The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-19
FIfTY.DOLLAR GLASS EYE.
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Novel Method Of Fleeing the In.
suspectiag.
A POLICE CAPTAINS STORY.
How One individual Became Possessed
OF Third Eye, ard Yet Had No
Immediate Use for It.
POLICE CAPTAINS STORY


and the novel methods employed by shurp
rogues to fleece the unwary, police cap.
tain related the following: 1.-The clever
est artist | ever heard OF In all Of my police
experience" said the captain, was a
oue-eyed man who conceived the idea Of
turning his very inHrmity to profit and
making fortune out Of his misfortune.
He was man OF genius and scorned
the paltry tricks Of the grovelIug mendicant
who parades his affection before the public
eye, relying on aims for LIVING. man
who could give dime In charity, he
argued, could spare a dollar jttst as well,
and should be made TO do so.
'Oue day Lugn Cascarctti, prosperous
Italian fruit dealer, called at the station
house TO lodge complaint. Lugp kept a
fruit stand on side street. During a dull
summer afternoon. while Lugo was
drowsily smoking In his store. two smart
" dressed strangers lounged Into the door.
one Of them stopped and began inspecting
some fruit displayed on a stand near the
door. while the other came forward aud
made several purchases.
suddenly the man at the fruit stand ut
tered am exclamation aud began digging
vigorously into the fruit, The other
stranger advanced and inquired what was
wrong. Why, I've dropped my eye here
somewhere, and cant md it, said his COM
panlon The startling statement brought
Lugo 10 the spot, and he was soon made to
understand that It was glass eye that had
been lost. The two friends searched dill
gently in the fruit stand. and Lugo, Of
appeared to be In the greatest distress aud
actually cried with his good eye over his
loss; saying he had made trip to Paris
to have the eye fitted into the empty
socket, and that the loss meant at least
$500 to him
"Lugo cascarettfs sympathies were
aroused, and he called his boy aud had all
IN f.ur fYfli nan and No Of
around the stand thoroughly searched, but
no trace OF the missing orb could be found.
Finally the oneeyed man reluctantly
gave 1t up. begging Lugo to keep up his
be found. When you Ind it. said tie
stranger, bring IL my room at the hotel
and ! VIII give you sloo' The stranger
"Lugo and his family kept up the search.
Next morning the strangers called TO learn
the result, and the one'eyed man Increased
the reward to $3.50 at the same time shed.
alng some more tears out Of the good eye.
Lugo redoubled his oxertious and hunted
diligently all the morning. stopping only to
wa" wait on customer now and then.
Toward evening a morbid looking. shah.
billy dressed Individual came In the store
aud bought some fruit. While Lugo was
wrapping up the package the customer
Of the rubbish under the fruit stand. II
was a glass eye.
'Lugo reached eagerly for It, The Gus.
toner grew PACK In surprise.
'Lugn tried to look uuconcerned as the
customer wiped the dust from the glass
eve and slipped 1t IN his pocket. at the
same time starting ont with bis package.
Lugo delayed him aud engaged him In con.
versaticu about the object he had found,
and offered to buy H. but the customer
hesltated, and the more Lugo offered the
ess the customer seemed Inclined tn take
H. In the end, however, the customer
agreed TO part with the eve for $50. and
Lugn quickly paid down the cash
As the morbid man walked leIsurely
away, munchIng an apple, Lugo took the
clutching the bit OF glass tightly ia his
hand. or course the one.eved man and
els friend were gone. and Tugc, dazcd and
| stunched by the loss Of his money, as the
realization NJ the trick slowly dawned upop
| hlm, went hack to his store, and though
| ne never had any use for his third ete,
| me other two were all the keener from that
time m. He offered on extravagant reward
never located
This is really n pretty good story. and
! as ~ persons appreciate good stories. So
should they value good pyCsirht
Preserving and correcting ones eyeslght
rs DR. Scymour's speciality
ting glass eyes, ana in this connection
wishes 70 call attention In very neculiar
TACT which never seems 10 occur 10 some
often you meet a oue.eycd person going
about with an emnty socket their only
excuse Is that they have never seen a glass
eve that did not look unnatural. cold. ex-
gressionless and, in fact, quite dlshguring.
Why2 Because their attention has only
been called to the cheap imitation glass
eve, lll-nttcd and perhaps no more real
match for the good one than the tigers
eyes recently told you about. While on
the other hand they may meet persons
using glass eve which has been ttted by
an artist and never realize II. so natural
and perfect can the good eye he Initiated
ny one who knows the art and snea ~
or " as an art. those who know Of nr
Seymour's work from experience regard
him as not only scientific In hls work hut
real artist In his profession.