The age-herald., 1900-10-22
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

John some time ago borrowed $S from a. money lender. He found it easier to bor-5 row than to repay Of such as these are the bankrupts John "bankruptcied" on his creditor and the $S debt was declared discharged. Not long after John was In. need of BIO and thought that he who was fool enough to lend him once would lend him twice. John was partly correct in his opinion The money lender was quite will ing to let him have the S1O, the only con- dition that he made was that John should first sign a new note for the $S debt which had been discharged in bankruptcy John signed the note, handed it to the lender who put it in a pigeon hole of his desk and coolly told John that when he paid the SS note he would lend him the $1O John there upon made a dive towards the desk, grabbed his note and tore it up. The money lender then swore out a warrant charging John with larceny, and had him arrested. Some interesting legal questions will come up in the subsequent proceedings, and they will be watched with interest
 Chief Clerk Tarrant was sitting at his desk in the Probate office. A man and a woman walked up to the window in the partition which divides the room. The fol- lowing dialogue occurred:
 Are you the man I want to see?" asked the stranger
 T don't know, sir. What do you want?'
 Well, want to get married"
 Have you man with you?'
 "No, sir-a woman" Here the bride- elect blushed and smiled
 Well, the law requires a gentleman TO sign the marriage bond. This is different, you know, from the bonds of matrimony Do you know anyone in the courthouse?'
 NO, but that's a small matter. I'll know one very quick"
 He darted out of the office and was gone some time. The bride-to-be was provided with chair, where she patiently awaited the coming of the groom. Finally just be- fore the office closed he arrived with what might be called a man, and the marriage bond was signed.
 The moral of this incident is that a pro- fessional marriage bond signer would not be amiss.
 A prominent citizen of Birmingham, who has held important business and political positions, was coming to town the other day on one of the street car lines in the city, known the travellers delight, or every man his own conductor psls gen tleman is of courtly manner dgnifed and exceedingly modest. Being seated near the depository box for street car offerings he kindly offered to drop in the fare of a lady who got on the car. The lady handed him a coin, which as conductor he dropped in the slot supposing that the motorman would do the rest; but he was mistaken
 Excuse me, sir" said the lady, but that was quarter 1 handed you"
 cold precipitation ran down the mans back for he remembered that he had put his last and only nickel in the box, and dld not have cent He explained matters to the motorman, but the motorman gave him the merry ha! hal; and told him the best he could do was to let him collect twenty cents from the next four passengers who got on. Thus the dignified and courtly gentlemen collected ten ceiits from the next two passengers, who looked at him in sur prise as he quietly pocketed their fares The ear had now reached the city and it looked as if no one else would get on Meantime, the lady had realized the situa- tion and with anxious eyes followed every collection of the amateur conductor Fi- nally two negroes boarded the car. One had a nickel and one a ticket. These were collected as before and having reached his getting off place the gentleman handed the lady the 15 cents and one ticket and asked her if she would accept it.
 "Yes," she replied, in a resigned tone. T will take anything 1 can get
 C. C. Coleman, the travelling agent of the Sloss Iron and steel Company, is a man who always delivers the goods" For twenty years he has carried convicts from the jail to Coalburg and other places where the company has mines, and in all that tune he has never lost a man out of the 12,000 that he has handled. He is an ex- pert at hand-cuffing. He knows the an- atomy of the human wrist as few know it.
 Saturday he carefully handcuffed thirteen convicts-all young negroes who had been sentenced that day in the Criminal Court and, fastening them to chain, marched them out of the jail. AS they went down the street. two and two like the monkey and the kangaroo, they were laughing and talking as if they were going to water melon party As they stood in line before leaving the jail the roll was called. Some answered "here," some "all right" some
 
 most vicious and degenerate looking one in the lot, some one asked him how long he Was in for.
 Two years and nine months" he re- piled.
 What's the trouble, larceny?"
 Something like that"
 Are you guilty or not?"
 Guilty
 Do you mean that you are really guilty that you were found guilty?"
 'Yes, sir, I plead guilty
 Here was some good that came out of Nazareth. The man was truthful, if he was thief.
 That is remarkably young batch of prisoners I have" remarked MT. Coleman. Tt looks as if the new generation of ne- groes take to crime more readily than the.