The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-10-08
MONEY THAT BURNS.

''lf were looking for an easy mark, =
said New Yorker who is not an easy
mark himself, but sometimes finds use
in his business for easy marks, IL would
hunt for him among the sporting men,
particularly if were ina hurry. Talk
about sporting men being shrewd! Why,
they can't get rid Of their money quick
enough to suit them. That is especial
ly true of sporting men in New York.
Sporting men i'll the country-haysee seeds
you d call them-have harder heads till
they come to New York and their heads
get swelled and sottencd like the others.
IL suppose it comes ofhandling NOR
ey in big sums and lots of it. I've no.
ticed the same thing about bankers and
bank clerks. They get accustomed to
handle money just rs careless as dy-
Mantle maker handles the explosive.
See the story of all dcfalcctions and
embezzlements. It's pretty much a
matter of taking the trouble to cart
away the stuff from the bank. The
banks get in the rut of expecting you
to rob them in certain ways, and if you
just 60 about it in some new, simple
way, why, everything's thrown open to
you. It's the same way with the sport
ing men. They get to thinking that
nobody but one of themselves knows
enough to put up job. Mighty few
know enough to salt away their money.
'Another thing they don't know
enough to do is to stick to one thing
and get rich. \ man may be mighty
fine porker player. If he's gambler
and you want his money, all you have
to do is to match pennies or play old
maid or some other game that you can
beat him at. The chances are that he
won't know enough to stick to his own
game and will buck up against what
he thinks is your luck till his last cent's
gone. Why doy you see so many broken
down faro dealers walking about look
ing for the price of Il meal? Because
tLey can't help blowing in at policy or
some other skin game the money they
make at their business. They might
all be well off if they knew as much as
the business men they look upon as
chumps.
ats funny, the round the money
makes. The business man earns it and
blows it in at policy, and the policy
dealer leaves it in Wall street or real
estate, and so suppose the business
man gets it again. Some ofthe money
may stick to the business man, but
none to the others. They don't know
enough to keep it. There's Il man in
this city who has made s ,000, 900, easy,
| suppose, at gambling. He's always
been interested in one of the biggest
and best gambling houses in this city.
The game goes right along, reform
ed police or unretormed police. Money
flows into it steadily. Now, for %
years this man has been watching what
internal flols men make Of themselves.
You would suppose he would learn
some sense in that time, wouldn't you?
Well, often his bank roll is so low that
4 l. in oi luck little out of the ordi-
nary would close the house Gamble!
Not he! He thinks he knows too much
for that. No; he just puts his money
into grain or wildcat mining stocks.
Either will do the business quicker than
gambling, and he'll be lucky if he leaves
money to bury him decently, although
his gambling house brings him in
thousands.
at seems as though they had to get
rid of their money somehow or bust.
There's another man who kept 4 gamb-
ling house. He had a fine iamily and
maintained them in luxury. He
wouldn't gamble or speculate either,
but he had the money, and he had to
spend it somehow. He got interested
in a church and spent so much money
on it that one day when the game went
against him he hadn't money enough
to put up, and so his snap busted.
When | saw him last, he was getting
S25 4 week as sheet writer for a book
maker and glad to get it.
a man must have good sound sense
to be able to pick the winner day after
day in horse races. | know Il man
who is genius that way! He never
was plunger, but was content to win
couple of small bets every day or so.
He must have cleared money at the
rate Of $4,000 Il year ut it during the
periods when he gave his attention to
it. Well, he would save SO much, say
couple of thousand dollars, and then
he would stop playing the horscs and
put the whole amount on priZciight
or an election or something of the kind
and would lose every cent.
"That's the way 18th all Of them
| don't believe they really know any
more about the value and the nature
of money than child. 1t is simply
something that changes hands. It's
true with them that the next best
thing to winning at cards is losing.
You hear lots about comc-ons who
get robbed all over the country. If
You don't hear SO much about sport
ing men who get robbed, it, simply be-
cause they don't SuIlpal -Ncr lOrE