The Springfield herald., 1919-01-17
DEfsoNs
)Stpriss AND Incidents
/ G Old Boston
i An4ithr Old Days
Sonteia dds and Ends
Ant Onfinw a. Lamar
" the writer

circles stood off 5he marshal and
his deputies Swith nickel six
shooter, after having tried the
heads Of some of the citizens
with it World, June 81, 1888.
1t was in the afternoon of the
day thai the incident occurred.
We don't know whether it was
a Ibreech Of confidence or a
breech Of promise or Of etiquett
or some other breech the culprit
was guilty of, but there was
sure a breech in the racks of the
asgressors when the said digress.
or turned his shining six shoot
er on the oficia, mob that was
wanting to Isut him in limbo.
Lamar at that time was in the
primer Of its history. There
wera only frame house tnen and
they were unpaihted and some
what unpretsntinus.
: The sidewalks were something
like old Boston had in those
/ days-boards. And the streets
looked something like the roads
down this way before they We're
gypped.
And out id the middle of the
street stood this gan lag
knight, like some wild animal at
bay, his eyes flashing defiance,
and his shining nickle plated
peace maker in his hand and
the minions Of the law, with
their braveryat stake, W, nder-
ing what to do;next
Once au@ tw,ee and thrice the
chief defender of the faith-the
same being the city marsha, es-
sayed to engage the wary knight
Grant in private converse, and
each time the defen der of person
al liberty turned the speaking
end of that nickel sinner down
on him and the said defender OF
Llmar's holy ordinances itced
about and returned to the side
walk.
| AS we. remember it now, the
man who wanted not to be
4 interned was finally given his
Way about it, and walked back to
the saloon; and the show vas
over for that day.
TheNway Judge Doughty tells
H., after the marshal had been
bluffed into good behavior, the
august mayor of the pompous,
city-to be, showed his hands
down into his jeans pock cts,
said a short prayer and cros sed
hims6lf, and then ambled Gu-
cuncernedly towards the bad man
talking about the weather, and
started in on the future great
ness of the imperial city, when
the gun man turned the ugly
weopon down on him with the
exclamation
Throw up your hands, you s.
[of a :"
But the mayor having said his
prayers and crossed himself,
knew that whichever way he
went, whether up or down-pro-
[vided the daring man got him, he
would be in a better place than
Lamar anyway, jerked his hands
tout of his pockets with a plug
of tobacco in one of them and re-
marked that
"By :, I'm going to take a
chaw of terbacker-if It's the last
act of my mayoralty adrninistra-
ton"
And the outlaw laughed-act
ually laughed, and the mayor
with his Hands still skyward,
kept right on walking and talk
ing, saving to the personal liber-
ty man to have a chaw with him
=" "regular-old fashioned Sweet
Navy that our fathers and moth
ers used to cbaw on etc, etc.
And then he began to admon-
ish the bad man to put up his
gun, become peaceable anc law
abiding land to join them in the
great miaslonery work OF saving
and reforming the City and build.
ing up her great civic and relig-
/, ious institutions. to the eLd
that he might live happily ever
after, ETC.