A Novel Idea

■'TlKTt' is abeolutely uo necessity of anybody's betng stood up by foöt1).-m!s f t hcy oni.v use proper pre non-V' said Judge Joachlmsen the oiher diy. ■'A iittle ingenuity," be explalned, "would enable even the most ti to walk the streets safely." "I have been thinking t lie matter over. The result is i have evolved a Iittle schenie tliut I ieel satisfied will revolutionize the fooipad industry. "A man can carry an umbrella always wil hout, danger of being BUpposed to have a deadly weapon. The handle of thi.s should be loaded with lead and have a mimber oi knobs. In the end of tlie handle should be a necret chamber filled with the red fire that usually accompanles torchllght processlons." Tlie whole secret of suecass, the judge expiained, lay in the secret chamber. The footpad meets the belated traveler. He commands : 'Throw up your hands !" Tlie order is at once obeyed. In oaie of the unfortunate's hands is the apparently innocuoue umbrella with the hendie end up. Hls thumb pressea a spring in the side of the stick. This releases the covering of the chamber which, flying open, strikes I out a spark. "Then you have him," s;id the judge. 'The tire flashes Eiercely. The footpad looks aip, startled. You banu' him over the head with the loaded umbrella and leave him tor dead. "If you don't waait 10 hurt him. you need only carry a large quantity of fire. and that wlll acare the robber off. It might even attraet a policeman,'' the judge added, "and at any rate il would créate a diversion under cover of whlch au r.ctive man might escape." There are none of the judge"s footpad discouragers on the market yet.