A STEADY NERVE
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

or at least at the bottom of the creel, for it spoils the flavor of fish to have them soaking in water. — Forest and Stream. From the May 1, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise A STEADY NERVE A Moment of Peril in New Mexico and How a Nervy Mexican Youth Saved Six Human Lives. Shot Of a Blinded Man in Nebraska. The nerve which shines forth in a deadly crisis of cracking revolvers or flashing knives is neither the only nor the highest kind, but it is a noble and an admirable quality, even when misapplied; and when we shall cease to admire and respect it, the human race will have very little left where of to be proud. We shall have to come to a sorry pass when our blood shall fail to tingle to such a deed as that of Mr. Cus- ter’s brave sergeant. He had arrested a deserter of desperate character and brought him to a little town in Nebraska. While they were eat- ing dinner, the desperado picked up a can of pepper, dashed the contents in the sergeant’s face and started for the door. The blinded officer, even in the inconceivable anguish of the moment, thought only of his orders to bring in ( 20 ) the prisoner alive or dead, and listening for the footsteps of the fugitive, fired to the sound and dropped his man!