Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-11-23
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oEvEn- ON AMERICANS.
How One of John Bulls Watchfnl Organs
Sizes Up Some American Subjects.

How One of John Bulls Watchful Organs
Sizes Up some American Subjects.
Except a Yorkshircmau there is no
more self conscious person than your
untrayelcd American. lie knows every
thing. You can't take him in. He
comes from the biggest country in the
world. His smartness is proyerbial. He
does not continually exclaim, 81 am a
Yankee, | am, - but he metaphorically
waves his flag in the face of an effete
civilization and trails his egotism be-
fore the darncd old country all the time,
YOU bctl And it is done surely and per
sistcntly Every whipper snapper Of a
sneak thief has him. Notwithstanding
the staleness of the confidence trick i'll
his own country, he is prey to the first
American sharper or the clumsiest lml-
tator of the Yankee methods whom he
meets in street or barroom. The papers
lately have contained several instances
of the successful practice of the conf
donce trick ON Americans The wonder
is that any one can be feeced so easily.
Imagine any sane person being in
duced to hand over his watch and his
purse to a total stranger and letting
him go out of sight to test his faith i'll
the said stranger show his conf
dence" in a man he does not care but
ton about, and whose acquaintance he
has only Just made. This happened the
other day in HolbOrn to an American
gentleman who parted with watch, ring
and notes to the value Of nearly $500.
The story began by one Of two conf
denco men spotting him for an Ameri-
can in Holborn and asking him, Say,
stranger, is this new street,"
The two men were Americans; they
came from Virginia; the dupe was from
New Jersey. OF course they all adj
iourned to the restaurant to have q
drink. The first Virginia gentlemen had
come into IA large fortune and wanted
to give lot Of it away, but not to Brit
ishers-oh, no--but to his own country
men.
The Jersey gentleman was induced to
undertake the Office Of my lord bOunt1-
ful TO the millionaire and was permit
ted for time to hold possession of a
great bundle of spurious notes. Then,
to show his confidence in his new
friends, he handed over all he had about
him, and they presently decamped with
his money Jewels, cash and plate. }"
He had to go home before the police
could catch the maSqueraders, but on
reaching New YOrl, he will be asked by
cable to keep the promise he made that
he would return and prosecute them II
the dull London detectives could lay
hands on the astute operators from Nir-
ginia
And this kind of thing is going on
continually The crcdulity Of people i'll
general says great deal for the trust
fitness and sympathy Of humanity as a
whole. Cynics would say that it may
be taken as still more indicative of its
greed. 1t certainly says little for its
caution. The most transparent swindles
of the day in the direction of cOmpa-
MES, partnerships, offers Of fortunes for
a few pounds, successful systems OF bet
ting and speculation catch their dupes
| day by day, and Monte Carlo is extend
ing its palatial halls. Newcastle eng
land) Chronicle,