The sun., 1904-06-24
LIVE TOPICS ApsUr TOWN.

lou HiiBnt tnlnk, SAID the man who
usually takes things at their face value,
that the tobacconist whose window shows
a costly display Of the best goods to smoke
wastes a lot of money in putting them there
for the sun to spoil i did till yesterday.
don't any longer.
i bought a package Of popular to-
bacco that comes put up in little muslin
sacks. noticed In opening it that the
internal revenue stamp, that is always put
| on 80 that II must be broken to open the
package was absent; but | went up in the
air 30 10 speak when inside, instead Of to-
bacco. found that the bag contained
closely packed sawdust. With visions Of
having unearthed gigantic, fraud hurried
"'Oh,' said the salesman, that's a dunn
my used In the window displays. II got IN
with the genuine by mistake. Gee
wonder II any more got-out ?''
-The praises OF the civil servants of New
York have been sounded far and near for
the magnificent work they did at the Slo-
cum DISASTER said the veteran news paper
man. and | was glad to hear EN-. The
policemen, Health Department employees
and others on the job, deserved every good
word that was said Of them. Az the same
time would like to ask, what's the matter
with the reporters?
THE task of covering that story was one
OF the worst they ever undertook. 1t called
for rare show OF physical endurance aud
devotion to duty. met one evening news
paper man who had been forty hours on
the assignment without sleep. OF course
this was an extreme case, but not an eA-
cePtional one. The reporters. besides don &
their own work, helped, in many cases,
those who were looking for lost ones, and
lent a sympathetic ear to their sorrowful
tales
Looking down from the Brooklyn Bridge,
as the car sped toward Manhattan. what
seemed for the instant a thrilling rescue
under way on the river became visible,
Standing on the deck of Fulton ferry
boat, in the Brooklyn slip, a deckhand
pulled frantically at a rope attached to
something that struggled in the river
second glance-the vision had TO work
as quickly as a snap shot camera made
plain that the rope was tied to IA white bull
terrier. The dog breasted the current
bravely and pulled on the rope as a huge
fish might have done. 1t was still swimming
about and kicking up great commotion
in the water when the view vanished
"No it amt my dog" said the deckhsnd.
when found later by the curious onlooker,
Its a fightin' dog owned down the street.
give him swim every day from the boat.
The rope is fastened to a girth, like those
the fat pugs wear. and the dog jumps in
Il notice in THE SUN this morning the
plaint Of q Southerner who has trouble in
passing silver dollars, said recent arrival
from the Far West, 1and that reminds me.
When first arrived was weeks in shaking
off the impression that New Workers are
o race Of millionaires.
"In the West bills mean big money. If
a man has stack OF dollars, they're in
silver. II he has ten or twenty dollars, II s
in gold. Bills mean fifties and hundred..
80 when a man flashes a roll, it generally
shows that he's made of money. So for
weeks whenever l saw a man counting a
stack Of bills. representing maybe as much
as $8, my first instructive thought was that
I'd struck a fnancier. l haven't got over
It yet. Six paper dollars in my pocket
make me feel like Vanderbilt
The Office boy had confessed in the police
court that he had stolen dollar from his
What did you do with t?" asked the
Mag istrate.
I went down to Coney Island and had
good time" confessed the culprit
Did you 90 alone''
The Magistrate removed his spectacles
and regarded the youthful prisoner severely.
Then he made this remark able speech:
Don't you ever do that again Don't
be a hog II you must steal money don't
be selfish and take all the pleasure your
self. Take some one else with you, and let
them s ct some pleasure, too, so that you
will make up in some deg rec for your own
wick edness. It's bad enough to steal.
Don't add being selfish hog to your other