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Show ROOSTED IN THE BOX CARS. Ami the I-olice Snooped Down and Took Tliem in. It does seem sometimes that bad luck has a set course which it follows. For two weeks tho police have been busy arresting nocturnal inhabitants of boxcars box-cars in the hope of scattering the holdups hold-ups who are inflicting the town. In every ev-ery instance the men arrested have been just on tho point of going to work. If they had been permitted to remain in ' the cars they were going to work in the morning. The tale is uniform. uni-form. There is no variation. Each and every man is right on the verge of steeping his soul in the sweat of honest labor. . Last night four of them were taken in. They represented four countries, Germany,' England, Ireland anil America. Amer-ica. But in the respect of going to work they were alike. It do be this way, yer anner," said Campbell, who brought Irish in in place of Scotch; "Oi were afther bom' by the cair bo app'intment so's to bo ri'ddy to go out wid the section gang the niornin', when oop comes the paler an' takes me in. An' Oi were goin' to WOlTllk." It was sad, but nut nearly so sad as the tale of Russell. "H'i'm h'a married man, ban' H'i'ave h'awifeto 'ome." he said. "H'i slep' there so H'i could bo bon 'and w'en the tracklayers started, for H'i 'ad ha job with 'em. H'i works reg'lar." "It vos yoost so lige nctl'ah vos sometimes some-times yet, vooch," said Lund. "I vos drife a millig vackon und I co dot blace py for vait bis morning. I vos out dor poys mit. O, I cot a yob. Can I co mit mine vackon?" Before he could be snubbed by the judge, Frank Smith, an all around Yankee, said: "O, I'm guilty, your honor, but I'm a workin' man. 1 was just goin' to work." The court had heard it before too frequently and Smith, Campbell and Russell were given fifteen days whilo Lund got twenty for trying to get away from the officers to go in search of his apocryphal milk wagon. |