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TOMMY SPINK’S EARS. \
Tommy S'pink was a boy
Who brought bushels of joy
' To the hearts in the sleepy old school,
But 'twas not his fine looks
Nor his liking for books,
For he stood at the ’foot, as a rule.
'. But Tommy was blest
l Above all of the rest
’ Whom I knew in those jubilant years,
For in some funny way, .
But just how 1 can’t say"
He was able to wiggle his ears.
The lazy old clock
Would be dreaming, “tick—tock,"
And the room quite as still as a mouse,
When some one of the crowd
_ Would dare snicker out loud
lAnd arouse all the rest in the house.
Then the teacher’s command
Would be “Hold out your hand!"
And some one would shed a few tears.
And all just because,
Spurning Nature's set laws,
Tommy Spink chose to wiggle his ears.
His scalp, so he said,
-Was too big for his head'
.And he rolled it about as he willed,
While his ears, to and fro,
So grotesquely would go,
You would laugh though you knew you’d
. be killed.
And to this very day,
When my skies are a gray,
There is one recollection that cheers,
As I think, with a smile,
With what innocent guile
Tommy Spink used to wiggle his ears.
Oh, the years have been long
Since I left the glad throng
I loved in those happier days;
They have passed from.my view
All those friends whom I knew
And are threading life’s dlevious ways.
All'is fading, I find, j
. Yet with pleasure my mind
To that one youthful picture adheres,
And from out the dim past '
I'll recall to the last
How Tommy Spink wiggled his ears.
—Nixon Waterman, in L. A. W. Bulletin.
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HE house in which Mr. William
Johnson carried on the business of
money lender and financial agent was
in no way diiferent from those sur-
rounding it save that the downstairs
front window bore the legend “Loan
Office” in large black letters on a. white
ground. A quiet, orderly, middle-aged
man was Mr. Johnson, and people who
met him in the street and did not know
him would have taken him for anything
rather than a man who pgt out his
money to usury.
Certainly there was nothing of the
Shylock about him as he sat one spring
morning in his dingy office over a much-
thumbed account book. He was atall,
spare, loosely-built man, with a pale
face and a thin, straggling crop of
beard and whiskers that always looked
as if it had grown in patches. Usually,
when he was not talking to his clients,
he carried a. quill pen in his month;
there was something in this habit that
gave him the appearance of an ab-
stracted poodle carrying a stick.
Mr. Johnson was deeply engrossed in
the consideration of a certain entry in
his account book when the door of the
loan ofiice Opened very suddenly and
set the bell. ringing with sharp dis-
sonance. He heard a light step in: the
little lobby, which was partitioned off
from the rest of the room. For a mo-
ment he did not answer the summons of
the bell—it was never wise to be in too
much haste to welcome callers. But
presently he rose and opened the door,
ithe quill pen still retaining its hori-
zontal position in his mouth. He lifted
his eyes carelessly from the little swing
.counter to the person who stood behind
it. He was not easily surprised, for he
had seen many strange things in his
time, but what he now saw surprised
him into a vague, uncomfortable si-
lence.
Behind the little counter stood a.
young lady—nay .a girl—of some 18 or
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BORROW?"
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19 years, fashionably dressed, evidently
of good position and palpable refine-
ment. Her pretty. fresh face. revealing
itself to Mr. Johnson’s astonished eyes
from beneath the ravishments of a
much beflowered picture hat, seemed
strangely out of keeping with the
dingy color of the little lobby.
“Oh—er—ye are Mr. William John-
son?" she said.
“Yes,” answered Mr. Johnson.
“You—er. you—lend money, don’t
3.0“?"
“Yes,” said Mr. Johnson again.
“I—I want to borrow some money,”
she said, looking out of half-averted
yes at the money lender.
Mr. Johnson’s first impulse was to
stretch out his hand for one of the ap—
plication forms v. llich stood ready in a.
small box on the counter. 'But upon 5
reflection he lifted the s’ivinging shelf
and asked his new client. to step inside.
When she had passed into the office he
closed the door and joined her and from
sheer force of habit he restored the -
quill pen to his mouth. The girl saw
the resemblance to the abstracted
poodle. and a Smile. rippled over her
face. Mr. Johnson did not observe it;
be indicated a chair Hi the side of his ‘
desk :srtli when the girl Em." till-zen it he
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resumed his own seat. and looked'at.
filer. ' ’ '
“What. amount did you wish to bor-
row, ma’am 2’“ said Mr. Johnson.
~"0h———ah——well. £20" ’ -
“Now—." said Mr. Johnson. “I sup-
pose you could furnish good securityé’”
"I thought that you—it says in your
advertisement. you know, that you
lend money on borrower‘s note of hand
alone—I think that’s how it‘s put, isn’t-
it ?—and no inquiries, and no securities
——isn‘t that it?"
“To approved borrowers—yes," an-
swered Mr. Johnson. ‘
j “Oh!” said the girl.
you—5!
“We don't lend money without se-
curity,” said Mr. Johnson. “Of course,
"Oh! Then
if we know the party, and know that
it’s all right. and safe, why, of course,
in that case—" .
“I see.” said the girl." “Yes—of
course. you don’t know anything about
me. How silly‘of me! I thought. one
had just to come andget the money
and sign a paper or something.”
The girl looked up from her parasol,
with which she had been tracing inl-
aginary patterns on the floor.
“Perhaps I‘d better tell you all about
it." she said. Of course, you won‘t tell
anybody, will you ?”
"Never divulge professional secrets:
said Mr. Johnson. -
"IVeil. I want to borrow £20 to buy a.
bicycle. There!” said the girl, with a
decisive tap of the parasol upon the
floor. “You see, I've spent cvery._penny
of lny quarter’s allowance, and there’s-
still a monthbei’ore- I’ve any more due
—-and 1'simply must-have that bicycle,
andlI looked over all the advertisements '
about money, and I saw yours and so I
came to you.”
“MightI inquire what name, ma’am ?”
said Mr. Johnson.
“Oh, I’m Miss Lattimer——of course,
you know my father—Mr. Robert Lat-
timer?” j
“Certainly,” replied Mr. Johnson,
more astonished than ever. “I’ve no
doubt that he’d buy you a bicycle now.”
“No, he won’t. He thinks £200 a
year quite enough for a, girl, to spend.
No, I shall have to buy my own bicycle.”
Mr. Johnson took the quill out of his
mouth and scratched hishead with the
feathered end of it.
“I’m afraid your father wouldn’t ap-
prove, ma’am—,” he began. ~
“Oh. he’s not to know, you know.
This is a little deal just between you
and me. After all, it’s not getting
things on credit, is it? Because the
money will really be mine when you’ve
lent it to me, won’t it?”
. “Ye-es,” answered Mr.
“Ye-es.”
“That’s all right, then!” said Miss
Lattimer, triumphantly. “Well, have I
got to sign any papers or anything, Mr.
Johnson.
. Johnson ?”
“It is usual to make inquiries before
completing.” ‘
“Oh, but I’ve no time for inquiries!"
exclaimed Miss Latiimer. “I‘ve got to
meet a friend at the cycle agent’s in an
hour.
card, Mr. Johnson, in case you want my
address.”
Mr. Johnson looked at the piece of
pasteboard and then at Miss Lattimer.
Something impelled him to rise and un-'
lock a safe, which stood in a. corn-er of :
the office. He fumbled about and final-
ly produced four five-pound notes, new
from the Bank of England.
“Well, ma’am," said Mr. Johnson, “it
isn‘t my usual way of doing business.
but-" and there he paused, utterly un—
able to explain matters to himself.
“When did you say you could pay it
back. ma’am?”
“Oh. on the first of July," replied Miss
Lattimer. “That’s scarcely a. month,,is
.it ‘2"
“Then I may expect to see you on the
first of July, ma'am,” said Mr. Johnson,
laying down the notes
“Certainly you may!" exclaimed Miss
Lattimer, delightedly. “Thanks, awful-
ly!” She stuffed the notes into a gold-
mounted' purse and smiled at Mr. John-
son with all the innocent pleasure of a.
child who has got what it wants. “But
we haven't. arranged anything—haven’t
I to sign apaper or anything?”
“I think,” said Mr. JOhnson, slowly,
“that we’ll leave that over until you pay '
the money, ma.’am. I’ll only charge you
reasonable intercstfor such a. short loan.
Of course,ma’am,you’llnotmention this
little transaction to anybody,” he add-
ed, anxiously. “We always keep these
matters quiet—very quiet.”
“Oh, to be sure!" laughed the girl.
“Well, thanks, Mr. Johnson, and good-
by—you’ll see me on the first of July
dead certain, you know.” ,
0n the first of July Mr. Johnson sat
in his office in a state of nervous expec-
tancy; but the nervousness had noth-
ing to do with the money which was due
from Miss Lattimer. All the morning
he waited and all the afternoon and still
she came not. And then as evening
drew near the postman brought a reg-
istered letter and Mr. Johnson opened
it and drew out £20 in notes and one
pound in gold and a. note that smelled
of violets.
" After a. long time Mr. Johnson rose
from his desk and locked up the notes
in his safe. Then he took the sovereign
in his hand and went out into the.
street. He presently came to the little
shop of a working jeweler and entered
it timidly. When he came out the sov-
ereign hung on his simple watch chain
and his fingers felt for it and caressed
it as if it had been alive thing. And
that was theend.—Cllicago Daily News.
Outwitted His Sharp-Tongues] “’Ifc.
An Englishman of Lymington had
the misfortune to live in a continuous
quarrel with his wife. who was a modern
Xantippc. and threatened. in case she
survived him, to dance over his grave.
It was her lot to outlive him, but it
was not so easy to carry out berthreat.
The husband had the precaution to
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make an injunction in his will requir- .
ing his body to be buried in the sea '
near his residence and without. cere-
mony. The injunction was complied
will:.-~+Chicugo Chronicle.
MES". 'GAMP’S HOUSE.
~An Abode Dear to Every Lover of
Dickens’ Stories.
It Ls Soon to Disappear from King-~-
gate Street, Holborn, “’here Poll
Swecdlepipe Raised Birds
and Dressed Hair.
Mrs. Gamp lived in Kingsgate street,
Holborn, says the London Daily Graph-
ic. On that point thereis no possibility
of doubt. Apart from the evidence of
“Martin Chuzzlewit,” there is a letter
in the published correspondence of
Charles Dickens which places the fact
beyond dispute. But that she lived
in the house: shown in our illustra—
tion is not capable of quite such a rigid
demonstration. It must be admitted
that our sketch does not in the least
resemble the shop of Mr. Poll Sweedle-
pipe, bird fancier and easy shaver;and'
fashionable hairdresser, with whom'the
worthy lady lodged, as it appears in
“Phiz’” illustration in the. first edi-
tion of “Martin Chuzzlewit.” But tra-
dition says that this was the house;
and history, at all events, records that-
‘at. about the time when Anthony Ohuz-
zlewit died the housze'we illustrate was
occupied by a gentleman who-combined
the two professions which Poll Swee-
'dlepipe adorned.
The house, Dickens tells us, was
“next. door but one to the celebrated
. mutton pie shop, and directly opposite
to the original cats’ meat warehouseff
but the original and the celebrated
have long faded into the limbo into
which Sairey Gamp’s house is soon to
follow them. Accepting the tradition
that this is really Sairey’s home, it is
a very memorable house which our ar—
étist- has drawn. It once had a door
knocker, “which was so constructed as
to wake the street with ease, and even
spread alarms of fire in Holborn, with-
out making the smallest impression on
the premises to which it was ad-
dressed;” but, unfortunately, the first
floor window, which lighted Sairey’s
SAIREY GAMP'S EHOUSE.
(Soon to Disappear from the Streets of
London.)
room, was, and is, comparatively low;
and when Mr. Pecksniff, on the occasion
of his visit to Mrs. Gamp, was adjured
to “knock at the winder, Lord .bless
you; don’t lose no more time. than you
can help,” he was able, with a whip
I handed to him by the driver of a. cab-
riolet in which he had arrived, to make
a. commotion among the flower pots,
which soon brought the nurse and
umbrella onto the scene.
But the great. interest of the house
lies in the fact th at. here in Mrs.Gamp’s
first floor front-,t'he chimney piece of
which was decorated with her world
famous umbrella, took place the fa"-
mous quarrel withMrs. Betsy Prig,
anent Mrs. Harris. “I don’t believe
there is no 'such per-son,” said Betsy,
and the commotion to which her dec-
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‘ larataon gave use has echoed down to
the present time. But the house will
soon be gone, and the other dingy
eighteenth century houses around it
will follow, till the frowsy street, of
which Dickens gave us so vivid. a pic-
ture, will have become a presentable
thoroughfare.
[’eg Men as Lovers.
It’s no particular disadvantage for
a man, either in love or business, to be
plain of face. If his ugly features are
{intelligent, above all, if he is capable
'of love-making, he need not hesitate to
sue for any lady’s favOr. What best
wins a woman’s love is a man’s capaci-
ty for love—making. And the ugly man
may possess the qualities of a devoted
lover as much as the handsome man.
He is apt, indeed, to be a better lovef.
because he is less vain, and more sin-
cere in admiring the quality of'beauty,‘
which he cannot see in his mirror.E
There is every reason why a plain man
should be able to win a. woman’s love,
where a handsome one fails.‘ What
women love best is manliness and sin-‘
cerity. If the ugly man can offer these
he need not remain unmat-ed—if he will
but speak. Women despise a laggard
wooer.
When Hah- Rlses on End.
jAn eminent medidal
treatises on human hair have attracted
much not-ice, among many other strike
ing statements as to woman’s chief
beauty, remarked that “bristling,”
when, used in speaking of the human
hair,«is not a. figure. The hair is sub-
.ject to and influenced by almost every
passion of the human mind, and emo-
tional hair, of which he has treated es-
pecially. he claims is quite common.
Hair looks, feels and falls differently
when a person is in “sorrow, joy, sur-
prise or dejection. After a day or two
of deep mental study or violent bodily
exercise a. most visible difference may
.be detected by a practiced observer.
'The day is filled to come. he maintains,
when this coloring in the hair will be
a valuable aid in identification.
0m; Wilckedest States.
In the statistics of crime in the Unit-
. ed States Arizona stands first. Nevada
second a.nd_M§_ssp_chusetts third.
man whose,
TABLES TURNED on SLEUTH.
An Angry Chicago Shopper Resentl
Ofllcious Interference of
‘ \Vomen Detectives.
The tables were turned upon a wom-
an detective in ,one of the large depart,
ment stores recently, reports a Chi-
cago exchange, when a. woman whom
:she'llad been following from counter
to counter turn-ed on her and not only
pulled her hair, butrtore her gown. To
a. policeman who was summoned by the
detective the shopper said that she was
not a thief. and that the d-etective’e
espionage was an insult. No arrest was
made. The female detectives are known
to the regular patrons of the stores
where they are employed, and it is not
improbable, when the shopper said
that it was an insult. to be followed by
this woman, that. She was thinking
what opinion. the other shoppers might
form of her. One store in this town
which obtained a lot ‘of free advertising
several years ago because of the. energy
of its femaledetective has paid heavily
for it since. It. was ’1' store which by its
arrangement ofi’ered great temptation
to shoplifters, and undoubtedly it suf-
fered from them. The woman detect-
ive was engaged, and. as she was the
pioneer of her class she attracted 'so
much attention that she became un‘
duly ambitious in her.line of work. If
a. shopper happened to pick up an ar-
ticle and walk to another counter with .
it, a. habit of many women, the de-
tective was right beside her, and she
felt that in the eyes of the sleuth she
was a. probable thief, even if no arrest
was attempted. The annoyance of this
woman’s actions became so great and
the number of arrests made by her was
so large that the old patrons of the
store fell away. They felt that the risk
of being mistaken for a sh-oplifter out-
weighed the advantage of the bargains
offered.
Photographing Elevated Objectl.
Oflicers of the Italian engineer corps
are making effectual use of the tel-
escopic objective in taking photographs
of, objects high above the ground.
Among other things they have been en-
abl-ed' to discover French batteries in
the Alps, which had not been known
to exist before that, and to make pho-
tographs of their external construction.
The application of the. telescopic lenses
for such purposes was demonstrated ‘
for the first time when the scaffolding
was’ built on top of the dome of St.
Peter’s in Rome to repair the lightning
rod. Despite the great height, an ex-
cellent photograph was made of the.
scaffolding. showing a man? in clear de-
tail at the top.
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