Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25

Il the laugh is on the other fell
- 1owl
The faker has laughed in his sleeve
at the DOOR, foolish public so many
| times a day for so many days that the
laugh has become an old story.
The last laugh is the best laugh, some
wise sage long ago discovered, ana
some of The Herald reporters are nav
ing the pleasure of proving 1t ana are
prepared to make the air resound with
| merriment.
| Gullible and foolish as is this poor
weak public which gives up lts con-
| to keep a faker in luxury, 1t IS not
half so gullible or foolish as the poor
faker who gives up the secrets of his
| "profession" to an imposing reporter.
| The faker thus permits his lust for
the dollar to lead him in paths Whlch
| only fools would dare to tread.
st. Elmo, the high-class medium; ST.
| Elmo the mighty, who boasted that
| he could not be caught. has fallen in
the snare laid for him, and his tumpie
| was all that the most heaItless Ill
! wisher could desire.
To think that the medium who
! caters to the fashionable. the medium
who has had so many nice, quiet, eX-
elusive little laughs when no one was /
looking, to think that we shoulu nave
to laugh at him!
It is painful, but alas, st. Elmo, it
must be. II you will persist in being |
taken in by reporter to the extent
that you will introduce him to real
estate man with a past and try TO
induce him to invest money IN real
estate at Corona, you will have to par |
don us for laughing.
Elsie the Easy
And Elsie Reynolds! Elsie. those |
poor old eyes must be failing you.
Those eyes that have seen so far into /
spirit land, it is indeed a pity that |
those eyes should fail when they are |
most needed. 1t is pity that you |
were not able to recognize young |
woman with whom you talked on that |
fatal evening when the detectives
grabbed You instead of the spirit you
told them. they would find.
1t is a pity that you could not have
recognized her when she called on you
again for a reading. Even the best of |
us make mistakes, fake mediums not |
excluded Please pardon us for re-
turning some of those laughs which
you have laughed in secret-laughed at
the expense of the poor and the weak.
Pardon us, for laugh we must.
Dock Houghton, too-what is the world |
coming to? Can it really be true that |
the honored and distinguished repre-
sentative of the Sixth ward could once |
have been the prime mover in fake |
hypnotic game? Can 1T possibly be |
true that the honored councilman who |
still thinks the council such a comfort |
able berth that he longs to be allowed |
to remain there? Can it be that he |
could ever have been the wonderful |
Prof. Arthur, the boy phenomenon"
This is too much.
1T is to laugh" in spite of ourselves. |
Can it be that the honorable doctor |
could ever have taken easy money |
from the easy public, the public |
which now he desires only to serve? |
Can it be that our eyes deceive us, |
or must we laugh?
And Cleo the Mysterious
Then there is Cleo. Cleo has made |
money in Los Angeles. From the |
would-be business men and the women |
who cling to the fringe of society |
Cleo has taken dollars almost without |
number, and five dollars was a small |
sum to pay Cleo for certain informa-
ton.
I called at 1856 West Pico street |
where Cleo has made her home. and
was told that she no longer lived
there / learned also that she was not
giving readings any more and it is
easy to see how she could afford to
take a rest, for there are few in the
land who have done so good business
as Cleo.
At 1856 Pico street, fhe people all pro-
fess ignorance of Cleo's whereabouts.
She went away about the first of the
month and she left no address, but
she was seen by a Herald reporter a
few days ago and it is known that now
| and then, if she is pressed strongly
| enough, she gives readings to a par
ticular patron or friend who has thor
| ough confidence in her.
Cleo has laughed and she is still well
supplied with the money which Los
Angeles people gave her, so she may
yet laugh in luxury.
Business Men Bunkoed
There is "A story current and one that
| appears to have some foundation in
fact, that two prominent mining men,
one an official of company with head
quarters in the fl. w. Hellman build
ing, and the other with offices in the
| Wilcox block, were recently bunkoed
out of $500 by clairvoyant and an ac-
| complice
The men deny the story, but this is
natural as one would hardly expect
them to be willing to admit to the
world what easy marks they have
been. Both of them admit that they
| went to see the clairYoyant.
The two men, so the story goes,