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JAMES SZRlSWZ2ER.

Say" said Strosnider, you'll lose your
mind making those think bets Then he
diverted his attention from the private
secretary.
"Some one said the other day that ] waa
broke" he said. 'IIl never be broke as
long as I've got hand to sign a check.
III have money long after DR.. Harris has
gone to tho bad. Say, he's fine ono, isn't
he? It's too bad about him.
1T was queer how met him. I never
chased him step. stroled into an auto
mobile show in Paris, just to look around,
and there was Eby Shaw OF Chicago, whom
I've known for years and who's got all
kinds Of money.
He was sitting. in big Panhard and
when he saw me there was nothing to it
but we must 60 and have some wine. We
Joined a party at table and Harris was
one OF them.
He got interested in me at once. Shaw
told him was millionaire from Pittsburg
and Harris got all excited about me.
@There was another one in the party-an
Englishman. who was just the same way.
l picked those two out for suckers and de-
voted my attention to them, or, rather,
let them devote their attention to me.
Harris wanted to know all about me:
how long was going to stay abroad, where
I tived when was in New York and all
that. He learned that had wife and
child and insisted that they should meet
his wife and boy. That came e1out later
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Diplomatic Exchanges Over Studio Dog

destruction, having hung himself In the
fringe Of the couch cover, looked out from
another corner behind the guitar,
The little face was 50 pretty and Incon-
little and stood with him in her arms. looking
out the window and wondering what to do.
She came to hasty conclusion. She and
Edie had been at outs. Edie waa studio
girl friend. She would send him anony.
da 10 Ias so as her ~6en hen
delicate attention she would DO friends
with her again.
She aocorriin ely rang for . messen ger, .
pretty, pink faced boy In blue and gold. who
smiled broadly when he saw the dog. sh.
dogs neck, kissed him sood-by and Dc.
spatohed him with haste. imlporing the boy
upon no condition to give the name, ad-
dress or description Of the sender.
Forty cents said the boy;
"It's cheap at the price, said she, a. abe
counted out the money.
She forgot his existence until she met
Edie on the street some two weeks later
and received, In lieu Of smile and how, a
frozen stare. Then she suddenly remem-
bered.
She sought out q common friend.
did Edie get the dog I sent heri' she
Il should think she did, was the reply.
Il went to see her the next day. She was
II Cyclone had passed through.
"Edie herself was scarcely less Of . wreck
She had spent a sleepless night. The dog
had begun early in the morning, about I
o'clock, she said. to drag her shoes across
the floor, one after the other, nine paire.
"When he got through she arose In her
wrath and threatened to throw him out the
window. She livee on the eleventh floor
But she didn'tf'
"What did she doy'
"She took him out for q walk and de-
liberately lost him. l suppose the dog
oatoher'5 got him by now
After q moment.
III were you,' he added, IL happsned
on the other side from Edie's studio.'
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Acts the Continuous Vaudeville Show Of New York Life
The Confidence Man Who Boasts Of
Private Secretary, a Valet and an Auto

and Harris made a great fuss over my
boy.
He was going back To this country soon.
but he wanted to be sure and SEQ mo az
soon as I returned. I've got In my pocket
q postal card he sent me tho morning he
left Paris"
Strosnider read II, thus.
DEAR Mn. sTRosNIpkR: forgot to ask
where letter would catch you; that 10 to say.
your permanent address In Europe. We
enjoyed having Mrs. Btrosnider and your
self with us last evening. Be careful while
travelling and do not let any one advise you
wrong, especially at Monte Carlo. whore for
tunes are lost In . night. We leave at II -.
Address Hotel Metropols, London. Sin
cerely, JOHN A. HARRIS. NJ. ID.
wasn't he careful about mei' said Stro.
snider. -He vas afraid would be led
astrsy at Monte Carlol And TO think that
be gets up in court here and says that the
night he lost the Sl2,bo0 he really didn't
want to play, but was afraid to rsftns.
Why. say, that night everybody In the gam
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John Srosnider, con man, IA not 80 ele-
giant as Mr. Onkhurst nor 30 handsome az
Bunco Tom O'Brien, nor so fluent and
plausible as Paper Collar Joe. He seems,
however, to have studied the qualities Of
all of them and 10 have gone as far as he
could in each direction.
He ia quite the most outspoken person
of his clnss that Now York has seen In long
time, as tho District Attorney will bear
witness. Mr., .Strosnider told him all about
trimming DR.. Harris to tho tune OF &i2,5oo
in The financial undertaking whereby DR..
Harris was TO beat the American Gambling
Syndicate.
Strosnider was not indicted. Instead, he
got DR.. Harris and the physican's lawyer
Champe s. Andrews, into temporary trouble
with his counter charge OF extortion. Mr..
Andrews has gone abroad, discharged and
presumably happy. Dr. Harris may be yet
in town. Mr.. Strosnider IL In Saratoga,
bland and confident as ever.
Out West they call him varioisly Rig
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Punishment Of Bully Whose
Delight Was to Duck Women Bathers

One QUICKER got dose Of his own medi-
cine the other day. He 10 big, brawny
fellow, and he had made life miserable for
boys and girls. particularly girls, at one Of
New York's bathing beaches, by grabbing
and ducking them, much to the terror Of
inexperienced bathers Being husky and
tough as he is big, the men have been afraid
to interfere with him.
A few afternoons ago Joseph A. Ruddy,
the crack player OF the New York Athletic
Clubs water polo team, paid visit to this
bath. Water polo, it may be explained, is
recognized as the most strenuous OF the long
calendar Of sports, far outclassing In this
respect even football, and Ruddy is the
games sturdiest exponent. 1t Is said that
one Of the essential qualifications Of the
water polo player is to have acquired a
liking for being half drowned, as in the
course Of a game the players grab each
other tightly and the man who can hold the
other under the water the longest Is the
better player.
Ruddy reached the baths Just in time to
see the QUICKER engage in the gentle pastime
Of ducking tirnid, feeble girl, whose weak
struggles and cries Of real terror did not
cause her prosecutor to relent.
Holy smokers!" ejaoulated Ruddy, with
gritting teeth.
Perhaps fully two seconds elapsed before
he could reach the man. and with one great
Jerk he tore him from the shrieking girl.
Say, how would you like to be elucked?"
asked Ruddy.
The whole thing had been done so quickly
that the big fellow could only stare blankly
at the smaller man. And then. before the
big man could find his voice or make a
hostile move, Ruddy dragged him into the
deeper water.
'Now I'm going to give you dose Of
your own medicine" said Ruddy.
Big and strong az the QUICKER was, he was
hks an infant In the powerful hands OF the
water polo player. Ruddy put his sandow-
Hke arm across the big fellows throat In
stransls hold and twined both legs around
ths other's body In true water polo tackle.
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Il kept him all night. He whined con-
tinually. About this morning he began
to drag things about my room.
Il had to tie him with long rope. How
in the world are you going to keep . dog
like that in your studio?'
"Where is he now?" asked the owner.
.On the roof
The owner rushed home. She ha d no
sooner entered her studio than she heard
whines near the skylight on the roof.
Out in the hall was the iron ladder reach
ing to the roof. II was straight up and
down. The sun shone blazingly through
the aperture. She hurried to an artist who
lives across the hall from her.
my poor little doggie is on the roof In
all this sun" she told him. "He will die Of
1t. Co get him.
The artist weighed about 200 pounds. hut
he was accommodating. Presently he came
down the perpendicular ladder with the
prespira' ion pouring OF him and the dog in
"Poor little fellow he said. you should
have seen him when i went up. Cried for
me. So afraid / would go down without
him. He IL half dead with the heat"
The woman took the dog IN her arms and
pressed his pretty little yellow and white
face TO hers.
1Ill put him in my studio, she said, 1and
lock the door till I come hack. I've got to
go out again. r. you hear him whine too
much, 90 to him."
She united the rope and left the puppy
loose in the room, not knowing.
BE good, now she admoniShed him.
1t was more than an hour before she
got back, but the artist had heard no whines.
he said
When she opened her door she saw the
reason why. She hardly recognized her
studio. Tho screens were down her pillows
were strewn In the path of the storm, the
contents OF her work basket were scattered
to the four winds.
The work basket was torn into shreds,
the pompons were OF her slippers and in
separate corners, and the cause Of this
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an encounter, knock out, a narrow es-
cape from ride In the Macadoo motor.
Not long ago the girls mother was called
out Of town hurriedly. One evening there
after the girl expected her beau. Her father
was out, at a poker game somewhere; her
maid had that night of. and the cook
Well, she wasn't around.
i was summoned into room where there
was Egyptian darkness. The girl explained
almost hysterically that must hook her up.
as there was no one else and time was
nearly up. Istarted to scratch match and
she shrieked. She said I must hook her in
the dark.
Honest. fellows. I never hooked up
girl even in the light. Never She said
l must hurry, and backed against me to a
standstill and gave directions.
Il did the best knew how. Then fled
few moments later heard a voice In the
corridor.
You've hooked me upside down was
the shrek, and skipped every other hook.
You did it on purpose, I believe
i began to apologize.
Stay where you are!' she sore AIMED.
Then there was lull.
There's the bell!' she shriekesl "You
must answer 1t. There is no one in the
apartment. You must entertain Mr.. Dash
until get into something else
1Why didn't you think Of that in the first
placer ! asked, somewhat nettled.
please 60; hurry up: there Is the second
ring
Il was in the parlor forty.fve minutes
| told a lot Of lies in that time in order to
hold the young man down, and at the ex-
piration Of the time stated the young woman
came In. perfect dream in placiditv and
bewitchery. You wouldn't have known
TO look at her that her temper had ever
been rumpled.
'She was 90 sorry to he late. but tho
machine had quit few blocks away and
she had to hurry by car. That was her
story.
Then went out and left them. The next
day her mama returned, and there were
some explanations.
am not quite 80 much OF 4 family
bachelor as was, but overheard spirited
interview about the folly OF fashion. and !
think It was the mother who said that such
garments as hooked UP behind were to he
cent to the modiste and changed. Then
I heard another voice say that man who
be q chump.,
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The Family Bachelor Wants Home
and No Cares: This is What He Gets

The family bachelor Is one who lives
and has his being in the house q his friends.
He is the product Of q combination Of hap
peninRs. He is something moro to the
family than a brother.
The family bachelor is the only man in the
house, aside from the head Of the family.
He begins with tho belief that he needs
home comforts without any domestic in
cumbrancee.
There 10 no census Of the family be chelor
in New York. but his name is legion. The
story Of one is the story Of % per cent. Of
them told at a bachelor dinner describes
the fate Of ALI
sThe people With whom make my home
have shown their diEnterested friendship
for mo In moro ways than there are testi-
monials In q new medicine advertisement.
be said. III l should die tonight or any
old night, they would 60 out among my
soquaintanoes and tell story that would
1--WE me first class funeral with an extra
floral display. They would even lie for me
II should be discovered.
But there are times, boys, when have
q sort OF longing to come back and live in
chambers or at the club. Once in q while
the things which you fellows dream about
- novelties ger to be sort Of handicap.
.You have heard Of the leadpipe cinch
II 10 not what you have supposed. The
family bachelor is that In other words,
be 10 weighted down.
when the good people with whom he
lives have company for dinner the family
bachelor is trotted out. He is booked to
say things. Luokless chap is he Il he can
= 4There is always young woman, an only
daughter, In the home am talking about.
Always . nioe GIRL with big N and a q.
You are never asked to do anything for her
happiness and comfort. But you always
know four or six weeks In advance about
her birthday. Same way about Christ
mas.
she has young girls who come to see her
All nice girls. Somehow they never come
with their beaus. They come in groups
or in pairs Hardly ever single.
If It Is summer time, a. now, you know
ths fondness Of girls for strolls, for rides,
for q jolly. Pape u tired and gone to bed.
Tho family bachelor Is metamorphosed into
. chaperon.
You fellows think cbaperon IL feminine.
Il is and 1t isn't 1t ia not where you are
. family bachelor. There Is no mathe-
matical process that will give you any sort
OF guess - to the variety and amount Of
jolly Il requires to satisfy bevy Of summer
girls-girls with fluffy gowns.
Not long ago the girl where live had
row With her best fellow. 1t was up to me
to rake him Jealous. Several plans laid by
the girl and mater familias went agley.
Atlast suggested one Of my own. Result,
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It was at a studio party that the dog
first materialized. The woman to whom
the dog was given and who also lives In
e studio happened to look in the direction
OF a much bepillowed couch, and there at
the foot Of it was puppy. yellow and
white, round, chubby, apparently plaster
cast puppy until 1t opened its eye and winked
at her. :,
I had It. H.
ak foot giant out Of JOY. with suspicious
readiness.
Can keep it in ay 'tudio'' she asked.
.of course Tas hi. reply. 4 keep him
here"
Perhaps, # she had noticed the uplifted
eyebrows/ OF some inmates Of adjacent
studios in the same building she would
hardly have said % quickly;
let me have him. When can you bring
him to me?"
.To-morrow,' answered the six footer.
with large and comprehensive smile OF
pure delight.
aWhat do you feed him?' she asked.
.Oh, egg shells and any old thing. Don't
give him too much meat this hot weather. p"
.Can take him out to table d'hote
dinner?"
1.-The very thing for him."
All arrangements having been made,
the woman went out to the country on the
following day and forgot all about the dog.
Coming back on the day after, she met a
studio neighbor on the street.
SITS a good thing you have arrived
the neighbor declared. 4We are all just
about exhausted trying to take care Of
your dog. Yesterday six foot giant with
a pleasant manner came to my door and
asked me to keep him for you. II had
knewn!
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index finger In an adventure. and the loss
hampers his penmanship little.
The con man was just giving orders to
the private secretary when Sun reporter
found them In the cafe OF an uptown hotel.
you'd better get some money" said
strosnidcr. I'VE start for Saratoga in few
days. The p. q. whipped ont the faithful
checkbook.
twenty-five hundreds' be suggested.
"Oh, I've got few bills to pay, said the
big man, and you can't 60 to Saratoga
with nothing. Make It 5000. It's no use
trying to get the currency to-day; tho
hotel probably won't have that much.
Take 1t to the bank in the morning"
Bet you 2 to can name the winner OF
the fourth race" said the private secretary
when he had put the signed check in his
pocket.
"Ill bet you 8 to I can name her. said
Strosnider.
Bet you Blinkety-blank won the third
race, persisted the p. 8.
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.Buck" and curious outline which, with
the help Of the imagination. might be the
print Of foot OF normal size.
The legend as told is that Col. Jonathan
Buck was a very harsh man and the lead
ing spirit Of his day and generation. He
was the highest in civil authority. and his
word was law in the community in which
he resided. When a certain woman was
accused of witchcraft, at the first clamor-
ings OF the populaoe Col. Buck ordered
that she be imprisoned, and later she was
sentenced as witch.
The execution day came and the woman
went TO tho rrllows oursng her judge.
The kanpman was about to perform his
duty vhei. the womca turned to Col. Buck
and e. =.
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The door opened and tall girl swept
like tornado.
.Julial You're worse than the west
wind. Help me pick these things up
Girls, congratulate me! I've got job.
It's posing for the biograph.
II was at my wits end, and 1t occurred
to me that somebody must do those thinss.
80 hunted up tho place, and applied. l
am to be a spinster, regular stage effect,
and want you to help me out with the COS
tune.
"we're to 60 to the park in an automo.
bile, and do all sorts Of stunts. Good pay,
too. They want another man, and pro-
posed II to Roscoe. know he hasn't a
cent. But he said 1t was too hot
.There! What did I ayr Julia is
woman. and she takes what she can get
rather than be idle. Roscoe would rather
be idle until he gets what he wants"
II idle, cried Julia. Il guess notl Last
summer after the season closed sewed for
dressmaker all summer. 1t paid my bills.
at least. The summer before addressed
envelopes, folded circulars. and what is
really funny-I haven't told this before
played the drum in ladies brass band In
the Bowery."
The two women then told their topic Of
conversation.
'Oh, this house Is no exception, said Julia,
NOR IL this an OF year. lived in another
house where there were eighteen Of lis.
equally divided, and we nine women actu-
ally kept the nine men from starving. Not
one had or could get anything to do.
At least they thought they couldn't. 1t
amounts to the same thing"
But why, oh why, do they stay here7"
asked Maglet. why don't they 60 into
the country where the fields are whitening
with the harvest and the laborers are few
and the pay good?'
so they would, Mag, II they we're Har-
ward or Yale students. But the most Of
them are actors, and their only hope Of an
engagement is to be on the spot. l ap-
preciate that myself. Nothing would drag
me out Of walking distance Of Broadway.
The only chance is to hang on"
Il asked Mrs. Flanagan the other day,
II she had her choice. whom would she
select as clients
Clients. Magi I thank thes for teach.
ing me that word!'
well, dodgers, then. Roomers will
not say. Mother F. almost lesped to an
swer.
.'Uerksl' she shrieked. Actors and art
students arc no goodl A. clerk has steady
work, steady pay. and he's an all round
the year man. God bless the clerks. men
and women, is the lodging house woman's
prayer. Actors and art students como and
60, and on mighty little money. Medical
students aren't bad. Good enough pay
while they're here, but soon gone
that's the professional Wow Of tho
situation"
What did she say about us'' Julia asked
"Us? I didn't ask, for know that ahe
couldn't pay her rent every month II It
wasn't for U.S..
"Well, I'd like to have thcir credit; know.
We women simply live to pay our btlls
weekly
Credit? What do you thinkt Delorme
asked me to lend him five dollars. There
was to be a game Of poker In Jackson's
room, and he wanted to play. Wasn't that
the limit"
did you tell him so1'
sNo, I told him hadn't It. I hadn't
either. So he went and borrowed IL from
Mother F.
1T was hier on her part
1T was just that. For he won all tho
boys had. and paid her a months back
rent
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, The couple went down and down-and
| stayed down.
The water closed over them and became
smooth again, the only sign o3 the struggle
| going on underneath being few air bubbles
| that shot up to the surface from the strang-
ling QUICKER as he tugged to get away from
| the strong embrace Of the avenger. 1t
seemed like ten minutes to the spectators
before the heads Of the graphing pair came
to the surface again. Ruddy thought that
he had given his man about enough foI
the first time, and so relaxed his grtp
slightly.
When the duoker's head rose to the sur
face he was half drowned, spluttering,
crying, and with huge gulps he tried to get
some breath into his lungs. And the little
breath that he succeeded in getting he
Immediately used In be- ggi 1g for mercy.
Now Ruddy has been q trife dee,f for
some time, and he seemed to be harder
of hearing than ever. Paying not the
more grabbed his victim and again the
two took long journey under the water.
This time Ruddy held his man down
until he felt all movement stop and tAe
mans body began to relax. Then he
brought the now unconscious QUICKER to
the top OF the water and towed him to tha
shore.
So far gone was the big fellow that 1t
was found necessary to Use the barrel
method to bring him back to life. And
this way OF resuscitatinR half drowned
bather, which at no time is a gentle opera :
tion, was applied with oil the vigor that
might have been expected under the cir,
cumstances from the willing volunteers|
who gladly offered to assist.
1t was fully two hours before the big fell
low recovered from his lesson, and, when
he finally ,donned his clothes, he skunk
away from the bathing place to the ac-
compartment Of grand chorus OF jeers
and biting remarks. He has not been seen
since, but 1t il the general opinion that he
y thoroughly cured Of holding some weak
hng's head under the wsssr.N
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Jonathan Buck. listen to these words
the last my tongue shall utter. II IL tho
spirit OF the living God which bids mo to
speak to you. You will soon die, and over
your grave they will erect . stone that all
may know the spot where your bones lay
and crumble TO dust. Upon that stons
the imprint Of my foot shall appear, and
for all time, after your acoursed race has
vanished from the face Of the earth, will
the people from far and near know that you
murdered woman"
The imprint Of the foot, the story goes,
appeared on the stone a month after it was
erected. Certainly II Ia there to-day as
plain as ovsr. Amateur photogYaphers
have taken paotures Of " and . visit 70 the
is one Of ths psstimss Of summer visitors.
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LEGENDOFTHE "WITCH's FOOT"
sports Favsrite story and the Nonu.
ment That Proves e.

BANGOR, Aug. ls--Close by the road on
the outskirts Of the seaport town Of Bucks
port on the Penobsoot River. is small
family cemetery. In it's enclosure sleep
the Bucks, the family which founded thu
town and gave it the name and legend.
The largest and most conspicuous monu-
ment in the cemetery is a tall granite shaft,
which is In plain sight Of the highway. On
yone side Is the inscription -Col. John
Buck, the founder Of Buoksport, A. d.
i762. Born In Haverill, Mass, 17is. Died
March Is, i7oS.'
4 On the other sds - the single word
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Where We Get Our Salt.

FTOW INC BObEOn TtTNW.
Salt is 80 common an article that one !.
astonished when no realizes the amount n'
II produced IN the United Statesldurirs th'
year 1904. The number of barrels was p,
OsO. zoe. valued at s8O2l ,22o. In spite of this
enormous output, coming mostly from New
York and Michigan. the United States imported
ard exported 25.SOs.577 pounds. valued az
&e0. .od0. The deposits Of salt In the lnlteen
States are not numerous, those In New loih,
~ only ones which are worked com merciauy'