Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1900, Page 18

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH AND THERE WERE OTHERS About 7 o'clock on Sunday morning last a stout, square-jawed man bought a newspa- per from a boy at the northwest corner of Corcoran and 14th streets, and then walked WORKING A "NEW SCHEME A New York book fier who had‘a slate up during the.greater part of the meeting of the Crescent Ci Club in New Orleans stopped oves iq Washington on the 24, 1900-24 PAGES. THE JOBSONS' NEIGHBORS |. “New neighbors, eh?” said Mr. Jobson the other morning as he paused on the steps of his house before setting off for his office and nodded toward the furniture vans A NECESSARY EVIL You Must Give Tips in Paris if You Oe its doors, they leave ft te ite fate and seek fresh pastures, When a Family Leaves, Time and again I have watched the de- parture of a touring family with the mi gied pain and pleasure of the superior ur out onto the asphalt to await the passing of a down-town 14th street car. He took his stand at the near side of the street, as usual. After about four minutes a two-car train came along at full speed. The man, who had been glancing over the headlines return trip the othefday to have a look at seme horses at Benning in which he is in- terested. 99 “The shovers of over at the New Or! to a party of turfn backed up to the curb of the new house on the left that had only recently been com- pleted. “So I observe,” sald Mrs. Jobson. Then Mr. Jobson went on down town about his business hampered celibate. AN work in the hotel at this hour. You ring tn vain for chambermaid or garcon. Every ts at his post—which fs the front door. The family is going away. Smug faces that the members of the family see now for the first ceases Want Good Service. eer Put a new one méeting,”” the said uit at the Benning In th HOW “THE SYSTEM I$ REGULATED man. 1 e days The Star fssued an ear- edition at 3 o'clock, which was followed time are there smiling confi ntly. Iisa of his paper, folded it up and placidly wait-| track. “earl bookmaker in the] When.he came home that afternoon he gantlet to run. And here the unpracticed up by a second edition an hour or so later. hose ZLCAElY TORREY: DOG! Sera 2 st beeanse of his jack of ve minutes after the first edition of The | ©4 for the car to stop for him. It didn't | ring got some of it. had it all made up for Mrs. Jobson. : Roe cl yeh nies seated nip Sema’ | Star was on the street giving an account } stop. It went by like an ice yacht, there | "ur suyesit was p ing No. 1 among] “Met the new neighbors, of course, by| From Highest to Lowest All Ex-| habit, What dors the Eur veenavaiare ‘une of the suicide an applicant for appoint- | being few people crossing the street at that b the layers of odds here, It was soon | this time?” said he to Mrs. Jobson almost v ‘ ment presented himself to Mr. Marr with @ hour. As the train whizzed by the man waiting at the corner of Corcoran and 14th streets, the motorman shouted some indis- tinct directions and pointed to the other side of the street. faces of those who have reaily watted him. He remembers nearly how much he has given to each already. To this one he smiles kindly good-bye and gives nothing. He is particular to ask for the too-often copy of The Star in his hand as evidence fava . He was sure of a place, but was dumfounded when told that the ap- nt had been promised to a man ad helped to drag the body of the after the beginning of the year. A bunch as soon as he had hung his hat ana coat of baby sees to the post, and on the rack. Wi I haven't been in—" ‘Not met them yet exclaimed Mr. Job- - pect Their Gratuities. we laid pretty good prites about the chances of all of them. One df them was heavily 2 ~| forgotten boots. Distributing his tips in | who The man Yooked mad. played—a Texas colt named Sad Sam—and | son jn well-simulated tones of surprise.] WHAT IT COSTS A DAY|{ ntly—that ix, honestly—he will waste panitibe: cai of the: canat “What's the matter with that infernal | bls price 'was thumped down from about 15 | «why, that’s funny! I expected to find nothing on the undeserving, and depart , business | ee FRR idiot, I'd like to know!” he growled. “And ] t? 1 to 6 to 1. Sad Sam won on the bit. | thom ‘here for dinner when I got home. with the respect of every menia -drummer for | He was a sawed-off-looking little colored | what the dickens was that he yelled at me? | 2nd the ring was hit pretty hard. I had | Nie "josing your nohbory, erie on any: nd I remem- | ™4n, and as he ambled down Ith street in| You'd think the darned old train was going | t@ pay out $1,250 on him. A man down thing, are you, Mrs. Jobson? Special Gorresporience of The Ei Cont of It Al “Now, you know that—" Well, weil, ** said Mr. Jobson, ning Star. to a fire! there that I know, a city official, was in on If th * y articul: = Ener cal ony che Rese MCRAE rere oarthine ante got me for $150 of it. stuek. | the direction of The Star office he mumbled got stuck} rm thing that makes me hoi all over it's to be PARIS, Mz ¥ ntly to himseif and made two or three rch 15, 1900. And now to the figu A European Itv- ‘a wee id kind tourist, | ing by the month in a h will keep him ve up in a one-horse wv ,.| ave a car shoot by me this way and leave | He was the last man to show up in my line | whole ¢ight hours have passed since’ the Tipping. ereconeinn: to one ki nd of hes Pi nisi weepetar sot cuneoaie erie ss barrel of whisky, which wiih his clenched hand, as if deliv} me standing like a blasted hobo that's been | for settlement, and my cashier passed him | Wyle clgpt hours have passed sites th« |i. the European microbe: and this kind of | § es a ot mod 3 He told us some kind of 4 Knockout blow. ‘The performance ) ditched from a hog train! I'd give $9.80 to | out his money in tens. The city official, | nthe horizon. and you haven't got real | tourist is boundeto suffer, rather noisily, al | but systematic outlay. Extraordinary. « eacie Gsincland teat # rather peculiar one, and a Star re-] have that condinged motorman’s number. | a practiced handler of moncy, felt of the | chummy and thick with ‘em yet! I hope through the exhibition from its ravages. | Vices thatgle not occur regularly should b ‘bout an old uncle dying and lea porter, who was passing, inquired, “Uncle | [4 take a day off and go to the superin- | notes as they were dished out to him, and | you're not ailing, Mrs. Jobson? For him the hotel employes of all Europe | Tecompensed at the time, for fear of being but/as he couldni’t afford top nr Ne oe eee é tendent of the line, and if I wouldn't] the very last’ bill my cashler gavé hir |” “p'case don't be so rid” s ee ere iquor as it was he had con- | Fred, what's the trouble? burn that dog-goned—but I suppose they'd | caused him to blink. It was.a new, crisp} «Anyhow, if I didn't find them all here | are banded in a conspiracy to fleece the HS rape ete Bhgctchege- pan gti We took the barrel into trubble but dat nasty temper'd wife | tell me the trains were a bit late on the | treasury note, and a neat-looking piece of | at dinner I surely thought you'd be in| English-speaking guest. They pry into let- | S¢ the giver and the inspiration of the mo- ing out the bung, we | Uv mine,” was the quick answer. ‘She's | Schedule, or some such fuzzy-wuzzy excuse | the green at that. The city official handed | {here on terms of unbendable. friendship ters and “shadow” new arrivals. They de-| ment. As for systematic tipping, the least of a ck wukking up here wid er nice leddy on 6th | 4S that, and I'd get fanned, like everybody | ft back to my settler. with the female boss of the house when I w off a gi 4 does that goes up against a bloated corpo- ration.” “Phony,” ‘Back up, said he. said my cashier. tha 10 and commissions from tradesmen. - They a ‘an will give &: to be di street an’ Surop nts a day, ‘age « among th I'se bin wukking dere fur two er The b got home. Why, aren't e bar- ‘ou wasting valua- He knew ee f Ff PSS Casi " ble time? Supposing they find they don’t kK trunks with mysterious signs. So | | ns pte its end or It | tree days myself. Dis morning. Se <ibus the man stood and growled to him-| the city official, too, but he thought he was | iike the house tomorrow morning, and | they soon know all about your business, on ae "maken y ne of te anon See rey een er Hottie nema a: | Self, looking all the time up toward the cniy fooling. “The green. goods. outfit is | wee ehe,nouse tomorrow morning. sa won't | your fortune, your object in traveling. what | when it is given in a Jump. say CO ee ae ate uy habin’ er bottle round de | curve at Florida avenue for another train. | further up the line." jay, | Rave Known them, and had ‘em running in | ¥OUr fortune, your obj j vou are | francs—5 francs to the room that | Corer somewhar. : : hea om The Yooked-for train curled around the ‘No, I'm in earnest,” sald the official. | here in-sets of fours when I wanted to | YU ar? going to buy and how long you are france Ao the table mervks and | | “I Now, ee you Rupws | seek and in a few moments it | qts'a bad paper,’ and thin he pointed out | rea my paper, and—" going to stay. To a tourist in this state of | (orto, § francs to th fat Pind ov cr mig hen ow wukbivs wid | Was at i sitet: Thelman at thalcorosr of (ify tne cnonter tie aNerenees and whyness | “tr you'll only let me—" mind the tipping system ts systematized | Portien and S francs to the boots. 1 the money at | fust-class white folks, as dese people alr.” | 14th and 7 coran streets stroked his mus- | of the bill being NG. I-took a@ hand then, | put Mr. Jobson wasn't doing any letting. blackmail. For another type of exhibition | hotel he gives to the chambermaid But she jess wouldn't listen to alt dis anc uae he and prepared to swing himself | ana saw after a close inspection that the | tie had the Whole thing all thought out and x For ai y . ee seen ere b ks we | called me t's sumthin’ I won't | aboard. Ss surprised to observe that | 51 was a counterfélt. Tt was a nice Job, | pchenrs nd he didn’t want to overlook | Visitor. all Europe now being new and de- | the by ba. the z TERE ORK aloie ne coon ie rman made no move toward shut- | tog, hut Lam pretty good at money“thyself, | any chances lightful, fipping is a pleasure. He tips early | 1")! is really | Taiee L Sele WUMA cage so Can iiee Ga coop ERE car SiGe We HER el eee eee | altbourtil had taken In this piece of ruby | + Thought Fd find the young ladies of the and oft2n. The humble menfals know him | Americans will dome ous ; to tell d se shot by him, and again | ioteT= | hich. LT gave the city official a good et heb abe eon vou | 2t @ glance and beam on him. He sees in| it. For the exhibition time in at all dat. kept right en} Man pointed across’ the way and yelled LT See oath Diesen eRe he broke ia, telling you | 2¢ @ Blance and beam him 2 , de missus come ‘asked her whut ne things that couldn't be heard by the | or the ten, and showed a iD aloy th Bee ne ay in pew | their delighted alacrity—which i suggest, in ordinary middl hotels, “ é Bt Owe: s Y bad piece of paper. He took it along wi they were going to have’ thelr new y Deets eg oerce x Botels | “AWell, uncle Wanienie || "Then the citizen turhed purple with wrath, | of the secret service folks. T don’t know about 1 beans, ness—the reflex of his own again. : In the smarter ho- 4 “he answered. “But } 24 the veins stood out on his forehead. | Whether any of the other a. im the | be possibl t ee svence, | the regular charges in Europe much lower 5 averaging process will Sees 7 Be Sawa! z What he said can't be set down. He shook | ring got hold of any bad money on that raee. | ceeded in inspiring them with confidence, | than at home.” he would aie if he thought impracticable, and th as much o Hamman uy at Kind | nis fist at the train growing smalicr down | If they did they didn't find it out, and paid | Gna earned. the whole of thelr | shout it, cand by Uueral toning toes tea, | lucky it he gets fair cork ed ty TO tee setae ia | Hath street, and he mved and tore around | the counterfelts back in thelr settleme lives from their own lips a dozen times s Se ee a nite a mace, ine Tt wns only to talkin’ ter yer dat way like a man whose “good thing” horse has | with winners. It struck me that this over, can it? Has the lady at the head of pS as a part of your bill: you will see you the Paris ru > charred —— been left at the post. He whirled around | pretty navel way of shoving the queer. | the new plant next door touched you up for ee ee ah ao pensive meal Sie HIGH LIVING. and jumped up in the air and all but |The man that got me must surely h u little snip of tea, until the twelve pounds lumped together, as at home.” He does not 110 per cent of the ainut 2 Piageae che moult, , Hen ren the) Dore ease, 200 Feo annene af protest against candles, corkage, the hotel thar long « inu One Needs a Balloon to Reach Prices | “Oh, you dad-binged coyotes!” he shouted, | one of those bottled-up good things, an e ages bet wou Boe aoa Ge Ge asant and unpleasn ed wit ou Cater shaking both fists at once, as if he had the | won several races after that. : ou for the I UTS critite Iomicine ot eee OORT has confirmed me in this as bo Bhi iene ls =” sald cho | Whole board of directors of the line in front | “Now. a queer-shover who disposes of | you say, yet? Why, you Sd pe ag (PE Peas rears ps Seeappecuan werner =e ne would best err on the AE REDE SUDDOSE aid a man who | of him and was giving them what was | his goods in this way, is a pretty dangerous | your new neighbors, Mrs. Jobson!” ate ae ne ed erosity. It is bread st upon was in the Klondike last summer, “that | coming to them. “You'll get yours, all | proposition. He stands hardly a piker’s you Know perfectly well that I'm not In | m stics? Ie he taking a mean ad antage with the im 1 facilities of travel and | right! Just wait, dod-gast ! ope | chance of getting nipped when he’s putting | the hab—" iy of non-lipping tourists? y—but he g 7 ' freight an porta antes the Sane Congress'll reduce the fares ‘on’ your tine the tuft dow! ve or when a bookmaker is| “Did I understand to paradoxically | Will see the exhibition much more comfort- Why They Must Be Given. oA ieikebe bribe a ola s — { one-eighth of a cent a ride, consarn you, | or the block, with a crush surrounding him | say that their dining room furniture was | ably for It. Ds must be given,” asone of the brat- Spachte Risen Ee cents Les ae paeee rae calare aeens and mak you run the cars every twelve | and passing in bills of a ;dencruina Hons he ne ae Ae eo mance A Golden Fatare. known American hotel proprietors of Paris ne barrel. have become just-a 2 arly nor- | seconds. night and day, a vi sand-over-hand, the layer has se EG) ORSON AS 5 Juergen t shole Pa . s ed it up fo Je evening. ous, but it came | maj, but I have in my possession a bill of | by ng oie Creme aee eae Bea microscope on the green. The most . well, you can gradually lead up to the |. In truth, the whole Paris social fabric has oe ae bebe cuglionaa wo other evening. fare I get at Healy's hotel and cafe in ‘al principles, you hyenas! Oh, | he can do is to get a glimpse of one corner ‘cu know, where you can cajole th begun to itch in contemplation of the “ben- £8 question has been studted many times . e 01 out of the tafl of his eye to find out ief of the outfit into bulldozing her | efits” and “gratificattons” of the exhib by the most competent men in our busi- Dawson in September last, and lere are f it out of het A Er ft n Si 8 as ae ‘ “ the citizen just stood there and | the size of the bill, and then he jerks it | hushand into buying new dining room fur-| season. In the restaurant that I frequent is ft that we all admire Eur ome of the prices that one must pay for | worked himself up to the verge of apo- | over his shoulder to his cashier. The h-|niture, you know. That'll be e . D'je ths walter gic Siew 5 actice | PCAN waiters, so clean and tidy in Mtables. The hotel Is a wooden structure, | plexy, rehearsing the things he was going | fer hasn't any time, either, to look the b say that she taught yeu a new kind of 2 girls just begun to practice | white waistenats and white 7 hae chiefly logs, and the conveniences are not | to pour Into the ear of the conductor of | over carefully, for he's just as busy t tatting this mornin No?’ Oh, I thought— | the maneuver on which they evidently most | heard our women say a thousand thmee te ogether modern, and a good many of oe next lage when it ane slong anda it from the layer as the layer is In recei Byene ay) Tee : a Sen oh in | depend. It ts to affect breathless hurr: their ae is on ne the Hh: {Give baw anenineiine nat a got aboard, He was going to find out the |ing it. ere tog chre party : elect) the ieliene in an extra nd such is quem are lacking, but the rate per day is | numbers of the two motormen atead, and | “But the counterfelt gent who gets rid of Jas well have the girl press my evening not aie Ecos ap ais But if he twelve dollars. If one eats at the cafe |he was going to blow the gaff on them to | his articles this way has to be on the inside | coatait's wrinkled. ‘Theres one ee eproed ace tla carte here's what he Sirloin | the boss of the line if it was the last act | of the racing game to make it pay, for in | ihough—all the rest of our ni few and far betwe The cat te steak and onions. $3.00; » —plain, | of his life. If they thought they were go- | order not to have to put down any large | four blocks around in all di Telying Untbee CA, Suniaeus maids, who cont so Tauch to i with: imdshroou! tenderioin— | S18 fo make @ monkey and a pin-head out | quantity of the bad bills, he has got to come | jealous, won't they, if you pay this new | Tosins rather o ‘Ace: they- mot mmmtable> 0 =i : s s aT ear = of him, were up in the , that's all, | pretty near knowing when the long shots | bunch so much attention b 60-082 a athe guest a i to take them home with you? How plain, & with mushrooms, $1.50; Cha- dif he didn’t get even with somebody. | are going through. and these New C Did 1 understand you to one of Lea ae than his due, Dne iahics vks in mart corsage u Bri. (spelled that way), $4.00; with | then he didn’t Know the multiplication | handlers of the phony sods seem to h the young sons of the family is an idiot, z Sat oA Palas bes eae F “14 persua~ | apron. ppress her tips and double invention i S100; Eng- | table, and you heard him shouting, ete. No | had that information on.several notable oc- | and that the mother wears a false front? | ° ei Ss nent St Se Re ry. ure Th e back in a mutton) i ey ah SEES: | one really did hear him shouting, for the | casions during ther crescent city meeting. | No? Well, 1 thought—" a ere Coe et ee see th bea d breaded, 32 S150; Streets were still deserted, but if anybodz | When the old horse.Judge Steadman won a] “How fond you are becoming of the sound | £4! tae person or her least EU Dae had been by and seen and heard him, he'd | race down there, after maving been plas of your own—” without hearing » fault. And it will be th ae down to s : Bo doubt have been put down as a fugitive | down from 100 to 1 to hto 1 by pikers, the | “Did the lady who runs the new plant my a better rate than that prescribed | the boots. He will put c Di Insto ‘the ; bacon and from the large government foolish house | cashiers for threavof the layers, in going | tell you that a great sorrow rests on her blacking to get through the quik Tip _ pigs’ feet, the Eastern branch. over the money taken In on the race, found | life by reason of the fact that her husband | _ e are the humble, the resigned me-| carly and tip often.” Kidney. fried, broil- Was still breathing fast and hard | each a perfectly WMatnous $5 bill in their | is so lacking in regard for the higher and | @lals who in al! times and places hav: held RLING HEIL \ s with mushrooms, §1.7%; ‘ther train bore down on him from | satchels. The bookmakers decijed to_h: nobler that he lemon meringue pie | QUt the palm. In t y ditfer- — i. This time the man was going to ent c az hed in on Judge a look at the people. who with a tablespoon and falls to sleep af secs waiting #6. be 5 sur- © a cramble« see to It that the motorman should have no | Steadman, and they did. It didn't do them | dinner and She didn't tell you and sometimes shock the straightfor- [J - rene Ament: Bem: water cuse for net stopping. He d_both | any good, however. Every one of the men] that yet, she will, though. | W@t4 American mind. Perhaps the “French | Frem the Pall Mall Gazette arms and flagged the train like a freight | who had won on Judge Steadman wes well | Give her time. u told her that-] fiends” that one picks up shock the strong-| The British Medical Jou nal has been de- anish or rum omelet, brakeman on the top of a caboose tacked | known to the bookmakers : local piker | your man didn't h about Nirvana | €8t. though the hangers-on of the American | yoting some space to cat lor ‘There are Welsh rabbit, § on to a train of thirty-seven cars. But it | and a horse follower who had been on the | ind Delsarte and reincarnation : colony come a good second. many people undoubtedly who h i so on Was no go. The motorman didn’t choke off | circuit for years. One of the bookmakers | fluence of environment and tiddle The climax, I think, 1s reached in the gs “ y who hate « p to Cuba pudding 2 the nower nor did he give the brake ary | happened to mention, in paying out to one | either, eh? at sorrow on your | Philanthropy of an American pension pro- | 20t Merely as they would object to the so- deosk are super! nts for the d champagne fif- | a twi Instead, he pointed down the | of these men his Judge: Steadman money, | fife, too, isn’ 2 you told them | Prietor, who, to protect his guests from | ciety of a monkey or a stoat, but whose . 1 acres Ha Gaalectaas o id _beer a dollar vi smiled good-humoredly and pro-) that he had taken in-some N, G. money on | how to hang the picture up, eh? And told | the designing, takes them personally to | antipathy amounts to a horror of the feline sexe fppiit: and all drinks fifty cents each. As | nounced a number of indistinct words. fhe | that race, and that bookmaker would have | ‘cm all abont the mest of the people on the] one of the best-known Paris jewelers. | beast. The queen, it is well known, has a t use in t I said, it doe that at this late date | car continued on its charted cours been slugged by the piker had not some | hlock—whom to cultivate ‘and swhom to | There he takes 10 per cent commission on ieee Soe alee Fs country, living would become a little cheaper, but | To took at the citizen the men jumped between the pair. Anyhow. | knock? Did you say anythhe while yoo | each sale? Breat objection to cats, and our beloved ¥ people who have anything to sell want the | thought that he'd been m on a] there wasn't aman. in that crowd of were in there about that perfectly lovety | On the other hand, what sympathy is] Gen. “Bobs” cannot bear them. He would rth for it, and the hapless consumer ert, ele: or that hed been clinging to @ | lectors on Judge Steadman’ who could be | family that moved in thrés doore to the | one to have for tourists who, letter of in- | rather face a horde of Mad Mullabs than a must pay the pi or go without. ‘The | raft in the middle of the Indian ocean and | uit upon as a queer-shaver, and all:the | right, that you sor on terme of iomseiunne | troduction in hand. coolly propose to mace black cat any ¢ kor opaind onty consolation is that it will be as bad ] @ steamer had just passed him by and de- | hookmakers could do was to growl and thickness with twenty minutes after the | @ Stlde-interpreter out of the American | she has her str and they or w at Cape Nome this summer, | clined to pick him up. But he was too mad | stand for thelr losses. They Rept the bid | [rer moving van had moved off, and that | Who llves in Par are not all of the s the Countess de la j {hough that will probably tumble quicker | to say anything. He just looked it all. | hotes as souvenirs. One of them gave his you got sore on and decided wouldn't do in- | Let it be taken. then, as a princip'e that | Torre. Many men have g Nike fe because it is so much moi thie than, After & While be managed to articulate: | yearling baby the rank five Aaupleg with; | side of three of tous dave’ Dil t cesuns |GVery One not your eocial canal eed ect furry pets, and the British Mevical Jc the Klondike. All right. It’s all right. The next train'll | and the kid got {t down its throat and| anything about that crowd. en? Did you | tain others with the right to claim that | describes how Dr. Stark. a surgeon —_——.__ stop—I'll bet five hundred billions on that—| nearly choked to death before it was yanked - tell em about that other delightful couple | 442Zling distinction may be “gratified,” and who moved into the neighborhood last fall, | to advantage, in the Paris of the exhibition. the feminine unit of which you to'd me} Yet it is not a device established for the the first day after you met her was the | Xclusive fleecing of American: A GREAT THIRST. or I go to a slab In the Pe EEERS other, Oh, frabjo He didn’t use thes morgue, one or the Calloo, callay!"” r ejaculations was killed at Ladysmith the other accustomed to have a cat as a ¢ companion. ‘Take care of my cat, out, macerated. ; “Tt is not absolutely certain, of course, that these counterfeit bills were pushed in miblic baker- ries of Hz It Would Have Taken a Large For- aS were He a these latte y Not one | his last words when a howitzer shell laid . ee tune to Quench It. ary but fheyilt serve to give an Idea of | on us by long-shot players, but it looked pe- | most. abused and lovable thing that ever | tourist a tuenty frequents the Pans Ane him low. The affinity of some people for eee = SS o 5 2 ey were alwe t 1 at me = ters, at t immense. which is] The Seedy-Looking Personage entered the cullar that they were always taken in when | hit up a concrete pavement—the one that | ters. and theater tipping is one of the 2 When, a few minutes later, the next train gained the little rise at the corner of R street, the citizen deliberately spread out his newspaper in the middle of the track and sat down thereon, clasping his knees with his hands. Then he looked around calmly, seeming to be quite oblivious to the swift approach of the train. The motor- man clanged his foot-bell and shouted, but the citizen seated in the middle of the track seemed to be immersed in a study of the signs over the shops on 14th street. The these fickle-tempered animals is an ir esting study horses at big prices got over the plate first, A man who'll take a chance on shoving a $5 or $10 counterfeit, it is:reasonable-to sup- pose, Is not going to.do it for the sake of winning on a short-priced favorits,. When my slate goes up at Benning I'm going to gaze pretty narrowly at the money I take] « in, although I don't suppose counterfelt handlers take so many chances in’ Wash ington, where the green papers are mada, as they do elsewhere.” room, carrying a mysteriou approached the report : “Good morning, sir,” said the Scedy- Looking Personage with peculiar precision. “Morning,” responded the horse reporter. a million dollars to spare this inquired the Seedy-Looking Per- most painful forms of the social malady. An Important Personage. The exhibition visitor will come in touch with the Paris concierge, but will scarcely realize her importance in the socia! fabric. The 3,000,000 natives in ang around the capital live in apartment houses, each with its concierge, or janitor, who lives rent free with ‘a small weekly salary from the pro- came in here every evening and told us how N. G.-her husband was—a man that I've since found out was a mighty good fel- low? Didn't touch upon that neighbor, eh? Didn'i— . When you are through I will—” ‘And [ll be bound you didn’t mention the old beldame across the street who's got her once pretty daughter worn to a frazzle with her fiendish temper and her infamous tongue? No? Well, what's the use of hay- hand bag, and ree The Mouse In the Kitchen Closet. (In four pictures.) From Fliegende Blatter. me, however, When pe well-worn paths “" replied the horse reporter with : ie Cee : ———_—_ ing neighbors, Mrs.’ Jobson, {f you're never | prietor. ‘The larger portion of the con- ee t confidence. Se eS ee HIS NAME (WAS TRILBY. going to get acquainted with them, I'd like | cierge's income Is made up from tips—paid sie seperti id you save it out of your hard-earn-| waimed the motorman, wrathily ai to know? Anyhow, I need to have a whole | by the tenants to keep her good-natured. He Was Not Pretty, ad ut She Eoved | lot more fu roaé But the citizen's mad made him speech- and-garrulous women neigh- In return the concierge performs several I have a'l that invested i aning, el | e Is 0! vices; the regular receipt and in}less. He rose from his (ting posture, Him Just ‘the ' Same. bors running in here and—er—chewing the kinds of serv or 7 and hard and} stocks, bonds and other gilt- | walked back, and swung on to the platform| Ppromenaders on F street Tuesday saw a} TS When I'm trying to find out phat 's the pane of anise cards =a oe thelr places. | I win the million on the] of the first car, just as the conductor was news of the day in the paper and sniffling | the answering of callers’ inquiries and the apokantea!t mulling the bell.) ‘The motorman was growl- | ("hy sight. It was'a little colored girl, | disapprovingly over my tobacco smoke, and | cleaning of the stairs; a hundred little eae suppeented Pee © COW Beer thet duck hea na’ | diminutive! es to. ‘sige,, ‘and? ‘clothea from looking at me as if they wished I was up | commissions, like mailing letters, running i. y in turn have been pinched. Lites right!" " seme grand dame’s rag bag, evidently, for | on the roof or down in the cellar or some- | errands and cating cabs: and, on = salary. 1 tug and granite formations lald. afraid you were| When the citizen sat down in the car, he | 4 more grot - where, and—” she will make the bachelor’s morning cof- a 0 car, 2 esque getup could scarcely he} Wh i iS u i <— Th are many objections to the} going to say boat races, and it annoys and | pulled the conductor over to him grotesque SoeuP a oy nel. “Mr. Jobson,” sald Mrs. Jobson, “I| fee, make his bed, clean his room and carry 3 out 1S me to hear a man lie. Do I get the] “I would about two thousand words with | aeined. ‘She had a companion, a yellow | haven't as yet, as I told you, called on the | up his coal, even. Another service-rem ‘found-| million?” and he handled the mysterious | yout he muttered in & tone, of sebaaea | CUr, mingy and disreputable looking, with | new nelehbors next doom but L have ne | Wret accuatseen th generosity of the 1 there | hand b ingly. ” ferocity. “f want you to make me a per- | its tail between Its legs, and furtively look- | doubt they will, as you said, ask us in to | tenant—consists in the once not mak- tect Se es pollywor-bralned’ Imbeclice chaphoved ‘py [22 escape. He was in leading atrings—not jaw dropping. “Well, I knew you were |damns your credit, She, wen wend: scr a ere pecnlice “wou ldint teed to sadnes andl you. pea to run trains deliberately | figuratively, but actually. His small mis- quick in this neighbor business, Mrs. Job- | callers climbing up the servants’ stairway. from the | Would go out and blow it on the drinks.” | disregarded my signals and whizzed by me | tress had tied about bls mouth and head in| son, which is what -I've been trying to get | She may lose callers’ cards and forget their do the| The Seedy-Looking Personage slid his| like as if they were making up time on| muzzle fashion a lot-of east-off ribbons | at,.but this is the record. This is the— messages. She may say that you are out floors in the} tongue along his lips eagerly, intensely. cannon-bali expresses, and why they—” and led him by about. two yards of carpet| “Yes,” interrupted Mrs. Jobson, “I guess | when you are in. Do not begin economizing uly, so| “My friend.” he said in a parched tone, “D'je wait for ‘em on the nearside of the | rags, twisted In “hit-or-miss” style. About | we'll see them tonight without doubt. ace tips on the concierge. ever | “you are right. T have a thirst with me | street?” interrupted the conductor, with an | the curs neck was_a huge bow of oiled | your sister and your sister's husband ea Origin of the Tip. The in-| that it would take at least a million dol- | amiable grin. calico, once red, and his hame was Trilby! family that have moved in next door, yee Exhibition visitors, who oftenest go to » doubt been | lars to quench, but that is not your fault, | “Where else would T wait for them!"| “Huh now, you Trilby, don’ you go pokin’ | know. They got tired of the Hill, and they x a 2, 5s stil the rubber heel came into | and vu will advance me a quarter it} Shouted the man. “Where the—" decided last week to take the new house wat. and 1 yo'r nose raoun’ dat no ‘count dog,” re- hotels, may profit by a few suggestions on o be spe from it, | Will encourage me to hustle around and get} But the conductor, still smiling cheerfully. ] monstrated his small mistress, as she drew | next to us and surprise you. So that gu | the subject of getting their quid pro quo for n th ter some in-/ the other nine hundred and Sele pee yeiating ae nice new sign tacked up| in on the string ,when Trilby would have have testy, renee MO eee Ufe-givine'| tos. The portier, or front-door man, can surprised at the ve hundred and ninety-nine dol- | in the front of the car. made up with a’ small terrier. “De dog| breath, haven't you, ? as € the rubber heel. Ait | enty-five cents. Do you extend | “That sign’s heen there for the past week | Kaltcher, he done git you if you'don’ be} “Well, maybe I have been doing a mono- | be made as good as a guide. It oH a * . "pon hand a| the encourager?’ or ten days,” said the conductor. "fraid of yo’sef. You jus’ mind "bout gittin' | logue stunt without exact data to base it | these who gave me the origin of the wor of rt So far the| And the horse reporter, thinking of what | .The ferocious citizen looked up and read | ge air you needs, an’ den you goes back to| on,” admitted Mr. Jobson, sheepishly. ip.” French and Germans call the thing avor of th ther heel, thoush | he could get with the balance of his mil- Teenie hfs Cause - | YS Kennel, you does, honey love.” And ——_>——_ Sarink money” sopin poire: pene, (mr en , bber heel | lion, encouraged the Seedy-Looking Per-| “Beginning Sunday, Marc! cars will | thus talking she strolled along supremely < Bs nk, “for drink,” just as nese have tae ee oa = me stop after crossing the street.” hapoenimee i OMalley/s Haversec! it li-tak, or tea money). In an old English ting ge. Thea the man remembered. He mopped eae Se - From the Chicago Tribune. ; tavern a raceptacis for coin ws placed The civil serviee has de vay wit sf his forehead, spread out his paper, and sar .. | During an advance in Manila recently one | conspicuously, with the legend, “To Insure zs puss aes a omit mumbled something about the Commission: | © Waller Wao. Saves the Conse Utter tm ang Hadte lie down at the aideier the | Prompinans” whatever tes pat date the a rae en ae fo 06 OF WHO) From the London Chronicle. ers of this District being too blamed of- | From the London Globe. iD helter from the well-directed vol- | box was divided among the servants, Other = promised to be appointed when |” ye severity of our losses in the present | ficlous. The Havre correspondent of the Petit | Toad for shelter from the woll-divectad wa | taverns followed the example, and soon the iV arred,” explained a], = sitige 166 = aoe —_>—__ i; leys of S three words were indicated, “T. 1. P.,"" an ateuee , De Smee oes »... | War may be gauged from the fact that we (Cidade Mate HOR Journal has made tip. 9) Iscovery of a man had dropped his haversack in the middle of | everybods: knew what they meant. ‘The : < | have already lost over a seventh of the z ‘ 2 who thirty years ago,was the talk of every- Bac ends latter tie Camel retios dian aitatis the alent Ore « Dy a Star reporter, “and | total loss which was sustained by the Prus- | From the Chicago Dally News. body and everywhere: He is none other | the road away , and, ir ~ 1 one of the most diftl- sweet spring evening, at a moment when I needed prompt service. “To Insure Prompt- ness," he mused, reflectively. “Quite so,” I answered with resignation. There is the femme de chambre, the sommelier, the gar- con, the valet de chambre, the maitre That the drainage canal can flow two Ways at once may seem queer, but Isham Randolph, chief engineer of the sanitary district, says it is entirely possible. Not only is it possible, says he, but in all prob- slans in the war of 1870 from the infantry fire of the French. 1.000 men killed. fire. Lord Wolsele: Book for Fleld Serv pany had lain down, he calmly stood up and walked down the road toward the lost haversack. He made a fine target for the insurgents, and the bullets rattled around him pretty lively. “Here, come back here, than Ernest Groult, who-fs now sixty-two years old. It was.pe Who seized Berezow- ski as he was about © assassinate the Em- peror of Russia. Htrmay be remembered that it was on the day—of the Grand Prix ma © of making ap- We have now lost over almost wholly by rifle Soldiers’ Pocket ” says: “According a 5 E the t the little chasseur at to the 1 returns, the num- | ability there will be half a dozen or a dozen | that Berezowski #*6@4wo shots at him. | O'Malley,” yelled the Hentenant crisis Com Se rotten ere ein them and not profit hy ; ber of all ranks In the German army killed | times a year when such a pecullar phenom-| Groult, who was a walter. at the time; was | Dany; ‘you'll be killed.” “Well,” replied thom’ in warsa #— 5 to be made | ang wounded by rifle bullets during the] €non may be observed. carrying a telegramb:tm the Marquis de | O'Malley over his shoulder, “I might sear == ~ suas not tipping them. T knows in war of 1870 was 6,960 killed and 49,093] A southwest wind following soon after a| Damplerre, and happoned ,to be close to the} well be Killed aa haws-~ Rave known European women to, make al- & 5 < wen. Otis a runnin’ | most a ladies’ maid out of the hotel femme i the wounded, while by artillery fire the num- | northeast wind would almost certainly cre- epeeaaie rea Shatdcteciont Peas me nil and down dalé and comin’ over| de chambre. The sommelier, or wine gar- servi dere ere oS Killed snd 4.38) wounded: | ate such a condition, according to Mr. Ran-| then’ took place Between ‘the sn fg ie eae ivery mornin’ and a-sayin’,| Cen, 1s capable of bringing you up a bottle oc ihe tae on etlgink = wiseauminenne hen cones one at Cord wolseles's wel ae Maca es sustained northeast wind jaa = | Sid-te-onen or te ‘or came to con- | ment for that haversack?"” ‘Then he calm-| butter and toast tor Dreakfast and ave aon ves. [ remember very well when | Known digs at the artillery arm: “The ef-| ing several days will raise the leyel ae pe otulete: Sie wall ee gave him 50) | ly walked on, and got cnet plese ve pee first pick at lunch and dinner. Have the not so. In former times appoini- | fect Of artillery fire is more moral than| Chicago end of the lake ana sond gr panel samy he. ald-de~ erty, and, as he.came back and sat down 2 camp valet de chambre feteh you a sitz bath each often promised to persons who | 2¢tual, and I trust that these figures will Russia, hut he re- ie : ce é wanted to take Grgnl justin time to escape a volley of Mausers, | morning at Ince ie Sseut ough 1 ro i make the army. especially the intantry, | A southweor ere 3 tine Chicago river. | fused. He was ‘3t since then mis- | he threw the haversack on the sround and | to hide the iMlastated weeklies tor sour Tm find out when a Vacancy, vce | {uly recognize the truth of that assertion, | and the Chest weld Ee ne eeosteS, ohen | Aorue, Bad bly o reuenken him. | sald: “And when he dose come tomorrow | for your elgarettes and theater tickets and - curious things have happened | 484 Put a stop to the ery for more guns | Drought about Lemedatry ane ees wen | He sent a petitiog tthe Russian govern: | mornin’ to me house Til say, ‘Ots, me find out names and addresses at least. As which one still hears occasionally.” ment, setting fort prcfenh Pap aise easton: ‘Aig “destitute condition, | little man, you're dead wrong. I never lost t The water piled up in the drainage | hut tt waa rejected: spite: eee ah are T bloods old por | £07 the maitre d’hotel, is not the deferential -gends. One which I particu- — canal would begin to flow out to the lake, ‘i : Poor man is now |.no haversack. There's your jody old po-| gravity of his best manner capable of rais- “© happened soon. after. the Unsatisfied. With the felting level, ‘That Js, the surface | {s unalie to wen eee Havre, mut ‘he {tato bag. ‘Take It to the government. with ing any. guest's credit -50 per cent in the is unable to work any, eyes of all the other guests? the hospital civil war. Mr. James Marr | From Harper's Bazar. water would. The te and says he | me compliments. chief clerk of the department, a tual flow in the canal must go to. é fa id be maintained, owing to the open aa rete was —— ee Their Sole Resoarce. the Fretful Child—“I want to look at the | We! open | condemned jit sente! to trafSportation. = = he held for many There ah sluice gates at the Lockport end; so the| So runs this Version 4 the’ event. s} _ “I am Sherlock Holmes,” said the great} row would the: on in Europea: at pressure for appointments soon | Moon!” two-mile-an-hour flow. toward fockport vent) Hi does ve. “I think you can inform—" anh a8 he war closed and many of the app. | Weary Father—“Well, why don't you. It He : aati n interrapted not to- would keep up, but beneath the PO pS et ie tels without tips? True, one class of hotel surface. “ + “¥es, sir,” the man interrupted his caller. Were very strongly indorsed. To a| Is right up chere in the sky. Look at { As long as the southwest breeze would last . “ "ll_wait until I've put the baby to | Servants,.the employes strictly so-called, re- r who bad called upon Mr. Marr | much as you please Yoo at it 05} the water would be fowing iho woe ways Had Enough’ Vaceination, - ver ee a tal ‘ied ng their claims for appointment he t sual answer t e only in their cases was that there were no ancies. He, of course, assured them that Would have favorable consideration 'n sleep I'll come down and talk to you. “Ah! Your second,” said Holmes, smiling. “Heavens! How did you guess it?” “Very simple. If it were your first you'd wake it up to show it to me. If you had at once. “I never saw that.so clearly: illustrated,” sald Mr. Randolph, in explaining the phe- nomenon, “as one day-when we were pump- Fretful Child— I want to look at the other side of the moon now!" ———_—_~-e--______ “As T understand “it,” said the talkative one, celve proper salaries because they never come in contact with the guest—cellarmen, A teacher in one-of:the schools of Wash- ington is. showing. ‘thé following. Jeter, which she received from'the mother of one “the Afrikanders trekked” fa ing water out of a pool in the can of her pupils during the wintet, ‘Whch ar] Mots than two you'd De at Pour cluhakews [Tacky if they get $10 a month wages, « of vacancies. One hot afternoon | Voorlooper to the kopje, and dorped ie freg | We. were, building tt The Pe Soe | inclplent Lamellpane scare. guggested cor! RA es Bo tye conten ea reeoee a thas ce ee nay Galle? on Mr. Marr and stated | the spruit to the dissethoom. It stands to | Was all ‘fled’ and black and it poured into | Pulsory. Yaggination. ‘Te “mother wrote: }- 5 source. $ he had found a vacancy: that a clerk | Feason. too, for— some ex ly Clear water from a spring | “Miss S.: Please do’ 6t vaccinate my.| _Mrs. Greene—""They do say that Mr. Sly-| Such servants do not seek employment in - 2 Office Department had just com-| , “I don’t understand golf,” the other put | peer the Des Plaines river. There was a|Gaughter. She was vaceinated two years | der gambles. Isn't It awful?” houses that are known to pay high wages. ted suicide by jumping into the old ca- | in. wearily—Boston Bed§on. ~ | Dreege; enough: to create.a:surfaee current | 280, and it proved fatal.’ Mrs. Gray—“I should say it was. Why, | Their ideal is a house where the guests are which then divided the city, at the| Hix—“An acquaintance of mi ines ger pre eee which the our- [RSET cae ho robs some other many if he longa ne Tins | Constantly going and coming, and seek to hen Delng “held. and that’ he weet | AB Appliance to enabie a girl to play two | Lerted’ Auge Te the ec emg ate, BO | Liftle Harry (who has beom admonished | Be Teds gone ower man; If He loges ho robs | oblain a: testing, warsienietiy Where ihe then bei eld. and that he would | pianoa ~ 2 posit rection. cat! £4 2 = Manager or proprietor is known to be lack- the coroner's certificate and verdict | "Die “Did hence anythin exe | Seana and chips thrown out on top of the | gana, 1ond mo pour specter pica” | , MS, Gteene—“Al any rate, It ts terribly | ing nergy. An establishment of this king to to che department in half an hour. True} Hic—"Wall oe B Out of it? clear water were borne along its surface, Grandma"Why, mae Please. wicked. By the way, I forgot to tell you I | doomed. Its guests are harried, to his promises he did so. and the appoint. | tone His melgtantes aresiaae te the | one way, while several feet below the grime| Little Harry" Nothing, “only 1 won the first prize of the whist tournament | insulted and intimidated into giving fees at * was promised and afterward given the | him."—Chleago’ Nees, rae bie noes, Bumped current were plainly | awful appetite, and 1 went this Miler o oe | Ist night—@ beautitul silver cup.” et irae mer ee visible moving the other way,’ Mrs. Gray—' pie to look large,”"—Tit Bits, century servants have worked it ‘when they have frightened the “Oh, you lucky woman! How “Boston Transcript.