Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-02-28

meet The next day tlld take IN Inc snow
just for an old boys lark, YOU know.
Banker-lhat's me-says he expects his
wife in next dnN-coinin with c"nsid-
cradle money ion q loan. bui well CIV.
the old lady the slip nudsin' the Vic
tim in III" ribs.
Next day we all meet again and g"
to the SHOW. circuit judy" has his
gold-h.ade,l cane and points on, the
animals. explains their habits and all
thai sort % junk. banker and victim
trailing along.
We're s,andin in iron, of the mon
key cage. say-besi plac" ON earth to
open up business. | tell you human
nature always feels big and easy and
condescending somehow. i'm front OF
the great Sherman-lcddie the only.
He has a bolt of dark cloth under his
arm. kind o Iiinps in. hegs pardon, and
the rest opens up ies, US natural. The
boil of c~loth-that'S the opener. After
Il few preliminaries the circuit Judge.
or myself. gets curious and fingers the
cloth. Good stuff, that Mighty good.
says Eddie. with y smile like he owned
the earth and knew everything tNat
Was in ii. All WOO! and a yard wide,
says the judge. by way of a joke. Here
I.ddie's smile. gets as kindly and indul-
gent ~ an archbishop's. Not 4 thread
of wool in it. gentlemen says Eddie.
Then everybody looks AZ il. feels the
cloth and Eddie eyer unravels a thread
of it. and lets ON set a niatch To il and
smell IT burning. IF that isn't wool.
says 1. then I'm nightly fooled
Eddie lets 'cm guess and argue and
look AT the. cloth and feel of il again
and again. all the time With tnat mys-
FERROUS smile. No. gentlemen. finally
says Eddie, I've told you the truth.
there isn't q particle of wool in it.
That cloth is made from the bark of
tl,,a .IJcrt roo of Pat rphi.t- itS 80, t1a,l
yucca fiber cloth and has all the prop
critics OF wool. but can be manufactured
for one-third the price of wool cloth.
and so on.
+ are you gcTrtemeN i'll business
here? says Eddie. Then comes intro
auctions all around. the circuit judge.
the banker and the spieler who am
nounces himself as the agent of the
P~atagonian Fiber Cloth who
is trying I" Introduce his wonderful
cloth throughout the United States and
following the circus because h.. liked
the life. or could meet more people. or
had other side lines. or whatever the
spiel happened To bet didn't make
amy difference what ii was. il always
sounded all right from Eddie. And
then Eddie finds out. you know. the
high standing of his new friends. the
circuit judge. the bank president and
the merchant fish. he is d"lighted-he
fairly beams on uS-takes us right i'm
hand and wont be denied.
Just the kind of men want Ia
meet he says. and oh. h" was great.
my cllerub. simply great. 4 want to
make every one of you Il suit of clothes
out of this cloth-it will be a better nd
for me than columns of printers ink.
just come along With mel have a lit
tie Office outside And off We go, and
then the game really begins.
w follow him to a little side tent
lONtSidp sherman tDlEjtlyr l1nvhjnu
telling yarns and showing himself i
prince generally. The victims got Z
suit OF clothes on his mind-a free suit
you know. lad and made o of the
great yucca cloth. the only one. it vii
be. In the whole town.
Inside the promoters tent. he bring:
forth a deinijolln and we all have I;
pull. lunar nature again. Funny how
1t VIII go up against a strange bottl,
or demiiohn and take all the chance,
OF its being doped. But it never wa,
doped. There wouldn't "a beer an,
psychology in that. little one. Well
we all get measured for our clothes
as solemn as SIM. l can see Eddie nov
a-puttin' down the figures. You'll
y want a dress coat he says to the vie
n tim. something you'll be proud of: %
4S. l6-25.' and then we all get "A sam
N pie OFF the bolt to take home to GU
wives.
And that's all there is 10 the clot'
business. mother pull out of the jul
d and Eddie opens up the real gam.
: He produces the three cards and be
n gins to throw 'em about and we begit
" y 10 get Interested. Chance rules III
world. says he. 'and this lottery i
4 under the auspices of the great manu-
featuring establishment | represen'
In AN hour (taking IL his natch)
throw throw for the great prize @
four hundred dollars Cor a thousano
:. whatever. We tiovirp thu. victim 90,
for) If it wasn't for this diversion
~ says Eddie beaming like ii preache
time would hang heavy on my hand,
Before the big tu1n comes on I'll sho
ID YOU how It's done | throw 'em. yo
10 pick the winning card and that's "A
NJ there is to II. The richest concern 1
IN the world is pack of me-whatevs
You win you're sure to get. | thro
YOU any amount up to Il thousand do
a. lars.
w But that's gambling says the eli,
d cult judge. a puffin' out his chest. an
!" cannot sanction gambling. 1t
o. against the law
-. "'Oh. now. i hadn', tho't of yo,
- bein' a judge says the great t.ddi
~, OF course not but this bcin' amor
~ ~ gentlemen. you know.-ah. l have il
W and Eddie looks like a great though
had come down from above and h
~. I'M on the center of his beausiful so
:. Il have it-judge. YOU AYE the san
= power II authority. I take il. of IL
bench that you do on the bench. f.
YOU not Never catch eddie a-sayi
W. don't you'-'do you not and The w
". he turned it out was the most convii
II" chit sounded so genuine.
y, Most certainly says the judg
vi still a swellin.' 4 have the sam. III
H. tllority on az off the bench. Put VIII
of that?
ny You can administer the oath? sa.
Eddie.
els "NCertainly. sir says the judge. wi
~ a big front. 4 can administer the on
~ either on or Off the bench