The sun., 1908-01-27
LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.

LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN.
Lawyers say that most men who have been
tried for murder and freed by acquittal
or disagreement OF the jury keep just as
far as possible away from courts where
others are being tried for their lives. William
~. haywood, ex-treasurer OF the Western
Federation Of Miners, is certainly an ex-
%9spuon; The other day he visited the
lhaw trial. Immediately after leaving
the Criminal Courts Building he went to the
tOmbs prison and got permission from
the warden to be shown through the big
gray jail.
Even II We didn't have a calendar We
could easily tell from our sales when the
first Of the month comes around said the
proprietor Of a butcher shop in east Har-
lem. Probably a majority Of our Gus
toners pay from $40 to S25 a month in rent.
which with most Of them amounts to a
weeks salary. The rent Of course has to
De paid In advance, and as the people
around here don't deal much on credit
except with instalment houses there are
plenty OF families who live on bread and
coffee for a week after the landlord has
his money. The butcher is the first to get
the gO-by, but all the cash stores have a
dull week after rent day
A business concern in Park row which
runs about all night has missed scores Of
incandescent light globes lately. Since
these globes are fairly expensive and the
item OF loss had become pretty sizable a
detective was rut on the job. 1t took him
Just twenty-four hours 20 find that the
globes are as good as cash over the bars
OF tho Park row and Dowery ginmills-
one globe, one drink Of whiskey.
Il wish tomorrow were over said a
young dentist on Friday night.
And whyf' asked the patient, admiring
her new porcelain inlay.
Saturday is children's day and by night
l haven't a nerve in my makeup that
isn't on edge. Ii isn't so much the children
themselves who are nuisance, but their
mothers. They insist on standing at the
side Of the chair all during the operation,
and every five minutes they ask IL it hurts
or il IL wouldn't be better to do thus and 30
with the tooth. The children themselves
invariably cry. but I'm accustomed to that.
II that was all they did I wouldn't mind,
but they bite down on my fingers, wiggle
all over the chair and what is still worse
they romp about the office and make life
miserable for the patient in the chair. II
! were beginning my practice over again
l wouldn't touch a child. ! can't stop
now without losing some Of my best pa
TENTS"
Skates are not the only things that will
60 on rollers this year" remarked a man
who had Just returned from abroad. They
have got curling stones now made Of
lignum Vita instead Of granite. with three
CastOrs on ball bearings underneath. Give
them a smooth floor, ike a rink for roller
skating. and you will see as fine game OF
curling as II the ice was "a foot thick in
Central Park
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is made harder by snow in the streets. The
rag and bottle men who push handcarts
abOut-nO idle job this, even when the
streets are clear-now find their labor
doubled. and the pushcart vendors find
themselves in like case, while the hand
organ men who pull a heavy piano organ
on wheels around all day long on streets
covered over with layer Of lumpy, frozen
snow. and when it's too cold for people to
open their windows 20 throw out money.
would seem to be earning all they can
manage to collect.
In a Broadway stationery store two clerks
were busy transferring letter paper from
decorated ChTistmasy looking boxes into
plain white boxes.
I'VE wouldn't sell this paper till next
December" said one clerk. If We left in il
these holly wreathed affairs. Nobody
wants to buy anything that looks like Christ
mas after the holidays are over. After
january Is festive box spoils the sale Of
The finest goods on the market and the only
way to realize any profit on them is -
divorce merchandise Of oil kinds from
the boxes and stow them awav for use mex.
season
OF all the notoriety attained Jy Edward
r. and Orlando +. Thomas in the banking
and insurance business nothing seems
to have dspleased either q them 80 much
49, a.
related Many Of IN" revspspNrs
in town fell into the error 81 r'f'rriH
10 them as brothers while they we.n IT,
the public eye. and one paper quoted e9ch
of them In successive paragraphs beginning
MY brother end T." Individu1 liz NrO
collectively the Messrs. Thomas referred
TO such illusions as showing the Ignorance
of the reporters respecting their affairs
and as demonstrating the lack of accuracy
OF the newspapers. Al the same lime,
10 reporters they took vigorous exception
to any assertion that they werc 4 al related
except in a business way. just WY they
seemed 30 exercised over this matter, in
view Of the many other unpleasant dis
closures regarding them, was matter
only explicable ON the theory that tho
reported relationship was the only pertinent
matter printed about them which they could
deny.
The death of James Rydal Randall
has had one peculiar effect on the music
trade" said a music publisher 1T has
Of course created big demand for Mary
land. My Maryland That was TO be eK-
pected. Maryland. My Maryland has
always been a favorite song. and now scores
of people who can recall only a snatch Of
the air or a verse or two of the words are
anxious TO refresh their memories and
learn the whole song. But Mr.. Randall's
death has done more than boost Mary
land 1t has revived an interest in other
songs belonging TO war times and TO the
days. Yesterday old men
came in here asking for songs that ! had
never even heard Of. One wanted 10 know
where he could get a copy, words and mu-
sic, of The Dying Californian He could
hum most of the tune. but the only words
he was sure of were one line about where
the gold doth never rust. Unfortunately
could neither furnish the song nor tell
the old gentleman where he could find it,
and he went away terribly disappointed.
Somebody else wanted the words 10
The Sword Of Bunker Hill Another song
{ hat was ask ed for frequently began this
wnv sThOuUh MANY and bright tha