Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-06-24
WHAT THE PAPERS MISSED.
The Man Who just slipped Into Town
Ouietly.

| The Man Who just slipped Into Town
| Quietly.
He backed into :. doorway on Broad
way, near Chambers street, and
snapped his fingers at newsboy, ana
said:
'Bub, may want to buy you out or
may not want single paper That
depends on whether there's certain
article in or not I'll have to look EN-
over to see"
SIS it about the speakershipP" queried
the lad.
mo"
"About Loppy being electrocutedP'
mo"
about the Injuns breakin' loose
agin?"
mo Look here, sonny, I'm
stranger in town. just slipped in here
quietly last night, without word to
any body. That's my way. Because
happen to be mayor of my town and
prominent politician and all that l
don't go footing my horn to let the
whole country know it"
"Whew! Then you are big gun,
eh?"
well, reasonably so-reasonably So"
"And the reporters who spook around
the hotels saw your name, OF course,
and of course there's something in the
papers tumble, mister. know just
what you are looking fur It'll be right
on the first page, and thereu be three
big black heads on 1t. "
''Perhaps so, though don't care for
those things That's the reason l just
slipped in quietly. don'ts anything
in this paper, however.
"Mebbe it didn't get on to you until
too late" consolingly replied the boy.
"Aheml Maybe not Don't seem to
be anything in this, either. Don'teven
give my name in the list of hotel arri-
walls"
"Try this one," said the boy, as he
handed out third. lowing to a press
of other matter it might have been
crowded out you know"
"Yes know. 1t isn't that l expect
ed anything of the kind, you see, but if
anything has been written up might
as we'll read it. don't see anything
here, however"
well it will certainly be in this"
said the boy, as he handed out his last
paper. "They are allus on the watch
fur big guns who come to New York,
and they write 'em up mighty slick"
"H'm! HIN! got In on the late train
and left orders with the clerk that
must not be disturbed and l can't
reasonably expect any extended notice
In fact"
"Hev We hit it?" asked the boy.
mo, it is a murder. I guess there
nothing in about me- You see, under
the circumstances, there couldn't be. l
didn't expect there was, but being as it
might possibly happen 1 thought it
would do no harm to look. My way is
to slip in quietly without any noise"
"Sure you are mayor of town."
queried the boy, as he stood off and
looked at him.
"Oh, yes"
"And prominent politician9"
Eyes"
"And big gun around where you
live?"
Il am called So"
well, by gum but l can't under
stand it! What q chance there'd bin
fur some reporter to scoop the town!
Say, that's the second time I've seen
our enterprisin' New York press git
left this winter. Right down here on
Barclay street there was calf with
five legs and two heads in cage all
day long, and do you know that not a
single one of the papers had word
about it! The calf just slipped in quiet
ly, you know, and didn't want to be
noticed, you see; but he thought"
But the big gun settled his hat on his
head, got fresh grip on his cane and
walked stiffly away. The boy looked
after him until he waslost in the crowd,
and then chuckled to himself:
please call at the countin'-room fur
our advertisin' rates. All cuts and dis
play lines charged extrap'-M. Quad,
in New York World.