The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-10

And I, the i.ss q IN a. troaps,
A spy lN woMAN's CLOTHES.
sss.Aer a.A Giris.h In Fsgars HUT ssro.s
New York Cor. Of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There u i'm this town q beer saloon that
il an accurate reproduction OF a noble
barouial hall. with boars' heads and staRs'
antlers protrudinR from the wall. with
huge tankards of antique mold lining its
scoscs Of oaken shelves, with a friese
chuck full of old German
poetry. and with huge logs burning In
majestic H~re-places. The other night l
tina behind a foaminR glass OF b Munich
Royal brow. va: casting up i'm my mln
Frankfort or moked sprats from the
wasers Of Kicl,. when my Thought
was dissracted by q sudden frou-
n fse% "a face % p=9s.sn.e siAr' isssif just
over my shoulder. n soft touch fell
upon my arm, and a voice whose Jo!llty
are you? I am glad 10 find You here!,
She was . stage. s~oubrctte whom had
Sesisimste theaterss but who told me that
b was now engaged in Roster 4 Biars
~neiRhborinR concert hall. We had finished
beating the bread-crumbs out of her lap
preparatory to rejoining stage companions
Tor another sturn'' in the music hall.
sauntered up behind and surveyed her
somewhat physically through = single
.Whcrs's our friend ?" he asked.
"Getting ready for tho ballet scene, /
suppose" she replied. Then she added:
"What's the matter with him that ne
I wouldnt he . MAJ every minute II wa
..Lsd soS psrsi c " The seniie%an
Who had Joined ms had been educated in
Germany and this was what he told, with
most Intimate friend, q Russian named
Garsinski. He was 10 when he came to
b university lender and giriish In fg-
ure, but OF strong mind and indonAinate
Several Of his fellow-students undertook
70 guy hin him; ,, he s%hsdle ,Sc% one ap; r afses ss an,
severity that he was never Ruyed after
ward. He was Inc best swordsman I ever
chip in GottenRin he fought seventy duels
with the schlaRer. and never received q
scratch. IL was q saying that the strip
man. One feature Of his physical make
up was i'm singular contrast to all the rest.
He had a dark beard of strong fiber and
9iriish. He shaved twice n day, and his
chin bore always that blue-black color
Shich marks the snayea faces OF heavily;
about his strong heard. For three years
there was nothing i'm Garzinski different
f 1,.ss C wnns have wee. "t Ssfnrs d Hs
I was Rrieved to part with him; he was a
brave man, "a rare scholar, a fascinating
Garzinski on the Trave, the ship which
brought us both to America. A woman
the woman you see sitting at that able.
introduced herself to me as my old friend,
amiable companion, the STRIPPING with
the wrist Of iron who feared no man! You
smile? No, you wonder; SO did 1; he
tion regarding himsclf-hc was n Russian
spy. I have met him twice since our ar
once o-nieht at the Arion. why he is in
wonan's clothes l do not know; he may |
he wise. he may he mad the fact in amas-
surroundinGs-a violence to the order and
common :ence OF the nineteenth GEN.
tury outside of RUSSIA"
eoubrette interposed, " 10 q poser in the
ballet scene Mt Roster &
Bini's now: All! here + Louis"
% be audible only 10 our party as To the
person TO whom il was addressed n saucy
hidden by a domino. She folded her fan
the wrap hic hid her stage costume.
"PerInit me-" said the Eentlcman, ITO
present you TO my friend"
The woman seated herself and for Ave
minutes c0nver~ed vivacionsly and bril-
rose to go back TO her stage duties. Her
voice was low and gentle. As far AS that
went n Nigh have been the
voice OF man or woman. but i'm
parting she accepted u glass of cham
pagne, and raising her veil slightly to
it-perhaps the revelation was pur-
pOsed--cxpOsSsd for II moment n heavily
new-razored. blue-black chin.
Well, WELT l had discovered "a man
and not, i'm other respects, AN unmanly
seemed to prefer being N wo-
man. ! shall send to him "a marked copy
Of this letter i'm the Enquirer, partly to
show him to him and partly to let him
read the ensuing. account, out of ordi-
nary police ~annals, of what femininity
entails Oh n girl:
Ten years ago James street WINS h il
g nova dirty t~horou9hfare of the slums.
vice and filth, moral and
were then its chief ell
ements, N they are now and have been
for q generation. II ever a church
and q mission was needed, James street
ts the place Of their need, and they are
there. / once attended u midnight mass
In the James street church, and q strange
y Was. l have always thought
OF the church a. q sanctuary in the Pit. IL
no end Of good; It's services are
thronged and its mission school In over
but it's neighborhood 10 the
devil's. Down near the end OF James
street, in . large tenement that looks as
soap and water had never touched
it, there lived, ten years ago. Luigi vallero,
an Italian raG-picker, his wife, Maria, |
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