Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-04

the stables he was training. He pulled off
his finger 2-karat solitaire ring, worth
about $50.
How many? I asked him.
"'Call it $500, said he.
Certain to Redeem 1t.
81 gave him the 800 I knew precisely
what l was doing / knew that this man
had been away UP and away down in his
luck twenty times in less than five years,
and 1 had in mind the axiom. You can't
keep a squirrel on the ground The in
tereSt on 800 was better than the interest
on $50, and | happened to know that this
ring was cherished by my customer on ac-
co mt of certain associations connected
with it-that II he'd shove it In for $1,000
he'd drag 1t out whenever he had the
money. l didn't hear from him until after
the New Orleans race meeting was two
months under way. Then he sent me the
money for his ring. 1 see quite n lot of the
same old faces at the race meetings here
every year. How they buck the game and
beat II / don't know, but great many Of
them appear to do 1t. Fellows come along
to the fall meetings and get out jewelry
that they've left behind at the spring meet
ings.
Then there are other classes of tran
SientS who contribute to the annual income
OF the pawnbrokers in Washington. Plenty
of travellers strike Washington, find them
selves without funds for the time. and I'M
hesitaungly soak some bit of jewelry that
they can do without until they regain their
overcoats, you'd be amazed a the number
of thorough bred-ooking men, well groomed
and we'll dressed, who walk in here the
coolest days Of winter, deliberately throw
off their overcoats, and throw them this
counter with the query, How much'll you
pass me over on this?
Following Big Celebrations.
Then, we ell make a pretty fair thing
of it during the numerous big ceremonial
blow-outs In Washington-inaugurati
and so on. 1t IS extraordinary how many
thousands of persons there are who come
TO Washington from all portions of the
country to attend these affairs, who, in
setting out, appear to have no sort of idea
that they'll ever want to get home again.
1t seems Incredible that people should make
long journeys to Washington knowing, when
they start. that they haven't enough money
to make the home trip. They are a headless
kind of folk, and there are lots of women
nice women-among them. Such people
invariably. or almost invariab bly,, land in the
paWnshops-often to their extreme mortifi-
perftuouS jewelry or clothing to buy them
selves railroad tickets back to their homes.
y great number OF people from all parts of
the nation who attended the Dewey affair
in New York came on to Washington on
their way home. They had many q tale of
how they'd been stripped and plundered
over in the big burg, and a lot of them tenn
pOrarily gave us charge of enough of their
adornments to carry them on their ways.
AT the wind-up of the last inauguration
.ooH III 3 e d Sno9Stlnu "a,cHes anu
tiI'i t"an I'VE huilole1 men rings anu
49,, ~ my EIlei, aDoq. H4ne-tehtns OF them
understand, the people who patroniZe us
IL rs the ii'auS 5, u "tion peilCus are Ior
t i,e 4 , pa IGihs VINO are soiu anu on
II - go With tI'es are d nome, anu
T IN d H-ah t''iIl9 up a. ms nome after
It's 60 a. a pts DloM-ouL IN sohe
~ = I,oifi "t.H -, i4s W." or ms ring
j ne - iiaple u ilusIIe 10 get II OUT i1ihe-
- ,r,,fIiI,1r LIZ ~ nc me-
- 'i'ils liiisS'hS dpouI MS makeup.
Watches Go First
ssTha funny writer's for tho ,rass bo,-a
-. So ~
'esH manning IoheS Ioi years past win the
rub to them that a mans evening garments
are the first things he takes to a pawn
sbon when he &c nreeead for resd1, n,o,o,,
This Is a distinct error graat ST.
of rnen or1iv ssboI.a So Had 1y1li.
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