The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-13
EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL.

IL isn't always safe to bet on sure thing
was the sage observation made by George
Ihane, of the Lindeke, Warner & Schur-
meier force, last night, after an exciting
fifteen minutes.
| Thane went into Getty's drug store last
evening, leaving his bicycle outside. M. V.
Seymour, the attorney in the German-Amer-
lean Bank building. came In little later and
stood his wheel up beside Thames. Neither
gentleman was born with short legs and the
wheels were both high frames with handle
bars well upturned Thane left first, but as
he was in company with a friend, did not
ride his wheel, but trundled 1t over to a near
by restaurant. AS he anticipated having
lunch. Thane carefully locked 1t in front of
the place, with Yale lock, which the dealer,
he said, had told him 1T was impossible to
pick. and there was not another key to fit
except the he had
| Mr.. Seymour, coming out of the drug store
| found instead of his Columbia a Crawford.
Returning to the drug store, he asked who
had been in there, and was told that
G o b e reporter had just gone out. In
minute Mr.. Seymour was at The O b c
Office demanding the instant production of the
man who had ridden his wheel off Mr.. Sey-
| mour was assured that the wheel would be
returned as soon as the guilty reporter turned
up with it, and went home serene. But not so
with Thane
| When George got ready to go home he found
changeling. His own wheel had been un-
! locked, as he thought and the lock replaced
| on another wheel. While ne did not seriously
regret that he had Columbia in substitute
for Crawford. it did make him sore to have
the inef1cacy of this patent lock so exposed,
| and he was on the verge of tearing off to the
police station On Seymour's wheel, when he
| discovered that his foot tbo
| pedals.
| Tnans was stormy. He vowed vengeance on
the seller of the fake paddock, and police
retrfoution to the man who changed the lock
! on MS wheel and Robert street was blue
when a e 10 b e reporter happened alcng
| and found Thane telling his troubles to a
| friend.
| From Mr.. Seymour's description of his
wheei, lett at The o e office, the bicy-
Gle was readily identified, and The b e
man said:
| Il know where you got that WHEEL. You
TOOK 1t from in front of Getty's drug s.ore
an hour ago, and it belongs to Seymour. the
lawyer.
| Thane was thunder struck
! well. where is my wheel?" he asked as
all thought Of visiting the police station
vanished, for fear Mr.. Seymour might have
| reported his loss there, as well as at The
| o De office. "a
| Probably at Getty's.'
| But when the vRoyal Arcanum ruler went
over to the drug store, it had closed. Thane
| was afraid to ride Seymour's wheel, for fear
the, police would overhaul him. and mean
time half-dozen friends had learned Of his
| escapade. The chances are that it will
be many day before the dashing credit man
| hears the last of his patent Yale lock game.
Due notice is hereby given Mr.. Seymour
that The L o be reporters are guiltless CT
| bicycle stealing. -
| Horace Dunno, who was once private Sec
| rotary to Mayor Smith, and who has several
| times been identified with local newspaper
| work In various capacities, has broken into
the old field again as the general hustler Of
| the tagging end Of the Minneapolis sheet
| over here.
| Horace, in spite Of hard knocks received
in the Ktondike. still retains little Of the
! cid fund Of humor.
| DO you KNOW" he said last night, 81 be-
l1eve I'd like to be war correspondent I
| could stop few high balls myself"
The Philistine.