Evening star., 1899-07-29
Usually Gets the Ten,

All, there says he, bearing down upon
you Just the old chap l wanted 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 en-spot-he'S around the cor
ner in the restaurant now, waiting for me
until pay day morning? Could get a mil
non or so from my cousin if | wanted it,
buo You know how it is-fellow likes to be
independent o kinsfolk,' etc This one
goes through about three times out of
ilNe, a pretty fair percentage.
''These are just 4 few of the hurry touch
ers. The hurry TOUGHER generally has an
open, frank counten2nc@, truthful eye.
persuasive voice and a wholly plausible
manner He never makes good. He either
lodges you on the street after he has stuck
you or meets you on the mos: even. good
natured, Storytelling terms, hut without
ever revertinG by word or sign 20 the make
good end of MS little transaction with you.
When, after two three such meetings.
you mention the matter to him, he Siaps his
; thigh, eXclaims, By Georga! | must De get
ting paresis, for a fact, Completely forgot
about it, Just do IRE the favor 10 remind
me of il next Thursday, will you old man?'
and then he fixes it that you don't see
him for many Thursday thereafter. When
you do meet him h throws something OUT
right away about the awful size cf doctors
bills and tells you about the sickness in his
family. and you don't feel like pressing HIM
Thus the little bunch that he has dug ont
Of you by the hurry meth ID passes into
gradual outlawry.
The Eurtive TOUGHER
"Then there's the man who works ir the
same room with you and makes prettv
nearly as much money as you Go, who
watches you furtively out of ;h4 tail Of his
eye until you go out into the hall, and then
goes out into the hall himself and laws for
you He's man with Gownc lst EXPRESS
ION and shifty eye, and he spins his little
yarn for so cents. wherewi:h to purchase
quinine pills, or for 81, with which to fix
his insurance policy, which viii expire tc-
morrow unless the two is paid. The furtive
toucher is GeVer at loss for some little
story that seems to indicate his a5so.utc
need, Immediately, Of the amount he
touches you for, and he makes his at;i-
tude so Pleading and pitiable that Le is
rarely turned down. You say to yourself
that a man who'll make himself so clips-
and small for little money must need il
and you'll find your hand Iigging into yo,lr
pocket oftener than not. You may I;selye
that when the furtive TOUGHER returns 10
the office from luncheon his breath Is suz
piclously spiced, but that's no concern Of
yours.
When pay day comes around the fur
1--WE TOUGHER, as a rule, forgets all abo,,t
that little matter. If he does remember If
once, and comes and plunks the amount Of
the loan on your blotting pad, you'll usu
any ma that nell hit you up again within
a week or so for larger amount and tbis
he overlooks when pay day drifts around
again.
The man who touches you by means of
messenger-delivered note, Containing y
ballad -and-waltz story of the predicament
he Is in and his terrific need for $50 in
stantly, considers the percentage about
touches under the wire. I stood for one
like that once. Said his wife was i'll, and
that he needed the monay the worst way.