The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-31

be called Goldschmidt, a well dressed woman, of perhaps 65 years of age, appeared and asked to see the pro- prietor. She was woman of digni- fled bearing, whose fine face, with it's clear cut features, emphasized by mass of white hair that wreathed her face in graceful lines, bespoke great beauty for her girIhood days. lnstinctively Goldschmidt who, in common with all his trade, is trained observer of people, realized that this woman was different from his ordin- ary elientage. Although it was an intense humiliation for her, there was scarcely a tremor in her voice as she asked Goldschmidt to advance money upon some costly jewelry she held. She took the sum offered without a question and left the shop as quietly as she had entered it.
 Four days later a porter in one of of the hotels was. surprised to observe a light burning at midday in one of the rooms. He knocked at the door to make inquiry but got no response. Then he summoned a clerk and the two broke into the room. Seated be- fore little table, with her head bent over upon her breast, was the woman who, had borrowed the money from Goldschmidt-dead. A small vial of poison on the table told the means of her departure In one hand tightly clutched was small locket in which was a miniature portrait of a young man, garbed in the gray uniform of a Confederate soldier.
 In tray on the table were the ashes from two papers that had been burned. One of these presumably was @ letter. A corner of the other that was not destroyed proved that the last act of her life was the de- struction of the pawn ticket which alone could tell the story of her last sacrifice. Relatives of the dead woman appeared in time to identify her before the story of her death was made public The incident was hush ed up and did not get into the news papers at the time. A name was giv- en the authorities as that of the un- fortunate woman-but it was not the name signed by her in Goldschmidt's office. And Goldschmidt, be it said to his everlasting credit, did not divulge the knowledge he alone of the outside world possessed.
 Not least of the patrons of the pawnshop is the professional gambler One broker who has shop on Mair street asserts that so many of these gentry visit him he can tell one ol them at sight T don't know" hC said, that there is anything in tht idea that these men rush in feverish ly. tear off their jewelry, take wha money they want and rush out again But there is something inexplainabl about their manner that always help me to identify them. No gamble comes in for money unless he is al ready playing in game In which h 1 thinks he has chance to win, or uf1 less he Knows there is bunch 0 easy money in sight. In either cas-
 he has the gamblers trick of affect | ing Y1onchalance. But when mal
 comes in one hour to pledge hi watch, a little later to soak a dia
 mond stud, and then, perhaps, come
 in and redeems the whole at one tim
 showing a lot of money, it is not hare
 to guess his business. While many o
 these do not redeem their pawns
 most of them do, for valuable arti
 cle of jewelry Is business asset t,
 the man who likes his game of draw. I-Kansas City Journal