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 il surprising that hundreds of Chi
eagoans who are daily forced to take
luncheon at the downtown restaurants
do not become candidates for Kankakee.
The average stranger sitting opposite
you becomes a bore of the worst type,
although he says nothing to You. He
sometimes eats as n hog roots his nose
into 2 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 Opposite
another gentleman who lived III the
same town a few years ago, but did not
recognize him. They took him for a
stranger and started in.
Il was up TO see B IN the Rookery
this morning and VIC closed that deal, =
NuIu OAlC. IL Will DEA illE u EbbA CIV wv
cash, with $50. 900 worth of bankrupt
paper to boot
Good boy responded his partner.
-But | have some good news, too. You
remember that $50, 600 I invested in tia
Leadville mining deal six years ago9
Well, l supposed it was as good as lost.
but seyera! Chicago capitalists are hot
alter the property and today we signed
the documents making the transfer.
Do ! get anything ont OF it? Onl, TIE
money / put IN al first and 10 per cent
additional"
One Of the fellows Is & cheap bat.
tender IN Dubuque and the Other lives
on his father. who IS a broken-dowu
merchant. They were always lucky il
they had spending money. and consider
themselves so now when they can rails.
barely enough wealth TO visit CbAagC
for a day and two nights.
But the country cousin" Is not th'
only bore al the chophouse table. The
ex-countrymsn. now a metropolitan
can assume q Vanderbilt air that vii
freeze Fourth Of July atmosphere. A
the same restaurant three DAYS later
another pair Of gentlemen entered.
Wei. George. how are you prosper
ing said No. l. The people OF War
tea speak .. ySl o:Len. auG wCadeF
you are getting rich since you move'
20 Chicago"
-Rich77 said the ex-Warrenite. nov
OF Chicago. NO, not rich, but il
pretty fair circumstances. have been
dealing in securities quite a little OF late
and always struck the right side Of the
market ! ana neither a bull nor a bear.
/ play them both ways. Six month.
ago | cleaned up 100 in oae deal. and
since that time | have added to the &C
count. until now my balance in the
First National is something like $40
600. My private secretary has the ex-
act figures. Besides my broker has
$40. 900, 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 u~nassuming gentleman VINO
still lives in Warren %innocently drank
in that Aladdin-like tale. never think
Ing for a moment that elk bits would
represent his Chicago friends pile after
paying the midday check for lunch. and
never knowing that bis friends tailor
was at the Office waiting for MS return,
that he might ascertain when that long
unpaid bill would be liquidated.
1t can truly be said that tickle woman
does not practice all the deception there
is in life. -Lhicag0 Times.