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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-12-28

Mrs. Luella Hover and daughter,
Bula, left Saturday evening to visit
relatives in Sheldon, Iowa, during the
HI idays.
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Banks Will Close.

In order to give employers and en-
ployees a week days New Years vaca-
ton the three Denison banks will be
closed on Monday, January End.
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Lecture Course January End.

Seats for the second number of the
lecture course may be reserved on
Saturday, December 31st at the Corn
err Book Store. Single tickets soc.
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Marriage Licenses.

Dec. pa. B. Jurgensen and Caro-
line Schurke; John A. G. Neumann
and Alfredo w. J. Miller.
Dec. 24-Woodford Lloyd lobe and
Grace Swatman.
Dec. 25-Paul Schoening and Minnie
Burmeister.
Dec 27-Andreas Reurosaat and
Emma Guth.
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We Have no Axe to Grind

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earth. The meat is tender and juicy,
and our Poultry is second to none
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The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

with the faker's honesty-with the solid business
methods on which he conducts his game of chance
But he hasn't any $1,000 with him. What shamel
Think OF one losing $1,000 i'll cold cash just because
he can't put up the narginl He might suggest to the
faker that the latter give him the "order" for the
$4,000 and then he could give back 600 out of that
But the guy is probably excited over the pros
pect of much wealth think of that and even if
he did the faker would tell him he represented big
lottery company with headquarters elsewhere and
that it against the rules to issue any orders unless
the cash has been put up In fact he ought to have
insisted upon having the cash i'll the first place but
then there is still chance if the gentleman wants to
put up his money
Now, the "capper," before steering his friend up
against the send joint had made inquiries and
learned that he man who had money in the
bank. That's part of the "cappers' job He calls
the guy to side. 1--WE got little money with
me-, the capper" says; brought it to buy couple
of horses while in town l could let you have
it if you get the rest of the $4,000 It's only $780, but
I'd like to have chance to double it if 1 cam
The guy asks the faker if he will wait until he
goes to the bank The faker hesitates but finally
says he will But don't let them know at the bank
what you want it for cautions the faker Don't come
directly toward the circus grounds after you get it.
because you know how prejudiced some people are
about any gambling game Come by some round
about way"
The victim starts to go to the bank He is fol-
lowed by one of the "seuths." This is because the
faker IS always haunted by the fear that even fixed
officials might turn crooked, and that the man might
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ner turned up. He amt noticed it, he says. The
guy sees that his found friend is right. All he
has to do is to bet the with the turned
up and 1t will be just like finding money. He bets all
he has, perhaps, and loses because, of course, the
faker turns down that corner and up the
OF another III the course of his nanipulations.
Oh, but have you ever heard of the send joint
game' Compared to this game all other forms OF
gambling are more risky than buying government
bonds. 1t is at the send joint that the crcuses get
their big money. You'll say the game lacks the
proper degree OF plausblity catch the unwary But
don't fret The send joint never yet has failed to
earn substantial dividend
The game derives its from the fact that it is
Joint whence one is sent after more funds to
over to the faker. 1t is in the form of lottery
Pull out number just for luck, says the oper-
ating the game You don't need to put up any mon
ey" The victim tried his luck wagering, let us say,
$1,000 of imaginary money. And he wins. Then the
taker gives the victim to understand that he thought
the play was in Yes, indeed, he thought it
all IN deadly earnest If the had lost he would
have expected him to put up $1,000, and he has
the faker is willing pay $4,000 just as if
the money had been regularly wagered-provided,
however that the agrculturis will put up his $20O0
just guarantee of good faith.
Magnanimous? Well, rather This offer properly
impresses the man from the fields of flowing grain
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this roulette wheel For he doesn't depend merely on
the percentage in favor of the house" for his win
nings. By means of invisible needle which he can
raise in any of the numbered receptacles he is
able to prevent the little ball from rolling down ON
the number being played to win.
The same scheme is worked in the beehive an
arrangement OF wire shaped like beehive little
ball rolls down, humping against nails in its path.
until hnaly 1t alights some number-w1ich how
ever owing to the fakers invisible needle is the lucky
number only when the "capper" is playing If the
capper were permitted to keep half of his win
nngs IN the course OF good day he would not long
be content to work at his job for so week
The old fashioned dial with numbers around the
edge and big pointer to spin has come to be AN
ingenious electrical and mechanical device The faker
uses silver dollars for chips and stands nonehalantIv
by clinkng little smokestack of the necor,abIa
silver disks the table And the weight of the dol
lars over certain spot the table determines the
number at which the pointer shall stop All the fak,-
has to do it to take of the number of dollars -
his pile and he halt the pointer where he wills
The envelope game is that in which one takes L.;
choice of of sealed envelopes. some of ,,h;.L
are reputed to contain negotiable green paper SonS.
times the faker places the money in the envelons ~
sometimes one imagines that he can see the end s
bill protruding from the end of an envelope Rrt A.
disbursements to the players from this 0ar, -
seldom reached more than the sum of a zero rf
multiplied by a cipher. marx
In the fishing game one reaches for paDer fsb -
having lucky numbers hidden in their fails a.. solne
says But the sucker in this game a1vTa1-s e man
at the pole end of the line = 0dught
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az( |lRCUS zyWlNDLERS and THEIR GAMES

shells by throwing his leg the handle of heavy
cane he carried
One old circus man tells of the day this took
Slo0 away from SNUG looking preacher. The min
ister fell over iii faint and fairly began to froth at
the mouth. You've killed him." remarked this cir
Gus man, who happened along just then. Whereupon
the shell man took the money and showed it into the
mans hand i was just foon' you" he said, and
the minister began to revive
The next time get any of his money he can just
.croak and stay croaked' grunted the CRATER dis
gustedly when he saw how easily the man was re-
stored to life.
But OF ALI the unconscionabc crooks that ever
stepped on show ground by far the smoothest
we'll as the ornerest and meanest, say the old timers
was Canada Bill whose game was three card monte
He dressed shabbily and posed as greene trying
to initiate the real takers His makeup was so clever
and he possessed such skill acting his role that the
crowd could not conceive of the possibility that he
was slick enough to get any of their money. He
would get hold OF a small piece of pine board and
then sneak off to fence corner or other out of the
way place and begin to throw his cards A crowd
would soon gather. 81 seen some O them fellers
THROWN these things he would remark with an in
genuous grim. Il b'lieve en- do it as we'll as they
kin. soon's practice Bit
"capper" would come along and win some money
and then the crowd would stampede up to try to do
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

the same thing, though it seemed like shame
to take money from such novice But Bill" would
win. Got you that timep he would cackle. 81 guess
I'm gettin' pretty good"
One day big chap lost $40 Before the monte man
could pick UP the winnings the stranger grabbed up
the pile of bills and broke away through the crowd
Let him go" laughed the monte man in hurt
tone. He amt honest, that feller amt / beat him
fair and square"
He had his reason for not chasing the man "I
could win twice much while I'd be chasn' him" he
would explain to the circus man
incidentally Canada Bill" was as much of
Sucker any of his victims He made his head
quarters in Omaha, where he was feeced by other
sharpers out of all his stealings
Fully equal IN Importance to the man who actually
works any of the gambling swindles is the "capper."
The capper, whatever game he may work at al
ways is dressed like "rube"-not with pink chin
whiskers, blue overals and hguratve clover in his
eyebrows, like the grotesque countryman who is part
OF the circus parade with hayfork over his shoulder
that makeup would be too obvious
The 'capper" watches his chance to get alongside
OF some man from the uncut who's sizing up the al
Turing banners in front of the sdeshow IF the cap
per can make the acquaintance of the "guy" on the
outside their intimacy will be all the further advanced
by the time they have seen the tattooed mamie of
the pictorial cavicle and scapula-the sword swal-
lower and strong man, and finally the games them
selves.
WORK OF THE "CAPPER"
Been in yit?" the "capper" asks the stranger at
his side, as the two up at the wonders on the
banner
No, not yet" the farmer replies. "You?"
Nope, says the "capper" II sort O. hated to go in
by myself Tell you what III do I'll buy tickets for
both of us If you'll go in with me-"
That looks good to the average mark" He readily
takes advantage of the ingenious young mans ber-
atty.
The "capper doesn't take much interest in the
game at frst But finally he whispers to his com
panion that he has a notion to have try. He de-
cldes to wager dollar at any If he loses he
VIII still have enough money to see the show, and
II he wins he'll have made a killing
And, would you believe it. the "capper" winsi
lhe guy wishes he had taken chance He makes
up his mind that he who never takes chance never
stands to win anything. The two drift on to some
thing else Maybe they stop at three card game
Inc success OF this game from the faker's point of
view lies IN the fact that the movements of the akers
hands IN throwing the three cards are too rapid for
an accurate klnetoscopic impression to be made on
the retna; III other words the hand is quicker than
the eye which Is often just it is tre But
the capper notices that of the three cards has
one corner turned up slightly. He whispers to the
guy that he has a little scheme He put up $40 or
SO and WINS He winks at his companion and tells
him It Is sure thing Watch the one with the cor
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GAMES
The San Francisco Sunday Cau

90 and complain to of them instead of going ~
the bank If the "seuth sees him go any Of
the authorities he rushes back 20 the grounds and
gives notice Then by the time the intended vietaSe
gets back the Joint" mas disappeared
But when the man comes back with the mon1
and turns it over to the faker, along with the
put up by the ingenious capper, the faker suddenl>
discovers that he made mistake in the winning
Der and that the man instead of winning has lost his
money Don't know how ever made such mis-
take" the man says but you lost, after ALL
When the "cappers learns that he has lost his 500
he weeps like child. A good "capper' can become
lachrymose on short notce-sheddng real tears, too
THE TOBACCO BOX SWINDLE
A swindle less pretentious but just certain
the old tobacco box game. The "capPer" with
friend" in tow would observe seedy looking man
stalking himself to chew of tobacco out OF neat
little wooden tobacco box. Gimme chew, frend?"
the "capper' would ask
Help yourself if you open that box says the
obliging stranger with grin. That's trick box
Betchuh you can't open it
But the 'capper" seems to be clever at such things
and he manages to open it.
The stranger seems surprised Il didn't have it
shut good" he says III bet you can't open it again
Whereupon the proprietor of the tobacco box places
$40 bill under the lid Put up SO, and if you can
open it you can have the So he says.
The "capper' and his friend hesitate and the man
tosses the box back into his pocket. "Aw you fell
lows wouldn't bet you alive" ne sneers.
''Yes, I'll bet you' speaks up the "capper-' Then
in whisper to his companion: "Ive got S.. Let me
have fver and we'll divvy up. l know how to open
it" Or perhaps he explains to him just how he can
open it.
At any rate, somehow neither open the box
this time. There seems be some secret lock that
battles detection You see when the faker put the
box back in his pocket he switched boxes and the
box he hands to the "capper and his friend
be opened only with One day away
with the box, intending get out the twenty dollar
bill at his leisure OF when he broke open the
box all he found couple of splinters. For some
reason other the public has ceased to stand
this game after time. In Indiana faker served
time in the pententiary for working the tobacco box
trick-one of the comparatively few takers sent
up.
AND THERE ARE OTHERS
Then there roulette and the beehive" The cir
f0l
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AND THERE ARE OTHERS

Then there roulette and the beehive" The cir
Gus faker welcomes who broke the bank at
Monte Carlo with systems" and all others at
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-08-20
.PARALYzED BY THE PLAGUE
Many Provinces of Russia Ravaged by
the ChOlera-POpulatiOn Of En-
tire Villages Wiped Out

St. Petersburg, Russia, August 90
The cholera scourge is still raging in
this country and hopes of checking its
spread are not very optimistic. In one
week the cholera record shows 23,9i4
new cases and 1923 deaths. These
figures are official.
The officers of the Red Cross society.
who are on the ground, declare that the
actual figures are much greater. The
suffering and misery occasioned by the
scourge is intense. In some district :
whole villages have been wiped out,
and the dead in many instances lie un-
buried for hours for lack of sufficient
help to care for all the cases. The gov
ernment is using all the means in it's
power to afford relief Doctors and
medicines have been hurried to the
scenes from all over Russia in Europe
Every known method to prevent the
spread of the disease is being used.
Troops are guarding the greater por-
tion of the stricken districts to prevent
vandalism and assist the medical au-
thorities wherever it is possible.
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500 REWARD, 41ss

The readers of this paper will be
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'DUNLAP's STRANGE DEATH
Engineer of a Polk County Phosphate
Mine Found Dead In a Washer
Which He Was Testing

Barlow, Fla, August 20.-E. FL. Dun
lap. electrical engineer and assistant
of the Pierce phosphate
mines, near here, was killed Thursday
night by falling into a new washer
which they were just putting into op-
Grafton.
Mr.. Dunlap had taken special inter
est in the new washing machine, which
Indirectly caused his death. Thursday
night when the time came to put the
machine In operation he was up on the
platform, where he could watch it.
Just how he happened to fall into the
trough through which the phosphate
runs to the machine is not known: \
bright arc light gives sufficient light
for a man to see all about him. The
machine was started up and Mr.. Dun
lap called out. The men at the motor,
thinking something was wrong with
the machine, instantly stopped the mo-
tive power and ran up on the platform.
They saw the assistant superintendent
lying in the washer. He was dead.
The alarm was instantly given and the
body of the unfortunate man removed.
There was scarcely a scratch on his
body, the machinery having been stop
ped the instant he called out.
Discussing the matter Superintend-
ent Snyder of the plant said:
Mr.. Dunlap was not afflicted with
heart disease, and how he came to die
so suddenly is mystery. He did not
scream or cry out in alarm. He simply
called out once and the men in charge
of the motor shut off the power in
stanter. Otherwise his body would
have been badly mangled in the wash
er. He was a great favorite with us
and we will miss him very much. He
practically grew up with the plant"
The deceased was a native of Co.
lumbia City, Ind, and was thirty eight
years of age. He was a graduate in
electrical engineering from Perdue uni
versity. The body will be inferred in
Barlow.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-08-20
90 1T NOW
Ocala People Should Not Wait Until
It is Too Late

The appalling death rate from kidney
disease is due in most cases to the fact
that the little kidney troubles are usu-
ally neglected until they become ser
ious. The slight symptoms give place
to chronic disorders and the sufferer
goes gradually into the grasp OF dia-
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If you suffer from backache. head
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Doan's Kidney Pills are especially for
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i Here is one of many cases in this
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| w. II. Story, PIP Jackson ST., Orlan-
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Remember the name-Doan's and
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SAVED FROM AWFUL PERIL

/ never felt SO near my grave
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-08-20
POOR FOLKS WILL PAY
Cotton Mill Owners VIII Save Money
by Laying OFF Their Hands

of spindleS in the cotton mills of the
country will be idle for periods varying
from one week to sixteen days during
the latter part of this month and the
first half of September.
Mills in New England employing
10000 operatives have already posted
notices announcing further curtailmen,
and it is understood similar action will
be taken by many other concerns. In
the southern states more than 100000
spindles will be idle one week in Sep
tember
Short time policies among numerous
cotton plants in New England will be
continued during September, according
to the present outlook.
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ACUTE OR CHRONIC-wHIC

No matter if your kidney trouble is
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Kidney Remedy ana few large bot
ties effected a complete cure. He says.
'It has been of inestimable value to
me-" Sold by Court Pharmacy.
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Mount Pleasant, Tenn-"Cardui is all
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81 was great sufferer for 2 years and
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Being composed exclusively of HARM
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1t has no harsh, powerful, near-pois-
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READ THIS

Dunne1lon, Fla, Sept. 1st, 1907
have sold Halls Texas Wonder of ST
Louis, Mo-. for six years. Every bottle
sell adds a customer for it. 1t is a
genuine cure for kidney, bladder and
rheumatic troubles. George Ohnmacht
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each bottle.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-08-20
CHOLERA CAN'T ENTER
THIS COUNTRY

New York, n. Y. August 20.-There
is not the slightest possibility of the
cholera plague spreading to the United
States. Quarantine measures now in
force here and in Russia are so effec-
tive as to preclude any danger of Rus
sian immigrants bringing over the
dread disease.
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TOOK ALL HIS MONEY

Often all man earns goes to doc
tors or for pedicines. to cure a stom-
ach, liver Of Kidney trouble that DR..
Kings Nek Ute, Ellis would quickly
cure at sfghxS6st. Best for dyspep-
sia. indigestion, biliousness, constipa-
tion, jaundice, malaria and debility. Csc
at all druggists.