San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-31
BUSINESS IN RUSSIA.

| prove, was indeed man OF nerve. LII
! seems he had some capital, and con-
ceiving the idea of advancing money
to mothers and fathers on their child
rem, he announced his new business
and started in. He placed large
sign over the counter informing the
public of the fact that no money
would be loaned on children over six
months old. This last was hard and
no doubt retarded his business. At
| first his trade was rather slow, and
| the poor mothers with hungry eyes
would pass his door with their little
popsey wops:cs wrapped in rags, but
clasped to their bosoms, (strange that
poor people have so much feeling for
| their poor children) and yet they had
not the heart to go i'm and get the
money they SO badly needed. Finally
one poor woman ventured in. She be-
held long rows of comfortable cradles
on each side of the room. Sew
eral attendants were arranging some
small bottles with rubber tubes
and placing one in each cradle. An
other was dipping some condemned
milk from rusty can and putting q
homeopathic dose in each bottle at
tached; she tremblingly borrowed
few rubles, after seeing her baby
Jlcketed and tucked up in a cradle,
which then went to rocking autOmati-
cally. The baby was now safely
connected with the rubber tube and
the yells which the kind Uncle inspir-
ed ceased. The good woman firmly but
rapidly went away to get something
to eat and to forget that she had any
thing in soak. In this particular in
stance the woman who was
only mother for this occasion] made
an honsst penny from the
sure enough mother of said
infant and from the unsophis
ticated pawn broker as well. But it
seems the generous broker knew " hat
he was about, and as he did not feed
the yOungster for few days, the fact
became known that he had some
lively collateral ON hand, and other
mothers brought their dear little
snOozers and deposited them with
their kind Uncle, but usually took
them out before they had time to
starve to death entirely. Finally the
good man became famous and had
baby i'm every cradle two in sorae)
and the shelves were full and the
broker was full (of grief and yet do
ing a good business all the. time. No
one ever asked the direction to their
good Uncle's, place of business. Ne
mother ever required search war
rant, as she always knew the particu-
lar yell of hsr offspring AS soon ass
a stranger landed in the town
and the engine stopped whfstling,
the direction of this good mans /
premises could be at once noted by
a. firm, but loud yell, prolonged and
intense. just follow the yeEE and
you found the place whence it
To step INTO the office
was exciting; fifteen or twenty moth
ers, and grandnoothers standing
around with their tickets ready and
enqpiring is the tinDe on
Konusky out yeti Another was
pointing to a red-bsaded baby, and
wild with rage because the stupid
clerk had hung hum on a peg, head
downMard. This being q thirty day
loan,. the woman claimed it would
not come under the HEAD
of safe keeping. AS he took
down. the goods, tine obliging clerk
ran aadarning needle few inches in
to the cloth, which proved, beyond
doubt that the article was still there,
though nearly run out. Another I'M
depssitOr was kicking be-
CAUSE the clerk brought her baby eat
of the cold cellar, wrapped in an old
with the tag pinned. to
hist foot. The poor broker had run,
short of cash and sold the traps for
dues
There ia an end to everyth ing,
and: although the broker was good
man and quieb himself, the neighbors
got fealOus of the thousand of ru 6les,
andIthe good times he was having so, j
much of: they now became unreason-
able because, they had to 60 oat Off
town with their customers to make,
them hear anything, or to writa-it ON
a slate very PLAIN. The merchant
vino sold fire crackers, kioked
when on exploding a pack, no. one
would have known it, but for the
sparks, that were seen, and smoke
that rose. So, finally these umeas0n-
able people actually petitioasd the
grand head mogul, who had the
philanthropical baby pawnshop closed
fer repairs, after which the stock did
not bring 10 cents on the rOuble.
P. S. forgot to add that AIN ear
doctor in the neighborho0di is still
having fine practice. Ws'don't loan
OH ba bies, but we loan ON most any
thing else, don't misunderstood us,
and we have a fine stock of Forfeited
pledges, mo babies thou gh), Oh hand,
at your OVID figures. MI. Emerson, the
senior member of the firm is with us
for short time, and has some fine
diamonds for sale that he got i'm Eu-
rope. Cali and see us. The old house
of Emerson & Co., are still holding up