The National tribune., 1897-06-03

what was then the Eleventh Com
u - mandment, and greatest of all the
commandments in Chicago: Thou
shalt not raise row outside of thine own
Ward"
Wat Sparger and Con Purtell were "men
of light and leading" in the Coal Yards
Neighborhood Ward. Their views of things
generally went" as the phrase was. If
there was any dissent it wassettled in few
amicable rounds with the dissenter, in which
the police no more interfered than they
would in a political discussion in the pri-
maries. But any outsider who ventured in
had to keep most carefully on the windy
side of the law. He was from the first in.
variably and necessarily in the wrong, and
whatever befel him was proper punish
ment and vindication of the law.
On the other hand, the depot was in back
man Mick Horgan's Ward, where he enjoyed
political power and social prominence. Hal
liday, Sparger, and Purtell were therefore
obviously in the wrong from the very first
This was the impartial view taken at the
Police Station, where Mick Horgan was
booked as complainant and witness, and the
other three locked up for assault.
Hill take hall this hout o. Mick Organs
bloody 'ide wen Hi meet i'm hat the City
Convention" said Wat Sparger,.as he stolidly
marched to his cell.
"Put me behind bars for that hape av
offal, Mick Hergan," yelled Con Purtell
"Fwy, Olive knowed Mick Horgan since he
had to leave Oireland betwixt two days for
stealing widdy's cow. She had four wee
childer to raise, and they found her hide
under Mick's peat pile, and -
"The widdy's hide?" asked someone.
"Kape that red trap av your'n shut, and
payple mayn't know you're Oirish. Mick
a thafe, as his father was afofe him. His
father was transported, and his grandfather
hung. If his father'd been hung afors he
married, his WILDLY am childer moight have
been daycint, for his mother wuz a Houli-
han, au'"-
"Con, you're out o. order" said Serg't
OCallaghan, who attained much reputation
as the Chairman of his pasty's Ward eau
cuses. The question before the house is
not oirish jinealogy, but the ordinances av
the City av Chicago You go to your cell. I"
"Orll knock that Connaught mug av
yours into some daycint shape afore Oh do,
Barney O'Callaghan, ye shwaggering peeler.a
But there were too many brawny police
men around to permit Cons making his
suggested improvement of the symmetry oi
the Sergeant's countenance, and he was
hustled off to his cell, while he shouted un-
complimentary citations from the OCalla.
CHAN pedigree.
Walking quietly to his cell, Kent Halliday
sat down on the wooden bench, as the iror
door changed behind him, and began ths
sternest thinking he had done so far in hi.
young life. The terrible injustice and
cruelty of the world were burning into hi!
soul. Ga far he had regarded such wrong!
as had come under his notice as unavoidable,
accidents in scheme of society Otherwis,
beneicent. They were like the broker
boards in the sidewalks, the rnts in th'
streets, the showers that caught him with
out an umbrella. Now he felt that ther,
were malignant men engaged in constantly
planning and perpetrating these wrongs, t,
the undermining of society and Government
and the limitless injury of each individual
He was true American in every fiber Of hi
being. He ardenfly believed that this was al
ideal Government, and an ideal form o
society, and was deeply incensed at anything
that tended to degrade it from his exalte,
conceptions. The thing came directly hom
to him. Was it not his solemn duty az al
American citizen, co-partner in this society
, to do his share toward purging the land Q
these denominations? 1t certainly was
Was not his line of duty indicated by tina
which had been forced upon his notice
Equally certainly it was. There could b
no doubt Of that. The strong desire to be q
use to his fellow-man and his country, t
, help forward the cause of good Government
which burns in every right-feeling man
. bosom, hurried him forward to decision
!, He firmly resolved to take as his share Z
the work the hunting down of the unknow
mans murderers and the rescuing of hi
daughter-if SO she proved to be-from tn
city's perils and snares into which she ha
blindly entered.
!, The decision brought comfort to his SOU
He felt new dignity to his manhood, no.
that he had a high purpose in life.
The Justice of the Police Court held q
afternoon session, and discharged all thre
Q upon the payment Of small fine. Th
!. local sovereignty of the Ward was thus viz
: dicated against vicious outsiders.
q Where shall / begin? What shall d
a first?" were the questions which racked h
b brain as he parted from his companions. an
: walked rather aimlessly along Madiso
Y street toward the river and the center {
the city. 1t was too late now for him to 70
J. work. A Sub" had been put on his case
: at the Office at the regular time, and b
would have nothing TO do until the nez
afternoon. he would devote the time
u beginning his allotted task.
b 1.-THE first thing to do is to find her. 81
is in the utmost danger every instant, viii