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Show WHAT YOU HEAR ON THE STREETS. j "People often wonder how thieves are i spotted so quickly,' ' said oue of the sleuths J the other nlirht. "What gives them away is ' their eyes. Iu the first place few crooks I will look you straight in the eyes unless I they are obliged to. They will avoid your glance as long as they can, and eveu w hen ; they do face you and gaze steadily at you, it is always with the same expression. By close observation instinctively you see some-tliintr some-tliintr in their eyes that shows they are try- ing to avoid you. Take a man with almond-shaped almond-shaped eyes, and eight times out of ten he is dishonest, and some of the most notorious notor-ious thieves in the country have eyes of this pattern. Another sure sign is the lower ltd being straight. At the same time the upper one is more or less arched. This is the result re-sult of being constantly on the alert in cunning cun-ning and foxiness." "Gentlemen," he said, as he "sized up" the crowd before the Oxford bar, "on the palm of my hand here you see three little pieces of paper. Now I'll bet the drinks for the party I can blow any two off my hand without disturbing the other one." The bet was soon taken and the sport simply sim-ply put the forefinger of his other hand on one piece of paper aud blew the other two chosen off. The trick is a new version of an old familiar one and nine times out of ten goes. A very amusing incident happened to a prominent local attorney a short time ago, and one which illustrates the effectiveness of unique advertising. The lawyer received a note from a brother of the same profession, and on the flap of the envelope was the message, mes-sage, "Have you read the last Century It looked just like the handwriting of his friend thought the attorney, and he con-eluded con-eluded to take this way of informing him that there was a eood article in the Century He walked into a bookstore and pure based a copy of the magazine. That night he read it from beginning to end, but did not find anything of particular interest. He concluded that the note had reference to the issue of the previous month, so he went back the next day and bought that. In the course of time he tumbled to the fact that he had been nicely taken in by a unique advertisement. ad-vertisement. "Dey ain'tnouse talkin'." said Dusty Bob, the newsboy, "dls is gettin' ter be a dead fly town. De newsboys what uster sell papers pa-pers wasn't in it. Dey wuz all Rubes. See? Dey 'ud buy all delr papers at de office, instead in-stead o' swiping dem on de carriers' routes. Why, I knows boys, now, what makes a regular reg-ular business of workin' de side streets for deir papers. Dey takes one street one day and den anoder street de next day. See? Dey only takes de paper from one place once. De subscriber may tink de carrier has missed him dat day or he may kick at de office. But de nex' day his paper is on his step all rijrht and some odder fellow is short a paper. "See?" and Dusty Bob lighted a fresh eisrarette and started down street with the air of a king and the odor of an Arab. |
