The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-31

wholesale chinAware and Sut-glss sssab; %;
constantly hunohed digs Of the barney
until the time whirled around Tor n1m 70
then no made up his mind that, With 90
mestic surroundings and conditions, he
was going to need the money that no was
dishing out to the barney:
his store that he wanted TO have a talk
with him after business hours. and, work.
ing his nerve up to tension, he came right
out 1at and told the boss that he'd once
Of the case. Then be told his employer
how the barney had been prey1ng upon
Hes got two knives hanging over
me- the young man told his boss lo9re
want to marry I want to know how
stand with you before tell him to do the
worst he knows
This young man was IN luck, Tor ms
employers smile broadened as the story
was unfolded, When it was finished he
YOU'D have saved lot Of money II
you had unreel-d your story to me years are
aeo I'm an e9ag baS vean ns sro one
and was only released after y had peen
| hadn't hurnt up my Chicago store for
' I'm your friend. and IN help you TO get
shut Of this dog. The next thing you want
to do Is TO tell the young woman you're
going to marry. as well as her father, just
what you've told me, and If the girl Is worth
for dad-in-law, they're not going to hold
| it against you. Put on your hat right now
and III g. along with YOU ~
And that's just what they did-went
to Brooklyn together' the employ employer "a w no
employee who was still taking the bitter
medicine. The young man told the girl.
and she gave him hug and asked him " ne
thought that such thing would ever make
any difference to woman who honest-
Iniu1 cared for him.
.The employer told the girls father,
and the old man replied that ne WASH
bothering about what kinds OF devilment
young whelos had igur ID In when ti,.y
| they had been able to raise hair on their
sThe barney came around to the store
few days later to make dig. The young
man took him up to loft. where they held
these onferences, in freight, elevator.
and then he almost beat that barney to
death Then he booted the dog all the way
down the stairs to the street. and told him
that he could g as far a, his !ik.d ;.,.-
had made clean breast OF i to the people
that he cared anything about, and he
scratched that young fellows name on his
list He went on barneying other hard
until ,uHfv a Mulberry larat was pulled taut on
him that landed m over the road for .
ten-specker.
aThe vilest type OF barney !. the ons
who threatens to expose his victim TO the
Of work The right kind Of a woman isn't
going to turn down a man who has got
square enough gizzard to come 70 the
front and let her in on the story, Of how Il
happened to him: But few o. the re sslp 1'sd
breaks Of their youth have the nerve TO do
this--fearf,l that the girlsu pass them
along-and that's where they make their
mist
"A man who lived with his wife In q pretty.
cosy Harlem fiat a few years ago used TO be
visited two or three times a week by a man
whom the wife didn't like, The visitor
made himself pretty free around Ire rat,
conducted himself in an arrogant fashion
put himself on familiar terms with his
hosts vile.
THE wife frequently told her husband
that she couldn't tolerate the man, ard
visiting the fiat. Her husband: victim
Of a barney. had to do the best he could
to evade her request by defending the
barney and telling her that the man was
an old boyhood friend Of his
ine In his language ard con duct Now,
the victim Ct thi. barney, was all right with
his frm-they knew Lis record all the
way through, and he had noting TO- fear r..
wife didn't know. ard he had been tolerat-
ire the barney In lis home, In addition to
digging for him right along, simply on
that account
fiat on the night that he came there drunk.
however, the victim. unable to stand the
game any longer. told his wife just how
1t stood between him and the barney, Tho
wife did VIII at any good woman would have
done in similar circumstances to 4 man
who had treated her right; she told her
man that it di lat amount even q teenchy
bit to her, only that he should have put
her next years before and spared himself
two eve ing. later the barney again
S'Come in, said the barn ey's victims
wife. amiably, meeting the fellow at the
door, My husband is taking anap-seep
a'TakL!g a nap, hey?' said the barney.
impudertly, ogh & her.
Yes she replied, hastily III just run
in ard wake Linn up.
BLACKBOARD called after her, but she had
already stepped into the bedroom
.sl,e stepped into the parlor again just
twenty seconds Later. In her right hard
she ClutcNeO elx-cn0InOoToo UW!ooSp
every chamber loaded, and SIZE had the
barr ey under the gun In q fash:
Now, you snake she said to him
quietly, I want you to 60 out OF that door,
and il you ever darken IT again IN put
every one Of these bullets in you II have
to 60 to the chair for It. You 80 and go
sThat was the wind-up Of tbs barney
game under that particular vine and hg
tree.
mo figures, of course can b. produced
showing how many victims Of barneys
kill themselves In sheer desperation, but
know of a number Of such cases woman
victim Of female barneys drowned herself
in the East River only q few years ago.
About ten years before. while eppren-
ticed to Q fashionable dressmakor, the girl,
while shopping for her employer one day,
yielded to a sudden impulse to swips q
bolt Of silk from counter. Her work
was clumsy and the store detective nabbed
her. She was without friends to come to
the front for her, and she was convicted
Of shoplifting and sent to the women's
end of an upstate prison for year.
when she had served her time she 70
turned to New York and, after q year or
so, started a dressmaking establishment
OF herDwn which soon became prosperous.
Then The female barneys with whom she
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