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Show ' i ' -, I , iilw 1 .W.i. V. J.ilj.J....-t I I ' lua:w.u ul:: :;ot o:;ly g:' ::o:,'-;v lut the ru;,D.i or vuicn they y.'eee :iade cuctodia::. 11:'.: c--:::' v . i t:.:t:i. TLj vroman prczi-I" prczi-I" 1 tl. : - !ir3 r' 3 ti.j catered tlindlj into fcer .I.. ,;3. N TIIE Y '. Yr Ait TED TO GET KICH : QUIC f . fJi::CE THE DAYS OF -. THE lIIESISSim BUEELE THE CEOr OT BUCHEE3 HAS KEVE3 EE EN A TAILUEE. .The T)elaware peach crop izzj Cacttate tctTveea Eucces3 and failure, but the sucker crop is always certain to return a beautful harvest to those vrho cultlrate it BomethlDS for nothing is not to be had o lonj as human nature remains re-mains as at present constituted but let any one rome alonand offer to give it and "he will be overwhelmed, over-whelmed, with business. ' The public has learned nothing by being swindled swin-dled in Wall etreet thousands of times. Investors hare bought worthless stocks time and again, but let a new venture that promises large gains be promoted pro-moted and the dupes will fall over themselves to puji their money into it THEY NEVER STOP TO INVESTIGATE. IN-VESTIGATE. The get-rich-quick scheme carried out In New York and St. Louis within the last few years found hundreds of thousands of victims. THEY WERE NOT ALL PERSONS FROM THE BACKWOODS, EITHER. THE CITIES THE LARGE CITIES AT THAT FURNISHED THE MAJORITY OF THE SUCKERS. The person who appears intelligent In most things is as quick to take the bait as the ignorant and rustic when the lure of something for nothing is offered. MRS. CHAD WICK KNEW HUMAN NATURE NA-TURE AND SHE CAUGHT PLENTY OF SUCKERS. SUCK-ERS. IT IS THE OLD, OLD STORY. Tha Sucksr Crop. "As we have said before, the Chadwick case does i not possess extraordinary features. The women duped supposedly clever men by methods that were crude. She simply borrowed money on the strength .'of-her talk supported by securities to which the name of Andrew Carnegie was signed. THE EXERCISE OF A LITTLE CAUTION WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE WOMAN FROM CARRYING OUT HER SCHEMES. . Jt won id hare been easy for the bank presidents and capitalists who loaned the woman vast'sums to have found out if her securities were genuine. , Andrew Carnegie is not inaccessible. TO HAVE COMMUNICATED COMMU-NICATED WITH HIM AND ASCERTAINED IF nE HAD REALLY SIGNED THE NOTES AND CERTIFICATES nELD BY MRS. CHADWlCIt WOULD HAVE BEEN A PRECAUTION THAT IT SEEMS A SCHOOLBOY WOULD HAVE TAKEN, TA-KEN, but the wise men of the East accepted the woman's wo-man's story and the -forged papers unhesitatingly. The woman does-trot deserve much credit for cleverness. Her methods appear to have been clumsy. There was no attempt at concealment of the glaring forgeries. No provision was made to, ward off discovery; nothing was done to avoid the inevitable Crash. IT WAS PURE,' SHEER NERVE ON THE PART OF THE -WOMAN AND CRASS ' ' v ' ... |