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Show ' Pambo eyed tbe proprietor interrogatively. interroga-tively. , . "Give' Hie gentleman w hat ho wants now, Sam," was the reply, "lie's boss from now on." Harrington gave a check for thirty thousand dollars and spent twenty thousand thou-sand dollars improving the premises in order to give a promising background to the hard-boiled eggs sliced and treated after the manner of the natives of Higher High-er Hydrabad. But his scheme never worked. The end of the season the sheriff swooped down on the premises, and they passed into the hands of a man who laughed to scorn sliced hard-boiled eggs treated after the manner of the natives na-tives of Higher Hydrabad. Harrington reached California somehow. some-how. Ue won't tell how, but it is supposed sup-posed he raised enough means by selling orf hi;; extensive wardrobe. The next known of him he was working a local cable, line. He admits himself that he wouldn't have' lost the hotel and his fifty thousand dollars' if he had been brought up in the tr ade. EXPENSIVE EGGS. An Esthetio Englishman's Extraordinary Extraor-dinary Experience. He Purchases a Hotel in Order to Get Things Cooked to Salt Him, Bat Finos It s Losing In vestment. There is working on tho California street cabl system a man who has had considerable ups and downs as this world goes. Ho earns two dollars and fifty cents s day as conductor, but there was a time when he had an income ten times as great, and he did not have to work for .it, either, says the San Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner. The boys on the road call him "Lord" Harrington. When he asked for a place as an extra man he told the superintendent superin-tendent that his name was Harrington. Before ha had been on the line a week he was unanimously dubbed "Lord" Harrington and all on account of his looks, speech and action. It is known that he is verv hie-hlv connected in Kno-- land, how high is left to conjecture, as under no consideration will he breathe a word that will tend in any way to shed a ray of light on his antecedents and past history. The one story known about him was told by an Englishman named De Schmid, who worked on the same cable line for two weeks. Do Schmid told the story to illustrate a point in his own i disastrous career. - According to De Schmid, Harrington went to a Florida watering resort shortly short-ly aftr his arrival in this country five years ago. What his real name was no one knew; everybody knew, however, that he had lately come into a large inheritance in-heritance and was rolling in money. Gossip said he visited the Florida watering water-ing place to recuperate his shattered health. He had been at . the hotel for eight days and for eight days he had ordered hard-boiled eggs, but each morning the waiter urbanely returned with the eggs boiled "medium." Every morning Harrington Har-rington had explained at great length that he wanted tho eggs cooked that way in order to slice them and treat them after the fashion of tho natives of the Higher Hydrabad. But the colored waiter stoically ignored the order and steadfastly brought in the eggs boiled medium. On the eighth morning Harrington Har-rington lost .patience and angrily sent for the proprietor. "Why are my eggs not boiled as I ordered?" or-dered?" he demanded. The proprietor shrugged his shoulders. shoul-ders. "Eggs boiled medium are good enough for anybody," was all ho vouchsafed. vouch-safed. "I like them that way, and I'm running this hotel to suit myself." "Then I cannot get hard eggs?" demanded de-manded the Indignant guest. "Not while I'm bossing the place," declared the Independent American landlord. "What do you ask for the . hotel?" asked the Englishman. "Thirty thousand dollars," was the prompt reply. "I'll take it," replied the stranger. "Now, Sambo, give me .hard-boiled o;.-s,-s." |