| Show I INOT COOKS OOK'S HELP IS i NOT Aged Negros Negro's Kindness Is Repaid Repaid Repaid Re Re- paid After Many Years JUDGE IS REMINISCENT Doe Doc Would Not Influence Court but Makes a Su Suggestion Sug Sug- g- g g Judge Joseph Josephr V. W. ONeall assistant to Executive Director F F. il M. Sterrett was was' with an Ohio regiment during the tho war and und a n pair of at crutches constantly worn attest to his service to tho the North during during- the tho strife One day late Into In the tho war Judge though ONeall though ho he had not then risen to the position where Judge could be prefixed to his name name became became ill t his regiment was marching through Kentucky Kentuck Ho lie spoke to his captain and asked to bo be allowed to drop drOl out of or the tho ranks until ho he was bettor able to continue the tho Journey Journo It was lato late In the day and It was as certain that the tho camp of at the tho Union forces would be bo pitched not far tar ahead So the captain captain cap cap- tain told him It was better for tor him to stick It out If It possible as Morgans Morgan's forces were close behind and pressing them Judge ONeall was so that he didn't care caro much where hero Morgans Morgan's raiders raiders raiders raid raid- ers were wore and would not have pro pro- tested If Ir the they had taken him All Al Protested Pro Pro- ho knew was that he could not continue the tho march So he fell tell out and fell upon the ground at nt the tho side of the tho road Doc Smith tho colored cook had heard the trouble Ho lIo liked ONeall and hated the Idea that he ho should fall Into tho the hands of Morgan's Morgans ans an's men all right suh sub about falling railing out Morgan Is close behind boss and I can enn toto tote to you camp said Doc I Judge ONeall never was yas as a small man but tho darkey darke pJ picked ked him up I and packed him to the Yankee cam camp which was not far tar ahead It was a 1 kindness that could not bo be forgotten and Judge ONeall remembered It to the end of or tho the war After Arter Many Ino Years Years flew b by the war was ended and Mr 0 eaU ONeall returned to his homo home In Ohio Soon afterwards he lie was elected common pleas Justice In an Ohio district which office he held for tor fourteen years cars Wilmington lIming ton Clinton county Ohio came within that thal district and It was In Wilmington that Doc Doe Smith 11 lived ed Doc went nearly wild with dell delight ht whoa when he first saw ONeall after the war and was always alwa's at the tho depot when the tho Jud judge e camo came cameto to Wilmington to carry his baggage to the hotel The Tho judo Judge rode In a carriage as a a. general thing thing but Doc refuse refused to allow the bundles out athis ol of his hands until they wore were deposited In the tho hotel But Dut on one occasion when Judge O ONeall Neall arrived d In Wilmington for a acourt acourt acourt court setting Doc was not at the depot On tho the was a caso case of or Eldredge against Smith a lL real estate title suit and It developed that Doc Smith was the tho man being sued But even oven then Judge ONeall did not understand understand un un- wll why the tho darkey had not been on hand at the depot for tor he liked lilted to tobe tobe tobo be bo of or service to the judge jugo and did not tape tako adversely to tho the small coins slipped Into his hand each time s 's Whon hon hen all of ot tho evidence In tho the caso of or Eldre Eldredge a against Smith had been talon taken ONeall notified tho the at attorneys ut- ut In court that ho would render Ills his decision that afternoon In that particular ease ousa and In In o 0 others hors And thou then ho he started down th the HIp l stairs for lunch At tJ tho b t o Jio was wae jnet Inet by by- old by-old old Doc Hello Doc I w was s rather surprised not to see BCD you OU nt at depot thin tilts mornIng morning morn morn- Ing ONeall said eald to tho the darNo dar dar- koY l O No Pro o. o sah anh Mars Mara Je Sedge g I wasn't there euro nutt I didn't want to Influence you Mars Judge but when you settle that case of ot mine this afternoon Jest remember who toted you OU down thaI In ole Kaintuck The Tho suit was decided a against Eldredge El- El dredge |
