The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-28

AFTER MINUTE JIM REACHES OUT HIS
HAND 10 SAM.
other from the west. Each came In
with wtoop and yell. Each an
nounced himself holy terror. They
had guns and scalping knives. They
had thirst for gore. They had
notches cut in the butts of their guns
to show that they had killed twenty
seven critters apiece.
"When this yere court is not court
he is running the Red Dog saloon, as
Is known to you all. He knows man
when he sees one. He knows n holy
terror from tenderfoot. No one can
say that he has ever seen him take
water for any living thing. When he
sizes up new arrival what he says
goes.
when them two holy terrors ar.
rived In town that day there was a
commotion. We hadn't seen one for n
year. | was called upon TO size 'em
up, and l went forth. l overhauled
Rocky Mountain Jim and asked him
to drink and counted the notches in
his gun butts. listened to his roar
and saw him foam at the mouth, and
| says to some of you. says /:
The Real Thing.
There's no discount on him. He's
the real thing and no mistake. He's
a cyclone on wheels and must be pat
ted on the back or there'll be trouble
''Then l hunted up Kaw Valley Sam.
| found him eating the raw meat of
steer just killed and trying TO buy two
acres of ground for a private grave
yard. l listened to his growls and
roars. l witnessed his hardness at
drawing. l looked into his bloodshot
eyes, Then comes away and says
to some OF you fellers, says l.
"Tt's the simon pure thing. 1t hasn't
been whitewashed or gilded over. Look
out for 1t. It's real old fashioned
holy terror of the brand of fifteen
years ago. II It turns loose, the town
will swim In blood
"And the rest of you took my size
up as o. X, and the town of Sandy
Bend proceeded to tremble In its boots.
We've been purity tuff crowd yere,
but We've been losing our hold for the
past five years. For three DAYS them
terrors held the town. They divided It
between em ana didn't meet. They
told what they would do TO each other
In case they did meet, and their Ian
guage made us shiver. We was will
ing to put up with sun spots and earth
qnakes and volcanoes all summer, but
we prayed that them two terrors might
not meet.
ION the fourth day some of us be-
gan to wonder why one OF 'em didn't
seek out the other and have the slaugh-
ter over with. Then we further won
dered II one was afraid and the other
dasn't. They continued to promenade
around and whoop and yell ana chank
their teeth, but we went right ahead
and put up a job to bring them to-
gether. This yere court not as
court, but as an Individual, was SO.
lected to work the racket. hunted
up Sam and patted him on the back
and rubbed his brlstles down ana In
Yited him 70 take walk | walked
him along to the Blue Moon saloon
and into 1t, and there he came face to
face with Jim.
Whole Country Held Its Breath.
"For one long mint the country for
forty miles around held its breath.
For sixty seconds the mountains got
ready to tremble and the rivers to run
up hill. 4
"As them two holy terrors gazed into
each others faces we thought OF hills
composed of skeletons and lakes brim-
ming over with blood. We breathed In
gasps and stood on our tiptoes,
Then what happened? If ask the
question with quaver in my voice and
tears In my eyes, don't blame me.