Judge — October 13, 1883 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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Chronicles of Gotham. CHAPT XVII 1. Iv these days there was a class of per- sons, both male and female, who came from across the big water. 2. Now these people did join themselves into.a band, and did appoint officers to rule over them; Yea, even » officers, and female of- ficers, and they did give to them strange titles, even ( s, and C ns; 4. And they did stand on the corners of the streets and shout aloud, and did sing praises to the Lord: . And they did travel around and about | the land, and wherever they were there was | the sound of shoutings and blows. 6, Some others did hire tents, to the great annoyance of the dwellers in the tents around abou A BACHELOR Bor, unluckily, he got their satehe! discovered his mistake—but too lat hen he must have something to sleey '8 BLUNDER. , and at night, when preparing for bed, yand Miss Kessie’s wardrobe was all he had to select from. et’s mothe gentle reader, ascalf-love if you will, but Lam of the opinion that the sweet, pure, and holy influences of a youthful love for one of the other sex never wholly desert the soul of man. They tend to elevate his thoughts; to encase him in the triple-plated armer of innocence, and, should his futare career be that of a drummer, counsel him not to put his arm around a lady’s waist in a railwa car until he has known her for at least fifteen | or twenty minutes. But all that’s bright must fade, and, al- though Mrs. Malone had never -hinted that | my appetite was making serigus inroads on | her stock of groceries, I felt that I could not much longer loaf on. the ‘hospitality of the good old soul. So, one night, when all were asleep, I rose quietly from my couch, donned my own clothes, made up the Sunday ones of one of the board into a bundle, took } the widow’s silver watch, $25.00, which she | had saved up for a rainy day—it was coming down cats and dogs the night I left—Bridg- et’s gold earrings, and her best boots—I de- sired to have something to remember the | dear girl by—several other articles that I could lay my hands on,—wafted a blessing on all in the house as I closed the door be- hind me. I never ceased running until, at | least, two miles stood between me and the town of Shanty. I boarded the first down- town car I struck, made my way to Christo- pher Street Ferry and crossed over to Ho- | token, ined in the wild, delirious gay- ities of that American Paris, until the t ty-five dollars and the money raised on the | Watch, car- rings, cte., had vanished in beer, oyste shufle-board and pool-for-drinks, and then I enlisted as y, on board the Al canal & * commanded by Captain Patsy Hoga a beautiful sweltering ge, with the wind abaft the funnel tugboat which towed us to the en- trance of the canal. My heart swelled within me as I stood on the deck of the noble craft and badé w proved to be along farewell to the shores of Manhattan; but I anticipate! (To be continued in our next, unless the author attemps to dive into the hidden sense of a Herald editorial.) : Mrs. Mary Mapes Dopoe makes $4,000 a year by her pen. A man in Cincinnati who hasn’t enovgh edneation to write dog- gerel poetry makes a cool million from his pen, but it’s a hog pen. Tne New Hampshire Republicans didn’t anticipate an increase of the territory of their State, but still they expect to own Pike’s speak this winter. Tue pawnbroker who takes most interest in his business generally has little principle. t was sawed in two he had to shell out. Wuex Courtney's bi it grieved him be Fonp of jetting the public have his views —The photographer. | work certain ones amongst this tribe of singers ‘and shoute and then shekels to to the staying in the porch of the main tem- do we not save | tribe extend even to the uttermost borders of the world, and is it not the noises of our | are they not amu: in July when we started on | : uly when we started on | wig did cast these people into prison, and did make them give bonds to the i | ofthe peace, but others did say, Get ye | gone, | of most of the people, these shouters were | called for the most part of ignorart manner, and and the begging moncy for the same, they would do this rather than do work. the benefit of mankind. But they w tion Arm; should be | decree guards of the high their females do no good, and time to come choose rulers over the cam) who wilkkeep the laws, and stop this an other bad things, : 7. For did they not choose these places where the greatest numbers of dwellers did 8. Now it came to pass that divers and 9 Did » a room for their sojourning, they did make loud noises, even 80 much that they were arrested, 10, But when they were brought before the judges and lawgivers, they did say: “Have we no right to 7 ng after nner of our tribes? fave we not in the past times paid e and have we not a decree rulers of the camps, ven of the camp of the Tabernacle have we not a decree to dg our even ii. from the lawmakers? then should we be stayed? Is not our workings for the saving of souls, and and spoil even those that were safe? Why then sayus, Nay? Does not our and our shoutings and of our in- ts heard in all lands? 15. “And the large crowds that do listen, 16, Now there were certain of the judges eping 17. But, to the praise of the good sense Nuisance.” 18. But the people of this “ Army” were they did think that by their loud shouting 18. A few thought they were working for e not. he name of the tribe is ‘* Salva- and it an useless thing and nterdieted. Let the sojourners in the camps get a nd lock this tribe up, and have the ize them and put them away out 20. Now 21 22, For the noise of ‘these people and of : much harm, 23. The dwellers in the camp will in the BLT. P. A RISKY THING—an insurance policy. Tanie-sauce—a breakfast quarrel. = —<—$—1 comicbooks.com