Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-11-21

ice. He might ave thought it was
genuine himself and been mistaken,
the same as you was. Anybody's liza
BILE to make a mistake. you
ought to have done was to have took
it 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.
1.-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 / vas tell
ing you about. You take this for your
motto: Never make a holler-not un-
der no circumstances. If you get
stung, hide the swelling h best you
can and keep your mouth shut until
o get off some place by yourself
where nobody amt agoing to hear
you. Then If o want to relieve your
self by q few remarks, go ahead and
make 'em and get it off your chest.
A~nybody's liable to be a sucker some
time; nobody cant 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
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imposed on.
You take 1t from me. Nels. my
friend: the fellow that's looking for
sympathy all the time never gets 1t.
What he. gets is The fishy eye or the
merry ha-ha, but sympathy-nix. Not
If he puts up a holler, II 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. All I've got
is what's acoming to me. If I can
throw a rope on his goat any time
without advertising myself as an easy
mark, III do It; II / can't, I'll charge
1t 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 fossy
proposition, at least that's what my
friends tell me, INC III stand for a
pretty hard poke Of the gaff before I'll
contradict EN-. If there's any rumors
t 0 the contrary floating around, they
don't come from me. If | pick a win
ner any time. / amt going to make no
dark secret of 1t. but If I drop a
weeks wages on a bum tip, l wouldn't
even tell my wife. This here world
is full of brace games, Nels, my
friend; and we all go against EN-
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 a happy, salts
fed smile on their faces. n they
don't go back to tell the ticket seller
that he's ~short-changed EN-.
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 t look after, but | never
>een a guy make his living by giving
away valuable property. Most gener-
ally If a fellows got something good
to sell he wants somewhere ear
what it's worth. If | found a six
carat diamond ring l wouldn't sell it
to no s~quarehead for twO-seventy-five
when l could hook 1t most anywhere
for ten dollars, Same way if l owned
a gold mine that the finest experts
claimed would produce a 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 1t with
my finger-nails first. ] don't want my
bargains toe big. I'm leary of EN-
when they get yer a certain size. l