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Show URELY wins the palm. On Mean Man Who Outdoes Soma Others. Many atoriea have boen told of mean men, such as he who used a wart for a collar-button and he whose birthday gift to his son consisted In washing the windows so .that the lad might watch the cars go by. This man, however, seems to have won the palm: There was an extremely mean man In, New Hampshire, who yas the pro prletor of & hotel, By his direction rules were posted In the hostelry forbidding for-bidding almost every concelvablo privilege priv-ilege to those not gucsta of the place. There was absolutely no chanco for tho casual loafer, to get newspapers, pen, ink, stationery, etc. There were not even free seats In the office. One day, relates the Success Mnga-sine, Mnga-sine, ho chanced to observe a chronic loafer gazing at the old clock that hung on the wall. Tho next day a sign was placed over the clock. It read: "This clock Is for the use of the guests of the hotel only." |