Show ROMANCE OF A COLORED YOUTH I l He Stole Articles to Itfakc His Best I 1 Girl Look Good j j 4 Louis Mosly unless he has repented In the last few hours and been unable to tear himself away from a charming mulatto whom he has serious attentions atten-tions of at some time making Mrs MoOy Is now well on his way to Vancouver Van-couver Wash The couise of truelove true-love never did run smooth The fact that Louis ban a complexion like unto that of thc ace of spades and that the damsel 1 Is I almost as good as white made no diffeience In their mutual regard I re-gard and Louis did not leave the country coun-try because of unrequited love That he had a rival was well known and this rival had a nourishing tumult stand In the colored quarters This I gave him a financial standing that I Louis was not able to compete with owing I lo the fact that he was engaged j I In I the humble occupation of cleaning shoes when he was not burgling or robbing a saloon cellar of beer bottles bot-tles Louiss poverty made no difference differ-ence to the mulatto girl but It did to him and one day when he had been again caught redhanded he confessed to a fellow prisoner that he only stole things In order that the victim of his affections should look as good as allY other colored girl In town Louis made severil rash promises to leaVe town but could never quite tear himself away Onee he said that If the poliie would only leave him alone for a certain cer-tain length of time he might be able lo acquire enough money to bribe H I brakeman but the guardians of the peace were too much for him A few days ago the lad was caught at his old tricks und was held to the District I court on the charge of burglary bur-glary Yesterday afternoon Assistant Attorney Gunter came Into court however how-ever and snld he believed the inter estn of Justice and the city would lxi best served by allowing the defendant to go on his own recognizance Judge Tlmmony looked up This motion Is 1 not made upon the idea that he Is to remain In the city he asked quickly No He will leave this evening I have the ticket and can assure your Honor that we will be rid of him lora lor-a long time if not for good as he understands un-derstands what his portion will be If he ever returns 0 The order will hI made remarked the Judge and with a IxO smile Louis tripped down the stairs The scene at the depot Is said to have been an af feciing one |