The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1913-11-21

Ice. He might have thought it was
the same as you was. Anybody's liza
BILE to make a mistake. What you
ought to have done was to have took
1t to a good jeweler and had it certi-
fed before you paid out any money
on it. You was careless, that's all
there is about it.
"The other reason why l wouldn't
advise you to set the machinery of
the law in motion about this here
business, is the principle l was tell
ing you about. You take this for your
motto: Never make holler'-not un-
| der no circumstances. If you get
stung, hide the swelling the best you
can and keep your mouth shut until
you get off some place by yourself
where nobody amt agoing to hear
you. Then if you want to relieve your
| self by few remarks, go ahead and
make 'em and get it off your chest.
Anybody's liable to be sucker some
time; nobody can't be wise to all the
plants there is; but, believe me, the
biggest boob in the bunch is the va
hoo with the yawp, who wants every
| body to know how shameful he's been
imposed on.
"You take it from me, Nels, my
friend: the fellow that's looking for
sympathy all the time never gets it.
What he gets is the fishy eye or the
merry ha-ha. but sympathy-nix. Not
| If he puts up holler If any son-of-
| a-gun gets the best of me in a DEAL
l make up my mind I'm just as much
to blame for it as he Is. All I've got
| is what's acoming to me. II / can
throw a rope on his goat any time
without advertising myself as an easy
mark, I'll do it.; If l can't, I'll charge
it up to experience.
you see, I'm a man that likes to
have the good opinion of my friends"
declared the Janitor. 1--WE got the
reputation of being pretty flossy
| proposition, at least that's what my
friends tell me, and I'll stand for
pretty hard poke of the gaff before I'll
contradict 'em. If there's any rumors
to the contrary floating around, they
don't come from me. If 1 pick win.
ner any time, amt going to make no
dark secret of 1t, but if / drop a
weeks wages on a bum tip, wouldn't
even tell my wife. This here world
is full Of brace games, Nels, my
friend; and we all go against 'em
more or less, the wise boys and the
sap-heads both; but there amt no evil
dence against the wise ones. They
don't write no indignant letters to
the papers. You'll see 'em come out
of the side show with happy, salts
fed smile on their faces, and they
don't go back to tell the ticket seller
that he's short-changed 'em.
Most of the trouble we have in the
way of getting skinned is when we try
to get something for nothing without
understanding the game. I've watched
things pretty close for man that's
got his work to look after, but never
seen a guy make his living by giving
away valuable property. Most gener-
ally If fellows got something good
to sell he wants somewhere near
what it's worth. II / found a six
carat diamond ring 1 wouldn't sell it
to no squarehead for two-seventy-fve
when l could hook it most anywhere
for ten dollars. Same way II owned
gold mine that the finest experts
claimed would produce million a
day. wouldn't peddle the stock at
i've cents share to get money to de-
velop it and keep 1t out of the hands
of the combine. I'd develop it with
my finger-nails first. I don't want my
bargains too big. I'm leary of 'em
when they get over certain size. I