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Show A Bilk. The warm breakfasticai proclivities of a city "bummer" were the means of getting him into a difficulty yester-1 yester-1 day morning, which 'was only settled . hy the genius paying fur the morning's morn-ing's meal an occurrence of eo un-frequent un-frequent happening that it will be re membered as an eventful period in his existence. Alter partaking of his breakfast at a restaurant, he informed the proprietor that he had no money, but wok daily expecting a check from his home in the east, and that he would "make it all right." The explanation ex-planation was perfectly satisfactory to the proprietor in all respects save one. He quietly informed the bummer bum-mer that he must produce a fifty cent stamp or go to jail. The latter got mad, then got over it, then begged and defied by turns, but when a waiter started for an officer the , bummer went down in his pocket and accidently (?; found a five dollar bill. He has been playing his "dead beat" game onrestaurateurs for some time, but yosterday it was blocked in one quarter at least. |