The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-16
BRAssEB's SON CLAUDIUs.

IRON the Detroit Free Press.1
MIR. Brasser, who lives on Ninth
avenue, has a son about twelve years
old named Claudius, and the other even
ing this boy received permission to allow
neighbor's boy to stay all night with
him. The old people sleep down stairs
ID the sltting-room, and the boys were
put into room directly above. When
they went up to the bed Claudius had
the clothes-ine under his coat, and the
nelghbor's boy had mask in his pocket.
They didn't kneel down and say their
prayers like good boys and then jump
into bed and tell bear stories, but as
soon as the door was locked the Brasser
boy remarked
You'll see more fun around here to-
night than would lie on ten-acre lot i''
From a closet they brought out cast
off suit of Brasser's clothes, stuffed them
with whatever came handy, tied the
mask and an old straw-hat ON for head,
and while one boy was carefully raising
the window the other was tying the
clothes-lne around the man." The
image was lowered down in front of the
| sltting-room window, lifted up and down
once or twice, and old Brasser was heard
to leap out of bed with great jar. He
was just beginning to doze when he
heard sounds under his window, and his
wife suggested that it was COW in the
yard. He got up, pulled the curtain
| away, and as he beheld man standing
there he shouted out:
"Great bottles but it's a robber p
and he jumped into bed.
Theodorius Brasser, are you a fool l''
screamed the wife as he monopolized all
the bedclothes to cover up his head.
SO Be quite, you old jade, you l'' he
whispered perhaps he'll go away l''
!" Don't you call me jade 20 she re-
piled, reaching over and trying to find
his hair. '' Git up and git the gun and
blow his head off l''
Oh, you do it ~
Git up, you old coward" she
snapped. "In never live with you an
other day if you don't do it l'
Brasser turned up the lamp, sat up in
bed, and cried out
LIS that you, boys2"
Mercy on me git up i'' yelled the
wife as the straw man was knocked against
the window.
"In blow his head off as clean as
milk ]" said Brasser in a loud voice as he
got up. He struck the stove three or
four times, upset q chair, and reached
behind the foot of the bed and drew out
an old army musket
Now, then, for bloodi' he contin-
ued, as he advanced to the window and
lifted the curtain.
The man was there, face close to the
glass, and he had such a malignant ex-
preston of countenance that Brasser
jumped back with cry of alarm.
Kill him Shoot him down, you
old noodle-head /" screamed the wife.
will-by thunder! willl' replied
Brasser, and he blazed away, and tore
out nearly all the lower sash.
The boys up stairs uttered a veil and
a groan, and Brasser jumped for the
window to see if the man was down.
He wasn't. He stood right there, and
he made leap at Brasser
He's coming in l-perlice boys =
ho perlice !" roared the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brasser to catch sight of man jumping
up and down, and she yelled:
tTheodorius, Tn going to faint!''
"Falnt and be darnedl Boys per
hceF' he replied, wolloping the sheet
iron stove with the poker
Don't you dare talk that way to me l''
shrieked the old woman, recovering from
her desire to faint.
"Po-leece Po-leece!'' now came
from the boys up stairs, and while one
continued to shout, the other drew the
man up, tore him limb from limb. and
secreted the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused. an
officer came up from the station. and a
search of the premises was made. Not
SO much as track in the snow was found,
and the officer put on an injured look
and said to Mr.. Brasser
/" A guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser.'
That's so p chorused the indignant
neighbors as they departed.
AS Mr.. Brasser hung quilt before the
shattered window he remarked to his
wife:
"Now see what an old cundurango you
made of yourself l''
Don't fling any insults at me, or I'm
choke the attenuated life out of Won 7"
she replied.
And the boys kicked around on the
bed, chucked each other in the ribs. and
cried:
I'D rather be a boy than be Presi-
denti''
IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION.
An important decision, concerning the
Liability of railroad companies for valua-
bles intrusted to their care as personal
baggage. has been rendered by the Su-
preme Court of Illinois in the case of
w. T. Carrow va the Mieh;oo,, Tsa,.4Y