The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-09-12
CARRYING REVOLVERS.
Some Good Advice on Danger
Gus and Deadly Weapon.
The Man Who Carries n Loaded ShooInR
Iron Is n Menace to Himself ana
Friends-Rely on Muscle and

Iron Is n Menace to Himself and
Friends-Rely on Muscle and
a Stout Stick.
It was midnight. l had just gotuen
off the late train from the city and was
starting to walk four miles across coun-
trv to the village wherein l lived. L
mad been detained in town by business
until the smaller railroad on which
usually travelled was laid up for the
night, compelling me in order to reach
home to take this roundabout way OF
getting there.
It was in the summer time and the
country roads were deep with dust
Soon | left the gas lamps of the
town behind me and came to the long
and lonesome stretch (wherc for two
miles there wasn't light or a house,
which | must pass before reaching my
destination.
Here. also, the sidewalks stopped, so,
of necessity, took the middle OF the
road. plodding Though the soft and
unusually thick dust
The sky was BLOCK with low lying
clouds-so intensity black that IL
couldn't be Distinguished from the
earth. and all was as still as death. NO
football sounded In that carpet OF DUST
not dog barked, not frog croakeG'
not an owl hootec, not breeze stirred
| The awful silence was oppressive and
J the more than Egyptian darkness was
| horrible.
Beside the spookiness of that silent,
ghostly tramp through the dust ana
over strange roads on such hldeously
black night there was cause to appre'
bend danger from robbers, for several
persons had lately been waylald and
attacked in the very spot l was ap
preaching
possessed a revolver, but it wasn't
with me- for, not expecting to be de
tanned, | had loft it home.
The feeling of security it would have
given might have taken away some O
nv uncomfortable thoughts as / plod
ded along on my unpleasant journey.
Owing to the darkness and dl1hcultJ
of keeping path, | was in the nlodl
of the road, and soon reached tn
dreariest part of the walk, midway be
tween the two villages, and q goo'
r,ile and over from u human babita
ton.
Suddenly mans gruff voice s0unde
not three feet away.
Hello, stranger" it spoke, 'wher
yer going?" Then another voice, toe
: close behind me, said; What time
: it?''
Then both the men, one at my sid
: touching me and the other just behind
= walked along with me, for l hadn
stopped whsn they spoke.
The inky darkness was so utterly il
= tense that not even their shadow
q could | see, while the soft dust gave 4
sound from their feet.
The silent manner Of their waitin
e for and joining me looked bad ce
tainly should have heard them talklr
q together before accosting me If the
n were bent on no mischief
OF course | was frightened, and mo-
so because | could not in the pitcf
4. blackness get the slightest idea
their looks.
But managed to return thsir salu
as careleSsly and as fearlessly as
could and then told them to Ike
e away.
y what for?" the fellow at my 81
h asked, brushing against me, ''donty
n. like company" r,
Keep away said I, again Il
~ got a pistol, and warn you"
r I've got one, too" he laughed, ri
ed HING mn nearer. and the fellow behi
m 80 e+n,,vaI IN nv heels.
w They seemed slightly the worse
!, dr;nl. or. maybe. only pretending,
as to get me of my guard
nc At any rate they entirely ignored
a. warning and stuck even closer than
sic fore, at the same time trying to star
ne conversation with me, which had
K humor TO encourage.
H. Being. a. have mentioned "lth'
- nv pistol. had no choice but to WI
u along in their company, every NOM
expecting to get a blow from the fell
behind.
.;s' When Il came-if it didn't knock
senseIess-I intended to get one
back and then run for my lie trust
>, to escape in the darkness
But 10 nv most agreeable surp-is'
>, was not molested and soon the zig
ns Of my native town appeared: Al
49, arst crossroad my unseen and unas
il for companions said: Good nigl
N. and vanished. and do not know
- Who they we're or how they looked
he The point Of ny story. which loo
AZ like an adventure al first, Is this;
an. II ! had not fortunately been "
7es out my pistol. should certainly q
- ordered them % 20 q good and Pre-
Re distance. Then the fellows, being I
,xe ishlv familiar and afect!onately
~ posed by drink. would have done
what they did on they might have