Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-11-04


can hear him kick TO the superintend-
ent four blocks away. Man is the hard
est proposition woman has TO go up
against. He's a low grade one, and
she has to work overtime TO make him
pay. Two times out of five she's salt
ed. She can't put In crushers and cost
ly machinery. He'd notice 'em and be
on to the game. They have to pan out
what they get, and 1t hurts their ten
der hands. Some of 'em are natural
sluice troughs and can carry out $1,000
to the ton. The dry eyed ones have to
depend on signed letters. false hair,
sympathy, the kangaroo walk. cow
hide whips, ability to cook, sentimen-
tai juries, conversational powers, silk
underskirts, ancestry, rouge. anony-
nous letters. violet sachet powders,
witnesses. revolvers. pneumatic forms,
carbolic acid. mC"u At; ,od cream
and the evening newspapers"
"You are outrageous, Ferg," | said
Surely there is none of his graft
us Ntu Cdil IT, Ill d Htl1t't huh hil Lho-
NOUS matrimonial union"
WELL" said Pogue, nothing that
would Justify you every time in call
ing up police headquarters and order
ing out the reserves and a vaudeville
manager on a dead run. But it's this
way: Suppose you're Fifth avenue
millionaire, soaring high. on the right
side Of coppers and cappers.
You come home at night and bring
S9,000.000 diamond brooch to the
lady who's staked you for a claim,
You hand 1t over. She says. oh.
George! and looks to see If it's back
ed. She comes up and kisses you.
You've waited for it. You get it. All
right. It's graft.
But Pm telling you about Artemi-
STA Blye. She was from Kansas aud
she suggested corn in all of its phases
Her hair was as yellow as the silk.
her form was as tall and graceful as
stalk in the low grounds during a
wet summer. her eyes were as big and
startling as bunions. and green was
her favorite color.
''On my last trip into the cool re-
cesses of your sequestered city | met
human named VaucrOss. He was
wOrth-that is, he had million. He
told me he was in business on the
street. A sidewalk merchant says |.
sarcastic. Exactly says he senior
partner Of paving concern
Il kind of took to him for this rea-
son: l met him on Broadway one
night when | was out of heart. luck.
tobacco and place. He was all silk
hat, diamonds and front. He was all
front. If you had gone behind him
you would have only looked yourself
In the face. l looked like cross be-
tween Count Tolstoy and June lob
ster. / was out of luck. | had But
let me lay my eyes on that dealer
again.
"Vaucross stopped and talked to me
few minutes. and then he took me
to high toned restaurant to eat din
ner. There was music and then some
Beethoven and Bordelaise sauce and
GUESSING in French and frangipangi and
some hauteur and cigarettes. When
am flush know them places
Il declare l must have looked as
bad as a magazine artist sitting there
without any money and my hair al
rumpled like l was booked to read d
chapter from 'Elsie's School Days al
Brooklyn bohemian smoker Blu
, Vaucross treated me like a bear hunt
, ing the walters feelings.
Mr.. Pogue,' he explains to me, .
am using you
, Go on says 1. I hope you dom
wake up
And then he tells me, you know
, the kind Of man he was. He was {
New Yorker. His whole ambition wa!
to be noticed. He wanted to be con
. spicuous. He wanted people to poin
him out and bow to him and tel
others who he was. He said it haC
been the desire of his life always
He didn't have but million, so hi
couldn't attract attention by spending
money. He said he tried to get int,
public notice one time by planting
little public square on the east sid
with garlic for free use of the poor
but Carnegie heard of it and covere,
it over at once with a library in tn
Gaelic language. Three times he ha,
jumped in the way of automobiles, bu
the only result was five broken rib
and notice in the papers that an un
known man five feet ten, with fou
amalgam filled teeth, supposed to b
the last of the famous Red Lear
gang, had been run over.
Ever try the reportersT l aske
him
last month"; says Mr.. Vaucross
my expenditure for lunches to report
ers was $l24S0'
"Get anything out of thatr l asks.
THAT reminds me- says he; 'ad
$3.50 for pepsin Yes, got indiges
ton
How am | supposed to push alon
your scramble for prominence? / III
quires. 'ContrastT
Something of that sort tonight
says Vaucross. 1T grieves me, but
am forced to resort to eccentricity
And here he drops his napkin in hi
soup and rises up and bows to a gen
who is devastating a potato under