The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-10-03
AS ! WAS SAYING.

NO VINO OHIiNOs
There are moro gambling places In
PROVIDENCE In proportion to The popula.
q friend OF mine, land they are run by
the meanest mel / ever knew"
How do you know so much about iti'
asked.
"Oh, used to visit them and I know
where they are now. Do you want to
"No. Thanks" said. II believe
A party of young men boar1 at the
same house In this city. They are a
| jolly lot, but one is more sedate. he
breaches goodness aud really practices u.
| The other Sunday he went To Boston to
| see a young woman to whom we suppose
he Is to be married. At midnight he re-
He explained that he had left q new
hat and cane I'm the hall at the Boston
| house and when he went to start home
they were gone. Some sneak thief had
gotten I'm while he was talking To tue
girl, he says He wears a 6X hat but had
TO take an old ~ and he looked tough.
When he entered tue train he took the
hat of aud wiped his face as though he
was hot and held the hat in his hand all
the way home.
Unfortunately young woman whom
our friend knew was on the train and un-
attended. but he was too proud 10 speak
to her. The boys pretend not to believe
the story aud urge him TO tell the truth
about the hat, but his story is no doubt
true.
The same man who lost the bet got our
friend the arguer into box the other
II fryin
latter that Democratic speakers and
Democrats I'm general advocate free trade.
lie said they didn't, aud IL they did he
would leave the party Finally he ap..
pealed TO the denure youth, who started
in TO help him out aud honestly made one
of the prettiest free trade spec ches ever
heard. That broke up the meeting
Kenward Philip. the reputed author Of
the Morey letter, was one Of these ire
sponsible sunny fellows whom everybody
likes whether he ought to or not.
One day Philip appeared In the sanctum
where Thomas kinsella edited the Brook
lyn Eagle. :,
great Irishman whose genius is memora-
Bile in this Eagle Office.
"All right, rom," said Philip blandly;
''say, lend me three dollars"
Didn't / tell you was busy"
"Awfully sorry, Ton, but I've got to
have three dollars. Washerwoman's
struck for something on account.
"Well; here, confound YOU" said Kin
sella. throwing him the money. Now
get out"
''Thanksp' said Philip. caressing the
money. Then he went on In his most
winning toue. II say, old boy, come out
and have bottle of wine with me. Oh,
don't say no. old chap, little change
will do you good"
How about your washerwoman %
said Kinsella, without lifting his eyes or
stopping his pen.
"On, sne can wait q day longer; come
on"
Out at Smmonsvllle there Is a deserted
mill and u cluster OF tenements that were
deserted until number OF L allan fami-
lies moved into them FOR cheap" Now
they are all alive aid radiant with tod
ding brown babies ana piquant with
sliced tomatoes drying in the sun-what
Tor / wonderland all the free frank out
door life OF the modern Romans Here's
little Italy less full OF danger to health
and morals, too, perhaps, than the
crowded slumism In the city.
In Minneapolis the public grounds and
public building committee has recom-
~
room In the city hall, and the superin-
tendent of buildings has stated that the
plan meets with his approval. but adds a
somewhat unkind suggestion that the
room be directly under the boilers In
most Western cities, aud have no doubt
it is so in Minneapolis, the reporters are
entitled to about any room they want in
the city hall. IL is very much through
the reporters and the hustling spirit OF
the people which makes the city OF Mime
apolis what it In to-day. IL anybody
thinks n city can flourish without live
newspapers aud live reporters hs will find
out tue mistake. Wide-awake, conscien-
tious chroniclers OF news ought TO bs ap-
preciated and given every chance to do
their work we'll. Ii the people in PRovI-
DENCE will give tue best reporters--the
reliable newspaper writers--every facility
for their WORK, as they usually do, the
city will never need advertising lodges.
All the rooms iu the city hall are for re-
porters who conduct themselves properly,
but special room mi sht not be- unacccpt-
able. al, hough PROVIDENCE reporters
| could not he prevailed upon TO accept one
awake news seekers In Steve Blanding's
| office at one lime, and it looked as IL they
owned the room. Steve liked 1t, too. $50
have several Democratic friends with
whom by some attraction and partly by
force of circumstances / am thrown In
company very much. They are good fell
lows aud our little political tilts are nu-
merous and pleas mt. One of them is
rather rational. He doesn't believe the
Democrats are wise in some of their
ways. He Is not n free trader and tries to
argue that Democrats are not anyway.
One night we had tilt on that point
He maintained strictly that Democrats
were not free traders. l Iexplained to i'm
Al 81 al all -. xlt
tIade aud would vote straghter. He
called the other man to his assistance and
| the latter got onto a line a line of talk aud
wound up by telling just what he thought.
1t was AS straight free trade as one could
wish to hear. My amiable, oratorical
friend saw the point aud gave up the ar
gument in disgust. His friend and mine
was not only Democrat but an honest
man.