, 1880-02-27

or Chicago that tho National law be rigidly en-
| sy1nputhy with tho Kcarncytc5 in San francisco
| in thcjr efforts to make the Chinese get out OF
| Chinatown, the Council adjourned.
FAITHFUL POLICEMEN.
| A Gang of Midnight Prowlers Sur
rounded by the Hvatchiu1 Guardians
of the Pence.
| This is true story of two city policemen ana
| O private Waterman.
It is not written up from the history Of tho
| fight Of tho tailors and tho snuil, with which all
| children and some grown people nre familiar.
It is something which happened in the neighbor-
hood of Lincoln Park only three nights ago.
| It may strike the reader MS strange that the
names Of these yfgiant. and promotion-deser
ing officers arc not gtycn but that they are NOT
is due to their modcsty alone. They asked SO
earnestly to have them left OUT that 1T was lnl-
possible to refuse them.
Mr.. -inson lives on Sedgwick street, not
very far from the park. Night before Inst ne
WIS awakened from his slumbers By sound OF
threatening voices somewhere in the nefghbor~
hood. He listened, and heard somebody talking
in his backyard. OF course, his first thought
was OF burglars. He felt for his watch and his
pockctbooh, found them safe, md, being re-
licyed in mind, very softly and quietly opened
the bedroom window and looked into tho yard
It was in dim and dismal period Of the night,
after the moon had gone down and before the
ma sSeh r. aha nG voce sec
your fuatis hands np up % dwn YOU, % Or Ri kill you
straining bis eyes in tho direction Of the
gpee ne sw hG "r o nnc nf Ss sbcd
and, looking still further, with eyes which gTnd-
twn } {nsastinct iisIrcs on ton Of the shed. Then
be heard card the individnal w" had rst spoken say
to another, Jack, you go around IN the alley,
and # they IT, to SET OF % fhnt side, yo@
sioTy along the alley PGessnty Jack aad.t Sa,a t2
bsttSs step Ky SSsse s IA an :sa,s ~ .,..r ~ to
the corner KEEP your {aI eye open aa shoot the
ders tfe MINUTE .aTg r9, fho 4o ton " tho shed
clanKng @ @ or clattering latter @ as # Of iron and still an
other Soice samK OUT, t ptha 1nn. Thesv bann @
o Iii nG II 1 tbere fS Fank We capt
1rG the Wnole outnt: ,,,,+ T., IT.. oar so,a In u1
men NJ p4s t,,i5 ~ hne s or WAY IL tho
h am ehe paop1ig.or @ 4ro - LUIS nouee "n"' = ''o
ni lrnunlt ue"M ~. Iuelci I,, vwo hoxo nan+ q
oaln tae nrsi potca, +.aad ~, TIN of vanr wood
coupe o To ost nvtbng ~ Hnyo hoy been
IN re che house" Sc ~. ), cod -,nson "wott a
maqts nna Sen ard w put 2" my clothes and see
As
Ing some fellows loaftng around here for some
time, ad I We tS Seps od IN eHt9a ta hte %te1 o
- am very much obliged" said Mt -lnson'
inquiry oplgta u ~ stu. ouse III n1 ho ~ Inn
So he hurriedy slipped on r. hiS c5, clothes, got &
asked them II they had lost ANYTHING. Ihree rs
women Immediately searched @ Tor their POCKET. xse
and finding them all safe. wept p5,s profuselS' and
begged him not to go out and be killed.
Then he went out into the yard, groped h1s
Way along nna, 1lndlng me nrss ! poGcaah aa & Ut
the corner; ASKED MN nov aaa aong tney @ nao oeen
did tho FELLOWS sny anythinIg to your asked
6ey so;a sometbine ine 'dlh reped the police
guess. couldn,t ~, rightly make out whag II was.
It sounded Ike Welsh: Welsh gnesS tsi you @ aad nettor
scnd the squad, l don't know but whnt they
NM, aat,, be armed, and we may have 3 bad light
Just at this moment the irreprcssble small
boy of the family made bis appearance IN tho
yard. He had been awakened oy the commo,
Shooting: ana Ind put on h's clothes il! : disso-
lutte. arbitrary manner, and had come out to see
@ No So 6da h. 5 s9e stranp ead hfR m
eyes, he saia to his father, " Why, pa, what in
the world gre our nanny goats doing uplon tho
:. Nanny goats be d-d,'' said the policeman.
Thems BURGLARS ,..,--
var fbr were MaS 10 se@r
up little, and, as he looked, he was struck with
the appearance Of tho figures on the shed, and
| called out Nanny, nanny"
| Then the creatures upon the shed. recogniz-
| Ing the voice OF an OLD ncgna'ntancc, gave m
| unmlstaknble answer, which Was neither Bo-
hemian or Welsh, nor anything but unntstak-
| able goatish
~ guess you nEFe made fn1staKe, SAID Mr.
VG Wy E"n'S for watehna them So Carefully for aG hour m
or so, and now I'll be more obliged If you and
your friends could get them aown Tor me-.