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Show Tub DisiiEPUTABLE practice of itmt-loaflng received a severe criticism criti-cism ut the hands of a Kentucky judge rectmtly. A gang ol ioalera bud long been in the habit of aa sembling in the vicinity of a quiet wor.mnn's reaidince, and greatly annoying him and his family; The workman protested afiainat the practice prac-tice and remonstrated with the loafers, loaf-ers, who, -finding their presence annoying an-noying to him, took the more pleasure in loiteriug about the place, cultiDg his door, and otherwise causing him trouble. Finally, an open warfare was instituted, and the workman fired a pistol iuto the crowd, putting out the eye ol ono of bis assailants. He was a r re ted, and after l.euriog the testimony, Ibe judge promptly discharged dis-charged the accused, at the Bame time reading a vigorous lecture tj loafers, trom which the fjllowirg is an extract. It will apply to loafers ia Salt Luke as well as to the same spccicB ol animal in Kentucky: He said that be had watched the mattor of iircot-loalinjr, out cf whicb all tnis trouble had evidently grown, for years, and be felt competent to spoak upon the subject. He had observed that street-oorner street-oorner loferi wero o ''tan tho very bo?t drcistd men in town, the o litest and, in miry instances, really clever gentlemen But thia was when taey were take n away from Ibttir associate loaft-rs. However tentlf manly and respectable they mihl tie in tbeir own homo.', in church, in the court Ktion cumtiomd to nnawor the charge of street-corner loalingr, r.o lOODer did ti;ey get togatber at th ir o'd j aunts than the tUmimeLt and amehiuvous spirit got into tbi'in. 1 h i happenod to ivtrnejl, hardworking young fellows sometime?. Tbey would uiaka romarkt to one another wben a lady, for instance, wu patting; remarks ostensibly addressed to each other, but intended fur bur ear. Then jo court tbey would swear to a sub st&niial lie by saying they bad never ipolten to bor. 'iheir lriendi would swuar for thein. The mystery of aticet-losting aticet-losting was this spirit of mischief wi.ich eniiired into ibeni when they b?nan to loaf on corners, and transt'oi md them from gentlemen into rowdieF. |