Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1913 — Strange Climax of Little Every-Day Incident [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Strange Climax of Little Every-Day Incident

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—A waiter spilled a plateful of soup on a ward worker in a restaurant the other day. The ward worker made known his objections in the manner usually adopted for reformers who try to stand

guard at the polls in that city. In other words, he started a rough house. But the waiters finished what be started. Waiters have a habit of doing that. At the "Hey, Kube!" signal they gathered merrily around and after the ward worker had been reduced to a 'state of semi-consciousness with a loaded section of garden hose, a beer mallet and three chair legs, he was chucked into the street. Then he did an unprofessional thing. He would not have been guilty of it had he tyeen In his right senses. He complained to the police and had the waiter who annointed him arrested, , Now comes the unexpected climax of this little, every-day incident of life in Puihidelphia The police magistrate before whom the pris

onAr yvas arraigned discharged him with the momentous decision that it la no* unlawful for a waiter to spill soup on the patrons he serves. The news d find it did not take long for Philadelphia to become as much agitated nvar It as it can become agitated ever anything. It wholly failed to perceive ♦be deep, basic principles everlasting truth underlying the decision.