The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-03-04
Ready to Invest.

A general complaint comes from
the farming community of a phe-
Domenal scarcity of money and it is
seldom indeed that such complaint
is better grounded than now. There
is undoubtedly less money in the
hands of farmers than is usual at
this season of the year, for reasons
too well understood and too widely
discussed to need repetition in this
nection. Yet there are a good
many farmers who seem to have
plenty of money, in spite of depres-
sion and low prices, to throw away.
Swindlers have ne apparent trouble
in these dull days in finding men
ready to part with their money for
no consideration whatever. Really
it is seldom that people are easily
gulled as they have shown them
selves to be of late. The sharp
er has only to set the most trans
parent of traps, and there is some
body to walk right in. Let it be
the old and thoroughly advertised
Bohemian oat swindle, or something
else of which less is known, there
is no difficulty in finding plenty of
victims. The papers are teaming
with warnings and exposures, but
there are too many people who
know better than to read the papers
and many Of these have their
pocket-books out for every catch
penny scheme which comes along.
The class OF people who will
turn the newspaper agent away
from their door or eye him with
suspicion, very often have an open
ear for the smart fellow who pre-
sents some glittering scheme for
suddenly making money. 1t is a
notorious fact, established under
the very eyes of every man of wide
observation, that many a farmer
who will not trust a dollar or two
with the canvasser trying to intro
duce standard farm literature is
ready with his bank notes, or his
signature, or anything else called
for by the fellow, never before seen,
who places a downright swindle I'M
der his nose. It is strange how
these things can be, but they are.
Some of the traps which rarely fail
to find game wherever they are set
are so palpable that it is perfectly
astonishing how people can be de-
ceived by them. A case in point
occurred few days since, with q
Pennsylvania farmer who was Wis
tied by band of gypsies. After
having his fortune told the farmer
was induced to place $25 in an old
stump of peculiar form and situa
ton, and leave it there over night,
being assured it would be doubled
the next morning. 1t was doubled,
and he was easily persuaded to
place 500 the next night in the
same place. 1t is hardly necessary
to say that both money and gypsies
were missing.
Times can hardly become good
enough to insure abundance to men
who are ready to try everything
wonderful which comes along. The
gypsy adventure was an aggrava-
ted case. but impesitions approx
mating to it abound. 1t is not a
rare thing that those who talk the
loudest and the bitterest about
hard times are thus the first to aid
IN making them harder. They have
no money-but they generally find
some for the errant rascal. Why
is it that 90 many will not learn the
infallible ear marks of swindlingH
Demonstration cannot make any
thing palmer tn an that all offers OF
big profit without effort are apt to
be regarded with suspicion. The
lesson is repeated over and over
again in the history Of nearly every
neighborhood-and yet our coun
try is full OF people who seem to he
incapable Of understanding INA
tional Stockman.