The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-09-29
SHE WAS IN PAWN.
Mary Grace Barker Had Been Keep
at the BARRIERS for Two Hair
Cuts and Shave.

When Terry Baker came home from
work the other night all the children
around Water and Race streets wert
llunning up and down in front of hii
shanty.
'Phwat the divil is goin' on here?'
was the first thing Terry asked.
oh Mr.. Barker, your Mary was kid
mapped this morning, and they haven't
found her yet" said Mrs. Dryers
daughter Maggie.
Barker went back in the yard, where
his wife was sitting at the kitchen
door. crying.
There was a crowd of women around
her, and all were talking at the same
| time.
"Phwat's this 1 hear about Mary?"
"Oh, Terrence, stint her to the cor.
ner this mawrnin' for bread, an divil's
the hair have 1 seen uf her since"
Did yez surch fur herr"
"All over the ward
Did yez look in the coal yard?"
1--WE did"
"And the stoneyard?"
1--WE did"
Maybe she's in the cellar of the old
warehouse. Where's me cane? Oill
go down and look"
THE children were all over and DON
der it,"
"She wuz purity thing, with her
| golden curls, and maybe SOON rich
man stole her" said Mrs, Riley, who
| lived next door to the Bankers.
"Oh l forgot to tell yez," said Mrs
burke, but seen a tramp in frunt OF
the house this mawrnin', and maybe he
carried her away"
'Phwat koind of lookin' fellow wuz
hep" asked Terry.
| He had a face on i'm loike Span
lard"
Thin Oi'll find him." said Terry, and
he took his blackthorn and went down
Race street toward the river. He
dropped in all the saloons and asked
everyone if they had seen his daugh-
ter Mary, the wan with the golden
curls.' No one had seen her.
| 1t was about nine o'clock when he
was passing along Water street, near
| Plum. Kratch, the barber, was Just
closing up, and Barker stuck his head
in the door to make inquiry, when he
let out yell and bounded in the shop
"Kratch, phwat in the name of GOD
are yez keepin' me Mary here frum
mawrnin' till noight, an have me anc
| her mither crazv?"
Cit out, Barker. That girls wait
in fur her father to come back"
| faint me daughter?"
Eyes he is" said a little girl sitting
IN the corner.
And where's your curl's?"
| Mr.. Kratch cut them off"
Barker, you're crazy. That ain't
your daughter. Her father was here
this morning and he got hair cut anG
| shave. Then he told me to cut off his
| daughters curls and he would be back
in few minutes, as be wanted to get
a drink, and he never came back"
And me daughter is in hook for two
hair cuts and a shave. is she?" SAID
| Terry. Then he and Barber KratcE
| mixed up and went to the floor. The
girls screamed, crowd gathered, and
it was soon known all over the ward
that Mary Grace Barker had been held
in pawn for two hair cuts and a shave
Mary was taken home, and the next
| day the truth was learned. Jimmy
EefIh, the bully of the Eighth ward
vas out of funds. Taking little Mary
down to Kratch's he got a hair cut and
shave. Then he ordered his daugh-
ter's' hair cut wtie he went out to
get drink. He never came back
When Terry Barker heard who had
done it he simply said:
IF Oh dicA't know his muther Oi'd
use me stick on his good-for-nothnq
Lead fur havin' me Mary's golden curls
cut off."-Cincinnati Enquirer.