Fooling With Moonshiners

It was known in the United States marshal's office at Na.shville that wildcat whisky was coming down the Cumberland river. The marshal was new in the office, said Opie Read, and therefore was determined to do hÍ3 duty, which was, of course, to see that the ülicit distilleries, no matter how remote, should be destroyed, nd that the distillers should be brought to justice. His predecessor in office had been likewisedetermined, and had sent brave men to the mountains, but whisky had continued to come down the Cumberland river. The present marshal, Captain Hayes, an oíd Confedérate officer, said that he thought that when the boys found out that he really wanted them to quit they would do so. He understood them, he knew their natures, their impulsiveness and their disposition to yield to persuasión. So he sent a deputy and four men to teil the bovs to quit. One night about a week later some one rang the door bell, and the marshal himself went to the door. "Why," he said, "have you got back, Carney?" Carnoy answered: "Yes.just about." "VVhere is the deputy marshal?" '.'Well, he's back, too." "Why didn't he come round?" "Well, I 'lowed his folks needed him more than you did, so I unloaded him there." "What, vou don't mean that he's hurt?" "Xo. not hurt now, but he was. He is dead at pvessnt. I'm the only one that gbt back whple." "Well. I declare. Didn't you teil those boys I wanted thom to quit their foolNlmess'.1"' "Yes, and thoy must have been hard of hearing, fpr they keptrighton shooting."