PULLED IT OFF.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

PULLED IT OFF.

" I've read about a great many instances of coolness in the face of death," said the stranger, " but I saw an occurrence a few years ago in Denver that surpasses anything of the sort I ever met in print. Sam Coleman was a happy-go-lucky sort of a ohap, who was not ut all quarrelsome, but he always hung about sporting resorts, and in some unaccountable way had been mixed up in three or four shooting affrays in which the coroner had to officiate afterward. A friend of his— Dick Adams — wanted him to quit his associates or he would die with his boots on. '"Die with my boots on?' cried Sam. 'Well, 1 guess not. I'm going to die like a minister, with my boots off.' '' ' I'll bet you 50 dollars that you die with your boots on.' "'Done.' " The money was deposited with a bar tender. About two weeks afterwards Coleman was in Allan's Saloon, when a drunken cowboy ran amuck and sent a bullet through his lung. Sam managed to pull his gun, and at the first shot dropped the cowboy dead in his tracts. Coleman was picked up and laid upon a billiard table "'Boys,' ho whispered, hoarsely, ' pull my boots off. Pull 'em off— quick !' "It was done. Just then Prank Colonian, Sam's brother, came iv. Tho dying man raised himself on his elbow, pointed to his feet, and said:— 'Frank, old boy, collect fifty dollars from Dick Adams. He said I'd die with my boots on, and I've fooled him.' " ' He had scarcely uttered these words before he fell back — dead." THE CARBOLIC SMOKE BALL. Mr. Justice Hawkins gave judgment for the plaintiff recently in the case of " Carlill v. the Carbolic Ball Company." The action was taken by a lady who ha 4 purchased the carbolic smoke balls of the oonii pany, under the terms of an advertisement issued by them, to recover the sum of £100, according to tho terms of the advertisement, which was as follows :— " £100 reward will be paid by the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company to any person who contracts the increasing epidemic influenza, colds, or any disease caused by taking cold, after having used the ball three times daily for two weeks, according to the printed directions supplied. £1,000 is deposited with the Alliance Bank, Eegent-street, showing our sincerity in the matter." The plaintiff, in consequence of this advertisement, purchased and used the balls for two weeks three times a day as directed, but, nevertheless, had au an attack of influenza, on which she claimed to recover the £100 from the company. The Judge, hearing her evidence, gave judgment for her. Mr. Cohen, Q.O. moved, next day, in the Court of Appeal, on the part of the company, for a stay of execu,tio^ on bringing the money ii\to, - Court. #i .'h°ir Lordships reused the application £\a i\o ground was laid for it. There threatens to be a race war at Gntlirie, capital of the new territory Oklahomu, between the negroes and the whites. Two negroes have been arrested for criminally assaulting white women, and their friends attempted to lynch the assailants. The negro citizens object to this, and have armed themselves; besides, they demand that tlie \yhite editor of the News be hanged. Leading oitizens of New York have petitioned Congress to investigate the foreign immigration methods in vogue in that city, and also the great frauds that exist in naturalisation. Foreigners, of whom 200,000 arrived in 1891, and but a small portion could read or write English,, were naturalised hurriedly for elootion purposes, and in some instances thrust into office, "ignorant, vens>l, and wh.oliy unfit to govern themselves or "us," say the petitioners. The "Wolverhampton Free Library Com-, mittee reports that the adoption of the system of Wotting out betting news is successful. Th,o betting men and boys who formerly crowded the newsroom 'and monopolised papers for that class of news are now replaced by a more orderly clasw of readers.