Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-09
FLEEorNe THE ARmER
How = smooth Tongued Fellow Made
Money on Cloth.
Denver tCol.l Times.

Denver tCol.l Times.
"Here's q notice Of q note I've got tt
| pay that / had much rather use to chok,
a Chicago dude WITH" said an angry
farmer yesterday, as he started off towari
the bank with the piece OF paper rolled
up with a hundred and twenty dollarI
| with which to redeem the note.
"What's q Chicago dude got to do with
litq"
"a good deal. I've got to pay thlt
$l20 and interest at l per cent a month
for six months for about $50 worth Of
cloth, But I'm not alone. There's com.
fort In that. Misery does love company.
1t shows that a fellow isn't the only foo
In the world, which furnishes more CON
ISOLATION to me than you might think.
"Oh, you want to know about this
Chicago fellow, do youl Well, last sum
mer and fall the fellow came here from
Chicago to sell a lot of goods belonging
to a busted dry goods firm, He didn't
sell the stuff In Denver, but went among
the farmers. He had the glibbest tongue
| ever heard wsg, and he was actually
the best and most accommodating fellow
| ever saw.
ga peddler would starve to death, out
in our neIghborhooj, but this pesky sin
ner sold a lot of goods to every one Of
my neighbors. He carried a large amount
of cloth with him, and vent through the
same programme everywhere he went. l
remember perfectly we'll how he conf
dencsd me. He had a large amount of
cloth, and said he was agent for an I'm
:, ,@noI, of I.oLl nAnla liz -ot
me and my folks to look at them, and
told us he could let us have them at
Wholesale prices, and that q set of tailors
were following him, and would make up
the goods without extra cost to us, 80 we
could get our clothing at about half of
the usual price. Not only that. He
didn't care for the money now. That
could be paid In two or three or six
month";, just as l wished about it. There
had never been such q glorious chance to
save a few dollars. The goods were evil
IDENTIFY very cheap. He showed me how
much they had been marked down.
81 got enough for a complete suit for
each of the boys, and additional goods
until my bill reached $3.50. Then he
brought out a book full of blank notes
and filled one out for me to sign, explain
Ing all the time that he liked to accom-.
mediate people. Then he paid me rs
for dinner, saying that he would
beat me, he charged me for his goods
and wanted to pay for mine. He was
the best fellow you aver saw.
'But the tailor didn't come. I talked
the matter over with my neighbors aud
we Investigated and found that we had
got about one-third the worth of our
We also found that the notes we
gave were such that we would be COM
PEELED to ply them. They had been pre-
pared with an eye to an emergency like
this. We couldn't find our glib friend.
He had Endorsed the notes over to his
and gone to new pastures green. The
notes were left with one of our home
banks, and the last sinner of us had to
pay. He never accepted a note except
where 1t was backed by property. Over
farmers that l know of had to
pay or will have to pay soon, and every
of them were swindled. l have
heard of more than q hundred of these
notes, and suppose they represent but a
mall part of the frauds operations. You
IAN put 1t down that the next ''agent"
hat comes along will meet with anything
but q lucrative business" and the indig.
ian. r,nchman went of to denounce the
at the bank, ACCUSE the honora.
Die institution with standing In with the
dude, and to pay the note.