The evening times., 1896-04-23
George Harper Left Love and
Home fer a Dogs Life.
COON WRECKED BY DRINK
Two Cases of the Results of Liquor
Seen In the Police eCOurt-Seventeen-
Year-Old Youth Almost Had Tre-
mems in the DOck-Agner JOh nson's
Denial Was Effective.

IN VIVID ana eCceutFlC IldIhthS dic "oi'u
known, might have found new inspiration
in the facial landscapes TO be seen in the
police court dock this III orning.
AS for Aubrey Beardslcy. and his dis
ciples-the young men who gangrcne their
brains devising posters and magazine adj
advertisements holding up to the public
young women, slim as chaucers pilgrims,
aud men with grapevine legs, they would
have reiapsed into au epileptic condition
OF artistic ecstacy. The prisoners had an
assortment of orange yellow, ebony black,
saffron, and pale green complexions. Eyes
colored black, blue and red by no gente
hands; hair made by the art OF man, and
locks perhaps originally worn by other
folks.
1t was a great day for the imprcssionist.
Did ye iver see sich "A soIgbt?'' said
COstigan 10 Hogg. There amt no two
av 'em aloike."
Hogg wisely replied that the great crimi
nologist, Lamborosc, said all criminals
were marked alike.
We'll, the dago's Il liar" said Costi'
gan. He Orter take trip to Americky
an see our police coorts."
A CHRONIC CASE.
Theodore Handy is chronic offender,
and has spent the best part OF his life in
Jail and the workhouse. He was only re-
leased yesterday morning from the work
house and was back again in the tolls
today.
Handy celebrated his release by getting
drunk, and when Theodore accumulates
jag, bad men from Badsvllc have soft and
placid natures compared with his manifes-
,atious. His favoTite alcoholic diversion
is the wrecking of saloons or the counte-
nances of his fellow men. He either
lacked the nerve or the viciousness yes
terday TO pursue his former depIedations.
and exhausted his energies in kicking holes
in canvass sign in front of Goidschmid's
store, on Penns ylvania avenue, near
Four-and-a- half street.
Policeman Whaicn told Judge Kimball
this morning that it was wanton act of
destruction.
Il didn't do it on purpose" said Handy,
a hart-featurcd man, with dyed mustache
cidenuy.'
"You were drunk
mo, stree, dead sober
HE was drunk, your honor said the
officer, land staggering around the pave
ment.
II thought So" said tie court. when
did you get out?"
yesterday"
GO back again for fifteen days"
MR. CHEw'S FOWL.
Mr. Robert ID. Chew, fashionatly
dressed gentleman wearing English whis-
kers and a flowered vest, was charged
with keeping q certain fowl that did then
and there, at his residence, No. 3l04 u
street, destroy and otherwise disturb the
peace, equanimity, temper and rcpose OF
Henry NJ Stokes; also his wife, VIII
hemina. by cackling and growing
Mr.. Stokes lives next door. He is
bearded like Mr.. Chew. and took the stand
first. Mr. Stokes beamed benevolently
on the owner OF Leghoru and long-lcgged
shanghais through pair OF moon-shaped
spectacles.
Now, Mr. Stokes" said Judge Kim
ball briskly, "tell us about this fowl"
Its rooster, your HONOR specified
the complainant.
That's superfiewou HoGgy." whis-
pered Costiean. Who iver knowed av
hin crowin'?'
"Or a hen cacklinE.'' returned HOGe.
'The information is defective, Sir. very
defective
Mr.. Stokes said the Chew rooster never
went to bed: early and late he crowed,
keeping awake the hens and the neiEhbors.
II wrote a polite nOte-that is, l hope
II was polite smiled Mr.. Stokes to Mr..
Chew. "tclling him of his ROSTERS bad hab-
its. but he disrcGarded my message. This
rooster has caused both my wife and myself
many sleepess nights"
Mr.. Stokes said Mrs. Stokes was so worn
out by the disreputable chanticleer that he
was about to send for n doctor.
Mrs. Stokes, the picture of health, sat
in the court room ready TO testify to the
effect of Gro wing on her nervous system.
Mr.. Chew wanted to know how Mr..
Stokes could pick out the notes OF bis
rooster when there were eight or nine in
the immediate nelghborhood.
My dear sir said Mr. Stokes, 81 have
lain awake so many nights that can pick
the tune Of your rooster from all of tbem.''
Mr.. Chew said Mr.. Stokes complained to
his servants, and not to him.
"The rooster is gone now" continued the
defendant. He is in the country, and will
not come back
Mr.. Stokes sighcd-evldently for the
country-and said if that was the condition
Of affairs, he was satisfied.
Judge Kimhall dismissed the case and Mr.
Stokes got his wife and departed.
A SAD CASE
Men of George Harpers type are familiar
spectacles of misery in the police court,
but Harper is different from the great ma
jority of them, born amidst vice, poverty,
and degradation. Education, refinement,
love and tender care from gentle mother
have all been his, and yet he fell.
He is a hopeless drunkard, found yester-
day in n drunken stupor on c street, in
front of Tolman's laundry. He is twenty
five and still handsome, his features retain
ing some of their old conlincss and grace,
despite the ravages of dissipation and
the prlvations of q vagrants life.
The good woman who bore him has
struggled for years to redeem him. On her
plea, time and agian, Judge Kimball, moved
by her grief, has given George chances to
reform. But the devil that lives in his throat
Is stronger than the strongest love in the
world, whether that Of wife, sweetheart or
mother, and his redemption is almost in pos
suble.
Harper suffered all the miseries Of a man
after debaucb, without liquor, as he faced
the court. who knows him well. He che wed
his finger nails, shaking like man with
the palsy. 1t was five minutes before he