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Show HE ONLY W ANTES A SLAB. Taa aliarly !eprlnc EO risk Ranting Ilia on a Una. "I beg your pardon." said a cadaverous cadaver-ous and dejected looking man as b stopped me eaTwenty-tliir.l street "can yon d'rect me to th tnorguer "To the corner said I. "why, yes," and I gave him the needfrj direction to find bis way to that hutel where quiet people go, but sometime uuke mora trouble than noisy uneaconld da "Looking "Look-ing for a friend:'' I asked, tha journal-UtUc journal-UtUc nae coming t.i t't front. "No," lid he wearily. "Looking for ytaet, that is all." "indeed?" "Yes." ha tvpli.d. and the weight of irrfevora woe rvaieJ, it was evident upon , j his soul "My w if Is In the ttorttry, he said. "A week or t wo ao b wrote me tii.it a the public schools wr abont to begin o weuinatget settled for tha wiuter. and the wistiei that I mould lixik np a pa-unt flat for the winter. Tlie rooms mvt be lisrht and the neighborhood neigh-borhood good, and tho rent not mora than fiOper wrex. Of e-ocrw she expected ex-pected to hav strain heat. Sua wa not dead art on a hall boy. bat bad no objection ob-jection to one. She ottrrty tab! Harlem, would not of course think of living on a street that was made noisy and sooty by tha elevated road. Other wUc she was ready to leav tha !? lion to me, and aha wanted ni toexnrcia my own judgment largely in th picking out of oar winter home. P. 8. ft ought to bo bandy to a good arhnol. and 1 must be sure to are that rualartou lnfinence did not exist either in the flat ir In tha neighborhood. P. P. a ft would ba well to make inquiries regarding th cheapness and eiMletwa of the neighboring neigh-boring market. Not that it mad an difference to her what ahe at, bot 1 was such a glutton, and I could not work the market as If I were a miilio-aira. miilio-aira. "I accaptad this easy commissi on with ont a tremor." said tha cadaverotia tnaa wearily. "1 know that tha town wm full of beautiful data, with alt tha ctm-renienrea ctm-renienrea and btraainjri thai tha heart of man could dedra. t gathered a list of glorioos apartments, all within fiva minutes' min-utes' walk of heaven apparently, ani with my wife's directlona la ray hat ba f .ta my qtimt" "And did j on nweedr I aaked, breath leas with interest "Snccwdr ha answered drsaaruy. "Succeed? Yea, 1 tiava mccaaM. I have been five weeks upon tha t, and I hava aticrmM. Wham te tha morgue? t da uot want a flat I Want m slab. A dark, raaiarioas slab, miitm from any arbeulhousa, wtthont a Jardtn or hull boy, with all tha elm-trie ball out of order, and with avnry tenant Ilk me, lying down to peaVol draama." "Poor man," said I. "1 pity yon. bttl d not blame yon. For I yea, I must confess it I have been (bora myatlf." New York Ha raid. |