Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-28

ice He might have thought it was
genuine himself and been mistaken,
the same as you was. Anybody's liza
BILE to make mistake. What you
ought to have done was to have took
it to a good jeweler and had it certi-
fled before you paid out any money
on It. You was careless, that's all
there Is about it.
"The other reason why I wouldn't
advise you to set the machinery of
the law in motion about this here
business, is the principle I was tell
ing you about. You take this for your
motto: Never make holler-not un-
der no circumstances. II you get
stung, hide the swelling the best you
can and keep your mouth shut until
you get of some place by yourself
where nobody amt agoing to hear
you. Then If you want to relieve your
self by a 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.
/ make up my mind I'm just as much
to blame for it as he is. Ali I've got
is what's acomfng to me. If can
throw a rope on his goat any time
without advertising myself as an easy
mark, I'll do it; If 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. I've got the
reputation of being a pretty flossy
proposition, at least that's what my
friends tell me, and I'll stand for a
pretty hard poke Of the gaff before I'll
contradict 'em, If there's any rumors
don't come from me. If I pick win
ner any time. amt going to make no
| dark secret of it, but if I drop. a
weeks wages on bum tip, I 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 a man that's
| got his work to look after, but l never
| seen a guy make his living by giving
away valuable property. Most gener-
| ally if a fellows got something good
| to sell he wants somewhere near
| what it's worth. If / found a six
carat diamond ring wouldn't sell it
to no squarehead for two-seventy- five
| when could hook it most anywhere
! for ten dollars. Same way if owned
| a gold mine that the finest experts
claimed would produce million a
| day. wouldn't peddle the stock at
| five cents a share to get money to de-
velop it and keep it 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
| Mhen they get over a certain size. [