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Show AS STRAIGHT MEN SEE HIM. The Dead-Beat Is Probably the Most Despised Creature That Walks the Earth. No man is wholly free from sin. but so many lesser evils are tolerated that a man should hesitate long before becoming be-coming a dead-beat. Criminals are despised de-spised and abhorred, but to the dead-beat dead-beat all that is coming, as well as the contempt of his fellow "n,en. There is something at once so mean and so little lit-tle in taking advantage of the confidence confi-dence which comes with friendship that the hand of every man is turned against a dead-beat as soon as his reputation is well established. The dead-beat may fondly imagine he is living easy and making money without with-out work, and, of course, he takes no account of the confidence he violates and the hardships he inflicts on others. oth-ers. But, that aside, he really has a harder time than the man who is honest and fair. He is compelled to move a good deal, and peace of mind he knows not. Like other types of crooks, he doesn't prosper, and his finish is more unpleasant than the beginning. be-ginning. Atchison Globe. |