Sunday morning globe., 1901-08-25

were not from tobacco He took the
box to @ chemist, and after an invos-
igatlOn of several days the chemist
reported that the stains We're made by
.no liquid a grasshopper eXpectorates
Then the detective went and got q
srasshopper and he did not 90 out I'm
the fields, either. He figured that it
vas no country breu hopper that had
been splitting IN cash box. he loafed
around the car stables until he saw a
great big hopper chat seemed mighty
tame jump out of q car and light on
a load of green grass that was stand
ing in the yard The detective caught
the hopper wnich did not seem the
least afraid, ana took it to his room.
Then he put some coins I'm the cash
box and pushed the hopper heau tore.
most In through the slo. hole Now by
a mighty bad stroke Of luck tha- detec-
tive had got hold of the pet hopper Of
the old man who discovered the
scheme, and that bug was a wise one
sure enough. 10 thought ii was being
taken out for an extra training stunt,
and it made it mad to be torn away
from that fresh, sweet grass. It de-
Cermined to show that Fellow just what
he was fooling with, and when it got at
the coins it just reached round and
pulled in everything in sight Its fore
feet had lCngthened out some by CON
stant practice and it was growing All
the time, anyhow, so when it scooped
up everything I'm the box, about Sl50,
it just had an armful
Then il pulled one of It's legs to let
that rake which is on the side of the
lind leg Of every grasshopper, scratch
The mans mana as q signal for 10 to be
pulled out. That was another trick
it had pulled up ltself.
well, when the detective pulled out
tnat big hopper and saw il hugging an
armiul of coins he nearly tainted
He put the bug down, and the hopper
opened it's arms and laid the money on
the table. Then it lit out through the
window for the grass again Well, il
was all up then. The detective thought
he had made the greatest case of his
life. He wen, to the officials and eX-
planned TO Them how tAey were being
robbed But he did not make any hit
at all Three of them called him a liar
right off the reel. and the whole mob
jumped i'm and denounced him as a
fraud He stuck to his story, and then
they paid HIM off right there, and told
him if he was I'm town by sunrise they
would have pat him i'm an insane asy-
um So he jumped for the East
"Nel, after they'd run the detective
out of town they got TO thinking over
the matter, and one of EN- says: That
scoundrs was certainly trying to swim
die MS with his lies but if the drivers
are stealing from those cash boxes l
think we had better get some new ones
that they can't get into. And then
they sent away and got some of the
kind Of boxes where a coin runs down
one way and then the other way, and
then across again, and mat closed up
the grasshopper business
1T was right hard for those fellows
to cNne down to living on their wages
again, but 10 was hardest on the old
man. His hobby was training those
bugs, and it nearly killed him to give
them up but there was nothing else to
40. lie did try to train garter snakes
to work I'm the Criss-CrOss cash boxes,
but lne drivers did not take kindly
to them. and one fellow who was using
one of them let so of it's tail and it
cropped into the cash box at the far
end of his route. The first man that
got IN after that had Deen drinking
for a couple of weeks, anu he laid
himself up i'm the corner near the glass
front of the cash box When the driv-
er woke him up and told him to put
i'm his fare, he saw that snaAe curled
up ON the top of the coins He made
one jump for the driver and another
for ,ne street and the door not being
FOURTEEN-Globe inside
huudy he went thr1usn lIc Window
with the driver ThG-driver l0St his
job and went to the hospital, and that
broke up the snake game.
"Yes" concluded the old street rail-
way conductor there are strange
things i'm our business, just like every
bodys else