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they were talking English, and yet 1
knew that 1 couldn't make head nor tail
of IT. 1 dare say there's many another
in the same fix that would be glad to
get an Interpretation of the kind
1T is interesting to read the police
regulations said Bedloe. "and see how
far the huckster observes them.
The Commissioners are empowered
To regulate loud noises with horns.
gongs, or other instruments, or loud
cries upon the streets or public places,
and to prohibit the use of fireworks or
explosives within such portions of the
District as they may think necessary 10
public safety
article TX, section 2. of the police
regulations provides:
No person within the District of
Columbia shall make any noise or out
cry for the purpose of advertising
wares, or attracting the attention or
inviting patronage of any person from
any vehicle or any business whatsoever:
Provided. however, That newsboys may
cry their newspapers between the hours
of o'clock a. m. and O'Clock D. M. on
secular days of the week. and not other
wise: Provided further, That newsboys
may cry at other necessary hours extra
editions of newspapers on extraordi-
nary occasions: Provided, further.
That this section does not apply to auc-
tioneers.
That's the way the law reads. but the
huckster shouts loud and long, notwith-
standing. l have rung many door-beIl
myseif-of course, there wasn't a blue
cOnr in SiPht-9nf 7
And as for crying his wares, why that's
one of the things that puts an occasional
bit of sparkle into Georgetown life No,
The huckster don't care a hang for the
regulations so long as the cop isn't
about"
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JOE RICKEY'S FROG STORY.

IT HE kansas City Journal" credits
the late Joseph K. Hickey. after
whom the "gin rickey' was
named. with this story:
When I was very young en-" said
Hickey, 81 went on tramping tour one
summer with chap named Dill The
weather was warm, and dreadful thirst
came over Dill and me every little
while. In gratifying this thirst we were
not long in running out of money.
''one warm afternoon we came to the
outskirts CT a quaint village. Frogs
croaked from a pond beside us. and In
front a magnificent old tavern doomed
one of those old taverns where it is de-
lightful to sit and smoke and talk to the
farm folk in the old-fashioned bar
one of those taverns where the beer is
always cool and pure.
But We had no money for beer. Yet
we were thirsty. We sat down under
tree. and conspired together for long
time. Then 1 went to the pond and with
a piece of red flannel torn from my I'M
dershirt 1 caught a frog.
Leaving Dill behind. 1 entered the
village and found my way to the tavern.
stood behind the bar
held the dead frog up before him.
" Can you tell me what this is. sir?'
l said.
Sure, he answered; it's frog
Oh, no, sir l said. It's not a frog.
know it's not frog
=" Give it here Let me look at 1t
closer The landlord. holding it in his
hand, examined its legs and the interior
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There's a peculiar full-throated sound
to the cry when the mans sure his
stuff is in first class shape. This chap
hasn't the true ring"
I thank thee. Jew. for that word -
said 1. do you know I've sat here
hour after hour trying to tell what that
ah-ah-ah-peel meant
Equivalent English Renderinqs.
Bedloe went on TO tell me that
''strowbee" sung through the nose in a
staccato voice meant strawberries. Lab
m-ms-andante means lemons "Aul-
claw this cry is always given in a
vox humane tone. Is intended to stand
for ''Cld clothes" "War-melIums " veil
cd pianissfmo Is equivalent to water
melons. "Oe-rahn-jez," chanted with a
little throaty murmur is intended to
convey to the listener the fact that the
swarthy son of the South has more
oranges than he knows what to do with
and would like to part with a few to
some deserving person. The most n1u-
tilated cry of all is that of the umbrella
repairer. His slogan varies from
'UmbrelZzzzzZm'n nd" to "Onibrels T.
maend." The fortissimo effect, however
is never missing.
These are merely the equivalent Eng
fish renderings of the huckster's crv ="
said Bedloe. Il haven't given you the in
5aite variety of shadings in tone and
accent. which are full OF meaning to the
trained ear"
WELL I replied. II know enough for
a Iayman. l intend to copy off these
yells with their translation into the
Kings English and hang them up in this
room. They VIII save me many a mo-
nent of trial and tribulation. / give YOU
ny word, Bedloe, l thought I was a sub
Get Tor the funny house I heard these
ollows yelling. l had sreaking idea
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Il WHEN OE JOINED THE BANANA CLUB :: Blu H FfAN -

IT HE huckster of modern times is a
IineaI descendant of the "'raree
show" man. the travelling vender
and the jolly bagman Of the days of
yore; still it is doubtful If his forefath-
ers would be able to recognize their Off
spring in the strident-voiced, brazen fell
low who traffics IN Washington streets
today. His wares. his bearing. but most
of all his cries. would tend to mislead
them. have often sat at my window
for hours at time trying to discover
what the huckster meant. but I am the
poorer for that time wasted. and I had
arrived at the conclusion ths
not speak English or United States, but
some strange tongue which had come
down TO him from the jolly bagmen OF
days gone by. At length, however, Il
found the secret. A friend of mine is
a police detective and he gave me the
key. Bedloe is a youngish chap. tall.
spare and dark, with a quiet way Of
talking. He is one of those silent EEL
lows that men instinctivsly confide in
and moreover he is possessed of the de- |
mon OF work His superiors respect him !
before his face and In their heart. but |
they envy him just the same. for he !
knows too much and is distressingIy en- |
ergetic. He has a notion that -e~ecy |
detective ought 20 know several trades |
in a city and those thoroughly. "Po-
licemen cant prevent crime, except |
when the criminal knows that he'll be |
caught and caught quickly" says this
paragon OF detectives. and If every de-
tectiye knew two or three occupations
thoroughly. up and down, so that ned
be able TO tell If new man was taken
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"'Aye. aye, sir sung out old Rack
straw. heartily.
Well. bring her up close, lads, and
the bo's'un and I'll board her.
Aye, aye, sir; that we will said
| old Rackstraw. The eight men sat In
the gig watching the captain and the
| aged seaman as they clambered I'D the
side of the strange vessel and disap-
peared from view. Suddenly from within
the abandoned ship there came a cry of
fear so shrtll, SO terrible. that the crew
caught their breath. Then old Rack
straw came staggering to the rail, with
horror written large upon his peck
marked face and his one eye alight with
some hellish terror
Those were the nights for stories
when fertile brains licked fast under
the sunny influence of good wine and
better company. when the law was ex-
pounded with much judicial clearing OF
threats and tapping Of argumentatiye
clay pipes on the little oak table and
when the old Preside cronies were
afraid to go home and dared one another
to be the first one to leave the inn. like
a pack Of schoolboys.
Walls That Breathe Good Cheer.
The room where the old bar stands is
Hred-fioor, walls and ceiling with the
fairest oak. now grown to a deep. rich
brown with the reek of muItitudinous
clays, steaming punch and smoking
savory dishes. 1t would seem az If the
Wit, song and good-fellowship of the
Ecnest wights who have spent their
hours within incrusted the walls ton
and, laying hold of the newcomer. in
vested him with some of their CHEEKY
good nature at every sip or mouthfuI.
The ceiling is low, and great beams span
1t from side to side. I can't imagine
fcw 1t is, but the low ceiling here mere
Is adds to the general air of coziness
and snugness. In other rooms it would
deTress the spirits and close I'D the
WlEdpipe- The floor is always covered
With clean. white sawdust. and as YOU
enter there is glimpse of tables with
snowy cloths in the little rooms at the
rear, tables suggestive of chicken pasty
toothsome meat pies and a mug of stun
ming ale to wash all down This inn
came over from England in 1910 and has
rassed from father to son for three gen
e1ations, each father saying on his death
teo, John. keep the old place safe. my
boy"
Rare Treasures of the Museum.
But really the best is yet to come. SO
hcarken further The innkeeper has a
curiosity shop around his walls. There
are several grim photographs of the
hanging of the conspirators against the
Efe of Lincoln. One picture shows an
officer in peg-top trousers and a ridicu-
lous coat, reading the death warrant on
the scaffold to Mrs. Surratt. Atzerot
Payne, and Harold. Some considerable
person is holding an umbrella over the
lady to shield her from the hot sun. The
Eext picture was taken after the drop
fell, and shows the four limp forms. the
i,;Iioned arms and the heads at hide
ously unnatural angle 1t Is enough to
make the flesh creep.
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is framed copy of the Washington
Chronicle" with picture OF Booth
''the vile murderer There is the ath-
letic figure, the handsome face, the black
hair curled tight around the intellectual
brow.
Old Zach. Taylor's Fighting Hat
These are election badges. dating from
old HickoEys" time down 10 President
! McKinley's. What hearts they have
| throbbed over. how many fstieuffs and
Bullets have they earned their wearers
II dare not say dollars. Zachary Tay-
| lor's hat, the memorable white tile
worn at the battle OF okelhobee, Flori-
da, December, 1887, hangs in a glass
case. Ahal busy brain worked under
this old-fashioned headgear- You can
! imagine the old war-horse taking it off
to wipe his forehead in the heat OF bat
tie and damning the enemy whenever he
had to duck a bullet
w. A c. Ryan, dashing flibi.ster
who was executed along with the crew
of the illstarred Virginius. November.
1913, appears in photograph. He wears
black SLOUGH hat and ii great lancer-s
coat. and sits with a hand on his hip
and his head thrown back. 4 delicate
ivory-inlaid matchbox of 1900 is in
sharp contrast with the heavy blunder-
buss, big sabers. and rude pistols of
Revolutionary times.
Reward for Booths Capture.
copy of the circular Offering 500 600
reward for the capture of Booth and
his accomplices appears on these walls.
The thick. black letters are unfaded vet.
1t would take an unusually shrewd de-
tective. one of the Holmes or Vidocq
type, to scent out Harold from the fol-
lowing description of him: Harold is q
little, chunky man, quite youth and
wears thin mustache." How many
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Bottled Song and Story.

on-Why the proportion of criminals
would fall way down.
Your thief. or murderer or escaped
Jail-bird OF today don't hide IN cellars.
He goes into some trade and works
right under the policeman's nose"
Bedloe's Clever Ruse.
The huckster's coat has always struck
Bedloe as splendid place for criminal
TO hide In. Accordingly, he bought a
suit Of the proper clothes and slipped
into the darker waters which form the
unGertow of city life. For several
months Responsibility knew him not.
He was as silent as ever when he re-
turned TO Quality Street. but he had
fund OF experience large enough TO last
an ordinary man a lifetime. | know him
well, and there rs an art in making men
OF this type talk which. though Unborn
in some people. can be acquired with
practice Bedloe told me upon his word
OF honor that he sold rotten strawber
ries to his own cook-strawberrie so
rank that if he had kept them overnight
the board Of health would have inter-
fered.
Moving ii Exclusive Circles.
He was initiated as a full-fedged
member of the Banana Club, one of the
most exclusive and secret organizations
Of hucksters known to science He saw
The high council of the Coffee Clutch.
The walters society. so dark and mystic
rious that its very name is strange to
The average man. He learned to buy
bananas, oranges, lemons, pineappIes |
and berries at the O'Clock market on |
Louisiana Avenue: to sleep in his push |
art without tipping It ever; he knows
III the grips, passwords. and lingo OF the |
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This Rare Old House of Entertainment Brought
With 1t a Fund of Rich Stories, and It IS Said
Very Many Samples of the Stuff That Is
Believed to Have Inspired T hem ~ ~ *

the Tower musket would have to be
aimed at the wires overhead. There is
a shred of cloth and button attached
which were part of John Browns coat
Gentlemen; here is bit of bone and a
raveI of thread which have outlived even
that strange. vigorous personality. You
can imagine his long. nervous fingers
fastening this button when the arsenal
at Harper's Ferry was besieged. Here
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sprinklfng sand on the Constitution to
dry the ink Such a bar! 1t is like
looking into some deep, brown stream
where the glasses and the name NJ
the proprietor in a gilt frame are re-
fected to see it. There are unexpected
drawers in and about it containing all
sorts Of quaint and useless things.
Here are fat Dutch bottles with bulg-
ing bottoms and squat neck nests of
lemons, nests of glasses, rows of brown
stone mugs hung at an angle as II
the thirsty shades of bygone customers
were still a-drainfng 'em; Jars of lump
sugar. redolent pineapples, fragrant
cloves. and orderly ranks of bottles
covered with dust like veterans after
a march. tier on tier of them. reach
ing to the ceiling.
The True Poet and His Muse.
After all your winter is the true poet.
1t is he alone who puts the genuine
local color into his work. I dare saw
that when one of these old bottles is
uncorked, laid in cradle and decanted
that the blue of the sky. the song of
the birds. the wind among the trees
and the good, lung-hlling smell of the
earth can all be tasted with every
sip. Who knows but what Shakes
peare wrote Hamlet when his imperial
mind was warmed and stimulated with
such rare vintage? Perhaps we
should be giving all the credit of the
plays to an unsung Lincolnshire hon
grower.
Bottled Song and Story.
What stories, songs, and superb wit
are bottled up here against the corning
OF the cold and thirsty company. This
which is the true flavor of 1t to the
conEoisseur-is all thrown in with the
wire. and is to be had for the asking
Truly 1t would be a cold heart that
would not thaw bit at the sight of this
old bar.
At night the two windows throw
splashes of light upon the pavement
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DE- 0PLE with experience in suon
matters say that good wine can
be enjoyed anywhere, but that
the real flavor. the true bouquet, is
not appreciated save in the presence of
good company. and the proper sur
roundings. If this be true, then no.
body can deny that a certain hosteIry
! have in mind is the ideal place to en-
joy glass. It is an old English inn
taken bodily out of the seventeenth cen
fury. covered with modern brick walls.
and set down within the limits OF our
own city. The unlettered and ignorant
may argue to the contrary, but it is
impossible to convince any of the pa
irons of the old inn that this Is not
the fact.
When Our Grandfathers Hobnobbed.
When this old inn was in England.
therefore, and when, mayhap. your
great grandfather and mine hobnobbed
glass to glass beside the bar, 1t was
surrounded by wide grounds. The inn
itself, am sure. was two stories high,
with great. deep windows filled with
diamond-shaped panes of glass; there
was a tiny porch at the front, a sunny
old rose-garden at the side. a collie
romping on the grass. and pigeons
strutting up and down the roof. On the
second floor were the sleeping rooms,
great, long rooms. holding immense
four-posters draped like a hearse in
funereal plumes and streamers of black.
If sleep be the brother to death, then
assuredly these old beds were near kith
and kin to the biers that bear off his
victims. In such rooms as these-the
tall silver candlesticks placed upon the
high mantel-two handles might cross
2 pair of ieweled swords and pink each !
other in a gentlemanly way, because
forsooth. Mistress Betty Carewe had
noticed one more than t'other.
The Jolly Old Kitchen.
The inn kitchen could not have open |
ed anywhere else but into the yard with |
the stable at the rear. Such a kitchen, |
and such stablel What shining ar
ray of pots and pans, each rejecting and |
multiplying the rudy glow of the oven |
fire. And goodly hams. leeks. lentfls. |
pumpkins. sQuashes and toothsome veg
etabIes hung from the raftersi The |
cook, in a striped vest of ample pro-
portions. knee breeches and a white |
apron, boxes the sculIion because he |
forgets to haste the roast. Further |
down the yard is the stable where the |
sleek riding horse and big hunters of |
the inns guests are kept, together with !
the sweet breathed cattle. Here is the |
stable yard itself: the moss-grown |
pump. the orse-block-scorned of sta
bic boys. Anal Civilization has ad-
vanced, gentlemen. but Edison and
modern wizards have yet to surpass
the jolly old English inns of our
fathersi
Ben Franklin Sprinkling Sand.
OF course all these things are not
to be viewed at present unless you
have the seeing eye and yield yourself
to the influence of the place and It's
vintage But the bar is here still Just |
as IT was when Ben Franklin was
NON~cONOONO.O.N-No~-~ 0O~~Noo000o@
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The Sto y Of a Tavern That
Stood onHeppstead Heath
in the Bravl Days Of Bold
Dick T urra andHis Merry
Men, gut Which En-
grated,lo America for Rea-
sons # It's Own Some Fifty
Yezrs Ago. :. :. :. :.
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Kind, Tender "Bill" Nye.

a chamber of horrors? By the by,
that reminds me. You've heard Nye's
story of his visit to the Eden Musee?
sadly neglected. Nye used to tell it
thusly:
I was leaning against a pillar In tie
chamber of horrors said Nye. when a
young mar from New Jersey, with an
Adams apple like a full-grown yam,
accompanied by young lady approach
ed me. Touching me on the shirt bosom
with his umbrella. the Adams apple
with the young man attached began to
explain me TO his companion. This is
the great outlaw chief from Missouri
Jesse James. How lifelike he looks. Lit
tie would you think. Emmeline, that he
would disembowel a bank, kill the en-
tire board of directors. and ride off on
the rolling stock How tender and kind
he looks. He not only looks gentle and
peaceful. but ne looks to me as if he
weren't real bright" I then uttered
piercing Shrek says Nye. and the
young man from New Jersey went away
in haste"
The innkeeper is a genial soul and
good story-teller. but his wit sounds un-
canny in the presence OF these grim
relics.
The Art of Gunnery.
Two Tower muskets hang from one of
the beams. thick-stoeked, brass bound.
and carrying two-ounce ball. One of
them is fitted with a curious sighting
apparatus. The farther off the object the
more you have to depress the butt to
aim at it, So to shoot man at the foot
of a telegraph pole across the straat
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INote-It is interesting to know, In
connection with the above, that 3. NJ.
Hack, who, as a printers apprentice.
set up the Booth handful. is now fore
man of The Times composing rooms.
He was working at the time OF Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination on the old
Washington Chronicle of which
Richard Savage was foreman. Mr..
Savage and Mr.. Hack were called to
the Chronicle Office at IL o'clock at
night by a general officer. The hand
bills were set up in record time snd
quickly circulated freely about the city
and neighboring country.I
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mo MORE BUT THIS. ;

Just health and strength TO toll
Since toiling may not cease;
And when the daily task is done.
A shelter meath the dying sun
Where Though known and loved by
none,
May break my bread in peace.
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This is regular chamber of hor-
rors," said / to the innkeeper, as he
was explaining his treasures
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Box and side go bare, go bare,
And hand and foot go cold;
5ut belly God send thee stout ale enough!
Whether't be new or old.
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nEoPLE with experience in sucn
/ matters say that good wine can
be enjoyed anywhere but thai
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Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-12-19

| a smile OF satisfaction goes With one OF
8axter's -Builhead.' scent cigars.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-12-19
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Indignant wffe-You said you would b,
home NOT later than one O'Clock. Lat.
upband--Juxe as / was eomin. up IN,
steps l heard the clock strike one-thre,
or faur times.