A POWERFUL ARGUMENT.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3132, 3 March 1879, Page 4

A POWERFUL ARGUMENT.

A few days ago a tall, rough-looking mountaineer entered the Union Railroad ticket-office at Denver, and, through mistake, purchased a ticket for New York via the Kansas Pacific line when he wanted to go over the Union Pacific. He did not discover this 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 r 1"

"No, sir," replied the agent j "you have your ticket and I have the money for it, and if you want a ticket over the other route you will have to buy it." Very quietly the stranger twisted his ticket into a small roll; very serenely he drew from under his right coat-tail a sixshooter 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 uglylooking thing through the little square window of the ticket-office, almost in the agent's face, and speaking in a tone that left no doubt of his determination, said —

"Stranger, thar's that ticket; take it yourself and change it, or by Jupiter I'll blow it clean through you." That ticket was changed immediately, without any more words from the agent, and the mountaineer walked away, saying, quietly— " I jest thought I could induce him to change his mind a leetle."—American paper. •