The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-08-14
APPEAR Wealthy TO STRANGERS.
Conversation of Cheap Young Men at tho
C%hophouse Table.

1t is surprising that hundreds of Chi
luncheon at the downtown restaurants
do not become candidates for Kankakce.
The average stranger sitting opposite
you becomes a bore of the worst type,
although he says nothing to you. He
Sometimes eats as a 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 %conversa-
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 II downtown restaurant one
day last week and sat down opposite
another gentleman who lived in the
anne town n few years ago, but did not
recognize him. They took him for a
stranger and started in.
u was up to see B-l IN the Rookery
said one. ut will net me Il cool $50. GOO
cash, with $4,000 worth of bankrupt
paper to boot"
Good boy" responded his partner.
"But | have some good news. too. You
remember that $50, 900 | invested in tia
Leadville mining deal six years agop
Well, l 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 rs per cent
additional"
One of the fellows is a cheap bar.
tender in Dubuque and the other lives
On his father, who is a broken-dowD
merchant. They were always lucky ii
they had spending money, and consider
themselves so now when they a raise
barely enough wealth to visit Chicago
for a day and two nights.
But the country cousin" is not the
only bore at the c%hophouse table. Tho
can assume a 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. /. "rhc people OF War
rem speak of you often, and wonder if
you are getting rich since you moved
to Chicago"
"Rich?" said the cx-Warrenite, now
Of Chicago. "No, not rich, but in
pretty fair circumstances. | have been
dealing in securities quite Il little of late
and always struck the right side OF the
market. | am neither a bull nor a bear.
| play them both ways. Six months
ago | cleaned up S5, 900 in one deal, and
since that time l have added to the ac-
count, until now my balance in the
First National is something like sll0,-
COO. My private secretary has the ex-
act figures. Besides my broker has
$40, 600, which he is going to place for
me when change opens in the morning.
1t was a boss thing for Ae financially
when l left Warren last winter
And the unassuming gentleman who
still lives in Warren innoccntly drank
in that Aladdin-like tale, never think
ing for u 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 at the Office waiting for his 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. Chicago Times.