Show HOW JIM WAS BADLY SOLD And Ills Brother Explains That the Other Was Not Scared for a Cent yes Pm in mourning said the man os ho carefully removed his hat and gazed at the piece of crape which hid tho band Its for my brother Jim who was planted about five months ago Sick longF1 Not a minnit Accidentally killed thenF You might call it accident but it wasnt It was a case of misreading human nature Tho man tenderly brushed somo dust off the crapo put on his hat and after getting good and ready started out with JlfiIejmd Jim had a ranch on the Rennb llcan river out in Kansas I didnt amount to much but Jim was a dandy He could size up a man as quick as you could halve an apple Didnt know what fear was and the Injuns was as afraid of him as death Ive put up a 300 monument at his grave and you can judge by that he must have been a pretty good man Welll Well late last fall when wo had a stock sale at the ranch a sort of tramp came along and got in Jims way Jim run over him and they had some words The tramp wanted to fight and the boys put Jim up to skew tho liver out of him Im free to say I didnt like the fellers looks Thero was sumthin back of his every day look which had a gleam of danger in it Jim sized him up for a runner and when said the chap would fight Jim whispered Pete you never know mo to bo wrong Ill sheer him till all his har loosens at the rootsTo To make a great spread of it tho boys fastened the two together by their left arms and gave each a bowie knife They thought the tramp would back water when it came to the tying but he didnt Ho was right than and didnt even turn pale It was agreed that they should fight at tho word and the word was held five minutes to let the tramp wilt He stood like a rock and Jim couldnt back you see without losing character And they fought It wasnt much of a fight Jim was as handy with the knife as any man within a hundred miles but ho stood no show in that rumpus Tho word was given the tramp made a lightning motion and tho next thing I see was Jim dead on the grass his head cut almost oft Thar wasnt but ono lick struck Andand what Nothing much Tho tramp ontiod hisseh1 and walked off as cool as a bar of ice and wo planted Jim on a knoll back of tho mule pen What What did tho crowd say Said that my brother Jim had better stuck to readin tho character of mules and steers and let strangers alone and I agreed Im in mourning fur Jim but I allow ho bit off moron ho could chaw and he shouldnt a dono it Crapo looks well on mouse color dont iU Its a reminder that in tho midst of Ufa we may bark up tho wrong treeSan Francisco Examiner |