Show TROUBLES TRIMBLES OF or A POLICEMAN O OR WHAT FALSE AS ALARM REALLY ALY MEANS MAS On Jordans Jordan's stormy storm banks bank in the I nei neighborhood of Fourteenth West Vet and Fifth worth North streets there stood this morning two policemen and a brace brace- of reporters watching the efforts of a third policeman one Emit Kmil mil Johnson to reach a 3 house bela beleaguered ered by tho the flood whore where according to the report received at the police polke station three children had bad been drowned An art article le of womans woman's roman II apparel wn was flying from froni a broom placed on an the porch a as a si signal nal of distress and thin things s were were shaped shaped up tir for fOI a high class trl tragedy edv Mr lr Johnson wearing hip boots navigated navi avi- avi gated himself within hearing distance of the porch on which the lady 1 of the hou house Et was wal standing How many I dead 1 he shouted Three replied the woman and the rest are arc drowning fast Then Officer Johnson performed a deed of f heroism It was no time timeto timeto to consider trifles triflE's if the water struck over the hip hoots boots or not duty was as duty He lIe pun plunged ed into the hoil boiling n flood and wet his new uniform but gained the porch Where aro are they he exclaimed Floating around in the back yard Jard shrilled the lady Good heavens madam the policeman 1 The The corpses of your little children drifting around that way I IWho Who V o saId nn anything about children said Mrs M. M for that was her name Im I m talking about pigs my children chil chil- dren are at school The Tho chickens c. are roosting high but six o of them are arc drowned at that Officer Emil Johnson raised his voice olce and shouted d to Policemen George Moore and Tom Gillespie his Is faithful comrades ra R- R Rt Nothing t doing Its It's pf pigs Then Mr r Johnson T stepped e oft the porch Into n an Ir irrigating ir- ir rg ditch and was lost g fht to sight J Ja for a moment Afterwards he ha Inspected the bodies o of the dead and then borrowed an oar from Mrs Irs and rowed himself ashore Officer Johnson also inspected the Island on which stands the house that J. J II IL House built That garden gardn said Mrs House pointing J to a t trout pond In the pr f ht g rear produced e enough u h vegetables to f fa feed the family PY last i year or Forty r bushels of potatoes a c Just l think Ji of It Do you want to be he rescued Inquired the tired and wet policeman I I should hould say sav not said Mrs House The house Is la for sale but I am not goIn goIne gothe go- go In the Ine to cut the price e on account of a It little water ater We Ve are arp quite happy here herp and then Policeman EmU Emil Johnson splashed splash d out to the patrol wagon and re reqUEsted requested re re- quested Mr George Moore to drive him home |