The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-01-23

How hrI>k Young Man sud ap InEeuu-
Gus Old One Take in the Shekels and
Contiding Ladies'

Gus Old One Take in the ShekeIs and
Conhding aides.
lFron The Phna6elphia News
IL was on Eighth Street, half way
between Race and Vine, Yesterday
afternoon, that there stood a brisk
young man with big push cart full OF
hand mirrors, brushes and combs.
which a big placard proclaimed "were
the last OF a bankrupt stock AZ half
the cost price" In front OF the cart.
which stood up against the curb, was
an MISUNDERSTANDING man with long
ulster and 8 well-brushed silk hat. He
had Just bought five hand mirrors and
was looking at the brushes as the
News reporter came up and began ex-
amIning the bankrupt stock"
Well. l declare Did you ever see
anything so cheap" exclaimed the
Ingenious old man as he turned TO the
reporter. Here they're selling those
mirrors Tor 25 cents apiece. Real
Venetian mirrors and solid brass
frames. l can tell you that, for I was
IN the importing business once.
They're worth a dollar apiece at the
lowest I've Just bought FIVE. I'm
going to give one to my wife and one
10 each OF my girls
You're right, sir, A" said the brisk
young man behind the cart, they re
almost given away. Just look 81 one
sir, and you, too, madam" as he
stopped wrapping up the parcel Tor
the ingenious man, and thrust one mir
rOr into the reporter hand and anoth-
er into the hand ofalady in a sealskin
saCque, who had heard the eulogies of
the ingenious man and had stopped for
a moment in an undecided sort OF
way.
Upon my word, =" continued the in
genuOus man IN an enthusiastic tone
that tloated forty feet away, u never
saw anything Ike it-yes, it's a real
ivory comb, and a genuine ivory
backed, English made hair brush
I've dealt in 'em myself. How much
didyOu say, my man? What only
quarter apiece? You may wrap me up
four Of each. never saw anything so
cheap IL my life. Just given away;
yes; given away l. the word, sir, and
again he turned his radiant cOunte-
nance upon the reporter.
The lady's doubts seemed dIspelled
by this emphatic approval, and she
bought a hand-mirrOr, brush and
COMB. A dry goods clerk, who looked
as i he was going TO see his Sunday
girl, so resplendent was he, was also
encouraged to the point OF buying a
mirror. Three sh0pgirls huttered up
and bought two hair-brushes between
them. Messenger boys sprang up
from nowhere and stared, small girls
appeared mysterIOusly, and gazed with
longing eyes at the mirrors and cellu-
lOid-backed hair-brushes Before the
ingenious man had gotten his change
there was a crowd OF fifty people
whose attention was solely given to
the cart, and wanting 10 buy some
thing.
The reporter eIbowed his way out
OF the crowd and on the edge Of It ran
against q friend in q helmet, who
wears three blue and one red stripes
on his arm.
Been watchin' the fakirs' little
game Il works a. slick as II it was
creased. don. II 2' was his greeting.
What 5 the game don't see any
except that % cents Is about twice as
much as those things are worth,
asked the reporter. when he had at
last disentangied himself from the
crowd.
You're not very fly" said his he'll
nleted and bIue-and-red-striped friend, f
pityingly: That man IN the Mister is .
only a 'capper.' He'll 90 of now and
wait till this crowd goes away and
business gets dull again. Then the
feller at the cart II push It down or up
Eighth Street a block or two, and the
'capper' u turn up again and buy a
whole lot OF things He'll enthuse
about their quality and cheapness, !
and another crowd II collect and buy
a lot. Tumble? tell you q couple OF
fellers workin' that way viii sell as
much a. a gOOd-sized store viii. I've
seen that cart there empried six times /
in a day. It's wot I call genuine en- /
terDrI-e.'