger he saw it was a woman's form and divined who it was, but it was too laic. 1 lu fell by the side of his gun. Alter a sharp fight, in h hicli no one was wounded, however, how-ever, tbo revenue cfllreis retired. His companions picked John Wilson Wil-son up and carried him to the nearest near-est cabin. They did not know what the trouble was until, going along lite creek with the unconscious man, they found the lodyof his daughter. daugh-ter. They picked her up and tenderly ten-derly bore them both away. The next day the girl was burled near the cabin. For weeks the father lay lu delirium; and when he got well he went to the grave of j his daughter and placed the head-! stone there that I had seen. The ! rabln and store were closed; the still 1 was burned. 1 He lives in a cave. He never I speaks to any mortal, living on wild I berries and the game that he kills.; His rifle is his only companion, nnd to this he will talk as If it under-1 stool him. Every day he visits the j grave of his tlnughtcr. His step Is growing ferule, and it wl np, ltf ' WtanBMNMtBSCnHMtMMWM I long before he, too, pwjeH into the unknown beyond. The airoplo mountain folfcsay that when tho moon is shining thruueh the pines tiod tho wblppoorwiil'8 mournful call j, heard! n white-robed white-robed figure can be teu running up the creewlth long hair moving In the wind, Just as uu mm nielli lei years ago when beautiful dusle, the moonshiner's daughter, was ehoLZeVjiaouniaf. |