Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-22

You see. these young men are all ac
| quaintcd with each other, aud be-
/ lieye, though am not sure, there Is a
kind Of association and small pool oi
money, To which every new man con.
/ tributes something when the associa-
ton takes him in. That IL for general
expenses Then they help each other.
OF course, every one OF them has a
circle Of acquaintance, and frequently
an Introduction IL managed nj once
| through these. Then when the young
I man gets his introduction 10 his widow
l he may find that she can not like him.
| He may he blonde. while she IL par
| tial TO brunette. He doesn't, of course,
give up the suit mt once, but when he
/ finds that her prediction is deep
seated and not to be overcome, he
simply introduces another member Of
the association whose complexion and
temperament are more TO her liking.
Then he comes back to his courtroom
again to watt
sBut don't these men haye any
business To attend 10? How can they
spend all their time here?N
"This is the only business they
have. they are not the kind of young
men who work. They know that
there are handler ways of getting
living than by working for it. ! told
you these were shrewd fellows, and
they are. Some of them have got IA
little money, but most of them have
none.n
Then how do Trey pay present ex
penscs ?n
Genius, dear boy, genius like theirs
does not suffer. Almost any trades
man will trust one of these young
men. and his good clothes need not be
paid for for two years. BY that time
he has got some tens or hundreds of
thousands by marriage"
How about board ~
"Ile picks out the right kind of
landIady, and tells her the whole
scheme. She, Of course, promises not
to tell, and Is so tickled with the plan
that his credit is good for any length
OF time
TELL me about some of the men
who have found coins In this queer
way
II wouldn't want 10 mention any
names, you know, but | could SUR
prise you. There is one man in CON
gress now from this state who would
probably have been book-keeper all
his life II he had not married widow
worth S75 600 He first saw her IN this
room. One of the wealthiest dry
goods merchants in Chicago got his
start from the widows fortune which
he learned about from these books. |
know of "a young man who is now in
Italy with his handsome young wife,
enjoying every possible luxury, with
true love thrown in, as | honestly be-
lieve, who eighteen months ago, owed
his tailor. his boot-muker, his halter,
and his laudlady and didn't havea dol-
lar In his pocket. He met his wife in
this room. Her first husband was ~
member OF the Chicago Board Of
Trade, and was worth quarter of
million when he died, childless. ut the
age of sixty-threc They had been
married but eight months. | could
tell you of scores of others, but these
are enough to satisfy you.n
MAY ask who you are that you
know so much about these people?N
whispered the reporter to the little
old man.
II am Napoleon Boneparte, and /
must go back to st. Helena next
week, sighed the little old man.
WHO is that little old fat, white.
haired man with the smooth and
smiling face" whispered the report
or n few minutes afterward 10 the
minute clerk.
'.He's harmless lunatic. His
children are going to have the Judge
appoint Il conscrvater for his property
That's how he happened to be here
whispered the minute clerk.