Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-26

washing Uu Slar. ueH tue ldlh ou
the rear seat of the trolley car switched
around to touches and "touchers," the
quiet man with the stubby red mustache
and the shrewd gray eyes picked up his
Mgurative) coal sledge and c%atapulted
himself onto the firing line.
THE hurry touch said he, fixedly re-
garding he 957 hat-pin holes in the soiled
cream-colored hat band encircling the
straw sailor of the young woman in the
seat ahead, "while it may not be of
Washington conception and origin, is
nevertheless executed with remarkable
skill and success in Washington. The
hurry TOUGHER is more or less of a hyp-
notist. He nails me right along, and l
generally give up to him before l have a
chance to think. He generally approaches
you in a painting and breathless state.
Say, old man. says he. hopping his
forehead. L just happened to think that
this is the day of grace for paying the
gas bill, and l left all my money home in
my wife's pocketbOok. Only came down
town with lunch money and car fare.
Let's have a V until tomorrow morning,
will you? Hate like the dickens to ask
you for it, but you know how it is. &c.
The gas-bill TOUGHER is a wise guy in his
selection of victims, and he makes it stick
re HN Aoito VI IN ~ DIV
the last day of grace for the gas-bill
settlement pat. but the gag serves him
beautifully for that one day in the month.
The umbrella TOUGHER works his turn
on any rainy day, or on any day when
rain threatens. He walks alongside of
you for a block or two. and then he looks
up at the skies anxiously:
by jing,' says he, its going to ram
cats and dogs, and, as usual. I've come
downtown without my umbrella. DIE
ever see that beaut of a $50 s"ilver-handled
umbrella my wife gave me for Christmas
a couple of years ago? Handsomest UNI
brella in town, if 1 do say so myself, but
derned if Tve'ever had it with me yet in
a rain storm. S'pose I'll have to blow in a
two-spot for one of those cottony. ram
shackle umbrellas to get HON under.'
(Here he dives into his pockets one after
the other, and then looks at you blankly.)
We'll, of all the absent-minded idiots that
ever happened. I'm the worst! Left my
whole roll home-just a dime in my
change pocket, would you believe ii! L
say, Just pass me over one of those 81
silver certificates, will you while | run
down the block and get me a papier-
mache umbrella to keep out the wet, and
so on. The umbrella TOUGHER puts his
little dodge over the plate right along.
You never see him walk into an umbrella
emporium and buy one. When he gets
the money he leaves you on a run. and
If you're a mark you'll think that he's
really making for an umbrella shop at a
lOpe.
'Then there's the hurry oucher'-uSu-
ally a young man-whoo operates a day or
"a couple of days before pay day. He
meets you as you are going into the lunch
room and he tackles you at once, briskly
and jauntily.
"'Ah, there!' says he. bearing down
,,yop sJ,,ct tha old chan r wa ,ta1 tO
see. Know that bowling swell of a cousin
of mine from New York? No? Funny /
never told you Of him! He's the real
thing. and he's got it to cremate Got
into town last night, and of course. it's
up to me to show him ~around-and pay
day two days Off. Course I've got to keep
my end up, old man, and how bout it for
a merry little ten-spot-he's around the
corner in the restaurant now, waiting
for me-until pay day morning? Could
get a million or so from my cousin II !
wanted it, but you know how it is-felioW
likes to be independent o kinsfOlk, &c
This one goes through about three times
out Of five, a pretty fair percentage.
''These are Just a few of the hurry
t0uchers.' The hurry TOUGHER generally
has an open, frank countenance, a truth"
full eve, a persuasive voice and a wholly
plausible manner. He never makes good
He either lodges you on the street aftel
HE has stuck you or meets you on tins
most even, g~oodnatured, storytelling
terms, but without ever reverting d!
word or sign to the make good end OF
his little transaction with you. When
after two or three such meetings. yol
mention the matter to him, he slaDs his
thigh, exclaims, by George! l must bf
getting paresis. for a fact. Completely
forgot about it! Just do me the favor tt
remind me of it next Thursday, will you
old MANI and then he fixes 1T so tina
YOU don't see him for many a Thursda!
thereafter. When you do meet him h
throws something out right away abou
the WIFI size of doctors bills and tell:
YOU about the sickness in his family. ant
you don't feel like pressing him. Thus
the little bunch that he has dug out o
you by the hurry method passes int
gradual outlaWry.
THE FURTIVE TOUGHER.
Then there's the man who works in tn
same room with you and makes pretty
nearly as much money as you do. wht
watches you furtively out of the tail O
his eye until you go out into the hail. an
then goes out into the hall himself an(
lays for you. He's a man with downcas
expression and a shifty eye, and he spin!
his little yarn for so cents whereWith t.
purchase ouinine pills, or for 81. will
which to fix his insurance policy, which
will expire tomorrow unless the two il
paid. The furtive TOUGHER is never at
loss for some little story that seems t,
indicate his absolute need. immediately,o
the amount he touches you for, and h,
makes his attitude so pleading and pitia
bic that he is rarely turned down. YOU
say to yourself that a man who'll max
himself so cheap and small for a littl
money must need it, and you'll find you
hand digging into your pocket oftene
than not. You may observe that whel