The Progress., 1894-10-06

interfering with Il citizens private
business. This time Lieut.. lleggarty
won know we have no chief Of police
in shreveport was the official Who
cut short Willle's career in Che zenith
of his fame. and it cAmo about in this
way: Lieutenant Daa. unless when
acting under orders from q superlor,
who want, to get even with some
"nirrer" for not working on his place
can size up man pretty well and can
generally tell, after this sizing, whether
the one on whom he throws his optics is
in the habit of earning his bread in
the sweat of his face or whether he
gets il by some other means contrary to
the /; " and the evidence in such eases
and provided by the great book.
written and compiled by our Mayor,
and endorsed and sanctioned by the
legal, ecclesiastical, physiological,
moral and civilized world. Well.
about six weeks ago, more or less. our
faithful lieutenant threw his eagle
glance upon Willie, then an unknown,
who was allowing his six feet of angular
parsonage to hover around the gilded
palace of one Commodore Lacy, an
other royal descendcnt of the ancient
House of Cush.
This dream of the artists touch. this
place where the elite congregate and
where the noble scions of our age spend
their evenings in hilarious pleasure.
considering money the least valuable
of worldly objects: this place where
millions are lost and won in q night.
the lieutenant knew was too rich for
blood of Que who stacked up like
Willie did. and he was ordered to
levant by the faithful guardian of our
wealth, life and happiness. This per-
emptory order cut Willie to the very
core and in trcm ulou5 tones which
showed his deep emotion, Willie told
the officer that he could date his
anccstory back to the man who success
fully rode the waters Of the great Hood
and said be, in tragic tones, but Tor
this same ancestor, you would not be
wearing this lieutenant's badge" But
the officer was dealing with the pres
ent, not the past, informing The gentle
Willie that his duty was to conserve
the peace in Shreveport in the year
1894, not trace genealogical trees, he
told Willie to GIT
Exeunt Willie.
Subsequent to this loud cries were
heard coming from different quarters
exclaiming: "Me house has been
entered, me property stolen, the police.
police! why do they. not protect me?:''
But as some of these were from people
who built just beyond the city limits
to keep from paying city taxes, the lieu
tenant replied, ''avaunt. thou sluggards.
thou contributeth nothing to pay our
salaries, thou moveth into a desert
place to avoid thy pro rata to defray
the expenses of government and upon
lis thou hast no claim for protection.
nor redress for wrong Inflicted"
But there were some victims who did
live in the proper jurisdiction, and tt
these the officers lent an ear.
"Well, well, we'll" time rolls on as
it usually does whether a house has
been burglarized or mayor goes of
for trip, and the police kept out 6
watchful eve. All the force was AGAR
on the alert when the lynx eye of Lieut.
Dan fell on the towering form Of Willie
II told thee to get thee hence sale
that officer. and as thou hast failed
to obey my mandate, | will run thee
: in" So said, SO done, and Willie wa
run in, and according to rules, the def
hands of cur faithful city guardian wa
, thrust into his pockets in search 0
things lawful and unlawful. Sooi
, these practiced digets were preambu
5 lating around in the depths of thes
recepticles until the cultivated toucl
} encountered II hard substance whicl
+: was quickly recognized TO be currenc,
of our realm. Pulling 1t out just t.
: steal one glance at an article which i
{ very ''skase" in our diggins the Office
> was struck by the fact that it had en-
| prayed on tthc name "COZetta Marks
j. Then the brains Of Lieutenant Hag
: gerty and Patrolman Sylvester, VIII
5 was assisting him, began to wag an
: putting on their thinking caps the
0 remembered that Cozetta had reporte,
) her house had been burglarized and
flashed upon them that the ubi1uitou
, night marauder who had plundere
e numerous, residences, was in thei
1 clutches. Then these officials too
5 charge Of the situation and the Ike
Il found in Willie's rocket. went to hi