The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26

sorry TOT them even tnOuSn they Qlu not complain of their hard luck IL was in the evening when we met, and in my daZed way now 1 can count up to five drinks all around. Then we started to go. I can faintly remember seeing a lot of tall buildings topping over as l got out on the sidewalk, and then all was a blank.
 By the aid of the prison register l found myself on Friday morning. 1 will never forget the feelings I had l thought I was in the great beyond and that I had gone wrong on the road and landed below. 1 was lying on a hard board, and little yellow light from f1ickering gas jet streamed In on me. 1 lay there for a while trying to think where l was, but gave it up. After a while I managed to sit up on rude bench and presently l began to see the form of man sitting near me holding his head in his hands and moaning. My eyes began to get ac- customed to the light and my feet stuck out in bright streak from the gas jet that came toward me. Then I was dazed all the more. They were not my shoes 1 had on, and for a while 1 had edoubts about them being my feet. I moved first one leg, then the other, and the feet moved with them God! 1t was awful The shoe on the right foot. was brogan that some tramp had thrown away. The sole
 
 stuck out through great hole in the side. It was big enough for me to get both my feet in. The other boot was even worse. Half the upper sock I had on that foot showed my bare toes. Then 1 stood up. It was the first time I fully realized I was not dead. Then l began to experi- ment with myself to see If l was not dreaming. I sat down, then stood up I I alive and awake, but very shaky. I had hat on my head. I took it off and looked at it. It was a daisy. I had never seen one like it before at of it was gone and the brim was scol- loped around the edges, and it was dirty all over. I had never had a hat that could be made to look like 1t. I was puzzled. Then I took look at my clothes. No tramp was ever so disreputable as I looked. A pair of dirty patched overalls fastened about the waist by piece of rope and many sizes too large for me, and a rusty, ragged coat that had apparently been up my apparel. Some frayed under clothes and a tattered shirt that did not smell very clean were next to my skin. Where l got them I do not know.
 About the time I got through with the survey of myself the nan near me looked up and hunched away from me. He was well dressed, and I did not blame him. He eyed me with dis gust, for while, then he sank on bench and rubbed his head.
 ' Where am I?' I asked
 He looked at me moment, then feebly replied with moan as he rested his head in his hands, in jail Tn Jaill How long have I been here?'
 I don't know he replied. I have just come to myself
 What day is this? I asked. hoping to solve the mystery.
 T don't know, he replied. Tt must
 II began to study out the bars of the cell about that time. and soon after trusty came along and with rattle of keys opened the cell door and placed a couple of chunks of bread on bench near us. Then an- other trusty came along and handed In a couple of tin cups of bootleg coffee. The man who was with me in the cell gulped down the coffee, and 1t sizzled as it went down. Drink the coffee,' he said to me. It viii do you good
 "I reached for it but my hand trembled so l could hardly hold the cup. managed to get some of it then l began to wonder how I got there. My watch-it was a valuable one-my diamond pin and diamond cuff buttons were gone. My clothing had been lost in the shuffie and I did not have a cent, though I had several hun dred dollars in my pockets when I met those good fellows soon after I arrived with the corn tassels hanging to me. Those good fellows I guess. are now on the way home across the Rockies to mamma and a square meal with my money and my clothes and my diamonds.
 'I can't kick I was a Rube and an easy game. The Knockout drops they put in the good red liquor I was foolish enough to pay for did it all. They just played me one, two, three. and l was sure shot. Where they took me after they had me fixed with dope do not know, but they did their work well, and they did not leave me even a sock fit to wear.
 Soon after got the coffee down in the cell another trusty came along. and with a bang opened the door of the cell
 |" Tumble out here, you bums.' he yelled. My companion shuffied out and followed him. There were sey- eral old soaks standing along in a line and l was put with them. Then a sergeant came along. Broom bri- gade fall in. he yelled as he came roll. Two or three answered here to to their names. M. J. Kelly bawled the sergeant. 1 started to explain. but I was cut short, Answer to your name the. officer yelled and I feebly replied with here Then a trusty gave each Of us broom and started us to sweeping out the prison, then we were turned loose.
 Tt was then that the real trouble