A Small Matter

Apropos of the theater, they are telling a good story about town at tho expnse of a certain clubman, well knowu in the couhsse, who is faruoua for the ready floridity of his promise3 on any and every occasion, and, ag a matter of course, for the invariability with which he i never keeps any of them. Over a tablo at the Hoffman house, the other evemng, a theatrical acquaintance confided to lüm the fact that ho had a magnilicent scheme for a showpieco if he could only find the capital to perfect it "How mucli do you require?" asked X "I ought to have 25,000, but I might scrape along with $20,000 at the start' u '„'& Ahrït ?u? Gad! I'll let jou have it, said X, in liis usual ofíhand way. "Oh, corue now!" returned his friend. "You don't mean it." "Well, 1 just do. You can have it tomorrow if you want it. Meet me here at 8 o clock- and, by the way, if I should, by any chanco, not be able to wait, I'll leave it at tho ckrar counter for vou."-