The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-07-11
The auhita ailu Eaalc Tasaau 1ornne au1u H. 1888.

day long. On the other hand. If there
IS big Ere raging within block of
Broadway il viii not attract one pedes-
trian out of ten. The other day there
was a smart fire in Canal street, with
al least six fire engines on the ground
A block away a street car horse had
fallen and broken leg. / made an
estimate of both crowds, and / think
the one abou. the horse was the largest
by hundreds. Hezekiah Beanpole has
been satirized and ridiculed because he
..gawped while on visit TO New York
The truth is. the average New Yorker
spends half his time ''gawping-" II 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 dry goods box or
the hagstone-
was in Barclay street the other day
when a big suspicious-looking man
touched my elbow and asked me to
step aside for moment When we
had stepped he looked all around tosee
if there was policeman in sight and
then whispered:
please don't give me away. 1 an
an unfortunate man and have been
driven to do wrong. Can you make use
OF these?''
He held out a pair of eyeglasses
which looked to be worth four or 1--WE
| dollars. and continued:
.'I NAV as well tell you the truth
stole these, to get bread for my family,
| You can have them for . dollar"
No, thanks"
"Seventy-fve cents?'
"No"
| "Take 'em at ffty5s Just try EN- on
and see if they are your fit"
Don't want them at all, my dear
boy. Your game Is at least year old.
! and I was initiated months ago. &c
and be dishonest and may luck attend
you"
He winked 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 at work selling them on
the ''lay" have described. Each ped
dler pretends to have stolen the glasses,
and in that wayne finds customers who
would otherwise look upon him ss
fakir As stolen glasses they arc con-
sidered great bargain at seventy-f1ve
cents If offered in an honest manner
nobody would take them at twenty-five
cents See 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
and get out of the neighbcrhood almost
on a run, fearing the-police might gel
hold of il. and I've seen Wall street
broker buy an extra pair to send to hi:
old mother and disappear around the
nearest corner like anoon-dayshadow
Yes, it's good lay" replied one OF
the peddIers after we had drank oul
beer, .sbut shall drop it for a better
thing next week. I'm going TO peddl'
Iaces around the suburban towns"
.'On what line?'' asked
'AOh, stolen goods, of course. l cal
buy lace at nine cents yard wholesale
which can take out and sell at twent,
or thirty cents. All I've got TO do Will
the average woman IS to drop hin
that smuggled or stole it, and shell
rake up her last penny to buy with
I've got sister who clears twenty-tiv
dollars week right here in New Yorl
on kid gloves Buys EN- at wholesale
goes from house to house as SNUG
gler, and makes profit of from thirt.
to fifty per cent. So long, old man; go
TO rope in three more suckers this after
oon."-Detroit Free Press