Show tile the cheerful man mail who thinks practical jokes funny has turned up in chicago one night a lot of people lie fie knew were driving home ionic lit in a coach from evanston and lie he and another man conceived the excruciating idea of holding them up on the road after the fashion of the late it and black blace part they put the idea into execution in the most approved stylo style when the coach approached their place of concealment ceal ment they stopped stepped out of the shad I 1 41 1 law 17 of a tree called to the driver to halt and xvi whan n he had done sol so pointed a revolver at the passengers and com lauded them to lo liand hand over their A valuables tile demand was complied compile d wit with 1 and it was not until that operation wa was complete that the amateur highwaymen disclosed their identity identify in the meantime however the ladles lit in the party had been frightened almost into hysterics and some of the diet 1 though of course they wll never acknowledge it wore greatly terril led tills this merry conceit naturally excites the liveliest admiration for the genius of the mud mad wag who devised it and lie he will be the iho envy and pride ot of his kind but if some member of the party who was not in ili the joke johe had had a rei reviver olver the representation sen tation atlon might have lioen been made still more realistic and the iho consequences encel serious there it are re jokes w which b tell a are re 11 belter t ter left |