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bushes, II looked 40 much like the goods
already Grated and shipped
when the moon-face, after all OF these
ensilage and alfalfa questions, remarked
that he had little matter of 5000 lying
around loose that he wouldn't mind turn-
ing over--that's the way he said II, turn
ing over'-Jim just couldn't stand II any
longer. He had to go out and take the air.
Il arranged with the walking gelatin
Gus mass to meet him at 10 O'Clock ON the
next morning and take him down to the
Western Union Office to meet the chief
operator, and then I saw him to the feather
and lace importers hotel down the line
and tucked him away. Jim was with me.
"T can't do it, said Jim to me, crushing
my hat over my eyes, after we had put the
moon-face away. It's a shame. It's a
sin It's scandalous. Dammit. couldn't
spend the money after getting 1t SO easy.
and Jim wallowed around and Rugged him
self over the idea Of IL. It's like pinching
a little girls sidecombs on her way TO school
It's like swiping an orange OF blind Apple
Marys stand. It's like standing Tony
up for a shine. III have TO donate my bit
of the dough to the missionary society for
a sure thing-it 'ud hurt me too much to
spend such childish mazoom.'
And, as a matter Of fact, 1t did look
everv bit as good as Jim put It. We couldn't
20 to bed for spending the silk-threaded
yellows in that moon-map's pocket Glad
stone.
We excavated him from his little white
bunkette in the morning, and took him
right down to see the chief operator. I'd
tipped Big Ned on to do that stall for me.
He just happened to be going through
the corridor on the operating floor, In his
shirtsleeves and with a pen behind his
ear. and looking too busy TO scratch his
nose, when Jim and me and the moon
face got there. Big Ned put up the portly
and naughty blum about its being his busy
minute.
This gentleman Is all right passed
TO him In the regular stage whisper, while
the moontace looked happy and self-con-
scious. and then Big Ned said that he would
have to see us around the corner In about
half an hour.
We went To the place around the corner,
and within thirty minutes Big Eed-he' d
given kid a dime to hold his coat for him
at one end OF the hall. see?-came around
and joined us. He threw IL pretty curry
about the chances he was taking with his
billet-that the superintendent acted like
he was next. and all that. and the big jell
gaped at him open-mouthed.
This isn't working for a bank roll.'
Jim whispered TO me. This Is just corking
OF on lawn under the apple blossoms and
letting your best doll light your cigarettes
70. you
tor. rising In his business-ltks way e v
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to he a cafe-concert star at $1,000 francs a

to be oafe-concert star at 1900 francs a
II Is the thee tres that suffer most by this
rise Of the c. fe-ooncert. For a long time
the public hesta ted between the two mani
fiesta tons Of national genius: end even now
1t is uncertain why the oafe-concert tn
umphed.
True. the theatre mana gers have shown
disregard for public convenience and
safety. Their prices are exorbitant and
their methods tricky.
Their auditoriums are dirty. badly ven
tilated, infested with pirates In the shape
Of old-woman ushers. Their sets are
tween the acts are beyond human pntience:
scenery is skimped, old pieces are remounted
and loud-mouthed youths force oranges
and bon-bors on one through the entr'actes.
II Is different In the cafes-concerts,
where the public may choose between
numbered sets and spa cious promenades,
where one may move about In well-ven-
tia ted brightness, smoke. drink. flirt. chat
or listen to this or that rtist on the sta &c.
On the other hand, old-fashioned theat-
rical critics say sthe people have become
vain in their imaginations and their foolish
heart Is darkened." A theatrical piece so
simple, so clear that child could follow il.
amount Of attention and memory above the
capacity OF the Paris public Of the year 1913.
II must have something OF an exposition OF
a plot. something limiting Of denouement.
But In order to look forward to this de-
nouement the spectator must remember
the principal incidents and the names OF
the personages. Why did the heroine
destroy the letter? Why did the jealous
husband put new paint on the garden bench?
Why has the villain changed his name and
clothes?
II is too hard TO remember, while in the
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the Song be Sulbac has just 'created'
such one in which the eggs come out
strong in the song and spoken story Of
My Cousin Dublaireau (pig-badger)'; and
subac draws 800 francs q night;
And the comic drunkard. like the sublime
Jacquet In his creation OF the .Cuitomane, 7"
TO whom last weeks Paris qui Chdnte de-
votes three pages and six photographs, will
hiccough his @One must be pig to get
in this state!' to the applause Of great
audience.
] Nigh, have practised pSysic or photography.
Instead. only practise my saoloographc.
which Is Partisan jargon for habitual
drunkenness. Then comes the blooming
maiden with her sentimental song. as sweet
as syrup, OF no matter:
Whether the brannn-chhh
Shall be all In white
(which means winter,
Or in the springtime, the turf shah lie all green
sin. George. love thee.
Dost thou my love reaute,
All. then for love like ours. there Ia season.
In the next song che will love only In .The
songs. with sweet old airs, which is perhaps
the reason why. the neurast henio Paris
public reserves all it's applause for the next
number-the -agitated comic
This bold-faced youth is gay. pan, pan,
pan! Zun, zun. zup! Boum. boum, boum!
That ia the chorus. Cannot you hear the
words Of the couplets' Neither can 1.
Tho orchestra is braying-by request
the cymbals crashing. the big drum BOOM
ing The next verse, however. sounds
something like:
oui Sy prsnd du ehocis''
Qui qu bolt son pitt win blanof
C'est mamAn
Qui qul rsfole du gruyere.
50 papa takes chocolate and mamma
takes white wine for the sake of the rhyme,
while brother dotes on cheese for the same
reason.
Consult the pages OF the Courier des
Concerts and you will find figuring there
az latest successes the titles Of 400 songs of
the most incongruous variety, but with
idiocy prevailing nightly. -Boufe- Tout
('Eat or Cob AM, Adams Christ
mas, .Flora's Examination Feet First
.Salle Famile What a Dirty Family!),
Holiness Christmas, Little Gregory
AT Biribi" and II We're Sparrow
The tremendous thing, after the manacal
bathos OF the mass. Is the mixture. Mixed
In with what must be the veriest drippngs
OF tired brains, or the imitation of IL in
wilful idiocy. YOU find legendary church
pieces like the aChrist mas OF Adam, Others
equally celebrated like the Christmas
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70 the good cheer without a comfort Then
let Jim in. and II was the three of us for
cab and a knock up this way,
me doing my share OF the buying. but letting
the moon-face dig for quart now and then,
just 30 Jim and me could enjoy the fash
OF our money which this stin with the Luna
mush was carrying around.
Jim and me didn't begin to patter any
horse until after we figured that the large
yellow perch was in shape to give the WOODY
eye to any kind Of hook we'd bait up, and
then We began 70 waltz him around
Ever play 'em?' | asked him, and then
] had TO stand for about fifteen minutes OF
his "reminiscences Of the trotters in the 1850
class that he'd seen 60 at the county fairs
he said.
Well. there's only one way to beat EN-
and that's TO just know told him. Not
know the one TO play-nobody knows tina,
but know the one that has won. and then
get the dun down good and hard
His mazarine windows opened up some at
this. and thought 1t was the greedy CLINT.
i can only get the resu lis Of the West
ern races fifteen minutes before the pool
rooms can get them; that's all--only fifteen
minutes I went on then. Maybe you per-
minutes, you know
He gave gulp and grin. a nd gave
jim kick on the leg under the table that
meant, Amt 1t shame to take the money!
Then I told him that Red Riding Hood
about my pal. the chief operator down at
the Western Union Office, who for his cut
Of the yank-down passed me the names OF
the winners and then held OF from sending
EN- into tn, poolrooms for a quarter Of an
hour to give me the chance to get the stuff
down. and the moon-map began 10 rock
around In his chair he seemed to feel 30 good
about IL.
When can have a talk with that manf'
Gays he. meaning my chief operator down
at the Western Union building.
Not until II o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. seeing that it's after midnight now
said. and then he began TO ask me whole
plenty OF questi ions about the scheme-was
sure to get the winners in time to get the
coin down. was the chief operator man to
be depended upon, wasn't he afraid OF los
ing his place, and how could he afford TO take
such chances, how big bet OIL a race would
the poolrooms take. what would happen II
the winner was disqualified after the money
went down, what part Of the rake-of would
Jim and expect, and how much did the
chief operator on my star ask for his Fart
Of the frame-up-and 20 on. until Jim had
70 stoop over and pretend 10 pick up some
thing frop The door SOS b could hide his
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adjusting back to where the moon-face sat
and the way the phosphorus showed In his
lamps when We appeared was pinny. poppy
I show.
You win.' said to him. in that real
matter-of-fact way of mine when talking
Of big money to a sucker. but Glendon,
the horse that copied the first al Memphis,
was only an even-money shot, and showed
! him over the two thousand-his two Ave
hundred ochre-tinted babes, and the hun
dreds and fifties that Jim and me had gone
through ourselves and tapped ourselves
TO get to make the game look right to the
come-on SOS we could squeeze the rest OF
his leather-full out of him.
BY jinks, but that's an easily earned
thousand dollars, isn't it?' said the moon
face. 1 certainly am much obliged to you
gentlemen Tor showing me how this thing
II done. Now, how much shall let you
bet for me nowy
up to you says I. but you might as
well make a tap OF it-no use waiting for
another day
Well, said he. surprising ! let you
bet four thousand on the next winner, why.
you can't bet it all in one place. can your
oh, that end OF it's all right, said ].
There are two OF us-Jim. here, and my
self-and there are a couple of rooms in
this neighborhood, and each OF us could get
two thousand down-that part Of it's pie
By jiminetty, then. here's four thou
sand he said, and l thought that Jim was
going to fall down where he stood.
THE moon-chaTt pulled his leather out
again. and this time he opened wide the
pocket where the sepia -hued five hundred
boys were kept. He fumbled out six Of
them, and added them TO the two that he
had given me In the first place and that
had brought back to him with the thousand
Jim and me had made up.
'Supposing the winner is as much as
doubtfully, before he passed me the money.
oh, nothing, except that YOU win
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influence than to construct its laws, the
Paris OF to-day is in q curious position.
The greatest singers Of the Paris Opera
receive from 10000 francs to 10000 francs
a year. with now and then jump to 1926 900
francs. Yet Yvette Guilbert received
5000 francs a month for years. THE
Beautiful Otero" has had $4,000 francs a
month.
Gsrmaine GalIois, who was paid % 800
francs at the Berlin Winter-Garten, got
almost as much on her return, not to the
true vaudeville stage of the Varieties. but
TO the Folies-Marigny. Getting herself re-
leased from the Grand Opera, Cleo de
Merode went to the Folies-Bergeres for
10000 francs a month.
Fregoli. at the Olympia. with his 400
francs a night and part OF the receipts
above a certain sum, received 100 900 francs
in his best month. And Polin, with his
gross soldier songs, he's drawn his 5000
francs month in. month out, while Frag-
son at his piano has sung to the tune Of
2s,OOO francs!
II is true that Otero drew by reason
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show. while the cafe is justified by the
spectators right to consume refresh
ments, move about and smoke.
According to the yearbook OF the pro-
fession, the Theatre Concert (still an
other nameD Paris alone maintains ninety
three principal concerns Of this kind: but
the Figaro Iuustre. in it's recent inquiry,
found more impressive figures. Over the
signature Of it's expert, M. Dauzats. it
declared that Paris to-day counts 274
cafes-conoerts, in which are sung annu-
ally 5000 new songs. Decidedly, we are
. gay people,!
Even this figure Ia greatly below the
reality when it is considered that I'M
numbered little beugidnfs chowleries" ,
spring up, continue or die down day after
day In every part OF Paris. Walk in no
matter what street. in the laboring suburbs
a. in the thickly settled artisan centre. and
you will have thrust into your hand the
announcements Of new .Fdens," new Cash
nos, .Alcazars" and .Folies.'
Doubtless the chdnson de table. with it's
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licenses issued in January. the women
holding licenses who returned to town
after an absence and the number who had
departed from the capital and disappeared.
Thus il IL learned that the number of licensed
women in the city on Jan. 81 last was Ss5.
The statistics for the night shelters show
the number Of inmates and meals issued.
In January last there were 1859 births, Of
which 397 were illegitimate; 469 marriages,
i.i88 deaths and 90 still born. The NATIONAL
ity Of the bridal couples is given and OF the
fathers and mothers. The deaths are re-
ported according to age. causes and sex.
The total of all articles Of food received
by thirty-five markets and oe4 butcher
shops is reported. There are twenty
nine classifications Of food; cattle and calves.
for example. were slaughtered to the num-
Der Of 5?,294; 1922 $3.50 Kilograms Of vege-
tables were received, and the -four consumed
was s.s2O,340 kilograms. The quantities
of articles unfit for food. as determined
by municipal inspection. is shown. The
quantity of water consumed was 3.9I7, zee
kiloliters.
Exhaustive tables are given OF prisons,
police statistics. accidents fires and sui
cide-. The area and value Of real estate
sales and mortgages. according to parishes
u
and purchasers and Of mortgagors and
morgagees. The highest and lowest values
OF coined gold for each fourth OF the month
according to exchange quotations are given;
also the amount of stocks and bonds sold
on the Stock Exchange.
The statistics of transportation are 80
full that even the number OF carts, bicycles
and all other vehicles is given together
with the number Of passengers on the
tramways and their railways total receipts.
Many small tab es give an astonishing
variety Of information, only few OF which
will be mentioned here TO show the variety.
The racing statistics. for example, show
the number OF horses racing, the distance
covered and the number Of spectators:
the amount OF the betting was 81 ,i9i ,e52.
There were ten theatres open. the spec
tators numbering ss.ssS. and the gross re-
cepts were ts5.ss5.
Among the other items Is the number Of
loans and redemptions at the national
pawnshop, the quantity OF gas and electric
light consumed. the number OF loads Of
household refuse and street sweepinGs TO
moved. the areas swept by sweeping ma
chimes and bv hand. the areas spriukled
and the number OF water cart trips, the
number Of messages carried by messenger
service the pieces received and des patched
at the post Office, the internal and foreign
money orders issued and received. the
number Of books taken from the public
libraries and Of readers In the libraries and
statistics Of the schools.
With the bulletin In hand II In an easy
matter for the citizens Of Buenos Ayree 10
keep informed in all the phases Of munich
pal affairs that can be readily reduced -
the form Of statistics. =,
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CUILE OF A MAN
NJ WITH A MOON-FACE.
The Disgusted Wirc-Tapper Tells
Of an Attack Upon a Well
Filled Wallet.

~The next time l play moon-face for
. hanky-pank kind that runs to see
where the fire Is every time the village
gong sounds-I want somebody to present
me with freedom Of the nut factory on a
wooden platter" dsgustedly remarked
In his hour of relaxation-not TO say OF
oollapse-the wiretapper who never tapped
o wire
He was screwed up In an alcoYe seat in
one of the upper Broadway hotel cafes.
and there was a baleful light in his beady.
bOodshot eyes as he told a pair Of his pals
sbout Il.
@It's getting so in this business" he went
on that the ones that look the softest
are the kind you've got to turn a sand
blast on and then pound on the head with
Q ,riveters mallet. They won't pay 20
cents for a gold dollar with suit OF clothes
and a naphtha launch thrown in. But
that's not the worst OF Il the way these
new suckers refuse TO let go. They've got
-a-sting working.
Eve spiked this moon-face-Jim and me -
that ! started to tell you about. four days
ago. He was buying his juice for himself
IN the bar Of one Of those feather and lace
importer hotels down the way below
Yourteenth. and Jim and me both got the
Assh at his leather al the same minute.
il was about as long az a bath mat I.
and the centuries and FIVE hundreds and
papers with M in the corner were popping
out Of every pocket Of 1t.
Just look at our money Jim whispered
70 me when we got the peek at that pent-up
stack OF saffron CRACKERS. and felt every
bit - gay a. Jim did about the moon-face
and the bundle which he was temporarily
packing around with him.
He had a map on him like Hallowe EN-
pun 'kin-a big, tallowy-haired jell. he was.
and he looked 40 soft that Jim warned me
not to poke him in the ribs In handing him
IN argument for fear ] might punch hole
In him with my finger. He had lamps of
the color Of bluing in the stationary tub
Of Monday morning, and. although he
was logged oil right, he just looked Che
mango county and nothing else.
'-.rhe butt-in wss easy. pretended
that had . half-suds. gave him q wallop
= ~ back and called him Bin. and he fell
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STATISTICS or 4 GREAT CITY.
The Remarkable News Bulletin Which
BuenOs Ayres Issues Every Month.

The city OF Buenos Ayres publishes
monthly In the English language a bulletin
OF municipal statistics which Ia probably
unsurpassed in order of arrangement, in
variety Of information and in f,ilness OF
detail by statistics Of the same nature issued
by any other city in the world.
The bulletin contains six pages of the
size Of an ordinary atlas sheet. The tables
are compact and the information il so
clearly presented that the record Is very in
teresting TO all who study the economic and
social conditions Of great cities. Ar an ex-
ample of one OF the best statistical publj-
cations OF it's kind some idea will be given
here of the variety Of information presented.
The bulletin always begins with meteor
ology. showing the average baromet rio
pressure. temperature and humidity three
times a day for each ten days Of the month.
the amount Of the rainfall in these periods.
the velocity Of the winds aud the total num-
Der OF hours Of sunshine and cloudy weather.
Then the movement OF population Is
shown; the number Of arrivals and depart.
ures Of foreign and domestic steamers.
and OF the incoming and outgoing passep.
gers. The nationality Of immigrants il
given.
The bulletin is actually able TO give n
Close approximation Of the population Of
the capital at the end Of each month. Tho
figures for Jan. 81 last, for example, were
obtained by adding to the population on
Dec. 81 the excess Of births over deaths
and Of immigration over emigration dur.
ing january, making a total population on
Jan. 81 OF s7i.7p3
The statistics for hospitals. &c.. show
the number Of sick persons In hospitals and
homes. and the number in the lunatic asyl-
ums, the number Of deaths and the disposi.
ton OF bodies, whether buried or oremated.
Buenos Ayres lie one Of the cities which
regulate The social evil by the license sys-
TEN. The statistics In the January buile-
tin givs The number Of disordesiy women
registered On Dec. 81 lest vsar. ths new
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Mails lc undo
C'cst lc gigot
II lie mardln
C'esi lie boudln.
lie mercredon.
lie nnlroton."

lie mlroton."
Which il about as II one should sing
Monday
lsthe bun day
And Tuesdays
Irish stews day
And "Wednesday
Roast hens day
While Thursday do
And Fri -di do.
i admit that 1t is idiotic,' he went on.
1T is
.Yes, but It's success Is certain. 10
dimanche la sauce blanche All Paris
will be singing those lines for three months.
The manager Of the " establishment
admits ii. He is delighted! Only he says:
Why do you say "lundoe instead OF
.lundi'Y Fri-di-do instead Of Friday?
Naturally l reply: To rhyme with
oioot lleg-of-muttonl, just as 'mardin :"
rhymes with boudin lpig's blood sausage .
But he will not admit it and keeps repeat
ing: I understand .mardin;' under
stand -lundo. But shall not yield
Nor did he.
And who was the gifted author?- asks
Maurice Talmeyr. An inhabitant OF the
Clarendon lunatic asylum? No. but one
OF the best known and respected Judges
Of the Tribunal OF the Seine Another. Of
the Tribunal Of Commerce, has made for
tune in the past five years composing such
songs
-Oh no. agrees CASTOR Jolivets another
investigator, "a cafe-concert author Is not
what a vain people imagines!'
Yet now and then a whisper like this
makes the fortune OF a singer. Such was
the luck Of Kam-Hill. to-day az extinct
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>ARts, April io.-while New York's one
time music halls appear to be as extinct
~ the dodo those OF Paris have so multi
piled In number and increased In vogue
that sociologiss see In them great social
element.
sausso i.ai;. cafe-spectacle. cafe-concert.
cAfe-chantant. 1t is all one. From the
corner cafe that hires a pianist and five
warblers to the Boulevard establishment,
more gorgeous than a theatre, that pays
che Beautiful Otero' 30 600 francs month,
the spectacle concert end is in the stage
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the waux-Hall OF Louis XVI. the Ange
Pitou Of the Directory. and Darcier's Lyric
Tavern Of the republic Of is4s, were all OF
the same tavern type.
But during the last quarter Of century,
they say. the cafe-concert has come to be
the peoples one resort, while the fam
boyant .Folies, -Scalas' and 'Olympias'
that can afford to pay more for a single
number than the Paris Opera pays a star
tenor or soprano, clearly indicate the taste
Of the great middle class. IL. therefore.
to make peoples songs Is to exert greater
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sNo." he was saying, Il have not yet
come 70 an understanding With ne manager
ling over o word
Howl ...
Listen. It win be q great success, my
Aln.entary Week. and he quoted this
stanxa:
Quand Went i'dimanche
C'est 10 sauce blanche
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as the megatherium. He wore black satin
knee-breeches, black silk stockings, a
coat.
He affected the ways Of a heavy swell,
mounting his words with distinctness and
JUNCTION. kam-Hill. which il bizarre
spelling Of Camille, sang Of club life and
real thing. that he made himself a star to
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nIled the Scala with her Les epinards
c'est i'baba, o'est l'balsi dc l'estomsc"
fsSpins on q the true broom Of the
stoSna ohi') her 5000 francs a month leaped
up To 5000 francs.
Did not the elephantine jeanne Bloch
make herself a star OF the first class by
Treating Il crack hazelnuts by sitting
on them'f And has not the lovely Me ,ly
left a promising career In opera -boufie
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cafe-concert there is nothing to remember or
forget. A fair young creature trips to the
footlights and MARBLES: Albert. Albert,
Tu ressembl's mon frere.- CAlbert, Albert,
you resemble my brother!-) And the pub
lie is delighted. II understands everything!
For three hours II listens to these songs.
Interpreted, il IL true, with trained ami
msls and acrobats In the more swell estah-
ishments, but always songs and more songs!