The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-26
STORIES OF THE STREET.


Hotel jabber doesn't always mean poll
tics. 1t may be horse talk, or bicycle
talk, or business of various kinds, or
perhaps the latest style of bachelor but
tons. One never can tell. However that
may be, it always has this distinction-it
hardly ever pals. The talk is OF breezy.
changeable nature, and only gives a man
pleasing thoughts.
Last night there was a bunch of travel
ing men holding interesting side talks in
the lobby of the Ryan
What kind of girls have you got in
this town." said one. They must be
decidedly clever. 1 got a tip as to what
they are a week ago. / was invited to see
an old college chum of mine up on Sum
NIT avenue. 1 hadn't seen him for years,
say nothing of his wife and beautiful
daugfte ter. OF course 1 knew the girl in
her early teens, but-well, I'll tell my
house-piano playing, Beethoven's Moon
light Sonata" and all that, and singing
and what-not.
Well, we commenced to talk politics.
She 'dotes on Bryan and 1 am a McKin-
aley man. Oh, you needn't look dispar-
agingly at me! The discussion became
warm, and in an unguarded moment 1
said:
8 I'll bet Mckinley will be elected
L
joinder. and we'll bet theater tickets
well, of course, it was optional with
her, so we bet. Then she said:
You must buy the tickets tomorrow.
II kicked outrageously, but no, she
must have her way, and she would pay
for the tickets afterwards if Mckinley
should be elected. Well, we went to the
theater. Now she says that if Bryan is
elected I'll have to buy more tickets.
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AS said before hotel jabber always
drifts. The talk soon came around to
buns, and they were duly given the right
amount of time.
Chicago Is an awful town for the gen.
uine, regulation bum" said a member of
the little circle. "You can't wax a step
without the never-failing, Please, sir,
just 10 Observation-Disclosures a dozen
ehildlen-docter,' and all that. you know.
Nine-tenths OF them drink. They always
go to the nearest booze shop when the re-
quired 10 cents has been scared up.
II just came up to st. Paul from Chica-
go. 1 was glad when I got out of the
hole. / had one pleasant experience,
though, in Chicago that causes pleasing
sensations all along my spine whenever 1
think Of It,
"a man came up to me one night and
said:
Il dislike to beg, my friend, but I'm
thirsty, and I want drink Of good old
whisky. Help me out?'
"That man told the truth. and he got a
dollar"
as there much rivalry between the city
of st. Paul and Minneapolis?" asked one
of the party IT was coming over here
on the interurban line the other night
from the Flour City, and I heard some
thing that sort Of mixed me up.
''Of course I'm stranger here and I
don't know how the land Hes, but it was
this way: I got on the car over in Min
neapolis, and so did the two men L have
In mind Well, we had been riding for
about an hour, should judge, when the
conductor hollered out:
Rice street
''Then one Of the men said:
Were IN Minneapolis yet
+" Come off, you hayseed, I'm not a.
fool; we're in st. Paul.
BY George, those men almost got
a-fighdng. Then they made a dollar bet
and left 1t to the conductor to decide.
Perhaps the man who lived in Mime
apolis had an exaggerate ted opinion of the
size Of the town"
w ell, any CrdVelfng man KNOWS, said
a man who had hitherto been silent, ''that
all sorts and conditions of men are to
be met with In our business. 1 saw
queer fellow up in New Ulm not long
ago. You know that there are all kinds
Of drinks to be had there. WE'LL some
Of us travelling men were out late one
night until the wee sma' hours Of the
morning, when the cuckoo seems to say:
Here he is, here he u.s. We got on the
outside Of some whisky that night We
weren't imbeciles when we got home
Just respectfully drunk, you know
"One Of the men was comparatively
new to the business-he hadn't been on
the road long. A travelling man, you
know, always learns a thing or two be-
sides how to seel his wares Well, he
commenced to say that the booze served
to the party was vile, unfit for dogs, etc.
We didn't say anything. We all went to
bed. The next day our friend was just
a little blue around the gills. We called
him 'HaP-think his name was Halstad.
Well, we concocted a scheme. walked
up to him and said:
How do you feel? You look sick
81 Never better IN my life. What in
the name of my grandmother's dead cat
do you ask such a question for?'
'sThen JohnsOn-you know Johnson
went up to him and said the same thing.
Well. we kept that uk but we were