Evening star., 1900-12-29
THOUSAND ONE DOLLAR BILLS.
They CONQUERED the Old Man When
One zig DanIs Vote Failed.


From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"A professional compromiser who UNDER
ste IDS his business is a most valuable man
on the staff of any big railroad said a
New Orleans lawyer, apropos of nothing In
particular. "It is a great art he con-
tinued, land 1 had the fact impressed on
me by something rather unusual that hap
pened early in my career I had been In
practice only year so as l remember.
when l was engaged by certain railroad
company to represent 1t in a damage suit
brought by an old fellow who had been hurt
at a crossing. l got the job because the
regular attorney anu regular assistant at
torney were out of town on bigger ara1rs,
and I threw myself into it with un-
limited enthusiasm. A little investigation
convinced me, however, that the company
| didn't have a leg to stand on. apd neither.
for that matter did the claimant. both Of
'em having been broken above the knee So
| advised compromise, and was told to
settle it, If l could. for 81 600. That fixed
limit discouraged me- because the suit had
been brought for $4,000. and l knew the
opposition lawyers had been filling their
client with rosy hopes; but / thought up
scheme that seemed promising. The claim
ant was an ignorant old fellow, who had
been laborer for years, and l took it for
granted that he had never had so much as
500 at any one time In his life. I'll just
| hypnotize him. l said to myself, and, going
to bank, | got brand new 81 1000 bill
Then | hurried off to his boarding house
found him in dirty little back room and
made my proposition for settlement Just
as | anticipated, he declined it Indignantly
Very Well said l, pulling out the bill with
a studied carelessness: in that case III
have to return this money But by the
way | added did you ever happen to see
thousand dollar bill? It's quite a hand
some bit of paper.' To be candid l was
rather awed by the thing myself and ex-
pected him to finger i: ike a piece of the
1t indlfferentiy, glanced at it with no an
parent interest and handed it back IFS
very pretty he said stolidly. and went on
smoking his pipe.
"a few days after this discouraping ex
perlence, the lawyer Went on, Mr. An
drews, the claim agent Of the line, hap
pened to be in town and dropped in to in
qulre about the case. He was a veteran
in the business, but he always impressed
me as being man totally destitute of tact,
and | never could understand how he held
| MS job He chuckled when he heard my
story. My dear boy, he said YOU simply
overplayed yourself You expected thai
old man to drop dead at the sight of a
| thousand-dollar bill Why, bless your soul
ne diun t know what it mgant. II was be-
yond the outposts of his imagination He
was like you, yourself, when you hear an
astronomer talk about ten billion miles
Inc figure conveys no idea TO your mind
"a sI 10 us rs nut coHle WIN me ne add
US slir,ritad Stne I'VE, you an 4p!eGt lesson
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ear .@!;,, S1lu tne c.alm agent, after
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- 49,, t't 80 IUil'1S ~ d'u want you 10 sign
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.TII 80, ets ny ng' 90 II, ne yelled;
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n,I,,,,, ~. - ;JI iU9IIsn, sdlo Andrews,
ei sa.'inS, ~ july WllI give you over thou
fbat' %llu Soui la"yers VIII get haf of
tIaI; ou better 90 business vii me-