The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-01

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picious stuff on the public through
those damn clever letters of yours"
There's where you did stop to think,
Sam" said 1. when l say a stocks
talking about it, it may go on rising
or 1t may fall. But l never advise any
body to buy except when l have every
reason to believe it's a good thing. IT
they hold on too long, that's their w
lookout
you use words too carelessly.' /
said. when l say buy, l don't mean
invest. When I mean invest, l say in
vest" There I laughed. It's a word l
don't often use" -.
and that's what you call honestly"
jeered he.
THAT'S what I call honesty" 1 retort-
ed, and that is honesty" And Thought
so then.
'"Weli-every man has a right to his
own notion of what's honest" he said.
But no mans got a right to complain
If a fellow with a different notion crit
l~icises him."
None in the world" I assented. DO
you c~riticise me-"
NO, no, no, indeedt" he answered,
nervous. and taking seriously what l
had intended as n Joke.
After n while 1 dragged in the sub-
ject. One thing I can and VIII do to
get myself in line for that club, sald.
4 Ike n sea- on IfOiIlGiltNS. L IL On Va
the crowd that l ravel with-the men
and the women. I feel it's about tme
settled down. I've got a fortune and
} establishment that needs a woman TO
! set it OFF. | can make some woman
happy. You don't happen to Know any
nice girls-the right sort, l mean
Not many" said Sam. You'd bet
ter go back to the country where you
came from and get her there. Shed
: be e~ternally grateful, and her head
) wouldn't be full OF mercenary non
sense" ,
turn her head. she'd go clean crazy:
She'd plunge in UP TO her neck-anG
; not being used to these waters, shed
make q show of herself, and propaply
drown, dragging me Gown villa 10 II
sam laughed. Keep out of marriage,
t Matt, he advised, not so obtuse to my
J real point as he wanted to belleVe.
Il know the kind of a girl you've got
: in mind. She'd marry you for your
t money, ana she'd never appreciate you.
7 she'd see in you only the lack of things
she's been taught to lay stress on.
For ~instance?"
II couldn't tell you any more than
=, I could enable you to q per
son you'd never seen by describing
e HIM"
Amt I a g~ent'~nan?' inquired,
He laughed, as if the idea tickled
g him. ''of course" he said. "of course"
Ain l got as proper a country place
II as there is a going? Amt my apart
e ment in the wiiloughby a peach? Don't
q | give as elegant dinners as you ever
sat down to? Don't l dress right up
t TO the Piccadily latest? Don't act
e all right-know enough to keep my feet
off the table knife out of my
a month? ?. An r u enough. and 1 so
y crude then that 1 hadn't a suspicion
a what a fiat contradiction of my preten-
sions and beliefs about myself the very
e words and phrases We're.
:. You're right in it, Matt" said sam.
.But-well-you haven travelled with
our crowd, and they're shy of strangers,
e especially as-as energetic a sort of
T stranger as you are. You're too sudden
$ Matt-too dazzling-too-'
9 s'Too shiny and new?' said l, begin
e ming TO catch his drift. "That'l be
e looked after. What l want is you to
take me round a bit"
II can't ask you to peoples houses
$ protested he knowing I'd not realize
: what q fIlfnsy pretense that was.
y Whi,e we were talking l had been
n notwithstanding out the proposition
!! along lines he had indicated to me
without knowing it. Look here, Sam
| said. You imagine I'm trying to
butt in with a lot of people that don't
know me and don want to know
me. But that ain't my point of view,
IS Those people can be useful to me. ]
need 'em. What do / care whether
K they want to be useful to me or not?
e The niachine'd have run down and
rusted out long g If you and youl
friends idea of a gentleman had beer
taken seriously by anybody who hao
anything to do and knew how to do it
! In this world you've got to make people
: do what's for you good and their own
Your idea of q gentleman was put for
Z ward by lazy fakirs who were living
off of what their ungentlemanly an,
= ~cestors annexed. and who didn'
want to be disturbed. So they fixed
= the game by passing these rules 20,
and your kin are fools enough to abide
by-that is, you are fools, unless yol
haven't got brains enough TO get on II
= a free-and-fair-for-all."
II Sam laughed. There's a lot o
truth in What you say" he admitted.
"Howeyer, I ended" my plans lon
call for hurry just there. When I ge
-. ready to so round, III let o know.
~ VII.
BLAcKLoCK GOES INTO TRAINING
This brings me to the ugliest stor,
at my enemies have concocted agains
ne. Ne n appreciates more thorough
- Ivy than I that, to rise high, q MA
n. must ave his own efforts seconded b
t. the food Of v~ituperation that his efie
mics send to overwhelrn him and wiic
~ 4 AltNlISS thl ID tS-lS M LAG ~ ScA'
hope to lift himself. So / do not her
refer to any attack on me in h pub
W, lie prints; I think of them only wit
amusement and gratitude. The stor
C. tEslt ankles is the one these foes {
" mine set creeping. like 4 snake undo
lis the fallen leaves, everywhere, an,
r. where. unseen, without a trail. 1t he
been whispered into every ear-and
"a. is. no doubt, widely ~belieyed-that
r. deliberately put Broinwell Ellersly Z.
q hole,n and then tortured him I'm.
lat he consented to try to compel h
'e- daughter 10 marry me.
N.Y. IL is possible that, if ] had thougl
Ips OF such u devilish device, / mig
ny have tried it's not all fair in low,
be Eut there was no need for my cudgt
ing my brains to carry that particul
aid fo~rtification on my way to ] h;
,n- fixed my will upon Bromwell Eners
came to me OF his own accord.
by r suppose the Elerslys must ha
mt talked me over In the family circ
However this may be, my ~acqnairtan
In with her ather began with Sans as
my ing me to lunch with him. THE go
use ernca has heard me talk of 0
eep much said he. that he Is anxious
low meet YOU