, 1889-08-06
HE VISITED NEW YORK.
THE OLD STORY WHICH coNTlN-
UES TO FAIL AS A WARNING.

Another Man Who Sought Sudden Wealth
and FaiIed-Easy Victims of the "Green
Goods" Dealers-But This Time n De-
tective Was Near to Nip the Game.
Deacon Hardshen sat bolt upright in
the corner of the family pew, his eyes
fixed on the preacher md 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 a%lluring joys
which are always so lear to the bucolic
heart. "Cracky," he said to himself,
"but them Workers is up to cute tricksl
1 kalkerlate, however, I'm just es smart
es most on 'em, even eff l don't take no
daily paper. They've got ter get up
pretty early in the mornin' to fool old
Josiah Hardshel. I'll start fur York
termorrer, n 1 reckon when 1 get back
I'll show these critters raound abaout
here a trick or two thatn surprise EN-"
HE KNEw THE DEACON.
1t was late in the afternoon of the sec
ond day after these pious meditations
when IA worthy deacon deposited his
gripsack OF Ne counte of one of the
modest city hostdries frequented by his
kind, and ass~d the clerk If there were
any letters for Josiah Hardshell. There
was n letss-a brief scrawl-bidding
him to wait in the hotel barroom for his
correspondent, who would be on hand at
8 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 ewes
anxiously canned the face of zach new
conner. he almost leaped from his seat
when a dapper looking young man with
a dyed mustache and glittering silk hat
bent over him and softly remarked:
"Well, Queer, how do you find things in
New York;
b goshl" gasped the deacon. "How
in thunder did ye know me?"
The man with the high hat and lived
mustache suppressed a 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 BACKED,
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
raised himself at once in the estimation
OF that excellent ruralist. His reply
was: ooh, I'm accustomed to recognize
ing people right away. 1 know n shrewd
man when 1 see him. Let's take a
drink"
Don't keer eff l dew, stranger" said
tho DEACON nc ha ,Ooa frn,o HE ..1
accompanied his newly made friend to
the bar. Il guess 1 be abaout es shrewS
es they make 'em daown aour way, IN
it's gotter be a pretty smart Yorker e,
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 a small table in a corner of the
bar room.
I'm with ye," responded the deacon
eagerly, n 1 kin tell ye, young man,
yen find me a pretty hard nut to crack
every time"
'That's the only sort of men we deal
with" responded the other impressively,
and 1 can assure you, sir, we make it a
PoIhO W ~ Oub JuSb HO" bIlI6"u u IldD
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 $1,000 Of
our sort of goods for $500 of yours, andif
you keep your mouth shut as tight as we
keep hrs nobody III be the wiser. You
can use it in your neighborhood for pay
ing your grocer md lifting the mortgage
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
h 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.
at looks ter me like a kinder good
scheme" he observed cautiously; "but
be all them bills of yourn es good es that
there dollar ye sent me?"
"Just look herel" retorted the other,
producing a roll of crisp, new green
backs; 'can you tell whether these are
queer or not? Step up to the bar and
see if we can buy a couple of drinks
with any n of them"-
"In have to take you in, 1 guess,
Charley" said a well dressed man who
had been sitting near by, apparently alb
sorbed in his paper. "And 1 guess you'll
nave to come along, too, as a 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 lam
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-
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