The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-01

ana anon. ia nate TOT my mOTner 10
know ! was skinning these weak
minded ones She raised me better"
lis there crush already In the wait
ing rooms Of the old doctor that does
skin grafting?" l asks.
well, no. says Silver; you needn't
back Epidermis to win today. I've
only been here a month. but I'm ready
to begin"
"I've been studying the town." says
Silver. land reading the papers every
day, and know it as well as the cat
In the city hall knows an O'Sullivan.
People here lie down on the floor and
scream and kick when you are the
least bit slow about taking money
from them. Come up in my room and
I'll tell you. Well work the town to-
gether, Billy. for the sake of old
times"
Silver takes me up in hotel. He
has quantity Of irrelevant objects
lying about.
There's more ways of getting mon
ey from these metropolitan hayseeds,"
says Silver. than there is of cooking
rice In Charleston. s. c. They'll bite
at anything. The brains of most of
'em commute. The wiser they are in
intelligence the less perception of cog
nizance they have. Why. didn't man
the other day sell j. p. Morgan an oil
portrait of Rockefeller junior for An
drea del Sarto's celebrated painting Of
the young st. John.
you see that bundle of printed stuff
in the corner. Billy? That's gold min
ing stock. | started out one day to
sell that, but l quit 1t in two hours.
Why? Got arrested for blocking the
street. People fought to buy It.
sold the policeman block of 1t on the
way to the station house. and then
took it or the market. l don't want
people to give me their money.
"Now, there's another little scheme
that worked so easy had to quit 1t.
You see that bottle of blue ink on the
table? / tattooed an anchor on the
back Of my hand and went TO a bank
and told 'em l was Admiral Dewey's
nephew. They offered to cash my
draft on him for a thousand. but
didn't know my uncle's first name. 1t
shows, though. what an easy town 1t
is. AS for burglars. they won't go In
a house now unless there's hot sup
per ready and a few college students
| to wait on EN-"
Monty" says I when Silver had
Stacked up. you may have Manhat-
| tan correctly Disseminated In your
perorative, but I doubt 1t. I've only
been in town two hours. but II don't
dawn upon me that it's ours with a
cherry in 1t. There amt enough rus
In urbe about 1t to suit me. I'd be a
good deal much better satisfied If the
citizens had a straw or more In their
lair and run more to velveteen vests
and buckeye watch charms. They don't
look easy to me-"
You've got 1t, Billy" says Silver.
"All emigrants have it. New York's
bigger than Little Rock or Europe,
and 1t frightens a foreigner. You'll
be all right. tell you l feel like
Shaping the people here because they
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dry baskets, with germicide sprinkled
over it. l hate to go down on the
street to get 1t. Who wears the dia-
monds In this town? Why. Winnie.
the wire tapper's wife, and Bella, the
bunko steerer's bride. New Workers
can be worked easier than blue rose
on tidy. The only thing that both
ers me is know I'll break the cigars
In my vest pocket when l get my
clothes all full Of twenties'
II hope you are right. Monty" says
/, "but | wish, all the same, i had
been satisfied with a small business
In Little Rock. The crop of farmers
is never SO short out there but what
you can get few Of 'em to sign a
petition for a new postoffice that you
can discount for 500 at the county
bank. The people here appear to pos
sess instincts of self preservation and
illiberality. l fear me that we are not
cultured enough to tackle this game"
Don't worry" says Silver. 1--WE
got this Jayville-near-Tarrytown cor
rectiy estimated as sure as North riv-
er Is the Hudson and East river amt
river"
i "Hyperbole aside" says l, do you
know of any immediate system OF
bunkoing the community out Of dol
lar or two except by applying to the
Salvation Army or having a at on
Miss Helen Gould's doerstepsT
' DOZENS Of EN-" says Silver. How