Widnes Examiner. — 1894-11-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DODGES OF A. BOY WRIT-SERVER.  " Yes, sir. I've planted a few writs in my time," said be, to a representative of "Chums," with the air of a man who had accomplished many notable feats. "And though I've given it up lately because I fell into a better job, I'm rather fond of the work. Being so young-looking, of nona,,n, was a great aid_aa_the frdira You are after don't suspect anything of a mere boy ; and I daresay I've often got in where the smartest of men would have failed. Half-a-crown a time they used to give me and my railway fare, and a nice little addition it was to the wages I got as office-boy in odd hours. Well do. I remember my first job. It was to serve a man who kept a little shop in some back street over the water, and, the writ concealed in an envelope. I planted it on him quite easily. Into the back shop he Went to read what it wa.i, and a second after I heard him roar in a ferocious voice, Where is he 1" Needless to say, I took to my heels on the instant, and didn't stop running till I was half-a-mile away. Another time I was told off to effect service on a man who had defied the efforts of all the other clerks. Quite by chance I discovered in a local paper that he was advertising a bicycle for sale, and, being determined to tarn the extra half-sovereign which the firm had offered to anyone who could succeed in serving him, I availed myself of the Opportunity this knowledge offered to me. I called at the house, and, showirlg the cutting that I had taken from the paper, asked if the advertiser was in. The bait took, the gentleman himself appeared, and a second later he was in possession of the writ, and I twelve-andsixpence the richer. Ever teen threatened with violence for my temerity in intruding upon them? Oh, yes. Once or twice an excited debtor had lost his temper on having the important piece of Paper thrust into Lis unsuspecting hands and has vowed vengeance upon me, but usually I have been able to escape. Once an irascible greengrocer shoved nae by the shoulders out of his shop, but, on my returning and explaining to him that what lie had done constituted technically a deliberate assault, he begged my Pardon, and, anxious to avoid fwrther complications, begged my acceptance of a pound of pears, two pomegranates, and a cccco-nut ! Still with all my successes, I haven't always come off best. I went one autumn evening to South Londcn to serve a writ, and being unable to find the house named in my instructions, though I had arrived in the road in which I knew it, to be situated, I ventured to inquire of a passer-by if he knew of such a place. Wrangson Villa F—Wrangson Villa?' said he, I know the name somewhere. Oh, yes; it's over by the post-office, about a mile and a half away. There's a road of the same name as this there.' Thanking him for his assistance, thither I quickly repaired, only to meet with no better success, for, after a long tramp, no place o anything like the name could I discover. A month or so after, the debtor being produced in open court, I recognised in him my artful Informant af the apocrypnal situation of the house I was in search of."  Acute bronchitis often develops before we are aware that our lungs are aft, cted. Bronchitis, whether acute or chronic, Is both prevented and cured by Scott's Emulsion ofCod Liver 911 with hypophosphites—prevented when Scott's Emulsion Is taken in time, and clued when it is too lute to prevent. Scott's Emulsion is easy t.) take and more effective than plain °ii• Chemists sell it. 2s. 6d. and 4s. 6d. (23.) At the Northumberland Assizes at Newcastle on Monday Samuel George Etn,ry, aged 20, a soldier, was sentenced to death for the murder of his sweetheart, Mary Ann Marshall, aged 17, at Tynemouth.