The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-25
SEVERE cN AMERIeANs.
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sazes Up sons AnnsrioAn sufssaas.

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How one Oh Joiam NBuHlsS WntchRaa Orwnns
sizes Up SONS AmefioAn suisaaEs.
Except 10 Yorkshireman there ID no
more self conscious person than your
untrayeled American. He knows every
thing. Won can't take him In. he.
comes from the biggest country In the
world. His slnartness ID proverbiaL He
does not continually exclaim, 81 am D
Yankee, I am, y but he metaphoricaIly
waves his flag in the. face Of an effete
civilization and trails his egotism be-
fore the darned old country all the time,
You beti And il liz done surely and per-
sistantly. Every whipper snapper Of Q
sneak thief has him. Notwithstanding
the staleness Of the confidence trick in
his own country, he'is d prey to the first
American sharper or the clumsiest imi-
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 comb
dence trick ON Americans. The wonder
il that any one can ibe fseeced % easily.
Imagine any ane persoa being in
duced to hand. over his watch and his
pnrse TO astotal stranger and letting
him go ont of sight to test his falsh In
the said stranger-''to show his comb
dence' I'm d man he does not csre d hut
ton about, andswhose acquaintance hs
he's only Just made This happened the
| other day i'm Holborn t0sansAmericaza
gentleman who parted with watch, ring
and notes to the value OF nearly $500.
The story began by one Of two comb
dence men spotting him for an Amerf-
can in Holborn and asking him, Say,
stranger. Is this o new street,"
The two men were Americans; they
came from Virginia; the dnpe was from
| New Jersey. OF course they all ad-
| journed to the restaurant 60 have o.
drink The first Virginia gentlementhad
come into o large fortune and wanted
to give a lot of ID away. but not to Brit
ishers-oh, no-but to his w country
men.
The Jersey gentleman was induced to
undertake the Office OF my lord bounti-
full to the millionaire and was permit
ted for d time to hold possession Of a
great bundle Of spurious notes Then,
to show his confidence i'm his new
friends, he handed over all he had about
him, and they presently decamped with
his money, 'tjewels, cash and plate. /"
Hs had to go home before the police
could catch the masqueraderss but ON
reaching New York b eswillsbe asked by
cable 10 keep the promise he made that
hepwonld return and prosecute themd III
the dull London detectives could lay
hands on the astute operators from Vir-
ginia.
And this kind Of thing 10 going ON
continually. The credulity Of people In
general.says asgTeaesdeal for the truss.
fulness and sympathy OF humanity asa
whole. Cynics would say that sit may
be- taken AZ still more indicative Of its
greed .It certainly Says little for ita
caution This most transparent sWindles
Of the day in the direction of .compa-
mics. partnerships offers Of fortunes for
D few pounds, successful systems Of bet
ting and speculation catch their dupea
day by day, and Monte Carlo Id extend-
ing its palatialhall&-Newcastle Eng
land Chronicle.