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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 erally amounts to worship. The counterfeit in love may be mistaken, but the genuine article —never. The love that says, “Almost anyone, Lord,- I can get will do,” doesn’t amount to much. £ Jealousy is not an attribute of lar there was a regulator, an as. I f° ve » but it is an indispensable ad- bestos screen, and any other me- i unc f 1° it, should occasion call chanical contrivance not too bulky | for ifc * to need a separate building for installation. He usually believed me. • “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. Deborah. President Suspenders Ease Comfort Freedom Durability - Metal Parts Rust Proof. Positively Guaranteed if “President” is on buckles. Everywhere 50 cts., or by mail postpaid. XJght or dark, wide or narrow, C. A. EDGARTON MFG. CO. Bos 368, Shirley. 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