Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-01-21

titled by his bar-rOOm associates. This
good hearted (?) fellow, when at home.
don't sing out to his wife and children,
step up and have something Oh no;
but If there's anything to eat in the
house he swallows it, and walks down
town to have game of pool or billiards.
He returns to his home long after all his
family have retired, and more than
likely alarms the whole household, and
portion of the neighbOrhOOd, in his
efforts to get In the door, and in getting
off his boots.
After few years his money, as well
as his reputation, is gone, and he is down.
Now when he steps up to the bar with
nothing in his pockets to jingle) dressed,
apparently, in a secondhand suit of
clothes, and asks for drink, the un-
grateful! bartender, fOrgetful of the
past services of this gOOd-hearted fellow
gracefully waltzes him as far as the
sidewalk, keeping time, as it were, to
the music of the old song, That's the
drunkard's DOOM"
A Shrewd scheme for Getting Pair
Of Boots.
John De Bots, who arrived in the city
from Indianapolis, few days ago, and
engaged a room at the Grand Central
Hotel. has become the hero of the most
Outlandish confidence game that prob
ably has ever been played at the expense
of any class Of business men in the city
since the railroad rates from Chicago
were reduced. After hiring the room in
question, he reviewed his image in a
mirror and saw that his personal appear
ance would be much more imposing If
he possessed new pair of mOrrOcO-tip-
ped, bOx-tOed, calf-skin boots. After
determining that he could not procure
the coveted boots without money, in a
strange city among strangers. were he
had no credit, he finally determined to
carry out plan which, If it proved sue
cessful, would enable him to procure the
brOgans free of charge. He accordingly
called at Mr.. LOnergan's boot and shoe
establishment on Eleventh and Market
streets and ordered pair OF the finest
boots the house could furnish, which he
directed to be finished and sent to him
G. O. ID. at his room at the Grand Central.
After making his contract with Mr..
LOnergan he visited another establish
ment on Olive street, near the Turf ex-
change, and duplicated the order, re-
questing. however, that the second pair
of boots he sent to his room on the same
day half an hour later. On the day up
on which the boots were to be delivered
DE Bots went to his room and awaited
the arrival Of the man with the boots.
Promptly at the hour agreed upon
Mr.. Lanergan, the Market street mer-
chant,put In an appearance, DE Bots
tried on the boots and then complained
that the one designed for his left foot
was tight and needed stretching. The
merchant left the right boot in the room
while he went back to his establishment
with the left one for the purpose of
stretching it. While he was gone the
Olive street merchant put in an appear
ance for the purpose of delivering the
boots he had made. After De Bots had
tried on this pair he complained that the
right boot was tight and needed stretch
ing. The Olive street merchant, who
happened to be as accommodating as the
Market street man, left the left boot of
his pair in the room while he posted off
to his store to stretch the right one.
While both merchants were absent on
their stretching expedition De Bots
quietly picked up the right boot which
the Market street man had left, put them
on and mysteriOusly disappeared from
the hotel. Shortly afterwards the
Market street merchant and the Olive
street merchant met each other in front
of the door of De BOis' vacated room.
One had right boot in his hand and the
other left. They were, Of course be-
wildered, as neither knew of the con-
tract the other had entered into with De
Bots. After they had both explained, both
saw plainly through the trick and agreed
to keep the Joke to themselves. While De
Bots sped away on some outbound train
for indianapolis, wearing two fancy
boots on feet, made by two of the best
shOemakers in the city, according to the
most approved patterns, the two shoe
makers skunk out Of the hotel, each
carrying boot under his arm, one
right and the other left.-St. Louis