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Show Deserved the Money. HB Tho usual crowd was aeated In tba 'isssl Amen corner of tho Fifth Avenuo ho- ,HH tol ono night recently when an Indl- l.H vldual with an appearance ot shabby H gentility Joined tho party, and, after H a somewhat verbose and grandiloquent H recital of his woes camo to tho point iil and asked for a quarter. Impressed 'H with tho mendicant's unusual flow H of language "Abo" (Irubcr said to tl "Say, what part of tho country do jM you hall from?" H "Sir," said tho shabby one, "I first l saw tbo light ot day In tbo groat city -ll of Pittsburg" H "Well," said "Abe," "any man who Li--W could do Hot tho first day bo was -- .-sJKnl allvo can levy frlbuto from mo pus " VjjB your hat" Now York Tlmos, "'"H |