Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-10-16
SEIZED BY THE MINIoNs OF TuELAw.


SEIZED BY THE MINIONS OF THE LAW.
1t is to be expected that the indulgeness
of fondnesses occasionally brings the prin-
Ter within the clutch Of the law as repre-
scntcl by q man with blue coat, a star, a
blud@rou, and u lurking seven-shooter.
1t must be confessed that the daily list of
police prisoners that Of printer occurs much
Oitenar than might b, desired by the we'll
wishtr~ ut bee craft Bu; il is only fair to
state that, iir:;sulIch as it IS quite a favoritc
piece 81 picyaricatiDn on the part-of a pri-
softer 10 cail himself a printer when he is
not such, the percentage as set forth by the
police lists ot arrested typos is not correct.
Still the typo does occasionally find his way
to the lookup, thence, after Il troubled
{ suooze on deal boards, to the Police Court.
Here his condition is melancholy in the ex-
tremc. The probability is that in the few
/ days preceding his arrest and conhemeut
| he had disposed of four or five times as
much money as would have paid his fine
and saved him the sudden seclusion f.om
/ public life, and the thought of his utter i'm
! pecuniOsity as compared with the lavish
/ ness of his recent expenditures adds greatly
/ to discontinue. At last he can stand it
no longer, and he drops line 20 his most
intimate friends in the city, acquainting
/ them Of his misfortune, and begging them
/ to raise the amount Of his fine, or secure
his parden the Mayor. The friends meet
in solemn concluve, and talk ever the hard
ness Of the case, and resolve upon prompt
action. Economy points to pardon as Il
more mastery achievement than the pay
ing of the fine, and consequently one of the
number is deputed to call upon the Mayor,
and make his eloquent intercession. But if
he fails to create the desired impression, the
| fine has to be paid, and to do this Il levy
has to be made on the more intimate friends
and acquaintance Of the iucarcerated.
This is not difficult matter, and as soon
as accomplished the Gagged bird is set at lib
erty and his friends take him round to the
'Squire's,' who administers to him that
most futile Of covenants, the inebriate's
OATH.
Nobody ever heard of printer breaking
into house, or committing highway rob-
berry or murder. At the same time they
are
NOT As PIOUS As THEY NIGHT BE.
Some years ago the well known reyiva-
list, Hammond, while in Chicago, under
took to convert bodily the printers in the
different newsrooms while they were en-
gagged in violating the fourth command
ment by setting type for Monday mornings
paper. The first Office he called at was
the old Republicdn-the Inter Ocean. Here
the revivalist asked of the managing edi-
tor, one Joe McCullagh, permission to in
wade the news room of the establishment,
and convert the compositors. Permission
was granted, and as the great converter
left the room the ev;lminded managing
editor shouted the advent of the parson up
the tube, and told the forman to ''let the
boys loose" He let them loose. Wherever
the parson knelt down to utter prayer he
was sure to be in the road of somebody.
and wherever he shifted himself there was
typo ready with Here, old fellow 'yere
in the road, and Il gentle twist of the wrist
led him to effect change of base. When
this had occurred about twenty times the
reyiyalist lost temper, and rushed from the
room, uttering words which were widely
foreign to the ordinary reviyalist tongue.
Mr.. Hammond did not 90 round that
evening to the other news rooms as intend
ed, and, as he has never attempted any
more mass conversions of printers since
then, it is safe to presume that he writes
them down as among the utterly depraved
and God -fcrsaken of men.
THE GIRLS.
Of all the mildly evil things that have
been recorded against printers here, there
is one class Of comparatively recent date
whose nembers stand unconvicted. They
never drink, never play faro, never go to
the lookup. In fact. in almost everything
they present 4 renarka Bile contrast to the
typo already described. Perhaps the con-
trast is most marked in the matter of ma
trimOny. Whilr the ordinary typo is care
less of, if not actually opposed to, married
life, this class always views any prospects
of its seCural with the utmost favor. In
fact, many Of them indicate plainly, in a
thousand unmistakable little ways, that
they long for the day when they shall be-
come the better half of dual existance.
These are the lady printers, of whom every
office is happy in the possession Of one or
two. As general rule, the lady printers
are good, steady workers-the only misfor-
tune in connection with them being that,
just as they become really useful, they
suddenly disappear from the case, and are
seen there no more. Their weakness for
matrmony has got the better Of them. and
in the new role of wife and mother they
soon forget what knowledge they had pick
ed up of old Gutenburgs art.
Take them for all in all, printers are y
DlGIlD cHGTStti'- jl'l. 'Iilttls ttiN ItSltCt-
able set of men, and glance at the names
of the prominent men of our city and of
our country who had begun life in print
ing Office will convince any one that the
possibilities in front of ermination typo OF
ordinary force of character into other busi-
ness they succeed, are second TO that of no
other h1siness in the land
y DOZEN ladies of neighboring town
organized a ''Stay-at-Home Club few
weeks ago, and the other day one of the
members thought she would steal out and
make a short call on sister member who
resides just across the street. As might
have been expected, she didn't find her in.
Then she called on all the other members,
one after another, ard didn't lind them at
home, either. Now she is mad, and says
she vii! leave the club, unless its name is