The age-herald., 1897-09-03
OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL LOBBlES

What do you think of a man of the ultra swell set walking down the Street minus his trousers. Well, that is just l will not mention went out with a crowd of the boys to have a jolly time. They wander about drinking and caroHs- ing until late hour when they all went home
 About an hour later I was walking down the street within block of the Central police station. ] saw a young man approaching, and to my horror he didn't have on any pants. He was dressed in a handsome coat and vest, with feet incased in nicely polished pat ent feathers but pants, well, he didn't have them on . at any rate.
 "I hailed him, he spoke and passed on just as though he was all O. K. Pretty soon he met a policeman, and the officer of the law took him in tow. The young fellow didn't remember thing about his escapade, and was rather surprised when the officer convinced him that he had ventured out minus his pantaloons."
 
 DO you know this practice of hus- bands having private detectives to shadow their wives, and vice versa, is getting to be one of the worst curses of the age" remarked D. B. Rawlinson, of Pittsburg, who was in the city yester- day. This practice has caused more unnecessary bloodshed and divorce suits than almost anything else. A wife gets an idea that her husband Is going wrong. She enlists the aid of private detective, who in nine cases out of ten is an un- scrupulous individual
 "He goes to work, and he is shrewd enough to know that if he should find everything all right his fees would not amount to much, and consequently he begins finding things out of joint by easy stages The thing gets worse and worse, according to his reports, until climax is reached. The private detective is a curse, and generally blackmailer No man should be allowed to do such business without recognition from lawful authorities. What brings this to mind is the Carmen-Middeton case in Chicago. Mrs. Middleton attempted to murder Miss Carmen, and it was all caused by a private detective"
 
 There is young man on the south side who is employed in an uptown office. He is an industrious fellow and has saved enough by frugal habits to fit up a snug little home. Guy bought a wheel and here Is where his troubles began.
 Before Guy bought his wheel, his chief pride was tall mantel clock with an alarm on it that could be heard a block away. Guy depended upon it to wake him in time to go to work in the morning. Hs had paid 8 neat sum for this clock on the installment plan, and to- gether with installments on the bicycle 1t was pretty hard work to make both end meet, but Guy thought all the more of his pets. One Saturday after noon Guy paid the last installment on his clock, and was supremely happy Sun day he did not take his bicycle to church, nor ride 1t during the day, but dreamed all night of how he would scorch to the city in the morning at work time. When Guy woke the sun was shining in his window, and when he jumped up and looked at the clock he found that he would be an hour late at the office, rid= as hard as he could. He climbed on a chair and examined the clock, to find out if the alarm had gone off properly, and, much to his chagrin, found it had not budged. Guy lost another half hour fooling with the clock, trying to spring the alarm, but it wouldn't work, and he decided to take it to the shop in the af- ternoon.
 When Guy reached home next day he picked the clock carefully off the man. tel and tucking It's cathedral shape as snugly as possible under his arm, gin gerly mounted his wheel and rode off. He gained courage as he rode and by the time he was several blocks from home h7 had both hands off the handle bars holding the clock at arms length with one and with the other in his pocket He was clipping along at a good rate and when he came to the corner where he turned, hugged the rail and let out a link just in time to run full tilt into fat man in tow linen suit, who was pedal ing along with much dignity. Both rid CTS went up into the air. while the wh sels locked horns and the clock went flying through the air and landed in the oppo- site gutter, the alarm bell, with spring attached, coming up smiling in the midst of the wrsck and starting to ring nt a
 
 fac= down on the sidewalk and when he heard that bell it was more than he could stand. Rising in his wrath, he caught Guy hook behind the ear that car omed him against the tree box and landed him in the middle of the street in a sitting postura. Why in thunder didn't you think about ringing that bell before?" thundered the fat man, who still had so much sand in his eyes that he did not appreciate the situation. Guy let the remark pass unnoticed. and coStinued to gazs at the remains of the clock, while the alarm bell kept up its merry chatter. Then he delivered himself, calmly and slowly: That's right, - you, ring just as though I didn't know you were fixsd; but for the love of the lamb, look at the clock"' Then rising, he walked over to