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Show AHMED BUT NOT PROTECTED. Ket reervtMMtr ttlio Carries a riatol It Able to tea It In an I mers'aer. "Carry gunf 2iot tlrl" ho rpoke vehemently. "Onco was enough foi lue. I carried nipMot once, and that satisfied mo for all time. "I know it's the ambition of (he ar-rrngo ar-rrngo young man to 'carry ft gun,1 Ho feels safer when ho Is running around nights. Ho put lils linnil on his hip pin ket an 1 feels that lio It secure. Hut, my lioy, iktcti to a mill who lias been there. When tho proper ttmo comes lio won't bain it at all. Klio'sln real tougli corojiany lie won't thoot nt quick M tho next man, and If ho 1'ii't In tough company ho le apt to fly off his basonnd shoot when there is lio occasion occa-sion fur It, Then ho'll hang or gu to tho Iienltenllary for life. He'll luivethot somo ono who was unarmed, and never thought of harming him. "Dut Unit lii't my story, my boy, That's only what my Mpcricneo hut taught mo. Now listen to my tale of woo: "IstrnckJadrlileunarmed. Ineter had carried a revolter, but somehow I felt tli.it It was ft neeenlty there. Ho I bought oue. Then I w im nil right. I loaded It carefully, put it In my hip pocket and Wt that I could walk tho streets In taMy, 1 was nrmed. "Well, about 8 p. in, that day tho snmo day that I had liongiit tlutt gun, mind yon at I wus jinmlng an alley I filt something cold ngalnitthosldoof my head. Pull my pin I No, sir! I throw up my hind in I as ordered to. I wasn't thinking of my gun ntalli I was thinking nt tlin ono th.it was pressed agidmt my head nnd wondering wonder-ing If It would gn olT. It didn't, but ono limn laid It there whllo iinothrr went through me. Ha took my wntcli, luy money and riy now gun. "I rcmemlier when ho found tho latter lat-ter ho suggested that it was of no uw to tne, and I heartily agreed with him. It waen't of tho slightest uso tu inc. utid I won willing that ho should havo It, but I did object to long my watih and luy money. "1 should say, my liny, tliat it took mo lltteen or tuenljr minutes tn gt t tho jmllor out of inyfaeo and to git over trembling. Then I found that I had somo change left nnd I went in n saloon. There were two men there, nnd they kept looking nt mo nnd laughing, laugh-ing, nnd I nm still convinced that ouo of tin in had my gun In his pocket. "That's tho only time 1 ever enrried ftguii and tho only time 1 wasevir 'held uii' Henoo my remark thatn gun It of no usoto tho average man. Itliogetstimo to use it It's ten to one that ho'a In company wlicro It Imi't necessary. If bo's hi coniiaiiy uhcru It Is, It's ten to ono bo won't liavo time to utu It, nnd an attimpt to do so may givo murder tho color of self defente. Tho other man will foci JustlHed in liking hta 1 got tnlno simply for Klf protection, and It didn't protect wortli n cent It rtarteil on a career of crlmo lnildoof five hours." Chicago Tribune. |