Show THE CHIEF ASSET OF THE FAKIR some men are unjustly classed as fakirs fakiri because they are always bubbling over with enthusiasm and surcharged with confidence they may be right in their opinions or wrong as the case may be but they are honest in their convictions it takes enthusiasm thusia sm an overwhelming amount of confidence in a promoter to lure the investor from his lair to induce the timid to place their little savings in mining stocks prospects and impartially developed mines through ignorance the enthusiastic man may tread very closely on the line dividing the legitimate from the wildcat wild cat but he Is not a fakir although he may often lead his clients to loss to absolute bankruptcy the fakir however although he may possess both confidence and enthusiasm is lacking in every other element combined in the makeup make up of his seeming co kempor ary he is lacking in honesty in good intent and the real sorrow that should follow when a pet and seemingly successful enterprise falls fails all that he cares for is money no matter how he acquires it his enthusiasm and confidence is assumed and his chief asset is gall we can well overlook the failings of the enthusiastic and confident but honest man for he is often the chief mainspring in great and successful undertakings and his failures are always lessons which eventually lead him to a solid footing which when attained he uses to reimburse re those who have met with loss through his previous ill advised but well intentioned ventures the fakir however bleeds his victim to a finish and then throws him aside the same as he would a squeezed lemon and he continues his nefarious business until the government steps in investigates his modes of procedure and lands him in the penitentiary after proving that his only asset is gall which is punctured so that the people may know the character of the man they have been dealing with the fakir knows full well the absence of his stock in trade just as a certain negro in the south knew what was the matter with him after a practical joke had been played upon him the story from contains a hint of what should be done to the fakir and is as follows in the bright sunlight on a railroad station in georgia slept a colored brother he snored gently with his mouth ajar and his long moist tongue resting on his chest like a pink plush necktie A northerner climbed off a train to stretch his legs unscrewed the top of a capsule and advancing on tiptoe dusted ten grains of quinine on the surface of the darkas tongue presently the negro sucked his tongue back inside his mouth and instantly he arose with a start and looked about him wildly mintah Mi he said to the joker Is you a doc tah nope 11 well then kin yo tell me whar I 1 kin fin me a right away what do you want with a doctor im sick how sick powerful sick dou you know the matter with you Sut tinly I 1 knows shuts de matter with me ine mah galls busted |