The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-28

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Down here where. if stress of weather
drives him 10 ii, a hungry man can 'dine
extremely well" on handful of tamales
or hamburger steak, red hot and re-
dolent of garlic. for the price of a plea
yune. or five cents; or, If he is fortunate.
he can purchase a meal ticket containing
twenty-one meals for the sum of So, the
very moderate charge of s1015 for two
dinners will not appear so very cheap.
Around the wharves In Galveston or New
Orleans, where two men can ''dine ex-
tremely Well on all the oysters they care
TO eat at the expense of twenty cents,
dollar for two dozen will appear extrava-
CANT enough The cream Of terrapin
soup is something like the forty-sixth
problem of Euclid to the average man,
heard of now and then, but never fully un-
derstood. The lone oyster crabe" is rather
familiar, being an old residenter who APP
pears. solitary and alone, like lost plead,
IN church fair soup, and the sixty cents ex-
pense is not enormous. Two lamb chops
surprise, costing s1.s0 is rightly named.
especially 10 those who can buy an entire
sheep for half the money. Zone potatoes"
for twenty-five cents is a bit stiff when we
reflect that they sell sometimes at
81 per barrel rres One One grouse g. is,
those who can buy cartridges, quail
or prairie chickens for 81 a dozen there
comes sensation of home-clinging and
from his own fireside." Two dollars for
grousei Zounds They must have glori-
fed grouse in New York. And then the
cordials that cost 20 centsi The amount
is in no way exorbitant If by cordials is
meant whisky sours, but how do they
make the odd change? Two libations for
a quarter, four for four bits and six for
six bits, which is a nickel over the amount
charged, and no New Yorker who gives
Seeley dinners will cut the price a nickel
merely because man is good customer
and Is fuying grouse. In mathematics
however, as in almost all things human
the starting point is based on a simple
assumption and. we must assume that the
seventy-cent charge is correct. One of the
gentlemen no doubt felt that he couldn't
go 1.-The pace and took beer on one round
They do that way sometimes when they
have yellow streak in them. Two dol
lars for claret! What is the world coming
to? California claret. the best i'm the
world, can be had for 40 cents a half gallon
by gumheads who drink II in preference
TO moonshine that may be had by the ing
ful by leaving four bits in a hollow stump.
Maybe the tourist and his friend Were
cameis starting across the desert. Fruits
50 cents, Think of IT A blue bucket full
OF pawpaws. simmons or apples should
not cost above two bits. These goldbugs
must stuff their fruit with money.
Ter dollars and fifteen cents for two
meals vittals and cheap at that is some
thing awful. When we were cowboying it.
carrying our proyender in our saddle
riders and cooking all things ir our skillet.
we have lived three months oas less than
this. including an occasional banquet OF
cove oysters and crackers at the store
The question arises. Is man worth s.
meal? II he spends that much. is he
not consuming his own and somebody else 8
share? The masses should rebel and see
20 IL that the money devil does not gorge
and panaper his own while starving the
elect. Some men are not worth killing:
The man who costs the world IS a meal
is well worth killing. and 80 Tar we are an
Anarchist.