Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — What Sporting Men Rely On. [ARTICLE]

What Sporting Men Rely On.

When Louis R. Redmond, the South Carolina moonshiner, cornered, after for eight years eluding the Government officials, was asked to surrender, he exclaimed: “Never, to men who fire at my back! ” Before he was taken, five bullets had rone clear through him, but strange to relate, he got well in the hands of a rude backwoods nurse. By the way, if Garfield had been in the hands of a backwoods nurse he might have lived. A heap of volunteer testimony against the infallibility of the physicians has been accumulating of late, and people are encouraged to do their own doctoring more and more. It is cheaper and quite as certain. Before Detective Curtin, of Buffalo, caught Tom Ballard he “ covered ” him with his revolver. Tom saw the point and tumbled! Joe Goss was “covered” a few weeks ago and he tumbled, and so did Dan Mace. Death “fetched ’em” with that dreaded weaponkidney disease. But they should have been lively and drawn first. They could easily have disarmed the monster had they covered him with that dead shot—Warner’s safe cure, which, drawn promptly, always takes the prey. It is doubtless true that sporting men dread this enemy more than any mishap of their profession, and presumably this explains why they as a rule are so partial to that celebrated “dead shot.” Redmond was right. No man should surrender when attacked in the back. He should “draw,” face about, and proceed to the defense, for such attacks, so common among all classes, will fetch a man every time unless “covered” by that wonderfully successful “dead shot.”— Sportsman’ s Nsws.