Show A JOKER JAILED bow n was lirong ht to cook tor a moan the sad story lately told in the Youths companion of a newsboy who lost his life as the result of a practical joke so called reminds a correspondent of an incident that took place a few years ago in a city of tennessee A poor little girl was peddling apples in a railway station A train was about starting and almost at 1 he last moment a tall passenger stepped off alie car steps and called for fifteen cents worth of the apples the girl counted them out the man took them and alien as he moved toward the car began feeling in his pocket as money the change was not forthcoming he was on the steps the train began to move the girl ran eagerly after it and there stood the man on the platform laughing at her by good luck the mayor of the city happened to be among the bystanders a war veteran with a tender heart and a contempt for all meanness he ran at once to the superintendents office and said IH ghe gh e you a hundred dollars to stop that train and have it backed into alie station the offer was promptly accepted a telegram was dispatched and very soon the player of the joke found himself in the fiands of the police he paid the girl her fifteen cents of course and offered to pay her a good deal more but the officers were inexorable and to the gratification of the lookers on he was marched oil to jail |