The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-02
Our Daily $bcrt Story

casion for newspaper revival of all the crimes of his career, the excite- ment rose to fever heat. The small boys could scarcely. believe it and there was a sudden demand for all stories pertaining to the career of Scar face. .-
 Finally the great day arrived. and with 1t. sure enough, came the Great West Show, much to the relief and secret surprise of the small boys who had never fully believed that such | joy was to be theirs. It came In a dingy private car divided in the mid de and used half for horses and half for the human section of the snow. It was a dingy and battered car, but | with its dauby pictures of riding des- peradoes and acts of murder 1t seemed to the populace of Flagviiie quite the most imposing vehicle in the | world.
 Soon after the show arrived Scar face Parsons sauntered down the street followed at a respectable distance by all the small boys in town. He made straight for the bar-room of the City Hotel. where he proceeded to get out side of a quantity of red liquor, which gave him new honor in the eyes of some of the local users of poison and which also, incidentally stimulated the
 bandits loquacity. Soon he had an audience which filled the barroom
 while he rehearsed blood-curdling epi-
 sodes in his career. Finally he illus
 trated a story by pulling a great Colts revolver which hung at his side and shooting at a lamp, which he smashed
 into a hundred pieces. This startled the crowd which involuntarily scatter ed but immediately returned again as
 bits of steel to the magnet. The shot however. filled the soul of mine host Grimm with wild alarm and he started l to order Parsons out When he go, close enough and that worthy turned his fierce blood-shot eyes on him
 Grimm weakened and suggested suavely that they all go out so there would be lroom for ali to "hear the gent" Par. sons refused point blank and ordered another drink. Grimm locked the door
 between the bar-room and the balance lof the building and appealed to the lefty marshal to put the offensive wis. itor out. Old Pete Dame. the marshal went in, showed his star and ordered
 Parsons to leave the place and keer
 the peace under penalty of the law
 With frightful oath and a roar Par. sons drew his revolver and bellowed for the crowd to make way while he let daylight through the audacious officer. Dame turned tail and made a sprinting tecord never equalled before
 or since in the annals of the town
 Nor did he stop until he had securely
 locked himself in the new city lock
 up.
 This moved the great Parsons to
 shoot all the bottles off the bar and
 make the bartender. a fat little Ger
 man, dance an Irish jig on a table Then feeling the need of air and change he sauntered out into street | followed by the crowd.
 | While these stirring things had
 been disturbing the peace and quiet of the town and laying the foundation for its most stirring traditions, John
 Wilkins had driven to town from his
 farm bent upon taking the pretty Mary Rose to the show. He was a
 sturdy lad, was John, albeit bit slow
 When he first came to Flagville he had had a hard time and was for some years a village jest. He was SC
 slow of comprehension. so earnest and above all so dreadfully ingenious and trustful that he became at once the butt of all jokers. He believed lall that was told him and could be depended on always to attempt the
 most impossible mission ever devised by A wag. But he had developed a persistence and courage which had won him respect and friends. His employ. CTS always liked him and his services grew in demand. Finally he had bought Ia little farm and successfully paid the
 mortgage. Then he had added an
 other piece of land and had become