New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-02-08

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PLA Y Ed A B GA
HOW THE BIG MAN FLEEcED the
SUBSTITUTE BROKERS'
j The Tricky Sic Footer Worked HIS
Physical Defect to the Linnit and
Reaped : Rieh Harvest while tho
Opportunity Lasted. Isl
During the civil war in what was
then pretty village Of Michigan and
has since become city without losing
any Of its beauty lived q strapping six
footer who looked as hard as nails!
dressed well, talked smoothly and was
set up like q soldier. He had no means
OF support yisi BILE to the naked eye in
]: the village which he called home. but
! he would make occasional trips from
which be returned with plenty Of
| money and q fund Of interesting talk
about some section of the north. The
people thought him mystery. but he
| was q pleasant one, and curiosity never
went further than to ask ingeniousqu es-
tions that were Just as ingeniously par
ried. After his harvest was atsan end
the mystery ez planned himself without
reserve, and no one expressed serious
disanproval Of the way in which his
| wits had won him his money.
| 8 It was a simple case of diamond cut
! diamond. The laughed. I've been TAX
fng feeces from the fellow that went
out to shear. I'm not an Apollo Belve-
dere, Diomedes or Samson in appear
1 ance, but / pass in crowd as fine
| specimen of physical development. The
truth is that IN a whited sepulcher. I
/ was born with defective heart and
would not take three minutes of real
violent exercise for all the money You
could load on freight train. 1 take
things easy all along the line, and the
engine keeps pumping up to require
ments.
"When INcouId see the end of what
property was left me, and it was not far
away, I cast about for some light work
to do and concluded to deal with the
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Of meeting the required medical exam.
nations, SO I took another tack. When.
ever / visited place in my business,
Ed manage incidentally to fall in with
the broker. I'm better than raw hand
as a iollier, and I'd soon have some
mutual friends as innocent parties in
the play.
/ ! r NOW rk~,..
chaf the broker about his business ano
ask what kind of soldier I'd make
4 He would either jump open mouthed al
the proposition or chaf back under ar
impression that would never think o,
going to war. In either case it would
usually come to some kind of PROPOSE
ton from the broker. Then the Other
fellows would guy me, intimate that
was a buffer and wonder how was tt
get out of the thing without a cleal
funk.
Here's where my fine work came in
I'd demand a retainer, and I'd put i
high enough just to make the broker
think that was trying to escape him
II he would pay me a specified sun
down, I would agree to appear at thu
recruiting Office the next day and offel
my services, but I gave notice that
assumed no chances. If they would no
have Inc, the broker must stand tn,
loss. The idea Of my being rejected al
ways raised laugh and only tended tt
confirm the broker in the belief that
was trying to escape him.. When til,
doctor turned me down. went into tn,
dumps, became nervously timid, aroused
| the sympathy Of those with whom I hat
become acquainted and snapped an or
der to the disgruntled broker to keel
clear away from me- "
The best haul made was in Pitts
burg. A coal baron there who could no
we'll enlist and who had not been draft
ed wanted a representative in the army
who would make name honorable tx
| that Of the principal. He was after
big, handsome, intelligent fellow O
whom he could be proud and put thu
whole matter into the hands of shrewc
! little broker. I managed to meet hin
at the Monongahela>H House, and work
ed around to the main subject in thu
manner 1 have described, but I coult
see that he was sharp and did not like
to run any chances
while he went to dinner aftel
which we were to resume our talk,
! went out and had short conference
I with a huge truckman When / AGAR
met the broker, that truckman insisted
on bothering us and, after showing 6
proper amount of patience, I threw him
half way across the Office, and he went
i limping out, while all observers grew
wide eyed in their wonder. did moi
exert enough strength to throw hall
grown boy five feet, but the truckman
knew his business, and was paid $40 70,
attending to it.
'That apparently cool courage and
gigantic strength removed all doubt
from the mind of the broker. was the