The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-07-20

ltS cOlu uay In july wnen the
small boys fails to study up some de.
viltry to catch the unwary. Satur.
day afternoon they were ont in force
When the MAN About Town" APP
preached the srossing at Harring-
tons corner he noticed good sized
crowd OF the youngsters standing
around with that look of injured i'm
nocense spread all over their faces
and suspected something was up.
Upon coming to the crossing we es-
pied a fat juicy looking ladies purse
lying there. or course seeing that 1t
was a ladies purse and knowing
their purses were never known to
have more than SO cents and street
car ticket in them, not enough to
make them bulge out, our suspicious
were at once aroused, and stepping
to one side to see the unexpected
happen we waited. Nor long did we
have to wait as presently along came
the old war horse with head down
and senses alert studying over the
political situation. OF course every
body knows who the old war horse
is, as we never had but the one in
Hooking County since the time Of
Noah who could it be but the Hon.
Lewis, editorial writer on the Hook
ing Sentinel. Along comes the grand
old man who has fought so nobly the
fight of fifty "bottles" and at last
goes down in ignominious defeat be-
fore the proverbial bad boy. While
the astute wire puller was diving
after the innocent looking piece OF
leather 5OOpairs of eyes were con.
centrated on his gymnastic maneu-
vers as he assayed to pick up the
pocket book. But, nay, Pauline, the
little thing would. d.not come, the small
boy for once was too smart for Lewis,
they had spiked it to the boards.
Too bad, too bad, to think that
small thing like ladies pocket book
lying on the street should be the
stumbling block which caused the
peoples idol to fall from grace. AS
the gallant old leader Strengthened
to the perpendicular, and with guilty
conscience glanced around to see il
any one saw him, he was greeted
with yell from 800 tnroats that
would cause the wicked to tremble
in fear. 1t has been whispered by
some evil minded person that this
was one of his schemes to stampede
the county Democratic Central Com
mittee who with one OF Green S prox-
les were up in the Court room in
solemn cOnclave deliberating on the
easiest possible way OF placing him
inter sleM ct metUM. 1t is not for
us to say whether there 10 any truth
in the above insinuatlon or not. 1t
is enough for us to chronical the fact
the Far Down Corkonian, Lewis
P'Greenabus, the gentleman who
gave Brian Borough Brennan his
name went after the pocket book and
it behooves us to further announce
the fact that he didn't get it, thanks
to the ingenuity of the small boy.
AS the Man-about-towns sauntered
along Gallagher Avenue few days
since, he was compelled to quicken
his sterotyped pace to insure him.
self safety from the rush of u mad
steed, behind which was a bafiied
driver vainly endeavoring to control
the why's and wherefores of it's prog
ress. After adjusting our hat which
had been disturbed by the concus-
sion Of the passing rush, we discov-
cred the excited steed to be the noble
animal OF Ed Price and the driver,
or rather the would-be-driver to be
Tom Bowen. They say Tom is
good hostler, but he did not UNDER
stand the horse flesh he was going
up against, but however, no one was
hurt, and the holsI was duly brought
under control. The affair was rev.
to Ed, that he has an animal
that might take notion to run Off,
and Il revelation to Tom Bowen that
he don't care about trying expert
ments with gentle horses.
Playing Me For II Sucker.