Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1908-10-10

think it's about time sou went In on Il
customs payment and got reiSsued
For a series of 1899 you're Il sight.
"Oh, don't get crackly just because
you're buffalo bill. says the flyer.
You'd be limp, too, if you'd been stuff.
ed down in a thick cotton and lislC
thread under an elastic all day and
the thermometer not II degree under 81
in the store
Il never heard of pocketbook like
that" says |. "Who carried youE
"A shopgrl," says the fly" spot.
"What's that?" l had to ask.
You'll never know till their mllcn-
MUM comes" says the flyer
Just then a two dollar bill behind
me with George Washington head
spoke up to the fiver:
"Aw, cut out yer kicks Amt IiSlr
thread good enough for yer: If you
was under all cotton like I've been to
day and choked up with factory Gust
till the lady with the cornucopia on me
sneezed half Il dozen times you'd have
some reason to complain"
That was the next day after | arriv-
ed in New York. | came in Il 5000
package of tens to a Bro),.lyn bank
from one of its Pennsylvania CORE
spondents, and | haven't made the AC-
Quaintance of any of the five and two
spots friends pocNetbookS yet SILK
for mine every time.
| was lucky money. | kept on tn"
move Sometimes changed hands
twenty times day. | Saw the inside
of every business. fought for my
owners every pleasure. 1t seemed thai
on Saturday nights | never missed be
ing slapped down Oh II bar. Tens were
always slapped down. while ones and
twoS were slid over to t!c blrtrndcrS
folded. | got in the hlnit of looking
for mine, ard | managed to soak in IL
little straight or some spilled Martini
or Manhattan whenever | could. one"
| got tied up in Il great greasy roll of
bills in Il puShCart prddlHrS jeans. |
thought never would get in circt!H-
ton again. for the future department
store owner lived on 8 cents worth of
dog meat and ol.onS n day. But this
peddler got into trouble one day on ac-
count of having his cart too near
crossing, and | was rescued. always
will feel grateful to the cop that got
me- He changed me at Il 2i&,r store
near the Bowcry that was running Il
crap game in the back room SO it was
the captain of the precinct. after all.
that did me the best turn when he got
his He blew me for wine the next
evening in Il Broadway restaurant ANA
| really felt as glad to get back again
as an AStor does when he sees the
lights of Charing Cross.
A tainted ten certainly does get ac-
ton on broadway. was alim"ny
once and got folded in n little dogskin
purse among a lot of dimes. They
were Dragging about the busy times
there were in OSSinn% whenever three
girls got hold on one of them during
the ice cream season But it's slow
moving vehicles keep to tn" right for
the little box tips when you think OF
the way we bison plaStcrs refuse to
stick to anything during the rush lob
Ster hour.
The first | ever heard of tainted
money was one night when Il good
thing with n Van to his name threw
me over with some other bills to buy
a stack of blues.
About midnight II big, easy going
man with n fat face like Il monks and
the eye of janitor with his wages
raised took me and lot of other notes
and rolled us into what is termed Il
"wad' among the money tainterS.
Ticket me for five hundred" said
he to the banker" and look out for
everything Charlie I'm going out for
n stroll in the glen before the moon
light fades from the brow of the cliff.
If anybody finds the roof in their way
there's 100000 wrapped In a comic sup
plement in the upper left hand cor
ner of the safe BE bold EveryWhc q
be bold. but be not bowIed over.
Night"
| found myself between two twenty
dollar gold certificates. One of EN-
says to me:
well, old shorthorn. you're in luck
tonight You'll see something of life.
Old Jacks going to make the Tender
loin look like Hamburg steak"
Explain" says L. I'm used to
joints, but don't care for filct mignon
with the kind of sauce you serve"
Excuse me-" said the twenty. "Oll
Jack Is the proprietor of this gam
bling house. He's going on whiz to-
night because he offered SJO,0OO to Il
church and it refused to accept it be
cause they said hts money was taint-
ed"
What is a church," | asked.
"Oh, | forgot" says the twenty
that l was talking to a tenner. OF
course you don't know. You're too
much to put into the contribution bas-
ket and not enough to buy anything
at n bazaar. a church iS-a large
building In which penwipcrs and titles
are sold at 500 each.''
l don't care much about Ginning
with gold certificates. There's a streak
OF yellow in 'cm. All is not gold that's
cutters.
Old Jack certainly was gilt edged
sport When 1t came his time to loosen
up he never referred the waiter to an
actuary.
BY and by 1t got around that he was
shifting the rock in the Wilderness, and
all along Broadway things with cold
noses and hot gullets fell in on our
trail. The third jungle book was there
waiting for somebody to put covers on
1t. Old Jacks money may have had
faint to it; but all the same he had