The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-02

cr,du'ous specula tors, she dropped out of The
street without being missed. taking her daush-
ter along. They went westward, and the
mothers application OF a horse-whip to a
young man who declined to marry the daugh-
ter was their latest public performance.
II was tue genuine Grace Courtiand that /
foun III q Bowery museum. All of these COLI
cerns have s 'de-room traps for the unwary. In
tho worst of these places the visitor is enticed
into an apartment devoted to some gambling
swindle or other; but III those wGere the law is
respect d, or at least feared, the ante-cnsm.
bers are commonly used by p~hreno'oglsts or
fortune ~tellers, who feel your bumps or fore
cast YOU future before you are aware of it,
and then demand a fee with a cool impuderce
that makes you pay it. 1t was the door of such
Wall Street on it, and WAS tended by a man
who told me that l would have to wait a few
minutes, as she was engaged. / amused my
self during this delay with the fat girl, whose
marriage had not yet ceased to bring throngs
TO the house; with the man who has no cpl
defm,s, aud can therefore stretch his unfast-
ened skin 10 the extent of nearly covering his
face by pulling the skin from his throat up
over it; with u negro boy whose blackness is
displaced by spots of Caucasian whiteness,
making him look like a llver-and-white dog;
and with a tluty-haired young woman, who
made herself as repulsive as the other curlosi-
ties, IN spite of ccmeiiness, by handling two
snakes. Grace ,Conruand my not be per-
fectly beautiful, aud yet she seemed so by
contrast with these Other EXHIBITS. Si.e struck
me az q s~"asonabie, Oct,ber persou-'a
charmed moment poised between perfection
aud decay, the aftermath of yeiiowing green
just touched with specks of gray" Tat 10 10
say, proslly, she was n woman on tho verge Of
getting owe, her beauty-I think she was fifty.
Her face was regular and intellectual in its
features, her eyes were dark AMI bright, and 1t
did not take a great deal of powder and rouge
Ia n > nn,1 ltta tt,n avn Iynn "a Sln inlA "a r,ta
figure, and there was por.ly dignity in her
bearing rs abe came to greet me. The room
was about 1x6 feet, and that WAS hardly space
enough tor an ample style OF politeless; but
she managed to wave mo to q chair beside y
small able, and to seat herself facing me.
without a disastrous disturbance of her yelv1t-
robed dignity.
THE PRICE OF A POINTER.
Half a dollar, please
Notwithstanding the t%erseness Of this de-
mand, it somehow seemed to me that l must
have mi ,understood her-that the pal,ry sor-
didness If snch 6 monetary transaction would
prevent this lofty NATION from having anything
was the proper recipient Laid down the coin,
h viewer, aud she poeketed it 80 quickly that
the ,ncongruity went right out of sight
I'm a woman Of business" she said, "nnd that
is why l am here. The managers of this museum
Offered me $500 a week. aud ! signed u contract for
a month immediately. You don't believe that they
pay me 80 muchg'a t.r I'll
Aterrible fear arose in mo that had be-
trayed incredulity, aad l hastily replied:
oh. that is = very reasonable figure, indeed
True enough; for / turn all the fees over to
them, and 80 they get their money back directly,
beside securing mo as au attraction"
Then sho looked at my hand like q fortune
teller, talked about lis lines Of life and so
forth, told me with f1a,tering reck!essness
what sind of a character l had, and a. length
with a drop of tone from high pro-
reserve down into friendly candor:
"1don't believe you care to have me tell your fu-
ture fortune. You nrs too sensible 10 bel.eve In
such things. You'd rather I'd give you a point for
the street. Would you buy a horse il I showed you
a good one" H
That WAS asking, in Wall street Ian
guage, whether l would follow her directions
Concerning some particular stock. Myreply
was that l had no aversion to betting on . sure
thing.
But I shall make you pay for 1t" said the witch
with iabored archness; tit ought to be worth $25
to you If L show you how TO make a thousandY'
$50 it would" 1 replied. 'tbu, my conscience
wouldn't let M take advantage of you. DO you
1 would allow You to sell me for only &25
knowledge which, il you were to use 1t yourself.
You shall not sacrifice yourself on ny account.
Good afternoon. .Fi tsH' e i'fEI ss gr IS
AZ a matter Of fact, Wall street is no longer
dazzling to novices. The brokers' are a | there
yet, with their hands eagerly held out for mar
gins, but new victims do not come along to
take the places of ti,use who have been ruiled,
and business is very bad down there. This
was shown all summer by the sud
den dislike by most of the brokers for those
costly Long Branch and Saratoga pleasures
which, in previous SO sons, they had 70 sxtrav-
agaitly purchased. They discovered that such
were empty aud foolish. Less
diversion. such as quiet rest in
some uncrowded couutry place., or even stay
ing in town, with an occasional afternoon or
evening trip to Coney Island, was preferable.
The same admirable desire to eschew was,eful
follies ls visible this fall. Still wines are dis
covered to be less hurtful than champagne; the
cookery Of table dhote dinners il more whole
some than that of Delmonicu's or the Hotel
Brunswick, and it is better 10 wait for the the
atricAl entertainments until they are roduced
at the rs. cent theaters Of Eighth avenus and
the Bowery, after they have gained smooth
ness by repetition, rather than hurry 10 them
in the Broadway houses, where the prices of
parqnet seats range from anoninal ST.. so
to speculative and e1tor,ionats figures.
THE NEGRO AS A CATHOLIC.
A novel religious movement is that which
aims to gather and multiply negro Roman
Catholics IN this CITY. To mustof New Workers
the colored religionist il a shouting Method st
ss a matter Of course ; but the fact is that about
1000 of our resident blocks have been bap-
tizsd in the Romish church. Some of these are
IFOul luo laTBeE SouLuSEH OiueS,. DuJl Inc ma
jority are natives of Cuba or bermuda. A
church has been bought for them to meet in,
and it is expected that converts will be numert
GUS. Negroes have not oeen, excluded from
the white Catholic congregations, nor even
repealed, and yet they have become scattered,
80 that many paid no attention to their religion.
There's 70 denying" said the Rov. Father
Burtsell, the priest who is to have charge Of the
negro church. that the Irish, who constitute
three-fourfhs Of the Catholic membership in. this
city, are no lovers Of colored folks. What do you
think was the rem RI of a certain Jealous and in
tellicent Catholic when asked. TO contribute to OUT
fund.- He said that he had no objection to mission
AIRY work among the negroes-their souls ought to
be saved, and all that--but he saw an almost insur-
mouutable obstacle in the confessional to their
ever becoming true Catholics. 1t was his deliberate
opinion the negro would not confess the truth IL II
was against himself The African is q liar by ma
ture, and no regeneration will alter that one char
acteristic,' he declares. 1t was no use to srgue to
that his conclusion was altogether too sweep
ing. He firmly believed that every negro would
lie to the priest in the confessional. 1 needn't
assure yony that / totally differ with that Wow oil
the race