The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-12-14
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE love of picking up bargains
is common to the human race. A
bargain appeals to the instinct of
economy, apd that is also common to
all men. although it may often be,
dominated by love of profusion, an
Incidence of character or a desire to
faunt a superabundance of wealth in
the eyes of a supposedly admiring
world. 1t fatters a mans sense of
superiority. He has not only got the
better of the seller by reason of his.
knowledge, automatically concealed,
of the value of the article sold, but he
can also chuckle in his sleeve at the
less acute public who pay three times
the price for the same thing. Hud-
dersfeld has the bargain habit to an
abnormal extent.
1t extends to everything. 1t Hud-
dersfeld meets an old friend and
wishes to entertain him en- garcon
he very seldom takes him to dine at
the club. He says: "Say, old man,
I'll tell you what I'm going to do
with you. I'm going to take you to
a little out-of-the-way joint where We
can get some consomme ,souyeraine
and larded tenderloin au madere or
something like that that you will re-
member as long as you live, with
bottle of wine that you can't get in
the cellar of the observation-disclosures. !"
Then he rushes the friend to street
car and presently, after traversing
two or three mean streets and one
or two alleys that make the friend
feel extremely nervous, they arrive
at q dingy restaurant whose badly
Illuminated and dusty sign announces
that it is the cafe something or other,
but whose external appearance other
wise would lead one to suppose that
it was gospel mission poorly sup
ported On an off night.
Inside there are half dozen tables
extending to sort of box Office
through the window of which view
of the kitchen can be obtained. Three
men with soiled shirts and great
deal of throat and anarchistic boards
are smoking cigarettes at one of the
tables and throwing out their fingers
excitedly at one another as they CAB
BILE in a strange tongue. A gaunt
and depressed-look woman pensive-
ly stabbing roll with a three-tined
steel fork is the only other patron
of the establishment present. Hud-
Sdersfeld and the friend take their
places at the table which seems to
have the cleanest cloth. There is
verdigris on the top of the salt cruet
and dark brown crust of undoubted
antiquity ornaments the mustard pot.
"a little bohemian" says Hudders-
field, rubbing his hands briskly and
looking around with a smile. SIT. is
just what like. A man who gets in
the habit of judging by appearances
misses lots of good things in this
world of ours"
"Does it always smell 500" asks the
friend.
"Sme1 how?"
"Well, I don't know whether I can
analyze it exactly "-sniffing shut I
should say that the garlic is unmis-
taxable. think can detect wet
clothes and yeast, but it may be the
cigarettes"
you wait until you get your din
ner," says Huddersfeld, "and in the
meantime watch those fellows over
there. There's a sight you wouldn't
see in Binsley's in 100 years. Life
that's what you see here; life and HUI
man nature. I like to observe it."
By this time dark-eyed waiter
who has neglected to shave for sew
eral days appears and takes Hudders-
fields order and spreads coarse nap
kin over the worst stain in the cloth.
This done, he vanishes into the kitch-
en- and is heard to shout fiercely at
the cooks. who scream at him in re-
turn and seemingly begin to smash
dishes.
They've got a cook in here who
could be earning his $3.50 month
downtown If he only knew it, says
Huddersfeld, removing leftover
crust that the waiter had not noticed
eff this place was known by people
who could appreciate it half the block
wouldn't be enough for the custom
There is a rather long wait and in
the interval, a stout man afflicted with
catarrh comes in and takes seat al
a table close by. Huddersfield no
tees smoky picture in a much fly
blown frame hanging in dark cor
ner of the room and, seeming bar
gain, gets up to inspect it. But it
turns out to be nothing but an cleo
graph. The dinner comes in and
really is not so villainous dinner as
might be expected although some.
what permeated with garlic and de-
cidedly greasy. The wine is merely
drinkable, and it is likely that Hud-
dersfield was eight in saying that il
could not be obtained at the Astorf.
Waldoria. Huddersfield expands over
the wine, holds it up to the light and
looks at 1t knowingly out Of one eye
sips it slowly and pauses between sips
with both eyes turned up ecstatically
The friend tries to be enthusiastic
over it, too, but he has not yet recov.
cred from the thumbmarks that the
waiter left on the edges of the plates
They finish up with long stogie-look.
ing cigars with straws run through