The age-herald., 1897-10-13
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBIES;

T believe if people would ofterer show fight when attacked by fOotpads of bandits they would be less liable to lose anything" said Col. R. D. Mccabe of Louisville, who was in the city yester- day.
 q had a little experience out west some years ago that learned me this much. A party of us were in a stage coach gos ig across a wild stretch of country when we were attacked by bandits. We were frightened almost to death and threw up our hands at once. The robbers went through us and got a considerable sum of money, as well as many valua- bles.
 This watch I have on now was one of their prizes. afterwards recovered it in a pawnbrolSers shop through the fnstrumentaHty of one of the robbers who was captured. He told me that his partner was one of the biggest towards he ever saw. He made all kinds of fun of us, and said if we had shown fight both of them would have made off and left us alone.
 'We didn't think so, for we were of the opinion that it was a case of give up what you had or get shot. But that fellow swore to me that both would have run if any member of the party had shown fight, and l believe that peo- pie should always put up a bluff on the start"
 There is a society In Cuba that is something Hike the Mafa," said Robert D. Mitchell, cigarmaker who learned his trade on the suffering island which Weyler has been continually conquer. ing with his typewriter. "It is among the negroes, although a few whites belong to it. The plan of initiation is horrifyng. When a man makes application for membership he is taken to the quarters or meeting place of the society, the name of which I fail to recall. Generally a meeting is held early in the might. The applicant is given dangerous looking knife and told that before morning he must have human blood on the blade or he is in- eligible to membership. A c6mmitte'a is appointed to watch him, and if hA comes up with the proof of murder on the blade he is elected member of the bloodthirsty organization, otherwise ha is destined to meet a very resoltlns fate.
 sThe society is devoted to murder, pilA 1age and plunder, and each member iS sworn to protect the other. To assault or insult lady Is a common thing, and In many respects the Maffa is preferable to this order"
 There is young man in town who tells joke on a friend which, by the way, is an actual occurrence.
 ''W'hile walking down the street one day." said he, "I saw friend of mine standing on the street corner. I noticed he was crying. There were several par. ties standing around, but no one but my self noticed this fact I looked at him for some moments, and it was plain than he was suffering from some cause. watched him closely. trying to find ous what was the matter.
 Finally noticed cigarette in his mouth, and I thought it peculiar that there was no fire on the end of 1t. pulled 1t from between his lips and found tflat he had put it the wrong way. The poor boy had been standing there with his lips frying and did not know what was the matter, although the pain must have been exeruciating-
 +Whait was the matter, he was just a little tfpsy." N
 J. w. Weiss, representing a wholesale liquor house of Mobile, is at the Morris He says that the yellow fever scare of this year is very hard upon the sufferers. but in the end it will prove blessing in disguise, for it will cause the people of his city to clean up the streets thorough ly, pave them and Keep them in good condition for all time to come. 
 THE YEAST OF EVOLUTION.
 Rv Sam WaIfar Esogs