Experiment In Detection

The policeinan who maintains life ind order at the meeting of two down ;own streets must be possessed of considerable judgment. He must know when to make a hole in the wall, so to speak, through the mass of vehicles and et a portion of the surging humanity ?o through. He must know how to lo eeveral things at once - to at the same time chat pleasantly witb. a lady Eriend of nis, teil a woman from the snburbs where the streets she's on is ad pull a couple of old gentlemen from the jaws of cable cars, and, what is more surprising, most of the down town Eorce can do this, and, what is truly astonishing, nearly all do it in a gsntlemanly manner and keep their tempera well. It is not infreqnently that an officer is found who can do all this and more too. At one of the most prominent cross Btreets there is a policeman who is a Dlose second to the caliph that decided the ownership of an infant in his own bighly original way. Among many inBtances where his acumen has played a particular part is one that happened a day or so ago. It coucerned a bicycle. The latter was left by its rider against the curb. A few minutes later a young man approached it. The policeman in question had not seen the owner get off the machine, but he thought the newcomer looked a trifle suspicioas. The chain and sprocket wheel of the bicycle had been secured together by a padlock. When the young man in question began to carry the wheel off instead of unlocking it he feit it was about time to act. "Do you own that bicycle?" he said to the young man." "Yes," was the reply. "Where's your key, then?" was his next. "I've lost it. " That settled it. "Say, now," continued the policeman, "will you give me your name and address?" The young man seemingly did not want to make any trouble. He hesitated for a moment and then said, "Why, yes, if you want it. " "And now," continued the policeman, after he had it, "you know the case looks strange, and you know we have so many bikes lost, would you mimi waiting 15 minutes to see if any one else should come after that wheel?" "No, I guess not, "said the young man. Then he leaned back on a railing and began to wait. After he had been there three or four minutes the policeman said : "Well, I guess it's all right. Yon can go." And then, turning to a bystander, he remarked, "You can bet your next month's pay he wouldn't have stood there if it wasn't his." -