The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-26

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terry, Where they will sell you all the
foreign labels you want, bearing the
names or express, railroad and steam
snip companies from Shanghai to AL
slers' Tor half dollar, and the estab-
llsnmeht does good business in pur-
Neylhs the labels to shallow pates who
want to give out the impression that
they nave been everywhere and seen it
all
But this middle-aged Englishman I
speak OF was Brltisher all right, and
an emlnently respectable-loolSing one
that' lie took a second-foor suite,
the most expensive set of rooms in the
house, and he certainly did make us
oance around a heap, from the proprie-
tor down to the chambermaids 1t was
what the deuce's the meanin' of this?'
ana what the deVlrs the meanin' Of
that! with this clerical-looking, NUT
ton-chop-Whlskered Briton from morn
ing until night; but he had the swell
part OF the house all to himself, and
business Is business, especially in the
s eq1soii, a.,u eo he So XII
a,;,,,,s - ~ s'sMeu ioi q ~, ~
80 %-a oisais az ICY asaAiiies
sa,1,,oa o'si .,'.a
s,a.,,t 49, 90 set we e'eiy ...iis 80
So e "l w Inc oinee anu ou.siue lhe
W1hat sIe' w oe uhafseu ~ nis roohi' !,
,,o4a1s Ane iiot'eS' pa'i o.,e "a
4h,,.a 1 r-l.e. NV aliaDiS n1ve lnese
10. 20. seu " .he,i iousins Account
- 80 etoe,Ves .he poliier VI uis
na4 ~ ~, eiotiiea aor siiiaii ehahse'
borsa this rs,. ~ nie iiisl we ,, ~ lne
hi,,, ~, Us, i p.,e iiau oiii asaiisl
nn a' I h ual 9oohs amounting TO nearly
u,a.o ~. nt =, 0nu MY uoiiars' we
thn,,o.,, -, ~ ca usp,olous Vi nm, even
SIT e. =, nt appeo t ~ llave o,iy one
$3.50 ~ o 49,, q eweeu ~ 'ne MINI a.
oe. ~ ~ ii9iiilien' WIN d lore-ahu-
- ~ nc ss'iii .., Aia .eiiai " 80 WIN
80 az. w. - nc a,u neep ms one ,,ulh
49, --ls ~ s,p $50 1880 on TUG
.e' 'ppale 10y 'ahihs iio.iii,s out VI
49,, noiiese me- eoe9te'
49, pients =, nioies, oL.en jan.
=, Gu ~ "eehe III siiisie sui' Vi
I Gu !use 90 ohteh eNiipi' .oo
iilueil Is'Niiiese 10 open lheir TRUNKS ana
| Nevertheless, in accordance with
| custom we sent up his bill to this Eng
| nshman when his first week was up.
IN three minutes he was down to the
once in towering passion. There
were lots of items in the bill that he
| positively would not stand for, he said.
he was being imposed upon. He was
being swindled. His carelessness In
not Keeping any account himself was
causing him to be victimized. And so
on. We went over the Objectionable
items with him carefully, comparing
them with our books, and finally ad-
Justed the Dill to his satisfaction.
III just hold this bill for a SPELL
ne SAID, haughtily, when 1t had been re-
giseu TO suit MIN, I'm expectin' me
oralts py the next steamer.
certainly, said we, and 1t was all
rlght. why not? If we were to cook
up our mental ears with suspicion eve
~ time one or our guests, stranger or
no stranger, deferred payment or his
piii LOT Whlle to await remittances
"eo De insulting folks right and left
anu De IN not water all the time. Dead
square men, with any amount or mon
ey' often stano US OH Whlle cnecks are
oli the way 10 them Irom thelf MONIES
VI headquarters.
Wen' the Englishman Kept right on
enjoying hlmself ana MS taste Tor hne
anu aged WINE ana the choicest cigars
seelneo TO grow more Keen all the time.
IL Kept us all more or less busy to wait
upon MIN, ana he certainly must have
pretty well covered the sights of this
~" n lioili ene NUMBER oi carriage rloes
4 ~ ~ tne pesl turnout III
. az e'ap'es, ~ ne way. Iharuly any
enihs arouiu the hotel was GOOD
e,ioush lor hiiil' anu ne was KICKING
aoout everything al the tifne, so mat
taAeu our eloquehce TO excuse our |
oenciehcies. wen, what more Is TO be |
saiu! oh the hlght petore the DAY MS
secoiiu week was up ne stroae out I'M
periousAy' taxing Dig puneh OF cigars
at the cigar staho, 10 pc charged to MS |
IooLi' as ne went, ana ne IS sun going |
LOT all Know. In MS grip we found /
Some cast-oH linen. his beplastered \
trunk was damned to the lid with Eng
llsh governmental reports, and nothing
else. lie mad NIT us for nearly three
nunoreo ana seVenty-hVe dollars. We
simply TOOK long breath and let 1T go
at that. IL was one OF the chances of
the game. There was no possible way
py Whlcn we could nave inquired that
Brltlsher as a fraud. Everything he
ala mere, from KICKING over his bill to
Kicking over the couhterpanes on his
ped, was IN strict accordance with