St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-03
THREE UNFORTUNAT TIES.
Their Troubles Began When They Used
the Free Advertising Columns
of the Globe.
A Lawyer Who Wanted az Office Boy
Received Calls from Nearly
Hundred.
A Physician offered u Reward for the
Return of Dog--The
Result.
A Housekeeper Advertised for Ser
want, and 1t Made Her Life
Burden.

As general rule the advertiser in the
want column of q daily newspaper Is
not apt to find cause for serious complaint
in experiences resulting therefrom. Yet it
appears, from information recently devel-
oped by casual inquiry, that there are in
st. Paul and vicinity number of people
who are of late disposed to look upon them
selves as appropriate entries into FoX's
register of martyrs on account of such eX-
perienceS. While, owing to the great adj
vantages now open to a suffering public,
these cases cannot now be strictly deemed
phenomenal, STILL there are in connection
certain features which are interesting
enough to be commended to the attention
of those who sympathize with or laugh at
the unfortunate.
The cases referred to are those of Messrs.
Bluffkin and Chick, and that of Mrs.
Scayre-cases with which a number of
their friends are already somewhat familiar
through repetition.
Mr.. Bluffkin is well-tO-dO real estate
dealer whose Office is located in prominent
business building not very far from the
GLOBE Office. AS he has been for some
years eudeavoring to retire from business,
he has of late found that the services of
ONE SMALL BOY
were ample to protect his interests during
his absence from the Office. But his boy
having recently sickened of a business by
no means eXhilarating to youth of anlbi-
bition, Bluffkin tried for some days to find
another assistant without leaving his COM
Portable leather-cushioned chair. The
means adopted was card tackled on his
door
For some reason he failed, either because
no ordinary boy could read his writing or
because he happened to be out when one
called. True, he had thought OF advertis-
ing, but considering that business paid but
little in the way of skirmishing fund he
had concluded that he would save quarter
for peanuts, of which he was extremely
fond. Thus matters went On for some
time, until at last he grew morbidly suspi-
cious that McLapperty, his frisky-legged
neighbor across the hall, had invented some
scheme to keep the boys away in the hope
that in case he should be suddenly stricken
with apoplexy he, McLapperty, would get a
job out of him some way by taking advan-
tage of his unprotected situation.
FIRED WITH THIS DARK SUSPICION,
while crunching between his aged molars
one of his thin-shelled favorites, he one
afternoon accidentally cast his eyes upon
uii0 WRAPPER WHICH, SlillOuliuCo lllC pCdiluuo.
1t was late copy of a certain daily news
paper published in this city. With consid-
cradle surprise and citation he discovered
for the first time that he could get an adj
vertisement inserted free of charge in its
columns The immediate result was the
tearing down of the card from his door and
a visit to the office of the paper in question.
He slept well that night, feeling that he
had taken one step toward knocking vii
famous plotter silly, and had made money
by the operation.
This was all well enough, and had one
boy only answered the advertisement Bluff
kin would have been a happy old snOozer
still instead of the doubly suspicious wreck
that he has become since the insertion of
the advertisement. Owing to his conduct
since, it IS whispered about confdentially
among his acquaintance that the old cuss
has got 'em again, sure enough, and is
bound to fill an untimely grave. There is
no question that he believes Mr. Lafferty
was in league with the Italian who sold
him the peanuts, and that he has taken a
solemn VOW of revenge upon him and the
newspaper in question. Here is the
present daily situation as pictured by the
GLOBE artist, who knows him well, and
dropped in ON him yesterday.