The herald., 1895-02-25
HERE AND THERE

Several gentlemen sat about the South
ern Pacific Railroad waiting-room In Po-
mona the other evening, waiting for the
belated overland to Los Angeles. Two
men sat aside by themselves engaged in
earnest conversation. One of them had
loud voice that became more powerful as
he became animated in discussing the
reputation and character of a man named
Bob" He spoke in these words:
"You see, I'd lent Bob money, but SO
long as I had cash in my clothes I never
asked for it. never do when man is
square, cause l know he'll pay me when
he can. But one day was little short,
and went into the bar, and says to Bob:
Gould you let me have little of what
you're OWN me?' He was tight and ugly
and began to swear and kick and jaw about
bein' struck when he hadn't got only Is
cents to his name. All right says l;
faint pulling no mans leg when that's
all he's got. Some other time II do
But he kept on a-kickin' and a-swear-
in and sayin' | wasn't no friend of his,
and finally he worked himself up to the
tightin pitch, and, says he, with a regu-
lar holler: Yer, rip-whack, blinkety-
Well, wasn't lookin' for a fight, and 1
didn't feel like tightin' that day. anyhow.
Had kind of cold. So | told him /
wasn't goin to have no quarrel, specially
with him, for | thought he'd come out
all right when he'd got rid of his quart.
you the first time meet YER Then the
boys they took him into the back room
and went home. But after that l was
bound to carry a gun, and | got my re-
volver out that night. Next mornin' he
was in Ned's room at the boardin' house,
and Ned's door bein' open l looked in as
l was on my way to the dinin' room.
"'Who are you lookin' at?' says Bob,
still ugly,
Fer what? says he.
Cause IN bound to, after you warnin'
me that I'm liable to get hurt says l.
'He, sat down, kind of careless, and |
turned and I stepped into the hall, when
he ups as quick as flash and hits me in
the neck. | gave him a good one on the
Jaw. Then he closes in and begins to
bite. AT that pulls out my gun and lets
him have it. He broke away and can
tered upstairs, squealin' sMurder!' and
let him have it again.
"Then | didn't know what I'd done,
and didn't much care, but | was excited
and l meandered outdoors to cool off. The
boys came out in a minute and said that
there was no telling how much Bob was
. nuTt, lc was Dlecuiu anu NelllH COIlSlu-
erable; and SOS to avoid any scenery I'd
better get over the border and hide till he
felt better. So | worked along to Ell Paso
and got across the Rio Grande to Old Mex
leo, and I've been down in Sonora for sew
eral months. He got through it all right.
and didn have no need to skip, cause
it was self-defense. You've right to use
a gun on any man that tries to make a
meal of you, guess. Well, sir, you We no
idea what a change that scrape made in
Bob He don't get drunk no more and he
goes around talkin' decent, and he don t
bluff, and he's as steady and quiet as a
sheep What's more, he paid what he
owed me- Shoo.in, did him good.
4 4 4
A Miss Cozzcns is to lecture in San
Francisco on the Golden Calf, or Money
Worship. Miss Cozzens is Colonel, and
has been a United States Marshal, and is
a woman of ideas; but she is not up to
date: The golden calf of today is noJ the
symbol OF mammon, nor the idol that
| caused the Israelites so much trouble; on
the contrary, it is a gracefully moulded
bit OF feminine anatomy, clad in silk
tights and illumined by calcium lights
and enriches managers and fairies alike.