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Show A DIPLOJtAT IS BAGS. Senator Mills of Texas once had an experience with tramp on Pennsyl vanla avenue, near the Capitol, at Waahinjrton. The fellow asked the Senator for a dime, and received the following reply: "Look here, man! Wednesday you hit ma -for a dime; Thursday I gave you another; and now you have the cheek to demand a third." "Is that so?" "Of course. It's so: and I think you axe coming too fast." "Then you're the bloke I struck for a dime on that corner?" -I am.? V ' "And now rve tackled you a third timer- - "You have." "Well, old man, 1 beg your pardon. That's too much gall even for me; but my excuse la that you have Improved so much in your looks that I . didn't reoognUe you." |