Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-10-31

"Oh-hol vbeIl. gif you some work.
Put sup your dukes und fight me four
roundsw
! don't Eght him. md he knocks me
all around upd see more stars. May.
pc he would take my life II my wife
don't yell so hard for der police. De.
lief shall 90 down to der butcher und
tell him I villas no more up to date
when In comes another man. He ybas
no loafer. He vhas n good man. He
says:
"Cobbler, haf you got some bug a
prisoncrr
] showed him dot cockroach on der
~ paper, und he slghs und says:
Poor innocent feller. Cobbler, let
me ask you II dot cockroach efrer in
1ured you In any wayT
II don't pellet dot he did"
Den how WINS II dot you like TO
take his life? He vhas innocent. He
likes to go around und haf some fun.
He vhas porn free und equal. der same
as Bunker Hill, und you haf no right
10 murder him. Take him off und give
him show"
"But l like him TO advertise my
shop" I says.
$50 dot vhas It? vhell, sir, pro-
nounce you cold blooded murderer
und some unhung villains. A man dot
Will assassinate poor, innocent cock
roach Will murder shldren in deir
beds, und he should be locked up"
"Do you haf some shoes to mend?"
Eyes, sir, haf more as 100 pairs, but
/ Will see you way oafer in Halifax
pefore ] gif you any work! Cobbler, 1
go oudt to stir up der pooblic, und IL
some crowd comes und tears down
your shanty 1t vhas all right"
Dot makes me tremble und makes
my wife cry, und says l shall take
dose signs down. 1t yhas too late,
howcfer. A man comes in und says:
Show me dot bug, right away. I
vhas der prevention of cruelty und /
must see him. Nopody can shut bug
up in cdge und jab bradawIs into
him."
Gle vhas some cockroach on fly pa
per-" I says. "und nopody hurts him at
ALL"
You murderer he yells as he sees
dot insect. 'If somepody had told me
you vhas sooch man, don't pellet
itl Haf you got no heart in your pody
Can you sit here und see a cockroach
die by inches?'
don't say nottings, und dot man
walks around und groans und swears
und says:
ITO think dot we haf among us a
man mitout any feeling of mercy in
bis soul! Why, cobbler, pellet you
would coax some leetle shildren in here
und bake 'em in der oven und eat 'em
up! Take dot cockroach off dot paper,
or you shall be In shall in ten minutesr'
took dot insect off und wash his
feet und let him go, und a policemans
comes in NIT his club und shouts:
'Who vhas killing somepody in here Z
Yhere vhas dot murderer
~'Id vhas only cockroach," says.
"Only a cockroach! Don't you know
dot cockroach vhas next to a human
being und dot If you kill one der law
Will make you shump? Where vhas
he!"
''He goes In crack and gets away"
"Vhell, dot vhas goot for you, my
frendt! Now let me spoke to you.
haf my eye on you for two months.
You vhas bad, wicked man mitout a
heart, und If you don't look oudt lee.
tie you shall be in shall for lifeP'
When he vhas gone, took down all
der signs und locked der door und goes
down to see dot butcher.
''Vhell, Hans, how she vhasT he
says.
''She vhas bad"
"But don't you shoke NIT der peo-
ples?"
IL do, but der peoples don't shoke
NIT me. l haf to take all my signs
down und let dot bug go, or / vhas in
shall. You said she would be all right,
but he vhas all wrong. How can you
make it oudt?"
''It vhas queer" he says as he saws
up some bones. but maype vhas mis-
tooken. I guess dot vhas ii. I guess
dot it vhas der deeference between a
butcher shop und cobbler shop, und
maype you don't do no more shocking
init cockroach." NJ. QUAD.