The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-05-13
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the secret; but it is sufficient, to begin
with, that be was very insufficient, either
TO begin with or to keep along. During
bis fTst six months as 3 policeman, be
never made a complaint nor an aFyeat, sad
his fellow Officers often rallied him abont
! it, changing him With being too timid, tAo
polite, too sleepy, deaf or blind, not to
have nabbed somebody; end told him it
would be better to arrest an innocent per-
son, If only little girl or boy, occasionally,
just to save appearances.
Il know my duty and I'll attend TO it,
drawled Nipkin; If I don't find occasion,
I won't make one my business is to press
serve the peace, not to break it,
Break You never broke anything,
more than loaf Of bread, or teacup.-
Go long, Nipkins, 60 long
NipEins was snubbed, twitted, nudged,
and hustled so much that It nettled him
greatly; and on one occasion he complain.
ed to the Captain. ..,-..
It's your own fault said that officer.
The fact is, Nipkin, you haven't got
push enough
Push =
Force, energy, go aheAdativeness, vitn.
You're bashful. There must be plenty OF
rogucs on your beat. II you ever want
70 rise in the police force, you must dis
tinguish yourself You must have more
push IIavo your wits about you-bc
on the alertl Watch-imaginc be sus-
picious-sharp. The man on your beat
used to average dozen arrests month.
he had such push Do you suppose tho
rogues have all left, since you've coTue.'
Nipkin treasured up these words, and
made fierce resolve that henceforth Be
would make himself notorious for push
That night was dark and stormy, and
as he faced his post he felt it would be a
good night for burglars, and perhaps Il
lucky one for him.
Il feel as if | was going to arrest some.
body he reflected, as he prowled past
some tall warehouses. 1t may be i'm
agination-it may be only owing to my
desire to show what an amount Of push
I've got in me- 1t is now nigh on to
twelve o'clock. feel as if would like
to commit murder in the cause Of justice,
aud have my name in the papers,
Just then he heard the sound of voices
within one Of the warehouses. He was
all alive in an instant. 1t was large
store where iron safes we're sold. lie went
to the door and listened, and then heard
q voice:
Il think we'll succeed in opening this
lock. yet
Then Nipkin heard metallic clicking,
as Of some one trying topick lock.
Burglars, by glory Trying to enter
the safe. Shall I rap for assistances No.
I'll show my push and have them all
to myself If they try TO escape, then
DEATH ~
lie now looked through the keyhole
and saw a light. He found tho door
fastened and ratified it violently.
Hello who's in here? Open this
door here!' Pausing to listen, he heard
no response. That of itself was convinc-
ing. Anybody who had right to be
there, would have answered. He now
beat the door furously with his club.
Open, or I'll burst it open. You can't
escape Half dozen officers here
Quick about it. Be lively
We belong here now said somebody.
Cannon. Open this door here,
say, whether you belong here or not.
This exhibition Of push had the effect
he desired. The door was uNlocked and
opened, and Nipkin entered, with leveled
pistol, and told the two men he saw there
to consider themselves arrested.
You are mistaken, said well'dressed
elderly gentleman, who was seated at a
desk with large bank lock before him.
I am the proprietor, and this is my clerk,
Frank Blank
Likely story. Here at twelve o'clock
at night. tell you two you must go
along with me, or there'll be trouble
You can tell your story at the station, and
make it up as you go along but mind, if
you run, you die
Expostulation was useless--Nipkin was
on his 'push'--and they went with him
to the station, where be handed them in
triumphantly, and told his story.
Then they told theirs.
They proved to the Captains satisfaction
that they we're not what had been stated.
Tho dealer in safes had been engaged with
his clerk for several hours, in trying to
pick a newly invented bank lock, task
to which he had been challenged by the
inventor, and excited his ingenuity SO
that he resolved to tarry till midnight un-
less he succeeded.
The prisoners were discharged, and
Timothy Nipkin did not wait long behind
them, for the ridicule which greeted his
first evidence Of push
'Confound my push 7 thought he, as
he went about his business again; be-
lieve that too much push is worse than
none at ALL
WBAT HoPE DID.--It stole on its pin.
ions to the bed of disease the sufferers
frown became smile, the emblem Of peace
and love.
~ 1t went to the house of mourning, and
from the lips of sorrow there came sweet
and cheerful songs.
1t laid its head upon the arm Of the
poor. which stretched forth at the hand of
unhoIy impulses, and saved him from dis.
grace and ruin.
1t dwells like living thing in the bo-
som of the mother, whose son tarried long
after the promised time of his coming,
and saved her from desolation and the
''care that killeth." ....4.,I
1t lowered about the head Of the youth
who had become the Isamael Of society
aud led him on to works which oven his
enemies praised. s.sll'1 e .asC
1t snatched q maiden from the jaws Of
death, and went With an old man to heav.
en-. .a,j H.. s..s,.s -
No hope my good brother. Have IT,
keep it always with you. Wrestle with
it, that Il may not depart. II may repay
your pains. Life is bard enough d ,bstks
but hope shall lead you over theaHlsnn-sti
tains, and sustain you, amid its hillowE<-Ai
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