The midland journal., 1894-01-19
"L VOL. RISING SUN CECIL COUNTY,
"CHEEK" AND "GALL."
The Words Have Different Meanings, si
This Little Story Shows.


This Little Story Shows.
''Now and then hear some one de.
:lare that man has monumental gall
but the fellow using the term has no
conception of its significance. He
simply means it's case of extraordi-
nary cheek"
1t was Cincinnati man stopping for
! day or two in Detroit who spoke as
.bove, and when asked what he knew
about monumental gall" he replied:
81 was travelling in California during
the great boom, and one day got around
co Los Angeles and met chap who
ased to be in the furniture business in
ny town. He had arrived only the day
before and was fiat broke. AS he had
out up at the best hotel thought that
was case of monumental gall, but he
nadn't begun to show his nerve vet.
After bit he came to me and wanted
to know if 1 had any blank checks
IN eastern banks. 1 had checks
pm Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis
Ind Toledo and gave him six or eight.
Everybody was wild over real estate,
and this chap took a walk around and
got options on three different lots, Civ
ing his check for about fifteen thou.
sand dollars in each case. Some one
vent up to the hotel to ask about him,
and he turned around and took an op-
ton on the caravansery at two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for ten days.
He wrote out check for twenty-five
thousand dollars as cool as you please,
and within the next twenty-four hours
had options on the best bargains in
town. / gave him a dozen checks in
all, and he filed 'em out for about one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If
any of the banks had been telegraphed
to he would have been dished, but he
had way with him which seemed to
satisfy everybody that he was heeled
and was working for tenstrike. l
saw him fill out check for fifty thou
sand dollars and shake it under the
nose of a man who had been offering
nice bit of land for forty-seven thou
sand dollars. He scared the man half
to death for minute, and then he
rushed out and put the price at fifty
Ave thousand dollars
''But he couldn't really buy any
land?'
''He didn't want to. He was giving
that locality specimen of 'monumen-
tai gall The people were up on
cheek but had never seen a face of
hammered brass. What dye think he
did? I'll tell you straight, and I'll give
you the names of parties to write to if
you doubt my word. Before single
one of his options expired he sold them
out to new crowd, and in eight days
he had cleared thirty-five thousand
dollars in as good gold as California
ever mined. The owner of the hotel
gave him five thousand dollars and his
worthless checks in my presence, and
felt so good over it that he opened the
champagne and brought out some ci.
gars worth dollar each"
''And didn't you make anything?"
'iNot blamed red! Say, that cuss
even depended on me for his five-cent
cigars for four or five days, and 1 sat
around like a bump on a log and saw
him rake in fine fortune! He got out
of the thing slick and clean, without
suspicion, while had to telegraph
home for miserable little three hun
dred dollars, and the landlord had a
man watching me for two or three
days to see that didn't jump my bill!
I've got cheek enough to carry me
along pretty comfortably, but when it
comes to monumental gall I'm way
down the hall. l used to mix the
terms but don't any more. Any fool
can have Cheek but the other stuff is
only to be found in chain-lightning
sort of man. Detroit Free Press.