THE COURIER.
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CHARACTER SKETCH.
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NO. 10
There are iteoplc who bluff their way
through life. They trado on their
nervo and impress people by false ap
pearances. In reality they are like other
people just us weak and ineffectual,
with no more ability, no moro merit,
But they assume to bo what tbey are
not. and in the parlance of the day, the
bluff goes. They do the job up -ll,
watching the corners, and taking care
that jteople do not get onto their little
game.
Some people work one kind of a bluff
and some another. There are people
who would bluff the public into the
Mea that somewhere in hidden recesses
thay have a store of wealth. They
haven't anything at all, but by keeping
st'll and being careful as to appearances
they delude people into believing they
have means. This is one of the com
monest kind of bluffs. Everybody is
familiar with the individuals who live
in line houses, wear fine clothes, and
make something or a stir with absolute
ly nothing subLtantial on which to base
it all. There are many people in this
class. They are past masters of the art
of bluffing. They always fool a great
many ieople. There are the literary
bluffers those who by implication and
insinuation give the impression that
they are steeped in literary knowledge.
Name a book or an author and your
literary bluffer will look wise, and say
something sufficiently apropos to (lit pel
any suspicion. This kiud of a bluffer is
sometimes very clever. He will talk
very learnedly on literary subjects, aud
may come out without accident, when
as a mat.er of fact he doesn't know
Isben from Mrs. E. D. E. X South
worth or Paul and Virginia from Pygma
liau and Galatea. In the same way
there is the art bluffer, and the society
bluffer, and the ccientific bluffer. I
once knew a man who affected a blase
air and went through life duly credited
as a Beau Brummell. It was thought of
bim that he had sounded the social
depths to the very bottom; that he had
led a hundred or five hundred germans,
and that there was no 6ort f social cus
tom of which he was not the master. The
man seldom if ever lied, but he man
aged to give people the impression that
he had run the whole gamut of society.
But there was nothing to him but the
appearance. He knew scarcely any
thing of the world of which he pretend
ed to be so tired. He had never led a
german in his life. He didn't even
know how to dance. He had never been
in society and had never had any posi
tion; but he played his cards well, and
he accomplished his purpose without
difficulty.
There are political bluffers, men who
make a great showing and talk grandly
of their influence, but who have no in
lluerce at all. who occupy no position in
the field of politics. This is a numerous
class. In truth politicians are mostly
bluffers. The bluff is their stock in
trade.
There are bluffers in business, in
every avenue in life. Sometimes they
are found out by some people. OTten
they go along fooling everybody or
nearly everybody. In some cases' the
bluff brings conspicuous success.
There is in Lincoln a well-known man
who realizes as few men do the value of
a good bluff. In his business, I will not
say what it is, he stands well at the top.
He bluffed his way to his present posi
tion, and he is keeping himself in it by
bluffing. He affects & warlike demeanor
and has earned the reputation of a
fighter, not in a physical sense. Ho
frightens some people. His bluff is well
sustained. He doesn't lay it aside one
minute and take it up the next. It is
always with him. If an invoice were
taken of his stock in trado it would be
found that at least fifty per cent of it is
bluff. He haB ability, of course. That
is conceded. But with his ability alone
ho would not have achieved the success
which is his. Without the re-enforcement
of bluff he would bo just like most
of the other men in his business. He is
a clever student of mankind, and one of
tho first lessons he learned was that
pooplo are eaeily fooled and frightened;
and ho does business on this line. Shorn
of all affectation he is a good deal like
the majority of his brothers; but he
puts on a gruff air and abuses people
with his mouth, and a large part' of the
public is hoodwinked into the idea that
he is a terrible man. That idea is
valuable to him in his business. He is
a bluffer. Ho has reduced the bluffing
business to a science. It pays well.
LIFE'S WEB.
A few tiny threads in tho web of life.
Touched, aud parted, and touched in
tho strife.
One was strong, and briirht, aud gay;
One glittered with the shimmer of
gold.
The other was gaudy with color bold.
The strong bright thread and the gaudy
ray
Started together in life's great fray;
The garish colors were dull and old,
Tho woof of love grew hard and cold;
Then the joy of IiTo was incomplete.
Until the pale gray strand, so soft and
eweet.
Worked the wondrous charm in the.
mottled web.
For she blended the colors, and discord
was dead.
Barbara Galpin.
WHAT HE WISHED.
Cobbs That was a pretty sentiment
young Masher got off the other night
when bidding Miss Plumpy good night.
Dobbs-So! What was it?
Cobbs He said he wished she was
locked up in his arms and the 'tey lost
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Fourteenth Annual Session to be Held at Crete,
Neb., July 3 to 13, 1895.
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