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Show i-SE MAN llfT- ABOUTIOWN IT sc'l your potatoes by the id?" asked a Third-slreet ;c-viio of ;i vegetable nmn. To, ma'am!" the youth re-mphasis. re-mphasis. sell them by the pound, do m!" he emphatically de-- v do you sell them, Uien?" cck, ina'ain." do! "Well I guess I'll get anyone else." it Lake umpires, when they say Tlay tvn.11" io the local team, are said o sometimes grin at the subtle Irony. I Famous among the great detectives 5 the country is A. L. Drummond. ii has recently contributed some In-irmatlon In-irmatlon on what to do should one od a burglar in one's room, that is investing in-vesting and valuable. SAccordlng to the detective it Is fool-Itrdy fool-Itrdy to try to shoot a burglar when n the room or to attempt to capture Ma. He has every possible advance. advan-ce. . ' jHls ears are alert to every sound. Nothing escapes him. Reaching for a revolver under one's now, even it done cautiously, in-rfantly in-rfantly arouses him. The chances are that lie will run no risk but Are hlm-ielf hlm-ielf and quickly, to kill, jfjlii such circumstances the proper iinp to do Is to remain quiet when the siirglar is discovered . and study. If possible, some characteristic that will liable the police to identify him. A fear, a limp, various shaped faces and jars, many things If accurately noted irlll help the odleers. lf the burglar Is in the house, any Kolse Indicating the presence of the inmates in-mates will .frighten him away. He is Katurallv cowardly. He does not want Ko kill, mt he will kill rather than be Ir.iughl. and In any kind of a scrim-mage scrim-mage he has every advantage. flLet him carry away the valuables, the detective declares. They may be recovered or replaced. A life lost, Is lost forever. One reason why some young men weaf their last year's Panamas Is that they wish, if possible, to get their money's worth. A flood of pity Is always unloosed when a really small man gets before an audience and criticizes adversely the manner in which some big men arc running run-ning the Government. "While the Utah Democrats treated their National delegates with a pretty warm show, it was not a circumstance to the attraction they are booked for a few weeks later.. ! The young man who saved his tan shoes is considered lucky this season. Now the mandolin tuner is regarded as one of the possibilities. "I'll tell you you can't beat that game?" declared a young soldier from Fort Douglas who went to a Commercial Commer-cial street gambling-house after seeing see-ing the paymaster and tried for a fortune. for-tune. "It is simply stacked against a fellow." The young man ot boisterous and had to be suppressed, and he advertised adver-tised some of tho methods of the joint to the great displeasure of the promoters. pro-moters. It Is worth a man's while to peep Into one of the big houses In the heart of the business district. Scores of men congregate there. There are all sorts of games. They are prepared for the worklngman who has his nickels and quarters to bet, to the well-to-do producer pro-ducer who has his hundreds. The law Is not invoked to prevent all clasps from Indulging in a vice that enriches the coffers of the municipality, municipal-ity, and all kinds of Inclinations are indulged uninterrupted. "This thing of being a street-car conductor con-ductor is net all the young fellows from the country think it is," remarked a Salt Lake ticket-puncher. "It is attractive at-tractive atJlrst to don the blue nnd the brass aiva ride 'all for nothing:' but the novelty wears off soon and every rail-joint reminds one of what a machine ma-chine he has become. "I wlph I had the nerve to break away. I'd do It in a day, but somehow when a fellow starts In he sticks as long as he can. "The thing I most object to is the manner in which the conductor is regarded re-garded by the company. Ho is treated as a thief whether he be so or not. Spotters Spot-ters are constantly looking for some place to 'but In.' One cannot commit the most trivial error that he is not spotted and reported. And the public pub-lic complain against us for things the company is wholly responsible for. "The cars jump the track, are delayed, de-layed, they are cold or the track is rough or crowded, and complaint Is made to us Then, every day some one tries to 'beat the company' by working work-ing off old transfers, plugged coin and the like, when a second's thought should convince any one that the conductor con-ductor must make good all such things. "It is tough, a tough life, and I mean to get out of it as soon as there is an opening. Can you find me a job?" He was advised to read The Tribune "want" column. |