The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-04-20

tons. popped out as Bijah opened tn
corridor door.
lie came out with pop.
AMI he didn't stop,
lobe addressed by bic Honor;
hut stood by the rail, and sadly walled
~ got drunk and now I'm goneriv
"lou acknowledge that you got drunk
do yous" asked the Court.
"lcs-I own right up
- You fell in the mud. lost your stock
IN trade, and bit the policeman who an.
rested yout''
"That's just what did, your Honor
and believe ought 10 be sent IN fol
three months. believe I've got down
70 mean point. and il needs something
70 bring me up standing. Send me M
and i viii prove great moral lesson.to
me-"
Why don't You 90 TO Florida and
plant an orange groyc?" asked his Hon
Or a. hc looked down benignly on the
old pioneer.
Florida-orangc grove. Why /
couldn't plant string-beans, your Hon
or' cant tear up the soil and root
around like young man with muscle
and backbone. I'm over 20 years old.
all shrlink up, ugly-tempercd, and
want check put upon my mad career. Y
:" don't want 10 send an old man
like you 70 the bars observed the
Court. "Why can't YOU emulate the
example Of Socrates, and behave YOUR
self -
=. don't care for Socrates. and I'm
liable 10 20 out here and kill 4 man!''
exclaimed the peddler.
Well. you'll have To kill somebody.
them" sighed his Honor. IF send
you up you'd eat twice as much a. YOU
could earn, and / also believe YOU are a
real nice old man when YOU are sober
9 No, ain't-I'm a regular old CO.
coannt, with all the peeling left on,
Won't you send me up. and give me to
understand that I've rot to behave my
self or suffer the consequences"
:. No-can't do il; one old man makes
more fuss up there than forty young
men. You'll have 10 20 on snufiing the
pure air Of liberty and dodging April
showers
Now do ] thirst for blood,- whis-
pered the old man rs he went out. He
saw sailor across the street, and he
rushed over TO wallop him and thus
prove his desperate character in the
very eyes Of the Court
who's this sailing across nv bows?''
growlcd the Jack Tar. ~ the peddler
bumped against him. and he dropped
the old man in melting snow bank as
easily as boy gets away with a Jaw
breaker
A HARTLEss CASE.
Frank Hart was passing along Bates
Street just as the shades Of evening were
closing down 10 mercifully hide for
brief season the mud-holes along Wood
ward Avenue Some one seated in
second-story window threw down
handful Of beans on his head.
Perhaps il was = maiden fair
Perhaps twas some old maid
Perhaps u was u ghoetiy hand
Which thus on Hart did raid.
No matter who il was. The prisoner
j. not the sort Of a man who can stand
any fooling. lie saw that he couldn't
reach the joker, and SO he kicked the
first handy pedestrian. The victim was
n coiored man, and as No. 10 boot
slammed against himhe halted and sung
out:
I. BE a lectlc kccrful how you sling
dat shoe-shop around heah,-
Hart kicked with his other foot, so as
to average the thing, and the colorcd
man rot out Of his coat and said
"When a man kicks me fair an
sguar' wild four-hol~e power dat's about
dc limit. About de time he kicks me dc
second time I'ze ready to reason de case
straight from Dc shoulder. Please take
dat, will you?"
La addition to being well pounded, Mr..
Hart was arrested in the latest spring |
style, which is being drawn down 10 the |
station in cart which doesn't fit his |
back worth cent.
4. | should think you'd be ashamed 10
20 round raising rows and riots re-
marked the Court, a. he looked down
upon the prisoner.
:. But somebody threw beans on my
head" exclaimed the prisoner.
~ can't help that, Mr.. Hart. The
man who lives in large town i liable
to all such things I've had icicles and
bricks fall on my head. been hit by lad
ders, and hods, and omnibus wheels,
and vet forgot and forgave."
Well. / don't like 70 have any jokes
played on me-" muttered Hart.
"Well, you may not consider three
months sentence any joke" said the
Court. at would be just AZ well for
you to smooth down your face, wipe off
the dirt from your nose, get on pleas
ant look, and see II you cant make some
man your friend.
Mr.. Hart said he didn't want any
friend, and following Bijah into the cor
rider he wanted 10 borrow bowie
knife and tomahawk and a chew Of to
bacco.
REMARKS on SPRING.