HOW AN OFFICIAL GOT VERY CIVIL.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1100, 22 August 1873, Page 3

HOW AN OFFICIAL GOT VERY CIVIL.

It is interesting to note the primitive simplicity of manner which still exists in the more remote regions of the States. There is above all what a physical force admirer would term a frank decision in their mode of settling disputes. It is not so many years since a caricature in Punch represented a

gentleman at ah American table d'hote holding a pistol to the head of his vis-a-vis, and asking him to pass the mustard. Equally peremptory was the act on of a mountaineer who entered a few days since the Union Railway ticket office at Denver, and through mistake, purchased a ticket for New York line. He did not discover the fact until after the ticket had been paid for, and on asking the agent to change it, the latter refused to do so. " You won't change this ticket, then, won't you ? " " No, sir," replied the agent j " you have your ticket and I have the money i'or it, and if you want a ticket over the other route, you will have to buy it, sir." Very quietly the stranger twisted his ticket into a small roll; very serenely he drew from under his right coat tail a six-shooter about the dimensions of a mountain howitzer; coolly and deliberately he stuck the twisted ticket into the muzzle of that six-shooter, and sticking the ugly looking thing through the little square window at the ticket office and almost in the agent's face, and speaking the tone that left no doubt of his determination, said : " Stranger, thar's that ticket take it thyself and change it, or I'll blow it clean through you." The ticket was changed immediately.