SILVER HANDLES.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5101, 23 May 1885, Page 1

SILVER HANDLES.

It was one of the lot of alleged " Arizona cowboys" that gave an exhibition of what they didn't know about riding, a few Sundays ago. He was more than suspected of being a " milk jerker" from a San Mafeo Diary ; bat he wore long hair, a red shirt, a circus cut hat, and had a wholo gunsfore of revolvers strapped to him. As^be strutted around a Market street bar room hammering the bar for more " pizeu," a meek faced young man entered and gently . requested to be supplied with a Napa lemonade. The walking arsenal grimly watched the preparation of this modest beverage, and scowled in a manner that. • boded no good to the newcomer. . When the drink was concocted, the cowboy deliberately seized the glass ond poured the mixture on the floor. " * 11 Don't 'low no sich slop ter be drunk round here. Yer must take yer liker straight, or go,dry tenderfoot!" " I prefer lemonade," said the young man, mildly, as the other filled a whiskey glass to the brim and passed it 'along the counter. "Are yer agoin ter drink that afore I shoot a copper off yer nose ?' roared the calf brander, fumbling at his beit, while the awestruck by-standers looked around for tables 16 get tinder when the shooting began. "I will not deceire you, my friend," said the young man, wiping his forehead with an embroidered handkerchief. "I will not drink it." , - "It's drink or draw ! " howled the bad man. "No shooting here, gentlemen! " cried the barkeeper; " these mirrors cos; nine hundred dollars apiece." . "Certainly not," said the .polite young man ; " just lend us your back room for a few oiinulcs; I suppose it will suit you to shoot across a table at the drop of the hat." he said to the Arizona cyclone. The AC. looked as if he had been Continued in Fmirtk F«y* f >