The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-07-07
KRENE.s cuFFa.
How ne Gave nE.mself clean Away, to d
washer yYomhn. ~. I

"The fact is," eaid Jim Keene ths
great New York rival TO jay Gould, a
ne relaxed his usual taciturtity uudel
| The genial influence of one of Sam
Ward's dinners the Other day, "the fact
lie, that no matter how clever and thor.
cagh c inan's eystem Of atock operating
may be. there is always occurring come
little unforeseen and apparently ineig.
| nifcant circumstance that Is forever
knocking the best laid plsns into q
cooked hat"
"As how 2"
well, for instance, about year ago
was doing. q good deal in Lake Shore,
and counted on making Q big cleanup.
discovered, however, that there was
some hidden influence In the market that
waa always against me. It didn't exact.
iy defeat my plans, but It leesened the
profits. soon cav that there was somo
operator who vas kept informed as to nay
movements in lime to make me pay for
his knowledge"
"Broker gave you ~" said sey.
eral.
"Not at all. 1 never gave an order in
ADVANCE. and besides / used as now half
dozen brokers. and also gave cross
Ot0pAS E1lputysF tIu1 Q0y
while Twas standing at the window Of
state of Affairs, an elegant private coups
drove past, and stopped Just around TIE
corner from my office. Il contained a
richly dressed lady aud n ragged LOOKING
girl. The latter got out, rang nv base,
ment bell and was admitted. sent for
my man servant and inquired who the
girl might BE-. @ ~.
said. 80 10
."Does she generally come In coupe 9n
/ inquired.
/ "Why, no, air. said my man, very much
surprised; her mother, the waaherwo.
man is very poor
"Just then my own carriage drove
round for me, and Just es IL passed The
other I could see the lady eagerly sort.
Ing the soiled clothes in the coupe in her
lap. This excited my curiosity, 80 I
had my driver TO follow along behind.
tretty soon the coupe stopped, aud the
dirty little girl got out with the bundle
and went into brown stone front on
Twenty-ninth street. The coupe then
Kept straight on down to Wall street and
stopped in front Of brokers' Office.
where the lady alighted with my entire
lot ofsoiled shirt cuffs in her hand"
"Shirt cuffsf" cried the entire com.
pany.
Exactly shirt cuffs. saw through
1t In moment. You see, / amor
rather was--a great land while at din.
ner, or at the theatre in the evening, 10
think over my plans for the next day, and
to make Eseaiorandums on my cEfis to
consult before starting doTu town In the
morning. My waaherwonan had found
this out. and had been qpietly copper.
Ing my game by means ofalny cuffs for
over year"
"Well, by Jovei'' said Sam Ward,
pausipg for single instant in the sacred
mystery of salad dressing.
TITS the cold fact" continued neene.
rIn lesa than eight months abe cleaned I'D
over 5000, 600, aud was washing my clothes
at least the cuffal@i n an SS0. 600 house,
She had diamolds and horses until you
couldn't rest.p .5'
"You didn't make any more cuff
mems. after thatf" laughed several.
"Well, not many-just e few said the
great operator, holding his Burgundy up
TO the light. II believe kept it up
about Q month longer, of the end CT
w.icb time I had reked in the washsr.
woman's bank account, and even ha6
mortgage on the brown stone house. It
was u queer coincidence, wasn't s.? But
perhaps the information she found on
the cuffs after that wasn't as exact as II
had been, somehow, nor an reliable.n
And the "King of the Streep' empsied
his glass with an indescribable wink thst
made Beach, VINO was abort on Harlem.
shiver like a cat who had just swallowcEs
o live mouse.--iSdD Ffancisco Post. %