The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-06
STORIES OF THE STREET

rave you ever heard Of woman
"Io was deliberately slapped in the faae
mean hard so it would cause Y,ain
aiiu then turn upon her assai1ant and
p Pre- yes: joyfully, thank the man
lor the insult? I have"
Nra nI epeaAer was a drummer at the
merchants. and his listeners were trono
sie el1 like himself at the hotel. GU
YES SIR have, though you NAV not
DemeVe II, or perhaps, you think the
~oIu1h was insane or a crank. or some
tn I'M OF the kind Not bit of Il.
nrst saw the woman on a train
pound for Crookston. 1t was late Of
1lisHt, and took particular notice of
her because she never onene6 bon
mouth either to talk or eat and ,ba T1
was another person with her who sean,-
cd 10 act as If he knew her. She aro,,r
ed my curiosity. a. Jus
got OH at Crookston; so did she and
ner friend: went to a hotel and sa+
taking IN the lobby for a while. Pretty
SUI the Two came in. The man went o11t
ana stayed for about twenty nnin1,+as
and all the while wstcbad ~ ~
woman When he came back there
was another man with him rbo
Two went up to the woman. and in
announcer instant the newcomer ba7,1ad
OH ana whacked her one 1 Thought he
was gong to make pancake of her
race; l jumped up in a flash, but f.
uIun take me long to sit down again
when l saw how she acted.
she opened her mouth all right and
II was caution how she talked and
now she thanked him. I expected to
see her hug him any minute. She bnzzad
away like sewing machine.
ven L have found out since thai tina
mat the man who slapped her was a.
DOCTOR and that she had the lock law -
You can't always tell what bo4a1
ctefk Will buck up against in the course
81 ms duties, said Louis Stitch Storm Of
stitchville." at the Merchants the othor
night. You know, Of course, that tho
nireo girl of this country in her llIn7ay
uistlty is perched upon a pedestal so high
tflat 1t is impossible to touch her. and bar
ANTICS sometimes make a man, especia1.v
supurbanite, feel that the world has
stopped turning around Well, in some
parts OF the country the hotel clerk is
almost as dignified a parsonage, and his
rates cause mans heart to beat Hike !,
cnurn dasher. Though his hotel tc had
ana ms board Is bad, and his service IS
oao' ne pfetends to run things a la mode
~ 10 d manner that Is simply exasperat:ng.
II you don't like the place Won COR p
this and do that, and then he sl,r,,gs
MS shoulders as much as to saw t.poor
deCuded man. ~
We'll you may say that this is all in
life time but I know of a hotel man
in the southern part of the state-it ISM
worth while to mention names-who was
once turned down to a finish There were
lots of bed bugs in his hostelry. The
place was chuck full of them. There is
perhaps nothing particularly strange
ABOUT that fact. Bedbugs always did
nave a you-can't- those me sort Of a way
about them, but this cuss didn't axe any
steps to get rid of them. Most of them
Gid stand them, because they had to. A
fellow came there one Sunday and STAYED
during the day and night Monday morn
ing he asked for his bill, and said with a
discouraged look that he guessed he had
better light out. The clerk-he was
also the roprietor-scratched his bald
pate and commenced to figure, and after
a while said:
Just s4.75.'
''The visitor looked shocked, but didn't
say word He just walked back to
his room. Pretty soon he came back
and said:
What do you charge for these?'
He had In his hand a PIN strung with
big. juicy, wriggling bed bugs.
''The hotei man coughed, and henlmed.
and hawed. and biushed and then said:
i" Wen make it ST.