Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — Owned to his Record. [ARTICLE]

Owned to his Record.

Salt Lake Tribune. The editor was sitting m his revolving cav e-bottomed chair, when Tornado Tom, the traveling terror of Texas, came in and demanded a retraction of the statement that he had swindled an orphan out of $4. “It’s a lie cldkr through,” said the terror, striking the table with bis fist, “I’m as good a man as sraeils the atmosphere in this section J’ “Perhaps you are better,” said the editor, meekly. “My record’ll compare favorably , w r i s h yourn,” said the terror, with a sneer; “perhaps there area few little baek rackets in your life, sir, that wouldn’t bear a microscopis investigation.” “Oh, sir,” said the editor, visibly agitated, “don’t recall the st; don’t bring up the memories of the tomb; I know T’ve led a hard life—l dou’t deny it. J killed Shorty Barnes the Bowery Boy of New York—hacked him all to pieces with a knife. I have atoned for it a thousand times. I blew a man’s head off at a log-roll in Kentucky, and bitterly have I repented of my folly. I slew a lot of inoffensive citizens of Omaha over a paltry $4 pot, simply because I got excited. Oh, could I but cheat the tomb of the men I have placed in its maw I would be happy. But it’s ail owing to my high temper -mid lack of early traiuiug. I know that I have been wayward, wicked; and yon have a right to come here and recall those unhappy memories; but its d—d mean for all that. Nobody with a heart would treat a man like you have me. Don’t leave, stranger; i’ll tell you alh I sawed a man’s head off with an old sabre just for ” The Texas terror was down stairs and half way round the corner, while the editor, taking a fresh chew of rattlesnake twist,- continued his peaceful avocatiqn as quietly as a law-abiding citizen,