Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — His Weak Spot. [ARTICLE]

His Weak Spot.

One evening four or five drummers and agents who had been working Quincy. HI., to no purpose, were discussing their ill-luck in the office of the hotel, when one observed: “There’s an old shad down here in a hardw are store who makes me tired. This is about the fifteenth time I’ve tried for an order, and it’s no go.” “Old chap with a big nose on him ?” queried one of the others. “Yes.” “Ordered me out doors, confound him.” “And he told me,” said a third, “that he never bought of an agent, trusted a stranger, or got caught on any man’s game. * “'J hat’s old Blank to a dot,” putin the landlord. “He’s as sharp as he is stingy.” Considerable more was said in the same strain, but by and by a man who had registered from Chicago put in: “Boys, it’s all in understanding human nature. Bet you SSO even up that I can get $lO out of him in fifteen minutes, and that without value received or signing my name to a paper.” His money was covered instantly, and next morning he took one of the crowd down to the store, introduced himself, and said: “Mr. Blank, the Governor of this State gave me vouv name as a piominent resident of this neighborhood. Our house is publishing county histories of Illinois. Every subscriber at $25 has a full-paged portrait and two pages of reading matter. I shall take only five in this city, and you beiug the most prominent resident, jl have called upon jou first.” “Well, sir, in just twelve minutes he

had old Blank’s order for a book, and $lO paid down as a guarantee that he would take it. He had hit him in his weak Bpot, and our money fell into his pocket with a thud -which could be heard clear across the hotel office.— New York Sun.