Show i i. speaK was a man or ot considerable consid consia- i erable means and something of a Tx hon bon n vivant Ho had a weakness for Eng lish pale ale an and our butler as ho lie valued his position never novel allowed the stock steele to run out sIt It happened that my father had invited i a friend to dinner inner ono one day and had instructed the butler to see that everything was well and anel properly prop- prop properly erly eily served and and above all not to omit Dmit the tho palo pale ale A About out an hour before dinner th tho butler discovered to his horror that tho the stock of ale le was exhausted H Ho di did not dare daro to send a servant for it so he ho started out mt in a great t hurry to secure the thealo ale himself S 1 II I 3 tell toll must you about Russian These are something like liko sentry boxes and are stationed in various parts of St St. Petersburg for Cor forthe tho the accommodation of prisoners charged with petty offenses A manI man I caught stealing for instance is E locked locked up in ono one of these and anal held there thero until wanted When the court sits theio is a general roundup of tho the just as a letter lotter lot lot- lott t ter r carrier here empties the mail mailboxes mailboxes mailboxes boxes on his route Vi Well ell some fellow had stolen thirty rubles He He was caught and hustled into a a. budnik But thirty rubles is a lot of money for a Russian policeman and when the tho thief offered them to the guards who came to take him to court tho result was WM that the tha fellow was allowed to make hi his hia escape Now it happened that an inspector inspector in in- of police who had seen soon the tho arrest made mado asked the guards where their prisoner was In tho the budnik I they answered course they were i sent after him forthwith B But t there then was no prisoner and something hato hatto hat had to be bo done S tAs As As the tho gum guards s t neared my fathers father's house they espied tho the butler running around tho the corner Here Hero was was' their man They gave chase and caught him The Tho poor pOOl butler expostulated and remonstrated but to no purpose When brought before the magistrate ho became violent an and J l received a ablow ablow ablow blow on tho head that nearly knocked him senseless All three of the guards not knowing who he was swore that they had seen him commit com coin mit the theft The poor fellow wasn't wasn allowed to say eay a Po i w in his own bo ho half On the contrary he be was pummeled pum pum- meled about in such a fashion that tha he confessed to th the theft whatever it was to save further drubbing There Thero was no p palo o ale for dinner dinne at my fathers father's house that day am an amno and anno no butler either After waiting until un until until un- un til the tho next morning for the tho butler t to turn up my father notified tho the police po po- po- po lice Tho The butlers butler's disappearance remained re re- re- re maine a profound mystery for a week when my father happened t to visit the I jail There in one of th the cells and and more dead than thaI alive ali h he discovered his missing house servant Explanations followed follow d the butler butle- was liberated and on the day follow following 1 ing lug appeared as a witness against th the ho I three guards who to the great satis satisfaction i faction of o the butler were sentenced to to long terms of imprisonment 0 I N New ew York Herald |