The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-23
Some Of the Ingenious Schemes
They Try on Their Victims.

shaving tools in a single operation,
and for some reason q borrowed
shirt is never returned"
"Nor anything else that is bor-
rowed, usually" observed Foodles.
"Very true" admitted Tubbs.
"Some people who borrow do really
mean to return what is lent them,
but it is comparatively rarely that
they fulfil theintention. How much
of the money that you have loaned
in your life has ever been paid back?
Not Is per cent, l will venture to
say. A man came to me yesterday
and asked me for 81 for twenty-four
hours. He invested the cash in
stimulants, and to-day he applied
to me for 25 cents to sober up with.
Persons who drink to excess are, in
my notion, the most interesting of
borrowers. They always make light
of what they call their 'infirmaty,'
seem to regard it cheerfully, as if
it were quite excusable, and evident
ly consider that they have a right
to be supplied by others with the
means of inebriation.
"There is no end to the cheek of
borrowers generally. Sir Walter
Scott speaks in his journal of his
experience with undergraduates at
Cambridge and Oxford, who, hav-
ing outgrown their allowances,
would, though quite unknown to
him, write and ask him for the loan
of small sums, from f5 ESQ. One
stranger, an army officer, informed
him by letter that he had dreamed
that Sir Walter had lent him f3OO,
to which the author replied that
this was an illustration of the we'll
known fact that dreams always went
by contraries. I have understood
that the President of the United
States, members of the Cabinet,
Congressman and other persons
high in official position at Wash
ington are constantly requested for
loans. The case of the dynamiter
in New York the other day, who
demanded 81 1,25O,OOO of Russell
Sage, is merely an extreme one.
Il have lent money on frequent
occasions simply for the purpose of
getting rid of the borrower, there
being no such sure way of making
him avoid you afterward. l have
known a great many men who made
a regular business of securing small
loans from every fresh acquaint-
ance. How familiar is the good
fellow of the type l have just de.
scribed, who goes through the world
soliciting trifing contributions from
whoever he can get decent intro
duction to, never hesitating to sac
rifice friendship for so cents or
81. You find that type-of individ-
ual at his lowest notch when he
gets down to 5 cents as the amount
solicited. By that time he has
abandoned all serious attempts to
appeer respectable or to conceal his
character as beat.
1.-THE most unique borrower l
have met with lately was employed
as servant in nay household for
twenty-four hours. On the after
noon of her arrival she concluded
that she was too fatigued to clean
up the kitchen, and So retired to
her room, having obtained from her
mistress the loan of q book of po-
ems for perusal. The next morn
| ing she walked me up by pounding
on my door and informed me that,
inasmuch as her own bag had not
arrived, she would be glad if / would
lend her my comb and h-brush.
On the other hand, have known
women to borrow money from their
seryants. I once had q colored
man who was accustomed to borrow
my dress suit whenever he attended
a ball. Ionly found it out through
tho accident of discovering one
night that the garments were gone
when l was attiring myself for a
party.
t.The sort of neighbors who bor-
row are sufficiently we'll known.
They obtain the loan of cut-glass
silverware, jewelry and other fnery
for the purpose of making DIS
play on occasions. Lower down IN
life they send next door for cur
of tea, some -four, a little sugar, OF
what not. 4 have known cases
where girls, who called themselves
ladies, actually borrowed scarf-pin'
and rings from admirers, never CIV
ing them back. Umbrellas, ruboart
and waterproofs are articles whlcf
are rarely returned when borrowed
The only lenders who have rea
advantage oyer the borrowers are tn
pawnbrokers. !" Washington Star
Blind Toms sister.
Speaking Of the insanity OF Bline
Toms sister, special from Colum
Ibia. Ga, says: She early dlspl9 yee