The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17
NANCY LEE CRIME, AVID CRIMINALS

wersan. however kindly disposed. could
attend To the three meas . day Of seven
ebse-boaied infant& 1t would take . couple
OF goats or q red COW to properly feed
seven boys and girls. however young With
q litter OF cocker spanfe.s, or Marx kittens.
ore could eel three or four and rear the
rest on velvet But as Pat NoiIoy says:
"ch5dren amt like pigs; you know they
cant pay the rent" When . mother
wanders Ger the green guiding one per-
anbu.asor. she feels a. though the ship o:
state were being propelled TO her credit
ard that the world had better stand aside
ard make a space for the little Lady Atom
OF Lord Moiecuie. To wander Ger the
green guiding seven peramouiators would
tax the classic ingenuity OF a Roman
chariot driver. There are many things
worse than funerals. Suppose the seven
babses-four boys and three girls they were
had not succumbed 20 the hot August
weather. and had al lived 10 have whoop-
ing cough together. Talk Of two souls
with Q eingle thought. 1ngonar would not
be In II, with seven voices in single
whoor. 6ancho Panza was right when he
said: blessed Ia the man who invented
sleep"
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In Chicago. the other night, q man en-
tered the stable OF Mr.. w. H. Marshall
and despoiIsd forty horses Of their tails
Th.rfy-eight Of these horses were purcaas-
ed by Uncle Sam and we're en- route to ths
Philippines. Two OF tho animals were
coach horses and were valued It q. 90.
Two men. Miller and Rose. were arrested
and confessed the theft. They had sold
ths thirty-four pounds Of horse hair Tor
no. and were very much In want ut
money. Livery men estimated that the
marketable value Of the horses had de-
creased t1.60o by the loss Of their tail hairs.
which had been pulled out by tho roots
It does seem cruel thing TO pull the
hairs from Q horses tail. To pull but one
hair out OF q mole on ones chin II pain
full: 70 publ out whole tail full must have
hurt the feelings Of tho hindpart Of the
government steeds inexpressibly. II the
hostler, Rose, had used cocaine and had
deadeped the woes Of tho animals II would
not have been 20 mean, for anybody must
feel sorry for Rose and Miller. who want
ed bread 30 badly that they had to steal
the horses taiia The horses themselves
might have kicked, because even q gov
ernment hack wants 10 carry az long .
tail az he can to tho Philippines to shoe
Of nies. Government horses that are sent
10 the Philippines this late in tho sum-
mer are not So proud-minded that they
want to perk up and look like fighting
cocks and prancing BucsphaluseA On the
contrary. they neigh mighty quietly. I'm
thinking. when they are wandering around
In tho heat thinking OF how men go TO war
for nothing. and the private soldiers get
is-or worse ANY horse. however lowlv
minded. wants Its own tail TO carry to the
Philippines 1t does not make % much
differeGce about coach horses. Mr.. Mar
shall can put a big ribbon bow on their
hairless stubs and set the fashion Of cali
ing attention TO the rear of the coach
horse, just the same as the fashionable
ladies are directing the regard OF tho world
TO tho buttons and bows which now adorn
that portion OF a iady's gown which COW
ers that portion o. her anatomy which In a
horse would be called the r,rmp a bow Of
sunny ribbon on q coach horse would be
pretty and hide any scarcity u foliage,
but alas! for the government thlrty-eight,
who win have to stand in tho heat at the
Philippines. watching other animals with
tails and having none OF their own with
which 70 shoo the fiy
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Speaking Of crimes. how about James J.
Crbe't. tho ex-pug1llst playing shake
speare's "As You Like IT, and for the
benefit Of church. too. at I.arohmont!
II tAis Isn't o crime. what Is?
NANCY LEE.