The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-02-14

ing the street car fares
Huddersfield-s house is damned full
of bargains He has Chinese chest
of phol-wood in the hall that
looks like immigrants trunk His
laundryman had not the faintest con-
ception of the value of the thing from
an artistic point of view, and allowed
him to take it for SIS. but bargain
hunter has absolutely no shame and
would just soon take advantage of
a confiding and innocent Chinaman as
not Not very long after the sale of
the camphor-wood chest, which the
janitor contends is plain deal and
wormy at that, Huddersfield discov-
cred a lovely little c1oisonne vase
shelf just over Hop Sings ironing
ia bic beneath the shrine of the God
of Most Happy Destiny and he was
conscienceless enough to buy that
vase for five dollars
Since that time several other little
articles of bric-a-brac have been
seen care1essly scattered around Hop
Sings laundry, but Huddersfield has
bought none of them since Burk-
holder rubbed the bottom of the
cloisonne and deciphered the stamped
legend: MADE in Germany
But, as HuddersfieId says, anyone
is likely to get fooled once in awhile
and the fact that the fifteenth cen
fury Florentine intaglio that he
stumbled on by accident in a pawn
brokers' shop on the West side was
duplicated in shop in the PalalS~
Royal by friend who has returned
from Paris did not discourage him.
He has found a beautiful specimen of
Flemish wood carving. for which he
thought at the time he paid almost
what it was worth, to have been
stamped by steam at Racine, Wis,
and that did not dampen his ar6or.
His cigar bargain, however, left
deep and lasting effect on him.
Wasserman was over at Hudders-
fields house one evening" Hudders-
field dived into his chiffonier and
brought out a handful of cigars and
threw them the table. At first
Wasserman was a little suspicious.
He said he had a few cigars of his
own in his pocket and was creature
of habit in the matter of tobacco, but
! Huddersfield insisted and he lit one
ST the handful.
| After the first few puffs wasser-
mans face assumed an expression of
| surprise, and he looked at the cigar
respectfully. Another Whit or two
and he said in startled tone: This
| is really a mighty good cigar, Hud-
iersfield; where did you get it ?''
| Huddersfiefd smiled complacent1y
and leaned back in his chair with his
| thumbs in the armh oles of his waist
coat. why, I'll tell you,' he said.
81 got those cigars at a bargain
stumbled them quite by accident
! It was in little out-of-the-way cigar
1
| stepped in there to get a cigar
| never dreamed of getting anything
| Fl t to smoke, but I had to have some
| thing The proprietor was ole
| chap who acted as if he was hall
| baked, too.
| ~"We1, I was looking over the show
cases and I saw box away over il
the corner that looked if it hadn't
| been tapped much and thought I'd
try one of them on suspicion. Tt was
| Il
| draw that it the right stuff
"'We don't sell many of them
| there says the old man; they dom
| seem to suit our trade. I guess I got
| stuck on them.
| ga little rank. but it makes
smoke L said: WHAT will you make
/ me these by the hundred? I point
| ed to another kind, of course
| wasn't going to LEI that I wanted
| the one I was smoking. He made me
| a figure and then 7 priced something
else and went on until I came to the
| corner box. and in casual way asked
| the price of them He said he would
| sell me a hundred for So so, and took
| him up That's the second box you re
| smoking now
| well. L swami exclaimed Wasser-
man. THAT was one time you did
strike it. It's pity he hadn't more
of them
LAS for that" -eturned Hudders-
=
them. I guess the old boy has got
2 900 or 1000 of t EN- in his cellar.
I'd have taken the lot, but I'm pretty
well stocked up tn some Havanas
my wife's brother got for me- He's
an importer and ought to know a
good cigar, but I don't like his as
we'll my $3.50 ones and I guess
they stand me in something like S12
VIII o1esa1e."
81 don't suppose you'd care to give
me chance at them?'' asked Wasser-
man, Il don't know when I smoked
anything that suited better and
I hatter myself L know a good
cigar
Huddersfeld said he would be de-
lighted and he really was. Here was
one time that his bargain was apPre-
ciated. Wasserman asked if a thou
sand would be hit ng him too hard
| he replied Certainly not, my boy,
!, and took Wassern ans $35 with en-
5 thusiasm and when he went away in
: sisted that he should put some of the
: cigars in his pocket Later he dis
: covered that he had dipped into the