Show made change chapire cha pire ea in tune this talk has been going on in tho bouso about lynch ings eald said col bill sterrett bt ator who drifted into washington trod texas reminds nde me of a thins thing that happened down in my tato state a few ow yeara years ago jim hodges a a local orator wag was juat just camtre into bla his bouso house when hia his boy rushed out and yelled pop coln to lynch a over by the clearings clea jim jumped on his bit hone bores and rode like mad for the scene of trouble they had the on a platform and were just getting ready tor for the final act acl wh ahu jim burst into the clearing and decked checked his foam flocked horl borsi stop he yelled with an I 1 tea Derli wave of his hand canie to a dead stop and jim springing apon the platform began a speech that promised to break all oratorical ro re corda my friend friends hf he cried think what you are about bout to do to take the law into your own bands will etain the fair name of thid ON country with an tm im perishable bot to the remotest remote ct limit ot time eo so icing us the memory of men ret atIns tho the deed you are about 0 do will cause your names to be remembered br by posterity with shuddering shudder ins shame there waa was a restless movement in the crowd ft rt thia this point and some body growled shoot the son ot of a gun halt half a domn revolvers were covering jim in halt balf a second but he topped the corning tragedy by yelling but aa as I 1 was saying the tho revolvers vcra were halt half lowered and jim went on but as I 1 way say ing my fellow citizens if 1 this deed tault be done if it it seems wise and necessary nee nea essary at ajl no doubt it is I 1 implore you to proceed with it R ib in an orderly and decorous manueal philadelphia ledger udger |