The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-19
STORIES OF THE STREET.

the saying of the Dutchman, Don't it
vas vat it isn't, is it," Now you've got
your man in the despair stage, with d
pad conscience in his stomach and holes
IN his socks, and now you haven't; now
it's Easy mark" and now, who'd
have thought?"
A man sauntered into the capitol
building yesterday, met Assistant Labor
Commissioner Olson, and said:
Are you going 10 eat that hat you
have on your head?"
No, I'm net going to eat that hat [
have on my head. Why should I?'
Dldnt you say you'd eat your hat
that bet, you know
oh, yes, the bet; that's so, the bet
Yes, | forgot all about the bet. " ell,
we did make some sort of a bet, didn't
WEI"
You betcher we did. Are you going
to eat that hat now?"
No; why should u"
Why should you? Jumping dead
cats! You just admitted that we bet
We did; but [ didn't specify which
hat. | own many hats. It's funny
didn't think of telling you before, isn't
it?''
Wei, you needn't look at me that
way. l haven't committed a crime.
LII Keep my promise and eat one of my
hats. OF course, being that I lost. [
know you'll have courtesy enough to let
me pick out the hat L want to eat
That's taken for granted. 1 have d
candy hat at home that was given to me
some nights ago III have it here and
you can come down and look at me eat
1t, so there won't be any hedging"
''Wouldn TT hat make you late?''
It's common saying amongst news
paper men That police reporters general
~ see all kinds of life, and the saying
IN measure, is true They see the
drunken man pulled into the station
and locked away from his troubles He
may be broke, ,or he may have several
hundred dollars on his person 1t is
not so uncommon. They see al fires
all accidents and hear the police cases
They chum with the coroner, and know
all undertakers. Courtesan, gambler.
thief, confidence man. defaulter-the po-
lice reporter hears about them all It's
his business.
A reporter the other night. after
sticking out his dog watch at the
Central station, left for his home. 1t
was Just 3 o clock a. M He had not
gone more than a few steps when ne
was 4accosted by a man.
Mister, will you give me 10 cents for
a bed?"
Bed? Sure thing. I've got all kinds
of beds. Come along"
They went back to the station. and tbe
reporter opened the door Of his "domi-
Gle"
The vagrant "ducked."
The experienced eye of the reporter
had sized the man up beforehand.
All first-class hotels have a sort Of a
peH code As a general thing the num-
per OF rings tell Just what the guest
wants. In the hotel in question one
ring means ice water; two rings hell
boy; three rings, porter.
Two young country bellies came to the
hostelry. They were in their room. writ
ing letters at the time of this story.
Ihey soon wanted a bell boy The bell
was fung once and boy came up with
a pitcher of ice water. He left before
they got chance to talk to him. Thew
rang the bell again-another pitcher Of
Ice water and the same mysterious dis
appearance A third time they rang
and the same thing. By this time the
girls woke to the situation.
What horrid old thing" said one:
suppose he thinks we want to start q.
skating rink UP here. Three pitchers oP
Ice water! I'll just keep on ringing until
he gets tired of bringing up ice water
and then maybe we can talk to him
I'll teach him.
They rang again-another pitcher Of
ice water. They rang again and again
and kept 1t up until they had secured
twenty pitchers of ice water.
me next time the boy stopped, stuck
his head in the door and said:
BOSS says dat he's got no mo- nitch-
ers, an wants yo' to send some down
eff 20 want any mo- water"
Oh, thank you; we have plenty wa
ter. Guess it will last for while To
tell you the truth, though, we haven't
asked for any water. Are you crazy
down stairs, or"
mo; miss; yo' only ring the bell
"of course we did. How many times
should we ring it,"
''Yo' see dat2.' and he pointed to the
printed card above. the bell.
They We're SO angry they forgot to
ask for what they wanted. It was a
case Of the teacher being taught