The age-herald., 1897-10-12
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBIES.


 which will never cease to regret" said 0. K. Harris, a miner of many years experience.
 Tt was all caused by miserable piece of luck, and I have some consolation from this fact I was out in Montana, and had been working in a mine which had been on fire for several months. and consequently could not bs operated. There were hundreds of miners who were utterly destitute. and 1t would be TO exaggeratlon to say that one-half of the town was dead broke.
 T hadn't cent in ths world, and was very much puzzled as to the source of my next meal when another unfor- tunate came along and unfolded a scheme that promised some pecuniary reward. He suggested that we estab- fish an employment agency. I was not very much impressed with the scheme at first. but notwithstanding my con- scientiousness I went into 1t for the sole purpose of keeping the golf from the door.
 We put sign in front of our door telling the hungry passer-by that jobs could be secured within on short no- tice. Our scheme was to make the ap- p1icant pay down s1 and when we secured the position he must pay g more. The thing worked very profita- bly to us for a few days, and of course we didn't secure any positions. We left the town on very short notice. When we would leave the sllanty we had 8 prac- tice of putting up a sign will be back in ten minutes We put up the sign I have given many beggar a nickel or a. dime on the strength of my wicked- ness on that occasion.''
 
 Speaking of banquets, reminds mo of the man who likes display said a gentleman who stopped at the Morris yesterday. "He is generally a. well-fed man; he is fond of wine, and he always smokes cigars and boasts of their quail ity.
 "He is never in clover until he is the leader at banquet. He likes to speak. Says the same old thing over and over again. If northern visitors are being entertained it is something about the two sections shaking hands and wiping out the bloody chasm. Added to this he talks with an attempt at oratory about the progress of the new south. Now, in reality there is no new south; it is the old south marching on to success with young and enterprising men in the lead.
 But he gets real eloquent when it comes to southern womanhood, the gen. tie, the beautiful maiden, with eyes that match the southern skies. He steals poet and concludes after having wasted valuable time and said nothing. I would like to attend one banquet without the chronic banquet leader"
 
 "I know a peculiar bit of romance" said Charles Wheyland, a Cincinnati drummer.
 There is a family in my home town who live in neat cottage. The family is composed of four and in the cottage they always keep one chamber in readi- ness for guests. There is one grown son who went off to school some time ago and growing dissatisfied, returned sud- denly.
 .There is a daughter and she had a chum visiting her and they were mak- Ing preparations ito leave for college in a few days. The visitor was of course placed in the guest chamber where there were two beds. Everything went we'll until the other night, wh@n the son out notifying any one he was very quiet and got in the house unawares. He did not find his own room in a condition to be occupied, and went to the guest chamber. Without making a light he retired and slept soundly.
 ''The sun pouring into the windows awakened him and he had hardly rubbed his eyes when he hsard frightened cry and looking at the otifer bed he saw pair of brown eyes peeping from under the cover. Neither could speak for soma moments, so great was their astonish- ment. Finally explanations were mads and the young lady was not so awfully mad when she found him to be a broth- CT of her hostsss.
 ''Of course she could not very well make her toilet, and her hostess wons dering at the delay, came to the room. The embarrassing situation was explain ed to hsr. Mama and papa were sum- moned, a big screen erected between the two beds. and now there is lots of laughing over the occurrence.
 ''The romantic side of the incident is that bed No. 2 has been removed from the guest chamber and the visitor oc- cupies it as a m+mber of the household.