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Show HOW. TWO HONEST MEN PROS-l'KKKD. PROS-l'KKKD. There arc two Johns in tho fourth ward The last name of one begins with a G and the surname of the other commences with a 0. They are chums. They arc very sharp men, very; but as Marc Antony said in a peculiar way, they are "both honorable men." They not long ago in a very unusual condition known as "hard up," but by industry and integrity they have achieved a little competency. Thus : C. met G. one dny in a bar-room, their usual resort. It was a temper- ancc bar, of course. Said C; ' "Old boy, we're dreadful hard up, j but I know how to make a raise; sure j thing." "Wo!" said G.; "honor bright? Ij haven't anything more lo take to my uncle, except a paper collar and my landlady's dunning me. But really how?" "Yes," replied O.; "this is the plan; I've found a man fool enough to lend me a hundred dulhrs. The great, race between "Longfellow" and "Helm- ! bold" conies off next week at Saratoga. We'll go. There'll be the heaviest kind of od'ls bet on "Longfellow," of course. I'll back "Ilclmbold" and you'll be stake holder. After the first bet you give 'mo the stakes and I'll bet the whole amount; make you holder again, take them again, bet again, and so on. Then we suddenly leave and divide the pile. See?" "Well, you are a genius, Johnny; we'll try it." On the day of the great conte.it they were on the ground. The plan worked. work-ed. Soorv G., as stakeholder, had $5,000 in his pos.-ession. Then they thought it convenicut to leave before the race came off. They went. During Dur-ing the race they were coming to New York at ihe rate of thirty miles an hour, planning to rusticate until the affair blew over. When they came out of tho Hudson Uiver railroad depot de-pot the first news they heard was that "Helmbold" had won! They were not astonished, perhaps at least not more so than everybody else. They had fairly won their ?noney ! They were honest men, and need not run away. They didn't. Virtue is its own reward. . Honesty is the best policy. Nao York Slumlord. j |