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Show THEV SHANCHAIED THE DUTLEfL TUa rUonr W Un nail Sn II !lu- Un tnllt I .and H Dubtlllul". My Wend Count MltLlowicx and I wero wjlklng along With au-nuo tho oilier day Uiui our ntu-uUon na culled to n couplo of iiolavmen who wero marching it prUonir up tha street at a rapid nto. Tho Utter Ut-ter made things m t ly by Kiwllng at tlio timet hli Lungst "I didn't Uko aujthing Idllntt Idilntl' "HenmiiU mo of n story," observed the count, nnd then ho contluueil "Yon Rf, my father at llio time ol whiih I t:peak wa u mnn of conoid erablo mtau and something nf n lxin l wit Ho had a w caknos for Dig llsh ludo ale, and our bulk r, n lit valued his ponttion, never allowed tht i-took to rim out. ' It liapnened that my father had imltnl i fraud to dinner ono ihy aud lirul lnstructixl tho buthr to vet thitoierjthlngwaa well and property prop-erty ured, nnd, nboAo all, not to omit tho palo ulo About nn houi bi furo dinner tho butler dUovertd tuhU lurror that tho stock of ale v as exhausted Ho did notiUro to wml n em ant for It, no ho itarted out In n griit huny tosccuro tlio ulo himself "I must hero toll 5 on about ItiiM'mi muliulfs TheiiO aro somi thing Ilka sentry loxe, und aro stitlon d lu alousl imits of St rotersburg foi thj occvumodatlvu cf uiiuun lB-BB--B--ifll cKnrgcilwlthttyou"eniiei A man caught stealing, for Instance It locked up in ono of thoso budntks nndlitld thero until wanted. When tho court sit thero is n general roundup of tha nudnik. Just ni a let tcr carrier hero empties tho mall boiN on hli routo ' "Well, somo fellow had stolen thirty ntblcs. Ho was caitjlit nnd lni'tlM Into n budnlk Hut thirty rubles is n lot of money tor n Itiuwinii policeman, and when tlio thief offered them to tho guards u ho camo to take him to court tho result wa that tha fellow wa allowed to innko hli CRcnpo Now it liapiiened that an in ipoctor of poliro who hail seen the arrest mailo asked tho guards when) their prisoner v. a 'In tho Imdnlk,' they nnswered Of courso they wero Knt after lilm forthwitli. Hut tlioro was 110 prisoner nnd something hid to bo dono "As thu guard neaml fty father's houso they ifplwl Iholmtlemuiiiing around tho comer. Hero was tin It man They gavo cliaso and caught lilm. Tho poor lmllir oxjicwtulateil nnd remonstrated, buttonopurpow j When brought beforo tho magistrate ho lcamo .loleut and receied n 1 low on tho head thnt nearly knocked lilm senseless. All threo of the guard, not knowing who ho was, aworothat they hid seen lilm com rait thotheft. Tliopoorfillowwaiml allowed to say n wonl in hi own lo lialf. On tho contrary, ho wa pum mcleil about in such n fashion that ho confisl to tho theft, whatocr it wa, to sal 0 further drubbing "TlierowM no palo nlo for dinner nt my father's houo that day, nnd no butler either After waiting un til tho next morning for thobutler to turn up my father notified tlio police po-lice llio butlers diuppoamnco remained re-mained n profound mystery for n week, when my father happened to Ult tho Jail Thcro in ono of Hi) cells, nnd moro dead than all; 0, he diMiircrcd hbnnlssInglioUKOsenanL Hxplanation followed, tho butler wa liberated and on tho day follow ing nppi arcd a u witness ngauut tho Uirco guards, who, to tho great sntl faction of tho butler, wiro sentenced to long terms of imprisonment." Now i ork Herald. |