Show ART OF SHORT CHANGING Circus Men lii In Peddler and Others OthIS dept Adept nt at PlIt I I IThe The The art of ot short hort chan changing ln Is studied by hy waiters waller bartenders g street t fakers and antI various other othel servants of oC the pub pub- lIc Hc The rho man to tu whom all other short changers doff dolT their headgear Is th the ticket ct seller In the circus box office and amI next Is the man who climbs about among the seated throng In the big tent disposing of concert tickets There Thele nIt are two Ideal methods of returning returning re re- turning change In an all apparently honest honest hon lion est and at the same time re retaining re- re taming part of It t. t One of of these is used when witch the change Is Is In silver an and andone ont one Is 13 employed when bills are arc handled I IFor For Illustration 1 a n. two dollar note Is tendered In of at some article costing 10 cents or a 0 quarter qUartel The Tho person making the change counts It correctly from his left hand Into his right He lie tak takes takers particular l pains that his victim shall see that It Is correctly counte counted Then he dumps the handful of ot silver sliver Into the hand owner This looks so 30 fair Cull that few persons take the trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble to recount the mone money Here Is where they are easy easy- In turning th the handful of ot money mone Into the tho outstretched hand the artist retains a n. half hulf dollar 01 or a n quarter in his palm which Is slightly contracted to secure cure the piece Perhaps a 0 ten dollar note noto noto Is tendered tendered tendered ten ten- dered In payment for COl a ticket Tho The Thoman man In the glided gilded box first gt counts tho the bills for the benefit o of the tho buyer He Ho does docs not hot place the bills entire entirely I In iii tho the victims victim's hands as he counts them theta however but grips Ute ojie end of or orthe the bunch in his l left ft hand while he lie counts the free ends laying the ends back over oyer his hand tu as he lie counts He lIo does Joes this slowly and anti deliberately Then Thou rolling roiling the tho bills into a wad he ho smilingly places them thorn In the thc Impatient I victims victim's hand The operation Is so apparently honest that nine times out jf or t ten n tho the man lilan pockets loCketS the bills without without without with with- out counting them S If ho he sho should count the roll roil he would Q short for Cor one of find himself 1 51 or ot 2 the tho bills hills reposing In the center of at tho the bunch is doubled in the middle with the two ends even oven with the single Mingle ends of oC the other bills One bill is thus thins counted as two One of ot the most brilliant methods of short chaJ changing Is known among the thi profession as the quarter quartel dodge A live dollar note Is tendered In payment pay pay- meat ment for fOl ni an article costing a n quarter The Tho smooth one picks up UI a fl handful of twenty live nt cent pieces and counts them one ono nt at a Into the tho palm italin of oC the purchaser lUIcha el 11 lie cO counts the article purchased as one the first quarter placed Illace In tho the buyers buyer's hand being two etc ete lIe He says One two three four tour one our one one dollar dollar dol dol- lar laa one two three four two four two dollars one two three four four tour twenty four Caul fifty four tour seventy five dollars dol lars mrs At e cr every count tho the operator places a quarter In tho the palm o of the victim in The pieces are aro counted counte rapidly and there is nothing suspicious In the operation op op- oratIon but the thc reader will notice that the manner of oC counting changes when the third dollar Is reached Instead of saying One Otie two three four three tour three dollars the artist says lYSe One two three four Cour four t twenty five four tour fifty etc thus titus skipping a dollar en en- It may mn seem preposterous that such a barefaced swindle could be successfully sac suc c fully worked on even cn a n. denizen of or Podunk or but hut In practice It Il Itis itis is 19 successful ninety-nine ninety times tunes out of oC ofa oCa a hundred A minor method of holding out change when selling 10 cent cont tickets to the grand concert conceit after the big show Is 18 frequently used If It a dollar dollarIs Is han handed ed to the ticket seller he hands back the ticket counting It as ten then In dimes he counts twenty thirty forty ort fifty sixty bt sp ent seventy eighty ninety concluding and the ticket Is one dollar The ticket ct Is thus counted t twice Ice |