The morning call., 1893-01-01
HE'S HONEST NOW.
Footpad Campbell Has Re-
formed.
Sidney Bells Old Partner Will Now
DO Nothing More Than Roll
a Drunk. !:
dward J. Campbell has reformed.

Edward j. Campbell has reformed.
The ex-footpad and: champion. affidavit.
maker has, so he announces, permanently
retired from the highways and byways:
Now that his old partner, Sidney Bell, has
been retired to Folsom for life, there Is no
longer any market for afsidayits, and he "is
going to live henest." =:
AS ne cannot thieye alone. and no cautious
thief would have anything to do with him
since ne turned States evidence on Sidney
Bell, he is perforce honest He has secluded
himself from the temptations of .metropoli-
tan Lille, and is now engaged in the pastoral
pursuit OF running small deadfall in a
lum bering- camp on the Mendocin0 coast.
He" dropped down to see the boys" yes
terday, and tell them how he was doing.
Nobody seemed TO be particularly glad to
see him, but he was anxious 10 impress his
friends at police headquarters with the fact
that he WASH likely TO be wanted.
Yes" said he as he was summing himself
on Kearny street dangerously near the Bar
barry Coast, I'm goin' to quit graftin' an
live honest. There's nothn' in this ben'
in jail half the time-an' t6en there's the
worry when you out afraid your goin'' to
get pinehed again. lis awful weaTin' on
the nerves That's what made me take to
dope to kind O STEADY EN-. An bein, up
nights when you're tryin' TO turn trick or
earn an honest dollar often some drunk
when he's asleep an Won't miss twill fetch
a man down TO a shad0wjn no time Then,
too, you're always afraid that somebody
hat is onto your curves is gOin' to .sQueaT
ON yptl-bnt didn't peach on Bell, honest"
he added hastily. Captain Lees was onto.
III all the time an when he stood me up in
his Office had to ownup.
Bit, say,I got snap up in the country.
I'm located about half way between Fort
D. - r.. I'D D. -
little lumber camp. I've got the siekest
little joint you ever saw, IN dead lively
camp where there's lots of stuff, an they
spend ID like they found it, -
They're prettv near all Scandfnavians
up there, an the biggest lot of suckers you
ever saw. AS soon as they're paid off TREY
make a break fer my saloon, get.drunk in
half an hour. an actually they haven't got
any more sense than to lay down an go to
sleep right there before my eyes, with their
stuff on 'em. Course, when they wake up
and say they have been touched off while
asleep, l don't know anything about il"
but You said you were going to. lead an
honest life," said one Of his listeners.
"Well, amt ~" was the surprised re-
jonder.
"Robbing DRINKS isn't.a strictly honest
calling"
"0h, that's all in the saloon business.
It's like faro. The man what ketehes
sleeper OWNS ii. j meant WASN'T gnin' 10
do no more graftin' like done with Bell.
Anyway" ne added apologetieslly. ''if a
drunk goes TO sleep In public place some-
body,s goin' to touch him, an it might as
well be the owner Of the place. 1t kind o.
pays for the lodgings, you know You
can't have DRINKS slespin' all over your
saloon for nothing. 80.
Another beauty about that place is
that there amt no Cinnamon there an I'm
ten miles from the nearest dope. I'm
breakin' myself Of the habit. an feel
finer than silk right now. Yes. sir. I'm
going to do what Captain Lees told ME to.
I'm going TO brace up an make a~man Of
myself. 1t was the best thing that ever
happened to me when | cut loose from
Bell. Pm feelin' better than ever did.
You know the police give it out that l was
dyin' when they let ne out of jail, but /
don't look like a dyin' man. do L?
Ppm doin' good business up there. an
I've found out that 1t pays TO be honest"
Then he walked away up Kearny street,
happy in the thought that his integrity WAS
as firm and unassailable as the rock of
Roderick Dhu.