Show WARD how alie humorist relieved printers who were lu trouble it was back in the fifties we were all rooming in old 21 our bachelor barracks in the upper story of a business block on superior street in cleveland A gay party we were sam and george alf and harry and our third story den became headquarters for lots of witty and jovial boys who made it almost a clubroom club room in nightly visits among the most welcome was charley brown artemus ward as he was just earning the sobriquet from his quaint series of humorous articles in the plain dealer on which he was local editor brown or artemus as we already begun to call him was excessively ces fond of practical jokes and the fun made among the circle of his friends will long be remembered the small hours artemus one room the door was always on the latch rushed to the window threw it up and leaning out screamed in the shrillest shrill est of feminine voice help help murder help murder A rush up the staircase followed while artemus slipped into the nearest bed and a half score of police dashed into the room and summoned us to account for the screams artemus sleepily assured the blue coated gentry that no born woman was secreted in our premises and so well enacted the sleepy astonishment ment of awakened virtue that after prowling in vain about the room the guardians of alic peace withdrew and we heard them ransacking tho building for quite a while seeking for of the alarm when all was quiet artenius explained the rumpus he had made some three or four printers alio worked on the Plain dealer had been imbibing too freely and charley brown coming up found them in the hands of the police being conducted to the 1 anxious to rescue them he conceived and executed the ruse the piercing screams of the female in distress and the ciger hope of unearthing ear thing a tragedy drew away the attention of the and they left the birdd in the hands loose to kusue the one in the basli the liberated made their shortest way home while we zens of room 21 enjoyed alie joke as artemus best nestor in the |