The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-03-19
RRPLRCTIoNs
For the TExtRKASiAN.
By W. II. Ward.


a plank, in front of sand bed.
Business was slack aud the court
crowd concluded to have "a time
with the weary" The scheme
comprehended a modernized edi-
ton of the Merchant Of Venice
with Doodle. not blood, as the mo-
tif. "Raggles tramp-was
slated for Antonio aud Sam Solin-
sky starred as Shylock-Louis He'll
bron having exercised a great ar
lists privilege, pleaded illness and
escaped the part. OF course you
know Sam, not TO know him
argues yourself unknown. "Sam"
is city attorney and practices law
for pastime. But the serious bust
ness of life with him is Lodges. "
/ chanced upon a list of Sans
lodges the other day aud counted
about seventeen 10 which he kept
up a running member ship-yes, |
said 'runulng,' else how could he
keep up2 Casey was unanimously
chosen to rib" the walking dele
gate" for his part in the play. He
succeeded in impressing upon the
''hobop the exceeding toughness of
the thing he was going up "agin.
They brought the son of woe-uot
work-into court and proceeded to
put the 'dxments" on him in q
manner that would have made Joe
| Jefferson or Sol Smith Russell long
for the artistry of these amateurs.
The subject" was accorded a
bit of fatherly advice-and given
hours to leave town. There was
ne unkindness intended and it
Just ended as it begun, in spirit
of comparatively harmless pleas
antry, 1t may be the thing was a
little bit malapropos in court OF
justice That one can imagine JUS
ticia, with her severely classical
countenance and finely adjustt d
balances, moving out, " and Mask,
Sock and Buskin appearing in her
stead-with Harlequin in the back
ground, letring from the wings,
But to atone for this Solinsky
would have devided bis last ducat
with the hobo. Murphy would not
have refused him lift, and Casey
would have gone out of his way to
get him a job, if the fellow had
been deserving or wanted honest
work | have not recalled the in
cident to animadvert upon it, but
simply to use it as the lawyers do
their legal fiction-John Doe-to
bring another-or others-into
court.
In an eastern city the other
night, when Boreas was reproduc-
ing Klondike for our dclectation, a
couple of tramps-who neglected
to register at the round house
took up quarters in the cold stor-
age end of an ice car-think of II,
literally ION ice" in doors, and zero
giving mercury the high sign out
side, They thawed out spot large
enough to lie on, removed their
patent leathers-why, | can not
conceive-and proceeded to take
an alIopathic dose of Nature
Sweet Restorer, They were dis
covered next morning by an officer
who hustled the hapess wretches
out, without their shoes, hogged
them soundly and sent them limp
ing off up the track, with chilled
imbs and bleeding feet,
In an Illinois city not two weeks
since, the chief of police and his
brawniest myrmidons tossed help.
less vagabond until he tainted
then put a base bail bat in the
hands of the heavy weight of the
force with which to "faa' the
wretch out of town--and he did
| it,
! In Delaware, the birthplace of
( the Bayards, during the coolest
weather of this winter, three men
we're put IN the pillory Tor an hour,
then stripped to the waist and
! logged with cat-o.uiue tails
forty lashes each-the blood all
but freezing as it fell as mine does
to write of il. Each of these oc.
Cur eacts was sent out by the Asso-
oiated Press and published in the
daily papers, Yet, our Super.civil-
lied brethren of the eflete East
sueer at the semisavages of the
wild and wautou West.
undertake to say--and am to
the manner born-there is not a
town, city or saw mill in the West
or South, where one Of these acts
Of infamy could be committed with.
out the perpetrators being branded
with contempt of all honest men,
and rus out of town Not a sheriff
! in Texas or Arkansas who would