The Delta independent., 1893-09-27

whether it was murderer an acc,uenr,
and at last found an opening and
reached the front rank. What do you
suppose thousand men and boys were
staring at with batcd breath and deiys
ing the efforts Of three or four police
men to keep the walks clear? Simply
line OF chcap-colored engravingS--a
dozen pictures in all--and all marked
"tcn cents!" Such show would not
attract ten people in any other city, but
New Workers are hulf-grown children.
I'll put 4 bag Of potatoes or q bushcl OF
turnips in Il Broadway window and en-
gage to keep crowd in front OF it all
day long. On the other hand, il there
is big fire raging within block of
broadway it will not attract one pedei-
trian out of ten. The other day there
was smart fire in Canal street, with
at least six fire engines on the ground.
A block away street car horse had
fallen and broken leg. / made an
estimate of both crowds, and think
the one about the horse was the largest
by hundreds. IIezelkiah Bcanpolc has
been satirzed and ridiculed because he
''gawped" while on n visit to New York.
The truth is, the average New Yorker
can't find anything more interesting he
will put in half an hour watching the
antics of the automatic bug making
circles on the top of dry goods box or
the hagstone.
was in Barclay street the other day
when big suspicious-loolsing man
touched my elbow and asked me to
S:l fpr
had stepped he looked all around to sec
if there was policeman in sight and
then whispercd:
please don't give me away. l am
an unfortunate man and have been
driven to do wrong Can you make use
of these?"
He held out pair of eyeglasses
which looked to be worth four or five
dollars and continued:
81 may as well tell you the truth.
stole these, to get bread for my family.
You can have them for dollar"
NO, thanks" Il
Seventy five ccnts?"
NO"
Take 'em at fifty? Just try em on
and see If they are your fit"
Don't want them at all, ny dear
=
and l was initiated months ago. Go
and be dishonest and may luck attend
you"
He winh cd and smiled and passed on.
They were cheap glasses. not costing
the manufacturer over twelve or fifteen
cents pair. An agent here has one
hundred men ut work selling them on
the "lay' have described. Each ped
dlcr prctends to have stolen the glasses,
and ia that way he finds customers who
would otherwise look upon him as
faliir As stolen glasses thcy are con
s;lcrcd great bargain at scventy-tivc
cents. If offered in al honest manner
nobody would take them nt twenty-five
cents. Sec the human nature in it?
I've seen gray-haired old chap from
up-country who has preached honesty
all his life slyly pocket pair of glasses
..Iu get out Of the cighborhood almost
on 4 run. fearing the police might get
hold of it, and I've seen n Wall street
broker buy an extra pair to send 60 his
old n other and disappear around the
nearest corner like Il noon-day shadow.
''Yc3. it's Il good lay" replied one of
the pcddicrs after we had drank our
beer. but shall drop it for II better
thing next week. I'm going to peddlc
laccs around the suburban towns"
"On what linc?" | asked.
'Ob, stolen goods, of course. can
buy lace at nine cents u yard wholesale
which can take out and sell at twenty
or thirty cents. All I've got TO do with
the average woman is to drop Il hint
that / smugglcd or stole it, and she'll
rake up her last penny to buy with.
I'yn "a sistar who rlearS tyyppty-t,ya
dollars Il week right here in New York
on kid gloves buys 'cm at Wholesale,
goes from house to house rs Il SNUG
glcr. and makes n profit of from thirty
to fifty per cent. SO long, old man; got
to rope in three more suckers this after
noon."-Detroit Free Press,