The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-04

! offered to hire the first respectable-look-
| ing colOred woman she met.
A bargain was struck and the housewife
| greatly relieved. gave full instructions as
to the location OF her domiciie. the street,
number. architectural appearance, etc,
and said. after making the new domestic
trifling present. Now. don't forget the
house. and come early tomorrow morning,
please
Deed | will. missile" she was assured
Il couldn't forget de place 'ticklary on
account OF de lovely striped waist you got
on
The guests arrived on time, but the en-
gagged domestic had forgotten all about the
lovely striped waist and places for two
girls who can furnish first-class recon-
mendations." are still open.
Count Boni de Castellane's threat to
whip the editor OF the Figaro reminds
me- said a gentleman from the Southwest
to company of friends yesterday, that
whipping the editor, though good in theory.
is, like almost everything else. more than
occasionally difficult in practice. | know
this from personal experience. Possibly
Parisians have a different view of the cas-
tigation idea than We Americans, and when
a man goes to whip the editor he begins
operations and fills the measure of his am
bition-upless the editor whips him.
In our regiun-I mean in the section OF
country where I come from-when ag
grieved citizen goes to whip the editor he
generally finds from four to eleven editors
buslly at work. smoking pipes. abusing
rivals on the other paper published N the
same county. and apparently unterrifed
by the danger Of being chastised by indig-
nant citizens.
Il departed on n mission to eastigate a
newspaper man all by myself about three
years ago. / was candidate for small
office and the paper had made many sar-
castle remarks concerning my ambition to
hold any position in the gift of a sensible
community l couldn't stand that. and
literally advertised in verbal way my in
tention to thrash the editor of the article
Well to make long story short. l started
on my mission and enquired for the editor.
| was introduced to a man who fixed up
the poets corner of the disreputable sheet
that had offended me. He was smoking a
short clay pipe, had hand like a ham, and
a jaw like that of John L. Sullivan"
We'll. did you whip him." enquired one
of the party who was deeply interested in
the story.
No. sir. was the response; when he
said he was the responsible editor / told
him he would hear from me, but he never
did. | slept over the matter and concluded
that when a man intends to whip an edi
tor he would better consider beforehand
whether he could carry out his intention
or not. | don't know how Ii is in France.
but, II Count Boni should make a threat
to whip a Southwestern editor / am sure
he could. without the use OF a microscope.
find someone on deck waiting TO accept a
castigation. providing the would-be casti-
gator could prove himself the better man.
----
Speaking of the epidemic of wickedness
IN Chicago" remarked a citizen from St
Paul yesterday, there have been several !
arrivals in the city where / reside lately. |
indicating that the thugs OF the windy |
ship their victims out of town |
when they can deport them conveniently. |
That Chicago is overrun with thieves more |
numerous and quite wicked as the band |
which captured Ali Baba no one doubts.
since the people are proposing all sorts of
extrayagant local ordinances to check the |,
plunderers We have noticed recently in
St. Paul that the trains from Chicago bring
in many men who are dazed and ignorant \
Of their exact whereabout- This seems to
Indicate that the knockout drops indus
try OF the leading Cook county municipality |
is prosperous Our suspicion is that the
sleeping doses are administered to the I'M
wary so that they can be robbed at leisure
and without resistance Then the victims
IRE put aboard trains by the thieves and
allowed TO drift to any part OF the country.