The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-11-16
THE GIVE.AWAY GAME.
no" Easily au American Crowd can
Duped-A Street Fakirs Exp,s.

o" hhs'iy an American Crowd can be
puped-A Street Fakir's Expose.
DO you know" said a man Ohio ....
re,ang renag Jeweiry from dry goods box, to s.
.efor.eT' that the Americans are the
fat'e.l huh'buIgged of any in the world :?
LIS - ~ 'rae, and have helped to humbue
snelh aoout as much as the average man. S
ooheoody had just been reading an ac.
cJuht % OF the Louisville lottery drawing
"aicn M brought forth this speech. O.
eaht you tell US some of your ex.
pedience i'll that line2 asked man ncar
:. wen, you would laugh to know what
iools people make OF themselves some.
times. Abont two years ago ! was .lown
in brunswick, where saw a fellow rnn.
ning perfectly square game, but which
was the most out and out steal 7 aver
heard of. His plan was simple. and
hundreds OF the very best people of the
to"i fiocked to give him trial. He
rented store and put showcase across
the counter in the centre. In the show.
case lie had, | know. my hat full of ten
ana az twenty dollar gold coins, piled in a
heap IN one corner, and in the other
ABOUT the same sized pile of silver dol.
,ars. a dice. box and six dice completed
MS outht. by paying half dollar
man had one throw with the dice. Ifhe
tn,ew SIX skies he took the entire pile of
SSiu II be threw six aces he was emit.
tied 10 ail the silver. OF course no one
ever threw all the skies, neither was il
possible 10 get the aces to come all in a
ounch. A man might as we'll expect TO
get struck by lightning from a cIoudless
sky at MONDAY as to throw ak aces. Il
Is y almost an impossibility, that's all.
dollars and left"
Did you ever hear of how easy it is to
1901 q man with soap?" continued the
'aiAer. we street men know that as an
o. 9id story, of course. ! was down to
Troy, Ala, several months ago, when a
ieiiow came along almost strapped. He
went TO grocery store, bought few
pafs OF this transparent soap, cut it into
small pieces about the size Of ones
thumb, wrapped it in colored tissue paper
very neatly. ard then covered the pack
age. with tin foil, sp:inkling the whole
with bottle of cologne to give it good
smell. Well, sir, that fellow got on
box and soon gathered q crowd by some
nice talking, and proposed to take out all
the grease from hats, coats, &C., that
could be brought in. The frat case pre-.
sented was the city marshal, who walked
up with great spot on his coat which he
wanted taken out. The fellow carried
sponge we'll saturated with bensine and
arnica, which of itself will take out al
most anything, and by using bit Of the
soap soon had the marshal's coat entirely
tree from grease. That started the soap
sales, and in two or three hours, it being
Saturday and crowd in town, the soap
man had sold $50 worth, nearly all of
which was clear profit"
Stopping to draw q long breath the
Jewelry man continued his interesting
story. II tell you you can humbug any
body. | am not unlike the rest of the
world. | believe would bite at my own
tricks if | could only get in the crowd"
"While was at Brunswick, Ga, some
time ago, took revenge on the town by
playing what we term the give away
racket 1t is mighty fine thing to
play, but very dangerous one in some
localities. l had been using big urn.
brella, large enough to cover fifty people,
when one night on the street crowd of
sailors, led on by some of the town boys,
threw rotten eggs at the umbrella and
broke up the crowd. Then resolved on
the give away racket A fellow has to
be mighty careful about working it, or he
will get caught out. 1t can only he
played once in a town.
"The "ay &c DC !: :s .h:s Ge. 10! cf
fine gold rings which cost about dollar
q dozen and propose to be advertising
some big gold concern in New York. |
called mine the great brazcd gold Of San
Francisco, stated that would show the
crowd thing or two, and soon got them
interested. First, / made a speech, in
which l stated my business; then com.
meIced to offer the rings at any price
from two cents up, telling them that they
could not be bought for less than four
dollars apiece 6! : jewellers. ! let out
about twenty rings at two cents, and then
asked everybody who had bou ght rings
to hold them up. Instantly every ring
was in the air. Now said I, addressing
the crowd, this is your money, is it p
Yes said dozen. 'And you give it up
freely for the rings7' YES came again
chorus. Very we'll, here's twenty cents
for you, sir, and twenty cents for you,
SIR and so on around the crowd. They
to wonder what in the world
l meant; said / was crazy and q lot of
other things; but only told them was
goods for my house and had
plenty more things to give away. Next
| took up some of my handsome diamond
studs, which / explained were Lake
George diamonds, equal to any on earth,
&C., and that l was going TO sell them
from twenty-fv cents up; the more one
paid the better it would be, Of course,
for him. Twenty studs were soon out
and the same speech made. Then |
made the crowd hold up the diamonds,
and each man got fifty cents back who
had bought.
"The thing began to get very interest.
ing, and the crowd numbered 800 or 400.
Then I got out some beautiful gold.
plated sleeve buttons, which explained
could OF be bought for less than Si2.
These I proposed TO sell for fifty cents
each, giving to all who bought dollar
additional as before, each time doubling
the money gift. The buttons soon went
off, as had the other things, and was
ready for tho final bite ct the crowd.
The twenty pair of sleeve buttons had
been sold for half dollar, and had
given back twenty silver dollars. That
fellows darned fool heard all around
me, but replied to this by saying that
last week, in Macon, had given away
81 500, and that l was ready to do it
again.
"The crowd was perfectly crazy to SEQ
what came next. 1t was watch chains.
The chains was to sell at any price
from $3.50 TO anything above that one
wanted to give, telling them the while
mid ho haifar IL