Show SHARP BEGGARS AND DULL ONES aim alms S M clo tb the a of a cafe awell A well patronized restaurant in tho the neighborhood of tho the city hall ball has an entrance on 1 wo populous thoroughfares in front of the one anoon on the north a lean and whining beggar nightly stands with outstretched hand ho makes no audible complaint but mutters incessantly in a tone that excites tho the imagination into conjuring up every horror borror that waits walts upon excessive poverty in spite of thi this he fares badly for more men co como me out of this door than enter by it and as their stomachs are full tho thought of hunger in others obtains no abiding place within their minds at the down town entrance there loiters when the lounging policeman is not in right a beggar of another breed ho he is sleek and round with a fat and shiny faco face and a merry twinkle in his lazy eyes more than once tho the writer caught him concealing a cigar behind his back while he extended tho the other hand in a beseeching way for alms his hi sole pray prayer or Is for food intermingled with berve fervent lit protestations that ho lie is starving and that he never drinks a drop of strong liquor many men hurrying into the restaurant with a poignant appetite are touched by his prayers and pause long enough to drop a coin into his band hand it is clear that the sleek beggar knows that a hungry man is more apt to bo be touched by the hunger of others than he who is well fed and so he chooses as ns his workshop the door at which tho the patrons of the tho restaurant enter leaving the one through which they leave to tho the stupid fellow whose whoso need like enough is as great as his mumbled prayers for charity would indicate new now york world |