Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-15

coats hanging up there 81
a bargain on any one OF
happy not to lose over
paid double what you v
mother had called at your
And that Mothers Bib
older than the hills. 1t W
worked on the first pawn
hung out a sign. About tw
II crops out in the Sunday
always brings tears to the es
reader. Sometimes it is yq'
who is driven by dire necessi
with his mothers lasS, gift, 4
times it is motherless>
reached the jumping-off
she grabs up that Bible an
TO the nearest pawnshop any
broken voice exolaims:
1t was mothers gift, aAd MN
been my solaoe. but it must go. TAM
IT, stony-hearted pawnbroker, and hand y
me over ST.
During my first two years in busi-
ness they worked me for all there was
in it. | had hundred Mothers BIZ
bias on hand at once, and was $500
out of pocket. 1t always happens to
be a cheap Bible and an old Bible.
The shop which advances fifty cents
4
want them at any price, and no Sec
ond-hand dealer will give over a quar-
ter apiece for EN-. but because won't
plank down their first cost or more I
am supposed to be without sentiment.
If it was publicly known that a pawn
broker would advance fifty cents on
every Mothers Bible offered. he'd
want warehouse to store the results
in. If your mother left a SO gold ring
behind her when she died, how much
would you expect TO ger for 1t il YOU
went from store to store, or offered
TO your church pastor or family doce
tor? Would any of them pay you
dollar extra because your dead MOTH
had worn it? And yet, every day
my life that same ring is offered, tn
same tale told, but because | will 4
buy the ring except at its weigh
am charged with being worse thar
Shylock. If you'd spend an hour
day in a pawns hop for a week, va
realize that he wasn't getting the
of it.
rs there a humorous side to
business? Well, yes. The humor
the surprises you give your custom
Now and then h man will come in
a watch, ring, painting or piece
plate who viii truthfully give the
iginal cost, although that is a ms
of no moment to me in my valua
My sole aim 4 to get back what
vance, with the interest allowed by
Not more thaRAQne caller out of
is strictly truthfuA with you.
grimly humorous foE an actress
ter and pass me Hng of past'
monds and ask for an advance q
Many any many a swell
and passes over his scarf p
the glass ruby or the imif
will take me in. In most
establishment to learn of thd
is assumed, and they carry
badly that | have a quiet chtN
1t. In other instances, mostly
case Of women, they have been
ed Wives often so to the pawn
to raise money on a ChristU
birthday pTcse1v~ " r4@-e----
they learn what 1t probably CD
young man will give his girl aTl
color diamond or a ring in which
ruby, emerald or turquoise is only
imitation. If she comes to me fol
loan have to tell her the truth, d
no doubt | have been the cause OF
good deal of trouble between loyef
Only this afternoon a good-looking 81
dropped in to get an advance of $25
supposed cluster diamond ring
have no doubt ii was given her
young man, and that she had ok -
it on every possible occasion and 4
tered herself in arousing the envy
the less fortunate. There WASH q
genuine diamond among the sew
stones, however. Each and every d
was paste. and the ring was not wo
over s. at the most You ought
have seen the fire in her blue e.
when | satisfied her OF its real valid
Her teeth came together with a click