Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-01-24

IS COINS and ther come home with you
Turner made a hurried mental cal
culatlon, and then advised his friend
that he believed $500 world DO the trick
Two weeks later the married bartender
hailed Turner as his train pulled into
Ia Junta
You're a nice Kind Of a friend to
have" declared the bartender, sourly.
What's the matter?" demanded
Turner
Matter enough. Didn't you tell me
that $500 would do that job up and plenty
70 spare?'
We'll you see began Turner. 81
never got married in just the grand style
You wanted. and all could do was to
give YOU my best Judgment"
We'll. If you ask me it was punk
Say. that. $500 wasn't a starter 1tlasted
for a few minutes after the knot was
tied. and then It was me to the hook
shop All my sparks went, one after the
other, then Salie threw in hers. These
were followed by the watches and other
yauables. and when they we're gone
we had to steal out OF the joint we were
stopping at. leaving an unpaid bill
Huh $500 Say. but that wedding shin
dig Of Yours must have been a back
number with moss on it. Why don't you
get married over and do it up decent
like?"
Not for me If It winds up the way
yours promises to-. declared Turner
What interests me now continued
the barkeep, lis whether you will take
us to Trinidad--the walking's bad"
Got any collateral?"
These" And the bartender pulled
out two new. nickel-plated hammerless
revolvers. The hammerless was a new
invention, and he had bought them upon
arrival in Dodge City.
They cost $24 apiece" he declared
"and you can keep them until pay our
fare"
Turner agreed, and, taking the weap-
ons gingerly placed them in his grip.
When he left his train that night he took
the guns from the grip and started to
his hotel. He had never seen a hammer
less before. and he was afraid of them.
Not daring to put the new-fangled
weapons in his pockets, and it being
dark, he carried one in either hand,
muzzle down and pointing outward, so
that in case of accident they wouldn't
shoot him through the foot While
walking in this manner up a deserted
street Turner suddenly heard a voice
only few feet in front of him call:
Hands up, and don't make fuss about
it, either"
Il threw my hands up, all right" de-
clared Turner. when telling about it
later, thankful that 1 had gun in
either hand AS my hands went up
began clawing for the hammers with
both thumbs But there was nothing
doin Never before in my life had /
been scared clear through, and never
since have experienced the awful terror
which came over me as the guns refused
to 20 off, aud realized that / was there
with new-fangled hammerless guns,
which | did not know how to work.
The sensation was terrible. 1t seemed
minutes before finally got those blamed
cannons into action and wondered why
was alive with that fellow standing not
five feet away from me-"
He must have been a dub of hold
up man" declared an old plainsman.
well, l emptied both guns at him
as fast as | could, and being something
of shot ! was utterly paralyzed when
nothing dropped Apparently my fusil
lade had hit nothing. The fright had
felt when I didn't find the hammers
gave way to utter disgust at what l sup
posed was loss of nerve, and took good
aim, and threw first one and then the
other one. Both hit him fair and square
and yet he didn't drop If you're the
evil one himself, ! shouted, III get
You with this one, and pulled my own
"A
Before ! could use it a voice called in
frightened tones: For Gods sake.
Turner don't shoot any more. Where
in the world did you get that arsenal
"Thereupon % fellows rose up out of
the ditch, and J saw for the first time
that l had been shooting at a post
dressed up like a man"
Pretty good joke commented Don
Sweet, the tariff manager
"On the other fellows. continued the
colonel 1T appears they had been dis
cussing various men as to their game
ness Some allowed ! wasn't the real