Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-19
His Scheme for Peace.

a rather slim chap, with ripping ca
nary hair, stepped into fashionable cs-
| Establishment where arms are sold. and
called unto the clerk:
g" Have you any self-cockirg seven
shooters?''
YES" replied the clerk; would YOU
| like to- look ut themr'
81 would"
In about two minutes the counter
was covered with revolvcrs, and the
man with canary hair examined them
and said:
Give me six
The clerk seemed aStOnished, but tied
up the pistols; at which moment the
customer commenced to fan himself
with his helmet, and remar ked:
Got any shot-guns?''
" Yes. What kind do you prefer
plain or laminatcd steel?n
doesn't make any difference. Give
me about two of each kind"
The clerk thought he had struck n
lunatic; but ne didn't care whether he
took the cash of a sane man or lu-
matte. So he tied the guns up. and
was about t. announce the amount OF
the bill, when the young man inquired:
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1--WE have some nice brass cannons
that carry twenty-pOund solid ball.
replied the clerk
Are they mounted on wheels?"
"Thcy are
Then give me three"
The clerk was considerably amazed,
but took the order for the cannons
down on paper. and said:
Now, is there anything else you
would like to see?'
"Yes; would like very much to see
some daggers."
1--WE have fine stock Of daggers."
replied the clerk, rs hc placed several
specimens on the counter. Here is
one with n solid silver handle which
CONES n little higher than the others.
" will take six of the silver-handled
ones. Now let me look ut few
swords
"What kind do you want? We have
n number of different styles"
What kind, for insiance?" asked
the canary-haired youth.
"Wcll, we have the cavalry Sabcr--"
"Givc me two
"And we have the cutlass."
" the kind used by pirates?" asked
the long, slender youth. with a smile
that betrayed his anxiety.
Yes, the very kind"
81 will take six of thcm.''
Now we have some Turkish cine.
tars"
IL want four of them. also want
two claymores, just like the one in the
window"
The clerk took down his order, and
began to fancy how much his employer
would think of him for selling such .
big bill, when the customer said:
II want half n dozen Springfield
rifles, with bayonets on them"
II will take your order and fill it TO-
morrow. Is there anything else?'
Yes; want some harpoons and
spears"
"Tho,e we have not in stock" said
the clerk; ''but we can get them and
deliver them with the shot-guns.
Now l want some hand-grenades
and dynamite"
1--WE don't keep them"
Don't keep them?" replied the
customer, in surprise; "don't keer
thcm?''
No"
Wen, then, send all those things uI
TO my hotel, G. q. d."
The man presented his card to the
clerk, who thanked him for purchasing
such a nice big bill, and said:
- hope to see you when you play il
New York"
Il play in New York? don't
play"
Beg your pardon" said the clerk.
apologetically; Il thought you were the
manager and star of n sensational dra.
matte company, playing a Far West
blood-curdling piece, and that You came
for properties"
"Oh, no.. laughed the man with vel.
low hair; Il am simply going down to
Texas TO start paper. There are Ger.
tain journalistic amenities down there
that desire to observe to the letter.
don't wish to be mistaken for an anna,
teur. "--Pisck.