Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-01-03

cents, ard then asked everybody who had
bought rings to hold them Dp. Instantly
every ring was in the sir Now, SAID j.
addressing the crowd. this is your money,
-isatY Yes said q dozen. And you
give it freely for the ringsT Yes ceme
again in chorus. Very well, here's twenty
cents for you, SIR, and twenty cents Tor
you, slr,' and so on around the crowd.
They commenced to wonder what In the
world meant; SAID | was crazy. and a
lot OF other things, but / ouly told them l
xas.advertising goods for my house, and
bad plenty more things 10 give away.
Next took up some OF my handsome
diamond studs, which l explained were
Lake George diamonds, equal TO any on
earth, ETC., and that was gong TO sell
them for twenty-five 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 gol fifty cents back who had bought.
1.-The thing began TO get very interest,"
ing. and the crowd numbered 300 or 400.
Then got out some beautiful gold-pla;ed
sleeve buttons, whicn l explained could
not be bought for less than Sl2. These |
proposed to sell for fifty cents each, giving
to al who bought a dollar additional as
before, each time doubling the money
gift. The buttons soon went of, as had
the other things, and l was ready for the
final bite at the crowd. The twenty
pairs OF sleeve buttons had been sold for
half dollar, and bad given back twenty
silver dollars. That fellows a darned
fool, heard all around me, but i replied
TO this by saying that last week, in Macon,
had given away 81. 600, and that ] was
ready 10 GO it again.
s'The crowd was perfectly crazy TO see
what came next. 1t was watch chains.
1he chains were sold at any price from
81. 80 TO anything above that one wanted
to give, telling them the while tLst the
more they pad the better 1t would be for
them. | hinteA that the watches would
come next, and tins lei them off like lot |
of madmeD. The trick now was to sell as
many chains as possible at 81 80 l had a |
devil of a lot or chains, and so | sent !
them out night and lett. The dollars came |
rushing blndly at me and raked them in |
hike chaff. Then l got out of chains.
previously l had prepared two big red |
silk handkerchieis, exactly alike, and as
soon as the chains were all sold out took |
the money, and, in the presence of the
crowd, tied 1t all up together, and after |
making speech, proposed to throw the |
bundle iulo the crowd for the beet man to |
take, While talking purposely dropped |
the bundle into my box by my side, in |
which Rad the other handkerchief. In |
this was $40 in silver and some paper to /
make It stand cut ike the cne had dror- |
ped. AL this had been arranged before |
bard, Of course. With whoOp | swung |
the bag around my heaa after stopping to
pick il up where first dropped it. and up l
it went into the air. Great hcsyensi you /
should have seen the mob! l never saw
anything ike II. They fought like tigers
over The handkerchief, while took occa-
sion to leave the spot. | had also arrang- |
ed to bring the thing to climax about the |
time the Albany tram left, SO was driven |
at once to the depot. | was Iust $3.50 |
ahead. But got very weak in the knees
while waiting at the depot. was little
too soon, and about dozen young men |
came up. raising the very mischief of q
noise, which thought was for me, and it |
proved 10 be true. They saw me and came
around me, laughing and knocking each
o,her hike crazy men. didn't know what
on earth was the matter until they finally
told me it was the best joke that had ever
been played ON Brunswick, and although
they had been vicumized, they wanted 10
assure me 1t was all right.
al had sold the chains 70 nearly ell the
best men Of Brunswick, some OF them
paving me as high as So for them. 1 was
10 leave, and had my revenge.
You may put il down for fact that any
average Ameucan crowd can be hum
bugged the same way every day 10 the
ye',r."