The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-25
MONEY THAT BURNS.
tPORTING MEN EASILY GET RID OF
THE WEALTH THEY WIN.

Are the Easiest of Easy Marks.
IF were looking for an easy mark, )"
said a New Yorker who is not an easy
mark himself, but sometimes finds use
in his business for easy marks, u
would hunt for him among the sporting
men. particularly if / were in "A hurry.
Talk about sporting men being shrewd!
Why, they can't get rid of their money
quick enough TO suit them. That is es-
pecially true of sporting men in New
York Sporting men in the country
hayseeds, you d call them-have harder
heads till they come 10 New York and
their heads get swelled and softened
like the others.
81 suppose it comes Of handling
money in big sums and lots of it. I've
noticed the same thing about bankers
and bank clerks They get accustomed
10 handle money just as carelessly as "a
dynamite maker handles the explosive.
See the story of all defalcations and
embellishments It's pretty much mat
ter of taking the trouble TO cart away
the stuff from the Dank. The banks get
in the rut Of expecting you TO rob them
in certain ways, and if you just 90
about il in some new, simple way, why,
everything's thrown open 10 you. It's
the same way with the sporting men.
They get 10 thinking that nobody but
one of themselves knows enough to put
up a 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. a man may be mighty
fine poker player. If he'sa 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 cents gone. Why
do you see so many broken down faro
dealers walking about looking for the
price of a meal? Because they 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 look upon as chumps.
Its funny, the round the money
makes The business man earns it and
blows it in at faro, and the faro dealer
blows it in at policy, and the policy
dealer leaves it III Wall street or real
estate, and so l suppose the business
man gets it again, Some Of the money
may stick to the business man, but none
to the others. They don't know enough
to keep it. There's a man in this city
who has made 81 000 coo, easy, / sup
pose, at gambling He's always been
interested in one Of the biggest and
best gambling houses in this city.
1.-THE game goes right along, re-
formed police or unTCformed police.
Money flows into it steadily. Now, for
% years this man has been watching
what Internal fools men make of them
selves. You would suppose he would
learn some sense in that time, wouldn't
you? Well, often his bank roll is so
low that run Of luck little oat of
the ordinary would close the house.
Gamble? Not hel 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 lie leaves money TO bury him
decently, although his gambling house
brings him in thousands.
1t seems as though they had to get
rid Of their money somehow or bust
There's another man who kept gam
bling house. He had fine family and
them in luxury. He wouldn't
gamble or speculate either, but he had
the money, and he had to spend it
He got interested in a church
and spent 80 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 $25 week as a
theet writer for a bookmaker 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. l know man who
is a genius that way. He never was q
plunger, but was content to win
couple of small bets every day or so.
He must have cleared money at the
rate of SO, 900 year at it during the
periods when he gave his attention to
it. Well, he would save so much, say a
couple of thousand dollars, and then he
would stop playing the horses and put
the whole amount on a prizefight or an
election or something of the kind and
would lose every cent.
That's the way with all of them.
don't believe they really know any
more about the value and the nature of
money than child. 1t is simply some
thing that changes hands. It's true with
them that the next best thing to win
ming at cards is losing. You hear lots
about come-ons who get robbed all
over the country. If you don't hear so
much about sporting men who get
robbed, it's simply because they don't
squeal. New York Sun.
The Poet and the Beauty.