The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1884-11-13
cred while Others were asleep.


Strange as this may seem it is only
about two years ago that party Of
four gentlemen entered one of the
lowest Of the Bowery Dives. It was
near the hour of midnight and the
! proprietor was preparing to close.
Among the painted and bedizened
females who thronged the place was
one whose brazen behavior chal-
lenged the sharpest criticism. The
gentlemen gazed at her intently
and at last drew her into con-
versation in her native tongue
German, and it was soon established
that this wretched painted creature
was the heiress to a vast fortune and
title besides. So infatuated was
she with her vile life that it required
all their powers of persuasion to in.
duce her to abandon it; p. last she
yielded, and in a couple of weeks
after sailed for Germany to enter
into her title and her vast posses.
sions. Stranger than all this is the
lmpositions successfully practised
year after year by clever swindlers,
and the dear public seem never to
tire of being gulled. Only a few
years ago magnificent Turk ap-
peared among US ; just imagine
most fascinating and engaging and
deluding Turk. He was here to pur-
chase for the Turkish government
100000 stand Of arms, 200 cannon
and five million of rounds of fixed
ammunition. He was catch in a
mercantile sense, and various large
manufacturers sought his acquaint-
ance, loaded him with presents, and
very humbly solicited his favor. More
than one anxious mamma inquired
how many wives he had on the Bos.
phorus, and if there were not more
than FIVE she was willing to let her
darling go. At any rate his magnif.
cent Iurkship had a jolly good time.
He lived on the fat of the land, he
wore the nobbiest of clothes, for the
extent Of his Turkish wardrobe was
a dandy little fez; the rest of his
costume being in the very height of
the prevailing fashion clean down to
his patent leather CATERS. This
wicked Turk made love to all the
pretty girls he met, and he promised
at least round dozen of them to re.
nounce Mohammadism and turn
Christian for their sake.
To make a long story short one
morning he turned up missing; his
hotel was out nearly $1,000; he
had borrowed right and left of every
body who would lend, and even
captured several diamond rings from
the girls he had engaged himself to.
Then on inquiry they found out what
they might have found out before that
the Turk was no Turk; but a very
clever Jew who was well known in
Constantinople, where he had been
imprisoned for swindling, and more
than once he had suffered from the
bastinado. Fashionable society which
had feted him was shocked-but it
pocketed the insult. and imposition
and said nothing about it; and waited
for the next. He soon came in the
person of an English nobleman,
regular tip top swell. He set up an
establishment here that an English
nobleman might envy. His coronet
was on everything-his carriage, his
paper and the buttons of his lackey's
coat. His dog-cart was sight, and
it was said that his drag was the finest
ever seen, but it hadn't arrived. He
captured the town, painted it a bright
vermillion, and succeeded in making
himself nine days wonder. He too
has disappeared, and the places that
knew him once will know him no more
forever.
Yours Truly,
BROADBRIM.