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Confessions of a Fakir.
THE NORTH GEORGIA CITIZEN, DALTON, [GA.
In the current Independent are
published the confessions of
stre et ‘‘fakir” who for obvious
reasons remains anonymous, from
which account it appears that the
business is profitable.
The fakir’s real beginning as an
independent operator was in Chi
cago, of which he says: “Chicago
is the only ‘square’ town in this
country—that is, ‘square’ from
fakir’s or grafter’s point of view.
You pay for protection and you
get it.”
He paid the captain $5 a week
for permission to sell knife-sharp-
man
eners and gave the man on post
about a dollar a day. He was
warned not to try any “jamming”
or “slum” at this low rate. These
privileges cost $10 and $5 a day
respectively.
“Jamming” is getting possession
of the money of a crowd on the
understanding that it is to be
given back, and then whipping up
a fast team and driving away.
“Slum,, is selling packages of
jewelry, handkerchiefs, etc.
There are towns that are not
“square.” In Cleveland the con
fessing fakir paid for “protection”
and was afterward arrested and
fined. Then he came to New
York, concerning which it is his
testimony that it is a town of
“easy marks.” New York is
“closed” except just before Christ
mas, but there is something doing
in “sneak pitches”— that is,
“squaring” the man on post and
selliug for a few minutes between
the visits of the “rounds.” How
ever,when the artist tried it he was
arrested by the very man he had
bribed, and thence went to Phila
delphia, of which he says:
“Philadelphia is the cheapest
city in the United States. The
policemen are paid at the rate of
11.75 per day, and the fakir whOj
gives one of them a quarter for
protection is hailed as a Carnegie.
For a dollar a day. the guardian of
the beat you are working on will
keep your territory clear of other
akirs and vote you a prince of
good fellows.
“There is not much money to
be made in Philadelphia by a
fakir, for various reasons. First,
the people have an inherent trait
of thriftiness; second, t they live
their lives less feverishly than in
any other large city in the United
States, and there'are ‘home guards
in the town who take care of all
the surplus cash floating around.
“I always manage to spend s
month of each year in Phiiadel
phia, not for the profit particular
ly, but mainly for the nerve tonic I
get from the restful life there.
Pittsburg is different. There is
money in abundance in that town,
and I have had the pleasure of as
sisting at the partition of several
large package} of its cash, but not
of late. Reform and counter-re
form have placed the police of
Pittsburg in such a position that
they are afraid to trust even
themselves. I do not worrv about
things like that, however; I have
seen reform attack cities before,
and the disease is not even severe
enough to leave a scar.”
New York and Chicago are the
headquarters for new novelties,
and fakirs of the first class secure
the new things. The fakirs keep
in touch with the novelty supply
companies for new things, and
scan the papers constantly for an
nouncements which indicate some
unusual event that will draw a
crowd.
“I think that for straight faking
aluminum gas-tips were the most
profitable things I ever handled,”
says the fakir. “They cost me,
with the brass pillar attached.
$1.85 per gross. I laid out $500
ln tips and printed matter, planned
my campaign and began an itiner
ary which occupied four months
of my time. My bank account
showed a balance to my favor just
$4,527 in excess when I had com
pleted my tour.
“1 had my circulars distributed
in every place of business in the
town upon my arrival. I had
each tip stuffed with cotton, but I
told the victim that inside the pil-
REFLECTIONS OF A WOMAN.
Written for The Citizen.
The love that is supreme gen
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The counterfeit in love may be
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The love that says, “Almost
anyone, Lord,- I can get will do,”
doesn’t amount to much. £
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“I called his attention to the
printed price on the circulars—35
cents; and as a favor, just for an
advertisement, I would sell the re
quired number to him for 25 cents
each. If he wavered I quickly
placed a tip on his gas fixture,
lighted the gas and gave him an
ocular demonstration. As a final,
impressive argument I would pass
a newspaper behind the light and
show him how easy it was to read
through the flame. That settled
it. I never failed to make a sale.
“But while I was expiating on
the beautiful light given I did not
tell that it was produced at the
expense of an increased gas flow,
nor did I explain that you can
read a newspaper through any gas
flame.”
Love, to amount to anything,
must be able to stand the test of
time, of seeming or real indiffer
ence—of trials innumerable.
Some cases of love more strorg-
ly resemble shavings used for kin
dling than anything else—it does
not take long to start it up nor
yet to burn it out. It is of the
light variety and does not amount
to much.
That the “course, of true love
never runs smooth” is undoubt
edly true, but that does not by
any means imply, as some do erro
neously suppose, that the parties
are to be continually quarreling
and fussing with each other.
People who get along like cats
and dogs have no business marry
ing.
If a man hasn’t enough prefer-
erence to settle down and devote
his attentions exclusively to one
girl, it is generally a pretty good
sign that he is not much in love
with any of them. And yet there
are some men of this description
who are terribly anxious to get
married, but, so long as they have
no more preference than this, they
have no more business getting
married than the man in the moon.
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