Judge — September 16, 1882 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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An Uncompromising Capitalist. RY JOHN BLACKDRIDOR, ArTER an inclement spring and a variable summer, the heats of autumn had fairly set in. I waited on Plute, the capitalist, by ap pointment, at his house, © Sit down,” said Plate, motioni “Tam not well, or I asked you to come to my house, ails being all as you say the shall have the cheek to-morrow.” “Thank: said 1; “bot this hardly tall with your card. On this card bed as the Uneomproni the reve plied Plate, “is only a fancy of majority of my customers always I get very tired So I aim to be the opposite, and henee I style myself the mpromising.’ ‘This 1 i like levity, but it isn’t earnest as Arthur’ of the key to f ly “T have not been well lately 1 and have meditated a the mo me to should not The re, you chair. you are d you show your: “phat,” mine, Thi come } of this. ‘a It is as sober visit to Newport in search mable * continuc good deal upc It seems to me ave been grasping and If you * to the extent of a -sack, and he conve! ir of fowls some night, ought 3 to be allowed half? Thave » only allowed one-third, on this basis: one-third for the M,C. brother; one: third for the I shall try Also on definite rates. Hereafter I shall never charge but 25 per cent, for iods and seeurity, This at step in the right direction, and will lighten the burdens of many worthy fam- ties of my calling. that at times 1 ma overalesivous of gain, Methodist colored broth dark-lantern and as away a dozen he not in fairnc hereto! pital invested; on reform, roney on fixed py Well, § is not so very on aid I, * per cent. ayear rous, if people can put the money to good use.” “Twenty-five per cent. a yer Plate, forgetting his illness, and jumping up so hastily that he knocked over the wine- cooler, so that a quart flask of De Montigny ed away into a Moquette carpet, and it became nec y tori 25 per cent a yeur! you take me for a philanthropist? like I other of the m cent, amonth, and when limits his rates to that, he does se reat benefit, and is entitled to a statue “Thst of which,” shouted ¢ for another one— Are you crazy? Do Do I look Cooper, or Cyrus Field, or any No, sir, I ood Samaritans? n 2. man ty a aid I, he only gets a statute, called th Law.” “1 owe you one for ths “Dut now just see the ,” replied Plate; Heré came old Boscobello yesterday in desperate “You know my wife ty last week,’ says he, ‘and the bills have just come in for the forks and gh; e hadto buy, a whole dozen each, and we must pay ‘em to- day. Then my half yearly mortgage interest is due, and the ally lawyer of the holder of that security will make me $75 costs if I don’t pay right up. Let me have $1,000 and I'll make my note at thirty days for $1,500. Some nod we do, Gest ox tur Fux Ornen Gest." Wb rd forme, | | big things are coming time. Tam the heay comic paper that dec an immense qua terly dividend next week; they’ve got much money now in the Gail Hamilton that the cashier hi them to reduce the the swelling is really too g and the entire peach crop of Hudson's Bay is under consignment to our hot let old Bos have the mone me $1,250, that will do.’ seen the joy on his fac its own reward. iy as well qu the murd round bef areholder in so unk neste count You ought t A good Just at that moment I real- litied for heaven ny of rs Who set out for that locality with their best boots on.” “T hope 11, “you will never have cause to repent of your moderation.” “T shall try not to. Ours is an ancient and honorable calling, my dear boy, and le us do itall the honor possible in our day then p: it down to posterity unha | One man takes delivers to s¢ wed. A grain of corn; presto, he ty a pellet of lump of glucese, at twice the money world appkiuds him. Another 1 penny; presto, he has a penny and a quarter in his hand, ready to perform its short and ‘y go-round of thi id turn up ters, or even two pennies, a useful citizen, why i blessing in disgui bridge, are bl grown, you : mer y daysons in as a penny and threeyu If man number one is n't man number two a and 1, Black- guise. Tam full re just beginning to be yet a good deal to learn id I, ‘to be a pupil of yours bless e you advice with pleasure, | fiding capitalists, | mers lent I | gether and divide the boodle. NOT WITHOUT TRUTH Plate, In the first plac tunes may be made by wholly de read the column of ‘Loans Wanted? in the aily Hurrutd, especially the bold, bad, five- cent Sunday cdition, ‘That fatal column has families of small, too-too con- youthful navigatoi launching Tittle thousandlollar ¢ “A you ruined who . just afts on the sea of finance. lady, perfecting her musical education, wishes to mect with a gentleman of means who would advance her ty. Address Pianissima, Herald Let her wish, my boy, let uiford to know her, Her but she hasn't got Oh, uo, when in great straits she pledged it to Mortimer & Co., number elev $200, Secu uptown off her perfect; you can security is a diamond ring ty-cleven worth $1,000, cked at that. Morti- d marked up the ticket to $300. If some flat steps in and re- deems, Mortimers and Pianissima stand in to- Such happen sometimes. It only costs Pi- ima $1.35 a week (5 cents aword) to fish for suckers in this way, “But there's my doctor's gig « and T must close the first lesson, too, has to be cleared out of the room, or he'll scold me well, But one last wor If any party ever approache his hand artlessly and affectionately on your knee, and says, ‘I knew your father well,’ and then proposes to make a loan from your father’s son, thing for he See? thing ani riving up, ‘This wine, , my boy: nd lays mp up and run; leave every run for your ut stick; delay not, more deadly than the rattlesnake, or than the prospectus of a New Jersey. land sale.” comicbooks.com