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Show Lilacs and Handcuffs. : The other day, as a royal train.of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania parlor cars pulled out of the Jersey City depot, a gentlemanly man carrying a huge bunch of lilacs made his way from the rear of the train to the foremost car the smoker. Pressing almost al-most upon his heels was a rather rough looking fellow making the same journey. It happened that as I raised my eyes 1 saw behind that bunch of lilacs a parr of shining steel handcuffs connecting the gentlemanly man's wrists. It would be interesting to know whether it was the convict's idea or that of his keeper to put flowers to that strange lise. But to my mind there was something very poetic about it. Julian Ralph. |