Show TALES OF THE DAY A Leap Year Maid A woman stood at the golden gate with a record for passport in Troublous and hard had been her fate yet her life had been without sin St Peter looked at her face and said Full long youve lived on the earth and yet tis writ for I just have read your souls of uncommon worth Tis strange tis strange mused the heavenly heaven-ly guard and you never have told a lie Nay good St Peter The gate unbarred But stay but stay before you pass by and pray tell me exactly how old you beyour word as the proof Ive seen She smoothed back her hair and dropped her eye Of birthdays Ive had sixteen What wrinkles gray hair Tis wondrous won-drous very with such youth to so strangely mix Ah saint I was born on February 29 1836Go Go back sighed the saint Heavens not for you Its bUsses must pale before the woman who all her life but knew one birthday in every fourJudge I He Wouldnt Eat the Cake Thomas Taylor a bookkeeper living at J No S26 Spaulding avenue complained inJustice I in-Justice Richardsons court yesterday morning against Hugo Wagner proprietor tor of a restaurant at No 344 State street and who the complainant says served I him with a strange dish Monday and then thrashed him because he refused to eat it Taylor ordered coffee and cake He broke open the cake and found in it he says a foreign substance which wiggled and ha l legs I dont want this yelled Taylor Its no good It Is good returned the proprietor eat it I Nit not never declared Taylor Theres a raisin in it that can walk and I dont want it The bookkeeper then declares that he was thrashed by Wagner and the waiters and the lady cashier who belabored him over the head with his own umbrella After banging him around the restaurant restaur-ant as though he were a football Taylor says they kicked him out in the street and kept his shower stick The illused man went to the Armor and swore out a warrant which was placed in the hands of Detectives Mc fllahon and McBride The two officers called at the restaurant Tuesday When Wagner learned their business he smiled pleasantly and said All right gentlemen Ill be with you as soon as I wash my hands Wagner then went into a room and the wise men waited for three hours at the end of which time they discovered that the man had jumped through the back window and fled The policemen went around again Wednesday Wed-nesday and were fooled the same way Wednesday evering they were more cautious cau-tious and they succeeded in arresting the man who was locked up at the Armory Yesterday the prisoner was placed in peace bonds for one year by Justice Richardson I Rich-ardson Chicago InterDcean |