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Show A Trpleal N. Tiurlt Jttaer. A aniikeu e)eil old man win m I meet crtry night that I atroll up 1'iftli nvi lino aomev, hero bitween Washhiiftoii aqnaro and Tuenty-thlrd street 1 intut halo known a gnudfif uenj ear, llolliealn a garret within a atom. 'a throw of th-a tquare, and la tbo owner uf muLhal-uibte muLhal-uibte iroicrty. In tho early da) a of our acquaintanceship I used to encounter him strolling in the urk munching a leiK h rU, crumb by crumb. This waa Ida breakfa-t. If bo eata another inenl H li proliably of tbo aamu urdtr. Ilia ilitaa la that of a vagrant, but hia con-eraallon con-eraallon U that of an educated man. He la especially happy lu recounting reminiscence of tho New Vork of two p iteration ago, and has traveled n c tuple of inllia at a time Tilth uetn jnlntont vaniahedlindmarLa In whblt I hapiiened to bo Interested. 1 won Ida icgard tarly by giving blm car faro after tacit of theto Jiiiints, He pouched tbo money nnd widked back. Tlila man I a trueinl-er, but not a beggar, though he dot not acruplo to niUmpproprlato uiy car far. New York Cor. Plttsburi; Bulletln. |