The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-22
HE VISITED NEW YORK..
THE OLD STORY WHICH CoNTIN-
UES TO FAIL AS A WARNING.

Another Man Who Sought sudden Wealth
and Faiied-Easy Victims of the Green
Goods" Deaiers--But This Time n De-
tective Was Near to Nip the Game.
Deacon Hardshell sat bolt upright in
the corner of the family pew, his eyes
fixed on the preacher and his whole at
titude that of decorous attention. But
the droning tones Of the parson made no
impression on him, for his thoughts were
far away. He was thinking of the dis
tant metropolis and the alluring joys
which are always so dear to the bucolic
heart. "Cracky," he said to himself,
but them Workers is up to cute tricks!
kalkerlate, however, I'm just es smart
es most on 'em, even if don't take no
daily paper. They've got ter get pretty
early in the morning to fool old Josiah
Hardshell I'll start fur York termorrer,
n l reckon when l get back I'll show
these critters raound abaout here a trick
or two that'll surprise en-
HE KNEW THE DEACON.
1t was late In the afternoon of the sec.
ond day after these pious meditations
when the worthy deacon deposited his
gripsack on the counter of one of the
modest city hostelries frequented by his
kind, and asked the clerk if there were
any letters for Josiah Hardshell. There
was one letter-a brief scrawl-bidding
him to wait in the hotel barroom for his
correspondent, who would be on hand at
o'clock, and address him as Queer"
At the hour appointed the deacon's lank
form was extended in an armchair in one
corner of the barroom, while his eyes
anxiously scanned the face of each new
conner. He almost leaped from his seat
when dapper looking young man with
dyed mustache and glittering silk hat
bent over him and softly Remarked:
"Well, Queer, how do you find things in
New York;"
"Be gosh!" gasped the deacon GLOW
in thunder did you know me?'
The man with the high hat and dyed
mustache suppressed smile with some
difficulty. He might have answered that
he knew him because he was the only
man in the room whose hair was sug-
gestive of chicken feathers, whose boots
had been creased instead of blacked,
whose face betokened anxious expec-
fancy and whose whole appearance de-
noted familiarity with rustic methods of
life.
He did not say this, but he said what
pleased the deacon excessively, and draised
himself at once in the estimation of that
excellent ruralist. His reply was: ooh,
I'm accustomed to recognizing people
right away. l know a shrewd man when
I see him. Let's take drink"
''Don't keer eff l dew, stranger" said
the deacon, as he rose from his seat and
accompanied his newly made friend to
the bar. "I guess 1 be abaout es shrewd
es they make 'em daown aour way, n it's
gotter be a pretty smart Yorker es kin
take in old Josiah Hardshell. Young
man, gimme a leetle mite O rum n
gum"
CHARLEY, ALSO, WAS KNOWN.
"And now to business" said the dap
per gentleman, as the two seated them
selves by small table in corner of the
bar room.
I'm with ye," responded the deacon
eagerly, "'n I kin tell ye, young man,
yell find me pretty hard nut to crack
every time"
"That's the only sort of men we deal
with" responded the other impressively,
'tand | can assure you, sir, we make it a
point to find out just how shrewd man
is before we put ourselves in his hands.
Now this stuff that we're going to sell
you will go down your way exactly as
well as the real thing. You can't tell
the difference, and nobody else can for
that matter We can sell you $4,000 of
our sort of goods for $500 of yours, and
! if you keep your mouth shut as tight as
we keep ours nobody IL be the wiser
You can use it in your neighborhood for
paying your grocer and lifting the mort
gage off the farm, and the money goes
away off and nobody's hurt at all. Then
when it's all gone you can send to us for
more"
The deacon's eyes glistened with de-
light. He thought of the CRITTERS in
his neighborhood whom he could swim
die, of the mortgage which he could
wipe off and the immense profit he could
make out of the transaction.
"It looks ter me like kinder good
scheme" he observed cautiously; "but
be all them bills of yorrn es good es that
there dollar ye sent meY
"Just look herer' retorted the other,
producing roll of crisp, new green
backs; "can you tell whether these are
queer or not2 Step up to the bar and see
If we can buy couple Of drinks with
any one of them
"I'n have to take you in, guess,
Charley" said we'll dressed man who
had been sitting near by, apparently alb
sorbed in his paper. "And 1 guess you'll
have to come along, too, as witness" ;"
he continued, addressing the deacon,
whose blood was freezing in his veins
The dapper young man was bailed out
the next day, but the deacon is still Ian
gushing in the House of Detention. 1t
has just occurred to him that there are
certain Workers" who are as smart as
he is, and that some of them may be
found in hotel barrooms, while others
are in the service of the New York de-
tective force.-New York Star.
Long and Quick Jumps.
Harry Kennedy, the ventriloquist, has