The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-22

The party drove home, and at breakfast
the next morning the young lady ac-
quainted her father with her loss. She was
sure she had the glasses when. she went
into the restaurant, and pater-famiias
agreed to stop there on his way down town
and inquire for them. OF course he walked
straight to the cashiers desk, where he
found that the glasses had been pledged for
the supper. He also learned that the
young man had often played the same
trick before but he had never been caught.
1t is needless to say that the young man is
not caller on either of the young ladies
now.
A favorite plan that men who live by
their wits follow IS to exist in a small hall
bedroom, and belong to a good club. They
have all their letters sent to the club, and
they eat and drink off their friends. They
dress well by patronizing one tailor after
another, and never settle their bills One
tailor who was on the verge of bankruptcy
lately, saved himself by threatening to pub
llsh list of the names of the men of fashion
who had bought clothing from him but re-
fused to pay for it, His threat brought
them to time in hurry, for no man with
any hopes of future could afford to have
mis- name blazoned forth in the newspapers
in that way. He would be irretrievably
ruined.
Boarding house dead-beats have been the
bane OF boarding house mistresses from
time immemorial. They have all sorts of
plans, from lowering their trunks out of
the windows at midnight, to unblushngly
asking for board at reduced rates until
their "remittances come, for che is the
best sort of boarder, don't you
know, for remitances are so very
certain" No end of people have been
robbed by slick thieves who gain access to
to boarding houses and work all sorts of
rackets from robbng boarders to decamp-
ing before the week is UP, leaving only
paper trunk with bricks in it for the Door
landlady.
A high city official had an exciting ex-
perienco III Fifth avenue boarding house
not long ago. He was middle-aged but
good looking, bachelor, and occupied the
parlOr floor. He had for years made the
boarding house his home One day a styl-
gagged board for herself and husband The
couple had not been long in the house be-
fore the woman picked out the parlor
floor bOarder for her victim. She threw
herself in his way all she could. She
smiled at him across the table, and did all
she could to e1mesh him. For two weeks
she made no impression. But at the be-
ginning of the third week the parlor
boarder fell. He returned the smirks and
SlIlloH, anu JUS young beauty IOuHu JDaC
she had made an impression. Then her
husband appeared upon the scene. He,
too, smirked and smiled, but left his wife
in the bOarder's company. Things went
swlmmingly for week. Then there was a
row. The husband called the boarder into
his room and said that his wife complained
of his attentions. He said much III ore, and
much more horrible things. The boarder
denied it all. The husband raved and
stormed. He used vigorous language es-
pecially sprinkled with cuss words. He
threatened exposure and arrest, but as that
was unpleasant, he would be satisfied if the
parlor boarder would make his wife
present of $500 The parlor boarder saw it
all He agreed. The fearful wife con
sented also, and the boarder promised to
give the money the next night before din
ner. He did so, and then when the soup
plates had been taken off the parlor
boarder arose, aud before the roomful of
people denounced the woman as an adveu-
turess and her husband as a blackmailer.
There were screeches and tears, and de-
mails, and the husband threatened TO shoot
the hS ndsome occupant of the parlor floor.
Pale and agitated that gentleman poured
forth the vial5 of his wrath until the dinner
was forgotten, and mon shouted and women
tainted. Then brawny detective who
had been let into the plot, and was sitting
in the kitchen, appeared and offered the
man and wife the choice of arrest or the
restoration of the $500, and immediate re-
moval from the house. They chose the lat
ter, and in fifteen minutes they wero on
the street ready to begin operations over
again. They were not prosecuted because
the city official did not care for notoriety,
but the woman was one of the best known
crooks in the country, and the man, who
was not her husband, had served his time
in half dozen state prisons.