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Updated: July 12, 2025
They've come in by the regular entrance." "Did they force themselves past without tickets?" "No, each one had the proper coupon." "Has there been a theft of our tickets?" demanded the young magician and acrobat. "No, our ticket account is all right, except there are a thousand extra entrance coupons in the box coupons taken in by the entrance attendants.
The waiter, however, did not bring the change, but came back with the manager, a bald-headed man with a shining face, who was holding the coupon in his fat hand. "Your money is no good," he said, showing the coupon, but apparently determined not to give it back. "The coupon must be all right. I got it from a gentleman." "It is bad, I tell you. The coupon is forged." "Forged? Give it back to me."
After his misfortune with the forged coupon, Ivan Mironov took to drink; and all he possessed would have gone on drink if it had not been for his wife, who locked up his clothes, the horses' collars, and all the rest of what he would otherwise have squandered in public-houses.
I decided to enter that school. A friend helped me to purchase an excursion ticket to Atlanta, Ga., where was being held the Cotton-States and International Exposition. I left Chicago in November, and after two days spent in Atlanta with relatives and in seeing the sights, I exchanged my return coupon for a ticket to Tuskegee.
He had the bonds to dispose of, and he feared the large amount might occasion suspicion. They were coupon bonds, and bore no name or other evidence of ownership. Yet the mere fact of having such a large amount might occasion awkward inquiries. "Here's yer mornin' papers!" called a negro newsboy, thrusting his bundle in front of the country banker. "Give me a Herald," said Mr. Duncan.
As yet I was jangling down a Panamanian dollar at each appearance, but the day was not far distant when I should receive the "recruits" hotel-book and soon grow as accustomed as the rest to having a coupon snatched from it by the yellow negro at the door. Uncle Sam's boarding scale on the Zone is widely varied.
And so I now see that my bright dream of a Correspondence-School post-graduate course cannot be realized. No bank president, no corporation director, electrical engineer, advertising expert, architect, or other distinguished alumnus would confess himself no gentleman by marking that coupon.
I'd issue a divorce coupon with every marriage certificate, and done with it," he said, in desperate disgust. "Then this whole cursed business would be done away with. It isn't a question of our laxity of divorce laws," he said, after a pause, "it's a question of the senseless severity of the laws in other States. That's what throws this demoralizing business into our hands here."
In fact, General Gordon boldly suggested that the funds immediately wanted must be provided by the non-payment of the next coupon due.
They dropped almost to zero when the newspaper, having clinched the lesson home with its "Photo-graft Gallery of Leading Dime-Hunters," exhorted its readers: "If you think you need your change as much as these men do, watch for the coupon in to-morrow's 'Clarion, and Stick it in Your Hat." The enterprise hit upon the psychological moment.
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