Show iI WORSE THAX INDIANS Perils of Life in a Modern City Por tmyeil liy a Pioneer Buffalo Express So you were a pioneer in the early days of the west said an Express reporter i was answered tile grayoeara I You lived among the hostile Indians In-dians Yes Lived with a rifle in your hands and in hourly expecttion of being the mark for a hidden enemys bdllet It was something like that Do you know often think that a life like that must be terrible I should think the mere strain on the nerves would kill a man in a short time holding your life in your hand all the time always conscious that a moments mo-ments relaxation of vigilance may mean death Oh I dont know replied the graybeard gray-beard When I came from the west I was 60 years old and did not have a gray hair I got off the railroad train and started to walk across the street Halfway over I heard the dingedest clanging and yelling right at my heels I ever heard and somebody gave me a push that serit me clear to the curb Then when I looked around I saw Id come within an ace of being run over by a taoiley Never had so narrow escape es-cape from Indians I went into a saloon close by to get a drink and settle my nerves While I was standing at the bar a couple of fel lo < W3 got into a scrap and one of them threw a heavy beer mug Didnt hit the other fellow but it came within a sixteenth six-teenth of an inch of my right temple I started to walk up town and tihe first crossing I came to a policeman grabbed me by the shoulder and jerked me across so quick iic made my head swim I looked to see what was the maitter fcr there were no car tracks on that street and I saw I had just escaped es-caped being run down by a hackman hurrying to catch a train Up Utreet a little further somebody yelled Look out at me and when I jumped a o big icicle fell and struck wCere I had been standing I got to my hotel and was heading for the door when somebody grabbed me and asked me If I wanted to be killed They were hoisting a safe into a secondstory window over where Id been trying to go and I hadnt more than got out of the way before a rope broke and It dropped I went to bed and about midnight I was called up by a bell ringing over my head and found the place on fire and I had to slide down a rope to escape < Being a sound sleeper they had hard work to wake me and I had barely touched the ground when the roof fell in When I looked In the glass I saw the first streak of graythat had ever showed themselves in my hair Oh theres danger in civilized life as well as out on the plains |