Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — The Banker's Adventure. [ARTICLE]

The Banker's Adventure.

A Marwarl banker of elephantine build, while coming from the station to Anarkali, Lahore, stood up in his sec-ond-class garl near the Shahalmi Gate to adjust his dhoti. No sooner he war on his feet, to his horror, the bottom of the conveyance gave way! With his well-known presence of minid he realized the situation even as he fell, and began running for dear life, in spite of being badly shaken. The drunken Jehu would not hear his shouts to stop. At last, near the tram-way-stand, some one saw his legs working with marvelous rapidity under the conveyance, and gave ' the alarm. The cabby had the Impudence to demand his full fare, and was get* ting noisy and abusive, when a pro posal was made by some bystanders te give him a plunge bath in the adjoining canal, and the fellow then hastily drove off.—Lahore Tribune.