Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-11-11

Il shiak the general education o
yoang men Is being sadly neglected ID
this State. said an old sport in front
OF Sweenys. "In every well conduc.
ted university there should be a pro.
fessor to teach the boys the use of the
six-shooter. There are rules regard
ing gun-pulling that every Western
man ought to know. Just put EN-
down aud publish EN- in your paper
First-Never pull gun.
Second-If you do pull, be dead
sure that the time has come to pull
it.
Third-Pull quick, with no -four
ishes.
FOurth-Keep banging at your
man till he lies down and quits.
These rules ought to be pasted in
every mans hat. If people would
always observe this schedule there
would be a good deal less trouble.
Take for instance some young man
who thinks he is insulted and wants
to shoot somebody, or scare somebody,
or mak>a general ass of himself. He
takes step forward with a melo.
dramatic stride, strikes position, and
begins to make fourishes for his hip
pocket. Then he pulls his gun and
beginz TO do tilagree work in the air.
While lie is doing the scollops as if
lie were Oh the stage, the other fellow
quietly pulls. lets go. and sends the
lead through HIM. Then they pack
Ll;n to the coroner and find that he
was killed in selt-defence.
Now, you see, if he had observed
rule No. /. he would have been alive
to day, or, after violating rule one, il
he had observed the proposition laid
down in rules three and four he might
have been alive-mebbe, or at least
If be was dead the other fellow might
have been dead too. At least he has
a chance OF securing more points out
OF II possible two.
A slow-handed man had better not
monkey with q border gun. You
must be qnick-witted and quick-m mo.
toned. A second isn't long, but it is
about all the margin you can reason.
ably expect out West when the stree,
duel opens. You must bs entirely
for yourself. l have known several
good men to be laid out because they
stopped couple of seconds to calcu.
late ii any one in the crowd would
get hit if they fred. The other fel.
low ignored the crowd and is alive
and well to-day. holding a lucrative
office under the present administra'
ton.
Sometimes You stop to think Of {
mans wife and children. This is I
good idea, and speaks well tor man I
humanity, but not SO much for hi
Judgment. After you throw you
hand back and touch the handle o
the gun. il is too late to consider tn
woman and the kids. Many P mai
has considered this before he sent hi
hand back and spared many a life
but after the motion to draw, vol
must only think how you can puml
the lead into the other man, for 20,
can bet high he will begin right ava
pumping it into you. II there is
post or dry goods box near. get to it
You can display lots of nerve stand
ing out in an open space. but yo
don't display much sense. A dea
hero isn't much account q few day
after he's dead. Some of the nervie:
men that ever walked get behind
post the minute the ball opens. Th
best idea is to 60 without gun at al
You hardly hear of a man gsttin
shot who doesn't have the reputatio
OF packing guns. II you have n
gun You won't get too sassy, and
you have little row down town yo
amt so likely to be hauled home o
Brays express wagon.
II had the say I would pass la,
abolishing guns (of course. when | US
the word gun, it is the sporting phras
for six.shooter , but so long as gun
20. everybody ought to know some
thing about their use, and more esps
cially how to use em.-Carson Ar
peal.
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