Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-29
WAS 4 PHILOSOPHER.
A BEGGAR STUDENT OF HUMAN MA
 TURF WHO HAD 4 SYSTEM.

TURF WHO HAD 4 SYSTEM.
 Mendicaney Carried Out Upon Practical
 Lines-why He Avoided the Rich-stood
 Outside Restaurant. but Never Begged
 From Hungry Looking Man.
 He was wretched looking chap, so thinly clad that he was really an object of pity. He had sought q secluded cor ner at the entrance of cheap restaurant near Herald square, and for awhile E seemed as if he had chosen the spot merely to escape tho chilling blasts of the cutting wind Many men passed into the place, but he spoke to none. Finally one who had just completed hls meal came forth. The man started for ward, hesitated q moment and then re. sumed his former position. Soon another man, apparently in q great hurry, came from the restaurant, buttoning his coat as he walked In q moment the poor fellow stood in the way and barely had he uttered his request for help when be was rewarded with q dime.
 A moment later q group of young men iii very high spirits passed into the l restaurant To an ordinary student they would have been just the right men to approach for aims, but the beggar saw them not. It was only to certain men returning to the street that he mada himself known. It was but the work of a moment ta pick an acquaintance with the fellow. and when he found I was interested he talked freely of his plan
 T had to do q good deal of thinking about it when l first started in, he said. T ean't get work now, and when I have work I can only keep al it for a little while on account of rheumatism. When l saw I had to beg, I thought l might as well do it right or not at all If you know anything about mems faces and clothes. you don't have to do any guesswark at all. I can tell long before I get near q man what my chances are with him, aud if don think that it's ten to one will get something I don't try him, for there's no good in wearing yourself out and getting common. Some fellows % along the street and try to touch every well dressed man they meet. They couldn't do any thing worse, for every ybody sees what they re doing and knows they are professionals and steers clear of them. The only time to go up against well dressed men as a straight thing, without regard to their faces, is when they are full and feeling happy over it.
 ''The average we'll dressed man or woman is the hardest kind of a person to hit. They do lots for charity, but it's in a different way-sooieties, schools for kids, kindergartens and missions and they think they are doing enough. If any one hits them on the street. they put them down for professional You have got to judge the well dressed peo- pie by their faces and general manner and let their clothes count for nothing
 Whenever I have to do any street work, I always select the people of the lower middle classes, who don't put on any front-women especially. 1 mean people who live comfortably, but haven't got any too much money to spare. Say, you may think I'm stringing you, but would rather have one nickel from one of them than n quarter from a fellow who could stand it and had it to burn. Funny, but I feel just as sentimental about that sometimes as if 1 was earn ing it, and I would earn it if I had the chance.
 ''Now. you take this stand of nina here today. There three men who gave mo somothing-two niokels and dime. I have been hero half an hour and I've only struck five men I missed two. Well, three out of five don't look like bad gnesswork, if you want to call 1t SO, does it2 This Is the cheapest res taurant in the neighborhood. There 8 the Imperial, Marlborough and all the other big hotel restaurants could have taken, but I'll bet I wonldn' have got thing from the people who came from any of them The men who go in here don t pay over % or 30 cents for what they eat. and Pm willing to take my chances with them right along.
 l always wait till 9 man comes out. Some people think it ought to be the other way, for the reason that man who was hungry would Dc more apt to give out of sympathy for the man who was hitting him for money for some- thing to eat But didn t figure it out that way. You see, these are pretty hard times. and there's more people in hard luck than there ever was before. Now, it's bad enough to be in hard lnck, but it's worse yet to be hungry, and whom a man is up against both games little things will bother him that wouldn't affect him at all if he had his stomach full. I reason that pretty near ly every man who comes in here is eith- CT in hard luck or else he is miser who don t want to spend any more than is actually necessary. If 1t wasn't so. you know they would all go to the big restaurants i'll the hotels. for you know as wolf as 1 do that the right kind of a man likes good things to cat and nice clean service if he can afford it.
 "W,ll, I am sn.p the misers, and I leave them alone. When tho decent man comes out, he feels better for hay