Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
APPEAR WEALTHY TO STRANGERS.
Conversation OF Cheap Young Men at the
~Chophouse Table.

1t is surprising that hundreds of Chi
cagoans who are daily forced to take
luncheon at the downtown restaurants
do not become candidates for Kankakce.
The average stranger sitting opposite
you becomes q bore of the worst type,
although he says nothing to you. He
sometimes eats as n hog roots his nose
into a fresh bucket of swill, he sips his
coffee and soup so that the noise can
almost be heard above the din of cable
cars.
But worse than all else is when two
gentlemen from another town come in,
sit opposite you, and by their converse
ton with each other proceed to impress
you with the idea that they are leading
iinanciers of their rural bailiwick.
Two gentlemen from Dubuque, Iowa,
entered n downtown restaurant one
day last week and sat down DEPOSITS
another gentleman who lived in the
same town II few years ago, but did not
recognize him. They took him for a
stranger and started in.
II was up to see B--ln the Rookery
this morning and we closed that deal"
val OlC IL VIII NV lIlC Il COOl Gov, OOU
cash, with 800, 600 worth of bankrupt
paper TO boot"
Good boy" responded his partner.
"But | have some good news, too. You
remember that $50, 600 invested in tie
Leadville mining deal six years agop
Well, ! supposed it was as good as lost,
but several Chicago capitalists are hot
after the property, and today we signed
the documents making the transfer.
Do ! get anything ont of it? Only the
money | put in at first and 70 per cent
additional"
One of the fellows is o cheap ban.
tender in Dubuque and the other lives
on his father, who is Il broken-dowp
merchant. They were always lucky II
they had spending money, and consider
themselves SO 10Y when they can raise
barely enough wealth to visit Chisago
for a day and two nights.
Bat the country cousin" is not the
only bore ut the chophouse table. The
eX-countryman, now a metropolitan,
can assume u Vanderbilt air that will
freeze Fourth Of july atmosphere. At
the same restaurant, three days later,
another pair OF gentlemen entered.
Well, George, how are you prosper.
ing" said No. l. "rhe people of War
rem speak os YOU often, and wonder il
you are getting rich since you moved
to Chicago"
"Rieh?" said tho x-Warrenite, now
of Chicago, "No, not rich, but in
pretty fair circumstances. ! have been
dealing in securities quite IA little of late
and always struck the right side of the
market. | I'M neither a bull nor Il bear.
| play them both ways. Six months
ago | cleaned up S., 900 in one deal, and
since that time | have :. ed to the ac-
count, until now my balance in the
First National is something like $ll0,-
600. My private secretary has the ex-
act figures. Besides my broker has
SO, 000, which he is going to place for
me when change opens in the morning.
1t was "A boss thing for .e financially
when | left Warren last winter"
And the unassuming gentleman who
still lives in Warren innocently drank
in that Aladdin-like tale, never think
ing for n moment that six bits would
represent his Chicago friends pile after
paying the midday check for lunch, and
never knowing that his friends tailor
was ut the Office waiting for his return,
that he might ascertain when that long
unpaid bill would be liquidated.
1t al truly be said that tickle woman
does not practice all the deception there
is in life. Chicago Times.