The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-25

RI HEY'RE finding new stunts for
the messenger boys right along. -
remarked the manager of a local
district messenger Office the 9TH
er day. Airing babies and dogs,
taking care of jagged indiv iduals accom-
panylnS oat-of-tdwn women on shopping
expeditions. and jobs of that sort are now
old stories for the kids. But every once
IN while something new for them to dc
turns up
A couple of Saturday evenings ago a
business man. well known along r street
dropped in and handed me one that I'd
never heard OF before in connection will,
the messenger business.
i want to get shaved over at Blanks
ne salo, mentioning a well-patroniZed bar
Der shop. in about three quarters of an
hour The place is always jammed up
with fellows waiting for their over-Sun-
day shaves on SATURDAY. evenings, and
We mad some wearisome waits there.
wish you'd bike a kid over there for me
70 nafi place in the next row for me.
lie can let on that he's due for haircut,
and III drop around about the time he's
called to the chair
i sent a boy over to the shop and it
Went through all right. The youngster
peaied his coat and kept wary eye out
that he wasn't skipped in his turn. A
couple of minutes before the boy was due
10 be summoned to chair as the next,
the business man. who had rigged up the
little scheme dropped in. and when the
lad was called by the barber the man just
slipped into the chair and the boy donned
MS coat. with grin, his task accom-
plished. The business man told me aft
tfWard that two or three of the waiting
men in the shop started to register kicks
over the transaction until it was ex-
planned to them. when they calmed down
and laughed over the idea.
During the races at Senning a.race-
track man, wearing a lot of jewelry, put
new one over. When he got up to the
desk he leaned over confidentially and
said to me:
I want you to send kid down to So
and-Sos pawnshop with this ring re-
moving fine three-stone diamond ring
from his left hand. I want two hundred
on it-and have the boy hurry
Il sent one of the larger boys on the
erIand, and he returned promptly with
the 5000 and the ticket. The racing man
had observed me smile a bit over his
scheme. and he smiled along with me.
Well. it does look bit iinical. doesn't
it?' said he. But the racing bunch are
travelling around the streets to see what
they can see all the time, and if any of
them happened to spy me going into or
would get around that yours truly was
on the crags, which wouldn't suit my
game a little bit--ses?
Not long ago ! had another novelty
here. \ departmental official that I know
we'll walked in with a Shoebox under his
arm.
Say said he to ne. have you got
any kid around this plant with No. s
feet?'
"'All sizes said I.
Good thing said the man. opening
the box and pulling a fine pair of patent
leather shoes out of it, ! want you to
pick out a boy with No. feet and have
him jog around town for a day in these
Internal contraptions. ! bought the shoes
yeste erday They slipped on all right
when bought them, but ] almost died
in EN- at the theater last night. They
sort o drew around the instep. If you've
got "a youngster that can stretch em for
me III pay right for the merchandise. al
though I'd hate to have to take a chance
on paying the kids relatives for his life
in case he failed to survive the ordeal
Il handed the shoes over to a tidy lad
provided with feet that fitted them
snugly enough and the boy wore them
around for the day without any discom-
fort The man came in for them that
same evening. and the next evening he
dropped in to say that the shoes fitted
him immensely and that he hadn't been
bothered little bit by the drawing in
steps after wearing them all of that
day.
"A very much frustrated man came a
prSlcins in here before o'clock on Tues
day m orning last. and, leaning over the
desk. and addressing me in a voice of
wrath, mingled with emotion,
he said:
Il want you to assign a messenger boy
to meet me at the main exit of the war
department al precisely two minutes past
this afternoon. Pick out a boy with
strong lungs. one that can hofier so that
he can be heard four miles. if you've got
one like that in stock. Instruct him to
walk up to me. when he sees me emerging
from the way department. and get a
powerful, unbreakable clutch on my coat
tails Then ne is to howl with all his
mig ht-' Forty feet of garden hose!- Forty
feet of garden hose and keep right on
the same all the way from the
war department to the store where I've
been due to buy that confounded hose
for the past ten days. I've forgotten it
ever time. and now I'll be derned if my
wife II speak to at the table on ac-
count of it. | wouldn't take a chance on
going home tonight without that missy
able forty feet of garden hose for any
money. and that's why want you to pick
out the most perScverng, rambunctious.
son of gun of boy that
you've got on your payroll to bawl gar
den hose at me sixty times a minute
from the instant I break out of the war
iepart ment building until | walk out of
that store with the garden hose under
my arm. If the boy is arrested for dis
turbing the peace I'll pay his fine, and
gladly; I'll be eternally hornswoggled If
I'd let a little thing like that Tease me
when it comes to having my home broken
ip. ''-Waslin gton Star,
4 Lesson in Neatness.
AS President Roosevelt came out OF
church one Sunday morning, a boy
how wearing the uniform of high