| Show I HIS LEG IN THE LEMONADE Wooden Stump Used as Stirrer Got Harmon Into Trouble New York That a woodon leg Is not a fit and proper Instrument with which to stir a bowl of lemonade Is tho opinion of Nathan Wagner a restaurant res-taurant keeper at 215 Park Row Wagner Wag-ner was dozing In his restaurant when a breathless ragamuffin rushed In from tho street Say mister ho cried dores a guy outside wat put his leg In your lemonade Now In front of Wagners place is a stand on which ho placed a largo ° glass bowl of lemonade to be sold at tho rato of a cent a glass Mr Wagner Wag-ner therefore was quick to get to the sidewalk To his astonishment ho saw a one legged man leaning against tho bench and slowly stirring the lemonade with a wooden leg which ho had unstrapped from Us stump Stop that yelled Wagner Tho man looked surprised lifted the log from tho bowl and then deliberately deliber-ately struck the glass a whack that shivered it Holy cried Wagner Just nu Policeman Po-liceman Williams of tho Oak Street station cnmo along and the policeman police-man placed under arrest tho man who had swung the log l When tho man was arraigned In tho Tombs Police court ho was minus his log HO gavo his name as James Harmon and said that ho had no home Why did you break the bowl asked Magistrate Kernochan I dldnt > your Honor Harmon re plied You can see for yourself that I couldnt have done it I have no wooden leg dehlineM Wagner wrathfully and why Because I grabbed that leg out of your hand and threw it Into the street and a Dago picked It up flTlfiniltltlnnVin i MJJ a bag and ran down a side street Well sail the magistrate while the police arc looking for your leg you can rest safely on the Island Six months |
