The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-25
PREY1Na ON THEIR FRIENDS
Mon Who Live by Borrowing-Typss Of
the Glass.

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the Glass.
There are borrowers and borrowers,
and from the mildest to the aggressive,
unblushing, and Unsuitable type of this
species of human parasite there is prob
ably no class of people on earth more
universally stunned and detested.
There is no limit to the inveterate bor-
rower's assurance. He will borrow his
best friends last dollar, and his con-
science-if he has one-seems never to
rebuke him for it.
The chronic borrower Of the worst
type cannot be more forcibly delineated
than he is in the character of Narcisse,
the handsome young Creole who figures
so prominently in George w. Cables
novel, CDR. SEWER" This type of the
borrower never repays, and never really
intends to, although the sophistry of
his nature is so much master of him
that in assuring his victim he will cer-
tainly refund the amount borrowed he
can almost make himself believe such is
actually his intention.
Narcisse represents that type of the
borrower who is utterly selfish, yet who
manages, through an affected artless-
ness which is almost natural, to make it
appear that he is the most benevolent
and kindly disposed person in the world.
Assuming always the attitude of q
chosen friend, he is not to be repnlsed
except by downright insult. His chief
weapon is fattery, and his favorite VIC
tim one who can resist it no more than
he'can summon the courage to meet re-
peated advances by blank refusal.
The young man on q small salary
whose tastes are more fastidious than
those of many millionaire invariably
parts with his weekly or monthly sti-
| pend considerably in advance Of its re-
ceipt. He bridges over his pecuniary
chasms by borrowing of his friends and
fellow employees. There is nothing
mean about this kind of borrower.
He despises penurious man above all
others, but then penurious men are
never borrowers, and, while abundantly
| able, they are seldom known to lend
The borrowing clerk or other employe
confines his patronage to one victim at 6
time. First he borrows quarter to gel
his lunch, and repays it with scrupulous
promptness. He repeats the process al
frequent intervals and while increasing
his demands from 25 cents up to twice
or three times that, does not fail to re-
fund the amount according to agree
ment. Then he gives his victim ,
breathing-spell while he commences
preliminary proceedings with fresl
unfortunate. Selecting favorable
time and place he returns to his frs
friend and unbosoms himself in burs
4 of confidence not to be resisted. III
must have $40 or he is ruined and ex
plains the whole matter SO plausibl,
that the lender cannot refuse him. Hav
ing been in the past always prompt,
repaid he has no reason for refusing, S
he hands over the half of his week S sal
ary and sees the last of it. The Dor
rover, with a cool hardihood whic
does not exist elsewhere, studies to Civ,
the impression that he has forgotte
all about his obligation. and the lende
lis too proud to remind him of it.
There is one type of the chronic bor
rover whose frank, open hearted man
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in trade. He will slap you on the bac
in the friendliest manner in the worlG
and, looking you smilingly in the face
will say; you haven't got couple {
dollars about you, NY dear fellow, hay
you? I declare, 1 forgot my pocket
book this morning, and am completed
strapped"
OF course he gets the couple of do
lars, and you may be certain you'll ne,
er see it again. Every day for week
perhaps months, the borrower, if /
sees you across the street, will CON
over purposely to say: "Well, l d,
clare, forgot all about that little maj
ter this morning; what bore, to
sure!" You agree with him heartily
to the last clause in his remark, but p
htely request him not to mention
, Finally your GOODNESS somewhat di
courages him, and he, too, like evel
member Of his class, makes it CONVEX
lent to forget all about the matter.
Then there is your distant relative,
the man who once did you some sma
favor. He is as susceptible to insult
: he is lazy and shiftless. AS employ
after employer discharges him for inst
lence, arrogance OF utter incapacity,
as he Voluntarily quits work in order
maintain his cheap dignity, he comes
you to keep him out Of the gutter,
brace him up and get him another sit
alton. The longer you pay for |
board and clothes the more he is willil
|, to let You, and the easier is he insult
by his successive employers, who don
recognize his title to an assumption
dignity which SO overbalances his actr
usefulness.
These are some borrowers, but th'
name is legion and their methods coul
!, less.