Show MEN WHO ITO HAVE NO FEAR A story toller teller thinks that some people cannot realize danger courage has often struck me as rather being the lose loss of something than the possession 0 of something 0 of course I 1 know that a brave man will walk deliberately into death knowing full we well hil I 1 what he Is doing but having made up hia mind to do it at auy any coat cost it la is no sign of cowardice when a man sees that it Is ii useless to dio die when he be might live with jual just as much credit and honor to himself and so refuses to walk into the jaws of death but there Is the man who does doe s n not 0 t know what fear Is I 1 have seen in my ray life a tow few ench such men men who would go into any danger for the simple reason that they did not ilot seem to have the power pow er to perceive that what they did was likely to cost their lives I 1 remember once in la the late sixties I 1 was la in a town which wae was bad there were some men in that town whose actions were never questioned and there were man many y lawless deeds at which even the good citizens shrugged ged their shoulders and that was alt all A man came into the town who bad had the mildest manner 0 of any one whom I 1 ever saw lie ile was very tall had broad shoulders and huge fists but me his eye was ot of a soft blue and his smile was always friendly one day two outlaws had been riding around town running things to suit them selves one of their tricks had been to ride into barroom bar rooms and scatter people there them they were let alone at this amusement until they both tired ot of it for or they were bad men and no one cared to have them begin a savage attack on him when the two rider inflamed with brutality found the barroom charges too flat atit tor for their tastes they looked around for other mischief to do they found it in a little store which was a notion shop drug tore store and everything else elm the they y charged 1 it on the trot and with witha spurs purs jingling arms waving and hoofs clattering in they went an instant later two screaming women rushed from the place and ran down the street tt reet when the outlaws rode out to the sidewalk they eat sat in their saddles and bowled like sav savages agea now the mild mannered blue eyed giant coming down the street had se seen en enough of the affair to understand wh what a t had happened he ile stopped and looked at the two mad riders for a full minute the whole affair was over the women had digap beaded aad the borss horsemen men were sut cue grait n ing close to one of them reached up quickly and took him by his tits coat near the throat lie ile pulled the man from his saddle as if he hod bad been a sack of bran and giving aa him a terrific shake dashed him to the ground where he lie lay all in a crushed heap the other rider had seen nil all toll nt at first with a look of stupid astonishment and then with a it savage light on his face ho be whipped out ills his revolver but before he be ca could uld use it the giant had snatched him from his caddie and wit with it one hand around his throat and one gathering up the fel lows clothes low on oil his its chest ho lie literally wrung the strength out of him better get out ofala of alila town as soon non na its you can lia said in a n low voice and he flung him blui into the on top of his companion the two sneaks actually when they got up they had their the revolvers but they climbed into their saddies saddles as it if they were halt half frightened to death and rode out of town now my point Is this no man who had an a idea of danger would have attacked those men when the peril of the women was past the chances were ten thousand to one that he would bo be killed he ile was to absolutely ignorant of fear tor for he afterward became a deputy marshal and while trying to arrest three desperate men in this fearless way was shot to pieces interview in new york tribune |