The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-06

the crowd. Would they kill him? We'll
come the Tonlbs, the Island, Sing Sing,
electrocution, if he might only escape
from those horrible, threatening faces.
But though he was thus passive, Po-
liceman x. who had him in charge,
did not choose that he should appear
so. No! lie had q record 10 make be-
fore the pull of his ''coozin, tn alder
man." could be effective, and here
was his opportunity. So once and
again he gave him a forward thrust.
and Misunderstanding aye wud, wud
yez?"-a mighty drag back again, &c
the admiration of the passers-by, who
afterward astonished dinner-tables by
accounts of a terrific struggle which
they had witnessed between IL burly
ruffan and one of our city's defenders.
The grim and gannt female stall1ed
behind this tableau of justice for
pace, and finally she stopped short. But
her desertion was unnoticed. She
watched the pair as they struggled for
ward into the distance. A sardonic
smile revealed the artifciality of her
teeth as she did so.
"A good mornings work." she ex
claimed. II must go and report prog
ress."
She hailed convenient cab. She
gave instructions, in which possibly the
word ''Sorosis'' might have been dis
tinguished. She was rapidly driven
away.
Arthur and his exultant captor. I'M
suspicious that this 'dea ca machimG"
had thus clopcd, reached the court
house. A roundsman stood upon the
stoop.
| What hev We there. Mike?" he famil-
iarly asked the officer.
"A snake teef. Wan of the wust Of
EN-. I've been on to him this twelve
mont"
He looks it, was the consoling COM
ment.
They went before the committing
magistrate. He was Il red-faced, squat
ty man. seated behind q yellow-grained
desk. and enveloped as to the neck with
smudgy handkerchief. Upon the desk,
beside his feet, were an ink-stand and a
sticky book.
What is it, officer?" he queried. I'M
winding the handkerchief.
"A case of larceny from the pusson,
sor."
"Kiss the book"
Il wull, sor:'' and he added little
more sickness to it.
Are You the complainant
"Oi am, sor."
"Then you were present at the com
mission of this offense?''
"Divil Il bit, yer ahnOr, no more thin
yerself. How cud be? Twas on tbs
Elevated train, yer ahnor, above INT
bate. Shure, lin no thrack-wallter."
"Silencc, sir. Where is the person
from whom the property was taken?"
"Oh. shure, long, lane female il
black, for all the wurruld like the Witch
of Endy. was following us but IA mo-
ment sence. Twas she it was from
whom he TUX it,
II must discharge this man. There
! is no evidence on which To hold him
"Phat, yer ahnor! Whin he sazed hel
by the two wrists and wraStled it from
her like the thavin' blaggard that he is
shure.'
did You see him do it?'
"Av coorse. yer ahnor, | was moi
there. but I'll swear to it just the
same"
Young man." said the magistrate
turning to the stricken Arthur, ''what
have you got to say for yourself?'
IF you please, sir, if you please" he
faltercd, with trembling lips. II want
to go home. Do let me. | know moth
ing about any thing. ] was sitting
quietly in my seat on the train when ;
crazy woman yelled at me, and Their
they all rushed for me. and some one
pulled Il purse from my pocket, ant
then this officer threw me about the
street as if | were sponge on Il string
Look at my new clothes, sir! And In
sore all over"
"'Tis 10y, sor. He was thryin' t.
escape. max the charge agin' him
sor''
Let me see that purse
Policeman y handed this corpus delict
to the magistrate. He opened it.
"Why, there's nothing in it, he ex
claimed, in disappointed tones.
But hold! In the innermost compart
mcnt he found Il roll of paper. He un
folded it and read aloud as follows:
ITO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This youn
man is not thief, he's hog He did not TAX
the purse. he took a seat and kept it, He wa
thus guilty OF rudeness and lack of consdera
ton toward frail womankind. l have punishe,
him for II as shall punish others HereaftG
trust that this experience will teach him tina
to true man every woman is Il lady and en-
titled to his chivalric service. Place G"T danes
"(Signed) THE AvENGER OF HER SEX"
"You are discharged, SIR" said tn,
magistrate to Arthur. ''But let this b,
warning to you" And his feet re
sumed their extra-judicial position upol
the desk.
From that day Arthur Chumpney wa
a changed man. He was scrupulousl,
, polite to wan women with babies an,
shawls; he was obsequious to female
of gaunt visage and long hands. HI
seldom rides on elevated trains. Whel
he does, like a travelled trunk, he uses
strap. AS he says himself standin,
is good enough for him every time
Frank Leslie's Newspaper.
Calculation on n Potato.
Did you ever calculate the value of
single potato on the basis that that sin
gle tuber was the only one left in tn