Omaha daily bee., 1884-09-15
COUNCIL BLUFFS
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.
CAUGHT ny AOATGH,
\ Young uoCtor Finds q Spring Lock
Very Undesirable When on
the Wrong side OF tho
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One of Council Bluffs young doctor.
who rooms ON the second noos Of one
the business blocks, was up early tn,
other morning, and stayed up longo,
than he really wanted TO-. lie heard the
boy throw tho morning Bee with "a
dull thud" against his door, and the bill.
lianC idea entered thoprofessional brain,
that it would be- grand scheme to slip
out into the hall, get TuE BEE, and ly.
ing in bed read the news for a while, be.
fore dressing. The doctor wears gau2e
underwear, but at this particular time he
had but one piece On. 1t was nice under
wear. but hardly enough of it for any
public parade, but then it was
very early, no one was stirring, aud it
would be but tho work of a moment. 1t
n fatal moment though, for as he
stepped into the hall, In hlsairy costume,
a draft through an open window in the
room slammed The door, snap went the
spring lock, and in a moment he realized
tho situation. He ~inStinctively felt for
his key to unlock the door, but the kind
of %pautaloons he had an Just then had no
pockets. He lost all interest in the pa
per which wos the purpose of his hasty
mission. He even thought unscriptural-
ly Of THE BEE which had thus tempted
him to sally forth on such a crusade in
such nightly armor. 1t seemed that as
the minutes grew longer his solitary gar.
ment grew shorter, and as his con-
fusion became thicker the gauze
became thinner. 1t was q
crisis in his life, when he feels as much
ambition to dress, as is commonly credit
ed to woman. He yearned for a suit like
a lawyer. The hooking letters of a cloth
ing advertisement, a forced sale regard
less of cost, peeped out from the despised
and detected BEE at his feet. He
couldn't but think to himself that it was
a closing out sell on him. But the rev.
erie was broken by the demand for &C.
ton. Something must be done before
tho busy mart began teeming with the
days activity. He concluded to call
out at the first sound of approaching
footsteps on the sidewalk below. But
what if it shouldn't be a man or a mascu-
line some Of sort? He was not
in drawing room apparel, ready
to interview or be interviewed by every
one He waited some time and finally hit
upon a plan. He would throw The
BEE down tho stairs onto the sidewalk.
Some one might stop at tho entrance
long enough to pick it up, and this
would give him a chance to SEQ if the
pRsser by was Of the sex that would war
rant him in calling to him from the top
of the stairway. Down went the paper.
Soon a little darkey boy came along,
stopped, stopped, picked up the paper,
and as he did SO, a yell pierced the dusky
ears. The whites of his eyes turned to
where the yell started from, and seeing u
man in such a garb, or rather such a
lack of garb, the little tinted youth gave
a shrek, and not waiting to solve the
mystery, or receive a MESSAGE, went
flying down the street. TO the
first man he met, he told
a sensational story of 'there being a
crazy man, all naked, and yelling, up in
that ere block" and the worthy citizen,
hailing a policeman, a little group of ex-
cited men, headed by the blue coat, went
hurrying up the stairway prepared to Sc
cure the bowling maniac, The onslaught
too fiercely and too suddenly for
the doctor to get in any word of explana-
ton, until he bad been thrown down
onto the floor and secured so that he
could do no harm. Then he was recog-
nized, explanations came, and a messen-
ger was sent to another professional man
who oficed with him, and who had
another key to the door. He kept his
post at the head of the stairs until the
messenger returned with the key which,
if made of gold and set with diamonds,
could not have seemed more precious to
him, that when he turned with it the
treacherous spring lock, and found him
self once more inside the room, and
access of his wardrobe. You
sell that doctor another spring
lock.