Evening journal., 1907-10-07
Personal and Pertinent

The poet who sings for love and demands money
Tor ms song Is more than matched by Munich porter
concerning whom a correspondent of the London Mail
writes an interesting paragraph An English family
touring Germany stopped at the famous Hofbrauhaus
IN the Bavarian city and ordered quart pots of
beer When the beer served the Engfshman's wife
and children discovered that they had for it,
AT the Hofbranhaus it consdercd very bad forn1to
leavo beer unconsumod. The Ehclishman therefore
called a porter and asked hirn if bo ,ro,l1 t in9
to drink the four quarts that left He offered
TO do 1t for siNpence bargain made the porter
drank the beer and having received his money nnmed-
lately turned and invested IL In beer which he
consumed then and there have a suspicion that
this porter was the hero Of another story-an older
one than that IN which the Englshman concerned
wager was made concerning the capacity of certain
German for beer It claimed by of his friends
that this valiant beer drnker could swallow gallon
of the amber nuid without stopping for breath some
body doubted his ability 10 do it and money was staked
ON the proposition The man who betting on Louis
and he repod
"Excoose me little fairstp
He retired for few minutes and then came back
to say that he was ready and OF his ability to win
be sureg" he was asked.
Il outside and tried it," he Chicapo r2ecort
Herald
prominent physician Baltimore tells of an anus
ing eNperlenee or the early days of his practice when
he was rosiing in small town where by far the ma
Jorlty OF the workers We're coal miners
Il greatly distressed the insanitary conditions
prevailing IN their cottages" the doctor, "and
among other things tried explain to each house
nou 'e lporl'hee OF maintaining wholesome atmos-
phefe IN their sleeping rooms laid in ther-
hons phOld
where they We're most needed took pains point out
to each family in just how thermometer would
Indicate the proper degree of Temperatures
"As was making the rounds one dav injured
OF the woman at the head of establishments wherein
observed my thermometer proudly displayed al the
tions.
yes sir answered She I'm very careful about the
temperatures 1 watch the thing all the time it hangs
What do you do when the temperature rises above
Il take it down, sair put it outside till it eools
on bit"-Harpers Weekly
In the Drayton household it is said that the fatbor
or the family has way Of presenting alternatives to
Il wish you would speak Bobby" said Mrs Dray-
ton one night I've told him to take his medicine and
round and says he doesn't take the medicine
ana he doesn't want TO go 10 bedl"
Mr.. Drayton stepped to the door of Bobbs room, ana
stood there, tall and impressive
Bobby he said firmly IF you don't take vour ,nedi
cine at once and then jump into bed Won viii he M
20 ped DO you hear me- put to bed without having your
medicine ALI" '
Upon which, Bobby alarmed and confused swallowed
MS 4iotted portion and meeky retired for the night
Youths Companion
I had peculiar reason for stopping gambling among
i S Malers said large restaurant keeper yesterday
h was not because they took up time from business
put because they shifted customers often Every man
n +b is % uue sport ana they would bet their heads
~ ney could be transferred from their shoulders when
ey ran out Of money in card they bet their best
ss Sis M one man. who comes i'm every day and who
gives liberal tips, had different waiter almost every
eNu ic Noiplalheu 10 me about it, j
anu Iounu una ne was a big asset OF the who
eu on MN ana had been bet back and forth in every
sauie Ouaer liberal uppers were treated in same
"iner, ana IN order TO keep things straight TO
gsss & notice to the walters to cut the gamblmg"
Philadelphia Record.
coming nome on the MnnetonlSa" said St Joseph
srl we TOOK up collection for the widows and or
b@nas @ OF sailors and Mark Twain prefaced this coll
eo'oh win tak on meanness. He urged us to be
sislous m our oherings-not 70 be like a certain mean
old man from Hannibal ~
Inc meanest man ever knew he said lived in
naiAlina- lie sold his son-in-law the half OF a very
me cow ana then refused the milk with ne
souhs leloW' ON the ground that he had only sold
MN une lfont hair. The son-n-aw also conapeled
20 provide an the cows fodder 70 carry wafer NJ
her twice day. Finally the COW butted the Ola
man uroush barbed-wire fence and he sued his
A"n-m-&" tSr $50 damages "-W zshing oa star.