The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-08-03

and at last l found an opening and |
reached the front rank. What do you |
suppose thousand men and boys we're
staring at with bated breath and defy
ing the efforts of three or four police
men to keep the walks clear? Simply
line of cheap-colored engravings-s
dozen pictures in all--and all marked
"ten centsl' Such show would not
attract ten people in any other city, but
New Yorkers are half-grown children.
I'll put bag of potatoes or a bushel Of
turnips in Broadway window and en-
gage to keep crowd in front of 1T all
day long. On the other hand, If there
is big fire raging within block of
Broadway it will not attract one pedes-
trian out of ten. The other day there
was smart fire in Canal street, with
at least six fire engines Oh the ground.
A block away street car horse had
fallen and broken a leg. l made an
estimate of both crowds and think
the one about the horse was the largest
by hundreds. Hezekiah Beanpole has
been satirized and ridiculed because he
''gawped" while on a visit to New York.
The truth is, the average New Yorker
spends half his time ''gawping." If he
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 a dry goods box or
| the f1agstone.
was in Barclay street the other day
| when a big suspicious7loolking man
touched my elbow and asked me to
step aside for a moment. When we
had stepped he looked all around to see
if there was policeman in sight and
then whispered:
"Please don't give me away. | 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"
"Seventy-five cents?"
mo"
Take 'em at fifty? Just try 'em or
and see if they are your fit."
"Don't want them at all, my deal
boy. Your game is at least year old
and / was initiated months ago. &c
and be dishonest and may luck attend
you."
He winhed and smiled and passed on
They were cheap glasses, not costing
the manufacturer over twelve or fiiteer
cents a pair. An agent here has on,
hundred men at work selling them o,
the 'lay" have described. Each ped
dler pretends to have stolen the glasses
and in that way he finds customers WIN
would otherwise look upon him as
fakir. AS stolen glasses they are con
sidered great bargain at seventy-fv
cents If offered in an honest manne
nobody would take them at twenty-fiv
cents. See the human nature in it
I've seen gray.haired old chap fror
up-country who has preached honest
all his life slyly pocket pair of glasse
and get out of the neighborhood almoe
on a run, fearing the police might ge
, hold of it, and I've seen q Wall stre<
| broker buy an extra pair to send to h
| old mother and disappear around th
nearest corner like MONDAY SHADOW
, Eyes, it's a good lay" replied one q
the peddlers after we had drank OF
, beer, "but shall drop it for bett<
thing next week. I'm going to peddl
laces around the suburban towns"
, ION what line?" asked.
) ''Oh, stolen goods, of course. I ca
: buy lace at nine cents yard wholesa,
which can take out and sell at twent
; or thirty cents. All I've got to do wit
the average woman is to drop hil
: that smuggled or stole it, and she
; rake up her last penny to buy wit
| I've got sister who clears twenty-f,
, dollars week right here in New 70,
r on kid gloves. Buys 'em at wholesal
goes from house to house as smu
gler, and makes a profit of from thir,
, to fifty per cent. So long, old man; z,
TO rope in three more suckers this afte
noon."-Detroit Free Press.