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Show j HAMlrlt TO THE I A, F. i The 1'enally Fur .taking Mraiiger For I . Two llltt. A monument to mendicancy, six 1 feet or more up id the air. unfolded it- self and moved up when J ml go I.alicy ; inquired in soft, sibilant tones i( Frank .Lines w ere in court. Frank W a there. ! lie the monument. "You are charged." Judge I-aney saug in his sweetest nico soprano, " all violating the law of country, j territory, county and city, not lo nun-; lion those of the Latter-day Saint, by i asking a cilion ami a stranger -r. a quarter to purchase mailer with which j to feed the animal, is this correct?" j Frank looked sadly aoiti-s a waste of sage hl llll t liUkvr, depo-ited a low, j hacking cough in tho court cuspidor j and believed il was. j 't hen Jitdgn I.aaev ivaeln-d for his i hilde, his copy nf Jo-oplms mid the Koran, all of h'u h he cinplov in giving giv-ing vent to the iron gvey opinions which he uses in his lnincsx. "The man who give alms to a large, healthy bundle of vagrancy lied up with rope and shingle nails, is, iiv- my opinion, as much to )o blamed as lli-recipient lli-recipient of his charily," ho declared, j "A tool and his money are quite diller- j cut from the hair of a bald h ad. for i th former are easily parted. Mr. Dun. j bar, yon will I hi kind enough to go out -into the oily when you a;ain liud it ' uccc.ry to pull a laugh that lift rod; spots on it out nf your person v bile ibis ! court is delilieralfnir." Mr. Ihinbar. v ho is not overly xiable, ! retained his place on eai in with the j most extreme litlicully, while, the court ' continued " "You sny, Frank you look tho man j for a frit-nil - one you had know u he- ' foiti. That is all right, to lake a man j for a frieiid. but when you take Ins money for whisky von nro doing thai which moves Ihis court to icaeh into the hoi t mn drawer and gel the new, led halidi d condemiier to to some condemning with. I his friend lnii.iio--. is played out In this tow n. It make till court weary to walk upon the Mreel and have one of v. on fellow s coiue up and sav Kxeuse me; haven't I seen you before?' be-fore?' whin if he had m-i-ii oie Infi-i-e he known it would co-it double the line to .-co mn attain. The man who begs upon the slivrt is going lo get il iu the luck, jn-t ahafl tlo- light ear mid a short di.-lanrn Irum the jugular when he conies hi-fnre this court. "I feel for you u nd I have hooks on my hands to reach ymi Theie is a cool, quiet cave ned hv the city for a retiring place. You will be permitted to go there for thirty day to commune com-mune with nature and dig vravel out of the puNiling Iio-miiii of the earth." The remainder of th" morning was ?ivcii tip to the work of sentencing a ol of plain drunks lo work mil their redemption. |