{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4262", "width": "2711", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\nBook\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\JCk9\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "f A K E S,\\n^EXPOSED.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "rt", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FAKES,\\nGrafts t Swindles\\nexposed.\\nShowing Many Different Methods of the Confidence Man,\\nBunco Steerer, Tout, Shilber, Dips, Gamblers, Mail-\\norder Sharks and Fakirs to Do the Unwary.\\nALSO\\nMany of the World s Best Recipes. Formulas, Money-\\nMaking Secrets, and Legitimate Schemes to Do\\na Good Business on Small Capital.\\nTHE UJS [SOPHISTICATED\\nWill Find this an Educator In the Ways of the W^orld\\nSecond Only to Personal Experience, and the Wise\\nGuy Will Find Many Pointers and Much\\nGood Reading.\\nBy COL. J. ALFRED McCURRY,\\nTHE EMINENT AUCTIONEER,\\nMOBERLY, MO.\\nPRICE 75 CENTS\\nSent Pre-Paid to Any Postoffice in the World on Receipt of Price.\\nPUBLISHED BY THE\\nMAGIC CITY BOOK AND NOVELTY COMPANY.\\nMOBERLY, MISSOURI.\\nU. S. A.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "J*N 8- 1900\\nBeglstar of C\\n51055\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1899\\nBY\\nJ. Alfred McCurry\\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED.\\n86C0ND COPY,\\ni", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "1fntrobuctor\\\\\\nP. T. Barnum, once said the American people wanted\\nto be humbugged and the more you skinned them the\\nbetter they liked it. But my thirty years of experience\\namong them, as a public salesman, from the Pacific to the\\nAtlantic coast, and from the orange groves of the South\\nto the snow-capped mountains of the North, has convinced\\nme he was wrong. They have no desire to be done, but\\ntheir great greed for the almighty dollar, and the way to\\nget it fast, and without hard work, makes them an easy\\nprey for the sharpers, who offer them something for com-\\nparatively nothing, by many different methods, the metro-\\npolitan newspapers, farmers journals, and cheap story\\npapers, being the principal mediums used by the mail\\norder, or light fakirs, who are largely in the majority,\\nand a person outside of the profession has no idea of the\\nvast army of this class alone, who live sumptuously on the\\nignorance of their fellowmen. Their graft is from postage\\nstamps to dollars, and they are the most disreputable of\\nthe profession, as their victims are generally the poorest\\nclass of people, who can ill afford to lose such paltry sums.\\nThis class is not recognized by the green goods, confidence\\nor heavy workers, who depend principally on their front,\\npersonality, conversational powers, and experience in the\\nways of the world, to do business, and confine their opera-\\ntions exclusively to the moneyed class, who can well afford\\nto pay for their experience.\\nThis work consists of the best of the many schemes to\\ndo the unsophisticated which have come to my notice in\\nmy many years of experience as a soldier of fortune. Also", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 FAKES, GRAFTS ATND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\na collection of receipts for making various articles, which\\nare in constant use in every household in the land. They\\nare for the most part articles of necessity, upon which very\\nlarge profits are made, both by the manufacturer and\\ndealer; some things which cost but a few cents to make,\\nretailing for a dollar. I have used many of these formulas\\nin my time, and made a decided success in selling them,\\nand I have been to a great deal of trouble and expense in\\nsecuring them, as the formulas of the best and leading\\nmedicines in this country are very carefully guarded, for\\non the secret depends their success to a great extent, and\\nthere is no law requiring them to divulge it. But it is\\ndifferent in Germany, and while it is not known by many\\noutside of medicine manufacturers in this country, it is,\\nnevertheless, a fact that no patent (or bottled) medicine\\ncan be sold, or exposed for sale there, without the govern-\\nment and druggists have the formula of the same. It was\\nby this means I secured the formulas of Warner s Safe\\nCure, Perry Daver s Pain Killer, Hamlin s Wizard Oil,\\nAyer s Sarsaparilla, and many other of the leading patent\\nmedicines in this country, and which I do now make public\\nfor the first time. And as I have this book copyrighted in\\nthis country and Canada, I warn every one from infringing\\non same, but if you want a good selling article and prefer\\nhandling this book to any of the many different schemes\\ngiven within, write me, and I will job them to you right,\\nin any quantity, and in any style of binding, and with\\nyour name printed thereon as agent. I now point out to\\nyou the proper method to be pursued in the manufacture of\\nthese various articles and expect you to use your own judg-\\nment and discretion in the matter of putting them up for the\\nmarket, and exposing them for sale. The goods, when\\nready for market, may be sold either direct to consumers\\nat retail, or to storekeepers at wholesale, or both. Those\\nwho adopt the former method may canvass from house to\\nhouse or establish a store and sell them. The various\\ningredients to compound all the different articles for which\\nreceipts are given herein may be purchased at any whole-\\nsale grocery store, drug, or hardware store in any city.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nLarge fortunes have been made upon the manufa\\nof single articles for which receipts are given herein\\nthere is no reason why any one with average intelligent,\\nlittle push and sagacity, may not acquire a competency in\\nthe same way, for you have the opportunity to be your own\\nmanufacturer, your own wholesaler and own retailer, and to\\nmake the combined and total profit that is ordinarily made\\nby all three. Given those advantages, you may undersell\\nthose in the ordinary channels of trade, and still make\\nhandsome profits. Do not be ashamed of a small beginning;\\nany business that is legitimate is honest, and false pride\\nhas prevented many a person from laying the foundation\\nof a fortune, and landed them in the poor house in their\\nold age. Hoping that this -little book, which has cost you\\nbut a few cents, may be the means of making or saving you\\nmany dollars, aches or pains, or perchance starting some\\npoor, discouraged person upon the road to prosperity,\\nhealth and wealth, I am,\\nRespectfully yours, in P., L. and T.,\\nJ. A. McCURHY,\\nMoberly, Missouri.\\nMariar ate pie, and Mariar ate jelly;\\nMariar went home with a pain in her\\nNow don t get excited, or don t be misled,\\nMariar went home with a pain in her head.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nA True Story.\\nIf you listen unto me,\\nI will tell you, do you see,\\nOf many a different fake\\nGrafters use to make a stake.\\nAnd a tale I will unfold,\\nOf a youth, who was so bold,\\nThat he did even dare\\nTo see the tiger in its lair.\\nEre he read this little book,\\nFor at it he would not look,\\nFor he was very, very fly,\\nAnd would show he was no Gruy.\\nThey couldn t take him in\\nThese old rackets were too thin\\nFor he had clerked in a store,\\nAnd he couldn- 1 learn no more.\\nSo to a city he did go,\\nWhere he even didn t know,\\nThe inns, and the outs,\\nAnd the very many Touts,\\nWho to get his dollars few,\\nTold him all they knew,\\nAnd much more, too,\\nAs they took him through\\nThe tl Strictly Private doors,\\nAnd our marble floors,\\nTo the big pool room\\nWhere suckers meet their doom.\\nAnd when the ticker places\\nThe result of the races,\\nOn the blackened wall,\\nIn the sight of all\\nW ho may be there\\nTo at it stare,\\nAnd bet their dough\\nOn the horse they know.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nAVill lead the bunch,\\nFor they got a lunch,\\nAnd he got a tip,\\nWhich he couldn t let slip,\\nFor he was out for mini\\nAs well as fun,\\nAnd he thought it straight.\\nUntil twas too late.\\nSo he placed his tin,\\nAnd expected to win,\\nBut the ticker in a minute\\nShowed his horse wasn t in it\\nAnd then the poor dummy\\nShowed he was a rummey,\\nBy betting once agin,\\nWhen he never could win.\\nFor the tips he got,\\nWas to aid him not,\\nBut only to skin\\nHim out of his tin.\\nAnd then he got sore,\\nFor he had no more.\\nBut he could not kick,\\nIt was done so slick.\\nThey would throw him out,\\nIf he made a shout.\\nBut determined was he,\\nNot a Knocker to be.\\nBut went and raised a plunk,\\nWhich showed he had spunk,\\nAnd tried to regain his loss,\\nBy going in the double cross.\\nAnd when he lost again,\\nAnd was once more out of tin,\\nTo get even with the Sharks,\\nGoes out and hocks his sparks.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThis the Bookies get as quick.\\nIt made him heart sick,\\nBut even he must be,\\nEre his people he could see.\\nSo out again he goes,\\nTo a place he now well knows,\\nWhere the big gilt ball,\\nIs a standing sign for all.\\nThat almost any old thing,\\nWill the Kino bring;\\nUp goes the watch and chain,\\nTo back the game again.\\nBut twas the same as before,\\nAnd as he sought the door,\\nHe began to realize\\nHe was one of the common guys.\\nAnd he saw his sad mistake,\\nFrom the agents, who so nice\\nWhen this book he failed to take,\\nOffered it at such a low price.\\nFor this little book tells\\nAll about such sells,\\nAnd many more, too,\\nYou will find on looking through.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\n...FAKES...\\nThe Broken Wagon Wheel Fake.\\nB GREAT many different tricks are resorted to to get\\nthe notes of the honest well-to-do farmers. Here\\nis one that has been worked quite extensively in the\\nmiddle states recently: A wagon with an organ or piano\\nin it, stops in front of a farmer s house about dusk, the\\ndriver asking for the use of a wrench, or other tools, as\\na wheel or axle is broken, and some repairs are necessary\\nere further progress can be made. After much delay and\\napparent tinkering the effort to repair is given up, and the\\nfarmer, (who by this time has become an interested specta-\\ntor, or willing assistant), is asked if the instrument can\\nbe left there until a different wagon can be secured. The\\nrequest is usually granted, and the instrument is placed in\\nthe house, and as a matter of course, the weary traveler\\nusually takes a lunch, or, perchance, stays all night, as by\\nthis time it is getting late, and he has wormed his way into\\nthe confidence of the farmer by his frankness of manner,\\nand splendid music. A traveling salesman has many\\ntrials, etc., and the farmer also knows by this time that he\\nrepresents the great organ or piano factory, which\\nmakes the best instruments on earth, or anywhere else,\\nand is their general agent. Ere leaving next morning,\\nmore playing is indulged in, and he insists that the instru-\\nment be used until his return, as it will not hurt it a\\nparticle, etc. However, as he is about to depart, he\\nhappens to think, as a matter of form, and owing to the\\nfact that he may not get back for a day or two, and he may\\nhave to send one of his men instead, the farmer can just\\nsign a receipt for the instrument. It is needless to say that\\nhe or his men do not return, and in the course of ninety or", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nsixty clays this matter-of-form, receipt turns up, from\\nthe local bank, in shape of a note of hand for collection,\\nre it had been shaved as soon as possible. The\\nfarmer has nothing to show for his $90.00 or $290.00,\\n[ac ording to the instrument), but a common, gaily painted\\nthump box or organ. As a matter of course, all sharks,\\nare well posted by a confederate who has probably thor-\\noughly canvassed their territory a short time previously,\\nand thus learned who was responsible and who were\\ncontemplating the purchase of an organ or piano.\\nOutwits a Sharper A Traveling Man Beats Him\\nIn a Poker Game.\\nNot long ago I was a passenger on a cross-country\\nrailway train that wound its romantic way among the lakes\\nof Wisconsin. The day was so soft, the scenery so picture-\\nlike, that it was hard to conceive that in this blithe world\\nthere was such a thing as the wicked scheming of man.\\nBut there was. D. E. Kerr, of the Illinois College of\\nOsteopathy of Chicago, and I were sitting together, talking\\nabout fishing, when along came an oldish, intelligent-look-\\ning chap and grabbed hold of Kerr. They shook each\\nother warmly, having in years gone by done the road for\\nthe same commercial house. I was introduced to Mr.\\nWinter, and found him bright and snappy, w T ith the\\nadvanced shrewdness of the day, a man of the hustling\\nworld. But it is said that a sucker is born ever y minute.\\nWhile we were talking, along came three men. They\\nwanted to get up a harmless game of cards. I didn t care\\nto play. Neither did Kerr. But Winter said that he\\ndidn t mind taking a hand. To me the men looked like\\nshakers, and so they must have looked to Kerr, for he\\nsaid to his friend:\\nNever mind the card game. Let s talk about old\\ntimes.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "13\\nYes, pretty soon; but I will play a while\\nOne of the men had a deck of cards, 1 iter\\ninsisted upon buying a new deck from the new? aey\\nbegan to play, and their game was without in us\\nuntil something was said about turning it into poker.\\nWinter can t be caught by that old chaff, said Kerr\\nto me.\\nNo, I replied, but you see he has agreed.\\nWhat That s a fact. Say, Winter, I ve got a story\\nto tell you. Leave off your game a minute.\\nI ll see you after a while.\\nHe must have quit the road a long time ago, said I.\\nNo, Kerr replied; he is still travelingfor a Chicago\\nhouse.\\nWinter began to win. He knew that it was a bait.\\nWhy didn t he have sense enough to see it? He became\\nexcited. He got up and went to the water cooler, stox ping\\nfor a moment to talk to the newsboy. Then, with his back\\ntoward us he appeared to be taking medicine.\\nHe is a morphine eater, I think, I said to Kerr.\\nI m afraid there s something wrong with him.\\nWinter returned to the game. Pretty soon there came\\na new excitement. He began to search his clothes for\\nmoney. Raise you, he said repeatedly. We knew that\\nthe decisive moment had come, and stood near to see the\\nresult. He was not too old to learn a lesson. That\\nscoundrel has dealt him four aces, Kerr whispered to me.\\nBut let him pay for it, said I. He ought to be\\npunished.\\nLook; they are ravenous.\\nThe betting was fierce. There were but two battling\\nfor the pot Winter and the evil-eyed man.\\nWell, I ve got more money in my pocket, but it\\ndoesn t belong to me. A man sent it by me to pay a debt.\\nBut if you think you ve got the best hand, bet it.\\nYou ought to be entitled to the use of the money as long\\nas its in your possession. Well, continued the evil-\\neyed man, I ll raise you a hundred/", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 AXES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nme see/ said Winter, squirming about in his\\nse: living down into his pockets, you drew two\\nea rt you? Well, I ll have to raise you a hundred.\\nmuch more goes?\\nfifty, said Winter.\\nrhen I raise you two-fifty.\\nWinter called him. Well, said the evil-eyed, to\\ntell the truth, I started out on a bluff, but I ve made a\\nstraight flush.\\nHow high? Winter quietly asked.\\nHow high? king high.\\nMine s ace high, said Winter, and he spread a royal\\nflush.\\nThen there was a roar; and there would have been a\\nfight, but the sharpers saw that it would have been useless,\\nnot to say disastrous. Winter raked in the money and at\\nthe next stop the sharper got off.\\nBeautiful weather, said Winter, resuming his seat\\nwith us.\\nSay, how in the world did you work that?\\nOh, it was simple enough. Of course I knew what\\nwas coming. You know I went to the water cooler. Well,\\nI got a deck of cards from the newsboy exactly like the\\ndeck we were playing with, and I took out a royal flush\\nand slipped it into my pocket. I thought he would select\\nspades, a mere guess, you know, and I took clubs. Shortly\\nafter I got back, down came three aces, I opened and he\\nraised. I raised back, so did he, and then we drew. H\\nfixed it so that I would catch my other ace in a one card\\ndraw. I knew this, so I drew one. The best I could have\\nsized him for in a straight game would have been four kings.\\nIn squirming about for my money I hid my fours and got\\nout my royal. Kerr, I hear you re doing well in Chicago\\nsince you quit the road. Yes, beautiful weather. Opie\\nRead in Chicago Inter Ocean.\\nNever let mistimed modesty mar honest mirth. The\\nPirate.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 15\\nHoch, der Kaiser.\\nThe piece recited by Captain Joseph R. Coghlan of the\\nUnited States cruiser, Raleigh, at the Army and Navy\\nclub reception in New Tork, which caused much criticism.\\nDer Kaiser von das Faterland,\\nUnd Gott und I all dings command;\\nWe two, ach, don t you understand?\\nMeinself und Gott.\\nyile some men sing der bower divine,\\nMein soldiers sing Die Wacht am Rhein,\\nUnd drink der health in Rhenish wine\\nOf me und Gott.\\nThere s France, she svaggers all around;\\nShe s augspeil, she s no agground;\\nTo much, we dinks, she don d amound\\nMeinself und Gott.\\nShe will not dare to fight again,\\nBut if she should I ll show her blain\\nDat Elsass (und in French) Loraine\\nAre mein by Gott.\\nDere s Grandma, dinks she s nicht schmall bier,\\nMit Boers und such she interfere;\\nShe ll learn none owns dis hemisphere\\nBut me und Gott.\\nShe dinks, good frau, some ships she s got,\\nUnd soldiers mit der scarlet goat,\\nAch We could knock em poof\u00e2\u0080\u0094 like dot\\nMeinself mitt Gott.\\nIn dimes of peace brebare for wars,\\nI bear der helm and shpear of Mars,\\nUnd care not for den dousand Czars\\nMeinself und Gott.\\nIn fact, I humor every vhim,\\nMit aspect dark und visage grim\\nGott pulls mit me und I mit Him\\nMeinself und Gott.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 FAKES, GBAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED,\\nOriginator of Three-Card Monte, Now Dead.\\nConsidered the Greatest Card Sharp on Earth.\\nArrested But Once, and Then Pardoned\\nThrough the Influeuce of Noted People.\\nLew Houck, the originator of three-card monte, and\\nan adept in every skin game known to gamblers or police,\\nis dead. At least, a telegram to that effect was received\\ntoday by his wife, who has lived in a retired manner in this\\ncity for years. He is said to have dropped dead in Durango,\\nMexico, where he had been posing as an agent for a firm of\\nAmerican manufacturers.\\nLew Houck s life story reads like a novel. He was\\nborn in the little Ohio city of Sandusky, and spent most of\\nhis boyhood days there. Just when he was born he would\\nnot say, but it could not have been less than fifty years\\nago. At an early age he learned the fascination of\\ngambling, and found that he had the ability to manipulate\\nthe pasteboards to suit himself.\\nBECAME A PROFESSIONAL.\\nHe became a professional., gambler, and was well\\nknown in this part of the country, not only as a man of\\nexceptional ability in his profession, as well as unfailing\\nindustry, but also as a man who so thoroughly under-\\nstood the art of disguising that he was able to fleece the\\nsame victim several times over.\\nHis only term of imprisonment was in 1883, when he\\nwas canght in Texas by Detective John T. Norris, of\\nSpringfield. Houck had fleeced a traveling man named\\nPaul Lohman, on a Hocking Valley train, near Delaware,\\nand was called down by his victim.\\nIn the quarrel which followed Houck drew a revolver.\\nThe gun was discharged and Lohman was killed. Houck\\nfled the country, bat was caught in Galveston, Texas,\\nwhere he was posing as a wealthy man and w r as rapidly\\ndecimating the cash accounts of an exclusive social club of\\nthat city, to which he had been admitted. He was\\nbrought back to Ohio and sentenced to 16 years for the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 17\\ncrime. After serving seven years he was pardoned, such\\nmen as ex-Governors Bishop, Young, Foster and a host of\\nother prominent men of the state signing his petition of\\nrelease.\\nTRUE TO FRIENDS.\\nHe then disappeared from the country and little was\\nheard of him. Not long ago he returned to this city,\\nhowever, preliminary to leaving for the winter in the City\\nof Mexico, and renewed his acquaintance with his friends.\\nFriends he had in plenty, for with all his faults he had a\\nfidelity to his friends that was admirable. No man ever-\\nlost by putting faith in Lew Houck, except in a card game.\\nWhile in this city he showed letters from Secretary\\nOlney, Secretary Carlisle and others equally as prominent,\\nwhich recommended him in the highest terms, not only to\\nthe American representatives abroad, but to any friends of\\nthe writers who might meet him. These letters were\\ngenuine, too. Their authenticity could not be doubted.\\nEvidently in his capacity as a gentleman of leisure he had\\nso imposed on them that they thought him a thorough\\ngentleman. He showed credentials from three clubs,\\nentitling him to all the privileges of a member and enjoin-\\ning all members to treat him as one of themselves. The\\nclubs mentioned are the most aristocratic in their respec-\\ntive towns.\\nSKINNED WALES.\\nDuring his residence abroad he had beaten the Prince\\nof Wales, at baccarat. He skinned royal Dukes out of\\ntheir jacket money in ways peculiarly his own. He\\nrelieved more members of the English aristocracy of\\nwealth than any highway robber since the days of Turpin.\\nAnd at all times he moved in the best society. He pro-\\nduced papers to show that while he was in London he was\\nfeted and dined by some of the upper crust of England.\\nHe always posed as a wealthy American traveler, and as\\nsuch was received into the best society.\\nA few weeks ago he left for the City of Mexico, where", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nhe was to remain during the winter, ostensibly as an agent\\nfor an American manufacturer, really as one of the best\\nmen with the nimble pasteboard or the elusive shell that\\never picked up a bet.\\nAn Easy Game.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Train Buncoers Take All the\\nMoney Frank Schleffin Had. A Warning to\\nthe Unsophisticated.\\nAll the German s newly made acquaintance wanted\\nwas the use of his money while he turned a sure-thing\\ntrick turned it and quit the train, leaving Schleffin to\\nwonder.\\nThe bunco men are not all dead yet. They are not\\ndoing much in the city of Denver, but they operate on\\nnearly all of the trains leaving this city. Their latest\\nvictim is Frank Schleffin, a German miner, who has been\\nworking in Russell Gulch.\\nSchleffin has lived in this country for nine years, but\\nspeaks very little English. He went to police headquarters\\nthis morning and said he had been buncoed to the tune of\\n$70.00. He had been to Pueblo, he said, through an inter-\\npreter, and last night boarded a train for Central City.\\nSoon after he got on the train a man sat down beside him\\nand engaged him in conversation. The stranger invited\\nhim to go back into the smoking room and have a drink.\\nIn the smoking room the strange man met another\\nman and they got to playing dice. They wanted Schleffin\\nto come in to make the game more interesting, but the\\nGerman said auber nit and smiled. Finally the men\\nproposed to throw for $200 and the friend of the German\\ndid not have that amount with him. but said he had it in\\nhis g ip on the seat in the car. The German wanted to go\\nfor i e grip, but his friend would not let him. The friend\\ns lio he had a sure thing and for the German to loan him\\nhe amount and he would give it back to him in a minute.\\nj\\nVade a minude and you vont need id, said the Ger-\\nman, but that would not do and Schleffin was induced to", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "pull $70 from his pocket, all the money he had, and\\nit over to his friend.\\nOf course the friend lost, and he and the German\\nstarted forward to get the money out of the grip. Just\\nthen the conductor came in and called out Palmer Lake.\\nWell, said the friend of the German, I did not\\nknow w T e were running so fast. Here s my station. I ll\\nwrite to you and send that money by the first mail.\\nHe grabbed his grip, ran to the door and swung off the\\ntrain, while the buncoed German sank into his seat and\\nwondered how it all happened.\\nDey dole me graps vas a gude game and vas a sure\\nting winner, bad I dink so not, neither. I doan dink dot\\nfellow had no money in dod grip an mapy he vas friend ov\\nde odder man already. He shump ov de train and says\\ngude by my friends, I ll send you dot moneys by mail bud\\nhe vont, and I am loose my moneys.\\nThe police think they know who it was that buncoed\\nSchleffin and have notified the authorities at Colorado\\nSprings and Pueblo to arrest the suspect.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Denver Post.\\nThe Mexican Bean Clock, Exceptionally Clever\\nFraud Perpetrated by an Ingenious Jeweler,\\nA few years ago public curiosity was excited by the\\ncurious beans called the devil beans of Mexico, which\\nshopkeepers placed in their windows. They somewhat\\nresembled roasted coffee beans in shape and color. They\\nw T ere also known as the jumping beans, owing to the\\nfact that from time to time they made spasmodic move-\\nments which TJropelled them quite a little distance\\nbeans grow on a little bush in the Mexican mountain\\nit is conjectured that they belong to the order EupJ\\nceae. The bean really consisted of three similar\\nwhich formed a single bean. It is usually a third\\nbean which is exhibited as a curiosity. On openii\\npod it w r as found that it contained a small larva, somi", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nthat frequently found in chestnuts. It is this little\\nant which gives motion to the bean by its jerks and\\nthumps against the side of its home. If the bean is slightly\\nwarmed it begins to turn from side to side, and perhaps\\nwith a sudden jump turns completely over and stands on\\none end, and then by successive jumps moves quite a dis-\\ntance.\\nThose who are not in the secret are often greatly puz-\\nzled by this strange bean. An enterprising jeweler devised\\na scheme of utilizing them to make a magic clock. He\\naccomplished this by imitating the shape of two of the\\nbeans, making the dummy beans one of soft iron. One he\\ngilded and the other he silvered. The prepared iron beans\\nwere placed with the ordinary jumping beans on a thin\\nwhite piece of pasteboard, outlined and numbered like the\\ndial of a clock, but devoid of the hands. This dial was\\nlocated over the works of a large clock which was placed\\nface upward on the floor of the store window. He fastened\\nsmall magnets to the ends of the hands. The works were\\nof course carefully hidden from view. All that was in\\nevidence was the cardboard clock dial and the jumping\\nbeans, among which were the gold and silver painted iron\\nbeans. These were placed on the cardboard over the con-\\ncealed hands with the magnets attached. The magnets\\nwere moved by the hands of the clock so that they were\\nalmost in contact with the cardboard. As they moved\\naround they carried the iron beans with them, thus telling\\nthe time of day, and the public was greatly interested by\\nthe intelligence shown by the two beans, which dis-\\ntinguished them from their lively associates. Scientific\\nAmerican.\\nHow s This.\\nAn examination was made of an electric belt recently\\nsoid by a street fakir in Wichita, Kansas, and it was found\\neneath a strip of gauze was a layer of dry mustard.\\nWhen the wearer perspired a little the mustard was moist-\\nand set up a burning sensation and the deluded\\ned a current of electricity was passing through him.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 21\\nWolf in Sheep s Garb. Posed as Minister and\\nMade Money. Retained Money Collected for\\nFlood Sufferers and Borrowed from Charitable\\nPeople.\\nIn Canon City he was known as the Rev. Charles F.\\nLeslie, president of the Union League of New Orleans; in\\nCastle Rock, Douglas county, he said he was Dr. F. A.\\nEllsworth; in Rawlins, Wyo., he insisted his right name\\nwas the Rev. Lee Lyle; in the Denver city jail he refuses\\nto say what his name is, or to say anything else. But\\nSheriff Michael Blythe, of Fremont county, who has him\\nin tow, says he is a gilt-edged crook. The sheriff is taking\\nhim back to Canon City to answer to the charge of obtain-\\ning money under false pretenses.\\nWhere the prisoner originally hails from and what his\\npast acts and associations have been are matters to Sheriff\\nBlythe unknown. He appeared in Canon City about the\\nfirst of last April and introduced himself to the good\\npeople of that town as Rev. Charles F. Leslie. He had a\\ndistinguished air about him, despite the fact that he is\\nonly 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed only 117 pounds.\\nHis silver gray hair gave him the appearance of a man\\nof years and experience; his w ell-modulated voice and\\nlow-toned words easily gained him the respectful attention\\nof those persons he talked to, and his frank blue eyes\\nfavorably impressed all who met him. He had a beautiful\\nbuxom young woman with him, whom he introduced as\\nhis wife and whose refined and modest bearing was well in\\nkeeping with the sober and sedate carriage of her com-\\npanion.\\nTHE GLAD HAND.\\nAccordingly, when the stranger announced that he\\nwas a Methodist divine and that he was in Colorado as the\\nrepresentative of the Union Leaugue of New Orleans, there\\nwas no hesitancy on the part of the Canon Cityites in\\nreceiving him into their homes and confidence. To be sure\\nfew of them, if any, had ever heard of the existence or\\nmission of the Uuion League of New Orleans, but when", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nthe Rev. Charles F. Leslie explained to them they said:\\nAh. to be sure! and were satisfied. He explained that\\nthe Union League of New Orleans was a charitable organi-\\nzation, formed with the godly purpose of relieving the\\nsufferers of the Mississippi valley floods.\\nAh, a noble work! exclaimed the Canon City\\nphilanthropists.\\nAnd when in the course of time, the Rev. Charles F.\\nLeslie, laying aside, like the truly good man that he w T as,\\nthe claims of Methodism and the tint of sectarianism in\\nany form, began to appear impartially in Baptist, Meth-\\nodist, Campbellite, Episcopal, Lutheran, Cumberland and\\nother pulpits, and to explain the grandeur of the cause he\\nrepresented and to paint in glowing, but never vulgarly\\noverdrawn terms, the blessedness of giving in charity to\\nthe oppressed and the unfortunate, contributions came\\nrolling in in a golden stream, like to burst the bulging\\nsides of the collection boxes. All the time the beauteous\\nMrs. Leslie smiled benignly and bestowed cheering words\\non the Canon Cityites. They liked her.\\nThis sort of thing kept up for six weeks, time enough\\nto enable the Rev. and Mrs. Leslie to make the rounds of\\nall the Canon churches and to gather in a charity fund of\\nsuch proportions as to relieve a whole county of flood suf-\\nferers, had it ever reached them. But on May 18 the end\\ncame. That day the Rev. Charles F. Leslie appeared at\\nthe residence, of the Rev. Rufus Chase, one of the city s\\nbest known preachers, and said:\\nBrother, my salary as president of the Union League\\nof New Orleans is unexplainably delayed. I get $100 a\\nmonth and my expenses as the unworthy occupant of this\\nposition, and my remittance should have arrived yesterday.\\nIt hasn t come; perhaps the Hoods have delayed it, and\\ninasmuch as I have forwarded the offerings of your good\\npeople to League Headquarters in New Orleans as fast as\\nthey were made, I am penniless. Would you kindly\\nadvance me a small loan, say $25 or $30, until my check\\narrives\\nOf course, the Rev. Rufus Chase would advance Bro.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 23\\nLeslie a small loan; and he did, making it $30. The next\\nday Brother and Sister Leslie disappeared from Canon\\nCity. Inquiries were set on foot as to who they were and\\nwhat the Union League of New Orleans was, and in time it\\ndeveloped, says Sheriff Blythe, that they were all impos-\\ntors. The Rev. Rufus Chase thereupon swore out a\\nwarrant for Brother Leslie on false pretenses.\\nBut, as said, Brother Leslie and the buxom Sister\\nLeslie were both gone. They next appeared at Castle\\nRock, Douglas county, as Dr. and Mrs. F. A. Ellsworth.\\nWhat they did there is not yet known, but it must have\\nbeen something bad, for Sheriff Priest issued a reward\\ncard for their arrest after they had departed. The card\\ndid not explain what they were wanted for, but it said\\nthey were wanted mighty quick. Sheriff Blythe ingenu-\\nously asserts that Mrs. Ellsworth posed at Castle Rock as\\na graduated wet nurse. He says she has many alices;\\nand the doctor, too.\\nThe Rev. Charles F. Leslie, alias Dr. F. A. Ellsworth,\\nwas arrested at Rawlins, Wyo., last Sunday, under the\\nname of the Rev. Lee Lyle. Sister Leslie was Sister Lyle,\\nbut as there was no warrant for her, she was not taken\\ninto custody. There are doubts, says Sheriff Blythe,\\nabout whether she is in reality the preacher-doctor s wife\\nor not. Anyway the Sheriff left her there, and, presuma-\\nbly she is there yet. Sheriff Blythe s prisoner will proceed\\non his journey to Canon City tonight. How much\\nbusiness he did in Rawlins is not stated. He is fifty\\nyears old and says he has no statement to make to the\\nnewspapers.\\nLonging.\\nI m tired building and toiling\\nIn the crowded hives of men;\\nHeartsick of rising and falling,\\nAnd rising and falling again\\nAnd I sigh for the dear old river,\\nWhere I whiled my youth away,\\nWhere oft I d go in swimmin\\nAnd get licked for it every day", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nDoping Horses A Popular Practice. Much in\\nFavor at Outlaw Tracks, where Even Racing\\nOfficials Make Use of The Needier\\nThe doping of racehorses, said Louis Cella, of St.\\nLouis, who has made book on the Western tracks since\\nsheet writing became an industrial art, has gone on for a\\ngood many years. I remember the very first time a horse\\nhad the needle used on him. It was in a race at Sheeps-\\nhead Bay, in which Aretino was a red hot favorite, while\\na horse called Corsair, trained by George Bryson, was a\\nrank outsider in the betting until some Western people\\nwent down the line on him and burnt up the ring with\\nCorsair money, cutting the price from 20 to 1 to even\\nmoney, and then 4 to 5.\\nCORSAIR WAS LAME.\\nCorsair, according to his trainer s report, had been\\nafflicted for some time with navicular lameness, had oselets\\non his ankles, and had been disgracefully beaten in his\\nlast two races by the same horses with whom he was entered\\nin this race, so to the bettors it looked queer in the first\\nplace that any wise money should be placed on him.\\nWhen they came to the post Corsair cantered to the\\njudges stand, and his jockey had trouble in holding him.\\nHe delayed the start at the post by his antics, and\\nfinally, when the starter got them off, Corsair was in front,\\nand he made Aretino and the bunch look like a lot of dogs.\\nHe won by several lengths, and, although the bets\\nwere paid on him, it was found afterward that he had been\\ndoped with enough cocaine and brandy to make an ele-\\nphant run like a gazelle. Corsair was never raced again.\\nFIRST CASE OF DOPE.\\nThis was the first known case of doping, and all\\nold timers remember the race.\\nThen in Chicago, where I raced a stable for a good\\nmany years, cases of doping were plentiful.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSE\\nIn 1895, a horse named Fred Wooley rai\\nLouis Fair Grounds, and won a purse or two.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2One night his trainers took him over to inv South\\nSide, the little electric light track, and entered him in a\\nrace for the next night.\\nThe pool rooms were in full blast down town, and\\nthe night of the race a good deal of money was bet on him,\\non the track and in the pool rooms, and several thousand\\ndollars were won by persons who owned the horse.\\nHe had been doped this night or he would never\\nhave beaten his field as he did.\\nIn his next race they again shot the stuff into him,\\nand, as before, he won by a block.\\nThe judges declared all bets off and ordered the horse\\nexamined.\\nNEEDLE PRICKS CONVICTED.\\nPlenty of evidence was found in the various spots\\nthat plainly showed on his forelegs and neck, where the\\nneedle had been used.\\nLater on, he was reinstated, and won seven straight\\nraces, and his owner told me afterward that the dope was\\nin him every tiiOe he started.\\nIn 1896 a crowd of Texas people brought some horses\\nto St. Louis and started them at the Fair Grounds.\\nGustave Cook and Bob White were the best of a\\nbunch of cheap selling platers, but one fine day Bob White\\ncame out and beat a field of good horses at 50 to 1, and the\\nTexans made a barrel of money. Before the race, Woods,\\none of the owners, went to several reputable trainers to\\nborrow a hyperdermic syringe and failed.\\nHe got one somewhere, however, for the horse was\\ndoped, and it was proven to be true when it was too late\\nto protect the money of the public.\\nBARLEYCORN LOOKED QUEER,\\nThe case of King Barleycorn, whose entry was refused\\nat Gravesend on account of his erratic running, has a queer\\nlook, and many turfmen do not hesitate to say that the\\nd p\u00c2\u00b0 is accountable for his in and out races, as his", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "tvvm i rrmtfmir- _\\n.KES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nof form are altogether too striking to be over-\\nbed.\\nLao. winter, in New Orleans, Jimmy McVeigh had\\nhim and both horse and trainer barely escaped getting\\nunder the ban of the Turf Congress then.\\nHe beat a field of good horses one day in 1.40 1-2 on\\na slow track, with heavyweight up, then came out two or\\nthree days later and was badly beaten with lightweight up\\nby a lot of cheap selling platers in 1.42 3-4.\\nMany of his races caused unfavorable comment.\\nOn September 7, at Sheepshead, King Barleycorn,\\nridden as usual, by Keenan, with 114 pounds up, ran\\naway from such horses as May Hempstead, Maid of Harlem 7\\nHurly Burly and Galahad, in a five and a half furlong race,\\nand won as he pleased in 1.08, after having been badly\\nbeaten by the same horses a few days before.\\nHe was heavily played and a lot of money was taken\\nout of the ring on his race.\\nROLLER COASTER RACING.\\nIn his next race, September 12, at Gravesend, which\\nwas at five and a half furlongs, he was next to last, with\\n117 up, in a field of horses including Lady Lindsay, Miss\\nMarion, Heliobas, and Blarneystone, Miss Marion winning\\nin 1.08 3-5.\\nThe next day, September 13, this horse was entered\\nat 114 pounds, for a mile and a furlong, with Bon Ino,\\nAzucena, Leo Planter and Lackland, with Arbaces the\\nfavorite. His jockey, Keenan, kept the others waiting at\\nthe post fully five minutes on account of some mysterious\\ndelay in the paddock. When he appeared, the horse was\\nas full of ginger as a yearling, and the starter had diffi-\\nculty in subduing him enough to make him break with\\nthe rest.\\nKing Barleycorn won all the- way, with plenty to\\nspare, having the race to himself in 1.54 2-5.\\nAfter this race his entry was refused, and since then\\nugly rumors have been afloat among the horsemen.\\nI do not say he was doped, but if he was not he is\\na strange horse, and has astonishing reversals, of form.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 27\\nPOPULAR PRESCRIPTIONS.\\nThe most common method of doping a horse is to\\ninject with a hyperdermic syringe, a quantity of nitro-\\nglycerine and rose water, but cocaine injections, morphine\\nand several other preparations are also used.\\nThey formerly put the needle into the soft skin of\\nthe neck, or on the forelegs of a horse, where, by casual\\nexamination by one familiar with the doping of horses,\\nit could be easily found out.\\nThe injection will always raise a small knot on the\\noutside of the skin.\\nThe crooked people have grown careful now, and\\ngenerally put the needle in the mane, where the little knot\\nwill never be noticed in the thick hair.\\nThe outlaw tracks were golcondas for the man who\\ndoped 5 his horses, for on them the practice flourished.\\nOFFICIALS HAD THEM.\\nIn St. Louis the story is told that one night at South\\nSide, when a certain owner wanted to do a little doping,\\nhe went to an official, asking where he could borrow a\\nneedle to fix up his horse. He was referred to another\\nofficer, who ran a stable of his own horses there in con-\\nnection with his other business, and loaned the ambitious\\nowner his own needle with the warning that it must be\\nsoon returned, as he had one of his own horses in a race\\nthat night and would need it.\\nThe electric saddle, or rather a saddle with a small\\nbut powerful battery inside it, helped in the old days, as\\nmany cheap selling platers to beat good horses as the dope\\nitself, but so many examples were made of guilty owners\\nand jockeys that at the present time the electric saddle\\nhas fallen into disuse, but cases of doping are still alto-\\ngether too frequent, both on the Eastern and Western\\ntracks, and some means should be taken to put a stop to it\\nforever.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nA New York Man Wagers $100,000 Against\\nFifty Cents.\\nA man in New York, who has evidently studied well\\nthe science of probabilities, has invented a most fascinating-\\ngame of chance whereby he is largely profiting. He\\ndeposited in the Chemical National bank $500 and made a\\ncheck against it which was duly certified. This check he\\noffered to the man who would throw five sixes with dice\\none flop* out of the box, having paid fifty cents for the\\nprivilege of throwing.\\nThat the dice might not be handled or juggled they\\nwere placed inside a thick bell glass resting on a base, the\\ntop of which was over a heavy spring operated by a lever.\\nThe dice and machine were examined by a committee of\\nreputable men and the whole securely sealed. When a\\nman wanted to throw against the check he paid fifty cents,\\npulled down the lever, released it and the dice sprang into\\nWr against the top of the glass and fell back again. The\\ngame has been in operation almost a year and no one has\\nwon the check. In that time 360,000 throws have been\\nmade. As the fund has grown the check has been\\nincreased until now it calls for $100,000, and the man who\\noperates the check has pocketed $80,000. There is no\\nrestriction against his withdrawing the check and closing\\nthe game any time he desires, but it is so profitable that he\\nwill hardly do so. The sum of money to be won is so\\nlarge that the dice machine is kept busy all the time. It\\nis located in a bar room on lower Broadway near Wall\\nstreet, and is patronized by brokers and their clerks.\\nA traveling man from New York, who was in Kansas\\nCity last week, speaking, of it said:\\n*Tt is a very fascinating pursuit, trying to shake five\\nsixes for $100,000. I have spent almost $160 in the game\\nmyself, and some of those Wall street men have spent\\nthousands of dollars against it. One afternoon I was in\\nthere and a young fellow from the clearing house monopo-\\nlized the machine until the place closed up at night. As", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 29\\nfast as he could pull down the lever and the dice fall he\\npulled it again and the man in charge kept books on him.\\nI don t know how many times he threw, but it must have\\nbeen thousands, and I was told that he hadn t thrown five\\nof any number in all that time.\\nWhat are the probabilities of five sixes being thrown\\nat dice\\nProf. J. M. Greenwood, superintendent of public\\nschools, has figured this out. To a reporter of The Star\\nhe said yesterday:\\nThe problem as I understand it is: If five dice be\\nthrown, what is the probability that the five sixes will\\nturn up The probability that the first will turn up a 6\\nis one-sixth, and so on for each of the other four dice;\\nhence the compound probability that the event will happen\\nas required in the problem is 1-6x1-6x1-6x1-6x1-6, equals\\n1-7,776. This result shows that the event is likely to\\nhappen once in 7,776 throws; it may happen oftener, or\\nnot at all.\\nTo show. the principle upon which the solution is\\nbased, suppose two dice be used, and it be required to find\\nthe probability that the two sixes will turn up, it\\nis evident that the ace on the first can be combined\\nin six ways with the faces of the second, thus: Ace and\\nace, ace and 2, ace and 3, ace and 4, ace and 5, ace and 6;\\ntake 2 next, then 2 and ace, 2 and 2, 2 and 3, 2 and 4, 2 and\\n5, 2 and 6; then 3\u00e2\u0080\u009e 3 and ace, 3 and 2, 3 and 3, 3 and 4, 3\\nand 5, 3 and 6; 4 and ace, 4 and 2, 4 and 3, 4 and 4, 4 and 5,\\n4 and 6; 5 and ace, 5 and 2, 5 and 3, 5 and 4, 5 and 5, 5 and\\n6; and lastly 6, then 6 and ace, 6 and 2, 6 and 3, 6 and 4, 6\\nand 5, 6 and 6. That is one chance in 36, or 1-36.\\nThe choice of chance and the theory of probability\\nbegan to be a science two centuries or more ago when\\nPascal solved the first question in it. The principles of\\nthe science are not complicated and are worked out by\\nmathematics. Choice is the measure of circumstance; that\\nis, it implies how many ways a certain thing may, or may\\nnot be done, or the number of ways open to choose from.\\nChance or probability shows the likelihood for the occur-", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nence of any number of events under given conditions. It\\nis simple for the happening of a single event, and com-\\npound for the concurrent happening of two or more events.\\nThe probability of the occurence of an event may be\\nrepresented by a fraction, the denominator being the\\nwhole number of cases favorable and unfavorable, and the\\nnumerator the favorable cases. The sum of the probabil-\\nities of several events is equal to the probability that one\\nof these events will occur. The compound probability of\\nthe occurence of several events is equal to the product of\\nthe several probabilities. A selection or combination of\\nany number of articles is a group of that number of articles\\nclasses together, but not regarded as having any particular\\norder among themselves. An arrangement or permutation\\nof any number of articles is a group of that number of\\narticles, not only classed together, but regarded as having\\na particular order among themselves.\\nThere are any number of simple problems to illustrate\\nthese principles. For instance, suppose there are four\\nroads leading to Westport from Kansas City. How many\\nways may I go and return from Kansas City to West-\\nport Evidently there are four ways of going and four\\nways of returning, that is, sixteen ways in all. I can go or\\nreturn on the same road or return by any one of the other\\nthree, aud since there are four ways of coming back, there\\nare sixteen ways in all. But if we wish to exclude the way\\nof coming back by the same road we went, there are only\\ntwelve ways, and twelve ways are found by excluding the\\nineligible ways, which are four.\\nIf a nickel and a dime be tossed up, in how many\\nways can they fall? In four ways, since each can fall in\\ntwo ways. The four ways first, both heads; second, both\\ntails; third the nickle head and the dime tail; fourth the\\nnickel tail and the dime head. Suppose a person should\\nbet on any one of these combinations, what is the chance\\nof winning? Simply one-fourth; three chances are unfavor-\\nable and one favorable. Again, if two dice be thrown\\ntogether, in how many ways can they fall? The first can\\nfall in six ways, the second can fall in six ways, hence", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 31\\nboth can fall in thirty-six ways, which is easily shown by\\narranging the numbers corresponding to the faces of the\\ndice:\\nTwo persons get into a street car in which there are\\nsix vacant seats. In how many ways can they seat them-\\nselves? The first person can take any of the vacant seats,\\nbut after he is seated the second is obliged to take one of\\nthe five vacant seats, hence there are thirty ways of seating\\nthemselves.\\nHere is an interesting problem for young people.\\nThere are ten girls and eight young men at a party. Three\\nof the girls and two of the men are brothers and sisters;\\nthe others are unrelated. In how many ways might a\\nmarriage be effected? The answer is: If all were unrelated,\\nthere would be eighty ways of marriage, but since there\\nare some brothers and sisters, these must be excluded, and\\nsince there are three of one sex and two of the other, there\\nare six eligible matches which must be excluded, therefore\\nthere are seventy fair chances of marriage. In explanation,\\nif the chance that an event will happen is 1-4, the chance\\nof it not happening is 3-4; so if the chance of hitting a\\ntarget is 29-60, the chance of missing it is 31-60. If the\\nchance of Brown s winning a race is 1-7, the chance that\\nneither will win it is 23-25.\\nWhen two dice are thrown, what is the chance the\\nthrow will be greater than eight Out of the thirty-six\\nways in which the dice may be thrown, there are six possi-\\nble combinations which give results greater than 8, namely\\n5 and 4, 4 and 5, 5 and 6, 6 and 5, 5 and 5 and 6 and 6.\\nTherefore, the chance is 6-36, equals 1-6.\\nThere is no better antidote against entertaining too\\nhigh an opinion of others than having an excellent one of\\nourselves at the very same time. Waverly.\\nWe know what we are, we know not what we may be.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094St. Ronan s Well.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "82 FAKES, GEAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nJoe Irish Was a Gambler Adventuers of a Tender-\\nfoot About to be Vagged.\\nA man s never broke until he s broke. Also, all\\nsheep herders are surely crazy.\\nThe man who gave utterance to these two gems of\\nwisdom, or experience, used to run a newspaper at Buffalo,\\nWyoming. He took two long draws at his cigar and gazed\\naround him blandly. The other men at the cafe table\\nregarded him with interest. They did not perceive the\\nconnection between the two remarks.\\nNo, siree, he continued, no man s ever broke until\\nhe s flat cleaned out and busted down to the last piece of\\nmetal with the U. S. stamp on it. And although there s\\nnot a particle of doubt that Joe Irish was, and probably is\\nyet, the craziest sheep herder that ever threw a rock at a\\nSnake River magpie, that don t say that all sheep herders\\naren t more or less loony. Now, after the chance Joe\\nIrish had to quit a big winner that time, of course, like the\\ncrazy sheep herder he was, he wasn t satisfied, but he\\nwanted to put all the layouts oat of business, and of course\\nhe went broke down to his last two bits. And if, after\\ngetting down to the last two bits, he hopped in again and\\nfooled me up by quitting a bigger winner than he had been\\nbefore, why. that didn t prove that he wasn t plumb blind,\\nstaggering crazy, not by a dickens of a lot, did it?\\nJoe, you know, went on the returned exile, couldn t\\nspend his pay on the range, and so, when he came into\\nPocatello (which is in Idaho, as I suppose I must say for\\nthe benefit of the Uitlanders by whom I am surrounded),\\nhe had $300 waiting for him. That $300 bundle was an\\nawful affliction to Joe. He knew that he couldn t hope to\\nblow it all in on sage-brush whisky within the space of ten\\ndays, which was to be the period of his knock-off after\\nnine solid months on the range but he made the attempt.\\nAfter three days of it he still had $250 left. Now, whisky\\nand inborn insanity naturally make toward melancholia.\\nI was up against it at Pocatella, but I had a front. That", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "33\\nIs, I had a collar and necktie. That s probably why Joe\\nIrish picked me out for somebody when he saw me standing\\nnear the entrance to the Grand Palace bar and asked me.\\nWe had two or three and then Joe unfolded to me his tale\\nof woe. Only six and a half days remaining of his vaca-\\ntion from the sheep range and $250 left.\\nAn 1 th best I kin do, said Joe, is t drink three\\ngallons o booze a day, an there ain t no one around here\\nto stan me up an take th bundle off me, or work th*\\nshells on me, or do me out o th wad. Podner, wound up\\nJoe, plaintively, Tm afeard I m a-goin If hev fully $12\\nleft out o 7 this bunch when th time comes for me t hit th\\nrange agin.\\nk I really felt sorry for Joe, and so suggested Shag\\nShaughnessy. You see, when I struck Pocatello I had\\ngone against Shag Shaughnessy s layout myself. My\\nticket ran out at Pocatello, and I had only $8 left. I\\nwanted to go to some old place, either backward or for-\\nward, and $8 wasn t much. Shag got the $8. That was\\nwhy I was anchored at Pocatello.\\nI had practically to lift Joe into Shag s, for the mes-\\nquite whisky had told on him already on this fourth morn-\\ning of his vacation from the range, although he hadn t\\ntaken more than eighty-seven drinks ot it since he had got\\nout of bed at 9 o clock in the morning. lifted him into\\nShag s from purely philanthropic motives. I didn t pur-\\npose permitting any poor sheep herder to go back to his\\nrange with money if I could help it. And Shag looked\\njjleased when I brought Joe in. Shag was dealing himself,\\nand the four men in front of the table were inkers.\\nHere s a poor man, said I to Shag, that s got to go\\nto work on his range next week, and he don t see his way\\nclear to getting rid of his pile between now and then unless\\nhe has assistance. I can t help him any because I m only\\nwaiting here to be vagged. Fix him out. Shag, and earn\\nhis eternal gratitude.\\nTodner, said Joe to me gratefully, you re all right\\nMuch obliged.\\nThen Joe fell into one of the side seats just when", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nShag was starting a new boxful, and by the time the box\\nwas out Joe had won $1,850 of Shag s coin just by letting\\nhis money stand eight times on the double, because he had\\nno more sense, between his natural craziness and the\\nwhisky. Joe plunked his first hunk of gilt, $20, on a\\nqueen. It came out. Then he slapped the winning and\\nthe original $20 over on an eight. It came out. And so on.\\nEight times he did this. The box was kind to him every\\ntime. After the eighth come out, when, besides his original\\n$20, $1,850 worth of Shag s chips were piled up on the\\njack, the eighth card, Joe suddenly came to, like a man\\nwho has been hypnotized. It was a durned uncomfortable\\nlucid interval for Shag.\\nPodner, said Joe, addressing me, Tm jest a bit\\ndizzy. We ll git out in the air an whirl aroun some.\\nJest cash in this bunch for me, will you?\\nShag looked very much disappointed. In fact, I ve\\nrarely seen such a disappointed looking man as Shag was\\nwhen he turned that $1,850 worth of chips into gold and\\ncurrency.\\nAre you going to bring him back? Shag asked me.\\nMy boy, said I to Shag, I m waiting to get vagged\\nhere, but I am not yet a runner for your institution. From\\nmotives of the purest philanthropy I brought our sheep-\\nherding son of fortune here, to assuage his premature grief\\nat the prospect of being compelled to return to his range\\nwith negotiable paper and metal. The task seems to have\\nbeen too difficult, but it let s me out. For the future\\nmovements of Mr. Irish Joe had already gone out the\\nfront door I am not responsible.\\nShaughnessey cashed the chips, and I walked out\\nwith $1,870, which included Joe s original venture of $20,\\nand, nailing the wandering Jew about a block up the street,\\nI handed it out to him, You may be surprised that he\\ntrusted me, a stranger, so completely, but then you are\\nmeasureably familiar with my winning ways.\\nJoe didn t seem to be particularly pleased with the\\namount of his winnings.\\nIt s one thing or th other, Podner, with me, said he,", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 35\\nEither 1 go back to th range broke, or I go a-travelin\\nan I keep on a-travelin 1 until Fra broke. It looks as if I\\ndon t get broke here. So, how about a-travelin an right\\nnow\\nIrelared unto the crazy man several tales of quite\\nsensible persons who hadn t been able to let well enough\\nalone, and I told him he d better hang on to his winnings\\nand take a brace.\\nBrace nothin he replied. I m braced, huddlin a\\nonery bunch o sheep ten months in th year, an I m just\\nunbracin now an lettiir out. When s th nex train\\nWest comin along\\nThe next Union Pacific train for the West was about\\ndue then, and I told him so.\\nWell, we ll just take it, said Joe.\\nIt was humiliating, but I was compelled to tell him\\nmy circumstances, but he wasn t up to moralizing just\\nthen. He dug into the pocket wherein he had deposited\\nhis winnings, drew out a handful of gold and notes, and\\nas I placed both hands on my back dreprecatingly, he put\\nit all into the rim of my hat.\\nI m stakin you, he said. Don t be a coyote.\\nI reached for the money and counted it. It amounted\\nto $235.\\nAs a loan, then, says I, all right for I reflected\\nthat if we were to go traveling, a stake would be necessary,\\nvery likely before long.\\nWe went over to the Grand Palace four-room hotel\\nand I paid up and got my grip. Joe had entered Poca-\\ntello unincumbered with luggage, and my solicitude over\\nmine bored him a good deal. When the Union Pacific-\\ntrain came along we took palace-car seats for the length of\\nthe division. I thought that ud be far enough to sober\\nJoe up. The end of the division was Glenn s Fairy, Idaho.\\nWhen we got there\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and neither of us suffered for nour-\\nishment on the way\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it was about 11 o clock at night. I\\nI put up across from the station, at a hotel kept by a\\nlocomotive engineer s wife. I intended to get Joe to bed\\nthere, lock him up, and when he was measurably sober", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "If..\\n36 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nthe next morning, beat sense into his head. The plan\\ndidn t go, though. Joe was just sober enough before I\\ngot him to bed to be contrary, He had seen a wide-open\\ngame on his way to the hotel. He wanted some of it. I\\nhad to go along with him.\\nJoe didn t have a nickle in the world when we left\\nthat game at 2 o clock in the morning. I had about $220\\nbut Joe had forgotten all about that, and I didn t inten N d\\nto tell him anything about it until some of the corners\\nof his jag had been effaced. We turned in and slept like\\na pair of tops. When we woke up the next morning Joe\\ndidn t exhibit the customary gloom made and provided\\nfor the broke man with the big head. He was chipper and\\ncheerful.\\nI guess I kin stand in with one o th brakies t git\\na ride back t my range, said he. What s more, I ve\\nhad my money s worth. We ll stand em up fur break-\\nfast here, hey\\nI nodded. As we were entering the eating room of\\nthe hotel shack, Joe kicked something metallic with the\\ntoe of his boot, and the metallic thing went clinking\\naround the room until it hit the wall. Joe followed it\\nup. It was a quarter. There was a far deeper expression\\nof pleasure on his face when he picked up that quarter\\nthan there had been during any part of the time when he\\nwas slugging Shag Shaughnessey s faro layout.\\nI ain t broke yit, said Joe, stuffing the quarter\\ninto his pocket.\\nAfter we had breakfast we went out for a walk\\naround. 1 pretended to have found a stray dollar in my\\nvest pocket, and I asked Joe into a weather-boarded\\nsaloon for a drink. In the back room of the saloon there\\nw T as a roulette wheel and a red and black table, both of\\nthem already in operation for the benefit of the railroad\\nmen who were soon to go out on their trains. The quarter\\nin Joe s pocket itched. He played the 00 on the wheel\\nlayout. It won. Then he did another amateurish thing.\\nHe played the 33. It won. Joe was crazy, as I say, and\\ntherefore a bet doubler from away back. He doubled on", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "37\\nthe wheel, and losing only nine times in twenty-seven\\nplays, and just keeping under the $20 limit the game\\nranging from a quarter to that figure he had $268 when\\nI plucked him by the sleeve. He was sensible enough to\\nquit the wheel at my whispered suggestion. But w T hen\\nwe got outside:\\nWe ll now head for the main tent, repeated Joe,\\nand there was nothing for it but to accompany him to\\nGlenn s Ferrry s chief faro layout.\\nJoe took seven drinks of whisky and started play.\\nHe got down to his last $10 gold bit, and I w T as just about\\nto dig up my hold-out pile and begin to play myself,\\nwhen he played the high card with his $10 and won. He\\ncouldn t lose from that moment. At 3 o clock in the\\nafternoon, when the east-bound express from Portland,\\nOre., was due, Joe was $2,225 wunner. I tugged at him\\nand invited him to the station to see me off.\\nWhere you goin 3 he asked me.\\nEast, To Omaha, I told him.\\nHe cashed in and handed me five $100 bills.\\nYou kin return that, if you re speamish about it,\\nwhen you git back where you b long.\\nI smiled in Joe s teeth and produced the $219 that I\\nhad left.\\nI am already your beneficiary to this extent, I\\nsaid to him, and if you insist on it I ll hang on to this,\\nalthough I meant to return it to you when you took a\\nbrace, and be much obliged to you in the bargain.\\nHe studied me for a moment.\\nWell, Podner, he said finally, if a tenderfoot like\\nyou kin come out t this country an hold such a level\\nhead on his shoulders there ain t no reason that I kin see\\nwhy I shouldn t profit by th example, sot speak. I ll\\njust hold out on myself and carry out this whole bunch\\nwith me back t th range.\\nHe took the east-bound train with me, and got off\\nwith about $2,100 in his pocket when we reached the\\nstation nearest his range. All of which is why I wasn t", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nvagged at. Pocatello. All of which also goes to show\\nthat a man s never broke until he s broke.\\nBut how about all the sheep herders being crazy?\\none of the men at the cafe table inquired.\\nDidn t Joe Irish let me, a broke and about-to-be\\nvagged tenderfoot, from the East, handle his winnings?\\ninquired the man who used to run a newspaper at Buffalo,\\nWyo.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 New York Sun.\\nBidwell, King of Forgers, is Dead,\\nChicago, III., March 11.\\nSpecial Correspondent of Sunday Post-Dispatch.\\nAustin Bidwell is dead. The man who 25 years ago\\nstartled the police of both continents by his daring and\\nskillful swindle on the Bank of England, by which that\\ninstitution was defrauded in the first instance of $1,000,-\\n000, and who, when captured, was enabled to -withstand\\nthe effects of 18 years penal servitude, succumbed to the\\ngrip at Butte, Mont., Tuesday night.\\nTo one man in Chicago the passing of Bidwell recalls\\nmemories which are connected with his active police work.\\nThis morning William A Pinkerton, of Pinkerton s\\nNational Detective Agency related the salient points in\\nBidwell s life prior to his conviction on the charge of\\nswindling the old lady of Threadneedle st. as the Bank\\nof England is commonly called. Mr. Pinkerton made the\\narrest.\\nDuring the beginning of the Civil War in this country\\nand while but a schoolboy, Mr. Pinkerton remembers how\\nhe used to delight in purchasing home-made candy\\nfrom George and Austin Bidwell, who occupied the store\\nat Madison and Dearborn sts., in which Lipman s pawn-\\nshop now is. Afterward they engaged in the commission\\nbusiness and failed. Going East they engaged in what is\\nknown to the police as business swindling, or a bogus\\ncommission trade.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 39\\nThey ultimately joined a gang of forgers then operat-\\ning under the direction of George Ingles, alias Dutch\\nGeorge, George Wilkes and Phil Hargraves, and became\\nknown as the presenters of forged paper. While thus\\nengaged the brothers made one or two trips to Europe,\\nand there passed several worthless drafts. The ease with\\nwhich this was accomplished resulted in the formulation of\\na scheme which but for the failure to properly date a bill\\nof exchange would have almost wrecked the Bank of\\nEngland.\\nIn 1872 William Pinkerton was called to England\\nregarding the robbery of the Third National Bank of Bal-\\ntimore, Md., and was greatly surprised, when tracing his\\nsuspects, to meet the Bidwell brothers. He informed the\\nEnglish police of the character of the men and that they\\nwould bear watching, but the members of the Scotland\\nYard ridiculed the idea that an American crook could\\nfool them.\\nWithin a few weeks they had succeeded in obtaining\\n$1,000,000 of English money.\\nIn company with Edwin Noyes Hills and George Mac-\\nDonald, then known as Capt. George E. Mathews, and\\noperating under the name of Horton, Austin Bidwell\\nsucceeded in obtaining the confidence of the bank officials\\nby representing he was engaged in the manufacture of\\nsleeping cars, with a factory at Birmingham. He secured\\nthe introduction through a ruse. The swindlers had been\\nliving in a most expensive manner and patronized a tailor\\nnamed Green, who had a store adjoining the bank. One\\nday Bidwell asked the tailor to keep $50,000 for him and\\nwhen asked why he did not place it in the bank said he\\ncould not, as he did not have an account. Green at once\\nvouched for him, and the first step in the contemplated\\nswindle was taken. For a time they presented authentic\\nbills of exchange which they had purchased, and their\\nrule was invariably to present a small draft before\\nattempting to realize on the large one.\\nThey were detected, owing to the fact that in forging\\na draft for 2700 pounds they neglected to fill in the day of", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 FAKES, GRAFTS A1SD SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nthe month. The bank sent the draft to the man supposed to\\nhave drawn it to have this filled in, and at once learned\\nthat he had been swindled. Mr. Pinkerton had, while in\\nEngland, left the picture of the Bidwells with Inspector\\nShore, and they were at once identified by the bank officers.\\nChagrined over the failure to take Mr. Pinkerton s\\nadvice in the matter, the English police now employed the\\nagency of which he was a principal. The Task of locating\\nBidwell was intrusted to Mr. Pinkerton.\\nLearning the route taken by the fugitive from San\\nTandare, in Spain, to Yera Cruz, Mr. Pinkerton made an\\noverland voyage, and, reaching Havana on a cattle ship,\\nentered the harbor at the identical moment that Bidwell s\\nship cast anchor. The Chicago man at once placed Bid-\\nwell under arrest. On the night of Holy Thursday Bid-\\nwell escaped, but was carjtured two days later sixteen\\nmiles away. While awaiting extradition, or rather the\\nforcing of the Spanish Government to give up his prisoner,\\nMr. Pinkerton secured letters directed to Bidwell at\\nHavana. One was from his brother, George, in Aberdeen,\\nScotland, and resulted in his arrest, the other contained\\na cipher which showed that in a trunk in Morris express\\noffice in ]S T ew York was $250,000 worth of $1000 United\\nStates Government bonds, purchased with the proceeds\\nof the swindle. These were recovered, and so the actual\\nloss to the Bank of England aggregated only $200,000.\\nGeorge Bidwell served eighteen years in prison and\\nwas pardoned. He then wrote a book entitled, Forging\\nHis Chains, and with the proceeds of its sale secured the\\nliberation of Austin one year later.\\nAmong the romantic features of Bidwell s life is that,\\nwhile in England, he married the daughter of an English\\nofficer, who, owing to her father s death was compelled to\\nwork as a governess. He settled 820,000 on her, and she,\\nwhen it became known what her husband really was,\\nreturned this sum to the bank. She secured a divorce and\\nit is said has since married one of the bank officials.\\nBidwell was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., and his\\nrelatives still reside there and in Adrian, Mich Accord-", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 41\\ning to Mr. Pinkerton, he was a man of great ideas, and,\\nhad he directed his talents in a legitimate way, would\\nhave been successful. Since their release the brothers\\nlived on the proceeds of their first book, and of a second,\\nentitled, From Wall Street to Newgate.\\nBIDWELL IN ST. LOUIS.\\nAustin Bidwell was in St. Louis for a month or more\\nduring the latter part of 1897. When he reached the city\\nhe was well-dressed and prosperous in appearance. He\\nregistered at the Planters but remained there for only a\\nfew days.\\nBidwell s mission in St. Louis was to introduce and\\nsell hisioook, a history of the crime which made him\\nfamous. He was not successful to any degree, and in a\\nfew days he moved to cheaper quarters.\\nBidwell visited the Four Courts frequently during his\\nbrief stay here, and passed much of his time conversing\\nwith the officials.\\nBidwell was what one would call a windy fellow,\\nsaid Chief of Detectives Desmond. He seemed proud\\nof the fact that he had been a notorious criminal, and\\nwanted to impress everybody that he met with the fact\\nthat he was the Austin Bidwell who robbed the Bank of\\nEngland of \u00c2\u00a75,000,000.\\nHe always impressed me as a man who could not be\\ntrusted. I thought when he was here that it was only a\\nquestion of time when he would return to crime. If he\\nhad lived long enough I firmly believe he would have\\ncommitted some overt act. Bidwell was an intelligent\\nfellow, and a shrewd criminal. It was his boast that he\\ncould loot the Bank of England as easily now as he did\\nmore than twenty years ago.\\nVows are but breath, and breath a vapor is. Love s\\nLabor s Lost, iv. 3.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 FAKES, GRAFTS AXD SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nFamous Bunco King, Tom O Brien Dying in a\\nFrench Prison.\\nTom O Brien, the once notorious king of bunco men\\nis dying of Bright 1 s disease in New Caledonia, the French\\npenal colony, to which he was transported for life for the\\nmurder of Kid Waddell in Paris, March 27, 1895. A\\nChicago friend of the king received a letter from him a\\nfew days ago. O Brien writes:\\n;gy \u00c2\u00a3h e time you receive this letter I may\\nhave cashed in my chips, as I am suffering from Bright s\\ndisease. You know when that gets hold of a man it is all\\nup with him. I haven t been able to do any work for\\nsome time. The climate here is terrible and I am sur-\\nprised that I have been able to stand it as long as I have.\\nWhat has kept me alive, I believe, is the faint hope that\\nsome day my American friends would get me out, but I\\nhave given up all hope of ever again being a free man.\\nI m sore on a whole lot of people, who should have\\nraised any amount of money in order to secure my release.\\nWhen I had the long green I was a good*fellow and never\\nrefused to give up, no matter how big the ante, when a\\nfriend was in trouble.\\nThe guards have been very kind to me, but as I\\nalways perform my task (that is when I am able to work)\\nthey never had occasion to treat me bad. They have\\nshown me many little courtesies, for which I am very\\nthankful.\\nHow I should like to see Chicago once more before I\\ndie I suppose she has passed New York by this time in\\npopulation. Years ago when I was a kid, we used to\\nthink the bull s head was away West. I d like to see the\\nold town just once more and then cash in. But the\\nprivilege will never be granted me. Death is the only\\nthing that will rescue me from this far-away island, and\\nI don t think I will have long to wait.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "43\\nSay, Jim, I wish you d do me a little favor. The\\nlast time I was in Chicago I had to get out in a hurry, as\\nJack Shea was after me, and I left an unpaid bill at Billy\\nBoyle s, in the alley. It was something like $7 or $8\\nsupper for two, with a cold bottle. If Boyle is still living\\nI wish you d pay him. He s the only man in the world\\nthat I owe a dollar.\\nJohn O Brien, whose picture is in the rogues gallery\\nof almost every city in the world, is perhaps the most\\ncelebrated criminal in his line that America ever produced.\\nHis special line of work was the gold brick game and he\\nfollowed it with such success as to swindle his confiding\\ncountrymen out of more than $200,000 in ten years. There\\nare victims of O Brien s suave manner and oily tongue in\\nnearly every state in the union. The title of King was\\nbestowed on him many years ago by his companions in\\ncrime, and until he was banished for life he weilded the\\nscepter with dignity and grace.\\nO Brien was born on the west side of Chicago, near\\nMadison and Green streets. He is about forty-six years\\nold. His parents were poor but respectable, and with the\\nfamily he was given a fair education. Many of Chicago s\\nprominent business men remember O Brien as a school-\\nmate, and, strange to say, he was known as one of the best\\nboys in St. Patrick s school.\\nDuring the closing days of the Civil War O Brien,\\nwho was still a lad of tender years, started out to make\\nhis own living by selling newspapers. From this he was\\ngraduated to be a candy butcher or news agent on a\\nrailway train. Those were the days when three-card\\nmonte men used to ride the train in and out of Chicago\\nand fleece the guileless countrymen. O Brien was not\\nlong in forming a close friendship with the different gangs\\nof monte men, and in going through the train with his\\napples and candies he used to pick out likely victims for\\nthe swindlers.\\nAs he grew older O Brien developed a taste for fine\\nclothes which the money he earned as a candy butcher", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\ncould not supply. He had practiced the three-card monte\\ngame himself when off the road and had become an adept\\nin throwing the pasteboards. When he showed the old-\\ntimers at the trick his proficiency he was taken in as a\\npartner.\\nFor a few years he came in and out of Chicago on the\\ndifferent railways plying the vocation of a monte shark\\nand was more than ordinarily successful. While in from\\nthe road he could be found at some gambling house play-\\ning faro.\\nIt was not until 1880, however, that O Brien was\\npicked out among those of his class as possessing unusual\\ntalent in his field of crime. He is credited with being the\\noriginator of the gold brick game, which in a few years\\nbrought him in hundreds of thousands of dollars. For\\nthe twenty-five years that he was a confidence man it is\\nestimated that he got at least $500,000. Of course he had\\npartners who received a share of the money, but O Brien\\nalways kept the bigges.t part, for it was he who did the\\nsmooth work. Contrary to the general belief, farmers\\nwere not the only men who fell victims to the wily Tom.\\nMerchants, bankers and professional men were the kind\\nof game that O Brien usually sought, and he had a con-\\nvincing way about him which is now called hypnotism.\\nJohn T. Norris, the veteran detective of Springfield,\\nO., compiled a list a few years ago of O Brien s victims at\\nthe gold brick game. It does not include the names of\\nthose who were swindled of less than $1,000 nor of his\\nnumerous victims who were beaten at other games before\\nhe became a gold brick man. The list is as follows:\\nRufus W. Peck, Albany, N. Y. $10,000\\nJames McCullough, Pittsburg 10,000\\nJohn K. Lemon, Pittsburg 10,000\\nJoseph Shannon, Beaver Falls 9,500\\nVincent Richardson, Jacksonville, 111. 7,000\\nJoseph Thompson, Hillsdale, Mich. 2,150\\nClark Adams, Covington, O. 5 500\\nWilson Andover, Salem, Mass 5,000", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\n45\\nEli Warsath, Kankakee, 111.\\nWin. McClintoek, Columbus, Ind.\\nTuley Herzog, New Albany, Ind.\\nHamilton Heil, Omaha\\nDavid Gibson, London, Pa.\\nLuke Palmer, Burlington, la.\\nThos. Stewart, Martinsville, O.\\nAlonzo Lee, Ashbury Park, N. J.\\nJames MeGuire, Lima, O.\\nGeorge Reid, Greene, la.\\nJ 61m Rockafeller, South Bend, Ind.\\nThos. Carp, La Harpe\\nJ. A. Bradeau, Kingston, N. Y.\\nWillis Hoffman, Fairfield, Iowa\\nGeorge Svvartz, Amity, Pa.\\nSidney J. Ward, Cleveland, Ohio\\nJames Baird, Wooster, Ohio\\nFred Glenn, Streator, Illinois\\nCharles Wright, Sycamore, Illinois\\nWilliam Speers, Columbus City, Indiana\\nWilliam Batoff, Jeffersonville, Indiana\\nSamuel Coffman, Washington, D. C.\\nHenry Harriman, Sharon, Ohio\\nWilliam Ordway, Concord\\nWilliam Jones, Londonville, Ohio\\nPhilip Reiff, Clyde, Ohio\\nJacob Sellers, Springfield, Illinois\\nJoseph Shelby, Lexington, Ohio\\nJacob Abdell, Danville, Illinois\\nR. R. George, Carthage, Mo.,\\nWm. Trafford, Mount Vernon, Indiana\\nWm. McKellops, Lansing, Michigan\\nAbel McDuffs Kalamazoo, Michigan\\nWm. Kendig, Gettysburg, Pa.,\\nWm. Kelsey, Lyons, New York\\nEd. Van Sickle, Deckertown, N. J.\\nA. C. Barrow, Winchester, Ky.\\nO Brien always had the reputation of being\\nwith his gun. He used to carry his revolver in a\\n$1,500\\n5,000\\n2,000\\n5,000\\n2,000\\n5,000\\n1,000\\n5,000\\n3,000\\n1,000\\n2,000\\n3,000\\n3,500\\n1,000\\n5,000.\\n5,000\\n3,000\\n6,000\\n5,000\\n1,000\\n5,000\\n6,000\\n2,500\\n9,500\\n2,800\\n2,500\\n1,500\\n1.100\\n2,500\\n2,500\\n5,000\\n7,000\\n1,200\\n3,000\\n3,000\\n3,500\\n4,800\\nhandy\\npocket", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nmade especially for it in his vest. It was handy to get at\\nin an emergency. All he had to do was to thrust his hand\\nagainst his shirt bosom and the weapon was always in\\nplace.\\nIn his quiet moments O Brien was a gentleman, at\\nleast that is what the men of his class used to say of him\\nBut when drunk he was like an uncaged lion. He was a\\nparticipant in more than a dozen shooting scrapes, three\\nof which took place in this city. In 1878 O Brien and Jim\\nCrowell, a gambler, fought a pistol duel in a gambling\\nhouse at 77 Halstead street. 0 Brien was shot in the arm\\nAnother time he and Mark Davis peppered aw T ay at each\\nother at Madison and Clark streets. Gambler s alley,\\nor Calhoun place, as it is now called, was the scene of an-\\nother shooting scrape between Bill Minaker, a horseman,\\nand O Brien.\\nIn person O Brien was short and thick set. with long,\\npowerful arms. He used to wear a short, black beard\\nparted in the middle and brushed into bristling prominence\\non each side. His nose was broad and strong and divided\\na pair of piercing black eyes, ever alert and watchful.\\nA fact which the Chicago police do not like to admit\\nis that they were never able to take a photograph of the\\nking.\\nHe was a man of such strength that no half dozen\\ndetectives could hold him in front of a camera. Years\\nago, when the police department had a gallery for photo-\\ngraphing criminals on the top floor of the city hall, O Brien\\nwas arrested on general principles. John D. Shea, wdio\\nw r as then lieutenant of detectives, was anxious to have\\nO Brien s picture, and the king was taken upstairs to the\\ngallery. Andy Rohan and Charley Amstein, two of the\\nhuskiest men on Shea s staff, tried to take his picture, but\\nwere forced to abandon the effort after four hours work.\\nNot until his arrest in Liverpool, many years ago, w T as the\\nking s picture taken, and it was sent to every big police\\ndepartment in the world.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 47\\nThe most famous swindle with which O Brien was ever\\nconnected was the Rufus W. Peck case at Albany, N. Y.\\nPeck was an old retired business man of Albany and was\\nworth upward of $100,000. O Brien and his partner,\\nGeorge W. Post, beat the old man out of $10,000 with the\\ngold brick game. This was in 189 L. Post was arrested\\nand sentenced to ten years in Clinton prison. O Brien\\nwas not captured until several months after, when the\\nCincinnati police got him. He secured bail, made his\\nway to New York and in disguise left America for England\\non a Cunarder. Some one of O Brien s pals, who knew of\\nhis departure for England informed the New 7 York police,\\nand the Scotland Yard detectives were notified by cable.\\nWhen the vessel on which O Brien was a passenger reached\\nLiverpool it was boarded by the men from Scotland Yard,\\nand they found no difficulty in picking out the king.\\nHis arrest was cabled to this country and immediately the\\ndistrict attorney of Albany and Mr. Peck, O Brien s victim,\\nleft for England with requisition papers. He was brought\\nback to America and convicted of the Peck swindle,\\nreceiving a ten-year sentence in Clinton. This was his first\\nconviction, and more than twenty years ot his life had\\nbeen spent in crime.\\nAt that time O Brien had plenty of money and so did\\nhis friends. With the use of it he proved that, although\\nsentenced to prison, he still wore the crowm of king.\\nHe obtained the best legal talent in New York and a writ\\nof habeas corpus w 7 as secured. He was taken to Utica,\\nN. Y.j to appear before the United States Court. A deputy\\nsheriff from Albany had charge of him. The party, which\\nincluded O Brien s attorneys and several friends of the\\nking, arrived in Utica in the evening. Instead of taking\\nhis prisoner to the jail for safe keeping, the sheriff was\\ninduced to let O Brien remain with him over night at the\\nBaggs hotel. In the morning wdien the sheriff awoke,\\nO Brien was gone.\\nO Brien was met by friends outside the hotel, who fur-\\nnished him with a disguise, and he went to New Orleans as\\nfast as the fastest roilroad train could carry him. There", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nlie took passage on the French steamer, Marseilles, which\\nwas about to sail for Havre. O Brien was again betrayed\\nby some one of his pals, who knew of his departure for\\nFrance, and James G. Blaine, who was then secretary of\\nstate, cabled the French authorities to arrest O Brien upon\\nthe arrival of the Marseilles at Havre. He was arrested\\nand he looked so meek and submissive that the French\\npolice thought they would be no in danger of his attempt to\\nescape. His request to take a walk around the city was\\ncomplied with and two gendarmes were sent with him as\\na guard. O Brien could speak hardly any French, but by\\nadmiring everything he saw and uttering exclamations of\\ndelight over France and the French people he soon won\\nthe good will of the gendarmes. O Brien took them into\\na cafe and ordered wine in that liberal way which was an\\nart of the king s, until the gendarmes went to sleep at\\nthe table, with Tom singing the few words he knew of a\\nFrench drinking song.\\nThrough the aid of his money O Brien was secreted in\\na house at Havre for several clays, until the French\\nauthorities relaxed their vigilance in the watch for him.\\nIn the meantime he had studied up the extradition laws\\nand found one place of refuge for him the Argentine\\nRepublic. From Havre he made his way to Lisbon, his\\ndisguise being so perfect that no keen-eyed detective could\\npenetrate it. The next heard of him was at Buenos\\nAyres, where, in a short time, he cleaned up $50,000 in\\nconfidence games. Fear of detection and arrest prompted\\nhim to join the Haytian army, where for two years his\\nidentity was buried,\\n\u00c2\u00a5r X\\nAn uncontrollable desire to return to the gay life of\\nold took hold of him, and, quitting the army, he went to\\nParis, where he met his old-time partner in crime, Kid\\nWaddell. This was in the winter of 1895. O Brien, who\\nwas known as the greatest spender on earth, had gone\\nthrough his fortune and was almost penniless when he\\nmet Waddell. Years before this O Brien and Waddell\\nhad quarreled over a woman, and there was some of the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 49\\nold bitterness still in the breast of each. O Brien was\\nalmost destitute, and Waddell had money to burn\\nwhich he took to Paris with him from this country. The\\nking humbled himself to the Kid, and asked for a\\nloan. Waddell complied, but the money was given with\\nsuch bad grace that O Brien threw it in the Kid s face.\\nBlows followed, and O Brien broke a wine bottle over\\nWaddell s head.\\nThe next day O Brien met Waddell at the Northern\\nrailway depot. Waddell was going to London. They\\nwere twenty paces apart, walking toward each other, on\\nthe depot platform, when O Brien drew his revolver, and\\nadvancing fired five shots at Waddell. O Brien was\\narrested, and Waddell was taked to a hospital. Three of\\nthe bullets had pierced Waddell s body. His life was\\nebbing when the police brought O Brien to the hospital\\nfor identification. The Kid s dying words were:\\nI don t know that man. I never saw him before in\\nmy life. He is not the man who shot me.\\nWaddell lived, but three hours after being shot. Letters\\nfound on him written by his mother, who lived at Spring-\\nfield, 111., disclosed his identity. The Paris police notified\\nMrs. Waddell, and her son s body was brought back to\\nIllinois for burial.\\nAnnie Gray, the woman over whom O Brien and Wad-\\ndell quarreled years before the murder, mortgaged her\\nhome at 152 West Forty-sixth street, New York City, and\\nwith $20,000 thus raised she went to Paris to save the\\nking from the guillotine. She employed counsel and it\\nhas been said that bribery was resorted to in order for the\\njury to find extenuating circumstances, thereby sparing\\nO Brien s life.\\nIn April, 1896, he was given a life sentence at New\\nCaledonia, an island in the south Pacific ocean, which since\\n1872, has been used by France as a penal settlement. Annie\\nGray returned to New York and died a few month ago of\\na broken heart. She loved the king to the last. Only\\na few days ago the house which Annie Gray mortgaged to\\n6", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nsave O Brien s life was sold under the hammer to satisfy\\nthe mortgage.\\nIn that distant isle where Tom O Brien will soon end\\nhis days, the convicts are made to work the year round if*\\nthe tobacco and sugar cane fields. The island is 240 miles\\nlong and has an average width of about twenty-five miles.\\nIt lies midway between the Fiji islands and the east coast\\nof Queensland. Coral reefs surround the entire island.\\nThe blazing southern sun beats down mercilessly on the\\nmalefactors who are banished there, and it is indeed as\\nwonder that a man like O Brien should be able to stand\\nthe climate this long.\\nHer New Swindling Scheme Didn t Work.\\nTwo or three days ago the police had as a prisoner a\\nyoung woman who attempted to work a novel but\\nawkward game in fleecing a storekeeper. She entered the\\nstore and asked to be shown some underwear. She made\\nselections from among the garments that were placed\\nbefore her for inspection, and then made the unusual\\nrequest to be allowed to try on her purchases, which was\\nacceded to. When she re-appeared from one of the dress-\\nrooms she calmly announced that she had no money to pay\\nfor her purchases, evidently thinking that she would be\\nallowed to walk away unmolested. A policeman was\\ncalled in, however, and was about to ring for a patrol\\nwagon, when the woman s nerve failed and she consented\\nto pay for the garments.\\nLet us devise some entertainment,\\nRevels, dances, masks and merry hours.\\nLove s Labor Lost.\\nSome are born great, some achieve greatness, and some\\nhave greatness thrust upon them.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Twelfth Night.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GTCAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 51\\nA Rare One. Karl Becker Was the Premier in\\nHis Branch of Villainy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Mighty Jim y the\\nPenman.\\nHe has gone the way of all of his class\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in the peniten-\\ntiary, and his gang is scattered; bat for thirty years he\\nbaffled the police and robbed banks of large sums of money.\\nOf all the rare birds that ever fluttered into jail, that\\nKarl Becker is the rarest, said Superintendent James\\nMcFarland of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency\\nHe had just been reading an account of the sentenc-\\ning of Becker to seven years in the California penitentiary\\nhe having plead guilty to a charge of forgery.\\nHe has given our agency more trouble than all other\\ncriminals of his class. His wisdom, wonderful pen work 3\\ncareful conduct and plausible look and manner were all in\\nhis favor and all against us, for it is hard to pin a crime on\\nsuch a man.\\nBecker is about 55 years old now, continued Mr.\\nMcFarland. Yes, he s all of that and he has been in\\nAmerica fully forty-five years. He came over from Ger-\\nmany with his parents when he was a boy of 8. The old\\nfolks stopped in New York and from what I can learn\\nthey were good, honest people. How young Karl ever\\nlearned it I cannot say, but he became not only one of the\\nmost proficient penmen in the world, but also a first-class\\nchemist.\\nBecker s criminal career, the most remarkable to be\\nfound in the records of the world, dates back over a period\\nof thirty years. I could, by patient search of the records,\\nfind the particulars of his first crime, of his second and\\nthird, and soon, but there have been so many of them that\\nthey would become monotonous. A much more interesting\\nbranch of the subject is a study of his methods, for they\\nwere the same in one case as in another.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nIn the first place his invariable plan was to secure the\\nassistance of three or four men, generally four. These\\nmen were criminals, of course, but they had to be chosen\\nwith wisdom. One of these was the capitalist who fur-\\nnished the money, another was the business man who laid\\ndown the paper in the bank, another was the messenger\\nbetween Becker and the business man and the fourth was\\nthe stall or shadow.\\nOperations were generally commenced like this: The\\nbusiness man opened an office in some city, on some pre-\\ntext or other a ad always a new and different pretext for a\\nnew game, too; you may be sure of that. He then deposited\\nin a bank $3,000 or $4,000 of good money. This account\\nhe would check against from time to time and deposit\\nchecks and drafts from different parts of the country, all\\nof which were genuine and some were for considerable\\namounts.\\nAfter continuing in business a month and the bank\\nin which he made his deposits had time to discover that\\nall his drafts and checks were honored, he was ready to\\nget down to real business.\\nIt must be understood. proceeded Mr. McFarland,\\nthat all these drafts and checks were sent him by the caj\\nitalist pal. Of course he got them back again, in one\\nname or the other. The relationship with the bank having\\nbeen properly established, the business man, generally\\nalong about the 15th of the month, would pick up and go\\nto some outlying town, possibly outside the state, and\\npurchase a draft for $12 or $25, as the case might be. He\\nwould make sure that the draft was not payable at the\\nbank with which he was transacting business.\\nHaving secured the draft he would hand it to the\\nmessenger and he would turn it over to Becker, who would\\nnot only raise the draft to whatever amount he wanted,\\nbut, also, by the use of chemicals he made a pulp having\\nthe exact tint of the paper in the original draft, and with\\nthis he would fill the perforation in the safety paper of\\nthe draft and press it down so that the fraud could only\\nbe discovered by the use of a powerful microscope. This", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 53\\ndone, lie would punch out the amount he had raised it to\\nand give the draft to the messenger, who returned it to\\nthe business man who deposited it to his own account.\\nNext day he would check against this draft and a large\\npart of his balance, generally leaving only a hundred or\\ntwo dollars in the bank. Then came the divy and the\\njob was done.\\nIn all this time Becker would never have seen either\\nthe capitallist or. the businessman. In this way Becker\\nand his pals, secured millions of dollars, not only in the\\nUnited States, but all over Europe and in South America.\\nThe original gang, which was the greatest on earth,\\nwas composed of Karl Becker, Robert Bowman, Joseph L.\\nEnglish, James Creegan and Richard Lennox. Of the\\ngang one has left the country, probably permanently.\\nThis is Robert Bowman, who lives in London, England, on\\nmoney realized from forgeries.\\nJoseph L. English is serving a term in the Iowa\\npenitentiary for a forgery committed in Des Moines.\\nRichard Lennox is also in the Iowa k penitentiary serving\\nfive years for a job in Sioux City. Karl Becker, as the\\nwires have just told us, has gone to the California peniten-\\ntiary for seven years on a plea of guilty. He raised a\\ndraft issued by the Woodland bank of San Francisco on\\nthe Nevada bank, also in San Francisco, from $12 to\\n$22,000.\\nJames Creegan has confessed and awaits sentence.\\nFrank L. Selvers, the business man, has turned state s\\nevidence and has been in jail for three years. Joseph\\nMcCluskey, the stall, also turned state s evidence, but he\\nwas a small fish and the indictment against him was\\ndismissed.\\nMullady, the capitalist, died in Los Angeles a short\\ntime after the forgery was committed. Selvers was\\narrested in St. Paul and McCluskey in Minneapolis by the\\nPinkerton National Detective agency as agents of the\\nAmerican Bankers association.\\nBecker and Creegan were arrested in Philadelphia\\nby the Pinkerton agency. They had tickets for Rio", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nJaneiro in their pockets. A set of engraving tools, acids\\nand pulp were captured with them.\\nGreat credit should be given to President Joseph C.\\nHendrix of the American Bankers association, who,\\nthrough the Pinkerton agency, has wiped out this dan-\\ngerous gang. They are all dead, harmless or in custody,\\nand the world is well rid of them.\\nMartin the Eastern Gold Brick Swindler\\nOperates in Kansas City.\\nAs Con Cadagan he induced an old man to pay $6,000\\nfor a bit of brass. An Englishman the intended victim of\\nhis latest swindle.\\nThe gold brick swindler, who, under the name of\\nEdward Martin, almost fleeced a wealthy young English-\\nman out of $10,000 recently in New York, is old Con\\nCadagan, who lived in Kansas City and operated out of\\nthere for several years, and is known to nearly all the\\ndetectives on the city force.\\nCadagan is a most intelligent, interesting and experi-\\nenced rascal, 52 years old. The police of New York say\\nhe is the cleverest gold brick swindler who ever operated\\nanywhere. His last victim was I. Algernon Wood, a well-\\nbred, wealthy young Englishman who lives at No. 6\\nRagian Road, Belvidere, Kent, England. The web which\\nCadagan set to entrap Wood was cunningly woven and\\nreached across a continent and an ocean, from Oregon, in\\nthe far West, to London, with sustaining threads reach-\\ning to New York, Niagara and Colorado Springs. The\\nunsuspecting fly, Mr. Wood, and a fellow fly were\\nenmeshed in Spider Cadagan s web and were about to\\nhand over to him $10,000 for a brick that looked like gold\\nand that weighed seventy pounds. Mr. Wood himself\\ndrilled shavings from it, and, he thought, took the shav-\\nings to the United States treasury assay office in New", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 55\\nYork, where they were conscientiously and scientifically\\nassayed as eighteen-karat gold, and so the bar seemed to\\nbe worth about $20,000, and appeared to be extremely\\ncheap for $10,000. By the merest chance the flies escaped\\nfrom Cadagan s web before he had got their money.\\nCadagan is now in prison in K ew York and will probably\\ngo to the penitentiary.\\nHIS CAREER IX KANSAS CITY.\\nCon Cadagan. in 1880, owned and ran the old Turner\\nhall variety theatre at Tenth and Main Sts., Kansas City.\\nThe show did not pay and Cadagan gave it up. He mar-\\nried the divorced wife of Jake Snavely. She was a\\nsister of G-us and Booth Baughman, gamblers of that city.\\nCadagan went from there to Spokane Falls and opened out\\nin the real estate business during a boom there and made\\na lot of money, but lost it all. He returned to Kansas\\nCity and with old John Bull, Bob Lyons and a confidence\\nman named Tripp, went into the gold brick business.\\nThe cleverest work they did thereabouts in that line was\\nwhen they entrapped old man Warner, who is dead now,\\nand sold him a brass brick for $6,000. John Bull, who\\nwas something of a wonder in his way, undertook to\\nsteer Warner to Lawrence, Kas,, where, he said, an\\nIndian who had stolen a gold brick from a stamp mill in\\nColorado was hiding in a cornfield. Bull had Warner at\\nthe Union depot waiting to take a train to Lawrence when\\na policeman saw them together and suspected that Warner\\nwas a confidence man and that Bull was an innocent\\nfarmer about to be fleeced. The officer took the pair to\\npolice headquarters and into the office of Chief Speers.\\nSpeers recognized John Bull as soon as he saw him and\\ntold Warner who he was. But Warner said he knew his\\nbusiness and that Bull was his friend. Warner seemed\\neager after the gold brick and after awhile Chief Speers\\nallowed both of them to leave the station. Bull and\\nWarner went together to Lawrence and they went out to\\nthe cornfield where the Indian was hiding. Cadagan was\\nthe Indian. He was painted and dressed up in a red", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "t)6 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nblanket and feathers in his hair. He saw Bull and War-\\nner coming and pretended to be very angry. He leaped\\nup, gave a terrifying war whoop and waved his tomahawk\\nabove the corn stalks. Bull seemed to be afraid and at\\nthe edge of the cornfield he stopped and urged Warner to\\ngo alone. Warner was scared, too, and he refused to go\\nalone. At last they went on together and finally pac-\\nified the wild Indian and got him to dig up the gold brick\\nand sell it to them for $6,000. This same brick is now in\\nthe museum of criminal relics at police headquarters\\ntogether with several other brass bricks that look exactly\\nlike it.\\nTHE ENGLISHMAN IN THE WEB.\\nThe last swindle attempted by Cadagan in N ew York\\nwas not so successful, but was planned with vastly more\\ncunning. The World of New York prints the following\\nstory of this case\\nAbout nine months ago young Mr. Wood s father,\\nMajor Alexander Wood, died in London. Major Wood\\nwas an officer in the British service, rich and respected.\\nHe resided at No. 19 Great Winchester street, London,\\nE. C. When he died laudatory orbiiuaries of him were\\npublished, which told of his wealth, and something of the\\ndisposition of his property. Major Wood s will made his\\nson, Algernon, one of the executors, and wisely ordered\\nthat, in administering the estate, Algernon Wood should\\nnot draw more than \u00c2\u00a3500 (2,500) from its repository with-\\nout having, besides his own, the authority and signature\\nof his co-executor.\\nYoung Mr. AVood was very much surprised and\\ndelighted by a letter which was forwarded to him from\\nLondon about the middle of last July. The letter was\\nproperly addressed, Major Alexander Wood, No. 19\\nGrert Winchester street, London, E. Ca., and was post-\\nmarked, Astoria, Ore., U. S. A.. Of course young Mr.\\nWood, as his father s executor, had a perfect right to open\\nthe letter, and he read under the date Astoria:\\nDear Major: I arrived here this morning from the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "57\\nmines in British Columbia, where I left our mutual friend\\nwho is very well and prosperous. He requested me to\\ncommunicate with you on the first opportunity, as you\\nwould doubtless be anxious to hear from him. He\\nintended coming out himself this winter, but has been\\nfetching w^ater to his arrastra,\u00c2\u00ab which is near A. W. No. 1,\\nnamed after you.\\nHe feels his success and present position are entirely\\ndue to your kindness and pecuniary assistance. He is, to\\nmy mind, a noble man, and his gratitude to you speaks\\nlouder than words.\\nOur claim is situated on the headwaters of the Place\\nriver, the mine adjoining. The walls are of solid granite\\nand the ore is free milling.\\nLast season we cleaned up nearly \u00c2\u00a340,000 worth of\\ngold, nearly all of which he is sending out by me. You\\nare to take this to the London bank or mint and realize.\\nHalf of this is yours to do with as you please. The other\\nhalf you are to return to me, that I may forward it to my\\nsister.\\nI myself am coming out in order to try and persuade\\nmy brother, who lives in France, to return to the mines\\nwith me, as I feel this is the opportunity of his life. We\\nhave deferred recording our claims or mining certificates\\nuntil we have obtained as much of the land as the laws of\\nBritish Columbia will permit.\\nHe wishes you to send back with me some trustworthy\\nrepresentative to look after 7 our interests, but in selecting\\nhim caution him about the importance of keeping the\\nmatter secret for the present, as we have not yet registered\\nour claims.\\nI am going through the Colorado district to examine\\nthe mills, as I intend to take one back with me. Kindly\\nwrite me at Colorado Springs, Col., where I have arranged\\nto receive my mail. Let me know the place of appointment\\nwhere I can meet your representative. After securing\\nmore perfect machinery we can get- four times more gold\\nout of the mines than with the old-fashioned implements\\nnow being used. Sincerely yours. Edward Martin.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "_\\n58 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThis letter, it will easily be seen, is a work of art.\\nMajor Wood is dead, the name of his and Martin s mutual\\nfriend is not mentioned. Incidentally the word arrastra\\nis used in the letter, one way of spelling arastre, a prim-\\nitive Mexican ore grinding machine. The grateful mutual\\nfriend even calls the mine A. W. No. 1, after the major,\\nhis generous benefactor. One hundred thousand dollars\\naw T aits the major\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and tempts the cupidity of his son.\\nI was dumbfounded when I read this letter, said\\nyoung Mr. Wood. However, after reading it he remem-\\nbered that years before his father had a friend to whom he\\nlent money liberally. So this friend was still alive; he,\\nAlgy, was to reap the reward of his father s generosity.\\nAfter consultation with his friends young Mr. Wood\\ncabled to Martin:\\nMajor Wood s representative will meet you in Lon-\\ndon.\\nMartin was in no hurry. Several weeks passed and\\nhe answered by cable;\\nI will meet you in New York.\\nAnother interval and Mr. Wood replied:\\nAll right, Will stop at Windsor hotel.\\nAnd Mr. Wood, very sanguine, very ha}3py, did arrive\\nhere a fortnight ago and went to the Windsor. There he\\nreceived a telegram from Martin:\\nMeet me at the Temperance hotel, Niagara Falls.\\nHE MEETS MARTIN.\\nTo Niagara Falls went young Mr. Wood and there\\nmet Martin. The Englishman was delighted with the per-\\nsonality of the man who brought to him another fortune.\\nMartin was astonished, shocked, infinitely distressed,\\nwhen he learned that Major W ood was dead.\\nBut I am his executor, said young Algernon, and\\n1 am here to complete the transaction that will transfer\\nwhat w T as to be my father s share of the gold to his estate.\\nHe produced papers establishing the fact that he is his\\nfather s son and executor.\\nBut the cautious and severly honest Mr. Martin hesi-\\ntated.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "59\\nI must have a couple of days to think this over, said\\nhe. I must not betray my trust. I am commissioned to\\nhand over this gold to the living Major Wood, not to his\\nestate.\\nHaving communed with himself, and doubtless his\\nreveries were most amusing to him, the careful Mr. Martin\\nannounced next day that he was satisfied to give the\\n$100,000 worth of gold to the heir of his friend s benefactor.\\nThen Mr. Martin most entertainingly told of his adventures\\nin British Columbia and Manitoba, of sports afield, of the\\nups and downs of fortune.\\nWould you like to go to our mines? asked Mr.\\nMartin.\\nImmensely, exclaimed Mr. Wood, and if you don t\\nobject, I d like to take along a friend of mine, a man of\\nreally great experience. Besides, while I can get only\\n\u00c2\u00a3500 on my check, my friend can get any amount.\\nObject, laughed Mr. Martin; by all means, bring\\nalong your experienced friend.\\nSo young Mr. Wood at once cabled to Reginald Baiss.\\nAlgy cabled to Reggy to give him the benefit of his experi-\\nence. Mr. Baiss, like Mr. Wood, is a young man of inde-\\npendent fortune. His home is The Manor, Belvidere,\\nKent, England. Mr. Baiss promptly took steamer, arrived\\nin New York on the Umbria, October 15 last and hurried\\nto Niagara Falls.\\nMr. Martin was delighted to meet the man of experi-\\nence and unlimited credit. Behind locked doors he showed\\nto the wondering Englishmen some specimens of ore from\\nA. W. No. 1. Then from a satchel he laboriously took the\\nheavy bar of dull, heavy metal\\nPart of the \u00c2\u00a340,000 we cleaned up last season, said\\nthe agent of the graceful gold finder, worth $23,000.\\nHe hesitated, continued. After all, he remarked with\\ncharming frankness, I am a stranger to you. I might be\\ncheating you, oh, yes, yes as the young Englishmen\\nbegan to protest you don t know half the rascality in\\nthis mining business. I demand, I insist that you assure\\nyourselves that this is good. You must have it assayed at", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nthe United States assay office in New York. You can\\nbelieve them there.\\nMr. Martin took from the satchel a small drill and\\nhanded it to Mr. Wood. Mr. Wood drilled into the bar.\\nMr. Martin caught the precious shavings in a piece of tis-\\nsue paper, carefully folded the paper, marked the valuable\\nlittle bundle No. 1 and put it in his vest pocket. Mr.\\nWood drilled again and again where he pleased in the bar.\\nLittle bundles 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 reposed in Mr. Martin s\\npocket.\\nYou re quite satisfied with so many specimens from\\nthe bar? asked Mr. Martin.\\nQuite satisfied, chorused Algy and Heggy.\\nMr. Martin took from his pocket, little packages, Nos.\\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Mr. Wood and Mr. Baiss hastened to\\nNew York to the government assay office, on Wail street.\\nThe assay was made, the report was All the specimens\\nare 18-karat gold.\\nDelighted by this convincing proof of the conscientious\\nof Mr. Martin s honesty, the two young Englishmen\\nreturned to Niagara.\\nThis bar is but part of your father s share, said that\\ngenerous man. It is worth $23,000, but I will be satisfied\\nwith $10,000 for my sister s share of it. We can arrange\\nthe difference hereafter.\\nThe experienced Mr. Baiss at once cabled to his father\\nfor \u00c2\u00a32,000. The young men suggested that they go to\\nNew York to wait for the money. Mr. Martin was reluct-\\nant; he was fatigued by travel.\\nMr. Baiss, the elder, answered that he would send the\\nmoney if the transaction was closed in New York. Mr.\\nMartin said, directly, he would go to New York, and a\\nmost entertaining and amusing fellow-traveler he was.\\nThe three men and the bar of gold were in New York on\\nFriday morning and went to the Windsor Hotel.\\nCHANCE TOEE THE WEB.\\nWhen Mr. Wood and Mr. Baiss went down town to\\nget the $10,000, Mr. Wood seized the opportunity to call", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 61\\non a lawyer to whom he had a letter of introduction, and\\ntold of his good fortune to the lawyer.\\nPerhaps, said the lawyer, who has had a little\\nexperience, perhaps it would be as well to see the police\\nbefore you pay over the money.\\nMr. Wood and Mr. Baiss, at first shocked by the cold-\\nblooded suggestion, the imputation put against the generous\\nMr. Martin, became certain that no harm would be done by\\nvisiting the police. So they went to Captain McClusk}- at\\nheadquarters. The chief of detectives listened to them\\nand smiled.\\nOf course, said he, Martin, as he calls himself, sub-\\nstituted gold for the shavings from the bar.\\nHe sent Detective Sergeants Brown and Frazer to the\\nWindsor hotel. Mr. Martin was in the dining room and\\nby his chair was the satchel with the bar in it. Brown and\\nMartin recognized each other. Brown had arrested Martin\\ntwo years ago for swindling. But so sure was Martin that the\\ntwo Englishmen would not suspect him that he would not\\nbelieve that he was under arrest. He thought the detect-\\nives, ignorant of his present swindle, were simply looking\\nhim over to make sure he was in no mischief.\\nHe was taken to police headquarters. He would not\\ntell where he lived. He was charged with attempting\\ngrand larceny in the center street police court on Saturday\\nmorning and remained until this morning. The ingenious\\nspider s name is Roe, but he has used aliases Norton,\\nWatson, Martin. His picture is in the rogues gallery.\\nHe was last arrested on March 19, 1896, for swindling and\\nsentenced to a year and a half s imprisonment. This was\\nhis first visit to New York since his release.\\nMr. Wood and Mr. Biass were very happy over their\\nescape. And they did not hesitate to say that Mr. Martin\\nis clever; immensely clever, don t you know! in being-\\nable to deceive them.\\nThough it be honest, it is never good\\nTo bring bad news. Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 5.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nPrincess of Dead Beats Tells How to Live by\\nOne s Wits.\\nThere are 400 women in San Francisco to whom the\\npassage of a law providing imprisonment for debt would\\nbe an extremely ruinous calamity.\\nThese 400 live by their wits. Their ability to\\nscheme is their sole capital and they invest it with\\namazingly advantageous results.\\nThey toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all\\nhis glory was arrayed in Jeffersonian simplicity as com-\\npared with some of them.\\nThey have more money to spend than the professional\\nor business women of the community who labor a dozen or\\nmore hours out of each twenty-four.\\nThe 400 who toil not take morning naps, noonday\\nsiestaes and afternoon beauty sleeps, while their creditors\\ncool their heels and tempers on the sidewalks after violent\\nbut ineffectual exercise upon the doorbell.\\nSometimes, indeed, the knocker is muffled, that the\\noccupants of the house may not be disturbed by insistant\\ndemands for money. Then the contest lies between the\\ncollector s knuckles and the panels of the door, and at its\\nclose the owner of the knuckles retires from the scene to\\nindulge in profanity and arnica.\\nIn either case the result is the same. And this sort of\\nhistory repeats itself with variations until the bill long-\\nsince marked significantly N. G., has gone its unre-\\nceipted way to the profit and loss account in the ledger.\\nFor years the 400 have dressed well, dined well and\\nbeen comfortably many of them luxuriantly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 housed.\\nSome have occupied boxes at the opera, contemplated\\nthe marine view at the Cliff from cushioned carriage seats,\\nand have enjoyed the highest priced plays of the seasons.\\nIn exchange for these cheerful privileges they have\\nnot paid an ^honest dollar.\\nThey do not intend to pay.\\nBut they are keeping 400 pairs of ears attentively", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 63\\nopen for the latest news regarding the proposed measure\\nprotecting creditors; for well they know that should it\\npass, bat two alternatives would remain to them to leave\\ntown between two *i days or go to jail. Their prolonged\\npicnic would come to an inglorious end.\\nVerily it would be too bad to vacate so lucrative a\\nheld because of a disagreeable tarn in legislative affairs.\\nAnd prison surroundings would be highly uncongenial to\\n400 petticoated persons who have thas far been clever\\nenough to provide themselves with the best that the\\nmerchants and tradesmen hereabouts can famish, without\\nthe little formality of cash payment.\\nSan Francisco is a paradise for parasites. The path\\nof the feminine debtor is one of primrose dalliance.\\nHow and why\\nThat is what I have been finding out lately. It is a\\nstory without a moral, for it proves that the woman\\ndebtor who is unprincipaled enjoys life, while the woman\\ndoctor with a conscience does not. How to be happy\\nthough honest, is a problem that the latter have not yet\\nsolved.\\nIt is in the fashionable localities of the city that these\\nwomen debtors take unto themselves a temporary habi-\\ntation and a name. They move from neighborhood to\\nneighborhood, as necessity arises, and drag at each move\\na lengthening chain of aliases. They face collectors\\ncalmly that is, when they face them at all with the\\nutter denial that th$y ever heard of the person in whose\\nname the bill is made out, though the goods may at that\\nmoment be in the house. They invariably have servants,\\nand as invariably fail to pay their wages. But the latter\\nusually leave of their own accord before the first month is\\nup, having taken warning from the steadiness with which\\nthe stream of collectors runs their mistress way.\\nThey are all women of good looks and pleasing per-\\nsonality. Often their manner is fascinating. Of the\\ndozen with whom I have talked, not one would impress\\nthe average student of human nature with the idea that\\nshe is a fraud. All of them are refined, well bred and", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nwell educated. Their millinery is irreproachable, their\\ngowns correctly tailored and the wearers distinctly free\\nfrom nervous concern as to what the morrow may have\\nin store for them. Dispossessed of that troublesome\\nappurtenance, a conscience, they slumber soundly at night\\nand let their creditors do the worrying.\\nIn the shadow ot the sanctuary one woman gains her\\nprestige. Her pious poses inspire onlookers with confi-\\ndence. She has been seen in an attitude of prayer for an\\nhour and a half at a time. One Sunday morning a lawyer\\nacquaintance of mine who had tried to bring her to legal\\nterms in behalf of a grocer client, and who had been\\nlaughed at by this woman who prays and preys, stopped\\nher at the church door.\\nWhat are you doing here? he asked. She smiled\\nand tossed her head.\\nI get credit this way, she retorted frankly.\\nOne slim, soft-voiced young woman who is everywhere\\naccompanied by her mother, inherited a fortune of $5,000.\\nIt is positively known that this sum has been given to her\\nin cash. Yet she refuses to pay a single bill contracted by\\nher since her advent among the Four Hundred, and\\nskillfully evades the serving of an order for examination\\nas to the value of her property.\\nThe keynote to the woman debtors success is the ease\\nwith which goods of almost every description can be\\nbought on the installment plan.\\nTake for instance the case of my. charming young\\nheiress and her mother. Going to one of the city s promi-\\nnent hotels she engaged an expensive suit of rooms. But\\nthe pattern of the carpet and the style of the furniture\\ndid not please her. She wished to furnish the apartments\\nherself. An expenditure of $50 secured a superb outfit in\\nfurniture and carpeting, upon the glittering strength of\\nwhich and many promises the flandlord allowed their bill\\nfor board to run from month to .month. By the time he\\nsucceeded in ridding himself of the two women they owed\\nhim exactly $450. This is a specimen of feminine finan-\\nciering up to date.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 65\\nAnd here is a sample of feminine logic:\\nOut on Union street in a handsome furnished house\\nlives a benevolent-looking, motherly person with four\\nengaging daughters ranging in ages from 15 to 22. The\\nbenevolent-looking, motherly person has contracted bills\\nin this city to the amount of $4,000. As I ascended the\\nsteps of her present abode a man with a bundle of bills in\\nhis hand was coming down, and from the parlor floated\\nsweet, soulful strains of the Cavalleria Rusticana,\\nscraped artistically from a violin. He was saying unprinted\\nthings that did not accord with the accompaniment within\\ndoors. The maid at the entrance, releasing the chain\\nwhich so conveniently keepjs collectors at bay, admitted\\nme, and the motherly person who owes $4,000 talked to\\nme anent the ethics of indebtedness in general.\\nI don t pay my bills, explained she, because I am\\na devoted mother to my dear children.\\nI don t exactly understand- I murmured.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Why, I mean that I would consider it positively cruel\\nto my girls to take money for butchers and grocers and\\ncoal men that is needed to give them educations and such\\naccomplishments as girls ought to have. Whose interests\\nam I supposed to consider the tradesmen who are strangers\\nto me, or my darlings who are my flesh and blood? Would\\nI be doing my duty by them as a mother if I deprived\\nthem of French, Grerman and Italian lessons, or stopped\\ntheir instruction on guitar, piano, violin and mandolin, in\\norder to pay money to a parcel of tradesmen? No. My\\ngirls shall marry well. To marry well they must be\\naccomplished. To be accomplished means that I shall lavish\\nmy all upon them and let the collectors whistle for their\\ncoin. I assure you I shall not sacrifice one iota on my\\nbeloved children s future prospects and happiness for men\\nwho would be in business ii they never delivered me a\\ndollar s worth of goods, and who will continue in business\\nwhether I pay for what I get or not.\\nWhich is certainly a novel interpretation of parental\\nresponsibility.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nMrs. Rosa Berenda, however, is the star schemer in the\\nlocal firmament\u00e2\u0080\u0094 at least, she was Mrs. Rosa Berenda when\\nI saw her last week in her delightfully furnished Pacific\\navenue residence. Who and where she may be this week is\\na matter which the wisest among us would not lose time at\\nguessing.\\nThe resourceful Rosa scintillates with much brilliancy,\\nand in her orbit has dazzled many a confiding dealer is mer-\\nchandise out of goods that he will never realize a penny\\nupon. She is keen of wit, black of eye, vivacious of man-\\nner and plump of person. She received me graciously, for\\nthe Berenda is nothing if not companionable and polite,\\nand showed a fine set of teeth in a good-natured smile when\\nI asked her to tell me how a woman may live luxuriously\\nupon nothing a year in the way of income.\\nNow the Berenda boudoir was just the place for the\\npassing of a comfortable hour. The sunlight flitted\\nthrough silken hangings and Irish point curtains. It rested\\nupon the black locks of my lady of quality whose head had\\nbeen out of the hair-dressers hands but twenty minutes.\\nHer pink silk neglige, ruffled with genuine lace at sleeve\\nand throat and daintily shirred and beribbed was exceed-\\ningly becoming. We faced each other from the depths of\\nhandsomely upholstered chairs.\\nHow is it done? She repeated. Why, my dear,\\nit s the easiest thing in the world when you know how.\\nSan Francisco merchants are so agreeable to a pretty\\nwoman. Now, I am 35 and have three children, and if they\\ntumble over themselves the, susceptible merchants, my*\\ndear, not the children in their efforts to do my bidding,\\nwhat must it be for a younger woman with all the charm\\nof youth?\\nI give up the conundrum, said I. Pray go on.\\nTo begin with, continued Mrs. Berenda, $100 will\\nbuy $1,000 worth of goods in San Francisco on the install-\\nment plan. By frequently moving you can throw the\\nfurniture men off the track. Furniture, you know,\\ndecreases 50 per cent in value when once it goes out of the\\nstore; but there is the chattel mortgage by which one can\\nalways raise money on it.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 67\\nBut the interest is frightful upon chattel mortgages,\\nis it not And the day of reckoning is sure to come f\\nNot if you want to evade it; move out and leave it\\nwhere it is, if there s no other way. I ve done that a num-\\nber of times.\\nBut how do you establish credit at the grocer s\\nThe best way is to get chummy with some woman in\\nthe neighborhood who is a customer. Drop in with her\\nand say something flattering to the proprietor about the\\ncleanliness of his place. Remark that you ve been trading\\nwith So-and-So naming some big firm but that you will\\ntransfer your trade to him if he will give you satisfactory\\nprices. Order a few things and pay for them. Order a\\nfew more and pay for them also. Then make out a big list,\\nof imperishables principally, such as flour, canned goods,\\njellies, etc., and have them charged. If you stay iu the\\nneighborhood you may have to pay a dollar or two a week\\nto keep the grocer pacified, and meanwhile the account has\\nrun up to $50. Here is a bill of $198.25 that I ran at one\\nof the leading grocery firms. Here is another of $242.30\\nfor dry goods. I managed that by a little preliminary\\nflirtation with an attache of the firm. But what s the use\\nof having wits if you don t turn them to some account?\\nIn my escretoire I have bills aggregating $6,000. I am\\nrather proud of them. Would you like to see the bunch\\nCertainly. I dare say you never handled so many\\nunreceipted bills before And do let me give you a glass\\nof wine.\\nThank you, I replied, but\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOh, I insist, interrupted Mrs. Berenda, ringing a\\nsilver bell at her elbow. A pint of Mumm, she said to\\nthe servant.\\nTo your health, gayly cried my hostess, raising her\\nglass. Two dollars a bottle, but it didn t cost me a cent\\nAbout the installment plan It s really the most\\nconvenient arrangement. The code of civil procedure\\nkindly hand me that copy on the table near you. Thanks.\\nSection 690 has sixteen sub-divisions naming any number\\nof articles exempt from the law, and, as you see, there is", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 FAKES, GRAFTS A^D SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nno limit placed upon their valuation. I had considerable\\ntrouble keeping a piano, though and I do adore music\\nuntil the legislature two years ago passed a law exempting\\na piano, a shotgun and a rifle, among other household\\ngoods. That shotgun and rifle is a joke a shrewd move\\non the part of the piano dealers.\\nThere is practically no law to reach a woman who\\nwants to see how deeply she can run in debt. She can go\\ninto any store in town that carries accounts and open one\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094providing that she is richly dressed and talks like a\\ngrande dame. It is surprising what risks merchants will\\nrun in order to get business. As for the laundrymen,\\nbakers and the rest of the fraternity, they are the easiest\\nprey of all.\\nWhy do I go in debt? My dear, I must live. I am\\nof Spanish parentage and used to the best of everything\\nfrom my earliest recollection. At sixteen I married a\\ncoffee planter from Guatemala and went down there with\\nhim. I hated him and the place, too, by the time I was\\ntwenty-one, so I ran away with my babies, and here I ve\\nbeen living ever since without a cent of income. My\\nhusband died insolvent long ago. Now, as long as I and\\nmy children must exist, why not live well We shall be\\na long time dead. Work Why I have neither the\\nenergy nor the inclination to slave as others do for what\\nthey eat and wear.\\nDo you remember when the last French opera com-\\npany was here Well, I was dying to go and was broke\\nthat week, and my maid had ruined my best gown while\\npressing it with a too hot iron; but I was determined to be\\namong the first-nighters, so I went down town in the morn-\\ning, rented a piano for $5, put a chattel mortgage on it in\\nthe afternoon for $75 cash, went down town again, bought\\nseats for myself and a friend, got a love of a silk waist and\\nhad enough left for a spin to the Cliff next day.\\n1 only pay rent when I am compelled to, and I live\\nin nice houses always. Sometimes, when things happened\\nto be dull with me, I have got the key at the corner gro-\\ncery to inspect a house and immediately moved in. Of", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 69\\ncoarse, the landlord will be frantic, but he must give the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tenant three days notice to pay or move out. After that\\na formal suit has to be commenced and fifteen days\\ngo by before the process is complete. That involves\\nexpense of $25 to $40 for the landlord, who is unwilling\\nto lose money that way. In my case a landlord let me\\nstay three months in hopes that I would go. Finally I\\ngot tired of the view I like a pretty outlook and told\\nhim that I wonld vacate if he gave me $10 cash, which\\nhe did.\\nBut suppose you fall into the clutches of a sheriff\\nwhat then\\nOh, I always have a card up my sleeve for the\\nsheriff, I declare that one of the family is dangerously ill\\nand can t be moved. Then I keep the illness at the criti-\\ncal point as long as possible. You positively won t join\\nme Then I must drink alone. This time to the health\\nof my creditors may they live long and let me prosper\\nNo; I m not afraid of being sued. Let them sue. It\\nonly costs $75 to file a petition in insolvency. I know a\\nlawyer who will do it for nothing, and my hostess smiled\\non me enchantingly.\\nSometimes a dealer will insist upon knowing what\\nbusiness my husband is engaged in, I say the first thing\\nthat occurs to me, usually locating my fictitious better\\nhalf in Mare Island or at Washington, D. C, looking after\\na imtent. I have a large collection of mythical husbands\\nhalf a hundred or so.\\nIf a woman living on credit doesn t keep up appear-\\nances she is doomed. Starvation stares the shabby one in\\nthe face. Prosperity will attend the stylish one. Living\\nin a fine house inspires confidence in the tradesman. At\\npresent I ve exhausted my credit in this locality and am\\ngetting my groceries from the Mission.\\nYou are going? Sorry I can t ask you to call again,\\nbut this house may be to let any day. I think I ll see\\nwhat they have been building lately in the Western addi-\\ntion. Good-by.\\nAs I stood on the corner waiting for a car, a little", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nwoman whom I knew came hurrying down the street. Her\\neyes betrayed signs of a recent good cry, and there\\nwere lines of care on her forehead.\\nI m dreadfully blue today, she confessed. Tve\\nrnn into debt lately and it haunts me like a nightmare. I\\njust hate to feel I mast go around the block to avoid meet-\\ning a collector, and I jump every time the doorbell rings.\\nSuch a little amount, too only $600 but it weighs on my\\nspirits like lead. I ve made over my last years gowns\\nand have given up my euchre clubs, theaters and next\\nyear s outing, and still I don t see my way out of the\\nwoods. Good-by.\\nThe two good-bys echoed in my ears on the w T ay down\\ntown. The one was cheerful, the other sad. One woman\\nwas thirty-five and looked rive years younger. The other\\nwas twenty-five, and looked five years older. One was\\ndishonest and happy. The other honest and miserable.\\nHowever, this is a story without a moral.\\nFortune Tellers Made to Order.\\n.Strangers in large cities fall easy victims to the bland-\\nishments of these clever fakirs.\\nThere is one class of women in the cities who have\\nnot found the strangers within the city gates at all stingy.\\nThat is the palmists, astrologists and fake fortunetellers,\\nsaid a detective.\\nIf you want to make money just start out in the busi-\\nness. I could tell you of one pretty well known palmist\\nwho is a sister of a prominent Republican who wears a\\nmilitary title and moves sometimes in New York society.\\nHer husband died, leaving his family destitute and covered\\nwith debt. The woman had no means of livelihood but was\\nshrewd, and becoming interested in palmistry started in\\nthe business. She leads a Madame Jekyll-Hyde existence\\nwith her fortune telling rooms east of Fifth avenue. She\\nhas gone right into the whole thing, and will furnish your\\ncook with a charm to win a new lover or bring back the old\\none. She has been in the business a good many years now,", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 71\\nand, besides bringing up her family, she owns most of a\\ncity block.\\nEarly in Dewey week this advertisement appeared:\\nWanted Middle aged woman to tell fortunes; quick\\nworkers only need apply to\\nCountess M.\\nI don t propose to tell the fortune tellers name,\\nbecause she would appreciate the advertisement. Now,\\nI m neither middle aged nor a quick fortune teller, but I\\nvisited the Countess address.\\nShe was a pasty appearing middle aged woman, who\\nlooked as if she despised water externally ever more than\\nfor internal applications. She wore large, luminous spark-\\nlers in her long, loose ears and her fat fingers looked as if\\nher business might be pretty profitable.\\nThe Countess began tickling my palm with her rough,\\ndiamond hung fingers.\\nAfter much rot, she struck the usual gait:\\nYou seem about to make a change. Yes, you surely\\nwill soon, and it will be very profitable to you, miss.\\nThere, Countess, that s just what I wanted to ask you\\nabout. I do want to make a change. I want to become a\\npalmreader. Do you ever take pupils? I finished; I\\nwouldn t be satisfied to study with anybody less celebrated\\nthan you are.\\nThe Countess swallowed the molasses at one gulp.\\nTHE COUNTESS WAXED CONFIDENTIAL.\\nMy dear child, I m sure you would be very successful.\\nYou look very intelligent. All my pupils are coining-\\nmoney. There s Zenetta, you ve heard of her the cele-\\nbrated Ab ssian queen of palmists? She s my pupil. She s\\ntouring the country and just making money hand over\\nfist.\\nBut your terms; and how long and how much can\\nyou teach me\\nIn three months time, for $100, I will teach you\\nevery thing palms, the stars, yes, and, seeing it is you,\\nI ll learn you all the love charms and all the secrets of the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nblack art That s cheap\u00e2\u0080\u0094 $100 for all that. When will\\nyou come\\nI had mentioned her advertisement to the Countess\\nand said how much I d like to try, if I knew anything\\nabout fortune telling. The next day I got a telegram to\\npresent myself ready for work.\\nPerhaps you won t like my terms, said the Countess\\nwhen I presented myself. It s twenty-live cents on every\\ndollar you take in, and half of all over quarter rates you\\ncan get; but you needn t give more than a minute and a\\nhalf to anybody unless you get more than a quarter.\\nBut, Countess, I don t know anything about fortune\\ntelling. Can t I stay with you and learn first?\\nYou can read character, can t you? You look\\nclever, she answered scornfully.\\nTo my, Yes, I think so, she returned.\\nOh, then, you re all right; that s all you need, and\\nwas about to turn me loose on a roomful of waiting patron-\\nlesses, when she discovered I had no wardrobe a la gypsy.\\nHaven t you got something? Go home and get it\\nand come back at once.\\nBut I haven t seen the Countess since.\\nMEDIUMS MADE FOR $25.00.\\nAnother woman who professed to be a real medium\\npower agreed to have me taught by one of her pupils for\\n$50.00, and on my suggesting I couldn t aiford so much she\\ndecided on $25.00.\\nBut I want to be a medium just like you, I pleaded.\\nWill she teach me that, too?\\nYes, we ll learn you everything love charms, too.\\nThat s where the money is; and if you travel you ll make\\nmoney. But for a sensitive soul like me, you have to\\nstand many insults; and the minute anyone knows that\\nyou are a fortune teller or medium they mark it up on you\\nthe price, I mean, of everything.\\nIt is very easy, evidently, to get a start in the busi-\\nness, and, once in it, there is little chance of interference\\nof any kind. The large city fortune tellers are queens,.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 73\\nand when a servant is found with a little bank account\\nthe fortune teller never lets up until she has it all. They\\nget their patronage largely by distributing cards in the\\ntenement house districts and at the servants entrances of\\nhouses in the brownstone front district.\\nGirl servants in millionaires houses are their special\\nprey, because they generally have plumper bank accounts\\nthan other girls.\\nIn a case that was finally brought to the attention of\\nthe police a Swedish girl in a family in Thirty-eight\\nstreet, New York, was anxious to get back $110 she had\\ngiven to a fortune teller on Eighty-ninth street to bring\\nher fickle sweetheart back to her. He had turned his\\naffections on another girl and Celia yearned very hard to\\nget him away from the rival charmer. She finally told\\nthe police she d rather they would get back the fellow and\\nthe fortune teller could keep the money.\\nA woman detective who was sent to the house to try\\nto get the money back was calmly told she would be\\nkilled and her body thrown into the cellar, where it never\\nwould be found! Then she was thrown boldly out onto\\nthe sidewalk by the fortune teller s big sister. The Swed-\\nish maid had given up checks for the $110 all in three\\nmonths. She received in return a red rag to tie about\\nher toe nights w T hen going to bed and a bottle of red\\npowder to take. But the young man didn t return. And\\nthe foolish girl still had faith that if she only found the\\nright fortune teller she d be able to secure him again.\\nThe mother of one of the most famous songbirds of a\\nprevious decade was also a fortune teller of no mean\\nability. She was a Southern woman of good family,\\ncoming North to bring up her children and educate the\\ntalented daughter s voice. She was uncanny, it is said, in\\nher art and had many brokers among her patrons who\\nclaimed to profit by the woman s skill. In gratitude they\\naided her to profit in the market and she was able to bring\\nup her family in good style and put the daughter in a way\\nto gain fame.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74\\nREQUISITES FOR SUCCESS.\\nAll that the business needs, as carried oninlSTew York,\\nis a nimble wit, a knowledge of human nature and a stack\\nof nerve.\\nOne man who is a familiar character along upper\\nBroadway has salted down his profits and invested in real\\nestate to advantage. He strictly eschews fortune telling y\\nbut gives advice on affairs of the heart and home and busi-\\nness in a way that impresses his patients. He claims to\\nhave saved many a home and family from wreck and kept\\nmany a woman in the path of rectitude simply by assuring\\nher that at that particular moment his second sight or\\nmarvelous powers of spiritualism showed him her husband\\nwith a party of men, and not in the charming al fresco fiat\\nof Yiolet Yendome or Madeleine Marborough.\\nFortune tellers may have their use. At least a Wash-\\nington woman has found one of them. She is very unhap-\\npily married and when things get so bad that she is driven\\nto desperation and is on the point of taking her own life\\nor going to supper with the wrong man, she goes out on a\\nwild fortune jag and does up Washington s palmistry and\\nshe happens to have a pair of lines in her hand supposed\\nto indicate two marriages, all the fortune tellers, with\\ncomforting accord, tell her she will have another a\\nsecond husband, and the comforted young woman goes\\nhome to endure until the next crisis. The situation is all\\nbut French.\\nLuck With the Greenhorn. He Bucked a Brace\\nGame, and an Oversight Gives Him a Winning\\nHand and the Roll.\\nSometimes there is truth in the old and ironical saw:\\nThe sucker wins and the gambler loses.\\nOne night before the Lexow investigation made New\\nYork the highly moral and close city it is, a very pro-\\nnounced case of Reub drifted into a game very early in", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 75\\nthe evening. The machinery was not really running yet,\\nbut, of course, Reuben could have a game. So, he sat\\ndown opposite a listless gambler, and bought $5.00\\nworth of poker chips. There were three other players and\\nthe game went along in the perfunctory fashian of men\\nwho wonder how much money the stranger has about him,\\nuntil at the end of half an hour one of the sharpers found\\nthree kings before the draw it was on the deal of one of\\nhis allies, and the play came up so the gambler had a\\nchance to raise.\\nReuben puzzled over his hand so long they thought he\\nwas counting a straight. When he lifted back they were\\nsure of it. He had to go down in an inside vest pocket for\\nmore money, and there was plenty there. The boosters\\ndropped out and the gambler, just to see how good his\\nopponent s nerve was, made a second\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a savage raise,\\nReuben tilted it back again and the gambler just stayed.\\nCards? asked the dealer, and to his surprise Reuben\\ntook two. The sharper had fixed up a pair expecting the\\ninnocent to stand pat on his straight, when the pair run\\noff in the draw would give the sharper a king full. The\\ncall of Reuben for more cards, was disconcerning, but the\\ngambler was alert, and keeping his eyes wide open as the\\ncountryman threw aside his discard, saw one of the cards\\nwas an ace.\\nOf course, the sharp argued, he has threes, but\\nthey can t beat my kings, since he is discardiag an ace.\\nAnd so, with the certainty of an advantage going in\\nand an equal chance in the draw, the gambler made a stiff\\nbet; but he could not account for Reuben s confidence in\\nhis hand; and, after being tilted back four times, he con-\\ncluded the countryman had caught a fourth. So he called.\\nI ve got threes, said the countryman.\\nWell, they are not good, was the calm rejoinder.\\nMine are kings.\\nBat mine are aces, said the countryman, not all\\nexcited.\\nWhy why, you discarded an ace!\\nI know, but I caught another one.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 FAKES, GEAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nAnd he had the case ace. In the stupor that fol-\\nlowed such an exhibition of sucker s luck, Reuben\\nwalked out with his own money, and a really fordable roll,\\nwhich he had won.\\nJ*\\nHow Fakirs Make Money. There Seems to be\\nPlenty of Ready Cash to Pour Into Their\\nPockets.\\nThere is plenty of money in Chicago, notwithstanding\\ntrade reports and other things which they tell us about in\\nbooks, says the Chicago News.\\nIf three men with a little grip containing fifty dozen\\nbunches of explosive matches, the same quantity of cheap\\nlithographs in envelopes, and an unlimited amount of gall,\\ncan block up a street with a crowd, dispose of their matches\\nat 5 cents for a bunch containing about twenty in as many\\nminutes and decamp, there ought to be some show for the\\nordinary business man who is usually content with less\\nthan f 00 per cent profit on his goods.\\nA short, dark young man with a variegated necktie,\\nstood on the corner of State and Quincy streets the other\\nevening and after staring mysterously at the pavement for\\na few minutes he slowly deposited three matches thereon\\nin the shape of a triangle and retreated a few steps with\\nhis eyes fixed intently on the matches.\\nA fat man with a basket of peaches came across the\\nstreet and stopped, looking inquiringly at the young man\\nand then at the pavement. What s the matter? he asked.\\nLost something?\\nSh-sh said the dark young man. Be quiet\\nsleight-of-hand Herrmann s last trick one he died work-\\ning on, he muttered, making cabalistic passes in the air\\nwith his arms.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 77\\nA couple of street urchins came up and two other men\\nstopped to stare in an awe-stricken manner at the matches.\\nGentlemen, watch those matches, said the mysteri-\\nous stranger. I am now going to perform 101 feats and\\nmagic, each of which is more difficult than the preceding\\none. In place of a cabinet will use this large paper bag\\nwhich I place on this boy s head, so, and hypnotize him.\\nFeel anything strange now, bdy? No? Well, just a moment,\\ngentlemen, and I will proceed with the entertainment.\\nBy this time quite a crowd had collected and gazed\\nalternately at the young man, the matches and the paper\\nbag. The young man opened his grip and while the crowd\\ngrew denser he made his bluff with the pictures in the\\nenvelopes, occasionally telling the crowd to keep their eyes\\non the matches.\\nGentlemen, he said, I have here a picture of a pretty\\nvaudeville actress with the flourish of the picture,\\nwhich was immediately placed back in the envelope. I\\nam going to give these away to each and every one present,\\ngentlemen, and if anyone is dissatisfied he can bring back\\nhis picture and I will give $1.00 for it. But I will continue\\nwith my tricks, gentlemen, and show you the last feat per-\\nformed by the great Herrmann.\\nHe crushed the paper bag in his hand and placed a\\nhandkerchief over it. Now watch me closely, gentlemen;\\nI will light this paper and then, presto! witness the great\\ntransformation scene!\\nHe picked up the three matches while the crowd craned\\ntheir necks in curiosity.\\nNow, I light the bag, or, to have everything above\\nboard, will some one in the crowd please do it?\\nA lanky, rural-looking chap with one eye, who had\\nbeen taking in the harangue with wide-open ears, volun-\\nteered.\\nNow, said the dark young man with the riotous\\nnecktie. I will say the magic words and then you light\\nthe match. Hi-ke-ki-fle-fli-llum!\\nThe one-eyed youth lit the match, and as he bent to\\ntouch it to the paper it exploded with a sharp crack.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nHe tumbled back on the crowd, which laughed at his\\nseeming discomfiture.\\nThe dark young man laughed to. There, now don t\\nget mad. That was the trick, you know! And cracking\\nanother match by way of experiment, he laughed out into\\nan explanation of his wonderful trick matches, and he sold\\nthem as fast as he could hand them out, while the one-eyed\\ncountryman lit a cigarette in the dark hallway and waited\\nfor the dupes to gather around his other pal who was\\nexhibiting a two-pound nugget from the Klondike on the\\nother corner.\\nFrauds in Auction Business. Bold Swindles That\\nAre Worked on the Unsuspecting Public.\\nThere is plenty of bogus auctioneering nowadays,\\nsaid the old auctioneer. It appears to me as though the\\ngood people are being driven out of the business by those\\nfellows who sell poor stuff. Anyway, the auction-room\\nwhere they handle high class goods, secured legitimately to\\nsell on commission, are not supported by the public. P.\\nT. Barnum said the people like to be fooled, and he hit the\\nnail on the head.\\nYou take these, what I call, low class auctioneers.\\nOne of their games is to stock a house with shoddy stuff,\\nengage a family to remain there a month or two, and then\\nannounce a prive sale. Laying a foundation for such a\\nplay is not considered reputable by the better class of\\nmembers of our profession. The thing smacks of the same\\nsort of procedure as the piano swindle, upon which resi-\\ndents in large cities ought to be liberally educated if they\\nread the papers. But they are not, and like the green-goods\\ngame, the gold brick swindle, and all the rest the piano\\nauction and the piano private sale continues to thrive. In\\nmany parts of the country there are men who follow this", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "FA FTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 79\\nthe same as r hunts news. The Swindle lies in the\\nfact that a good, round sum is obtained for a second grade\\npiano on the plea tliat it is being sacrificed to aid the poor\\nwidow, a family in distress, and so on.\\nThat sort of auction is not materially different from\\nthe so-called widow s sale of fast, blooded stock. Her\\nhusband died in Kentucky, and left her with a stable of\\nrunning, trotting and road and blood stock, which she,\\nbeing very, very poor, must sell at auction, etc. She is\\nusually there, a poor forlorn widow, in a long, crepe veil,\\nnear tho auctioneer; and she sees the second-grade,\\nbroken-down, winded animals disposed of at high prices,\\nwhile she wipes a tear from her eye with a black-bordered\\nhandkerchief.\\nThere are as many tricks to the auction business as\\nthere are to other trades. A woman has household goods\\nwhich she wishes to sell, and being ignorant of the various\\nways of doing business, decides to have some one in the\\nsecond-hand business hold a sale at her house. The fact\\nis duly advertised, the red flag is swung from the porch,\\nthe neighbors call and walk curiously through the room,\\nand decide to do something for her, but the auctioneer\\nsoon starts in and all plans are off. When the sale is over\\nthe poor woman finds that her household articles, which\\ncost her $1,500, have brought less than ten cents on the\\ndollar.\\nWho bought the goods? In her excitement in the\\ncommotion, in the midst of the wild alarms of the\\nauctioneer, she failed to observe, and she may never know\\nthat nearly all of her property was bought by a dealer, the\\nfriend and confident of the auctioneer; in fact, by the\\nAuctioneer s own silent partner, to whom he knocked them\\ndown at the very lowest rates. I hope some day we will\\nhave legislation that will drive em out of business.\\nOh, gentlemen, the time of life is short. Henry IV.\\nHow use doth breed a habit in a man\\nTwo Gentlemen of Yerona.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLE D.\\nFills a Long Felt Want. Among a Class Who\\nPerhaps Have Been Too Long Neglected.\\nElmwood, Neb., April 11.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Editor Blade. She was\\ncross eyed and red-beaded, and wore store teeth, upper\\nand under. No she snapped, as she opened the\\ndoor for the slick-looking agent with the silver-mounted\\nsample case, I don t want anything! I have an organ,\\nsewing machine, ironing board and such things, I never\\nuse patent medicine, and have all the books I need; I\\nnever do business with agents; they re a set of\\nBut he had pushed past her and setting his sample\\ncase on the table, began opening it.\\nMy dear young lady, said he, I m neither a book\\nagent nor a traveling fakir; I do not sell books, pjianos,\\ncookstoves, vitilizers or patent dishpans, I am simply a\\nbenefactor of a portion of the human race. I bring succor\\nto deserted womankind. My mission is to do good. Just\\nallow me to show you a small modelpf Dr. Kissam s new\\ninvention, the justly celebrated automatic double-action\\ncompound presser and squeezer, the great health restorer\\nand panacea for deserted maiden ladies. Of course, the\\nbeautiful young lady of your age, scarcely out of her\\nteens, would never have occasion to use it, but I show it\\nto you that you may tell your friends about it. This great\\nboon is meant to sit in the parlor next to the sofa, and\\nthe inventor offers a forfeit of $10,000 for each and every\\ncase in which it does not give absolute satisfaction, if the\\ndirections are followed carefully.\\nThe user turns down the parlor lamp; then takes her\\nseat a la lovaire. This right pneumatic back-action,\\ndouble-jointed is placed around that lovely symmetrical\\nform, and this left one thrown across the shoulder. Lay-\\ning those beautiful auburn locks against the manly\\ncushioned bosom, you touch this button, which sets the\\nautomatic machinery of the squeezer in motion.\\nHere you will find a lever which regulates the pres-", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FAKES AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 81\\nsure around th( from the frightened, timid squeeze\\nof the bashful lover to the powerful grizzly hug of the\\nman in search of his third wife. Here we have the soft\\ncheek pad which is regulated by this lever, controlling\\nthe growth of the beard, from a clean shave to a three-\\nweeks 1 growth of barley stubble. Here you will find a\\nbutton which sets in motion the breathing bellows, and\\nhere a lever which regulates the force of the breath, from\\nthe gentle zephyr of a professional masher to the hot,\\ncyclonic pant of the heart about to burst forth.\\nThis lever controls the breath from the mildest\\nlavender to the strongest odor from the old meerchaum.\\nHere we have the button regulating the voice, from the\\ngentle dove-like coo to the sonorous declarations of\\nthe widowed bailiff.\\nThis is the only genuine automatic, double-action,\\ncompound presser and squeezer on the market, warranted\\nto cure the blues, and remove that despondent feeling-\\nafter church. It removes wrinkles, crows-tracks and\\nfreckles and restores the bloom of youth.\\nI am the sole agent for this county, and when 1 am\\ngone you cannot get one for love or money. The regular\\nprice is four dollars, but today I am closing them out at\\nthe low price of three dollars and ninety-eight cents. My\\nnext delivery will be made next week, and this great\\nboon to Just put your name down on that line; right\\nthere. Thanks.\\nAnd he was gone.\\nRun Against a Skin Game.\\nThe sun had sunk to rest behind the flats. The gray\\nclouds had gathered in the West and the stars were begin-\\nning to twinkle away over the shores of New York.\\nBrother Pete Maguff was sitting in his cabin alone. He\\nhad done half a day s work and he felt tired. So he\\nsolaced himself with a. good supper, poured into his\\ninterior a draught of hard cider, and lighting his Queen", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWIN] OSED.\\nAnne corn cob pipe, sat out to pie! but, )h, Susannah\\non his one-stringed banjo. Just as he was beginning to\\nfeel that life had. some comforts left for him, a knock\\nsounded upon the door.\\nCome in, dar, said Pete, not pausing in his music.\\nThe door swung slowly open and the form of Brother\\nShinbones Smith appeared. He looked weary, and there\\nwas an expression of deep solemnity on his countenance.\\nHe took off his overcoat, heaved a deep sigh, and sat down.\\nThen he gazed slowly around the room until his eye lighted\\nupon a pipe lying on the table. He slowly stretched\\nforth his hand, Brother Pete watching him in expectant\\nsilence, and possessed himself of the pipe. He slowly and\\nsolemnly filled it with tobacco, lighted it and resumed his\\nseat. Then he threw one leg across the other, and, clasping\\nhis hands around the knee, sat slowly rocking backward\\nand forward and smoking. After a few moments of silence,\\nand without raising his eyes, Brother Shinbones opened his\\nmouth.\\nBrother Peter Maguif, he said in measured accents,\\ndis hyar wuld am a deceitful an disapp intin place.\\nYas, Brodder Skinbones, I recken that yo am bout\\nright, replied Pete.\\nI heb seed a good many curious tings, but I haint\\nseed nuffin more curious dan wot I seed ter-day.\\nWot war dat?\\nJess yo hole yore brefT, niggah, tell I git to it. The\\npropah way for to begin a discourse am by a little gineral\\nph loserphy. Den, after yo git your hearahs minds\\nkinder stultified, as it war, yo kin flop onter de facts in de\\ncase. D ye see?\\nYas, I recken dat yo knows all bout it, Brudder\\nSkinbones, replied Pete, gazing admiringly at the old\\nman.\\nTer-day, continued the sage, I war ober ter Noo\\nYawk. I kinder fought as how I d go an see some o de\\ngals an boys in the city. I war walking long Sixt\\nAbenoo w en a berry hansome young cullud gemmen\\ncomes up ter me, an sez he ter me sez he:", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 83\\nWhy, Mistah Brown, how d ye do? Yo don t seem\\nfur ter know me, does yer.f\\nNo sez I ter he, sez I: I don t; an yo don t seem\\nter know me. I hain t no Mistah Brown; I m Brudder\\nSkinbones Smiff, President ob de busted Anti-Chicken-\\nStealin Serciety ob Hoboken.\\nDen he begged my parding very perlite an walked\\naway. Putty soon up comes another young feller, and sez\\nhe to me, sez he:\\nWhy, Brudder Skinbones Smiff, how d ye do? I\\nhain t nebber met you afoah, but I m de son ob Jesse\\nMacintiah, the boss white-washah ob Weehawkin. He\\nknows yo, I reckon; least wise he knowed yore wife.\\nWal, I didn t know de man; but if he knowed de ole\\nwoman, Twould t do fur me ter shake de boy, so I up an\\nslink hands wid him and walked along wid him. Byme-by\\nhe tole me bout winning a heap o money at a place in\\nTwenty-fifth street, and he axes me ter go dar and try my\\nluck. Wal, I went along wid him. Dar I met anudder\\nyoung feller wot looked ter me like de one wot spoke ter\\nme fust in de street. He dealed out some keerds, an\\nyoung Mackintiah made a bet an winned the whole busi-\\nness. Den I tuk a hand in, an won eighty-five cents. I\\ntried her agin, an won two dollahs an a half. Wal, I\\nkept on antein up, tell byme-by I bet leben dollahs on\\none hand and den I losed. Den the young tellow wot\\nwar ruunin de game sez dat he d got ter quit cause his\\nmudder war sick, an he d got ter go fur de doctah.\\nHole on dar, sez I ter he, sez I: yo mus gib me a\\nchance ter win her back.\\nOle man, sez he ter me, sez he: yo don t want ter\\ntalk dat way heah. We runs dis game our own way.\\nDen yore tryin fur ter swindle de ole man outen his\\nmoney, sez I.\\nWot he sez, an den he ups an pegs de chaiah at\\nme.\\nI dodges the chaiah am grabs de spittoon. I let her\\nwiggle mighty, quick an hard, cause yo* see I got my\\nmuscle up a-wuckin down ter Trenting. De spittoon tuk", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nde chap in the nose an he fell down kinder suddint. Den\\nde odder feller hit at me, an I grabbed the chaiah off n de\\nflooah an hit him on de head, an he fell down too.\\nDen de odder feller jumped up, an jess as he got onter his\\nfeet I kicked him on the lower aidge ob his westkit, an he\\nwent down an sed nuffin moah bout it. Den I kinder\\nscraped up de boodle wot war lyin on de table an tuk one\\no de fellers watches, so s I could tell wot I lef dem\\nan I gaddered up de keerds, an den I jess kinder scooted\\nfur de ellenbated road.\\nThen the aged philosopher drew forth from his pockets\\nthe articles mentioned, and, blowing a cloud of smoke,\\nlooked meditatingly at them.\\nDe keerds am a leetle ole, he said: an de watch\\nam plated, I reckon; but de twenty-seben dollahs an\\nsebenty-fibe cent am jess as good as new. Dis hyah am a\\nmighty scurious wuld, Brudder Peter Maguif. Jack Pots.\\nAn Investment That Failed.\\nHe worked and schemed and saved\\nTo raise the money she\\nWould need to pay her way\\nFor the summer at the sea;\\nThe clothes she took with her\\nAre unpaid for oh,\\nHis head is bowed today;\\nHis heart is full of woe\\nShe s just come home again,\\nAnd wears no solitaire;\\nA hope was in his heart\\nBut it has fled from there;\\nShe s home again to stay\\nFarewell, O gleaming sands:\\nHer pa must work away,\\nWith her still on his hands.\\nChicago Times-Herald.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "85\\nCider-Making Time.\\nThey are gathering the apples in the orchard on the hill\\nThey are carrying the baskets to the humming cider mil]\\nThe breeze is blowing sweetly and the Autumn days are fair\\nThe happy farmer whistles as he works away out there,\\nAnd the smoke is curling upward as it used to, long ago.\\nWhen the winds that made our noses rather moist began\\nto blow.\\nDown the crumpled leaves are dancing from the branches\\noverhead,\\nAnd the doves are softly cooing on the weather-beaten shed;\\nThe ground is strewn with pumpkins where the corn is\\ncut away,\\nAnd the slopes beyond the valley lie in something soft\\nand gray,\\nWhile a sort of dreamy music issues from the humming\\nmill,\\nAnd the wind is blowing softly through the orchard on\\nthe hill.\\nThey are gathering the apples that the winds have shaken\\ndown,\\nAnd the child is full of wonder who is visiting from town!\\nOh, the amber stream of something fit for gods is flowing\\nout,\\nWhile the daring yellow jacket sips serenely from the\\nspout\\nAh, the mill is humming gayly as the golden apples fall,\\nAnd the frugal farmer s busy grinding up the worms\\nand all. Chicago Times-Herald.\\nNews is like laudnaum; it s much more easy to use it\\nas a quack does, than to learn to apply it like a physician.\\nGuy Mannering.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nFleece Farmers.\\nFor years and years the local newspapers have been\\ntelling of how people have been fleeced and swindled by\\nbuying goods and wares of strangers. How sharpers have\\nbeen able to get money for an article shoddy made and in\\nno way as represented. The warning to their readers and\\nan exposure of these sharpers seems to have had as much\\neffect as a bullet from an air gun on a steel plate. We\\nhave come to the conclusion that there is much truth in\\nBarnum s words, The American people like to be hum-\\nbugged.\\nThis brings to my mind the steel range fellows, who\\nvisited this community a year ago and thoroughly can-\\nvassed the farmers, selling several stoves. Those who\\npurchased stoves at that time have had an opportunity\\nof paying the fiddler or dancing to the music. A farmer\\nwithin a few miles of Sandwich and very well known here\\nbought one of the stoves, or at least it was left in his\\npossession a }^ear ago. The price agreed upon w r as $70.\\nYou can buy a larger and better stove of any of our hard-\\nware dealers for 844. A part of the deal was that the\\nfarmer was to be allowed $40 for his old stove, and also\\nhe was to board the sharpers, who gave him coupons that\\nwere to apply on the purchase price of the stove.\\nThese people never consider a deal closed until your\\nname is put upon paper. This farmer did do so, signing\\na contract as he supposed, but which turns up in the shape\\nof a note for $70 with interest. A few days ago a man\\npresented himself at the farmer s house and requested him\\nto take up the note, representing himself to be the pur-\\nchaser, and an innocent one, of the note. In the deal\\nmade at the time of the delivery of the stove $30 was the\\nbalance to be paid, and out of the $30 several dollars\\nfor board were also to be taken. The fellow with the note\\ndeclares he knew nothing of the old stove and tickets for\\nmeals in connection with the trade and refuses to accept\\nany thins: but the face of the note and interest he had", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "x\\nFAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 87\\nbought. The holder of the note threatens to bring suit,\\nand our farmer friend says he will not pay it. What the\\noutcome will be remains to be seen. There is a moral to\\nthis deal which should not be permitted to escape the\\nmemory of any. Never sign a piece of paper for a stranger,\\nturn the dogs loose upon the sharpers and buy your\\ngoods of the home merchant, who has a reputation to\\nsustain and from whom you can get redress if the ware\\nyou purchased is not as represented.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Downer s Grove, 111., Reporter.\\nHis Name and His Calling,\\nHis name was James O Connell Thomas Jeiferson O Roke\\nHe was the high school orator, and every time he spoke\\nThe school was crowded, high and low and to the doors\\nwith thoso\\nWho longed to hear the gifted boy and see him when he\\nrose\\nTo intimate great Spartacus and bid his listeners dare\\nTo beard the lazy Roman hosts the while he sawed the air.\\nAs Brutus he was wont to stand in classic pose and prate\\nAbout imperial Caesar and his sad, assisted fate.\\nAs Anthony he stooped to dip in Caesar s sacred blood\\nHis homemade cotten handkerchief, and thus unchain the\\nflood\\nOf Roman rage; then he would smile complaisantly and\\npause\\nAnd stand unmoved amid the mighty thunders of\\napplause.\\nYe gods! He was a hero in those old forensic days,\\nAnd all the town spread his renown and boasted in his\\npraise.\\nHis neighbors holstered up his fame and each did prophesy\\nThat all the world should crown his name with honor e er\\nhe d die.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThey swore his magic voice should plead successfully and\\nstrong\\nFor justice to the poor and lead in righting freeman s\\nwrong.\\nThey noted how his youthful brow already showed the\\nweight\\nOf heavy thought and trials wrought by cares exceeding\\ngreat.\\nAt last he left his native place and to the city went\\nThe townfolk wept, but on his face there shone a sage\\ncontent.\\nI shall be truly great some day, he said within his heart;\\nMy voice shall never, never play a measly second part\\nSee how the kindly fates advance a man of pluck and brains-\\nHe has a railroad station job as caller of the trains\\nChicago Record.\\n^\\\\MJl//^", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "@N^@\\nGRAFTS.\\n\u00c2\u00a9t?W~ 1F^\u00c2\u00a9", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 91\\nRegarding Grafts.\\n^T HAT part of this work exposing illegitimate schemes\\nfor making money is not done with a view of encour-\\naging any one to undertake the same plans, but on the con-\\ntrary I would advise them not to take any one of them, as in\\nno instance, have I ever known of a Con Man or Grafter\\nto continually escape the strong arm of the law, and further-\\nmore, many of those schemes could only be operated by\\nthe use of the mails, which would be in violation of the\\npostal laws, and you would be subject to prosecution\\nby the postal as well as by the federal authorities, for\\nusing the mails for fraudulent purposes. My object is to\\npost the reader so he can be prepared to protect himself\\nfrom such impositions, and to educate the unsophisticated\\nin the ways of the world, so they can meet all classes of\\npeople, with the glad hand and not get the worst of it.\\nRemember, in no instance, can you ever get something for\\nnothing; it is alw T ays nothing for something the wide world\\nover. A word to the wise is sufficient.\\nSalesmen Wanted Graft.\\n$100.00 per month and expenses paid. Energetic men\\nto represent us and take orders for our cigars, from dealers\\nonly. Samples with case and instructions furnished free,\\nbat references required. Address in own handwriting.\\nMany of my readers have no doubt seen this alluring\\nadvertisement in the metropolitan papers, as it is one of\\nthe oldest fakes on record, and is still being worked,\\nowing to the fact that so many unsophisticated youths\\nwant to become drummers, wear good clothes, live a life\\nof apparent ease and see the world. They know they are\\nmentally as far above their present position in life, as an\\neagle is above a mud turtle, and have been waiting for an", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92\\nopportunity to show the fact to their people and neighbors\\nfor some time, and here it is, and no capital required\\nnothing but a good character, which they may have. So\\nafter much re-writing of the application, it goes forward\\nwith the local bank or village grocer for reference. A\\nreply is received, nicely written on the regulation letter\\nhead, the picture of a factory in one corner, and general\\nofficers in the other; also, President, Vice-President,\\nSecretary and Treasurer s names printed thereon. In fact,\\nthe introductory letter is made as strong as possible, as it\\nis the principal plank in their platform of rascality, and\\nwould fool more than the average rummey. After\\nacknowledging receipt of your favor of the letter\\nkindly thanks you for the same, and goes on to state the\\nterritory in your vicinity has not been taken as yet. They\\nhave been corresponding with some parties regarding same,\\nbut owing to your excellent reference and business-like\\nletters, they believe you are the best qualified to represent\\nthem, and have consequently given you the preference, and\\ntherefore inclose contracts which please fill out, arid return\\none, and retain one yourself. The contract is well worded\\nand in your favor, and has a big red Notary Public seal on\\nit, all properly acknowledged. They also enclose you\\ndescriptive circulars of their different grades of cigars,\\nranging in price from $15.00 to $70.00 per 1000, and in\\nmany instances send a few good cigars by mail, There is\\na blank space on each circular for your name to be printed\\nas agent, and you are assured you will be furnished plenty\\nof such printed and other advertising matter, free of\\ncharge, from time to time, and as your trade may require.\\nThey state, the agent s samples consists of order blanks,\\netc., 1000 cigars, assorted from $15.00 up to $70.00 grades,\\nand specify how many of each, averageing in all about\\n$35.00, which are shipped in a very elaborate sample case.\\nThey also enclose cut, and discriptive circular of same.\\nNow, owing to the fact that we have lost considerble lately\\non unscrupulous agents, who, after they get their outfit,\\ngive our cigars away, and do not endeavor to do business\\nas required, we have adopted a new rule, with new agents\\nin justice to both ourselves and them, that is the amount", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AjND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 93\\nof first samples must be deposited with us, and when your\\norders have amounted to 10,000 cigars, this amount Avill be\\nreturned to you, and your sample case will be replenished\\nfrom time to time as required thereafter free of charge.\\nYour commission will be sent you on receipt of each ship-\\nment if so ordered.\\nThey then go on to tell you after the first month, if\\nsales are satisfactory, etc., you will be put on a salary of\\n$100.00 per month and expenses, and as sales increase your\\nwages will likewise. They do not ask you to send full\\namount, unless you are so disposed, but simply $\u00c2\u00a3.00 as\\nevidence of good faith, and goods are sent, balance\\nC. O. D, privilege of examination, which they do and\\nstand willing to forfeit the rest of their contract. But\\nyou never secure any orders, as dealers do not want that\\nclass of goods, and you have simply bought 1000 poor\\ncigars, a paste board box, and some worthless printed\\nmatter which cost them probably $10.00.\\nNow, I have gone into the details of this scheme at\\nsome length, owing to the fact that it is worked with all\\nclasses of merchants that the public is not familiar with,\\nand cigars are only used as a criterion. The same scheme\\nis also used in selling Cheap John wines, liquors, patent\\nmedicine, jewelry, etc. Of course the bait is worded\\ndifferently. Sometimes it is Manager Wanted to take\\ncontrol of a Branch Store for a large importing firm;\\nanother, a lady or gent to travel and appoint agents, or,\\npartner wanted; a good salary and expenses paid, is gener-\\nally in it. All such advertisements are fakes, pure and\\nsimple, and the business end, in every instance, is to\\nsecure a deposit for samples on goods advanced, and thus\\nthe rummey is loaded up with a lot of slum at good\\nprices. Remember, reliable firms of any kind do not have\\nto advertise for salesmen; neither does the party who\\nwishes to increase his business by establishing a branch store,\\nhave to go to so much trouble, for there are plenty of idle,\\nreliable salesmen in every city as well as capitalists who\\nadvertise to make advertisements of prospective patents\\nof merit. So do not be deceived by well worded catch-\\ning Ads.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThe Picture Enlarging Graft.\\nThis, like the free receipt scheme, is generally worked\\non the something-for-nothing-plan and in the rural districts\\nor small towns. The agents (both sex representing the\\nwell knowm blank firm) calls at your residence and presents\\ntheir businesss card, which generally has the cut of a large\\nbuilding on it, with the fake firm s name clear across it,\\nand then creates the impression that they occupy the whole\\nbuilding, when in reality they only have a little office in\\nit, and that probably in the top story. The agent tells you\\nthat they are instructed to give away samples of crayon to\\npeople in that vicinity for a short time only, as an adver-\\ntisement of their work, etc., and the usual harrangue is\\ngone through with in order to get one or more pictures to\\ncopy from, etc. You then sign a little matter-of-form,\\npurporting to be an agreement to recommend their firm,\\nproviding the samples are satisfactory, but which in reality\\nis an order for a frame for each picture. Well, when you\\nare notified by the firm, that your pictures are done, you\\nthen become aware of the deception that the agent prac-\\nticed to get your photo and order, and the firm, of course,\\nin answering your Ck kick, and whether you want your\\nphotos back or not, is sorry such is the case, and is also\\nsorry that the agent is not with the firm any longer, as\\nthey would rectify matters at their cost. However, as the\\nwork is done, they will do their part in the matter, and\\nmeet you half way by catting the price of the frame in two.\\nThus, you get a $6 or $8 frame for $3 or $4 and the crayon\\nwork free. They generally enclose out of frame, etc.\\nWell, this offer seems so fair, and is typewritten on such a\\nstrong letter head, it is generally accepted and the amount\\nforwarded, or instructions sent to forward C. O. D., privi-\\nlege of examination, and enough money enclosed to defray\\nexpress charges.\\nThe picture frames are very cheap, being nothing but\\npine with the cement front of different color, and looks\\ngood enough at first for some time, and costs about thirty-", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "AKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 95\\nfive cents or fifty cents at the factory. The copying is\\ndone for from ten cents to fifteen cents each, and thus yon\\nsee there is a good profit in the business, and very little\\ncapital invested. I know of a firm of this kind? in\\nChicago who tried this rascally method and has grown\\nrich in the last few years. God only knows how many\\nmore have prospered likewise, as there is no law covering\\nsuch cases. But I trust this work will be instrumental,\\nto some extent, in covering the law s defect and protect\\nmany people who grasp at an opportunity to get some-\\nthing for nothing.\\nA Pawn Ticket Graft.\\nA great many unscrupulous pawnbrokers in large\\ncities near Union Passenger Stations, resort to a novel way\\nto increase their sales. Tis this: Fake pawn tickets are\\nplaced with an agent, who disposes of them to the stranger\\nfor whatever they can get, or loses one occasionally in a\\nconspicuous place near the depot, where it will be easily\\nfound. In disposing of the ticket the agent gives up the\\nold-time hard luck story, and as the ticket is about due,\\nbears out their statement, they would rather take some-\\nthing than nothing, and as it is a well-known fact that\\npawn brokers never lend over twenty per cent of the value\\nof the article, a sale is easily effected. The purchaser\\npresenting the ticket, (which is always made to the bearer)\\nand gets the slum, usually an Electro Plated watch with\\na top jewel imititation American movement in it, a gaudy\\nchain, finger ring and a pair of sleeve buttons, all tagged,\\nand done up together, with date corresponding with ticket\\nand usually found after much search in the big iron\\nsafe. In fact, everything has such an air of business\\nabout it, thatthe Yokel pays the amount at once, and\\ngets about $3.00 worth of goods for $10.00 or $11.00. and\\nwhen the purchaser finds out that the goods are compara-\\ntively worthless, they are generally too many miles from\\nthere, or are ashamed to make a complaint, for fear their", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nfriends and acquaintances would find out they i,\\nand thus acknowledge their ignorance. This xear of\\npublicity and false pride keeps many a rascal from being\\nbrought to justice and encourages them in their nefarious\\nschemes.\\nFlim-Flaming, or Short Change Graft.\\nA great many genteel appearing fakirs of both sex;\\nmake a very good living in this line. I was informed by\\na motherly-looking old hen recently, who made no bones\\nabout following it for a liviog, that women were much\\neasier to work than men, and seldom made a fuss when\\nthey did get mext before the get-away was made.\\nThe graft is more successful at large gatherings, and\\nespecially circus days in country towns. No circus is\\ntraveling without several Aims as well as other fakes\\nbeing with it.\\nIt is worked this way: A five-cent purchase, is made,\\nand after much search, finding no nickel a two-dollar\\nbill is laid down and $1.95 in change is given back. In\\nthe meantime the patron has been busy searching for the\\nnickel he knew he had, and finds it just as the merchant\\nturns his back. They at the same time slip the dollar in\\ntheir pocket and leave the five cents on the counter, with\\nthe exclamation, k I knew I had a nickel; please give me a\\ndollar for this change. This is always more acceptable\\nthan a silver dollar on circus day, so the request is at once\\ncomplied with, a silver dollar is laid on the counter,\\nand as the merchant is raking off the change, the pur-\\nchaser shoves the silver dollar over, and says just keep\\nthe two dollars and give me the two-dollar bill back it is\\neasier to carry. Simple isn t it, after you know how?\\nBut nevertheless some pretty wise people get caught and\\nnever know they are done.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 97\\nSeeing the Elephant\\nAND SO FOKTH.\\nThe morning was dull and betokened a day\\nUnsuited to caring and carting of hay;\\nSo Stephen bethought him to take a trip down,\\nAnd bring up a few things that were needed from town.\\nSo he harnessed his horse and proceeded to go forth,\\nWith a pail of butter, eggs, berries, etc.\\nNow it happened that Stephen, etc., came down\\nOn the day that the show was to enter the town,\\nAnd into the village he chanced to come forth,\\nAs the caraven entered the town from the north.\\nA wonderful collection they proposed to show forth,\\nElks, elephants, monkeys, bears, tigers, etc.\\nAnd Stephen arrived opportunely, I ween,\\nFor never had Stephen an elephant seen;\\nSo he and k old sorrell pulled up by the fence,\\nTo see without paying the twenty -live cents.\\nAnd soon came the creature uncouthly and slow, forth,\\nWith tusks, and with trunk, blanket, ribbons, etc.\\nBut scared at the sight, or the scent, or the sound,\\nOld sorrel turned quickly and shortly around;\\nAnd in turning so quickly and shortly about,\\nThe wagon turned over, and Stephen turned out.\\nAnd into the gutter the berries did flow forth,\\nTogether with Stephen, eggs, butter, etc.\\nQuoth Stephen aloud, as he rose on his legs,\\nWW A lig for the berries, etc., and eggs;\\nBut henceforth I never can say it, of course,\\nThat I ve not seen the elephant nor can the horse,\\nAnd back to the homestead old sorrel did go on,\\nLeaving wagon, and Stephen, etc., and so on.\\nNational Auctioner.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED,\\nPiano-for-Sale Graft.\\nOwing to circumstances I will sell my new piano at a\\nsacrifice for cash only; can show a clean bill of sale and\\ngood reasons for selling. Call today from 10 a. 3r. to 4\\np. 3i. only/\\nFor several years I have repeatedly seen the above\\nadvertisement in many of the leading metropolitan papers\\nin different cities, and as they are all worded alike, I con-\\ncluded it was presented by the same party and must be a\\nfake. So seeing it in the Minneapolis Tribune recently\\nwhile in that city, I went to the place designated, which\\nwas a private house in a respectable district), and was met\\nat the door by a very modest appearing, good looking\\nlittle lady, of probably thirty -five years of age, dressed in\\nwidow s weeds, and was just showing a nice, clean looking\\ngentleman out, (they probably saw me coming), after\\ntelling him, for my benefit, she could consider nothing but\\ncash, etc. She ushered me into a very neatly furnished\\nparlor, where among other things stood a new upright\\npiano, very gaudily furnished with a full Japanese silk\\nthrow over it. Yes, that is the piano advertised, she told\\nme, while the tears came into her eyes; her dear husband\\nhad purchased it as a birth-day present for her a short\\ntime before he died, (which was three months ago); he had\\nmade a good selection, for it was the kind she had learned\\non. Thereupon she sat down to show me the tone. She\\nwas a splendid performer, and did good work, considering\\nthe instrument. She then wanted me to play, and was\\nsurprised on being informed that I never played, and was\\nnot a dealer in pianos, as she had judged from my appear-\\nance, etc. Oh, I should have heard the gentleman play\\nwho just left. He was a minister, and wanted the piano\\nfor his wife, but wanted to trade an organ on it, but she\\nwanted cash as she w 7 as going away, back to mamma s,\\nand as mamma had a piano quite like this, and as the\\nold home was already too crowded, she decided to sell it,", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "instead of shipping, etc., but she realized slie would have\\nto sacrifice it, as pianos were now mostly sold on time,\\nand nearly every one w T ho wanted one, had an organ they\\nwanted to trade on it. By this time she also found out\\nthat I was a country merchant and knew nothing about a\\npiano, and therefore she pulled a bill of sale on me. It\\nshowed Dear John had paid $265.00 for it, from Street\\nSmith in New York, and the date of the same corres-\\nponded with the statement. She explained, he had\\nsaved $35.00 on it by sending after it, etc. However, in\\norder to get her affairs wound up, and get back as soon as\\npossible, she would take $175.00 for it. No, she could\\nnot promise to hold it unless a guarantee of at least $25.00\\nwas put up. And as a business man, I could not object\\nto such a proposition. I did finally get away from the\\ninteresting little widow, just as another prospective pur-\\nchaser came. Well, being in town again in a few days, I\\ncalled again, and noticed, front room for rent. Making\\ninquiry I found that the widow did not have the whole\\nhouse, as she led me to suppose, but had only the room\\nrented for a week, but only had it for three days, as she\\nsold her piano in that time. On writing to the manufac-\\nturers, on my Auction Drummer letter heading, telling\\nthem I wanted a cheap, showy, upright piano, for auction\\npurposes, they informed me they would cost $65.00 each,\\ncased F. O. B., New York, and sent me descriptive circu-\\nlars, showing exactly the same instrument the interesting\\nlittle widow handled, and also sold by Storage or Con-\\nsignment Graft Auction, concerns in many of the large\\ncities.\\nThe Curate My task in life is to save young men.\\nYoung Lady Oh, then, save me a nice one,\\nThe superior man has dignified ease without pride;\\nthe mean man has pride without dignified ease.\\nShort accounts make long friends.\\nLofC.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nOnly Did By the Shilber.\\nDid st ever attend a country fair,\\nUpon an autumn day,\\nAnd see the people gathered there,\\nWho wished they d stayed away.\\nDid st ever see the jewelry man,\\nHis dry goods advertise;\\nDid st ever see the lottery,\\nWhose owner won the prize.\\nDid st ever see the Mammoth Squash,\\nAlso the progressive fowl;\\nDid st ever call the thing all bosh,\\nAnd owner cursed chorus howl.\\nDid st ever see the cane rack,\\nWith its many fancy sticks;\\nDid st ever want your mony back,\\nWhen you got next to their tricks.\\nDid st ever u clod the baby-rack,\\nWith its gaily attired dummeys;\\nDid st ever get your money back\\nLike those who were not rummeys,\\nDid st ever you watch the horse race,\\nWith every might and main;\\nDid st ever get squeezed out of place, while\\nThe dip v got your watch and chain,\\nDid st ever on the little pea,\\nBet the last Almighty dollar;\\nAnd when it was exposed to thee,\\nDid st they make a holler.\\nAnd the fortune wheel, old time fake,\\nWith its enticing stack of silver,\\nIs another game suckers tries to brake,\\nBut it is only did by the shilber.\\nKM^^HM^M", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 101\\nThe Trick Didn t Work. The Man With the\\nSmuggled Cigars Catches a Tartar.\\nHis beat is from the ferry boat half a dozen blocks up\\nMarket street, and the vision of a hawk in search of spring\\nchickens is dim compared with his eye for the unsuspecting\\ntourist. He is tall and portly, swarthy and middle-aged,\\nwith prominent nose and deep-set eyes, a typical specimen\\nof the well-to-do Spanish-American.\\nBeg pardon, senor, he said, with a courtly bow, as\\nhe bit the end of a huge cigar after he had kept step with\\nme for a dozen paces, but may I trouble you for a light?\\nI saw the burning lamp of a cigar stand not ten feet\\nfrom us, and recognized his game at once. I ve had avast\\nexperience with confidence men. I held my half-burned\\ncigar toward this stranger. He accepted it with another\\nbow, lit his own cigar, then fumbled it awkwardly and\\ndropped my cigar.\\nDiablo! How stupid of me. A thousand pardons,\\nsenor. Accept one of mine, do, he urged.\\nI took it, a cigar of good flavor and ample proportions,\\npungent and strong, as the Mexican product commonly is\\nlighted it from his and smoked a puff or two with ostenta-\\ntious satisfaction. The manner in which I met his\\nadvances assured him I was easy game His eyes fairly\\nsparkled.\\nAh, senor, you are fond of a good Mexican cigar?\\nI prefer them to any other, said I, anxious to lead\\nhim on.\\nThen allow me to do you a favor, my friend; I will\\nshow you where to get them at half price. A friend of\\nmine is steward of a steamer just in from the Mexican\\nports, and he always brings a few boxes like the one you\\nare smoking; gets them in without paying duty, you under-\\nstand that is why he can sell them so cheap. You would\\nlike a box or two?\\nYes, said 1, I wouldn t mind if they don t come too\\nhigh.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 FAKES, GRAFTS A1SD SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nOh, a mere trifle, my friend, a mere trifle, said he,\\n$3.50 for box of 100, and they are worth $7.00 in the\\nmarket wholesale. Come this way.\\nAh, my friend is out, said he when he received no\\nreply to his knock, but it does not matter, I have a key\\nand can serve as well. He opened the door and led me\\ninto a stuffy but well-furnished apartment, his own bed-\\nroom without a doubt. A box of cigars, fine ones as I could\\nsee at a glance, and from which two or three had been\\ntaken, stood open on the table.\\nExamine them, senor, said he, pushing the box\\ntoward me; you are a judge of such goods, I know. See\\nthe color, the quality, the workmanship, and enhale the\\nfragrance, senor,\\nYes, said I, they are fine. I ll take a box.\\nOnly one senoii Take two or three; you will regret\\nit if you do not.\\nNo, only one my friend, and, by the way, we must be\\nquick about it, said I, glancing hastily at my watch. I\\nought to be up town by this time, I have to meet a friend.\\nAh! I am sorry, my dear friend; I should be charmed\\nto make your better acquaintance, and opening a cup-\\nboard showing a row of boxes similar to the one on the\\ntable, he began to wrap one in paper for me.\\nHold on, said I, lend me your opener a moment;\\nI want half a dozen to smoke today.\\nOh, now you offend me, senor; do not think of\\nopening the box for that; help yourself from the table; a\\ndozen, a pocketful.\\nOh, no, I couldn t think of it, said I, stubbornly,\\nyou are too kind, and, with my pocketknife I popped\\nthe lid off the box. Phew! Burnt cabbage leaves! They\\nwere the poorest, cheapest, vilest smelling things ever\\nmade in Chinatown, worth not over $1.50 a box, and dear\\nat that. But he grasped himself equal to it.\\nBah! Horrible! he gasped, smelling one of the\\nreeking rolls, kk I am so glad we discovered the mistake.\\nThese are some cheap things my friend keeps to give away\\nto the porters and hackmen. I should never have forgiven", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 103\\nmyself if you had taken them. Here is the kind, whisk-\\ning the box away and taking down another, which he\\nplaced beside the one on the table, that I might see that\\nthe brand was the same.\\nAll right, said I, nervously consulting my watch.\\nGreat Scott I haven t a moment to spare, but I must\\nhave the cigars; here you are; I ll take the opjened box\\nand save time, and, throwing the $3.50 on the table I\\nbolted for the door.\\nStay, senor, stop, he cried, thrusting the other box\\ntoward me. I cannot rob you so; that box is half smoked\\ntake this box.\\nOh, bother the difference; I can t wait, I shouted\\nback, and scuttled down the stairs, followed by a volley of\\nrumbling Spanish oaths.\\n1 never enjoyed a box of cigars more, and could not\\nlight one of them, without laughing again at the knave s\\ndiscomfiture. I have seen the fellow, at a distance, many\\ntimes since, and he must do a thriving business.\\nThis, like the green goods graft, is worked in many\\ndifferent ways, and with many classes of goods, and every\\nsea port has a number of these worthies, who pretend to\\nbe smugglers, and have shipped the goods in without the\\ncustomary duty being paid on them, and as a matter of\\ncourse can sell them very cheap, but the import duty\\nwould not amount to enough in any instance, compara-\\ntively, to make such a difference in price, as the sharper\\noffers. However, the Gedgeon in his anxiety to get\\nsomething for nothing, and beat Uncle Sam, never stops\\nto consider that point, but goes up against the snap\\nlike a hungry tramp for a beefsteak pie.\\nHe who has neither friend nor enemy is without\\ntalents, powers or energy.\\nConscience and wealth are not always neighbors.\\nMassinger.\\nTemperance is reason s girdle and passion s pride.\\nJeremy Taylor.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThe Green Goods Graft.\\nCounterfeit money is known among sharpers and men\\nof the world, as being green goods, and like the gold\\nbrick is used very extensively among the top notches\\nto do the more intelligent class of wealth seekers, or wise\\nguys, as they are called by the profession, and in spite\\nof the fight the government and better class of newspapers,\\nall over the land have been making on the green goods\\nmen for years, they seem to flourish like a green bay tree,\\nand the principal reason is, the victim can not kick when\\nhe finds he is done, as he had entered into an agreement to\\ndefraud the government, and to make complaint would be to\\nlay himself liable to prosecution, on a penitentiary offense.\\nThus you see the con men have the best of it, and are\\nmore safe after the victim is landed than at any other time.\\nIt would be a difficult matter for me to give you all the\\ndifferent methods I know of to work green goods, but\\nas a criterion, here is a copy of a letter, that recently came\\nto an acquaintance of mine, who is a hotel clerk in a\\nleading Kansas town, and was seriously comtemplating\\ngoing against it, when I came along, and was just the\\nman he was looking for, for he knew I was all right, and\\ncaughed up the whole thing to me. Said he was tired work-\\ning eighteen hours a day for a bare living and here was his\\nchance, and to convince me that it was perfectly safe, etc.,\\nand that the goods were as represented, said, I have the\\nsamples in my pocket. He had given me some change\\nwhen I had purchased some cigars, and he broke a V. for\\nme. Well I looked but could find no Queer. He\\ninsisted that I had it, and could prove it too, as he had it\\nmarked, and was well pleased when I could not detect it.\\nHe then told me the mark and I had it, but it was good\\nmoney. They had simply sent him a genuine $1 bill as a\\nsample, and on the strength of that, and the original and\\nwell worded letter, he cashed up everything he had,\\namounting to about $400, and was ready to go, as he had", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 105\\nalready sent a telegram. And thus was a man of the\\nworld who had spent his life among business men and\\n4 wise guys/ And thus you see that it is not always the\\ncorn-field sailor who is worked by these people. Here is\\nthe letter just as he got it, and no doubt many of my\\nreaders have a similar copy\\n(It is needless to say I caused this letter to bear no\\nfruit, and the sharks were out of their dollar.)\\nMy Dear Sir: Your name was sent me by my son\\n(who is my traveling representative) as a shrewd, reliable\\nand trustworthy man for me to co-operate with in your\\nvicinity, and I therefore take the liberty of proposing a\\nscheme to you that ninety-nine out of a hundred up-to-date\\nmen would gladly grasp if they could personalty examine\\nmy work, thereby convincing themselves of the absolute\\nsafety of my offer.\\nThe writer is an expert engraver, having for twenty-\\ntwo years been employed in the Bureau of Engraving,\\nWashington, D. C, and for twelve years was superintend-\\nent of one of the largest Bank Note Companies in the\\ncountry. During my leisure I took up as a side issue the\\nduplication of Ones, Fives and Tens and as these were the\\noriginal denominations I had worked upon you can believe\\nme when I say they are perfect.\\nNow, my dear sir, I am fully aware of the suspicion\\nand prejudice that you naturally will entertain for my\\nproposition as you will, on first thought, class it as coming\\nfrom a green goods or sawdust swindler, but if you will\\nlay aside that prejudice, apply common sense and look at\\nmy proposition from a business standpoint; compare it\\nwith the methods of these petty swindlers and you will\\ncredit me with not being fool enough to waste my time\\naddressing a man of your intelligence and standing in\\nyour community.\\nThe methods of the so-called green goods swindlers\\nhave been exposed from time to time in the daily press;\\nthey send out seductive circular letters to ignorant people,\\nwith a fake newspaper clipping praising counterfeit", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nmoney, etc., and offering to sell that which they have not,\\ninducing them to send on their hard earned money and\\nsending them a bag of sawdust or some such in return.\\nThe reason these rascals find it profitable to work this\\ngame is because they know and take it for granted that\\nthe people in general know that there are hundreds of\\nthousands of dollars counterfeit in circulation, and as\\nmen have no moral scruples against increasing the money\\ncirculation, (in fact, the majority of the people are in\\nfavor of doing it by law, as witnessed the late greenback\\ncraze and the present silver agitation), they are induced to\\nsend on their money on the very liberal terms held out to\\nthem five cents buying a dollar or some such absurd\\nprice.\\n]STo intelligent man would do it, for their proposition\\nis ridiculous, but a man has only to stop and consider the\\ncost of engraving, presses, printing, paper, etc., to see the\\nabsurdity of the offer.\\nNow, compare these methods with my proposition.\\nFirstly, I am not addressing an ignorant person. Secondly,\\nI do not want you to send me one cent. What I want to\\nknow is whether you will be willing to co-operate with me\\nin the disposal of my goods, providing I prove to you\\nbeyond all doubt, that my work is all I claim for it, that\\nit cannot be told from the genuine even by experts.\\nUnderstand, I do not want you to invest one dollar until\\nyou have examined my entire stock from one to one hun-\\ndred thousand dollars, compare them with the genuine;\\nand, in fact, submit them to any test you see fit, then after\\nyou are thoroughly satisfied on every point you can decide\\nwhether you accept my proposition or not. The fact is,\\nan investment of $400 will give you an immediate return\\nthat a lifetime of toil in your present business would not\\ndo, this without injuring friends, neighbors or your fellow-\\nman. To convince you of the safety of the business I will\\nupon receipt of telegram, as per inclosed note send\\nyou a sample of my work and I will also appoint a place\\nto meet you, so that you can personally examine my", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 107\\nentire stock and you will rind it all to equal sample\\ninclosed in every respect.\\nIf for any reason you decide not to co-operate with me,\\nI trust as an honorable man, you will honor the protection\\nthat the word Confidential insures to all communica-\\ntions, and not be so heartless as to destroy my life s work.\\nSo kindly burn this and let the matter drop. Trusting,\\nhowever, to hear from you immediately, I remain,\\nConfidentially yours,\\nOld Steel Plate Engraver.\\nAnother enclosure consisted of this circular printed to\\nlook as if it were typewritten.\\nDIRECTIONS.\\nFollow directions below implicitly. In no other way\\ncan you communicate with me. Prepay your message to\\ninsure safe delivery.\\nI caution you not to send any letters to this address,\\nas they will positively be refused, and returned to you\\nopened through the dead letter office. Your telegram\\nbeing in cipher, no one will understand its meaning, so\\nhave no fear. If you wish your mail sent to any street or\\nP. O. Box number, put your address under your name\\nand tell the operator to send it also.\\nGr. E. Storin, Easton, Pa.\\nHis present address is 966 John street.\\n(Sign above telegram with full name or initials). Send\\nall messages by Western Union Telegraph Co.\\nThis Graft is Entitled to a Patent were Such a\\nThing Possible.\\nThe slickest and most successful swindle ever perpe-\\ntrated in this city was worked today by a smooth-faced,\\nwell-dressed, six-foot stranger, who called at H. J. Hege-\\nman s grocery store, corner of Tenth and Villa, shortly\\nbefore noon and ordered a small bill u of goods to the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\namount of $2.60, asking to have it sent C. O. D., to No.\\n1632 College avenue, at the same time requesting Mr. Hege-\\nman to send sufficient money along with the driver to\\nchange a $20 bill, saying that was the smallest money the\\nfolks had in the house.\\nWhen the delivery clerk arrived at the given number-\\nhe was met outside by the stranger who said the folks were\\nsick bat offered to carry in the groceries, not forgetting to\\nask the young man if he had the change along tor a twenty.\\nThe boy said he had and handed him $17.40, which the\\nstranger took and disappeared with it behind the house.\\nThe delivery clerk waited in the cold until he got tired,\\nwhereupon he also went behind the house only to find his\\ngrocery basket, goods and all, dumped on the cellar steps,\\nwith the exception of a pound of crackers which was miss-\\ning along with the stranger. Further investigation on the\\npart of the driver disclosed that the residence was that of\\nN. D. Fratt, the bank president, and that those in the\\nhouse knew nothing whatever of the stranger, who was\\nundoubtedly far away by that time.\\nThe matter was reported to the police with a good\\ndescription of the fellow, and neighboring towns were tele-\\nphoned to look oat for him. Racine Times.\\nNewest Green Goods Game. A Farmer Neatly\\nBuncoed Out of His Hard-Earned Money.\\nCaleb Morton, a farmer of Church ville, on the out-\\nskirts of Rochester, received not long ago a long type-\\nwritten letter marked confidential, including an alleged\\nnewspaper clipping telling of the theft from the treasury\\ndepartment in Washington of some fine steel plates used in\\nengraving $5.00, $10.00 and $20.00 bills, says a Buffalo\\nspecial to the New York World. The letter said that the\\nauthor had come into*, possession of the plates, and was\\nmaking bills that could not be detected and would sell\\nFarmer Morton $5,000 worth for $100.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "109\\nThe Churcliville farmer had a mortgage on his farm of\\n$2,500 and $100 in bank with which he expected to pay the\\ninterest on the mortgage in the spring. The lure was too\\ntempting and he came to Buffalo the other day with the\\n$100 to buy $5,000.\\nAt the central station at Buffalo Mortan asked a hack-\\nman to direct him to the saloon where he was to meet the\\nmen from New York. The hackman pointed out a car and\\nMorton started for it. Two men followed him. Th^ larger\\nof the two touched Morton s shoulder and said:\\nYour name s Morton, ain t it?\\nYes, that s my name, said Caleb.\\nWe know you well enough. We are officers; come\\nwith us. The man spoke gruffly and looked like a fierce\\ndetective.\\nWe have the fellows who were to sell counterfeit\\nmoney to you, and now we want you. You are just as\\nguilty as they, he added.\\nThe farmer was taken to a room in Clinton street,\\nwhere he was handcuffed.\\nBad mess you are in, said the man who was guard-\\ning Morton. Did your folks know where you were\\ngoing?\\nNo, gasped Morton. For heaven s sake, don t let\\nmy wife know about it.\\nWell, you have conspsiredto buy counterfeit money,\\nand you will be lucky if you ever see your wife again. We\\nare going to send you to prison.\\nMorton broke down and cried. His guard suggested\\nthat he might fix it but it would be risky.\\nI ll never tell a soul. May God strike me dead!\\nexclamed the farmer.\\nWell, we ought to have something for taking the\\nrisk, said the pretended officer.\\nMorton handed over his $100. Then the handcuffs\\nwere removed. The farmer was to remain in the room until\\nthe officer could get away without attracting attention. He\\nremained for half an hour and then hurried to the station\\nto catch his train. While waiting under the train shed", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nhe became suspicious and told his story. The police were\\nnotified. The swindlers have not been caught.\\nBY EMILE LILIAN WHITING.\\nThree horsemen halted the inn before;\\nThree horsemen entered the oaken door,\\nAnd loudly called for the welcome cheer\\nThat was wont to greet the traveler here.\\nGood woman, they cried as the hostess came\\nA buxom, rosy, portly old dame\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nGood woman, how are your wine and beer?\\nAnd how is your little daughter dear?\\nMy house is ever supplied with cheer,\\nBut my daughter lieth upon her bier.\\nA shadow- over the horsemen fell.\\nEach wrapped in thoughts he could never tell;\\nAnd silently one by one they crept\\nTo the darkened room where the maiden slept.\\nThe golden hair was rippling low\\nOver a forehead as pure as snow.\\nAnd the little hands were closely pressed,\\nClasping a cross to the pulseless breast.\\nI loved thee ere the death-chill lay\\nOn thee, sweet child, and one turned away.\\nI would have loved thee, the second said.\\nHad st thou learned to love me and lived to wed.\\nI loved thee ever, I love thee now,\\nThe last one cried as he kissed her brow,\\nIn the heaven to come our souls shall wed,\\nI have loved thee living, I love thee dead.\\nThen silently out from the oaken door\\nThree horsemen passed to return no more.\\nFrom the German Uhland.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. Ill\\nWhy He Showed a Full Moon.\\nSir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer, was some\\ntime ago fulfilling an engagement in a certain town, and\\nwhile walking along one of the streets, came up to a man\\nwho was urgently inviting the passers-by to gaze through\\nhis telescope at the moon for the modest sum of one-half\\npenny. The astronomer at once decided to test the man s\\ninstrument; and so, after venturing a copper, applied his\\neyes to the tube. But what was Sir Robert s astonish-\\nment when he saw a fine picture of a full moon, although\\nat the time the lamp of night was only in her second\\nquarter.\\nBeing unable to account for the circumstance, he set\\nabout examining the instrument, and soon found that it\\nwas not a telescope at all, but simply a tube with a small\\nhole where the eye-piece should be, and a transparent\\nphotograph of a full moon with a light behind it at the\\nother end On the great star-gazer asking the exhibitor\\nhow he could so gull the public, the fellow calmly replied\\nOh, sir, it s all right. You know that folks like a lot\\nfor their money nowadays. I used to have a proper sort\\nof scope once, but I turned it up for this, after a big,\\nhulking Scotchman bullied me for showing im only arf\\nof a moon This way pays better, an gives more satis-\\nfaction Don t you see, sir Mobile Register.\\nPhysician Why, my good woman, your husband\\nhasn t mumps, it s rheumatism. Your note said he had\\nthe mumps.\\nThe Good Woman Yes, sir; we know it, sir, it s\\nroomatism all right, but mumps was easier to spell.\\nThe more money a girl has, the less she cares for men.\\nAn honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Richard. 111.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nEights Broke Him. Gambler Had Sevens and He\\nLost a Paper Weight.\\nWas using weight as bluff and played four sevens with\\nthe result that he could not travel.\\nPoker I ve played poker all my life. I ve gone\\ninto the game with a $5.00 stack and cashed in a hundred.\\nI ve gone in with a hundred and have left the table with-\\nout cashing anything. I ve made phenomenal draws,\\nbeen beat out on four kings; I ve stood pat on a pair of\\njacks and I ve stood pat on four of a kind. I ve been\\nflush and been broke, but the best move in my life was\\nwhen I caught one of the best poker players in Syracuse,\\nsaid my friend, the gambler.\\nI rolled into Syracuse from Rochester after a most\\nunsatisfactory week at the table. I am a professional, of\\ncourse. I don t make any bones about it. I make my\\nliving at it, and I have to take my chances against the\\nbest men in the business. They did me in Rochester,\\nhang em; took my heart also. But, heart! That s\\neverything in poker. The man without heart, or nerve,\\nwhatever you like to call it, is no use in a poker game. I\\nhad my heart when I landed in Syracuse and about sixty\\ncents. I went to the Yates, got a meal and a cocktail, and\\nas I leaned up against the clerk s desk, wondering how\\nsoon it would be before I would get hungry again, a\\ndrummer appeared who had known me in Rochester. He\\ngave me the glad hand, and after he had registered, asked\\nme if there was any chance to get in a game at night. I\\nsaid, Of course, and he said that^if I could get one man,\\nhe had two salesmen acquaintances who wanted to play a\\nlittle while, and if we could meet privately in his room at\\neight o clock, we might spend the evening pleasantly. I\\nagreed, but where was I going to get my wherewith was a\\nquandary.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 113\\nPAPERWEIGHT HIS STACK.\\nI had about made up my mind to strike the clerk for\\na loan until my firm could send a check, when my eye\\nlighted on a paper weight which lay on the desk. It was\\na sample from a steel house, and it was made in imitation\\nof a pile of half dollars, making in all a stack that looked\\nlike $20.00. There I was heeled. When the clerk was\\nnot looking I captured it. I procured a piece of paper\\nfrom the clerk s pad, and, going into the coatroom, I\\nwrapped up Mr. Paperweight until he looked so natural\\nthat any bank clerk that ever lived would have bought it\\nfor $18.00 and smiled at the bargain.\\nAt eight o clock I was on hand. There was a fellow\\nI supposed was a young drummer in the party, who said\\nhe was making his first trip out. My drummer friend had\\nbrought him along as a snap. He didn t know me, but\\nI supposed, of course, that he was alright, or his friend\\nwould not have invited him in the game. So when we\\nwere seated about a little round table he said: Let Lon\\n(meaning me) be banker. No one ever kicks against a\\nsuggestion of that kind, and I was made banker. I set up\\nmy roll of steel and took $20.00 worth of chips, and every-\\nbody else took $10.00. I put their money and my roll on\\na chair, and we began playing. I lost on every hand I\\nplayed, and my $20.00 worth was soon gone. I took\\nanother stack and remarked that the clerk would make\\nme good. Then luck changed. I won. The green drum-\\nmer was the only other lucky man in the party. He was\\na hard man for me to buck against. He beat me every\\ntime. Finally I stood to win $50.00 if I cashed in, steel\\nroll and all, and I was inclined to complain of cold feet\\nand quit, but I took one more hand.\\nHELD FOUR SEVENS.\\nFour sevens! Sevens! The very hand that a man\\ntold me to play until I died. He\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that slim, green unin-\\nitiated drummer took one card. He raised it a dollar when\\nI bet a chip, and all that other gang stayed out. We\\nbanged away at each other for some time. I looked at", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nhim closely, and somehow he seemed to have changed. He\\ndidn t look like the weak-backed drummer. He had the\\nsteely eye, the marble heart of a professional. I said exas-\\nperated: I d like to bet a little more than the limit.\\nWell, said he, and I thought he trembled, I might take\\none big bet. I reached over and picked up a $20 bill\\nwhich lay on the chair. Til bet this. Blast him, he\\nwent down in his sock and raised me $20.\\nHE BET THE PAPERWEIGHT.\\nThere was just $40 left on the chair and my roll of\\nsteel. Til raise you $20, said I. Til see you, said he.\\nHe wasn t scared. I could see that, and my four sevens\\nwere small, I felt confident that he had a full house and the\\nmoney was mine, and I called him simply because there\\nwere no more paperweights in sight.\\nTve got a small two pair, said he.\\nI knew he had two pairs of one kind, and I remarked.\\nMine are sevens.*\\nTour eights, said he.\\nI m broke, gentlemen, said I, and I picked up my\\novercoat and left before he could open the roll of steel. 1\\nwent downstairs and told the clerk that I was going out to\\nmake a borrow. I got out of town on the Cannon Ball at\\n1 o clock, and I got off at Oneida because that was the first\\nstop and the conductor rather insisted on it. My Tele-\\ngraph.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "SWINDLES.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "FAKE rS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 117\\nThese Swindling Times.\\nO, how crooked the ways\\nOf the average man,\\nHe will beat you and cheat you\\nWhenever he can;\\nHe will rob you outright,\\nIn defiance of law,\\nAnd the money right out\\nOf your pocketbook draw,\\nIn these swindling times, these swindling times,\\nEverything is a fraud wherever you go.\\nThe doctor will tell you\\nHe ll cure all your ills,\\nWith his puffs and his powders,\\nHis syrups and squills,\\nHe will give you a dose\\nThat will make you grow fat,\\nOr some pill that will leave\\nAll but your boots and your hat,\\nIn these swindling times, etc.\\nThe grocer will tell you\\nHe ll sell you pure food.\\nW hen you buy it, and try it,\\nYou find it no good.\\nHis sugar is glucose,\\nHis coffee all peas,\\nHis butter is bogus,\\nAnd so is his cheese,\\nIn these swindling times, etc.\\nThe man that sells dry goods,\\nTakes a whole page or more,\\nOf the paper, to lie\\nAbout his big store,\\nHe will sell you old truck,\\nAnd cheat when he can,", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINI 3 0SED.\\nAnd then he will swear,\\nHe s too honest a man,\\nIn these swindling times, etc.\\nThe man that sells whisky,\\nWill swear it is old,\\nAs pure as the sunshine,\\nAnd precious as gold;\\nYou take a few drinks\\nBefore going to bed,\\nIn the morning get up\\nWith a badly swelled head,\\nIn these swindling times, etc.\\nThe lawyer will swear\\nRight straight in your face,\\nThat for a big fee\\nHe will win you your case.\\nWhen the trial is over,\\nAnd you re badly beat,\\nHe ll say a bribed jury\\nHas caused your defeat,\\nIn these swindling times, etc.\\nThe restaurant keeper\\nGoes for your cash,\\nWith his skim milk for cream,\\nAnd his horrible hash\\nIs dishwater soup,\\nAnd his can goods, so fine,\\nPut up in the year\\nEighteen hundred and nine,\\nOh these swindling times, etc.\\nAnd the cities are governed\\nBy robbers and thieves,\\nIn a manner so shameful\\nThat honesty grieves.\\nThere is nothing on earth\\nThe officials will not take,\\nFor even the poor house", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAF DWINDLES EXPOSED. 119\\nIs run on the n\\nIn these swindiii^ t mes, etc.\\nAnd when these swindlers die,\\nAnd for judgement appear,\\nThat they 11 fool old St. Peter,\\nI very much fear;\\nFor when he left the earth,\\nAnd crossed o er the Styx,\\nNo one had imagined\\nThe villanous tricks,\\nOf these swindling times, etc.\\nThe one honest man\\nUpon whom to depend,\\nIs the bold Auctioneer,\\nThe people s best friend.\\nHe asks you to bid\\nAnything for a start,\\nAnd if he don t get swindled,\\nHe has to be smart,\\nIn these swindling times, these humbugging times,\\nAll is fraud and deception wherever you go.\\n3\u00c2\u00bb\\nWill Return the Mun.\\nI am told by the Sharks who I meet this year,\\nThere s a great falling off in suckers everywhere.\\nThey are very uneasy, and they freely pine,\\nTis all. caused by this book of mine.\\nAnd declare tis a shame without a pretext,\\nFor me to put so many people next.\\nAs I had done business most everywhere,\\nAnd they say tis because I am now in the clear.\\nAnd I am going to quit the auction block\\nBecause I can do it, without going in hock.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120 FAKES, GEAFTS AND ES EXPOSED.\\nBut my answer to all who ever they be,\\nIn this book is a likeness of me.\\nAnd you can tell if you ever saw\\nThe Auctioneer from Arkansaw.\\nAnd if you did, and you got done,\\nWhy just write to me and, I will return the mun\\nDammann an Easy Victim. Visitor from Des\\nMoines Goes to Manawa and Gets Robbed on\\nthe Pin Game.\\nC. L. Gr. Dammann, a visitor from Des Moines, la.,\\nboarding at 2215 Burt street, made an excursion to lake\\nManawa Sunday and was robbed of $200, a diamond pin\\nand a gold ring on the pin game, which was run out of\\nthis city by the sheriff a few weeks ago. Mr. Dammann\\nsaw one dollar follow the next in an effort to get the ball\\nin the hole and after he had lost all his effects and was part\\nway on the road to this city he realized what had been done\\nto him. He accordingly retraced his steps and demanded\\nhis money of the proprietor of the building where the\\ngame was operated. The proprietor said that Dummann s\\nproperty was by that time in South Omaha and he named\\na place where the stranger could go and obtain it. Dam-\\nmann kept watch at the corner designated all yesterday\\nafternoon but failed to see the other parties of the appoint-\\nment and last night reported the matter to the police.\\nFrom the description given it is believed the game was\\nhandled by Iron Peg, or Gr. E. Wright, who was recently\\ngiven a suspended sentence in police court to leave town.\\nWright is an old-time confidence man. Omaha Herald.\\nThe-dog-in-the-manger-sentiment is the foundation\\nof every love affair.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 121\\nX\\nA Grind Joint At Work.\\nI was going down Canal Street in New Orleans with a\\nfriend of mine recently, when the familiar tones of an\\nauctioneer in a grind joint caused us to pause, and this\\nwas the harangue the crowd had to listen to. Here he\\noffered a Box lot 1 for sale; my friend being a reporter\\nhe just took it down in shorthand and here it is: I have\\nin my hand a lot of goods just sent in by a lady from the\\nhotel; she is traveling and destitute and comparatively\\nhelpless, having fallen down recently and broken her ankle,\\nbelow the Auction Joint and must dispose of these\\ngoods to get home. There is nothing in it for the house,\\nonly the commission, and I assure you I have worked\\nearly and late. I have toiled in heat and cold. I once\\nwent from Frisco to San Antonio and had nothing to\\nchew on, but my suspenders. I have actually been so\\nhungry that toad stools, have tasted like oysters, but in\\nall this I have never forgotten my honor, and before I\\nwould use enough of this unfortunate lady s money, to\\nbuy a sticking plaster for Bill s sore head, I would be\\nramed jammed into a cannon, and primed with a peck of\\nLimberger cheese and fired through the Rocky Mountains.\\nNo sir,l will charge no commission, and whatever this lot of\\ngoods bring, she will get in full, so come up and examine\\nthem they will stand inspection. The lady claims the lot\\ncost her $85.00, and from my knowledge of this class of\\ngoods, I believe it. Then followed the usual programme,\\na pluger steps up and examines the plush box, the ear\\nrings, the finger ring and the watch and chain, and wants\\nto know if he can make a deposit. No sir, it is a commis-\\nsion sale, and must be cash, etc. Then the chilber offers\\nto buy the ring alone, but this offer is also refused. By\\nthis time rummeys are interested, and several are rubber-\\ning. Another booster wants to buy the ear rings. He,\\nlike the first one, not having enough money with him to\\nis", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 FAKES, GEAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nbid on all, the answer is made with a very little variation.\\nBy this time it is knocked off to a rube for $8.75, he having\\nbeen quietly influenced by the two chilbers, that they\\nwould buy the two articles mentioned, and he quickly\\nfiguring the aggregate sum would nearly leave him the\\nwatch and chain, etc., clear, and while the bill of sale is\\nbeing made out. the plugger s drop out, and are gone\\nwhen wanted to keep their agreement. And thus another\\nsucker is done; for in his anxiety to get something for\\ncomparatively nothing, he gets nothing for something.\\nMy friend being by this time interested in what to him\\nwas a new kind of bunko joint, we concluded to stay\\nand see the game a little further. The wind jammer seeing\\nour good fronts and apparent interest, and not recog-\\nnizing me, as I had done the square thing by the wind and\\nraised whiskers since we met, I asked the proprietor if\\nhe had any high priced goods, that the time was out on.\\nYass, there was one lot, too valuable to sell with such a\\nsmall audience, but he sprung it, consisting of an L. K.\\ngold watch and chain, Masonic Badge, sleeve buttons, finger\\nring, an imitation diamond shirt-stud. He passed it up\\nto the speeler saying this lot was pawned by Conducter\\nSam Turner, who run a train right here on the bridge\\ndivision of the L. N. R. K for years, and who lost his\\nposition during the big strike. Now, Mr. Toomey, I do\\nnot want them started for less than $50.00 as they origin-\\nally cost $265. Now, for the benefit of any of my readers\\nwho may contemplate living in hot air and many truths\\nfor their bread and fish, I give you the talk which Billy\\nput up on it, and there was none better. Now,\\ngentlemen, you heard what Mr. Eppenstein said in regard\\nto these goods, and before offering them for your inspec-\\ntion, I wish to make a few preliminary remarks. The most\\nof you are probably aware of the circumstances under\\nwhich this sale is being made, but as there may be some in\\nthe audience, who have not read the Legal Notices in\\nthis week s paper, I will state that this sale is recently\\ninaugurated to comply with the laws of the land, and the\\nstatutes of the State of Indiana, which says in part that", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "FAKES, AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 123\\neach and every ker or money-lender, on personal\\nchatties, mast o: ;ale at public auction every twelve\\nmonths, all unre pledges, and each and every pledge\\nmust have two I 3 re it is exempt. However, the\\nauctioneer may reserve the privilige of not accepting the\\nfirst bid providing it does not equal one-fourth of the\\nintrinsic present value of the offering. Now that is just\\nthe kind of a sale this is. The past year has been a hard\\none owing to labor troubles, etc., and the accumulation of\\nvaluables, are much above the average; therefore, the old\\nsaying that its an ill wind that blows no body good was\\nnever more fully illustrated than today, as other people s\\nloss is your gain, and as those valuables are thus forced on\\nthe market, it is your good luck to be present at the sacri-\\nfice and purchase at prices that suit yourselves. If any\\none present has not all the money with them, and wishes\\nto bid, a deposit will suffice, and thirty days w T ill be given\\nto pay the balance, and regarding Mr. Eppenstein s\\nresponsibility, I will say without fear of successful contra-\\ndiction his commercial rating is quoted A. 1. He has been\\nin business right here twenty-five years. Just think of it,\\na quarter of a century, and in that time built up a reputation\\nfor truth and veracity second to none, and you will find\\nevery thing just as represented, and a written guarantee is\\ngiven to that effect, and if found otherwise the money will\\nbe cheerfully refunded. Now, I will take up no more of\\nyour valuable time, but continue the sale, by offering you\\nthis valuable lot of unredeemed chatties, which were\\npawned together, and must be sold the same way in com-\\npliance with the law. However, any agreement you make\\namong yourselves will be satisfactory regarding the\\ndifferent articles. This is said to assist the chilbers, who\\nthe reader will understand is hired to puff, and agrees\\nto buy a certain article at extravagant prices, if the rummy\\ndoes not want it all. And thus the game goes on the blind\\nlady gets the opera glasses, and the one legged soldier gets\\nthe skates.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWI1S [POSED.\\nThe Over Check Racket.\\nA true incident that occurred early in November, 1899.\\nin a town of 5000 people less than 100 miles due south of\\nKansas City, Mo., on the Missouri Pacific E. R.\\nThe party that this scheme was worked on is an old\\nresident and business man of his town and quite widely\\nknown and for this reason I will not give his correct name\\nnor the name of the town in which it occured.\\nIt was 3 p. m. when a leather tall, modest appearing\\nman of thirty-five years entered the furniture store in\\nR he greeting the salesman in charge very pleasantly\\nand introduced himself, saying he had been sent here by\\nhis firm to do magazine w T ork, special corresponding, etc.;\\nand that he would be here fully six months or more; that\\nhe had just rented a suite of rooms from Mrs. P but\\nthat they were lacking in a few pieces of furniture and\\nthat he desired to purchase a big, easy chair and a desk.\\nAfter looking the stock over for twenty or thirty minutes\\nhad a little arguing about the price, he selected $23.50\\nworth of goods and inquired if they could be delivered at\\nonce, saying he would go up with them. He was told that\\nthe goods oould be delivered at once. He then tendered in\\npayment for them a check on the National Bank at\\nLacrosse, Wis. This check was for $33.75; the proprietor\\nlooked the check over and believing it to be a good one,\\nhanded him $10.25 in change, the goods were delivered at\\nonce, the stranger going along with them. After the\\ngoods were placed in the house, the stranger returned and\\ntalked quite freely about his work and different topics.\\nHe then inquired where was the best place to buy station-\\nery and left. This w^as the last seen of him. The check\\nwas sent away for collection that night. In seven days it\\ncame back protested, saying that the man was wanted in\\nfive different states. Upon investigation it was found that\\nupon his arrival in town he rented the suite of rooms but\\npaid .no rent on them; but said he would not want to", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "125\\noccupy them for a week but in order to bold them he\\nwould bring down some furniture which he had purchased\\ndown town. This, of course, seemed all right to the land-\\nlady, until she was told that he would not be back as per\\npromise. Of course the merchant got his furniture back\\nbut was out his $10.25, whicli was too small an amount to\\ntry and find him for and have him punished. No doubt\\nhe is to this day doing a nice little business, perhaps\\nmaking $10 to $12 per day, and as long as he does not try\\nto make too large a haul at one time, he may continue\\nsuccessfully for years, for the amount is too small to spend\\nmuch money trying to capture him, and besides tis very\\nfew people who care to have anyone know that they have\\nbeen duped.\\nFraud Through the Mails.\\nSpecial Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.\\nBought goods on credit, sold for cash below listed cost\\nand never settled worked under three names, according to\\nthe United States Officers.\\nHunter, Mo., October 7. James M. Brown, the Post-\\nmaster at Peggy, Carter County, Mo., and his brother and\\nassissant, Jefferson D. Brown, were arrested at that place\\ntoday by Deputy United States Marshal William M.\\nOsmer, of St. Louis, charged with using the mails to\\ndefraud. They were first removed from office by Post Office\\nInspector E. L. McKee, who accompanied the deputy\\nmarshal for that purpose. The prisoners were taken to\\nPoplar Bluff, where they will have a preliminary hearing\\nbefore United States Commissioner J. L. O Bryan.\\nThe Browns are charged with obtaining goods on\\ncredit from firms all over the United States, especially drug-\\ncompanies and patent medicine manufacturers, which\\ngoods they resold to jobbers at much below the cost price.\\nIn frequent instances, it is charged, the goods were never\\neven opened, but were reshipped to the purchasers in the\\nboxes and parcels in which they were received. They are\\ni", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 FAKES, DRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\naccused of having operated during the past two years from\\nPiedmont, Ellington, Exchange and Peggy, Mo., as well as\\nplaces in Iowa and Texas. They obtained all kinds of\\nmerchandise by this means, it is charged, including furni-\\nture, groceries, drugs, harness and saddlery, tobacco,\\njewelry, school desks and in fact, about every commodity\\ntheir victims could be induced to part with on credit.\\nThey operated under the firm names of J. S. Brown Co.,\\nJ. D. Brown Co., and Brown Bros., each of which had\\nalluring letter heads for correspondence purposes.\\nThe prisoners are alleged to have victimized business\\nhouses in all the larger cities and in many smaller towns.\\nThey received large shipments of goods at Piedmont,\\nSabula, Leeper and Ellington, Mo., some of which are still\\nheld for the payment of freight charges, or on shippers\\norders. Their list of creditors is said to include the\\nDetroit Tobacco Company, Detroit, Mich.; Haney School\\nFurniture Company and Grand Rapids Furniture Com-\\npany, Grand Rapids. Mich.; Fred Kauffman Tailoring\\nCompany, Chicago, besides others in New York City,\\nCleveland, Akron and Toledo, O. Chattanooga, Memphis\\nand McKinny, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; South Bend, Ind.,\\nas well as about thirty St. Louis houses. One of the latter,\\nfrom correspondence secured today, appears to have\\npurchased many small bills of patent medicines and drugs\\nfrom the Browns, and to have several further propositions\\nunder consideration. The reason given by the Browns for\\nwanting to sell was, usually, that they were going out of\\nbusiness and were compelled to part with their stock at a\\nsacrifice.\\nDeputy Osmer and Inspector McKee left St. Louis for\\nPiedmont Wednesday night, armed with warrants for\\nthe arrest of the two Browns and a supposed accomplice,\\nwhose name had not been learned. In addition to the\\nprisoners, they secured several large bundles and a box of\\nletters; which had been received by the Browns.\\nThe receipt of circulars by a number of drug houses\\nand jobbers in St. Louis in which the Browns offered to\\nsell certain standard medicines at very low prices, first", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "FAKES 3 AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 127\\naroused, the si s of the federal authorities, and\\ninquiries were s which led to the trip of the officers\\nto Southeast Missouri. The Ballard Snow Liniment Co.\\nis said to have had a proposition from the Browns to sell a\\nlarge amount of standard medicines within the last few\\nweeks. The Indiana Drug Specialty Co. also had a com-\\nmunication from them as late as September 29. The\\nexcuse for selling was that they were going out of business\\nand would dispose of their stock at a sacrifice. A similar\\nbusiness, under the same name, is said to have been car-\\nried on from Des Moines, la., during the last few months.\\nKnock-out Drops.\\nFrequent reference is made in the police reports to\\nknock-out drops, which are administered in drinks for\\nthe purpose of so stupefying the victim that robbery is the\\neasiest thing in the world. As to the composition of the\\ndrops a Philidelphia surgeon says:\\nKnock-out drops may be and are any concentrated\\nsolution of a narcotic medicine, such as preparations of\\nopium and its active ingredients, such as morphia, codeia,\\nnarcotina, etc., also preparations of Cannabis Indica, or\\nIndian hemp or hasbeesh, and many of the newly-intro-\\nduced preparations, such as sulphonal. But the knock-\\nout drops, as generally understood are a solution of\\nchoral hydrates, say about 30 grains to the drachm of water.\\nIt is a very soluble preparation of a sharp, pungent taste,\\nand adds to the stimulating tonic effect of the alcoholic\\nbeverage, and is serious in its consequences when given to\\npersons afflicted with heart trouble.\\nWhen the devil had his choice as to instruments lie\\nfirst picked jealousy.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINI 3 0SED.\\nA Snap for Bargaii ers.\\nHere is an advertisement which was run for some time\\nin the leading papers throughout the United States a few\\nyears ago:\\nNOTICE.\\nFor a short time only, we will send to any address,\\nby express, all charges paid, on receipt of $1.00, ten yards\\nof our famous brand of Lamar Silk. We do this in order\\nto introduce and create the demand for it in this country,\\nthat it has in England; and in no way can we more suc-\\ncessfully demonstrate its superiority over other silks than\\nby placing it directly among the people. In no instance\\nwill two orders be filled for the same person. Order today\\nas this will not appear again. Address, Panison Fur and\\nSilk Co., Drawer No. Or some other strange name\\nwould be used, and some large city selected where a post-\\noffice box would be rented, and it is needless to say the\\nadvertisers did a big business. Women all over the\\nland going up against it like a hungry hog for a hay stack,\\nand they always got their silk and full measure; but it\\nwas only ten yards of silk thread.\\nBlondines the Birds.\\nBrooklyn swindler dyes sparrows yellow and sells\\nthem for canaries.\\nIf you bought a canary bird recently and it declines to\\nsing, perhaps you have met him. If the bird is turning\\nfrom yellow to brown in color, it s sure you have. He\\nis an enterprising, clever and well-dressed swindler, who\\nhas been reaping a rich harvest selling sparrows, dyed\\nyellow, for singing canaries.\\nHe sells the birds at $2.00, half down only, to show\\nhis good faith. The birds are frightened, he says, but\\nwill be singing when he calls for the other dollar. They\\nnever sing; he never calls.\\nThe police are looking for the swindler. Fort Ham-\\nilton has been the scene of his biggest returns.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "129\\nThe Feather Renovator Shark.\\nI would especially warn all house-keepers against this\\nclass of human wolves, as in no instance have I ever\\nknown a feather bed or pillow to be returned, after being;\\nrenovated by these sharks, without being short, and if\\nnoticed by the house- wife, they will exclaim, the dirt,\\nwhich was just awful, is completely gone, etc. They\\nendeavor to always do this business when the man of the\\nhouse is not there, and on making a delivery they gener-\\nally get the lady of the house to sign a matter-of-form\\nwhich they assure her is merely to assist him in getting\\nother jobs, as well as a receipt, as he is comparatively a\\nstranger in that vicinity, and she is so well-known, etc.\\nHowever, this is nothing more or less than a certificate\\nthat the feather bed or pillows, etc., were returned in full,\\nand perfectly satisfactory. So yon have no recourse when\\nyou have discovered the steal. Never trust strangers with\\nyour feathers. There are different ways to do the work\\nat home.\\nMock Auctions or Grind Joints.\\nMrs. Ida Hutchinson of 1037 1-2 Market street stood\\nbefore Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Drury yesterday\\nafternoon with a gold watch and chain, a ruby pin, ruby\\near-rings and a gold ring in which two rubies were set on\\nthe bias.\\nOf course, it wasn t real gold, and the rubies were only\\nglass.\\nDombard Loan Company, said Mr. Drury, before\\na word had been uttered by the melancholy-looking\\nwoman.\\n16", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\n44 Why, yes; but how did you know?\\n1016 Market street, continued the lawyer.\\nThat s the place.\\nYou bought them at auction and got cheated.\\nI did. I was swindled out of $12.\\nAnd now you want a warrant for the arrest of the\\nmen who sold the goods to you. We have had several of\\nthese cases. Some have been settled by refunding the\\nmoney.\\nWhile the warrant was being made out, Mrs. Hutchin-\\nson told thp story of her purchase. She went into the\\nauction house, she said. The auctioneer remarked that\\nbefore beginning business he would sell a watch and chain\\nand some Jewelry that had been left by a lady who was\\nsick. He said the goods were worth $80.\\nThe watch and jewelry were put up, and somebody\\nsaid, ten dollars. Ladies near me urged me to bid but I\\nhave since been told that they were cappers. One of the\\nwomen said she would come to my house the next day and\\ngive me $5.00 for the ear-drops alone, but she hasn t come\\nyet. I bid $12 and got the jewelry, which isn t worth\\nanything.\\nJohn Doe warrants were issued on the charge of petty\\nlarceny by trick and device.\\nI quote the above from the San Francisco Examiner as\\nan illustration of the many methods resorted to by Fake\\nauction houses, or Grind Joints, to dispose of their\\npinch-back jewelry and Waterbury watches the former\\nwill turn back in a day or two, and the latter has a town\\nclock escapement, three wheels, and seventeen yards of\\nmain-spring, and you would be required to stay up all\\nnight winding it, to get it to run the next day. I once took\\none of these main-springs out of the case, and it recoiled\\nwith such a spring, I could see nothing of it but a\\ncrack in the air, and I advise my readers to stay clear of\\nthe Grind Joints, which are nothing more.\\nForgiveness is the key that opens Heaven.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 131\\nSend No Money. But a Self Addressed Envelope.\\nA wife s long suffering from her husband s strong\\ndrink is over. I have accidentally discovered a secret\\ncure, and I am so grateful that I will send the formula\\nfree of charge to any wife, mother or anyone else suffer-\\ning likewise. It can be administered secretly, in coffee,\\netc., if desired. Address Mrs.\\nThe above is an advertisement vfhich has been running\\nsteady for years in the cheap periodicals, and occasionally\\nin the Sunday papers. So I recently made up my mind to\\nsee where the graft was. Believing it cost money to\\nrun an ad so long and extensively, regardless of blank\\ngratitude to the Almighty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or anyone else, and, therefore,\\nwrote the said party, mailing the letter from a small\\ntown, and having the answer sent to the same place, as I\\nwas next and thought the letter would not be answered\\nto a large city. In the course of time I got a reply in a\\nfeminine hand and very sympathetic, and dwelling at\\ngreat length on the enclosed formula, w T hich was a lot of\\nrubbish of high sounding name, and wound up by saying,\\n4 there was two or three of the ingredients which could\\nnot be purchased in the small town. She was afraid I\\ncould not get the order filled properly, and would there-\\nfore fill it complete, and send it to me in a plain package\\nfor $2.65, and assured this is what it cost her at wholesale\\nexcepting a small margin for packing, postage, etc.\\nThus was my confidence in womankind once more\\njarred, for upon reading the formula to a friend of mine in\\nthe drug business in Minneapolis, Minn., he laughed and\\nsaid he could not fill it, as some of the ingredients were\\nextinct, being considered worthless; but if he had them the\\ncost would not be over fifty cents. She had probably\\nbought a lot of these worthless ingredients for a song, and\\nwas making money filling orders. This, like the Agents\\nWanted grafts, is worked many ways and by different\\nsharks. The business end in every instance being a\\nreceipt that you will find difficult to get accurately filled\\nwithout their assistance.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nNo Prizes Are Recovered.\\nToolyuhgimme! Toolyuhgimme! Toolyuligimme!\\nrattled the auctioneer who recently opened the annual\\nsale of unclaimed freight collected by the American\\nExpress company throughout the state in Chicago.\\nThe intention of the salesman was to ascertain if any-\\nbody in the crowd assembled at 186 Wabash avenue would\\ngive him 20 cents for a battered grip which looked as if an\\nelephant had been using it for a shoe.\\nDavisferfifteen, he continued and a second-hand\\ndealer took his prize, while the auctioneer continued his\\nharangue, which sounded something like a boy on the run\\nholding a stick on a picket fence.\\nThe goods offered were principally dusty bags, leather\\nhand sachels and the like. The spectators were not\\nbeguiled by the mystery of what might be inside of them\\nand they kept the price very low. One young fellow\\nbought a canvas telescope which was about the size of a hall\\nbedroom. It contained a soiled shirt and a necktie of a\\nbygone pattern.\\nThis kind of sale is known among the prefession as\\nOld Hoss and a few years ago were eagerly sought for\\nby per-centage auctioneers as well as the public, but now\\nit is a difficult matter for an express or freight agent to\\nsecure a reputable auctioneer to make an Old Hoss sale.\\nOwing to the fact a great many agents who were authorized\\nby their respective companies to conduct such sales a few\\nyears ago, took advantage of their opportunity to Stoff\\nthe sales and put in worthless packages of their own,\\nnicely wrapped and labeled, generally resembling jewelry\\nC. O. D. and got up to deceive the bidders, they thinking\\nof course they were unclaimed valuables and as the auc-\\ntioneer represented them, as such they had no difficulty in\\ndoing a land office business, and without the auctioneer\\nbeing aware of the fraud, he was instrumental in per-\\npetrating, as few purchasers open their prizes in", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "133\\npublic, and when the fake was discovered, they had no\\nrecourse. However, as the above clipping shows the\\npublic is getting next, and instead of the well dressed\\nintelligent, adviser that once frequented such sales, it is\\nBar Flies, Hobos, and the poorest class of second-hand\\ndealers, who only bid on what is in sight- taking no\\nchances.\\nA Noted Swindler Has Just Been Released From\\nthe Penitentiary. Abe Rothchild, Diamond\\nThief and Murderer.\\nOne of the most notorious swindlers and crooks in the\\nUnited States was released from the penitentiary Saturday\\nevening in the person of Abe Rothchild, murderer, forger\\nand thief, says the Jefferson City Tribune. He was sen-\\ntenced in 1896 at Moberly for swindling a merchant there.\\nHe was tried under the name of Smyth, this being one of\\nhis many aliases, and was on the prison records as a member\\nof this numerous family.\\nRothchild s operations as a swindler extended from\\nCanada to Texas, and in the carrying out of his nefarious\\nschemes he has committed every crime in the category,\\nincluding murder. This gravest of his crimes was com-\\nmitted in Texas, where he murdered a chambermaid at\\nDallas. There he was tried for his life, but the wealth of his\\nfamily, a prominent Jewish one in Cincinnati saved his\\nneck.\\nRothchilds swindling methods were various. His\\nfavorite scheme, however, was to go into a town and, after\\nstaying a short while, ascertain the business standing of\\nthe merchants.\\nPicking out one that stood highest, he would write to\\nsome wholesale firm in the east and sign the merchant s\\nname to the order, with directions to rush the goods to a\\ntown where a store was to be opened.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 FAKES, GEAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nHe would precede them to the town, register under\\nthat name at the leading hotel, be indentified by the hotel\\nproprietor when the goods came and secure the shipment\\nof goods. Then he would sell ont immediately or ship the\\ngoods to a distant town to be disposed of. This done, he\\nwould hunt new fields of depredation.\\nRothchilds also swindled extensively in diamands,\\nusing about the same means. A rush order for diamonds\\nwould be sent to a wholesaler in the name of a jeweler of\\nstanding. He would register under the name of the jeweler\\nat the local hotel, and would in due time make it known\\nto the proprietor that he was looking for a valuable pack-\\nage that was past due, at the same time inquiring if there\\nwas anybody in town of his name.\\nThe jeweler would of course be mentioned. He would\\ngo to the jeweler and inquire. As the latter had made no\\nsuch order, the diamonds would be turned over to Roths-\\nchilds and he would lose no time in disappearing from the\\nvicinity. These schemes were carried on several years\\nbefore he could be caught.\\nIt was thought several sheriffs would be at the peni-\\ntentiary door Saturday evening ready to receive the wily\\nswindler, but not one appeared. When he was convicted\\nat Moberly there were six in waiting for him, should he\\nbe released on a technicality, or in any other way escape.\\nRothschilds has had a lawyer employed since his impris-\\nonment and it is thought he must have settled in some\\nway with his victims. His father is wealthy and has\\nbefore come to the aid of his crooked son.\\nFirst our pleasures die and then our hopes and fears;\\nand when these are dead the debt is due; dust claims dust\\nand we die too.\\nSleep and rest abundantly The best physicians are\\nDr. Quiet, Dr. Diet and Dr. Merryman.\\nThe paths of glory lead but to the grave.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 13f\\nGone Agin Finnigin.\\nSup rintindint wuz Flannigan;\\nBoss of the siction wuz Finnigin;\\nWhenever the kyars got off en the track\\nAn muddled up things t th divil an back,\\nFinnigin writ to Flannigan.\\nAfther the wrick was all on agin;\\nThat is, this Finnigin,\\nReported to Flannigan.\\nWhin Finnigin first writ to Flannigan,\\nHe writed tin piges did Finnigin,\\nAn he told just how the smash occurerd.\\nFull many a tajus, blunderin wurrud\\nDid Finnigin write to Flannigan\\nAfther the cars had gone on agin,\\nThat was how Finnigin\\nReported to Flannigan.\\nNow Flannigan knowed more than Finnigin\\nHe d more iducation had Flannigan;\\nAn it wore d him clane and complately out\\nTo tell what Finnigin writed about\\nIn his writin to Mister Flannigan,\\nSo he writed back to Finnigin;\\nDon t do sich a sin agin;\\nMake em brief, Finnigin.\\nWhen Finnigin got this from Flannigan,\\nHe blushed rosy red did Finnigin;\\nAn he said: I ll gamble a whole month s pa-ay\\nThat it ll be manny and manny a da-ay\\nBefoore Sup rintindint, that s Flannigan,\\nGits a whack at this very same sin agin.\\nFrom Finnigin to Flannigan\\nRepoorts won t be too long.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nWan da-ay on the siction av Finnigin\\nOn the road sup intindid by Flannigan,\\nA rail gave way on a bit av a curve\\nAn some kyars went off as they made the swerve,\\nThere s nobody hurted, sez Finnigin,\\nBut repoorts must be made to Flannigan,\\nAnd he winked at McGorrigan,\\nAs married a Finnigin.\\nHe wuz shanty n thin, wuz Finnigin,\\nAs many a railroader s been agin,\\nAn the schmoky o l lamp wuz burnin bright\\nIn Finnigin s shanty all that night\\nBilin down his report, was Finnigin\\nAn he writed this here: Mister Flannigan:\\nOff agin, on agin,\\nGone agin. Finnigin.\\nSt. Louis Exchange.\\nThe Small Pox Swindle. How Two Rascals\\nRobbed the Landlord of $500.\\nI dare say you never heard of the great small pox\\nswindle, said the hotel manager. The facts of that\\nremarkable affair were withheld at the time for the most\\nurgent reasons of policy, and even now I prefer to tell the\\nstory without names or localities. It happened in the fall\\nof 1886, when a certain hotel in a large Western city was\\ncrowded with tourists. One day, at the height of the\\nseason, two gentlemanly looking strangers put up at the\\nhouse and were assigned to what we call a double room.\\nAbout a week later one of them appeared at the office and\\nrequested a private interview with the manager. I regret\\nto inform you, he said after the door was closed, that my\\nfriend is down with a severe case of small-pox. The", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "137\\nproprietor nearly fell out of his chair. There was known\\nto be small-pox in the city and the bare suggestion that\\nthe disease had appeared in the hotel was enough to\\nempty it in a twinkling. To let the news get out meant\\nthe loss of thousands upon thousands of dollars. It meant\\nthe ruin of the season s business. He must be quietly\\nremoved at once, said the proprietor, trying to control his\\nagitation. Removed exclaimed the other; taken\\nthrough the cold air to a lazeretto Why, man, that\\nwould be murder I ll not permit it The hotel keeper\\nwas thunderstruck. Do you mean to say he must stay\\nhere? he gasped. Certainly, said the stranger.\\nIt was a ticklish situation. The hotel keeper dare\\nnot enforce his suggestion, while to let the case remain\\nwas like storing gunpowder in a furnace room. He\\npleaded, protested, begged, threatened and blustered, but\\nall in vain. The man was firm as a rock.. If you attempt\\nto eject my sick friend, he declared. I ll publish your\\ninhumanity to the entire community. Finally it occurred\\nto the distracted proprietor to see, first, whether it was\\nreally a case of small-pox. So he sent for a physician,\\nswore him to secrecy and hustled him up to the room.\\nThe doctor took one look at the disfigured face on the\\npillow and reported that the malady was there in a malig-\\nnant type. He advised the man s immediate removal at\\nany cost. If you keep him concealed, he said, the\\ndisease may spread, and it would ruin you for life. You\\nowe something to your guests. Again the proprietor\\ninterviewed the friend and again the latter refused to budge\\nfrom his position. Where can I take him? he demanded.\\nYou know very well I can t get comfortable quarters for\\nsuch a purpose, and 1 won t have him butchered in a pest-\\nhouse to please any landlord on earth? The hotel man\\nfelt his hair stand on end, but concluded to let things\\nstand as they were until morning.\\nNext day he sent for the sick man s friend and asked\\nhim whether he had any suggestions to make. w Yes. he\\nreplied: I thought up a ]Dlan over night, which you may\\n17", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nadopt or not, just as you like. As I said before, he con-\\ntinued, it is useless to try to rent quarters for such a case.\\nWe might, however, buy a small cottage and take him\\nthere. I have figured the thing up and the total expense\\nwould be about $500. If you are willing to hand over that\\namount. I will take him away and assume all further\\nresponsibility. I make the offer entirely out of sympathy\\nfor your guests. The landlord looked him in the eye.\\nI too, have thought the sittuation over, he said, and I m\\nconvinced it s a confidence game pure and simple. I m\\nconvinced there s nothing the matter with your dear friend\\nupstairs, but I am also further convinced that the slightest\\nbreath of the affair would greatly damage the reputation\\nof the house. As a business proposition I consider it worth\\n$500 to get rid of you. The other man smiled ironically.\\nCall a cab and get out your money, he said, and inside an\\nhour the incubus had been spirited through a side door\\nswathed in blankets and driven away. As the landlord\\nshrewdly surmised, the whole thing was a confidence game,\\nand he learned the particulars later on through a sport he\\nhad once befriended. There was nothing the matter with\\nthe rascal upstairs except that his face had been pricked a\\nlittle with a quill dipped in croton oil, something that\\nmakes a horrible-looking pustule, which disappears in a\\nfew days and leaves no mark. I always thought the hotel\\nman had good sense in taking the course he did. He was\\ncaught in a trap and took the cheapest way out. The bare\\nrumor of even a suspected case would probably have\\ninvolved a loss of $50,000 or $60,000. It was far better to\\npay a five and charge it to education.\\nThe man who sits around and brags of his bravery, is\\nthe first to take to the woods in time of danger.\\nFour things cannot be recovered the spoken word,\\nthe sped arrow, past life and neglected opportunities.\\nThink only helpful thoughts As a man thinketh in\\nhis heart so is he.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 139\\nMoccasin is the Indian Shell Game.\\nBucks grow frantic over the primeval little dodger;\\nare worse than crap shooters.\\nGambling games of one kind or another form a not\\ninconsiderable part of the mental life of all savage peoples,\\nwho find in the vagaries of chance, aided more or less by\\nskill, says Tom Davis of the Wild West Show, the\\noccasional exaltation of mind which all men demand in one\\nform or another. But the Indian is the worst gambler of\\nthe lot.\\nAmong them perhaps the most striking is the game\\nof moccasin, which seems to be unquestionably the fore-\\nrunner of the little joker, which every year proves so\\neffective at county fairs in luring dollars from the pockets\\nof the unwary. This game was once widely distributed\\namong the Indian tribes and it has been said that it is now\\nextinct; but it can be seen today in its aboriginal form in\\nany of the outlying parts of the Navaho reservation in\\nArizona.\\nLAYOUT IS SIMPLE.\\nThe paraphernalia of the game are very simple and\\nalways at hand, consisting merely of a knife or other hard\\nsubstance a pebble will do and the moccasins of\\nthe players. The game is usually played at night,\\nalthough sometimes it extends over several days, and in\\nits native setting has a weirdness and fascination which\\nthe modern fakir cannot claim. Five persons usually\\nparticipate, four of them actively, while the fifth acts as\\nmusician, but usually a much larger number watch the\\nprogress of the game and perhaps place a bet occasionally.\\nPicture a rude shelter of green boughs, roughly\\ncircular in form, placed in some thicket, or under the\\noverhanging branches of some large tree. In the center a\\nblanket is spread upon the ground surrounded by fifteen\\nor twenty Indians squatting about it, or leaning over,\\nintently watching the play.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 FAKES, GRAFTS AND 8 WIN] D OSED.\\nSHOES FOR SHEL.L0.\\nThe players take their places at the four corners of\\nthe blanket, and are paired off by couples. Each player\\ncontributes one of his moccasins and the winner of the\\nioss lays them on a blanket upside down, and about six\\ninches apart, with the toes pointing forward. Then with\\nhis left hand he lifts each moccasin in turn, and makes\\nthe pretense of putting the knife under it, making many\\npasses and using every precaution to deceive his opponents\\nand spectators. During all the time the musician keeps\\nup a continuous drumming, which he accompanies with a\\nsong. In the song the others all join, but the opponents\\nof the players eagerly watch for some slip which will give\\nthem a clew as to which moccasin the knife or little joker\\nis concealed under.\\nRULES ARE SIMPLE.\\nWhen the knife is hidden to the satisfaction of the\\nplayer, he suddenly calls out. Ho! in a loud voice, and the\\nsinging drops to a low murmur. One of his opponents is\\nprovidedwith a short stick, and he raises it threateningly\\nover the moccasins, first over one, then over another, while\\nall conversation ceases and every eye is fixed intently\\nupon him.\\nThe interest becomes more and more intense as this\\nby-play proceeds until finally the man with the stick\\nplaces one end of it under the moccasin he selects and\\nturns it over. Should the knife be found under it he wins,\\nand the former player relinquishes to him the moccasins\\nand knife, together with the stakes. It is thereupon his\\nprivilege to hide the knife, while his opponent must\\nguess at its location. This reversal in position gives the\\nnative player a much better chance to come out even on\\nthe play than the average fakir who works the game at\\ncounty fairs is disposed to allow his victim.\\nWe try to keep our people from the game, for gam-\\nbling in a show like this is apt to breed ill feeling, but as\\nwell try to keep a boy on the street from playing craps as\\nto endeavor to prevent a buck from stacking the money he", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 141\\ngets. Turn your back on them for an hour and you will\\niind them hard at work, and on Sundays, when the show\\nlays off its a case of all day with them.\\n9?\\nCleverly Done.\\nCharge it to experience, said the man of t he world\\nwho had just heard the plaint of a friend who had paid\\nfor a straight tip at the races and lost. Cupidity makes\\ngillies of the best of us. I was up against it myself only a\\nfew months ago.\\nNot you?\\nYes, I. Looking out of the window one morning I\\nwas surprised to see a stranger on the lawn hunting closely\\nin the grass and under the shrubbery for something he had\\nevidently lost. He looked like a gentleman in ill health,\\nwas well dressed, and apologized for intruding as soon as\\nI went out. While taking his morning walk he had\\nnoticed a base ball outside the hedge, concluded at once\\nthat it belonged to some boy about the place -and tossed\\nit into the yard. In doing so he had thrown a plain gold\\nring from his finger, emaciated by recent sickness. He\\ndid not mind the intrinsic loss, but the ring had associa-\\ntions that made it very dear to him. After further search\\nhe gave it up, but before leaving he assured me that he\\nwould gladly give $100 to any one leaving the ring at his\\nhotel. Of course, I could take no such reward but I could\\nsend one of the boys and that would make it all right.\\nWhile I was down on all fours inspecting every inch\\nof ground a man dressed like a laborer looked at me a\\nwhile and then joined in the search. He soon had the\\nring. He had it all the time. On learning that it was\\nnot mine, he refused to give it up. He would advertise it\\nand get a reward. After much dickering he turned it\\nover to me for $50. Of course, I never found hide or hair\\nof the invalid.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "142 FAKES, ORAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThere s Danger,\\nWrite it on the liquor store,\\nWrite it on the prison door,\\nWrite it on the gin shop fine,\\nWrite aye, write this truthful line:\\nWhere there s drink, there s danger.\\nWrite it on the work house gate,\\nWrite it on the school boy s slate,\\nWrite it in the copy book,\\nThat the young may on it look*\\nWhere there s drink, there s danger.\\nWrite it on the church yard mound,\\nWhere the drink- slain dead are found;\\nWrite it on the gallows high,\\nWrite it for all passers by:\\nWhere there s drink, there s danger.\\nWrite it underneath your feet,\\nUp and down the busy street;\\nWrite it for the great and small,\\nIn the mansion, cot and hall:\\nWhere there s drink, there s danger.\\nWrite it on the ships which sail,\\nBorne along by storm and gale;\\nWrite it in large letters plain,\\nO er our land and past the main:\\nWhere there s drink, there s danger.\\nHere is the preparation used by Mme. Flournoy, of\\nChicago, for curling hair: Two oz. scrapings of lead, 1-4\\noz. lithage, 1-4 oz. gum camphor. Boil all in one pint of\\nsoft water for half an hour; let it cool, pour off the liquid\\nand add 1 drm. sugar of lead, 1 drm. rosemary flowers.\\nBoil all again and strain, w T hen it is fit for use. Apply to\\nthe hair about once a week and it will curl beautifully.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "How to Start the Auction Business.\\nHERE is an Auctioneer s Institute in London that\\n\\\\M prepare auctioneers for the bench, and has held one\\nannual course. The next one commences May 31. Admis-\\nsion to membership may be obtained in two ways, viz\\nUnder the practice qualification, and by examination.\\nEvening meetings for the delivery of lectures, reading of\\npapers and discussion of subjects of interest to the profes-\\nsion are held monthly.\\nWe have nothing of the kind in this country, but\\nnevertheless produce the world s best auctioneers, which\\ngoes to show that practical experience is the best teacher\\nin that respect, and I know of nothing that offers as much\\nfinancial inducement to the young man, with limited capi-\\ntal, as the auction business does, and it is about the only\\nlegitimate line that is not overdone. This is principally\\n18", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nowing to the prevailing idea that an auctioneer must be\\nparticularly adapted to the business to be successful.\\nThis is a great mistake, for many years of experience as a\\npublic salesman has shown me that anyone of average\\nintelligence, with a good front and a fair power of speech,\\nwill become a competent auctioneer in a short time by\\nselecting one line and giving his undivided attention to it.\\nDress well, but not flashy; study your audience as well as\\nyour goods; always keep cool and self-possessed, for in\\nlosing control of your temper you lose your dignity and\\nprestige, which is half of the battle. This you will find an\\neasy matter, if you are temperate in your habits. Intoxi-\\ncants should never be indulged in; always be smiling\\nand good natured, and be a gentleman. Never get funny\\nat the expense of your audience and never labor under the\\nimpression that it is necessary to be a clown in order to be\\nsuccessful. Confine your remarks to the merits of your\\nofferings and you will find it more profitable than quoting\\nthe old chestnuts and witty sayings. Never lose sight of\\nthe fact of what your audience is there for, and you should\\ntry and create the impression that they are getting them,\\nwhich will be more profitable than idle -witticism. The\\nauction business, like many others, has different branches,\\nbut the most pleasant and profitable of them all is jewelry,\\nnotions and novelties, as the public is least acquainted\\nwith the productive cost of this class of merchaudise, and\\nit is sold in the regular w T ay and at better profit. The stock\\nis easier and less expense to move, and a good flash is\\nmade with little capital. You can travel from town to\\ntown and had with some established merchant jewlers\\nare the best. You will find little difficulty in making such\\nengagements, many merchants being glad to work off their\\nshop worn articles, for cash, giving you ten per cent on\\nthe dollar and you giving them a per cent of the profits on\\nyour goods.\\nBy this arrangement you will have nothing to lose,\\nand everything is gain, and you have likewise no rent,\\nlights, advertising and, last but not least, license. As you\\nare apparantly selling his goods no license is required,", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 147\\nand by thus working on his reputation you will find no\\ntrouble in getting a crowd and good prices. After the sale,\\nyou should get a written recommendation from the mer-\\nchant, and a little write up in the leading newspaper\\nthese to be used in your next adventure, if necessary. I\\nwould say in conclusion, never start a sale without an\\nintroductory speech, in a kind of conversational way.\\nTell the crowd why the sale is made, the object of it, the\\nquality of the offer, the terms of the sale, the hours, and\\nif the merchant has been in business there a number of\\nyears, dwell on that as w T ell as his financiol rating, and any\\nother facts of importance bearing on the case. I have\\nfound these little talks of great benefit to me. Kindly\\nbreak the ice, and put every one at their ease, and start the\\nsale off as smooth as oil. One or two set speeches are of\\ngreat assistance to the amateur auctioneer, and I herein\\ngive a few, and by studying them, a great deal of infor-\\nmation can be gained, and no more printed instructions\\nare necessary. If any further information is desired\\nregarding this matter, or the best place to buy any class of\\ngoods, suitable for auction or other purposes, address me\\npersonally, care of the publishers, and I will be pleased to\\nrespond.\\nJ. Alfred McCurry,\\nMoberly, Mo., U. S. A.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThe Spoony Married Man.\\nTis mostly trifles in this world that makes our sum of woe,\\nA sort of moral insect tribe that sing where er we go;\\nBut of all plagues devised to mar the great terrestial plan,\\nI think the biggest nuisance is the spoony married man,\\nWith his:\\nPetsie, itsie darling, place oo hand in mine\\nRound oo little dainty waist, arm um twinum twice;\\nTis oo huggen huzzens, while um smoove um turls.\\nDon t be tross and fretful, now, or baddest ittle dirls!\\nA Jew once had an enemy who kept a big hotel\\nDown where the waters green and cool in crested billows\\nswell.\\nHe sought revenge, but much despised all common modes\\nof strife.\\nHe simply sent as boarders there a spoony man and wife.\\nIt was:\\nItsie bitsie wild bird, pining for its mate,\\nBad tunductor stopum train make um husband late,\\nBrought urn s dess and bonbons, Cinderalla s so oos,\\nBirdy nest on dear one s breast, while um tell um\\nnews.*\\nFull soon the boarders left the stoop, and some came home\\nwith jags,\\nEach morn revealed a jostling line of townbound traveling\\nbags;\\nThey pleaded business, flood and fire, ship- wreck and loss\\nof life,\\nBut no one breathed a word about the spoony man and\\nwife.\\nThe landlord wildly paced the beach, and gazed upon the\\nsurf,\\nHe thought of money rashly spent, or dropped upon the\\nturf:", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 149\\nBut what has ever brought me this? he cried in wild\\ndespair.\\nWhen suddenly he came upon this spoony married pair.\\nIt was:\\nTootsie wootsie dum-drop, little huzzens turn,\\nDon t oo pout so naughty, don t oo bite oo thumb,\\nOwnest tried to get here sooner than him am,\\nMuzzer s bird of birdies and dear one s pettest lamb.\\nThe landlord raged and stamped and swore; his passion\\nknew no bounds:\\nHe bade the man, with one wild roar, to quit his house and\\ngrounds;\\nHe fired his baggage in the sand and chased him with a\\nknife,\\nAnd now contests a lawsuit with the spoony man and wife.\\nGeorge E. Devyr, in Puck.\\n3*\\nEnglish Swindle Scheme. Three of the American\\nVictims Arrive in London. They Had Snapped\\nat Unclaimed Money in Chancery.\\nLondon, August 26.- The number of swindles to which\\nunclaimed money in chancery has given rise can hardly be\\ncounted. This particular form of swindling is as ancient as\\nit is lucrative, and no matter how many times it may have\\nbeen exposed, new victims are discovered year in and year\\nout.\\nOhio and Michigan, in the United States, appear to be\\nthe latest fields of its operation. Three Americans, filled\\nwith wrath, reached London yesterday. G. F. Fachter, a\\ndeputy sheriff, came from Dayton, O. With him was\\nCharles Ruhereim, from Grand Rapids, Mich. Scott\\nGibson met the couple this morning with a detective from\\nScotland Yard. The Michigan man was greatly excited.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nHe said: I am bound to get my money from G. W.\\nThatcher. He has worked me and others long enough.\\nRuthereinrs tale was the same as those often told.\\nThatcher has been working this swindle for eight years at\\nleast, as a similar swindle on his part was investigated long\\nago. Gibson said he had heard as much, but added there\\nwas some justification for the victim in his particular case,\\nas his father had got some money out of Chancery in 1867.\\nHis plan was, he said, to call on Thatcher, who has been\\nliving at 66 Waterloo road.\\nWhen told that Thatcher would disappear the moment\\nhis victim appeared, Gibson shook his head and said that,\\nanyway, he would ask Thatcher for his money. It was\\nsuggested that Thatcher would probably be without money.\\nGibson replied: That can t possibly be. He could\\nnot spend $2,000 in two months.\\nThis will show the extent of Thatcher s operations.\\nPeople in Dayton, Kenton and other towns of Ohio and\\nother states are anxious to lay their hands on the swindler.\\nAT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY.\\nGibson went to the United States embassy and told\\nhis story, He was informed that the best course to pursue\\nwould be to write home to his friends and get a warrant\\nfrom the governor of Ohio sent to the State Department,\\nwhich would notify the embassy. This was unsatisfactory\\nto Gibson, who was apparently only anxious about his own\\nmoney and that of the people he represented.\\nWhy, he said, excitedly, there are over fifty cases\\nagainst Thatcher. From every one of them he got $100\\nand upwards, and he must have the money. I ll bet the\\ndeputy sheriff is with him now.\\nGibson, on being asked if Thatcher was married,\\nsaid: Well, he s got a wife and six children. We call\\nthat married where I live.\\nThatcher may be arrested for bigamy, as, since his last\\nvisit here, he has married his landlady s daughter. But\\nthe chances are that he will escape arrest, as he has done\\nmore than once before.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 151\\nSo you see it is not always the unsophisticated that\\nbite at alluring bates, but experienced men of the world\\nas well, in fact the latter make the best material, as they\\nseldom make a complaint, and generally have the neces-\\nsary runio. Thatcher had a good thing and did not know\\nit got to strong. I would advise my readers should\\nthey at any time get a foreign mailed letter, with a coat of\\narms and .a big red seal thereon, making inquiries about\\ntheir ancestors, just turn it over to some lawyer to answer,\\nand if there is nothing in it you will be bothered no more,\\nbut if you answer it yourself, nine chances to ten you will\\nbe notified: You are one of the heirs in quite an exten-\\nsive estate, and then will follow the visal program, the\\nsum and substances being a deposit required to protect\\nyour interest.\\nThe Irishman s Choice. Having Nayther Silver\\nNo* Gold he Will Take Ayther.\\nIt was Pat Collins who was addressing a Boston audi-\\nence on the virtues of the gold standard, says the Helena\\nIndependent. He rose in a pompous way and began:\\nMy hearers, I hold in my right hand a silver dollar and\\nin my left hand a gold dollar, and the one represents 35\\ncents worth of silver and is good only in our own country.\\nThe other is a tiny thing, but is worth $1 anywhere in the\\nworld. Now, which, my fellow citizens, will you take?\\nAn old Irishman got up and said Well, sor, as I have\\nnayther, I ll take ayther. The Milesian had voiced the\\nsentiment of the vast majority of workers in the United\\nStates.\\nWhile you live right nothing goes wrong.\\nAssociate with healthy people. Health is contagious\\nas well as disease.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nRead This Little Ditty,\\nAnd thus you see\\nWho ever you be,\\nAnd have not be^n,\\nEre thus taken in.\\nYou are apt to go,\\nWhere you don t know\\nThe stocks of silver\\nIs only won by a shilber.\\nAnd the big fortune wheel,\\nWith its hands of steel,\\nIs only a fake,\\nFor it s worked by a brake.\\nAnd the old clock, too,\\nYou will surely do;\\nFor loaded dice they use,\\nWhenever they choose.\\nAnd the faro bank three,\\nWhich looks so square,\\nIs only a soup\\nFor the average chump.\\nIn fact every game,\\nIs won just the same;\\nAnd I was bound to lose,\\nNo matter which I choose.\\nBut with this book,\\nIn which to look,\\nThere is no reason why\\nYou should be a guy.\\nThe price is small\\nWithin the reach of all;\\nFor if twas high,\\nAll could not buy.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "153\\nThe Drummer s Dream.\\nO, beautiful home of joyous hours,\\nBeautiful fields of sweetest flowers,\\nBeautiful birds and humming bees,\\nLife is so pleasant with things like these.\\nBut we, poor souls, as traveling tars,\\nMust roll along in the dusty cars.\\nNature may blossom and smile with glee,\\nBut its all the same to such as me.\\nWe think but little of nature s work;\\nWe only speak to the hotel clerk,\\nThough never of fields, of fruit, or grain,\\nBut call me up for the morning train.\\nThe Cry of the Dreamer.\\nI am tired of planning and toiling\\nIn the ci*owded hives of men,\\nHeart weary of building and spoiling\\nAnd spoiling and building again,\\nAnd I long for the dear old river\\nWhere I dreamed my youth away\\nFor a dreamer lives forerer,\\nAnd a toiler dies in a day.\\nI am sick of the showy seeming,\\nOf a life that is half a lie,\\nOf faces lined with scheming\\nIn the throng that hurries by.\\nFrom the sleepless thoughts endeavor\\nI would go where the children play\\nFor a dreamer lives forever,\\nAnd a thinker dies in a day.\\nI can feel no pride, but pity,\\nFor the burdens the rich endure;\\nThere is nothing sweet in the city\\nBut the patient lives of the poor.\\n\u00c2\u00bb9", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154 FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSE!\\nOh, the little hands too skillful,\\nAnd the child mind chocked with weeds,\\nThe daughter s heart grows willful,\\nAnd the father s heart that bleeds!\\nNo,. No; from the street s rude bustle,\\nFrom the tropies from smart and stage,\\nI would fly to the wood s low rustle\\nAnd the meadow s kindly page.\\nLet us dream as of yore by the river,\\nAnd be loved for the dream alway\\nFor the dreamer lives forever,\\nBut the toiler dies in a day.\\nJohn Boyle O Reilly.\\n^a\\nSmooth Game.\\nMissouri papers are telling that the Eev. Mr. Cook\\nis victimizing farmers in a unique way. He calls to stay\\nall night, tells the folks he is a minister and proceeds to\\nmake himself at home. In a little while a strange young\\ncouple drive up and ask the farmer if he can direct them\\nto a minister, as they wish to get married. The unsus-\\npecting farmer tells them there is a minister in the house.\\nThey present themselves before him and the ceremony is\\nperformed, the farmer and his wife being called up to\\nwitness the marriage certificate. They sign their names and\\nthe document turns up in a neighborhood bank, a plain\\nnote of hand, ranging any where from $L00 to $200, and\\nwhere the renewed rascal had no trouble in cashing it at\\nonce at a discount, owing to his clerical appearance, and\\nthe fact that he is always fortunate to- secure the signature\\nof some well-to-do farmer who has a good commercial\\nrating.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 155\\nTwentieth Century Wedding Ceremony\\nWritten ry Dan I. Murray,\\nA leading Jewelry Auctioneer.\\nThe minister to the woman:\\nWill you take this brown stone front,\\nThis carriage and this diamond,\\nTo be the husband of your choice,\\nFast locked in bonds of Hymen;\\nAnd will you leave your home and friends,\\nTo be his loving wife.\\nAnd help to spend his large income,\\nSo long as you have life\\nI will, the blushing bride replies,\\nMost eager for the nuptial ties.\\nTo the man:\\nAnd will you take this waterfall,\\nThis ostentatious pride,\\nWith all the unpaid milliners bills,\\nTo be your loving bride;\\nAnd will you love and cherish her\\nWhile you have life and health,\\nBut die as soon as possible,\\nAnd leave her all your wealth\\n4 I will, the fearless groom replies,\\nBut trembling waits the nuptial ties.\\nTo both:\\ni; Then I pronounce you man and wife,\\nAnd what I ve joined together,\\nLet the next best man, disunite,\\nAnd the first divorce court sever.\\nAuctioneer s Journal", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThe Countryman in Town.\\nIt was a stalwart Jerseyman,\\nA hayseed and a jade,\\nWith garments of all homespun stuff,\\nAnd truly rural make\\nIn fact, as countrified a chap\\nAs you would care to meet,\\nWho came to town awhile ago\\nAnd walked up Baxter street.\\nThe enterprising clothiers there\\nRight quickly struck his gate,\\nAnd knew that he was just the sort\\nFor which they lie in wait.\\nA puller-in made fast to him\\nIn front of Cohen s store,\\nAnd hustled him in lively style\\nInside the open door.\\nThe smiling Cohen said, You vants\\nA bair of bants, I see;\\nI sells you now dis lofely bair\\nAs sheap as sheap can be.\\nFife tollar fur dem all-wool bants,\\nDer best you effer saw,\\nYoost let me wrap dem up fur you.\\nThe stranger answered, Naw\\np\\nYou vants a goat? I shows you den\\nDis fine Brince Alpert here,\\nUnd sells it to you sheap like dirt,\\nYay under gost, mine dear.\\nI dunno, said the countryman;\\nI kinder like your shop,\\nAnd mebbe we kin make a trade\\nIf you would keer to swap.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 157\\nTo sell wop? Vot sdot? I want to change\\nThis coat of mine off-hand,\\nBecause for reasons I have got\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWell, don t you understand?\\nAnd so, if your Prince Albert there\\nMy form and style .will suit,\\nI m keen to swap, and I will give\\nA dollar, say, to boot.\\nThey haggled then about the price;\\nThe countryman was firm;\\nIn vain did Cohen plead his cause\\nAnd twist and writhe and squirm.\\nThe trade was made, the dollar paid,\\nThe bargain well to bind,\\nThe stranger took away the coat,\\nAnd left his own behind.\\nTen minutes passed; the countryman\\nCame running in the store,\\nAnd bumped against old Cohen as\\nHe trod the greasy floor.\\nI want that coat of mine he cried\\nWith eager, anxious air;\\nThere s something in it I forgot;\\nI left some papers there.\\nOld Cohen knew a thing or two,\\nAnd this was in his mind:\\nThe man s a thief, and plunder s in\\nThe coat he left behind.\\nNo, no, mine frient, he said aloud,\\nDon t try to play dot game,\\nI bought dot goat yoost like it vas,\\nMit all dings in der same.\\nI ll buy it back the stranger cried,\\nWhat is it worth to you\\nOne dollar? Two? three dollars? Five?\\nCome, now, that ought to do.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SAVINDLES EXPOSED.\\nHe took the coat, and handed out\\nA twenty-dollar bill,\\nAnd Cohen made the change and dropped\\nThe greenback in his still.\\nA fine trade, dot, old Cohen said;\\nDem goundrymens is geese. 1\\nJust then he picked that greenback up,\\nAnd wildly yelled, Boleece!\\nRun, Isaac Ketch that rashcal man\\nI m schwindelt! Oh, I m bit!\\nDot dwenty-tollar bill I shanged,\\nIt vos von gounderfeit\\nThe stranger, mora than satisfied,\\nHad shaken well his feet,\\nAnd put a block or so between\\nHimself and Baxter street.\\nThough Isaac wildly ran about,\\nAnd loudly Cohen swore,\\nThat truly rural countryman\\nThey saw not any more,\\nThe Villain Still Pursued Her.\\nA suit at Oklahoma City has brought out a most\\ncurious train of circumstances. A woman secured a\\ndivorce from her husband, together with a large amount\\nof alimony. The divorced husband then entered into an\\nagreement with a good looking young man in the neighbor-\\nhood whereby the young man was to pay court to the\\nwoman, marry her, get control of all her property and\\ndivide it with the divorced husband. The young man\\ncarried out his agreement to the letter, and then fled the\\ncountry. The suit is now brought by the woman to\\nrecover the property of which she had been defrauded by\\nthe conspiracy. Did ever a novelist conceive of an\\nimprobable plot such as this one sworn to in a court of\\njustice", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "159\\nLike His Mother Used to Make.\\nI was born in Indiany, says a stranger lank and slim,\\nAs us fellers in the restaurant was kind o guyin him,\\nAnd uncle Jake was slidin him another pumpkin pie,\\nAnd a extra cup o coffee, with a twinkle in his eye\\nI was born in Indiany more n forty years ago\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nAnd I haint been back in twenty and I m workin\\nback ards slow;\\nBut I ve et in every restaurant twixt here and Santy Fe,\\nAnd I want to state this coffee tastes like gittin home to me!\\nPour out another, daddy, says the feller warmin up,\\nA-speakin crost a saucerful, as uncle tuck his cup\\nWhen I seed your sign out yender, he went on to\\nUncle Jake\\nCome in and git some coffee like your mother used to\\nmake\\nI thought of my old mother, and the Possey County farm,\\nAnd me a little kid agin a-hangin in her arm,\\nAs she set the pot a-bilin broke the eggs an poured\\nem in\\nAnd the feller kind o halted, with a trimble in his chin.\\nAnd Uncle Jake he fetched the feller s coffee back and\\nstood\\nAs solemn, fer a minute, as a undertaker would;\\nThen he sort o turned and tiptoed to rds the kitchen door\\nand next,\\nHere comes his old wife out with him, a-rubbin of her\\nspecs\\nAnd she rushes for the stranger, and she hollers out\\nIt s him\\nThank God we ve met him comin Don t you know\\nyour mother, Jim\\nAnd the fellow, as he grabbed her, says: You bet I\\nhadn t forgot\\nBut wipin of her eyes, says he: Your coffee s mighty\\nhot!\\nJames Whitcomb Riley.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "160 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nThe Drummer on the Road,\\nThere were mighty men, who now and then\\nOn this earth have had abode;\\nBut the brightest man in nature s plan\\nIs the drummer on the road;\\nIn business skilled, with purse well-filled\\nAnd on his mind no load;\\nHe looks quite meek, but has got cheek,\\nHas this drummer on the road.\\nCHORUS.\\nWith trunk and grip he makes his trip,\\nFor the hotel landlord waits,\\nAnd the drummer his wealth has made,\\nWhile the boarder gets his raise.\\nHe will talk so nice -of wholesale price,\\nOf lots or in car load;\\nHe knows all lists, all turns and twists,\\nDoes this drummer on the road;\\nTo catch a train in snow or rain,\\nThe coldest rain that blowed,\\nWill not stop him, he has got vim.\\nHas this drummer on the road.\\nHis day s work done, he s out for fun\\nWith a story a la Mode,\\nWith a mileage book and a cheerful look,\\nGoes this drummer on the road;\\nThe ladies fair do all declare,\\nWith smiling looks bestowed,\\nAnd wish that they might always stay\\nWhere there s drummers in the road.\\nHelping a child is putting money at long interest.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "161\\nTo Baffle Counterfeiters. Russian Inventor s\\nDevice That Prints Six Colors at One Time.\\nFrom the London News.\\nThe competition between authority and roguery the\\none striving to produce a bank note which cannot be imi-\\ntated, and the other always seeking to imitate what is\\nproduced has led to a very remarkable invention, which\\nis now being shown in London, and which seems likely to\\nrevolutionize the whole system of color printing. For the\\norigin of the invention one must go to Russia. There it\\nwas desired to issue bank notes and bonds by some means\\nthat no forger could copy. Accordingly, a weaver s\\nengineer was called in with the idea that he should suggest\\na sort of thread that should be an absolute mark upon\\npaper. He brought an original mind to bear upon the\\nsubject, and innocently asked why they could not find a\\nprinting machine that would do what was wanted. Why\\nnot? The skeptic was disposed to ask. The weaver thought\\nit possible, and finally designed a machine by which the\\nthing could actually be done. The Russian notes and\\nbonds are now printed by it, with a success that the Rus-\\nsian government seems only too ready to acknowledge.\\nBut, then, a machine that will print an unlimited number\\nof colors at once cannot, in these days of illustrated papers,\\nbe hid. Hence it has been brought to London and set up\\nat 119 Shaftesbury avenue, where a critical company had\\nan opportunity of inspecting it in full operation.\\nIt is not a very large machine, and, like many other\\nthings of great utility, its principal is simple. A large\\ncolor block, after being rolled by its own color, comes in\\ncontact with a composition roller, where it deposits its\\ncolors. Each color block in short comes in contact with a\\ntransfer roller on the whole of the picture, no matter how\\nmany colors are on the transfer roller. Then a retransfer\\nof the whole picture is made to the painting plate, the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "162 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nprinting plate goes to the paper and the picture is printed.\\nBut in another way it might be said, one roller, one color.\\nEach roller takes its special color to a transfer roller, the\\ntransfer roller when it has received the whole of the picture\\ntransfers it to a plate, and the plate gives the impression\\nto the paper. A figure and fiorar/illustration in six colors\\nwas being x rinted the other day. The rollers having been\\nduly adjusted, the lay-er-on went to work, feeding in at\\nthe rate of about 1000 per hour, and the copies came out\\nsimply perfect.\\nEvery printer knows that with six colors there should,\\nunder the old system, be six machinings. All six\\ncolors were done in one machining, The labor-saving was\\ntherefore enormous. But before that there was no waste.\\nSix machinings may lead to a bad register, which, to\\nthe non-technical, means that in one or more of the\\nmachinings the colors may not meet or may overlap and\\nthe printing be thus spoiled. The new machine will print\\nat one time in any number of colors and without the possi-\\nbility of work being thus spoiled. Beautiful specimens of\\nwork done in Russia for bank-note and bank purposes were\\nshown. Geometrical designs and work in tracery were\\nespecially good. For bank-notes, checks, maps and illus-\\ntrations the process seems peculiarly adapted. Rotary\\nWebb machines are being constructed so that the system\\nmay be available in newspaper offices, with their great\\nrequirements as to speed. It may be added that the new\\nmethod is the invention of Ivon OrlofT, now chief engineer\\nand manager of the bank-note printing establishment of\\nthe Russian Government at St. Petersburg.\\nAll who tread this earth are but a handfull to those\\nthat slumber in its bosom.\\nBad weather generally brings out the mean charac-\\nteristics of a man.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 163\\nThe Auctioneer s Ruse, Which he Used to Interest\\na Sluggish Audience.\\nAn auctioneer on East, Washington street one of\\nthose redoubtable individuals com m on 1 y termed slick\\nwas the cause of a farcial scene the other afternoon that\\nwould have done credit to a burlesque show. He had\\nbeen talking a long time to a crowd of interested but\\nunenthusiastic listeners. His audience w*as largely made\\nup of that class of men who lind the court house and the\\nliquor establishments opposite a combination loafing\\nground not to be resisted.\\nThe affable auctioneer conscientiously went through\\nhis repertoire from beginning to end, says the Indinnapolis\\nJournal, but somehow the crowd did not warm up to\\nhim to quote his own language. Finally, with a dark\\nlook that bordered on despair, he grabbed up a well-worn\\npasteboard hat box containing about fifty spools of silk\\nthread of different colors. With the grace of a conjuror\\nhe extracted five of the spools, and, arraying them in a\\ntempting semi-circle on the counter, announced that they\\nwere to go at any price.\\nBut the audience, while admitting with nods of\\napproval that they were good spools of thread, displayed\\nno marked inclination to become excited over them. Not\\na bid was offered.\\nI ll sell em for ten cents, suggested the autioneer\\ntimidly. It was plain from the tone of his voice that he\\nwas losing faith in himself and in all the world. There\\nwere no takers. The man-of-the-red-fiag added three\\nmore spools to the semi-circle. All for ten cents, he\\ndeclared. But thread stock was far below par. The\\nauctioneer caught up all the spools from the counter and\\nflung them into the box with an impressive gesture. A\\nlight of inspiration flashed from his eyes.\\nThe whole d box for ten cents he cried.\\nI ll take it, was the prompt response, and a little", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nman in a washed-out overcoat and wearer of red chin-\\nwhiskers stepped out of the crowd with a dirty 10- cent\\npiece in his upraised hand. The auctioneer clutched the\\nmoney feverishly, and. turning the box upside down so\\nthat all the spools dropped into a basket on the counter,\\nhe handed the worthless piece of pasteboard to the anx-\\nious customer. A roar of hilarious laughter arose from\\nthe crowd that was heard throughout the neighborhood.\\nI don t want your darned old box, 1 wailed the\\nunfortunate purchaser.\\nYou said you d take it, replied the auctioneer.\\nI ll leave it to the crowd\u00e2\u0080\u0094 didn t he?\\nYes, came in strong chorus from the delighted\\naudience.\\nI bought the spools\\nNo you didn t you bought the box, I ll leave it to\\nthe crowd didn t he?\\nYes, came the answer again, stronger than ever.\\nThe red-whiskered man stalked indignantly from the\\nplace with the box under his arm.\\nWhat are yougoin to do with it? yelled the crowd.\\nThat s what! cried the speculator, as he held the\\nbox in both hands, football fashion, and then kicked it\\nvigorously into the middle of Washington street.\\nHunger for Attention.\\nOf all the mortals that comprise\\nThe human brotherhood\\nThere s none but would be glad to rise\\nTo grandeur if he could.\\nAnd yet there s many a foolish one\\nFor whom defeat has joys\\nWho glories if in going down\\nHe can but make a noise.\\nS. E. Kiser.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GKAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 165\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nBY W. M. C.\\nWho cries aloud and rings a bell,\\nTo call the people up and tell,\\nThat he has got some goods to sell,\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nWho is it with the tuneful voice,\\nThe polite mien and language choice.\\nWho makes his customers rejoice,\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nW ho talks to you in dulcet tones,\\nAnd coaxes from you many bones,\\nFor that old clock of Squire Jones,\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nWho on the block so loudly hollers,\\nAnd gets a bid of several dollars,\\nFor a few dozen paper collars,\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nWho sells you second-handed things,\\nWith tales of want your sad heart wrings,\\nAnd makes you loosen your purse strings,\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nWho s liable on the judgment day,\\nTo call the angels up and say,\\nHow much for this fine harp, I pray V\\nThe Auctioneer.\\nBut who will average up as good,\\nAs other men of business would;\\nLet him not be misunderstood,\\nThis Auctioneer.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "166 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nOne Trick of a Hotel Beat.\\nNew Orleans Times-Democrat.\\nThe strangest type of hotel beat lever encountered/\\nsaid a veteran New Orleans boniface, walked into our\\nhouse one evening about ten years ago. registered and\\nwent directly to his room. I was at the desk at the time\\nand noticed that he w^as a stout good looking man, and\\nthat he wore a handsome fall overcoat. He had no bag-\\ngage and paid in advance, remarking that he had merely\\nstopped over en route to Galveston and his things had gone\\non. Next morning there w r as a terrific uproar. The\\nstranger, it seems had been robbed. According to his\\nstory he woke up to find his room in disorder and his coat,\\nvest and shirt gone. He claimed to have had a gold watch,\\nseveral hundred dollars and a number of valuable papers\\nin the pockets of his coat and vest and three diamond studs\\nin the shirt. I felt sure the loss w T as exaggerated, but\\nthere was no doubt about the things being gone, and I was\\non the point of compromising the claim w T hen my lawyer\\npoor fellow, he s dead now insisted upon holding him\\noff until he had investigated the record. We soon found\\nsome of his statements as to his antecedents to be false\\nand he thereupon took the alarm and quietly departed.\\nI never saw him again, but a hotel detective of my acquain-\\ntance encountered him in Chicago and told me how the\\nscheme was worked. The beat had on neither coat, vest\\nnor shirt, when he registered, and had merely pinned a\\ncollar and cravat inside the lapels of his overcoat.\\nHe Bet the Lock Would Open.\\nDenver Post.\\nBut when they switched locks and gave him one which\\nnever opened he lost.\\nJ. R. Duncan and Robert McKenzie were arrested yes-\\nterday morning by Patrolman Carberry on charge of being\\nbunco men, says a Denver paper.\\nOn McKinzie w^ere found two little steel locks and", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "167\\nseveral rolls of money with large bills as wrappers and\\nsmall bills as fillers. One of the locks could be snapped\\nopen, but the other could not, as it was not built that way.\\nThe two men are accused of having buncoed S. A.\\nColby of Dedham, Me., on lower Sixteenth street, Friday\\nafternoon. Colby was on his way past from the Pacific\\ncoast by way of Denver. According to the police one of\\nthe men borrowed from Colby $89 with which to bet his\\ncompanion that the lock could be opened. The lock that\\ncould not be worked was substituted for the one that was all\\nright, and consequently Colby s money vanished. When\\nthe men were arrested the two locks were found upon\\nMcKenzie. As Colby s ticket was limited, he could not\\nremain to prosecute the case, The two prisoners may,\\ntherefore, be charged with vagrancy.\\nAn old bachelor, who resided at Sheffield, in order to\\nprevent hawkers annoying him by knocking at his door\\nto dispose of their wares, affixed to his door a label to\\nthis effect:\\nHawkers take notice The inhabitants of this\\nhouse never buy anything at the door.\\nShortly afterward he was aroused by a loud knocking\\nat the parlor window, and looking out he saw two fellows\\nwith clothes lines, mats and pegs for sale. Throwing up\\nthe sash, he bawled:\\nCan you read?\\nYes, master, answered one\\nThen don t you see a notice affixed to my knocker\\nthat I never buy anything at the door\\nTo be sure we do. That s the reason why we\\nthought we would make bold and try to do a little busi-\\nat the window.\\nThe old bachelor was pacified, and made a purchase.\\nImmediately afterward, however, he sent for a painter,\\nand had the following addition made to his announce-\\nment: Nor at the window, either.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "168 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nAn Unrealized Dream.\\nIn the golden springday of life I stood,\\nOn the flower-lined border of womanhood,\\nAnd the sun was bright and the skies were fair,\\nAnd the joy-birds were singing everywhere,\\nThen life w T as a dream that was heavenborn\\nAs the sun rose up on the glorious morn\\nThat follows the waning of girlhood s days,\\nAnd a woman basked in its cheery rays,\\nA suitor came in manly youth\\nWhose eyes were mirrors reflecting truth,\\nWhose face an Apollo might envy well,\\nAnd whose voice was clear as a vesper bell.\\nBut I steeled my heart to the golden snare,\\nFor mad ambition was nestling there\\nTo reign as queen in the tinseled show\\nOf the upper world, and I bade him go.\\nA year sped on, and another came,\\nA knight in the list of* legal fame,\\nAnd he wispered the story low and sweet,\\nAnd laid his heart at my queenly feet.\\nBut his name was missing from the titled lore.\\nHe was but a toiler in life, no more,\\nAnd I muffled the blow in regretful phrase\\nAnd he passed from my sight with reproving gaze.\\nThe fires of ambition warmer burned\\nTill they smoothered love, and I proudly spurned\\nThe yearnings of hearts that were brave a\u00c2\u00bbd bold\\nAnd pure in affection as virgin gold.\\nA king would come with a titled name\\nAnd I d rule as queen in the world of fame,\\nAnd the years sped on with distressing pace,\\nEach pencilling lines on my once fair face.\\nThen my heart was pierced, as by gleaming blade,\\nWith the growing fear that I d die a maid\\nAnd when hope was wanting another came,\\nAnd I was forced to smile and assumed his name.\\nThe dreamed- of kingdom I m ruling o er,\\nIs a dingy old corner grocery store,\\nAnd I aid my bustling king of kings,\\nIn selling bacon and cheese and things.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "Receipts and Formulas\\ni", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 171\\nPAINT AND PAINTING.\\nB}^ a Painter of Twenty-five years Experience.\\nMIXING PAINT.\\nThis is not a matter of much consequence since paints\\nare now sold ready mixed. But there are some who\\nprefer to have their house painted with paint mixed by\\nthe painter, and to have nothing else than pure white\\nlead and genuine linseed oil used.\\nFirst take a clean keg and put in about one-third\\nwhite lead, then pour in enough oil to break up the\\nlead, after which the paint can be thinned with more oil.\\nDo not put in any turpentine for outside work, and if the\\noil is boiled no Japan driers are needed. For inside work\\nyou can break up the lead in turps, (the short for tur-\\npentine). Do not use much turps unless the painting is\\nto get a coat of varnish, then, of course, Japan can be\\nused also. If you wish to make a sky blue, put in Prus-\\nsian blue; one pound of blue to one hundred pounds of\\nwhite lead. This blue (Prussian) is a very strong color.\\nHere are a few directions for mixing tints. The colors\\nare supposed to be ground in oil before mixing:\\nTABLE OF TINTS.\\nGray. White and lamp black.\\nBuff. White, red, yellow and a little black.\\nPearl. White ultramarine blue and carmine.\\nOrange. Yellow and red.\\nViolet. White, ultramarine blue and carmine.\\nPurple. Same as above only in different quantities.\\nGold. White, stone ochro and a little burnt umber.\\nOlive. White, yellow, black and red.\\nChestnut. Red, black and yellow.\\nFlesh. Vermilion, white and yellow.\\nFawn. White, red, vellow, burnt umber.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nDrab. White, yellow, red, burnt and raw umber.\\nOchre, burnt sienna, black.\\nAny variety can be obtained by these colors.\\nBrown Green. Chrome green, yellow, black and red.\\nPea Green. Chrome green with white lead.\\nRose Tint. Carmine and white, or madder lake and\\nwhite.\\nCopper.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Red, chrome, yellow and black.\\nLemon. Pale chrome and white.\\nClaret. Vermillion and blue.\\nDove Color. White, vermillion, blue and yellow.\\nPinks. White, vermillion, madder lake or carmine.\\nCream. White and pale yellow ochre.\\nSalmon. White, light red and yellow.\\nStraw. Chrome or yellow ochre and, white.\\nLilac. Carmine, blue and white.\\nThese constitute the principal tints in general use,\\nbut by practice in composition, a great variety more can\\nbe obtained.\\nIn the cold months of the year linseed oil is less pene-\\ntrating, naturally, than it is in the warm months. It is\\nwell to bear this fact in mind when mixing the priming or\\noil coats of any sort. A greater or less quantity of tur-\\npentine, contingent upon the conditions which prevail at\\nthe time, is a necessity when the oil mixtures are being\\nconfounded in order to insure a proper penetration and\\ngripping fast of the oil constituents. In the matter of\\npriming the painter who seeks to build durable surfaces\\nshould closely study the condition of the wood over which\\nhe is to paint, the season, climate, and especially the\\natmospheric influences abroad at the time the work is done.\\nA gallon of linseed oil weighs 7 1-2 pounds.\\nBLACKBOARD PAINT.\\nThe following is recommended as a good paint for\\nblackboards, one that can be cleaned easily: Obtain a\\ngood heavy bodied shellac varnish, then mix together\\nthree ounces of pulverized pumice stone, two ounces of\\nrotten stone, four ounces of lampblack. Moisten a little", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 173\\nat a time and grind with a knife or spatula. When all is\\nmixed thoroughly, add the remaining p^art of shellac\\nvarnish and stir thoroughly. This preparation dries\\nquickly; one quart will varnish two coats for sixty\\nsquare feet.\\nHOW TO CLEANSE PAINT BRUSHES FROM\\nHARDENED PAINT\\nSuspend each brush in a tumbler containing a solution\\nof one quart crystallized sodium carbonate in three parts\\nof water, and in such a manner that it will hang some\\ndistance from the bottom of the tumbler. Let stand\\ntwelve to twenty-four hours in a warm place (140 degrees\\nto 150 degrees Fahr.), when the dried paint will be found\\nso softened that it can be easily washed out with soap and\\nwater. Brushes that have become hard as stone can be\\nrestored by this process.\\nTO REMO VE OLD AND HARD P UTTY.\\nFor removing old putty which has become hard, from\\nsashes and similar places, petroleum oil is recommended.\\nThree coats of petroleum over old putty will, it is said,\\npenetrate effectively into the pours of the material, and,\\ndissoluting the hard linseed oil, restore the putty to its\\noriginal softness. Builders Gazettt.\\nTO IMITATE ROSEWOOD.\\nThis is said to be a good method of imitating rose-\\nwood: Take half a pound of logwood and boil in three\\npints of water, continuing the boiling until the liquid\\nassumes a very dark color, at which point add one ounce\\nof salt of tartar. When at the boiling point stain your\\nwood with two or three coats, but not in quick succession,\\nas the latest coat must be nearly dry before the succeeding\\none is applied. The use of a flat graining brush, deftly\\nhandled, will produce a very excellent imitatiou of dark\\nrosewood.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nA HINT TO THE SIGN PAINTERS.\\nThe next time you paint a sign on a brick wall,\\nremember that before applying the first coat care should\\nbe taken so as to clean the surface to be painted. The best\\npriming coat for this work consists of glue size and Vene-\\ntian red mixed in the proportions of ten to one. Oxide of\\niron paint mixed with boiled linseed oil also forms a good\\npriming coat and a little drier can also be added to this.\\nThe Billboard.\\nCLEANER.\\nHere is a cleaner used in some railroad shops for\\ncleaning coaches:\\nTo one pound of bar soap put 1-2 ounce of beeswax in\\none gallon of water, boil and stir until these are dissolved.\\nThen add one gallon of raw linseed oil and 1-2 a pint of\\nammonia. This mixture can also be used in cleaning\\nfurniture.\\nAnother way When boiling add a small handful of\\noxalic acid. Use 1-3 oil and 2-3 water. When the acid is\\nused leave out the beeswax and ammonia.\\nTO CLEAN PAINTED SURFACE.\\nSpanish whiting is useful for cleaning a painted\\nsurface or glass. Dampen a piece of soft cloth, then\\ntake as much whiting as will stick to it. After the dirt is\\ncleaned off, wash with clean water then dry with a chamois\\nskin. Spanish whiting is much used in railroad shops.\\nThe whiting mixed with linseed oil makes a good putty.\\nLETTERING ON CLOTH, SILK OR COTTON\\nFABRIC\\nTake white sheet glue and make a weak solution, add\\na little glycerine to make it elastic. Then size the surface\\nto be lettered with the mixture, size only that surface to\\nbe lettered. Use tube colors thinned with pure linseed\\noil, if you can not get the refined oil used by artists. Put in\\nsome melted beeswax, say four ounces of the wax to one", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 175\\nquart of oil and enough turpentine to make the color dry\\nto kind of an egg gloss. Thus the color will be elastic\\nenough to prevent it from breaking and keep it from\\npeeling. If the work is not exposed to the weather and\\nneeds to be done in a hurr} the white of an egg makes a\\ngood size. If the letters are to be gilded, lay on the gold\\nwhile the size is a little wet, dust off surplus gold leaf.\\nDo the shading or edgeing when the size is entirely dry.\\nHere is another size\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dissolve bleached shellac in\\nalcohol and thin with more alcohol if too thick. Make\\nthe letters a little larger than you want them and do not\\nput the color quite to the edge of the shellac, or your\\npaint will spread.\\nTO PAINT LETTERS ON MUSLIN.\\nSelect bleached muslin and tack it on to a wall\\nhaving a smooth surface, after you have stretched the\\ncloth evenly and free of wrinkles, draw with a lead pencil\\ntwo lines the same distance apart corresponding to the\\nheight of the letters desired. Next in order, lay off the\\nletters with a piece of crayon chalk. If you have missed\\nin the spacing or have made any mistake, dust off the\\ncrayon marks and try again until you get the inscription\\nin proper shape. Now, go over the outside edge of each\\nletter with soft lead pencil, dust off as much of the chalk,\\ning as possible. Mix lampblack either in varnish or\\nJapan, or both, into a paste form and thinned to work\\neasily with turpentine. Then strain the color so as to get\\nit free from lumps, do not get color too thin. Now, wet\\nthe sheeting all over being careful not to get on too much\\nwater. Attempting to letter while the muslin is soaking\\nwet is what causes trouble. It is as bad as when the color\\nis mixed in oilj viz., spreading, thus making scraggy\\nletters.\\nWhen it commences to dry or appears in a damp\\ncondition, take a fitch, (a small bristle brush), and paint\\nover the edges of the lettering, where marked with lead\\npencil; have the brush dry, i. e., slightly dipped in the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\npaint. You will notice the black looks grayish, so go\\nover it again and the color wiil show up O. K. Now, fill\\nin the letters with a large brush. As you proceed keep\\nmuslin properly dampened.\\nBe careful or drippings of paint will fall on the\\nmuslin, consequently making field look very ugly. Such\\nmishaps can be remedied somewhat by rubbing over with\\nchalk, or painting over the spots with white mixed in\\nturps. If the lettering is intended done on a transpar-\\nency for night display, the spots will show in spite of\\neverything you can do. An acquaintance of ours painted\\na transparency for a party who was delighted with the\\njob as it was placed in position in daylight. It had been\\na very good day for drops with .the painter, but so well\\nwere they touched up with white lead that they escaped\\nnotice. When night came, however, the sign did not\\nappear so beautiful and the painter w 7 as asked to explain\\nthe change. He was a smart fellow for he answered by\\nsaying that there must be flies that got into the box, and\\nso settled it.\\nOccasionally, especially about election times, a quicker\\nway is needed for turning out a muslin sign. A useful\\narticle at such a time is shellac varnish. Mix the dry\\nlampblack in this varnish and if too thick thin with more\\nalcohol. In this case the muslin must not be wet.\\nShellac varnish is gum shellac dissolved in alcohol.\\nIt is a very useful article in the paint shop.\\nIf vermillion red or any other color is to be used in\\nsign w^ork, use dry color only and mix as you would\\nlampblack.\\nIn spacing off letters allowance must be made for the\\nslanting sides of A W and V. The lower part of A should\\nbe a little under the upper point of W and the same with\\nV. Some men who pretend to be sign painters, pay no\\nattention to the thin and thick strokes in making Roman\\ncapitals. In small towns we often find thin stroke placed\\non the wrong side of A, M, V, Y and W. If you take a\\npen to write these letters you will find the upward strokes\\nare light and downward strokes are heavy. Begin on the", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 17\\nlower left hand part of A and M and make each one with-\\nout lifting the pen.\\nThe letters B, E, F, H and X, which have divisions or\\ncrossbars, should have these divisions or cross bars a little\\nabove the center. A and Y are also divided, but these\\ndivisions should be about midway betw T een the top and\\nbottom lines. The tops of the ascending letters d, b, f, h,\\nk and 1, should be made as high as the top of the capitals;\\nand the decending letters, g, j, p, q, and y, should extend\\nbelow the line in the proportion as the others do above the\\nline. Much can be learned by observing the work of\\ngood sign painters, or in looking at printed matter. Look\\nat a printed S with the book or paper up side down and\\nyou will catch on as to how the letter is shaped.\\nThe letter R is not a very easy letter to make so as to\\nappear graceful, especially troublesome to the amateur.\\nThere are different ideas as to how the tail, 1 if you\\nplease, of this letter should be formed. Some painters\\npersist in giving the lower right hand part of R too much\\ncurve. We give herewith four ways of forming this\\nmember and you can judge which one is best.\\nBRRE\\nFor shading the first letter has too much curve, the\\nsecond one is more suitable for shading. The middle bar\\nof the third is a little too low, and the fourth R is about\\nperfect, of course it, perhaps could be improved.\\nTO CLEAN FURNITURE.\\nMix three-fourth linseed oil with one-fourth turpen-\\ntine, and add a little ammonia if furniture is much soiled.\\nPut on with a soft cloth, then rub off with a clean rag, be\\ncareful and get all the corners clean. This mixture can be\\nsold in a four ounce bottle for 25c, and even cheaper.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "178 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nFURNITURE POLISH.\\nThe following is a good polish for pianos, fancy tables,\\ncabinets, etc., which have become dull of gloss.\\nPut half an ounce shellac, half an ounce of gumlac\\nand one-fourth of an ounce gum-sandarac into a pint of\\nspirits of wine. Put these all in a stone bottle near the\\nfire. As soon as the gums are dissolved it is ready for use.\\nPut some of the polish on a soft rag and apply it to\\nthe surface to be polished. Rub hard and brisk for a\\nwhile until a gloss appears. Then finish by rubbing with\\na little linseed oil and wipe dry.\\nClean waste such as used in railroad shops is good\\nfor applying oil or polish.\\nMIRRORS.\\nSILVERING ON GLASS.\\nProcess No. 1 To produce a mirror it is best to use\\nquicksilver, proceeding as follows: Lay a piece of tinfoil\\non a smooth and perfectly flat surface and pour mercury\\nover it to the depth of one-eighth of an inch. Have the\\nglass to be coated perfectly clean and dry, and slide it\\ngently over the mercury, just a trifle below its surface,\\nand when glass is well covered hold it under pressure for\\na while and then stand it on edge to drain.\\nProcess No. 2 Solution A Dissolve twelve Troy\\ngrains of Rochelle salts in boiling water; then add, while\\nboiling, sixteen grains nitrate of silver that have been\\npreviously dissolved in one ounce of water; continue to\\nboil ten minutes longer, then add enough water to make\\ntwelve ounces in all.\\nSolution B Dissolve one ounce nitrate of silver in ten\\nounces of water; add liquid ammonia, drop by drop, until\\nthe brown precipitate is nearly, but not quite, dissolved;\\nthen add one ounce of grain alcohol and sufficient water\\nto make twelve ounces. Mix equal parts of solutions A\\nand B thoroughly; pour the mixture on the glass, which\\nmust be wet, but free of grease, etc. It is best to first", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 179\\nclean the glass with moderately strong soda water and\\nhave it well rinsed.\\nUse distilled water in the solutions. For more infor-\\nmation on the subject of silvering on glass write to W. T.\\nMcCurry, Moberly, Mo., inclosing a 2-cent stamp. This is\\nto those only who have sent\u00c2\u00abfor this book.\\nA REMEDY FOR STRONG DRINK.\\nIn 1893 while spending the winter in New Orleans I\\nmet a gentleman who had been cured of the habit of strong\\ndrink. He spent three months at a well-known Institute\\nfor the cure of strong drink. I became well acquainted\\nwith him and I got the following formula from him:\\nSulphate of iron h grains, spirit of nutmeg 1 drachm,\\npeppermint water 11 drachms. To be taken twice a day\\nin doses of a wine glassful, with or without water.\\nIf a youth wants to assist nature to do the square\\nthing by the wind and raise whiskers, here is a mixture\\nthat will do the work:\\nProf. Hall s Magic Compound. For the radical cure\\nof baldness and prompting the growth of the hair and\\nwhiskers. Thousands of dollars can be made selling this\\none article. Put up in two ounce bottles retails for\\ntwenty-live cents. Recipe: Take one ounce castor oil,\\ndissolve in one quart of 95 per cent alcohol and one ounce\\nof tincture of cantharides, two ounces tincture of catechu,\\ntwo ounces lemon juice, one ounce tincture of chinchona:\\nperfume with one-half ounce oil cinnamon and rosemary.\\nThe other sex may desire an opposite effect, if so, here\\nis a hair despilatory used by a well known lady who is\\nengaged in manufacturing and selling such as this, and\\nother articles,\\nThis is sold extensively in this country and England\\nat $1.00 a bottle, although it costs but a few cents to make\\nit in large quantities. However, that does not depreciate\\nthe medical properties of the article, for it will do all that\\nis claimed for it. In fact some of the best formulas in the\\nbook cost the least.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "180 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nSELECTED RECIPES AND FORMULAS.\\nINKS.\\nBlack. Gall nuts 3 1-2 ounces, gum arabic 4 ounces,\\nsulphate of iron 1 ounce, logwood 1 ounce. Pulverize\\nthese separately, mix and add 1 quart acetic acid.\\nRed. Get the best Brazil wood, ground, 1 ounce,\\nacetic acid, 1 pint alum 1-2 ounce. Boil slowly, add\\n1 ounce gum.\\nGreen. Take 3 1-2 ounces of Prussian blue and 3\\ndrachms gamboge; rub these into 2 ounces of mucilage\\nand put the mixture in a pint of rain, or soft, water.\\nNote. In making up these formulas never use hard\\nwater. Distilled water is the best if you can get it.\\nYiolet. Take 16 ounces of rain water in which dis-\\nsolve 1-2 ounce Methyl-violet, then add 1-2 ounce glycerine,\\nadd a few drops creosote to make the ink keep.\\nYellow. Gamboge, pulverize and put into water,\\nthen add a little alum.\\nGold. Take gold bronze 3 or 4 ounces and mix with\\na little sulphate of potash, add this to a pint of water.\\nTo make silver ink use silver bronze.\\ntraveler s ink.\\nSaturate white blotting paper aniline black. Paste\\na lot of these together so as to make a thick pad. When\\nthe traveler wants to write he cuts off a small piece, covers\\nit with a little water and the black liquid therefrom is\\na good ink. Any wide awake man or boy can work this\\nracket to perfection.\\nANOTHER INDELIBLE INK.\\nNitrate of silver 5 scruples, gum arabic 2 drachms,\\nsap green 1 scruple, distilled water 1 ounce. Mix together.\\nBefore writing on the article to be marked, apply a little", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 181\\nfollowing: Carbonate of soda half an ounce, distilled\\nwater fonr ounces; let this last, which is the mordant, get\\ndry; then with a quill, write what you want.\\nINVISIBLE AND INDELIBLE INK.\\nF. Moller, Hamburg, claims an ink made by dissolv-\\ning 100 parts of alum in water, and adding to the boiling\\nalum solution 100 parts of white garlic juice, and again\\nboiling. Writing made with this ink becomes visible\\nupon heating, and cannot be effaced by wet.\\nMARKING INK FOR BALES.\\nShellac two parts by weight, borax two, w T ater25, gum\\narabic two, Venetian red sufficient to color.\\nBoil the shellac and the borax in the water until solu-\\ntion is complete, add the gum arabic, and take the vessel\\nfrom the fire. When the solution has become cold add\\nsufficiant Venetian red to bring it to a suitable consistency\\nand color. This ink must be preserved in a glass or earth-\\nenware vessel.\\nIf a color other than red be desired, substitute for it\\nlampblack, ultramarine blue, or a mixure of ultramarine\\nblue and chrome yellow.\\nCochineal, pulverized fine, two ounces, Cream of Tar-\\ntar, two ounces.\\nMix and add boiling water, 8 ounces, let stand for a\\nquarter of an hour, then neutralize by adding, Carbonate\\nof potash, 1 ounce.\\nAfter the neutralization add, alum (powdered) 1 ounce,\\ngum arabic (powdered) 1 ounce, Starch 2 ounces. Mix.\\nINDELIBLE.\\n1 ounce of distilled water, 1 1-2 drachms of nitrate of\\nsilver, 1-2 ounce of strong mucilage of gam arabic, 1-4 of\\na drachm of ammonia. Mix these in a bottle and let it\\nremain in the dark until dissolved. Shake the bottle well\\nwhen you wish to use the ink, Hold the writing close to\\na heat, or use a flat iron (hot) passing it over the inscrip-\\ntion, and the ink will become indelible, and a very beauti-\\nful black. Indestructible.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "182 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nINK FOE MARKING LINEN WITH TTPE.\\nDissolve 1 oz of asphaltum in 4 ounces of turpentine,\\nadd lampblack to make it stiff enough to use in type,\\nBLUE.\\nTake lump indigo and dissolve in soft water. Bottle\\nand sell for Laundry bluing.\\nBLUE BLACK INK.\\nTannic acid 100 grains, Gallic acid 25 grains. Dissolve\\ntkese acids in water, 1-2 ounce protosulphate of iron, then\\nfilter through cotton or filter paper. Now, add Indigo\\ncarmine (neutral) 160 grains and powdered cloves 2 1-2\\ngrains. After you have added 1-2 pint of soft water, your\\nink is ready for use.\\nINK FOR WRITING ON GLASS.\\nWhite lac 10 parts, turpentine 15 parts, Venice\\nturpentine 5 parts. Melt these together and add 5 parts\\npowdered indigo. Water will not effect the writing. Can\\nbe applied with a small brush.\\nANOTHER WAY OF MAKING VIOLET INK.\\nBoil 16 ounces of logwood in 3 quarts of rain\\nwater to 3 pints, add 3 ounces of clean gum arabic and 5\\nounces of alum (powdered). Shake till well dissolved. It\\nwould be well to strain through a wire sieve.\\nA GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR INK.\\nPut iron rust into some vinegar, let stand awhile and\\nthen add 1-2 pint strong tea.\\nA QUART OF INK FOR A DIME.\\nGet extract of logwood, 1 ounce bichromate of potash.\\nDissolve these in a quart of hot rain water. After cooling\\npour into a glass bottle, leaving it uncorked for a week\\nor ten days, as it must be exposed to the air. You can\\nthen put the ink in small bottles and cork. The writing\\nturns very black.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 183\\nPOLISHING PASTE FOR ALL METALS.\\nPulverize 1 part, by weight, of oxalic acic, 15 parts\\nperoxide of iron and twenty parts rotten stone. Mix and\\nsift to remove any and all grit; then rub this with 60 parts\\npalm oil and 4 parts vaseline to a smooth paste. Apply\\nwith flannel or other soft cloth and polish in the usual\\nmanner.\\nWHITE WINE VINEGAR.\\nAcetic acid 1 pint, Sherry wine 1 pint, tartaric acid\\n1 avoirdupois ounce, acetic ether 2 fluid drachms, water\\nenough to make 1 gallon.\\nA REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTIVE COUGH.\\nPut into a quart of rain water about 1-2 pound finely\\ncut raisins; then take 3 or 4 ounces of flax seed, sweetened\\nwith honey. Boil to a syrup, after which add 2 ounces\\nof extract of anise. Take tableepoonful three times a day.\\nA PREVENTATIVE OF BALDNESS.\\nTwelve drops rosemary, 2 drachms tincture cantha-\\nrides, 3 ounces cologne water. Use these applications two\\ntimes a day for three weeks; lessen the applications if the\\nscalp gets sore or stop using them for a while.\\nELECTRO-PLATING SOLUTION\\nTake 1 ounce of pure silver, hammer it out thin and\\ncut in strips, 2 ounces nitric acid and 1-2 ounce rain water,\\nkeep on adding the water until the solution takes place.\\nShould it start 0. K., but stop before all the silver is\\ndissolved, adding a little more water will cause it to act\\nall right. When the solution is complete put in 1 quart\\nof warm rain water and a large tablespoonful of table salt.\\nShake well and let settle, then proceed to pour off and\\nwash through other waters. When no longer acid to the\\ntaste, put in 1 1-8 ounce cyanuret potassa and a quart of\\nrain water; after standing about twenty-four hours it will\\nit will be ready for use.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "184 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nCIDER WITHO UT APPLES.\\nHere is the formula for making cider without apples\\nand known in the profession as circus cider owing to\\nthe fact that it is the kind sold at circuses, country fairs,\\netc. You will observe, however, there is nothing in it that\\nis injurious: on the contrary it is much more healthful than\\nthe average cider full of worms, refuse, etc. I have sold\\nenough of circus cider when a boy to float a ship, and I\\nalways had a clear conscience in regard to the matter.\\nAll you can drink for five.\\nTo each- gallon of cold water, put 1 pound of common\\nsugar, 1-2 ounce tartaric acid, 1 tablespoonful of yeast,\\nshake well, make in the evening, and it will be fit for use\\nnext day. I make in a keg a few gallons at a time, leaving\\na few quarts to make into next time; not using yeast\\nagain until keg needs rincing If it gets a little sour\\nmake a little more into it, or put as much water with\\nit as there is cider, and put it with the vinegar. If it\\nis desired to bottle this cider by manufactures or small\\ndrinks, you will proceed as follows: Put in a barrel 5\\ngallons hot water, 30 pounds brown sugar, 3-4 pounds\\nflour, and 1 pint water will be required in making this\\npaste. Put altogether in a barrel, which it will fill, and\\nlet it work 24 hours the yeast running out at the bung\\nall the time, by putting in a little occasionally to keep it\\nfull. Then bottle, putting in two or three broken raisins\\nto each bottle, and it will nearly equal champagne.\\nWRITING OJS GLASS.\\nFor marking prices on bottles, in fact for writing on\\nglass in any shape, pure aluminum is frequently used.\\nThe lines can be made as fine or as heavy as desired, and for\\nthis reason the aluminum pencil may serve for marking\\nand graduating burettes, pipettes, etc. The more nearly\\npure the -metal is, the plainer and more serviceable the\\nmark.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 185\\nGL UES.\\nGlue should be kept in a glue pot, i. e. a small pot in\\na larger one with water.\\nIndian Glue. Get one pound of the best, strongest,\\nyou can obtain, boil and strain it very clear; next, boil\\nfour ounces of isinglass; put these, after mixing, in a\\ndouble glue pot; add half a pound of brown sugar. Boil\\nthe whole until it gets thick, pour it into thin plates or\\nmolds and when cold you may cut and- dry them in small\\npieces for the pocket. The glue is used by holding it over\\nsteam or wetting it with the mouth. This glue will not\\nresist the action of hot water.\\nMarine Glue. Dissolve four parts of India-rubber\\nin thirty-four parts of coal tar naphtha, aiding the solution\\nwith heat and agitation. The solution is then thick as\\ncream, and it should be added to sixty-four parts of\\npowdered shellac, which must be heated in tha mixture\\ntill all is dissolved. While the mixture is hot it is poured\\non plates of metal, in sheets like leather. It can be kept\\nin that state, and mace, vanilla, etc., pulverize either article\\nthoroughly, and put about two ounces of the resulting\\npowder to each pint of reduced alcohol; agitate the mix-\\nture frequently for two weeks, then filter and color as\\ndesired.\\nAcid Cement. The following preparation is recom-\\nmended for cementing glass, porcelain or other vessels\\nintended to hold corosive acids: Asbestos, two parts;\\nBarium sulphate, three parts; Silicate of sodium, two\\nparts. By mixing these ingredients a cement strong\\nenough to resist the strongest nitric acid will be obtained.\\nPREPARED LIQUID GLUE.\\nTake of the best white glue sixteen ounces; white\\nlead, dry, four ounces, rain water two pints, alcohol four\\nounces. With constant stirring dissolve the glue and\\nlead in the water, by means of a water-bath. Add the\\nalcohol, and continue the heat for a few minutes. Lastly,\\npour into bottles while it is still hot.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "186 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nGLUE WHICH WILL UNITE EVEN POLISHED STEEL.\\nA Turkish recipe for a cement used to fasten dia-\\nmonds and other precious stones to metallic surfaces, and\\nwhich is said to strongly unite even surfaces of polished\\nsteel, although exposed to moisture, is as follows: Dis-\\nsolve five or six bits of gum mastic, each the size of a large\\npea, in as much spirits of wine as will suffice to render it\\nliquid. In another vessel dissolve in brandy as much\\nisinglass, previously softened in water, as will make a\\n2-ounce phial of strong glue, adding two bits of gum\\nammoniac, which must be rubbed until dissolved. Then\\nmix the whole with heat. Keep in a phial closely stopped,\\nWhen it is to be used set the phial in boiling water.\\nA REMEDY FOR RHEUMATISM.\\nFour ouuces of saltpetre in one pint of alcohol; shake\\nwell and bathe parts affected; wetting red flannel with it;\\nlay it on. It does not cure, but it takes away the ledness,\\nreduces the swelling, and relieves the torment and agony.\\nArnica Hair Wash. When the hair is falling off\\nand becoming thin, from the too frequent use of castor,\\nMacassar oils, etc., or when premature baldness arises\\nfrom illness, the arnica hair wash will be found of great\\nservice in arresting the mischief. It is thus prepared:\\nTake elder water, half a pint; sherry wine, half a pint;\\ntincture of arnica, half a.n ounce; alcoholic ammonia one\\ndrachm if this last named ingredient is old, and has lost its\\nstrength, then two drachms instead of one may be employed.\\nThe whole of these are to be mixed in a lotion bottle, and\\napplied every night to the head with a sponge. Wash\\nthe head with warm water twice a week. Soft brushes\\nonly must be used during the growth of the young hair.\\nTEST FOR BENZINE.\\nPure benzine on calendered wdiite writing paper will\\nevaporate, free from stain, in seven minutes.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 187\\nFOB POLISHING AND CLEANING BBASS\\nMost polishes are made in paste form, but here is a\\nliquid form Dissolve one ounce of oxalic acid in one\\ngill of hot water; let cool. Mix four ounces of finely\\npowdered rotten-stone with, one-half ounce of dextrine\\nthat is also powdered very fine, and two ounces sweet oil,\\nto a paste, into which stir the oxalic acid solution. If\\ntoo thick to form a liquid, add more water. Apply with\\na rag or sponge and rub dry with a piece of flannel or\\nwash leather.\\nPASTE FOB FASTENING OIL CLOTH TO WOOD.\\nDissolve one-fourth ounce of alum in two quarts of\\nwater. Then put in one pound wheat flour and while\\nconstantly stirring with a wooden stick, boil the mixture\\nuntil mushy so that the stick will stand in it This tough\\npaste is applied to the table top and the oil cloth is laid\\nthereon and smoothed out from the centre toward the\\nedges so that there will be no wrinkles or blisters.\\nPOSTAGE STAMP MUCILAGE.\\nDissolve one pound of gum dextrine in a pint of\\nboiling water. Strain through flannel and add two ounces\\nacetic acid, when almost cold add four ounces of alcohol.\\nStir constantly, then add water enough to make one\\nquart.\\nCEMENT FOB BICYCLE TIRES.\\nPish glue, 8 grams; Guttapercha, 6 grams; India rub-\\nber, 12 grams; carbon bisulphide, 96 grams. Macerate\\ntogether until dissolved. To mend bicycle tires, rubber\\nbelts and other kinds of rubber material, clean the edges\\nof the break; if necessary strengthen by some stitches and\\nfill up the space by putting on thin layers of the cement,\\nallowing them to dry somewhat before putting on addi-\\ntional layers. When little more has been laid on than\\nneeded shave off the excess with a thin, sharp knife that\\nhas been previously dipped into water.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "288 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nFIRE EXTING UISHERS,\\nHand grenades, the simplest form of fire extinguishers,\\ncan be made cheaply and easily for mill use. And it is\\nwell to have at hand a simple contrivance for extinguish-\\ning a small fire at its start.\\nTake 20 pounds of common salt and 10 pounds of sal\\nammoniac (nictrate of ammonia) and dissolve in 7 gallons\\nof water. Get quart bottles of thin glass, such as are\\nordinarily used by a druggest, and fill with this, corking\\ntightly and sealing to prevent evaporation.\\nIn case of fire throw so as to break in or near the\\nflame. If the fire is in such a place as to prevent the bottle\\nfrom breaking, as on sawdust piles. Knock off the neck\\nof the bottle and scatter the contents.\\nThe breaking of the bottle liberates a certain amount\\nof gas, and the heat of the fire generates more, thus work-\\ning its own destruction.\\nTRANSFERING PHOTOGRAPHS TO GLASS.\\nImmerse photograph in warm water and le*t it remain\\nuntil the thin paper, on which the picture is printed, can\\nbe removed from the card. Then take starch, as it is\\nused in the laundry, and with a small camel s hair brush,\\napply the starch to the front of the picture and paste to\\nthe glass getting it on perfectly even. Exclude all air\\nbetween the glass and picture; after the starch and paper\\nare thoroughly dry, give the back of picture a coat of\\nlinseed oil, let it dry and then coat over the oil with any\\ncolor desired.\\nANOTHER WAY OF TRANSFERING.\\nRemove the print as first instructed. Instead of\\nusing the starch, varnish the glass and let it dry, after\\nwhich give the glass another coat of varnisli, and when it is\\njust the least bit tackey lay on the picture, face down and\\npress it evenly, pressing hard to exclude all air or the\\nwork will be in spots. In about half an hour spread", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 189\\ncastor oil on back of print; after a few minutes wipe off\\nthe castor oil as much as possible. Then take a clean,\\ndry cloth and rub until you can see lines of the picture\\nclearly, then give another coat of varnish, let it dry, and\\nput a piece of cardboard, painted any color you wish, back\\nof picture. Ready now for framing.\\nBalsam fir instead of varnish is a good thing to use.\\nIt is a very thick gum and will have to be thinned with\\nturpentine so it can be worked with a brush. For thin-\\nning use as much turpentine as balsam fir. It would be\\nwell to put in a small amount of wine also.\\nBefore fixing the picture to the glass it should be\\nimmersed in color solution. Use dry color in form of\\npowder. Put a small amount of color in a large tin cup,\\nand add to it two tablespoonsful of vinegar and one pint\\nof water. Then strain the mixture so that there are no\\nlumps of color; when everything is ready immerse the\\nprint in the solution of color, let it remain a short time,\\nthen with the face up lay it on a piece of paper awhile.\\nThen finish transfering.\\nBalsam fir is sometimes called Canada balsam, and it\\nis about the same nature of Venice turpentine.\\nHere is another varnish which can be used in cement-\\ning pictures to glass: Venice turpentine 4 ounces, wine\\n5 ounces, picked mastic tears 1 ounce. Mix, shake until\\nthe gums are dissolved, then put away for future use.\\nPRE8ER VlJSfG EGGS.\\nPut into a tub or vessel one bushel of quick lime, two\\npounds of salt, half a pound of cream of tartar, and mix\\nthe same together, with as much water as will reduce the\\ncomposition, or mixture to that consistence that it will\\ncause an egg put into it to swim with its top just above\\nthe liquid. Then put and keep the eggs therein.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "190 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nFURNITURE POLISH.\\nMix together kerosene 8 ounces turpentine, 3 ounces\\nraw linseed oil, 3 ounces oil of cedar.\\nOr here is another formula. Acetic acid, 1 ounce,\\nhydrochloric acid, L ounce, turpentine, 4 ounces, raw\\nlinseed oil 10 ounces.\\nDirections for polishing.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First, thoroughly clean\\nthe furniture from adhering dirt by use of warm soap-suds,\\nafter wiping dry apply the polish with soft brush so that\\nthe surface is well covered, then with the use of soft, dry\\nrags, rub briskly and with friction until dry and a high\\npolish is obtained. Be careful and get all the corners\\nclean and dry.\\nMILKMAN S PROCESS TO GIVE A BODY TO\\nDIL UTED MILK.\\nUse the following and nutrictive compound, at the\\nrate of 8 ounces to every 5 gallon, stiring it up in the milk\\nuntil it is dissolved; arrow root, 6 ounces, magnesia, 6\\nounces, starch, 11 drachms, flour, 1-2 pound, white sugar\\nand powder 1 pound. Mix all together and keep in a\\nprivate place for use.\\nSCARLET FEVER.\\nUndress the child and bring it to bed at the very first\\nsigns of sickness. Give it if it has already fever, sourish\\nwarm lemonade, with some gum-arabic in it, Then cover\\nits abdomen with some dry flannel. Take a well-folded\\nbed sheet and put in boiling hot water; wring it out by\\nmeans of dry towels and put this over the whole and wait.\\nThe hot cloth will perhaps require repeated heating.\\nAccording to the severity of the case and its stage of\\nprogress, perspiration will commence in the child, in from\\nten minutes to two hours. The child then is saved; it then\\nfalls asleep. Soon after the child awakes, it shows slight\\ninclination for food; help its bowels, if necessary, with\\ninjections of soap, oil and water, and its recovery will be\\ns steady as the growth of a plant.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 191\\nTO CURE PAINS IN THE FEET\\nIf your feet become painful from walking or standing\\ntoo long, put them into warm salt and water mixed in the\\nproportion of two large handfulls of salt to a gallon of\\nwater. Sea water made warm, is still better. Keep your\\nfeet and ankle in the water until it begins to feel cool,\\nrubbing them well with your hands. Then wipe them dry\\nand rub them long and hard with a coarse towel. Where\\nthe feet are tender and easily fatigued, it is an excellent\\npractice to go through this practice regularly every night,\\nalso on coming home from a walk. With perseverance\\nthis has cured neuralgia in the feet.\\nPOISONS.\\nAsa general rule, give emetics after poisons that cause\\nsleepiness and raving; chalk, milk, butter, and warm\\nwater, or oil, after poisons that cause vomitings and pain\\nin the stomach and bowels, with purging; and when there\\nis no infiamation about the throat, tickle it with a feather\\nto excite vomiting. Always send immediately for a medi-\\ncal man.\\nCA UTIONS IN VISITING THE SICK.\\nDo not visit the sick when you are fatigued, or in a\\nstate of perspiration, or with the stomach empty for in\\nsuch conditions you are liable to take the infection.\\nWhen the disease is very contagious, take the side of the\\npatient which is near to the window. Do not enter the\\nroom the first thing in the morning before it has been\\naired; and when you come away take some food, change\\nyour clothing immediately, and expose the latter to the\\nair for some days. Tobacco smoke is a fine preventive of\\nmalaria.\\nTHE BEST BL UING FOE CLOTHES KNO WN.\\nTake 1 ounce of soft Prussian blue powder it, and\\nput in a bottle of 1 quart of rain water, and add 1-2 ounce\\nof pulverized oxalic acid, and a tablespoonful is sufficient\\nfor a large washing.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nMcCURRY S CHENG WING STARCH POLISH.\\nThis article has undoubtedly had a more extensive sale\\nthrough agents than any other article used in the house-\\nhold. It is a meritorious one, and will always find sale if\\nour directions are followed. Care must be taken to pro-\\ncure the ingredients marked as we give them.\\nDIRECTIONS AND RECEIPT.\\nProcure from your druggist an article of commerce\\ncalled and marked A 1 (not B 1), but A 1 paraffine wax.\\nIt must be the hardest wax made. If an inferior grade is\\nused it will not produce the same result as the best A 1\\nwax. Please buy no other. Place your paraffine in\\na tin boiler, pan, pail, or kettle, as is the most conven-\\nient. Melt it over a slow fire. Use care in melting.\\nWhen melted thorougly remove the vessel from the lire;\\ncover it to keep the liquid hot. Take some round tin pie\\npans, and oil them with sweet oil as you would for pie\\nbaking, but do not use lard. Put these pans on a level\\ntable, and pour in enough of the hot wax to make a depth\\nin each pan equal to about the thickness of one-eighth of\\nan inch. While hot, glance over the pans to see that they\\nare level. As this is very essential, please remember it.\\nIf the pans are not level, the cakes will be all thicknesses,\\nwhich should not be so. Let them cool, but not too fast.\\nWatch them closely, and have a tin stamp ready to stamps\\nthe cakes out about the size of an ordinary candy lozenger.\\nThis stamp should be about eight inches long, larger at\\nthe top than at the bottom, so that the cakes can pass up\\nthrough the stamp as you are cutting them out of the pans.\\nLay the cakes in another pan to cool. Before they become\\nvery hard separate them from ^ach other; if not it will\\nbe difficult to do so when they become very hard. Do not\\nneglect this. Have boxes made at any paper box makers\\nin any large city. They cost about from one to two cents\\neach; sliding boxes are the best. Have your labels printed\\nand commence business at once. This is a staple article.\\nWholesale grocers throughout the United States generally", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 193\\nhave it in stock. You can wholesale it to them, or retail\\nit to families. This one secret is worth one hundred times\\nthe price of this book.\\nHUGHES GOLDEN RECEIPT.\\nFor reducing, blending and cheapening your own\\nwhisky, three or four barrels could be made for one, and\\nthe receipts I know of for this purpose, this is the only\\nhonest and correct method, that will leave the same bead,\\nstrength and color as when first bought: 1 gallon 95\\nproof whisky, 1 gallon high wine deoderized, 2 gallon soft\\nwater, 3 ounces extract Bourbon, 1-2 ounce glycerine,\\n1 ounce common syrup. Color with carmine to suit, and\\nlet it stand twenty-four hours before using.\\nTO GET RID OF RATS AND MICE.\\nTake chloride of lime, and sprinkle dry around their\\nholes and haunts. Or coal tar at the entrance of their\\nhaunts will do the work.\\nAYER S SARSAPARILLA.\\nTake 3 fluid ounces each of alcohol, fluid extracts of\\nsarsaparilla, and of stil. ingia, 2 fluid ounces of each,\\nextract of yellow dock, and of podephyllin, 1 ounce, sugar\\n90 grains iodide of potassium, and 10 grains of iodide of\\niron, this is according to the formulas furnished the\\nGerman Government.\\nREMEDY FOR NEURALGIA.\\nHypophoshpite of soda taken in one drachm doses three\\ntimes a day in beef tea is a good remedy for this painful\\naffection. So is the application of bruised horseradish, or\\nthe application of oil of peppermint applied lightly with a\\ncamel hair pencil.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194\\nDYSPEPSIA.\\nOne of the first things to be attended to is to regulate\\nthe bowels, which in this disease are always in a costive\\nstate. The best means of keeping them loose is the eating\\nof a handful of clean wheat bran, once or twice a day,\\nThis is the most simple and efficacious method of cleansing\\nthe stomach. It may be eaten from the hand with a few\\nswallows of water to wash it down; also use, to regulate\\nthe stomach and bowels, the daily use of common salt, in\\nteaspoonful doses, dissolved in a half tumblerful of water,\\ntaken in the morning fasting. Avoid rich diet, and use\\nbrown bread instead of tha t made of superfine flour.\\nALE WITHOUT MALT OR HOPS.\\nNo production in this country abounds so much with\\nsaccharine matter as the shells of green peas. A strong\\nconcoction of them so much resembles, in odor and taste,\\nan infusion of malt (termed wort), as to deceive a brewer.\\nThis decoction rendered slightly bitter with the wood sage,\\nand afterward fermented with yeast, affords a very excel-\\nlent beverage. The method employed is as follows: Fill\\na boiler with the green shells of peas, pour on water till it\\nrises half an inch above the shells, and simmer for three\\nhours. Strain off the liquor, and add a strong decoction\\nof the wood sage, or the hop, so as to render it pleasantly\\nbitter; then ferment in the usual manner. The wood sage\\nis the best substitute for hops; and being free from any\\nanodyne property is entitled to a preference. Boil a fresh\\nquantity of shells in the decoction, and when cold, it may\\nbe thoroughly impregnated with saccharine matter, as to\\nafford a liquor, when fermented, as strong as ale.\\nTO DRIVE AWAY ANTS.\\nPut red pepper in the places the ants frequent the\\nmost, and scrub the shelves and drawers with strong car-\\nbolic soap.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 195\\nTO RESTORE VEL VET.\\nWhere velvet has been crushed, hold the wrong side\\nover a basin of quite boiling water, and the pile will grad-\\nually rise. Do not loose patience, for it takes a considera-\\nble time, but the result is marvelous.\\nHAIR RESTORATIVE.\\nA tea made by pouring one pint of boiling water on\\ntwo tablespoonfuls of dried rosemary leaves, with a wine-\\nglassful of rum added, is excellent.\\nTO SOFTEN THE HANDS.\\nBefore retiring, take a large pair of old gloves and\\nspread mutton tallow^ inside, also all over the hands.\\nWear the gloves all night, and wash the hands with Olive\\noil and white castile soap the next morning.\\nTO FLA VOR TOBACCO.\\nThis is done by means of a mixture of one part each\\nof lemon peel, orange peel, figs, corriander seed and sassa-\\nfras; half part each of elderflowers, elder berries, and cinna-\\nmon; two parts of saltpetre, three of salt, and four of\\nsugar. This mixture must be digested in fifty parts of\\nwater, and, before applying it flavor with an alcoholic sol-\\nution of gum benzion, mastic, and myrrh. It is said that\\nthis decoction gives a flavor to comon leaves resembling\\nPorto Rico, but to this end the leaves must be well dried,\\nabout a year old, well permeated with the preparation,\\nkept in a pile about eight days, turned daily, and finally\\ndried.\\nPAINT SMELL.\\nTo get rid of the smell of oil paint, plunge a handful\\nof hay into a pail of water, and let it stand in the room\\nnewly painted.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nAPPLE B UTTER WITHO UT APPLES.\\nTake one-half pint of the very cheapest black molasses\\n(good molasses wont do) and one-half pint of good vinegar,\\nmix well together, put it over the lire until it boils, then\\ntake it off, and take one-eighth pint of wheat flour and\\ncold water enough to make a thin batter, and mix well;\\nthen pour all these together, until it gets as stiff as you\\nwant it. Stir all the time. Put in cinnamon or allspice to\\nsuit your taste. You will then have splendid apple butter.\\nHOW TO MAKE AJST OLD ORCHARD NEW.\\nKainite or Tree Medicine.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It is very well known\\nthat the reason why peach, apple quince and pear orchards\\ngradually grow poorer and poorer until they cease to pro-\\nduce at all, is because the potash is exhausted from the\\nsoil by the plant. This potash must be restored, and the\\nmost effective way to do it is to use the following com-\\npound, discovered by a distinguished German chemist;\\nthirty parts of sulphate of potash;- fifteen parts sulphate\\nof magnesia; thirty-live parts salt; fifteen jjarts gypsum\\n(plaster-of-paris); Hve parts chloride of magnesia. This\\nshould be roughly powdered and mixed and then mingled\\nwith barn-yard manure or dug in about the roots of the\\ntrees. From ten to twenty pounds to a tree are quite\\nenough.\\nCURE OF WARTS.\\nThe easiest way to get rid of warts is to pare off the\\nthickened skin which covers the prominent wart; cut it\\noff by successive layers, and shave it till you come to the\\nsurface of the skin, and till you draw blood -in two or three\\nplaces. Then rub the part thoroughly over with lunar\\ncaustic, and one effective operation of this kind will gener-\\nally destroy the wart; if not, you cut off the black spot\\nwhich has been occasioned by the caustic, and apply it\\nagain; or you may apply acetic acid, and thus you will\\nget rid of it. Care must be taken in applying these acids,\\nnot to rub them on the skin around the wart.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 197\\nAPPLES FRESH AND SOUND ALL WINTER.\\nI discovered a very superior way of preserving apples\\nuntil spring. By it any apple in good condition when\\npacked will be equally good when unpacked, and even\\nthose rotting because not in good condition when put\\naway will not injure any others. Take fine saw dust,\\npreferably that made by a circular saw from well seasoned\\nhard wood, and place a thick layer on bottom of a barrel.\\nThen place a layer of apples, not close together and not\\nclose to staves of the barrel. Put sawdust liberally over\\nand around, and proceed until a bushel and a half (or less)\\nare so packed in each barrel. They are to be kept in a\\ncool place. I kept some in an open garret, the theremom-\\neter for a week ranged close to zero. No braised or mellow\\napples will be preserved, but they will not communicate\\nrot to their companions. There is money in this, applied\\nto choice apples.\\nBOILS.\\nThese should be brought to a head by warm poultices\\nof camomile flowers, or boiled white lily root, or onion\\nroot by fermentation with hot water, or by stimulating\\nplasters. When ripe they should be destroyed by a needle\\nor lancet. But this should not be attempted until they\\nare fully proved.\\nDROPSY.\\nTake one pint of bruised mustard seed, two handfuls\\nof bruised horseradish root, eight ounces of lignumvitre\\nchips, and four ounces of bruised Indian hemp root Put\\nall the ingredients in seven quarts of cider, and let it\\nsimmer over a slow fire until it is reduced to four quarts.\\nStrain the decoction, and take a wineglassful four times a\\nday, for a few days, increasing the dose to a small teacup-\\nf ul three times a day. After which use tonic medicines.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198 FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nRAT KILLING.\\nTake common sponge, dried, cut into small pieces,\\nsoak in lard, melted tallow or meat gravy. Place these\\npieces within easy access to the rats. They will eat\\ngreedily, and the moisture of the stomach will cause the\\npieces to swell and kill the rat. Water may be placed\\nwithin reach, and will hasten results by expanding the\\nsponge.\\nPhosphorous Paste for Destroying Rats-Mice\\nMelt one do and of lard, with a very gentle heat, in a\\nlarge mouthed bottle or other vessel plunged into warm\\nwater; then add half an ounce of phosphorous, and one\\npint of proof spirit; cork the bottle securely, and as it\\ncools shake it frequently, so as to mix the phoshorous\\nuniformly; when cold pour off the spirit (which may be\\npreserved for the same purpose), and thicken the mixture\\nwith flour. Small portions of this mixture may be placed\\nnear the rat holes, and being luminous in the dark it\\nattracts them, is eaten greedily, and is certainly fatal.\\nPut it up in small tin boxes, and sell it at 25 cents each.\\nThere is a firm in this city that has made over thirty\\nthousand dollars manufacturing this article.\\nTO REMOVE OFFENSIVE BREATH.\\nFor this purpose almost the only substance that should\\nbe admitted at the toilet is the concentrated solution of\\nchloride of soda. From six to ten drops of it in a wine-\\nglassful of spring water, taken immediately after the\\noperations of the morning are completed. In some cases,\\nthe odor arising from carious teeth is combined with that\\nof the stomach: If the mouth be well rinsed with a tea-\\nspoonful of the solution of the chloride in a tumbler of\\nwater, the bad odor of the teeth will be removed.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "FAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED. 199\\nCONCLUSION.\\nMy dear reader, I trusty you have read this little work\\ncarefully and that it may be of vast benefit to you. As\\nmy experience has been that no one gets too old to\\nlearn, and what might have seemed very important\\nincidents to the unsophisticated, as well as the man of\\nthe world, I assure you is nevertheless a fact; and a thous-\\nand dollars of my money goes to the man or woman who\\nwill prove to a disinterested committee of three, that any\\nsingle one of the incidents herein printed is not true.\\nAnd, furthermore, the same offer holds good regarding the\\nformulas and receipts; or I will give to anyone, (pharma-\\ncists, doctors or merchants not excepted), $5.00 for each\\nand every receipt or formula that will do the work better\\nor cheaper than any of those embodied in this book, and\\nwill do it cheerfully; and will give the money as free as\\nthe air you breathe and the water you drink. I make this\\noffer owing to the fact that I will stop at no expense to\\nkeep that part of this work where it is now just as far\\nabove the average book of receipts and formulas as an\\neagle is above a mnd turtle. You will observe that I have\\nmade special exertions to present an immense array of rare\\nand most valuable information, and made it as compre-\\nhensive as possible in that respect and while 1 realize as\\nwell as my reader that some one else might have done better\\non exposing swindles, congratulate myself on the fact\\nthat some benefit may be derived from it, for the best of\\nmy knowledge, it fills a long-felt want, as no work of the\\nkind is now in print. However, for the good it may prove,\\nI place it before the public, hoping it may be a foundation\\nfor more works of the kind. And my main endeavor, to\\neducate the unsophisticated in the ways of the world a\\nlittle, may bear fruit, and be appreciated by all honest\\npeople.\\nThe Author.", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200\\nFAKES, GRAFTS AND SWINDLES EXPOSED.\\nAGENTS WANTED TO SELL THIS BOOK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 either\\nsex. Territory inhabited and free to all. A good thing\\nfor live people; $3.00 to $5.00 per day sure. Experience\\nnot necessary. Write today for confidential prices and\\nterms. Address,\\nJ. Alfred McCurry,\\nMoberly, Mo., U. S. A.\\nNOTICE.\\nRemittances should be made by postoffice or express\\nmoney order, bank draft or registered letter. No per-\\nsonal checks taken. Postage stamps for amounts less\\nthan $1.00 will be accepted. One or two cent stamps\\nshould be sent. Remittances from foreign countries\\nshould be made payable at par in the United States.\\nv#", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4130", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4252", "width": "2702", "jp2-path": "fakesgraftsswind00mccu_0212.jp2"}}