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THE EVENING TELEGRAM, CAK BLAND, FLA., MAY 1, 1913.
PAOI
SILLY SIDE OF IT
How an Aspiring Society Girl
Was Taught a Lesson in
Slumming.
By CLAUDINE LISSON.
It was strange that Jack Ash,-
ibould be bored. He was a young
man 01 weauu ana social privileges
ollcee educated, a member nt tni
or five clubs, rather a favorite with
the fair sex, always invited every
where baseball, football, reeattna nnj
the races, with a trip here or there
very few months. It seemed liira
crime to be bored.
Ai d what does a youne man
when he Is cored 7
There is Africa with its hi nmo
and mosquitoes.
There is Mt McKInley to hp
climbed.
There are theatrical comnanlpa tn
be "angeled."
There is the chorus girl to he uvm
and divorced again.
Young Mr. Ashton thoucht of nil
these things and rejected them ii
went to a Sunday newspaper editor
tana iiati a tain with him. and thp pp.
kult was that he did lust what nn
Jfriend of his would have looked for
mm to ao. un tne next Sunday, and
pd every succeeding Sunday for many
weeks, there was an article signed
"Toff." It was descriptive of life in
the underworld. The underworld said
ifthera:
"Believe me, dat guy U iUrely one
)f us!"
There was no remarks made about
Jie eudden appearance of a "strange
piy" In the hang outs of the under
orld. He might be a yeggman, pick
jocket, burglar or what, so long as he
tas not a detective. He didn't talk
oo much. He didn't listen
ie made few inquiries. He played
loker with murderers and pool with
mrglars. He spent his money just as
he others did not too freely. He
linted at a prison term or two, but
lid not go Into particulars. After be
ng watched for a spell to make sure
hat he was not a stool-pigeon for the
lolicc, he was in a way admitted to
he underworld. That Is, he was not
ilaokjacked or robbed as a slumnier,
nil now and then he was offered a
rartmrship in a "jcb" to be done.
The articles of "Toff" made a sen
ation. They were were read and com--eiitcd
on by the under as well as the
ipper world. To get the local color
bey said the writer must speak from
ersonal observation and experience,
to ho a Raffles taking a vacation
rom crime? Was he some young
ian not yet so hardened in crime that
e cpuldjipt be saved ifhe couldonly i
!Miss Cllrl cL bPed 80 was
beenin j Lprt Se- She had ong
Part in m 6 and had taken wme
diroc? means o? 'T' been tne
hard ca?e? chi J6010 "veral
n1oneya oeScnS;.:ohadJ"nhed them
C fcir w,sh,ng to S
that thev h COncea,ed tne fat
stead d gne to Sin SIn6
tcJesri0"111 0f h mission in-
Cresting
of a si, n m erse made one
ThPv ",uT,n Party one evening
Sded IT . JUSt What they
tended to see and no more The im
derworld doesn't Tlle. un'
or b.ackjacking eyeTo?
22T MiSa Converse had af
jrefhel'hv'11, den '"nted alto
blood a,J Hen Wh hadEhed huan
the ntv X 6Uide S0'emnIy assured
Hp 6 man was discovered.
He looked Intellicpnt
:?.?,eM!n ng Fifth
for, hi Snt haVe been taken
for a .ning young lawyer, hoping that
ome workman misht be killed and
h,8'dow bring suit for damages
The only crime "Toff" was commit-
teg just then was thai of beer drink
lig. This greatly astonished the
ummers. They looked for blood on
his hands, but they tfefe cleaner than
a trolley wr conductor's." Miss Con
verse spoke to him. nnrt hp .ti,j .
gentlemanly way. In fact, she boasted
arU mat ne "almost used as
gooa grammar as n
. "wwi-naiaci -III R
department store." She dM ,..
to preach to him before his wicked
companions, and En Bhn n..ln.1.. 1...
him her card. In return she received
a look which she Interpreted to mean:
"For heaven's sakp
identity r,ere!" and she heeded the
request. After she had passed out
"Slippy," the cicknoeket liftprf n
card with a laugh and showed it
around and said:
"Another of the sex gone bug-house
over saving us from ruin! Why didn't
some of you pinch her diamond' breast-P'.n?"
A week later, one rainv nft
Miss Converse received a caller. The
buikr who brought in t he written card
Kiid that the owner tppcand t0 be a
bill c 1U ctor, but he was admitted, and
:;,tUra :niriH was recognized as
"T( ff." lie hadn't come to pay a so
ei.;l call, lie had como at the request
of a dyinn bar.;l..r who wanted to
make a confe-siien to her and say how
sorry he was that lie had not started
out in the ministry instead.
"I will so with you at once," replied
the impulsive and enthusiastic young
lady.
Hit "TcJT" rested that she. come
by herself, so as to escapeobservadon
and remark. She must wear her old
est hat on her head and a raincoat to
cover her clothes, and she hadn't bet
ter mention her errand to any one. It
was Blank street and the number was
426. She was to go right up to the
uuiiu noor and knock on the door on
which he had chaiked a cross. He
wouia be there to answer.
It was a trap so simple that girl
of ten ought to have suspected it.
Through eight or nine blocks of dirty
and wicked streets to find Blank
street! Then two block down to reach
426! It was an old tenement with brok
en windows and rickety stairs, and
there was not a tenant on any floor.
A policeman would not have mounted
the stairs without first making sure
that his revolver was in order, but
Miss Converse scarcely noticed any.
thing and certainly felt no fear. i
t'p the dirty stairs to the dirty
fourth floor, and there was the chalk
mark on the door. Her knuckles I
had scracely touched the panel when I
the door was opened by "Toff." It was j
a back room and the windows were
boarded up, and the light came from a '
lamp on a table. As for furniture,
there were only two chairs. i
"Is this the place?" asked Miss Con-1
verse as she peered about her. I
"It is, Miss," was the reply of the
joung man as he locked the door and
pocketed the key.
"But Where's the dying burglar?"
"He's put off dying 'till after the
Panama canal has been finished!"
"Sir, I want to leave this place in
stantly!" exclaimed the girl as she
realized that she had been lured tntn
a trap.
"Take a chair and make yourself at
home. 1 want to talk to you a bit."
"Unlock that door or I'll scream!"
"Go ahead."
She cried "murder!" and "help" a
dozen times, and "Toff" only grinned
at her and replied:
"You'll crack your voice and do no
good."
"But what do you want with met'"
was demanded.
"That's more sensible. I want to ask
you, iirst if you can t see the silly side
of this thing? You and others come
down to the slums and pose as reform-;
mb. uetorin nothing! All of us re
gard you as buK-house and
We live as we live and do as we do,
and a thousand like you couldn't
change us in a hundred years. We
prefer this sort of life to any other.
The idea of reform makes us laugh.
Do you get that?"
"I I don't know!" stammered Miss
Converse as the looked around and
bhiveicd.
"Then take my word for it It's
thrdwing time and money away. If
you pull anybody out of this sort of
life it's somebody that wants to make
a stake out of you. You'll simply
make a liar an:l a hypocrite of him."
"But you will please let me out of
here!" appealed the girl.
"Oh, certainly. Got any money with
you?"
"Two or three dollars."
"No good. I want your check for a
thousand dollars:"
"But but M
"Talk business. You've got an ac
count at the Third National bank.
xiere s a blank check, and here's pen
and Ink." '
"And then I may go?"
"Yes, at 11 o'clock tomorrow fore
noon. I've got to draw the cash first.
We don't take any chances on you
swell people. You'd beat ua n,iir
t .9 . " "
we a neat you."
"But I can't stay here all night!"
wailed Miss Converse.
"You'll just have to."
"but my parents!"
"Oh, the flunky will tell them that
you are out on the reforming bust-
ueeo.
I The 6irl stood up and screamed.
Then she went over and beat with her
nsts on tne door. Then she realized
! her helplessness and sat down and
began to sob. "Toff turned to ciga
, rettes and had nothing more to say.
! There was no further appeal to him.
The time drifted to close on mid
night. Then a key was so scftly in
serted In the lock of the door that no
sound was heard till the door was
flung open. A young man appeared
and pointed a revolver at the guardian
and quietly said:
"Get out of this!"
"Just as you say," replied the false
"Toff" as he went
"Oh, sir oh " began the girl; but
the man interrupted her with:
"Left get out of this!"
They were within a block of her
home when she asked:
"Won t you come in and help me to
explain?"
It was in the explaining that he had
to give his true name and nnn u
plume, and to admit that he was no
longer a bored young man. He was in
love.
Mr. Jack Ashton has now dropped
his Toff" articles, and the late Miss
Clara Converse is no longer a slum
nier or a reformer.
(Copyright. 1913. by the McClure New
paper Syndicate.)
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ingly made proposals to both England
and France for a division of the sick
man's estate, but his overtures were
declined. Nicholas, however, was only
repeating an old illustration. Sir
Thomas Roe, ambassador from Eng
land to Constantinople, in the time of
James II. had written home in Aim.
patches: "Turkey Is like the body of
an old man crazed with vices which
puts on tne appearance of health,
though near its end."
Sick Man of Europe,
The phrase "The sick man of m...
rope." frequently used with reference
to the Turkish empire, was made pop
ular by the Emperor. Nicholas !. of
Russia. Conversing in 1SS3 with Sir
George Hamilton Seymour, the Eng
lish ambassador at St. Petersburg he
used the following words: "We have
on our hands a sick man a very tick
man. It will be a great misfortune if
one of these days he should slip away
from us bef . re the necessary arrange
ments havo been made." He accord-
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think that the uric acid in my sys
tem was the cause of my poor health.
About a year aso one of my Angers
bcRnn to swell an4 became very stiff.
I went to a doctor, but ho could not
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my relatives had been cured of kit
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I thought that it might be well for
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after using them I improved. I glad
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