Show SLICK LICK S KON SCHEME OBE i Simple S But Thit Worth W orth Two of lf the Old 11 Devices Washington Post Speaking of ot hair reminds me roe of or a story a traveling man tells I We were in the dullest dull st part of the journey l across the continent t said he and we were In a mood to do anything to t o 0 kill time At Cheyenne a prosperous I looking l man m n came aboard and made him self it pleasant pl t In i the the smoking room When n he tie took off ot his cap he ran his hand over 1 Ills 1115 lii bald head bead and and remarked that if It Beauty could draw him only by a 1 single hair hal shed better hurry up the drawing before b It t was too to i late te That opened open ed the tk conversation c an we w t talked hair 1 Therese Th roa man ou Quem Ur tire car cat said sad sa tHe stranger when the talk was wat up tip to tobin him bin Ii gaIn J who Ha lia the finest wig J jever ev Vei saw WIg shouted somebody Why thata not nota a T wig rig The mans marts hair Is 15 thin in spots Its It s no wig Its the real thing Then we went out and looked at t the theman theman theman man Hed been b en with us all the way f from rom Chicago and we knew be wear I even a toupee so we w all went back Into the smoker and laid bets with the Chey Cheyenne Cheyenne I enne man He took us all al at 10 IG to 1 and antI then apparently weakening added more moral at 5 to L 1 Then we cast loafs lo ts to see who should go o and find out The task leU feU leUto to me 1 I tried to back out but as I 1 stood to win If Ir the mans hair was real I persuaded m 1 myself 1 self to go Sir said sald I to the stranger from Chi Chicago cago eago you have been b made the subject of ofa Ofa i l ci hia f a most ludicrous s wager We have hare put up I money to express our belief beliet that your hair Is own wn nd not ll t a wIg Will you OU I oblige e us by b proving that we tee are e right The man mana a most respectable and scholarly looking gentleman looked up in J astonishment For your Infernal insolence said lie he heIm lieI I Im Ini happy to be b e able to te say saty that tha t I do west wear a Wig 1 I Andi striding into the he took off q tU tN wig w 1 to prove 0 8 it The Cheyenne ne man roan was r of amount but he was such uk an allaround good fel tel fellow 1 low that we w giving up Be Besides BesIdes sides the wig was Vas the thu most remarkable r mar able specimen a Imen we had evec seen and Jt it was money it coat Ottus us to know that art can simulate nature so amazing well The Cheyenne man told us he was on his way to Los Angeles Ang fes The wig man was to spend a month in Ia Frisco I ex ox x to stay as long but I had bad a tele telegram telegram gram from the house on my arrival and ana andI anaI I took the e back b ack east I leave my tho own until we reached Cheyenne Then as I stepped out On the 1 I r platform I ran right Into the pIan man who I I had won my n money on th thO the way out nut He stayed In Cheyenne but th the wig man mai went on cm to Chicago and they had worked their game before I knew they were on the train What line lino worked it Jt iton iton I Ion on since I dont know but as a 3 money moneymaking moneymaking I making scheme It Is worth two of at the theold theold hc old time card dodges The wig wl I must have cost a pretty penny to begin with but its cost is a mere trifle com corn compared comI I I 1 pared Dared to the money it t brought in |