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ENING. wt WORLD'S »¢ HOME MAGAZINE we | —. me PEDRO OE EGOS 8 TEED HOGG de DECODED EIGHEDDOODO}DD FODOOD OGD O84 HDFT OTDG D814 HEE 60141-00000500000000009 arence the Cop KnowsAIll About Automobiles. e a w He Learned More About This One, However, Than He Ever Knew Eeiore. ITGET THe| eer A) ME THING) Hors: ARTED 8Y MARTIN GREEN. The Professional Bondsmam» and theWiriy Harvest He Reaps. SEB,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Tender 4 loin professional bondsmen stung a woman for four hundred bones for furnishing a $2,000 , bond.’ "She got off easy,” reptied the Man Higher Up, “if she has anything left. As » shaker-down, the . professiona! bondsman is in a class all by himsel.. The business has grown to proportions that the general pubs lic hasn't a suspicion of, and in the general swing of it the police are In and in, Once let it be known In the Tenderloin that a woman /s an easy mark for bondsmen » and the police of the precinct pay ner unremitting ate tention “It is the safest business outside of running a pawne shop in the whole list of money-making enterprises, 4 The professional bondsman has an everlasting cinch, He _— HE WRECKED My MACHINE) . can't lose “If he goes security for a Tenderloin character and the Tenderloin character skips, friends of the one who beat it chip in and make up the amount of the bond, If this does not happen the police see to it that search for the fugitive is never allowed to lag, and sconer or later he or she will be nabbed somewhere and made to produce, “When business is bad the professional bondsmen send word to a friendly cop that tuere cught to be something doing. Immediately there is something doing and the sergeant at the station-house gets writer's cramp putting \Him ne'lox JIN HUNG, SSO SSO SHDe OH OH SH DOD 6-05-84 4-s , a » down the addresses of the people who jet pinched. The am) * @ $; bondsmen are Jolnny-on-the-spot, and everybody who ya * gets out on bail has to cough up cash in advance or give ae Y + security for payment in the police court the next RY 3 + morning.’ - , . ‘If I was engaged in euch a contemptible business I * couldn't sleep nights,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. ‘ ” ee . ' g 4 (io “Neither can the professional bondsman,” said the - ANE GOT Lal . <n én A; Man tiiguer Up. “Night is his time tor working." al!) STARTED! ; : « ilechaipanem | ne <<" 4 » The Merry Christmas Gift mais C . o L ° 1) i. ae : Does Not Always Bring Cheer tf . ’ ie Course of True Love in Darktown. » #& w& — ' ; ' | By Alice Rohe, It Isn't So Rough, for Even the Unromantic Mule Occesionelly Lerds a | . a ‘ 4h ELL, the women are all singing the same tune noWe W ucays,”” sald the Pessim: t ‘What's that?" asked the Amateur Philosopher, vuke Them Presents Back,’'' answered the Pessimist laconteally ‘It's an expressive iittie ditty peculiarly approe priate to the week after Christmas.” “TE don’t quite follow,’ sald the Amateur Philosopher, “Well, you would tf you lived In a house full of women,” ild the Pessimist."” ‘There's been a rush to the department stores with gifta that didn’t sult that makes the ante-Chiriste wud VUsn WOK Uke a Luneral procession ‘Why, I thought Christmas gifts were merely expPessions vf good wishes," sald the Philosopher. “Well, 1 wouldn't quite interpret it that way from what {[ hear at home,’ sald the Pessimist, "My wife wasn't e@® 4 ,actly Mled with Yuletide cheer when she opened up some vf her merry Christmas gifts from her lady friends. It's @ | wearing game, this thing of wondering what your friends are going to give you und trying to guage your own expend. itures accordingly, I think, from some of the remarks J neurd, that my wife and mother-in-law were a little put out Anyhow, they are going to make the best of it and they've been busy hunting around the department stores changing me of tue Impossible Christmas novelties Into things they an use In the House and still not make it look like a bare ee ee ee >> Pees bait counter, ’ "T can't stand for this Christmas game, anyway,” cone inued the Pesstmist. ‘U's all right for children, but when it gets into the hands of women the deal’s spoiled. Whag do you think my wife gave me?" “Doa't know-a -moking-jacket,”” suggested the Amateur Philosopher. “and a box of cigats you couldn't smoke.” 4 “Net on your life,’ said the Pessimist, “She gave me @ pale of lace curtaing * “A pale of labo curtains!" ejaculated the Amateur Phile sopher, “I never heard of giving a man a pair of lace cure tains," “Didn't you?" sald the Pessimist. Well, I know the | game. Last year my wife gave me a set of Mexican drawn work dollies and the year before that | was made radiantly } happy with a hand-embroldered centrepiece for the dininge ¢ | room table.” “Funny thinga t sive a man, I should say," commented }the Amateur Philosopher.” “Yes, a little wierd,” returned the Pessimist, “but that’s | part of the cheerful giving stunt where women are cone verned, I've been supplying all the household luxuries my wife couldn't inveigie me into buying for the past four years.” “How's that?’ asked the Amateur Philosopher, “Whenever I say we can't afford a lot of gimcracks for | the houre she bears it in mind and buys tt for me for @ Christmas present. Then when the bill comes in I haven't the nerve to kick hecause the goods are mine. See? But I gm back at my wife this year, all right. It's no wonder she |} made a break for the exchange department,” | “What did you do? asked the Amateur Philosopher Ine ] OOO Freee OO] eo OHO CAS Ow ODS Or b> & OnSS O-8 oer e oem ene | terestedly, “Why, [ gave ber a smoking-jacket and a meerschaum | pipe. That ought to hold her for a while. What?" =O-OGOOOSDES S+S-O-S DS HO 5-0 5-G5O6066 <OOXOD>8 A Woman’s Regiment. | The only Ruropean monarch who can boast of having @ woman's regiment raised fn his honor is the German Eme peror, Some years ago, when the Katser was hunting in Prussia, 0 Lithuenton girls, tall and etrong, formed theme selves into a mounted: bodyguard and offered their services is his escort. Thelr offer was acceptel, but the number of the escort vas reduced to 20, The uniform of the regiment was o ivy blue cloth, trimmed with gold, and the effect wae decidedly pieturesoue The “Fudge” Idiotorial ' ; F » Begin the New | Begin to Write Yer RIGHT. There ; 1905 on Sunday! # is but ONE WAY to | a, doil : Co-yrct, 1904, by Planet Pub, Co, THIS IS THE Wika a ae i ect 1 WAY; ; Write “1905” next Sund y Tis advice a, p'ies to YoU. It aoplies to EVERY: BO Y! It may seem trivia’, but it is nut, It you F'T. to wie ‘(925 next Sunday you will be ee et © ont yerr BEYIND TIME! ; The wi est people sometimes stick mucilage aa | Said a Horse: “| am no: very new, Said a whimsical, n g1i-bloon..ng F : In bottles, so you, t %, prod forget and lose a earl Out | otiok te my work, it is true.” “| don’t put reliance in oleoke Po It isthe Pudge’s LU sINESS to start everything right, ¢n the Dog’s answer quick When the standard | need, 2 This ls WHY we bother about you! Was: “Sure, you will stick Lamps—not watches | read, : : When you have been turned Into glue.” ' ‘The standard of Johnnie D, Rock's.” *| Ils NOT LOVE on ow: par!, but DUTY! 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