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Show GOT G.VT.U WITH CONSUL. 3lrandi tr'rhrran. IrdJted Mob to Wr:c, Cne-na Home. 1 Theio Is a rolling utono In Now ' York who 1st short on moss but long on knetdetc, having "knocked about j In half a dojen countries. He has ' bto'i out of .1 Jdb ft good part of his H'w bui has never let that worry ' him, beiiig an lrlshhman, with his full j aliaro of tho IlahMioartodncas of his i laco. "Onco," ho tolls, "lv arrived dead broko at a city In Spain. I decided to call on tho Uritlsh consul. Tho latter overheard mo speaking fluent Spanish In tho ante-room to his secretary, sec-retary, and refused absolutely to bo-lleyo bo-lleyo that I was anything bat n Span-lord. Span-lord. So ho wouldn't help mo in any way. I left tho consulato vowing vengeance. "Thero wns a strlko on at the tlmo against tho local strcot raihoad company. com-pany. Gathering u crowd of the stilkers Itbout wo, I'mado nn impao-stoned impao-stoned stump speech. " 'Do you know who la tho chief ' stockholder of tho Bticet railway company?" com-pany?" I nsked them. 'Do you know who Is tho chief cnuso of all your troubles?' trou-bles?' ' '"Who?" inquired tho crowd. -"'Tho Uritlsh consul," I nnswered, striking nn attitude. 'They lot out n howl, rushed pell mell down tho street, and obligingly wrecked tho British consulato for me. "I was avocscd. "Hut I dlscioctly left town that samo day." |