Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-21

RtppIes on the Current of Life I'm the
MefrnmoIts

ROUND ABOUT NEW york.
RippIes on the Current Of Life I'm the
Metropolis.
When a distinguished foreigner strikes
| New York the hotel at which he stops
hoists on its Flagstaff the hag Of the coun-
| try he represents. Every hotel Of conse-
quence keeps In stock the flags Of various
/ nations, ready TO run up when occasion
warrants. At the Hotel Aston for in
stance. the flag supply represents an in
vestment Of $4,000 So cosmopolitan Is the
I tide OF visitors which stops there and so
! frequent are the banquet engagements,
which during the season average three OF
/ four a night, that a collection which win
make available the right flag at the right
moment is tremendous. One may see them
! Tapping from the facade any day-a patch
Of brilliant color in the grayish vista Of
/ the city street. denoting that an important
parsonage from some foreign country Is
| stopping there, or that some swagger or
| ganization is giving a banquet. They are
! literally the signal flags OF hotel social
! life, indicating do the weather bureaus
! flag 20 the mariner what is going to blow
! in.
| on the eighth floor Of the Aston there
/ is a spacious room, the walls Of which are
lined with pigeon holes. Here are sys-
! tematically arranged and labeled the stan
I dards of the whole civilized world. Ameri-
can and foreign flags, club and society
| flags, make a Kaleidoscope OF bunting. All
! the foreign nations are represented from
! the Argentine republic to Sarawak En-
/ signs and merchant pennants, regimental
and naval and volunteers are there care
! fully slowed away. There is a special
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state flags. New York City has an off,
/ cial banner, and the United States coll
| leges are we'll to the fore The Grand
Army of the Republic and the Society Of
| the Sons Of the Revolution have their
! standards.
"A restaurant like this is as good a
place as any theater for the study Of
| character" said the manager of a we'll
| known dining room. Now take that
young fellow over there. He dimes here
| once a week regularly-never more than
once. And he always aims to seat himself
| at a table already acquired by one or
two men and force a conversation during
| the meal why, I've come to know his
system as well as If he had told me.
| learned through friend that he is a clerk
in down town office with an SIS salary.
| OF that sum he sets aside 81 every week
for his dinner-his check is always close
to that-and he comes in evening clothes.
| If he succeeds in picking up a table ac-
quaintance his talk is that of the real
man about town. II he doesn't he derives
satisfaction from the consciousness of
having been seen by the wealthy or sub
stantial spending money like one of them
selves. OF course, he finds evening clothes
4 10 frn1 fG-
all seasons. There's no harm in him and
he's really a type; but it's queer way
to enjoy life, for he probably half starves
himself three days out of seven"
In the line of prisoners arragned be-
fore Magistrate O'Reily in Manhattan
avenue police court, Brooklyn, one day
last week, was man with haggard face
and eyes filled with anguish. Advancing
as his name was called, he met the ear
nest gaze of Magistrate OReilly and hung
his head. Magistrate OReIlly turned to
a note which lay before him, and which
i read
Dear Mr.. O'Reilly: 1 wrote you a few
| lines to ask you to let my papa go free.
| He has been in prison so long and, oh,
wish he was out He is so good when he
| cont drink and he said he would never
] lOuCn OTlIlk again. nave Detn uO"H "
see my papa and he looks so bad and pale
and thin, and when leave him he cries
and makes me cry, too So please let him
| go free Tuesday, so I will have him
! living with me. He did not know what
| he was doing or he never would have done
! it, I close, asking God that Tuesday you
| will set my papa free. Yours truly,
MARGARET ROSS"
| Magistrate O'Rellly had just finished
| reading the note when a beautiful girl
of 10 entered the court room and ran
| swiftly down the aisle She had passed
| through the gate before the attendant
could detain her and next moment clasped
her arms around the prisoners neck
Don't worry, papa, dear" said the
child as her hands caressed the prisoner.
''The Judge will set you Free for sent
him a letter"
Magistrate OReuly saw by the COM
plant that the prisoner, John Ross, aged
so. was charged with homicide Infiamed
with liquor, he had returned TO his home
at 24S Blocker street, Brooklyn, a month
ago and it was charged. struck his wife
when she refused to drink with him Mrs.
Ross was taken i'll shortly after, and died
in the German hospital. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney White told Magistrate
O'ReilIy that the coroner's investi cation
proved that Mrs Ross had died Of natural
causes.
Ross, you are discharged" said the
court 'This ought to teach you les
son you will never forget Take your
little daughters advice and STOP drink
ing. She is noble child to intercede
in your behalf. Go home with her and
protect her"
Ross took the child in his arms, and,
both sobbing, FASTENED from the court
room
A man went into a Broadway drug
store and asked the clerk for a remedy for
indigestion. The clerk sifted a pink powder
into the scales.
Take heaping dimeful of this he said.
TT will bring you around all right"
"a dimeful?" calculated the man.
What kind Of a system of measurement
Is that?"
1T isn't new" replied the clerk. land 1t
is very simple. Just take a dime and pile
as much powder on It as will stick. That
will be the proper dose. You couldn't get It
any more exact II you measured for half
an hour with scales and spoons"
A man standing near by sighed reminis-