Show THE SESTER JESTER t t janitor taking war loans the colored janitor of one of the biggest and best known banking hous es of new cork york selected old orchard deach beach as the place to spend his hollday holiday before starting lie he asked permission to wear the uniform which decorated his manly form during his hours of service on oil condition that he did not wear its his signi flers lie ile was was not long in surrounding himself with a coterie of admiring friends why said lie he one afternoon to the crowd you folks don hab any idea ob wat we does we took de whole ob de spanish ameri can loan and den when de jap war come on we just took a halt 0 whole business yen dats and now when de whole affair Is ober well put on de market most ob de russian loan a hundred million kopecki kopecks yes sir a hundred million kopecks kopecka ko pecks but said butter in 11 who are you anyhow you seem to be on a I 1 otter lugs who are you anyhow who am I 1 who arn am I 1 po fo de bawd ye eber hear ob de great bankin house of kuhn loeb co ob new ye yas yas dats all right but who be you me mc why ise ass coon onto its tob job did you hear the account of that flash of lightning that burned the hair from a boys head without otherwise hurting him 1 I did answered the cheerful liar and I 1 was pained to note the incompleteness eness of the story now I 1 happen to know of a case that is really remarkable the lightning entered a barber shop and not only undertook the task of singeing a mans hair but it rung up the proper amount on the cash register embarrassing A philadelphia business man tolls tells this one on himself this cuss two aro two y T s vib e said salci and in my office 1 I have a telephone of each company laev week I 1 hired a new office boy and one of his duties was to answer the telephone the other day when one of the bells rang he answered the call and then came in and told me that I 1 was wanted on the phone by my wife which one I 1 inquired quickly thinking of the two telephones of course please sir stammered the boy 1 I dont know how many you have street car stories ag agrout group of traffic managers and aud A group of traffic managers and audway men in philadelphia were vere telling stories of street railroading one of them salt said A pretty irish girl fresh from the old country sat in a trolley car looking at the strange american country with modest interest she had soft gray eyes a face like roses and lilies beautiful hair and white teeth your fare miss said the conductor pausing before her she blushed and bit her lip your tare fare miss he repeated sure salil said the girl an what it if I 1 be e ye must not le repeating repe atin it ike that before falks another story was told of a stout middle aged woman who got into a street car accompanied by a boy of five or six when the conductor came around for the tares fares the woman gave the little boy a fifty cent piece which he handed to ane conductor after the change had been counted into his little hand lie ho turned to his mother with glee oh mamma he said the conductor took the bad ad fifty cent piece |