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Show NEWS COSTS MONEY. The Editor Gets an 'item for Which He Paid a Gold Watch and Chain and $85 in Oaih. LISTEN TO HIS TALE OF WOE. Aa Inconsiderate Burglar Tarns a Vision of Happiness Into a Deep Well of Disappointment To editor at o i h' uoMea throne, Ah del I tors usually do. U a noM watch toted an! his diamonds shone, And yet the editor was blue so blue ! Ou! Why was tlieed.t ir blue? Gpo. X. ItTt, of The Times editorial taff, wits visited by burglars early yes wrday morning, lie is sad today and fully appreciates the fact that this is an expensive nows item. Ilo is willing to submit to alt ordinary indignities to gather in news but to get himself robbed to the tune of a gold watch, chain and charm, $80 in gold, a $3 bill and about ti In silver, is a stroke of enterprise of which he had not before considered himself capable. "Slug heads" come high but The Times must have them. The unnidden guest (or probably guests) came with the dawnintr of the now year of the bias-set eye I M n?o-lian. n?o-lian. He came and he burgled, Itirther deponent sayeth not except to chsnt his tale of woe but it seems probable that the lucky burglar (and alas he wa lucky) came between tho hours of 4 aud . 0 a. ni , wmn the Chiueso fire cracker was dancing a merry dance in front of the habitation of every celestial in Zion and the heart of the monoaylabie-tongtiod monoaylabie-tongtiod son of the llowery kingdom was filled with a holy joy and he had invited his soul anil prepared to make merry with the frioud of his bosom, while the joss stick burned with candent ire; when the rico cake was prepared; the tiny cups of Chinese brandy invited and the joy of life seemed supreme. It was Saturday night and tho editor had retired to his couch to be comforted by a vision of happiness. He had just planned a trip east to revisit the scenes of his boyhood. The money in his pocket was to pay the expenses of that trip, and he had carefully hoarded it. Ho was going to blow himself, and had ulreiMly marked out a campaign that was to simply paralyze the friend of his youth with his present affluence. Alas, pride goeth before a fall. The burglar cleaned him out completely. com-pletely. Only one comfort is left, and out of that he can got his only bit of revenge. The burglar missed a 10 cent piece. If "he will come back he can have that, too, and then we will not be able to gloat over him and talk about what he missed. On Saturday night the editor was rather restless, thinking of tho wide swath he was going to out in the east, and tlid not retire to his couch in his plush upholstered boudoir at 55 K. Third South street until about 1:30 a. ni. According to his usual custom he laid his watch on a Stand at the head of his bed where he could easily reach it. To ' the chain was attached an Odd Fellow badge, which had -been presented him by the staff of The Times on the last anniversary of his birth. His clothes he chucked carelessly care-lessly on a chair. In the pockets of the pantaloons was all his worldly wealth, the $85 and some change above mentioned. men-tioned. One 10 cent piece he took from his pocket to pay for the morning papers, pa-pers, which a newsboy brings him with the dawn of every blessed Sabbath day. Yesterday morning he arose rather late (he does not know the exact hour, for he didn't get a chance to look at his watch). He reached for his clothes and they were not in their accustomed place. For an instant he was dn.ed, then he opened the door of his room and looked out into the hall. Just then a voice struck his ear. It said, "Oh, what are Mr. lift's clothes doing here." He forgot that he was clad in but a night snirt and that the morning was chil.y and at ouce rushed lo the spot. Tlicni lay his entire ward robe and on top of it lay his purse wide open and as empty as the stomach of Succi on the day that he finished his long fast. In an instant he thought of his watch and without waiting to pick up his wardrobe rushed back for it. It, too, was gone aud his cup was full. He laughed a sort of inelo-drama laugh, and then sadly went out and gotliis clothes and got into them. Thorn is just one bright spot. He chanced to look over at the table in the middle of calling himself a ed fool for the ono hundred and second time, and there he spied the left behind ten cent piece. Will not the burglar come and get it? He is welcome wel-come to it, or if ho has any hesitation in making the editor's acquaintance, will ho not write him a line stating what disposition he would like to have made of that ten cent piece. It is lonesome in the editor's pocket. Tho editor carried an empty stomach also au empty pocket up to Marshal Young's headquarters and told his tale of woe. Now he is nursing his sorrow and trying to prop up a tottering hope that perhaps the watch may be recovered, recov-ered, but hope deferred makes the heart sick and a single ten cent piece does not control a very large block of comfort. |