El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-17

| mig III Uo dOlS W GHFOW 10, 6IGuCuSI
he saw how the chances were agains
me. So he paid up and the raft:
went on.
s'W hen 24O was called AZ was still
tn e best number out. The sporty indi
vidual was receiving the copgratula-
tions of his friends and every body
eIvied him. Oae man even offered
wouldn't sell. On the 240 roll l made
only 30. Right there was where we
worked the skin game.
SIN giving the dice to my other pal :,
who held ticket No. 24l, a switch to
loaded dice was made. The cubes
were all alike and the transfer was
made so quickly that it was not noticed
The chap took the bones, dashed them
out the box three times, and showed
an even so, the bestup. This startled
the crowd, through, of course, no one
suspected the swindle, When my sec
ond pal rolled he was given the sound
dice, and OF course he couldn't beat
the so, and it won.
The same scheme was worked a
second time in the village. L. was
success, but we thought best to move
out. In three months the ring Melted
over $1,000 in ra1fl IS around the
country. which Of course was just
side Issue. L don't think it would be
safe fer any otber fskir to try the
same railing scheme in the territory
which l covered.
1T is en- easy matter to fool this star
spengled public. A year ago in New
York | met one of my old travelling
companions aud he put up the song
give him living. Now, l have been
keeping an eye On the south for years,
and | knew the ropes. ! suggested
that he get three or four women
vaudeville actresses-ad them
as something imported and original,
and star them. The other day l met
that same chap down in Georgia and 1t
knocked me out to see him. A Wander
blit could not have worn finer clothes,
and he bad a bank account in every
city he had visited. His money Was
made by the simple fake of managing
the only original Little Egypt and
every chap who had ever heard of the
Seeley dinner was daffy to see the
show. 1t was rocky exhibition, the
worst of the kind in the world, but by
following the fairs the chap had made
four years. 1t only requires nerve and
smooth tongue to make living on
the road.
"Another gambling scheme that paid
we'll was the picture game. | had to
pay for the privileges at the fairs, but
they were cheap. On d large canvas
had hundred or more photographs
stuck up, and on the back of each was
written amounts from so cents to $50.
but you can gambl that there were
very few, if any, of the latter. 1 did
have one 500 spot. But there were
lunches of blanks. The farmers came
in, paid % c5nts for chance, and pick ed
a picture. The secret OF success, |
however, was in the big bluffs
worked. For instance. If a man took
a 5O-cent picture, and knew every one !
by heart, L would make him offers for
1t, jumping higher ard higher every |
time he refused. When 1 would offer |
him S.. say, and he would still refuse, |
why, then l would take 1t down, show |
him the 90 cents marked on the back, !
and pay him half dollar. OF course
thas guy would kick himself for the
rest of mis- life, and by talking quick |
and big got the guys going, and they |
bought pictures as fast as [ could take |
in the money.
'One old man paid ID for a pick, and |
said he was going to select the winner
Well, he did; picked it on the first GO
and be held the stick against the $50
picture, which reduced my profits.
Now, here was trouble, so | had to run
my bluff. The man had seen me offer
as much as SIS for blank picture, go
ne was not surprised when | began
Two dollars and S3 and "a
we're all refused. When 1 got to SIS the
chap hesitated. He saw that | was 90
ng to take down the picture, which
vas only bluff of mine. and he yelled
tut that he would sell. | gave him
lis money, and then showed the picture.
The $50 mark was there, as big as lie
Ind the guying the old chap got from
he crowd was so strong that he ran
way. This picture scheme never failed
% pay. There Is big money in it if you
ire clever with your tongue, and nv
bank account was very largely Increased
oy this ,rame :"