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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 18S4.
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TOO LATE.
What silences we keep year after year.
With those who are most near to us and dear;
We lire beside each other day by day.
And speak of myriad things, hut seldom say
The lull, sweet word that lies just In our
reach.
Beneath the commonplace of common speech.
Then out of sight and out of reach they g
These clo:c familiar friends, who loved us o;
And. sitting- in the shadow they have left.
Alone, with loneliness, and sore bereft.
We think with vain regretof some fond word.
That once we might have said and they have
heard.
For weak and poor the love that we expressed
Now seems beside the vast, sweet unexpressed.
And slight the deeds we did, to those undone.
And small the service spent, to treasure won.
And undeserved tiie praise, for word and deed
That should have overflowed the simple need.
This is the cruel cross of life, to be
Full visioned only when the ministry
Of death has been fulfilled, and in the place
Of some dear presence is butempty space.
What recollected services can then
Give consolation for the ml'jhl lia.ee hten.
Nora l'errv, in ?'. 1'. lndeendcnt,
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A TDSSLE WITH A TREE.
I imagined it would tako me about
half an hour to put tip some boxes for
the accommodation of the blue birds
amid the branches of the magnificent
oak which stands in the rear of my
house.
This oak is the pride of my estate.
It is erect, lofty, symmetrical, now in
its fullest vigor a temple not built
with hands more marvelous in con
struction than anjT palace ever erected,
and, in my brother man's estimation,
good chielly for firewood or railroad
ties.
In the endeavor to placo the bird
houses on it I find that perversity dwells
among its branches. Or perhaps its
desire is not to be meddled with in any
wa' a feature of strong character
and marked individuality, whether in
men, women or oaks.
I wanted to put the boxes on the oak
about twenty feet from the ground. I
erected a ladder against the tree. Tho
tree refused to allow the ladder to rest
solidly against its massive trunk.
Whichever wa I directed that ladder
it fell against small but stout branches
stout as steel springs. These fought
tho ladder and 'warded it oft against
too near approach.
I tried to insinuate the ladder between
these crabbed, obstinate little branches.
They resisted intelligently all such tac
" tics. ' Where the ladder's end edged in
a little on one side, a cat's claw of ft
branch managed to catch it oa. the
other. Meantime I, myself, the human,
moving machine at the ladder's foot,
was expending much force in these vain
efforts. For it was an old and very
heavy ladder a iiouse pai&ter's ladder.
I saw that I must cut these branches
off. I could not reach them from the
ground so to do. Nor could I saw them
off by getting on the ladder as it leaned
against them, since to do this might be
to saw myself off in a sense. The axe
failed to "cut them off because I could
not get in a position to deal an effective
blow. I had recourse to a handsaw.
I would saw from the top of my step
ladder. Posting the step-ladder at tho foot of
the tree proved another difficult opera
lion, for the ground was uneven, and it
was necessary to level off a placo to
give the base : secure hold.
At this time it occurred to me that I
was a long way oft' f ron placing those
blue bird boxes. Every movo thus
developed and necessary in this under
taking seemed to cany mo farther from
tho aim first sought thatof nailing the
boxes to the tree. I had commenced
with tho endeavor to placo a ladder
against the trunk, found mind and body
intercepted by those, obstinate branches,
had left the branches and now found
mj-self at work with a pick and shovel
on the ground. I thought to myself:
4,1 wonder how far I must travel away
from those boxes in lliis fashion in order
to get them? Is this one of those af
fairs in life, seeming so easy of accom
plishment, really so difficult, which
looks as if it could bo done in a day,
and which may require years? At all
events, the allair is assuming tho aspect
of a sort of game, or rather combat, be
tween myself and ihU tree, and I'm
going to drop all hurry and anxiety to
place the oes and see which of us,
myself or the tree, are to bo masters of
the situation."
"The step-ladder sided with tho tree,
and was umvtusonably particular in
getting a lex el base now toppling as I
stood on it ovef on this side, now on
that in a deeripit, helpless sort -of
fashion. It was a striking example, in
its seeming efforts to overturn me, of
what a friend calls "the total depravity
of inanimate things."
At last I mounted this ladder and
commenced operations with the saw on
branch No. 1. Tim branch being
green and full of sap, the saw stuck
and hung in an obstinate manner.
Being on the top board of tho step-ladder
ni' footing wasshaky and uncertain.
1 sawed? worried by the thought of a
possible broken neck or leg, and ex
perienced great wear and tear of mind
and body in consequence. Branch No.
2 required a change of location for the
step-ladder and another secure level for
its base. So did branch No, 3. By
tho time the three branches were off I
found myself forgeting the original in
tent of all this work, and even wonder
ing at times what I was working for.
The branches were at last out of my
way and all seemed plain sailing i
raised the heavy ladder against" the
tree. It rested securely against the
trunk. I mounted it with one of the
boxes in my hands, got two-thirds of the
way to the ladders top, heard some
thing crck ominouslv and found that
the left ladder upright had a diagonal
split running throught it, was threaten
ing every instant to part, and that my
neck was in greater danger than ever.
I descended rapidly, but carefully, from
the ladder. Another instance of the
total depravity of inanimate things.
Thero was nothing to do but repair
the ladder. The placing of the bird
boxes on the tree had retired farther in
tho distance than ever. I said then to
myself: "I wonder where this under
taking will carry me ere it is finished ?
mat new thing shall I find necessary
to incorporate into this job? Perhaps
it may bring me to the repairing of my
hen-coop. It may take me to the city
to get some needed article. It may
carry me to Europe. I may be obliged
to consult with lawyers and juristsTall
through some indirect operation or
development growing out of this blue
bird box busmess. It has already cost
me two and a half hours' labor, and I
expected to accomplish it in thirty min
?!:," ,But am now prepared for war.
I will devote the whole day to this un
dertakingperchance two whole days.
1 repaired the ladder carefnllv til
ing braces both within and without the
broken upright- I placed it in position
and
mounted
it, carrying a bird box
with me. Arrived at the ladder's too I
uuuu uumu nut cnmo roe tree to the
spot where I desired to nail tho box
with the box in my hands. So I went
down the ladder again and placed' the
box on the ground.' Then I went up
the ladder so far as it reached, and
henceforth took to climbing. More ob
stacles presented themselves. Branches
got directly in the way. Twigs
scratched my face and-tried" to put out
"my eyes, fiits of rotten branches and
dry bark dislodged and fell into my
eyes. There was more cutting away
to be done. I descended the ladder for
my hatchet, got it, and trimmed a road
up the tree. All as I supposed being
teadjfcl descended again for tfiabox
and remounted. It was necessary toj
take with me a hammer, a gimlet atid
some, nails. I tied the hammer aboutj
my neck with a card and put the nails,
and gimlet in my vest pocket. Arrived
at the place where I would nail the box,
I found it necessary to use the hatchet5
Common sense or a few seconds
thought might have taught me that as.
the hatchet would probably be needed
again it should have been stuck by the
blade in the. trae. No. I had pitched
it from the tree on the ground. So I
went down the ladder again for the
katchet
These continual ascents and descents
began now to alarm me. They seemed
endless, and at the present rate I could
vaguely see more and more in the dim,
distance of futurity before tha boxes
were fastened.
I finished with the hatchet and was
turning the current of my thoughts on
the hammer when, that instrument
being tied, so to speak, by the necki
suddenly as I leaped over a branch
turned a somersault, slipped through
the knot and fell straight to the ground.
It fell wonderfully straight through thq
branches, and onrea-jhing the ground
lay there with a dull, sullen "come
down-f rom-there-and-pick-me-up' ex
pression. I did not come down immediately. 1
leaned over the branch and swore at
that hammer. But it did not rise.
Then it occured to me how amusing all
this might be to any third party who
had nothing to do but look on aud seo
the performance. I said: "Why should
I not be the third party P" But I re
minded myself that the third party had
nothing to do but sit down and bei
amused, whereas I had all these per
petual ascensions and descensions to
make besides being amused. The con-
tract was too large. I could not bq
thoroughly amused and do all the work
besides. So I descended again with
what patience I could summon. 1
picked the hammer up. I wanted to
wring its neck. But what comes from
wringing a hammer's neck? Naught
save the necessity of buying a new
hammer.
The hammer was picked up as it d-,
sired to be. Again I climbed the lad-?
der. In the midst of an apparently
speedy .dispatch of tho labors a new.
trouble presented itself. The tree had
changed its tactics and called a new'
ally to its aid.
This ally was a hen one of my hens.
My back door and onlv door had been
left open. This hen had entered, was.
on my table consuming the remains of
my breakfast and threatening destruc
tion with her awkward legs and claws)
to my crockery. It is this particular
hen that annoys me in this way more
than all the rest. While they are ofl!
foraging in the field she hangs around
that back door bent on thieving ana
plunder.
I cried out "Shoo!" from above sev
eral times to no purpose. She wouldn't
"shoo!" She paid me no respectful at
tention whatever. She knew well
enough she had plenty of time to clear
out of the house before I could get
down from the tree. I made. her sev
eral threatening remarks. She cocked
up one eye, winked at me in a contempt
out manner, and calmly went on peck
ing. I threw several twigs in the house
to no purpose. I descended the ladder
and wrathfully drove her out She
went out as hens general do from any
pent up place, by the longest possible
way, with great risk to window panes
and fragile articles from her fluttering
wings, and with a great cackle and out
cry, as if she deemed it an outrageous
Erocccding on my part thus to disturb
cr while peacefully engaged in con-!
verting the breakfast scraps into fresh
eggs"for my own use, which cackle and
outcry was re-echoed by the head
roosters of her community in the field,
as if they too concurred and heartily
seconded her opinion of me.
So rebuked I climbed once mora the,
ladder, and put myself in position for
nailing on the boxes a work of some
difficulty, since I was obliged to make)
my body conform to the shape and re-'
quirements of the tree and the various
divergences and contour of its trunk
and branches. Effecting one position,.
I found Xhat in it I could not strike a1
blow with the hammer through the
interference of a hostile little limb. In,
another I could not pull the uails from;
my vest pocket. I found myself for thel
work immediately in hand constantly
lacking in the requisite number of legs:
and arms. It seemed to ma I could
have kept then and there employed six:
or eight more of these members.
realized then the great advantages for
such kind of work possessed by certain1
monkeys who could have slung them
selves airily and gracefully from a
branch by their strong and flexible ex-
tension of vertebra;, leaving all the.
arms and legs free for other uses. I
was so reflecting when I heard a tiny,
modest drop to earth. It was the gimlet
for which I had immediate use. It had
fallen from a vest pocket A few nails
gently pattered after it Then there
was wrath. But to what purpose?
Gimlets on the earth respond and rise
no more to expletives than do hammers.
The gimlet would not come to me. I
went by the old and usual route to tho
gimlet, wondering as again I wearily
climbed the ladder if patience to work
oat one's salvation must like eternity,
be infinite, and if one's charity must bo
stretched to cover this total depravity
of inanimate hammers and gimlets.
I nailed the boxes in position. All
now seemed to work smoothly. I
finished the work and went down the
ladder as I supposed for the last time.
I surveyed those four boxes with pride
and admiration. I took away the ladder
and lugged it afar to a distant corner.
1 resurveyed the boxes and discovered
that one of them was hanging by a
shred of bark shaking with the breeze,
as the nail had not penetrated to the.
wood of the tree, thus proving again
the total depravity of inanimate things.
I would not succumb. All my prida
and stubbornness was now aroused.
I had ceased to regard the placing of
those boxes on the tree as of the "fire
importance. This with me had been
superseded by the desire of winning in
this game or contest with my splendid
but stubborn oak. I re-erected tho
ladder, refastencd the box, and then
waited to see what new ugliness on tho
oak's part would come. But none
came. 1 had conquered.
During the week several house-hunting
birds have inspected these apart
ments. They seem difficultto suit and
make no choice.
I thought when I commenced writing
this story there was a moral concealed
in it somewhere or hanging to its skirts.
Now that I have finished It I can't find
any. I deem it more kind and con
siderate to leave the reader to find his
or her own moral and apply it where it
is needed. I have in the past too much
erred in going round slapping moral
mustard plasters on people's skins re
gardless whether they wanted them or
not Prentice Mulord, in N. Y.
Graphic
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It is understood that this season
the Concord School of Philosophy will
issue pamphlets bearing such titles as
will make them read even by the young,
and in spite of the abstruse subjects
discussed. To catch the restless eye of
the youthful lover of yellow literature,
these new works will probably be en
Sr"?? the Pretty Protoplasm,"
r r d Mlke the Avenging Molecule
of .Massachusetts," or "Bully Bill, the
Bacteria." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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A wholesale toh ?ai. t v
York City claims that cigarette smoking
is dying out and that 14,000,000 less
cigarettes wore sold in 1883 than is
A Philosopher in Rags.
Say, boys, did yer see my pard about,
here? Tho speaker was 'sitting on a
stone wall by tho roadside in Dorches
ter about dark last night The speaker;
was of medium height and rather slim.j
Ho wore a skull cap and an ill-fitting
coat His shirt had probably been white
onco. His trousers had seen better
days. On one foot was a congress shoo
and on the other a large boot His face
needed to be" shaved. He was a tramp.
"Xour pard? How did you happen
to lose him?" asked some one.
"Well,.yer -see, we were sittin' on a
fence up the road there and a cop came
along aud told U3 to git Pard, he
skipped, and I told him I would meet
him down the road here. I wasn't
afraid of the cop; I sat there and had a
chin with him. I guess pard will turn
up. Have j'ergot any terbaccer?"
Some tobacco was produced.
"Yor see, boys," continued the man.
"I arrived in town this morning; just
came from Putnam, Conn. Came up
on the New York & New England. Did
yer know it? That's a good road to
travel on. I met three of the old boys
on the train."
"Did you have to pav any fare?"
'Well, I guess not; 1 came up on the
freight. Tne brakeman on that train
is a smart chap; he played a good trick
on me. Yor see, I was on tho roof of
one of the box cars, and thinking that
it would not do for him to see me, I
crawled down into the ear as he came
along. He saw me, and what did
he do but lock the door, and of course
that locked mo up in tho car.
Bimeby he came along and asked mo
what station I wanted to get off at, and
I told him Hyde Park, and when wo
i-got there he opened tho door and let
me out"
"Yes; what are the best roads to ride
on deadhead?"
"The Boston and Albany is n. g.; so
is the Providence. The Fitchburg is
the bull' road, and the Old Colony
pretty near as good."
"Were you ever in Boston before?"
"Yes, plenty of times. Boston is the
darling place to live in, if a feller has
plenty of money. If I ever strike a for
tune I am coming to Boston to live."
"Are you married?"
"Yes; I left my wife In New York.
She was a tough un."
"How did you happen to leave her?"
"She had three bad habits eating,
smoking and drinking and it cost too
much to support her; just the same
with all women."
"Do3'ou ever do any work?"
"Very seldom ; the doctor says that
work will injure my health. I had a
job offered me about a month ago. A
man down in Hartford said he would
give me S150 a month ta run an eating
house for him. You know I am just
taking a vacation, and 1 didn't want to
break it for any such position as that.
Work and I had a falling out. I ain't
lazy, but I guess I was born tired and
never got over it"
Do you find any troublo in getting
enough to eat?"
"Yes. I generally keep something
ahead, though." Here the tramp un
buttoned his Prince Albert and dis
played an inside pocket tilled with food
and cigar stubs. He began to analyze
the stuff. "That piece of cake I
bummed from a little kid up the street;
those apples were given to me by the
old man that keeps the bakehouse out
near Hyde Park; that piece of bread I
got from a philanthropic old lady who
'Jives in the large, old-fashioned'houso
up at a place called Mount Bowdoin.
She asked me if I didn't want a job
sawing wood out in her barn. I told
her that I was in a hurry to get to
Xrfiwcll to see raf wife, who was dying
of consumption. This touched the old
lady's heart, aud she gave me ten cents.
I giiess I have got enougli for a couple
of days."
"What do vou find tho hardest stuft
to get hold of?"
"Tobacco and money. I can get
along without money, but without the
obaeco I am gone. The other day a
man offered me a glass of whisky, but
I told him I would rather have a
phew. He didn't have a plug, but he
gave me a dime and I bought one."
"Do you find any troublo in getting
enough to drink?""
Canada is the placo to get the pure
old whiskj- an.d plenty of it; but over in
Detroit the darned rascals mako three
barrols out of one of tho Canada barrels.
They adulterate it; but thst is business,
and they make money oufr of it.
I started to go into that house there,
but I saw a dog laying out on tho back
piazza, and I thought I had better skip.
1 ain't afraid of dogs, but this one was
ugly looking."
"Where aro you going to sleep to
night?' F
"I have bcon down to the police sta
tion, but I don't like the looks of the
ranche, and there's too many cops lay
ing around. I guess I will go out to
phe Milton station house; they furnish
good feed out there; down hero thoy
don't Milton s t!9 daisy place for
grub; there's none of yer brass-buttoned
peelers around there."
"Where are you going to strike for
when you leave this place?"
. "I was thinkin' of goin' over to
Europe, but its hard to beat a passage
on a steamer, and if they happen to
ketch you they will make yer work yer
passage. So I have kinder given uu the
jidea. I guess I will go West. Well,
hoys, must skip; here comes a cop. If
you see a chap that looks like me, and
.answers to the name of Jim, send him
along. Good day." Boston Globe.
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On the Next Block.
After walking up and down several
times past a Gratiot Avenue clothiner
dealer's yesterday, a stranger halted
and said to the man at the door :
"Do you remember me, sir?'
"Not shust oxactly, my f rendt Who
vhas you?"
"I'm the man who paid you twenty
leight dollars for a suit of bottle-green
.clothes last October, and inside of a
,week the moths ate 'em up!"
"You doan' say so!"
"You bet I do, and I'm here to get
satisfaction!"
"Myfrendt you make a dreadful
;mistake. All der moths in dis store
'vhas in der sky-blue suits for fourteen
(dollars. If dot man on der next block
jkeeps his in der pottle-green suits for
Itwenty-eight dollars dot jhas all right
'No two men do pecsness alike. Only,
if you go up dere I vhish you to tell
,him for me pefore you punch .his head
dot if he keeps his moths in der pottle
green suits he vhill soon haf to shut up
shop. Der shade makes eafery insect
color-blind in ten days." Detroit Frei
Press.
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Richly Deserved It
A man, with a decided expression of
intelligence, went to a pension bureau
'the other day and said to the manager:
"I think that I am entitled to a pen
ion." "Were you wounded ?"
"No. sir; was never in the army."
'Have you been disabled in any way
while serving the country ?"
"No."
"Then why should you receive a pen
sion ?"
The applicant removed his hat and
displayed a bald head, "Look on top,"
said he. "Do you see any attempt to
bring two hairs from the back of my
neck, and wind them around on the top
of my head ? No, of course you don't
Am I not the first man who has not
attempted to conceal his baldness with
two hairs ? Of course I am. I think
,that the government should reward
.such originality."
Bill, said the manager, "make ont
pension papers for this gentlseaan."
Arkansaw Traveller.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of New York,
defines that parental fondness which
ruins so many children nowadays as
'love that has lost its wits."
The constitution of Alabama for
bid; tho formation of any new county
of lesi area than six hundred square
miles, or the formation of a new county
of that size if it reduces any old county
below that minimum.
The Connecticut Legislature has
settled it. A bill was introduced a short
lime ago to tax geese and bachelors,
and was opposed" by a Mr. Harrison,
who said that there already was a bill
taxing geese, and a man wno had lived
a bachelor to the age of thirty would
come under it Chicago Herald.
Governor Cleveland, of New York,
has signed the bill prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of oleomargarine.
This has created a bree.e among the
manufacturers of that article, whohava
large amounts of capital invested in the
business, and who are loudly de
nouncing the measure as unconstitu
tional and unjust. They declare that
they will defy the law and let tho courts
decide on its validity. Ar. Y. Herald.
It is said that the scene of the re
cent Vedder-Pearson tragedv at Luna
Island, Niagara Falls, is the precise
spot, where, in 1850. a young man
named Addidgton playfully threatened
to throw the little sister of his be
throthed (who, with her mother, com
pleted the party visiting the spot) into
the rapids. The child shrieked and
sprang from his arms into the swift
running water. He instantly jumped
in to save her and both were lost
Buffalo Express.
From experiments made upon the
pulse and temperature as affected by
smoking, it has been found that tho.
rate of both is increased. Let the aver
age temperature of non-smokers bo
represented by 1,000, then that of mod
erate smokers would be 1,003, and
while the heart of the" former class was
making 1,000 beats, in the latter there
would be 1,180 in the same space of
time. Tiiis quickening of tho action of:
the heart is consitiered a dangerous
symptom. Chicago Tribune.
A Chicago museum exhibits a
double-headed cow, described as follows:
"This cow has two well-formed heads
of e jual size and is well armed with
four brass-tipped horns, The main
head possesses all the features of a
bright and intelligent member of the
bovine family, but the other other lacks
the expressive eyes. However, the ani
mal sees, hears, and breathes with both
heads, eats with one and drinks with
the other. The body is perfect and
handsome, the cow being a full-blood
Durham."
"Thar; I want you to collect that
and put it to my credit," said old
Farmer Applegate to the cashier of the
First National Bank of Manasquan, N.
J., a few days ago. The cashier exam
ined the faded-looking piece of paper
handed to him, and found it to be a
cheek for $270, drawn by a New York
merchant in 1872 in favor of the farmer.
It appeared that the check had been
given in payment for a load of cranber
ries, and had been hidden during the
past twelve years in tho farmer's feather
bed. It was sent. to the merchant aud
duly honored. AT. Y. Mail.
One of the bloody customs among
the Hindoos of a certain class is to re
quire every woman, previous to piercing
the ears of her eldest daughter prepar
atory to her being betrothed in mar
riage, to undergo the amputation of the
first joints of the third and fourth
fingers of her right hand. The ampu
tation is performed by the blacksmith
of the village, who, having placed the
finger in a block, performs the opera
tion with a chisel. If the girl to be
betrothed be motherless and the mother
of the boy have not before been sud
jected to tho operation it is incumbent
on her to sutler tho operation.
A Massachusetts Yankee went to
California several years ago, got dead
broke, and was on the point ofstarving
to death. He then joined the Piutes at
tho Pyramid reservation. Ho remained
there until ho had fully mastered tho
language and habits of his dusky
friends, and then painting himself and
assuming tho garb of the red men went
to Walker Lake, where, in coasidera
tion of his able advice in the councils
of the tribe, he was elected a chief and
allowed three wives. He says that,
although he sometimes longed for news
from the Bay State, he was perfectly
content to remain where he was, as he
found the r.oaming, independent life of
the Piutes just the thing fora man tired
of the busy scenes of civilization.
Boston Herald.
Faith in Popular Gullibility.
Faith in the exhaustible credulity of
the masses has been the foundation of
many a charlatan's fortune. At tho
time of the South Sea Bubble, when
new projects of the most wild and pre
posterous character found promoters
with ease, an astute and audacious ad
venturer advertised for subscriptions to
an enterprise the nature of which was
to be concealed for a certain time, and
he actually made several thousands of
pounds out of it, the people paying for
shares with blind eagerness. With this
adventurer deserves to be ranked the
ingenious but unprincipled American
citjzen who has just been arrested for
doing an extensive business in adver
tising all manner of enticing things to
be sent on the reeeipt of postage stamps.
Cases of this kind have occurred before,
but then tfie impostors usually sent
something, however fraudulent, in re
turn for the stamps. This genius, how
ever, had made no provision whatever
in that way. He simply appropriated
the stamps, and refrained from answer
ing the letters ; and though so reckless
a swindle would seem certain to come
to grief in a short time, he appears to
have kept it up and made considerable
profits by it for several months. He also
advertised largely through the newspa
pers, never paying them, but giving
them references to aliases of his own,
and himself answering all letters In
quiring about his character. The defect
in his plan was that it was certain
sooner or later to become the subject of
investigation, and the moment it was
inquired into the truth came out
The number of swindlers who have
waxed fat on similar but more care
fully devised schemes is no doubt very
considerable. The rogues who engi
neer them rely upon the desire of most
people to get much for little. They
know that the greed of gain often ob
scures the judgment, and'that though
all cool-headed business men suspect
offers of the kind, remembering the
Duke of Wellington's maxim that
"good interest means bad security,"
yet there are always plenty ready to
spring at any bait, if it is only gaudy
and glittering enough. The so-called
sawdust" sharpers who pretend to
sell counterfeit money, and send the
victim a box of sawdust act upon a
shrewd knowledge of the baser ele
ments in human nature. They select
for their dupes persons who are willing
to be knaves themselves, and whose
awn knavery shuts their mouths when
.hey find out the swindle. Probably no
professional sharpers would enter upon
io very bold a game as the young man
f the postage stamps-played, for as
ney mean to make their living by their
7its they dare not thus openly adver
se their dishonesty. Butthe.fact that
ich a trick should have been so suc
sssf ul, and that it should have been
carried on for so long a 'time without;
iatection shows that the crop of gulls!
tontinues to be as large as ever, and!
ihat whatever else fails (here is no!
prospect of "shortage" in that Una ef
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