The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-27

shirt front, tucked safely down into the
vest, where II deludes the casual OBJ
server into the belief that IL 1t is true
and honest shirt. Imagine such decep-
tion! The "dickey" is in vogue again.
IF you see two toy Zulus having a
pummelling match on a cloth placed on
the asphalt and hear q man calling out
the king of Toys!-ten cents" just take
a peep around on the other side and
you'll see the mans index finger work.
ing at furious rate. He worked" hun
dreds of Scrantonians yesterday. He
came here Sunday and early yesterday
morning the fellow went before Mayor
Bailey and secured a license for selling
his toys in this city. The conditions were
that he must keep two blocks away
from Lackawanna avenue and must not
attract any large crowd The license was
good for the forenoon only.
In the afternoon, however, the fakir
continued his work. He located himself
on the asphalt pave near the sidewalk
in front of the postofice. His method
was to open a satchel, take out a blue,
figured cloth and place 1t on the pave.
On this cloth the toys worked. They
hammered each other, stood on heads,
ard tumbled about generally. To a per-
son who didn't see the black thread at
tached to the fakir's finger and running
down his trousers leg under the instep
of his boot and then along the cloth to
the satchel, where it was again at
tached the exhibition of the two dumb
Zulus was wonderful. While working the
game with his right hand the faki: hand
ed out closed packages of the toys with
his left and took in the money When a
copper" hove in sight with a deXterous
movement ths fellow would break the
black thread and in a second the cloth
would be back in the satchel and the
shop was clos I'd for the time being.
The man hal game leg and a big
voice. He is a Southerner. This was
sh iwn by his remark to a little colored
hey who had blurted out that he was
working the toys with a thread. You
git out o. heah niggah," said the fakir;
down South wheah 1 came from, they
hang youah people foh opening theah
mouths. They know theah place down
theah"-the little colored boy laughed
git now, don't you knew any bettah
than to give a mans game away--a fell
low can't make an honest living" added
the game legged man turning to the
crowd around him.
The agen: for the dairy and food COM
mission has come to grief out in Pitts
burg. The oleomaigarine scare was not
tried there, as it was in Scranton a few
weeks ago. but it is alleged that he Sc
Culeu sdHlpleS VI pepper, NnuSldTu anu
ginger from store. that he adulterated
these articles himself and had them an
alyzed, thereafter arresting the merchant
on the charge of selling impure food.
Suit is brought against the agent for
$4,000 damages. The dealer promises to
make it very much hotter for him than
the peppery articles warrant even when
unadulterated.
We have a beautiful theater through
the enterprise of Arthur rockingham.
Probably we shall have a bicycle path
to Honesdale, through the energetic eff
forts of the same man. People were
skeptical about the theater until they
saw it completed with a play in progress
on its stage. They may be obliged to
| tumble off their wheels and be MANNED
for life because of the scorching posi-.
bilities of the new cinder path before
they will believe in it's existence