The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22

ford, sometime of New Mexico. continuing
ms account of an episode which he pre-
faced with the foregoing personal descrip-
tion. Il was new in the country or
might have remarked the circumstances
ehat the saloon was pretty empty for that
hour in the day. The bartender. in a
white jacket and apron, two cattlemen
talking business at a table in one corner.
and the stranger, with his elbow on the
counter, were the only people there when
entered. l asked the bartender if a
friend of mine had been in, and then he
lore going out, called for a drink 1 swal-
lowed the whisky and had turned toward
the door when the stranger spoke to me.
Have a drink he said. 1 caught tbe
eye of the bartender, and he gave me a
look which said 'G6 away as plainly as
words could have done.
had one just
You re making too much talk the
stranger sald, and turned to the barten-
der. Set out the stuff and a connie Of
glasses. The gentleman with a drar,I
irg, sarcastic emphasis on the words lie
gong to do me the high honor to taka
a drink with me-
The gentleman says he does not want
10 drink said the bartender. setting be-
lore him whisky bottle and a glass.
Inc stranger filled the glass TO the brino
ana not taking his eyes from mine. nush-
ca IL along the counter toward me. saw
mat he meant to go through with u,bat
he had started to do. II was bic 60
outbreak since he had begun drinlxi,,e, In
the morning, and al the homicidal devt
"lthlh MIN, which had been coming TO tba
surface as ne turned in the LIQUOR NOW
had full control He showed no excite
llent-oilly the cool, hateful elaboration
"hlch meant a thousand times more dan
ger imam any amount of tearing around
a'lo holsy dun could have done. He had
MADE no threat, had shown no weanor,
but threats and weapons were neodJos.
70 ms meaning-a.l was implied in his
LOOK watching him. 1 was aware thai
the cattIemen had stopped in their CONVEX
sd'loh 20 look and that the bartender a
lfesh-1aced, boyish-lookng young FELLOW,
Was pulling the bottle toward him as he
wiped the counter with a cloth.
30 you II l OF drink your whiskv?' said
.le stranger with an ugly setting of his
Jaw ana drawing at the corners. of his
INN lips, as 1 shook nv head rYoiI,n
take 1t this way, then and with a mo
tioI as sudden as a cats, he threw The
WHISKY INTO my eyes. AS, blinded smart
ing, ana half knocked off my feet nv the
shock, l chung helplessly to the counter
crashing sound was in my ears ana .
noise OF flying glass then the slam Of a
chalr overturned in the corner where the
catIielileh We're and the footsteps of men
gathering about me- Somebody wiped NV
eyes with wet towel, and the bartendar,s
voice said:
Come with me. Here. stem around
httIe' this way. Now, straight ahead,
toidlng my hand, and with one arm
around me, the bartender was guiding
my steps to the back room of the saloon
He turned me aside once as we went mi
not SO quickly but that my foot tripped
against something on the floor which
knew TO De the body of a man. Then I
heard him pouring water into a basin
and he said: Now, dip your eyes in mis-
and keep them there till the doctor comes. !"
BY the time the doctor came which
was in few minutes, the smarting Of NV
eyes was nearly gone, and | could see
as well as ever. With my face in the wa
ter l had not paid much attention to the
comings and goiugs in the room but when
l htted my head and looked around I saw
crowd of men standing about a man
stretched out on a plank laid across sorno
whisky barrels. 1t was the stranger who
had thrown the liquor in my eyes, ana he
was as dead as julius Caesar A smash in
the head with whisky bottle had settled
him short, and it was the Doyish-loolfne
bartender who had done the trick.
4 landed the bottle none too soon, tho
bartender said to me afterward He had
his pistol half way out when he went down
Why should he wish to kill you? ASH, ne
something easier. All know is some men
get that way when liquor Is in them If
I'd missed him? Well, / didn't mean 10
miss, or have him coming round after |
ward to pick up the quarrel again. pitcb-
ed baseball in league club two wears h.
fore / came West, and l knew what I
could do.
Harry, I'm afraid you've cheated some
sherin's officer out of a reward, said Mys-