The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
HE WAS A GOBLIN DUN
AMBER SOON SUPPRESSED HIM,
Bullies Who, in the Guise of Collect.
ors, Torture Tender Women and
Browbeat Honest Men With
out Any License In Law.

eve reprint the following from the
Chicago Times-Herald, thinking our
readers on the farm would be glad to
get glimpse of how people live and
suffer in the great cities. Ed. Rep)
I will confess to feeling of delirious
joy when heard the other morning
that collector had been suspended
above a yawning elevator shaft and held
in midair until his hair whitened with
terror. And yet, like the famous Miss
Mahoney, was ever tender hearted, and
could not dress chicken If my hopes
of dinner depended upon it.
It is time that the collector should be
disciplined. Like a misguided sleuth
hound he has left the legitimate trail
and gone to chasing harmless and help
less game. 1t is not necessary to en-
ploy the same tactics to maintain order
in a kindergarten that it is in a reform
school. All of which points the moral
to few stories am about to tell illus
trating the need of firm hand in call
ing the collector from his lofty perch.
Not long ago l happened in on a
woman friend who is Woodworking,
honest, fearless and feminine to the last
degree. I found her pale and thin, with
traces of sleepless vigils about her heavy
eyes.
What is the matter?'' asked.
"Oh, nothing much"
"But know there is. You look like
ghost. Have you been ill.,"
mo, but if you must know the truth,
I am haunted by goblin"
Good! tell me all about it; it is a
time when men crave the supernatural
as dogs crave meat; perhaps I can make
story of it,
1T is not a spirit that haunts me, but
veritable goblin. It is dressed in
mems clothes and wears red necktie
1t has high cheek bones and its name is
Gibson-hush, there it is now
II looked and beheld man who had
the appearance of bully gone to seed.
He had an unwholesome look about him,
like pumpkin that has been kept too
long, and his hair had been smoothed
with mutton suet.
1T WAS THE GOBLIN HIMSELF.
Can you pay that little bill this
morning?" he asked of my friend.
Il am sorry to say that 1 cannot. I
told you yesterday that you need not
call again until next Monday. It is
useless your taking the time to drop in
here three or four times day. You
annoy me to no purpose, for l tell you.
honestly, that have not any money!
Il can't help that" said the goblin
i amt going to give You no peace till
you shell out. I've been to see your
employers and they've promised to dis
charge you by o'clock tomorrow if you
don't pay up. I'm going to get that
money out OF you, and don't you for
get it."
We had to call in a man to mt the
fellow out, and after he was gone
turned to my friend, who was CRYING
ana asked: How much do you owe
that fellow"
owe the firm that employs him as
collector about SIT. It wasn't my fault
really, That l ran into debt, and I have
trleo aw1ully hard to make my way out
ny degrees, but since the times have
been so hard, and my salary was cut with
the rest, have found it impossible to
keep up regular payments. The chill
dren have been sick, you know, and
there has been so much coal to buy this
winter to keep us comfortable, that
don't have one cent left out of nv week.
ly salary after paying necessary ex-
penses"
While we were talking, boy stepped
into the room with the announcement
that some one wished to speak with my
friend over the telephone.
"Oh, l can't co." said she, cts the
goblin! He keeps that up all the time
just to annoy me-"
"Tell him to go to Clark street." said
I to the boy, "and you come along with
me-" turning to my friend as spoke.
We went direct to the chief of police
and told the story.
"Is there no protection for this
woman" I asked. Is she to be
bounded to death by man who would
never dare to persecute her as he does
only that she is woman and timid?"
CHIEF OF POLICE OFFERS ADVICE.
Go to lawyer" said the good-na-
tured chief; "he will tell you what to
do, and will be glad to put an officer
on the scoundrels track. That sort of
a man is getting too thick around this
town."
So we went to a lawyer and put the
case before hims
Go to the firm who employs this
collector" said the lawyer, land tell
them his methods. If they are decent
men, and know your circumstances, they
will discharge him. After that, if he
annoys you come to me-"
My friend did as she was directed.
and secured the discharge of the man,
chiefly by showing the insulting notes
he had written her from time to time
Not week after she found a letter
slipped under her door, which ran as
follows:
'You amt going to sneak out of this
deal with me. If you don't pay me the
money l asked you for by o'clock to-
| morrow you'll lose your job"
With this letter in her hand my friend
went again to the lawyer, who said:
sThis is a clear case of blackmail
the man has been discharged, but is
still trying to collect money. Well fix
him.
So my friend and the lawyer went
| down to the COLLINS den.
did you write this letter." asked the
lawyer.
Eyes, did, answered the goblin.
Don't try it again." said the lawyer,
and proceeded to expound the law. At
| this the goblin drew off and aimed a
fierce blow at the lawyer, which was
! parted, and fight would have been
followed had not the bystanders inter-
| fered. The goblin was locked in a