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CONFIDENCE TRICKS
THE CRUDE CRAFT OF THE EAST.
PEDLAR AND CONFEDERATE,
THE CHINA MAIL,
North Bihar, India-Had the confidence trick its origin in the Eust? It is not inconceivable, for the trick still has its crude counterpart here. The crafty cunning of the criminally-minded
· Easterner naturally lends itself to the peculiar form of deception | which takes advantage of the cre- dulity of the simple.
ASSISTANTS.
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AND INTELLIGENT MEN.
IN LONDON'S SHOPS.
Bournemouth-Mr. Percy A. Best, managing director of Shool bred's, London, speaking at the annual conference of the Southern Council of the Incorporated Associa- tion of Retail Distributors, said that hire purchase was a new form of "tricky credit.”
NEVER GREW OLD.
PEER'S SIXTY-THREE YEARS
WITH WESTMINSTER. ·
BREEZY PERSONALITY,
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The death occurred last month of the Marquess of Lincolnshire, who died at his home at Daws Hill, High Wycombe. brated his 85th birthday in May.
60N,
He cele-
There is no heir to the Mar- quessate. Lord Lincolnshire's Viscount Wendover, who was a lieutenant in the Royal "It is nothing of the kind," he Horse Guards, died of wounds in added, "Hire-purchase, or de-
the war. The heir to the barony ferred payment on mortgage, a is the late peer's brother, Colonel very old part of our system of credit, the Hon. Rupert Carrington, But suspicion of it has been aroused | D.S.O., who is in his 76th year. because of its association with Lord Lincolnshire was one of bribes. The public looks askance the great personalities of the at a hire-purchase, offer which in House of Lords. No member of of Sucz the confidence trick should cludes the laying of lino and an in- the House could make a more gain a little in subtility and ela-surance policy. These things are really to the advantage of the seller, and the purchaser, pays through the nose for them.".
As in the West, so in the East, in necklace often plays an import- ant part in the delicate, task of winning the trust of the intended victim. It is only to be expected, however, that in its pasange West
boration.
Compare the execution of the trick by the deported Colonial sharper in the Strand with its practice by the Domes, one of the Heriminal tribes" of India, in this province of Bihar and Orissa
C. W. Sturtevant. Civil Engineer | of New York City, the only civillan member of the Army Flood Control Committee, who has assumed his now duties and is now working fu conjunction with the Army, engi- neers under Maj. Gen. Edgar Jad- win, chief of engineers, U. S. A.
Two forms of confidence cheating that have come
to my personal notice recently furnish excellent examples.
First for the simpler instance. A Dome, disguised as a pedlar, met on the high road a cultivator on his way to a bazaur in the next village. Addressing him as "Ma- harajah," he offered to sell him a necklace of "gold" beads. The "gold" was brass, and the pros- pective customer eyed the orna- ment critically.
The Confederate. Just at that moment along came a stranger the Dome's | confederate-who, catching sight of the necklace, asked to be allow fed to examine it. After a careful inspection he declured that it was (certainly real gold, and naked the price. Bargaining began, without agreement being reached, and ul- timately the stranger, shaking [his head, walked sadly away, with a final glance of longing at the necklace.
Promptly the innocent victim offered slightly less than the price naked; his offer was grudgingly accepted; and he strode off glee- fully, with no more gold and con- siderably less "brass" than he had before,
dignified, figure at the State open- ing of Parliament; and none could be more outspoken or crack more jokes than he. Post-war conditions. he said, had His connection with Westmins made it impossible for many people ter-ns Joint Hereditary Lord to save money, and the hire-pur-Great Chamberlain he was the chase system played a great part in supreme authority at the Palace meeting these conditions and in helping to restore prosperity to the country.
It might reasonably be suggested that, apart from big credit, it is bad to encourage the buying of goods which cannot be paid for within a comparatively short time. But why should purchasers be deprived of the benefits of a system which is ex- tended to nations and large busi- Reases?
Mr. E. C. Denham said that ex- tension of the hire-purchase system, needlessly, falsely, and greedily, was likely to put up the cost of the production of commodities in this country to the extent of putting us out of the export market. The credit system do this country gen- erally was going.mad..
Shop Assistants Praised.
At the dinner in the evening Lord Montague of Beaullen, pro- posing the "Retail Trade and the 1.A.R.D.," referred to the ad- vantages of road transport over railway transport. In a rallway journey which he instanced a parcel was touched nine times by human hands, and each time it put the price up. In a similar road journey a parcel would be handled only four times, so that as regarded the human factor, road transport Was cheaper,
Of London shop assistants, he said: "The women are beautiful and
extremely civil, and the men are in telligent. Both are, in fact, in a far higher class than ever before existed in this country."
Rear Admiral Samuel 3. Robison, Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District on the West Coast, who has been appointed Superin tendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Rear Admiral Robison succeeds Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton, who will command the battleship divisions of the battle feet. Rear Admiral Robison graduated from the Naval Academy in 1888,
"It is the women," he apntinued, of Westminster had extended "who are the greatest shopping peo-over 63 years,
ple. Nothing bores me so much as His popularity with all kinds of to go shopping with the female people was due mainly to his members of my family. When I breezy faculty for friendship. He go into a shop I know what I want was the real patriarch of his to buy and buy It. When they go domains and a model landlord. into ashop they do not seem to His speeches in the House of know what they want, and just go Lords were refreshingly original. for the pleasure of what they call His enthusiasm for the land on 'shopping.** (Laughter.)
one occasion prompted him to Colonel E. Watts-Allen fchair-break into song. He sang to an man) said that he had been asked amazed gathering of peers a per- how their association would view a|tion of "God gave the land to the proposal to introduce legislation to people." secure public control of sales. "It
"Old Age Overdone."
is extremely unlikely," he said, “thật He never looked his age. Once any Huch proposal will ever be he remarked: "This old age busi- seriously considered in this country; ness is overdone." 'Ho disliked but, on the other hand, here are a being regarded as a veteran. great many members who would "For Heaven's sake, no flowers like a limitation of sales. It is a by request," he remarked to an matter which your council might "Evening Standard" representa- think worthy of discussion to see if tive who saw him on the occasion some common agreement could be of his recent birthday.
deliod, so that goods should in due season be sold on their merits and not, on the big red sale notices." (Hear, hear.)
LONDON'S
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BEST."
ARCHITECT'S OWN HOUSE.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, R.A., the the London architect, has won Architecture Medal for 1927 with the design for his own house, Ches- ter House, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park-gardens, W, 2.
Lord Lincolnshire had held many offices, including that of New South Wales, 1885-90; Lord Chamberlain of the Household, 1892-95; and President of the Board of Agriculture, 1905-11. He married in July, 1878, a daughter of the 5th Baron Suffield. The residents of High Wycombe were preparing to cele- brate his golden wedding this month.
Among his sayings were:-
I have had a very happy and merciful life, with only great grief-the loss of my son
.in the war.
one
Let well alone and a man will work out his own salvation. Leave your tenants alone and do not worry them--that is the secret of land ownership.
I do not understand all the ways of the new generation, but I do not hesitate to say they are every bit as good as the past generation, or even better.
Now for a more elaborate ex- ample, Two Domes set out on business, each accompanied by his mother. (The women are as skilled in crime as their menfolk. In a gaol I visited the other day a mother, father and three children were incarcerated for separate offences. They were alleged to be professional criminals.) Reach ing a main road, the two couples sat down, some distance from one another, on the edge of a culvert. A "Quarrel"
A jury appointed by the Royal Presently there came along an Institute of British Architects elderly man on his way to buy a annually awards, the medal to the buffalo. On approaching the now building of the greatest merit "ambush" he found a shouting within'a four-miles radius of Char- contest in progress between the ing Cross. Sir Giles had to com-i couples. One of the Domes, hold-pete against many of the big City ing aloft an elaborate amulet, buildings, and it is thought to be was trying to sell it to the other, the smallest house ever to receive and they were disputing over the the medal. price.
Sir Giles has evolved his con- As the old man drew near the ception of the perfect, house. It argument became more heated, is of two storeys, and is built of and soon a violent quarrel de- grey Ruabon bricks: The chiefly inaccurate so far as Lord veloped. Suddenly noticing the feature of it is an open verandah Lincolnshire himself was concern- old man, the first Dome asked his upon the first floor.
Lady Scott ed. opinion of the amulet, and explain.bas placed hay trees in tubs round In March Lord and Lady Lin- ed what the dispate was about. the verandah, and pnts of azaleas. colnshire were placed in mourning He ended by asking if the gtrang "The interior comprises all the by the death of their fourth er would kindly change a note, as lateat ideas in planning, and heat-daughter, Viscountess Bury, who, he had to return some change to | ing," anld an assistant of Sir Giles na Lady Myee. Carrington, had This customer. Dropping his bun-toa "Daily Mail"! reparter. married in 1909 Lord Bury, the Ble, the old man fumbled for his "One of the most beautiful eldest son and heir of the Earl of cash.
features are the cornites and the Albemarle. Instantly the first Dome seized skirtings in the living rooms, which Lord Lincolnshire's four sur- him by the wrist, the second ex-are made of a wood trested to viving daughters are Marjorie, tracted his money, and the resemble pine
LadyNunburnholme. Lady women ran af with the rest of Thẹ, drawing-room 19 on the first Alexander Palmer. : Viscountess: bly belongingaDaily News and floor," and "run the whale' depth of Lewisham,and - Lady: Victoria, Westminster Gazette.”
the house
Weld-Forester.
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There is no such bore as an old man.
The latter remark was certain-
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Considerable significance is attached to the return of Wu Pei-fu who, three years ago was the strong man of China, is now reported to have placed himself at the head of 200,000 men along the Upper Yangtsze. His re-entry into the political arena at this stage, when the Nationalists have gained most of China Proper, may have much influence on events during the next year or two.
Latest developments are recorded in this week's "Overland China Mail" in which will also be found a series of special contributions from a political correspondent dealing with several topics of moment. Possible peace between the Nation- alists and Manchuria is another subject referred to; also the position of Japan and other foreign Powers in relation to China's attitude on treaties.
The first typhoon of the season and the Court Martial of a Naval officer are among the most prominent of local events reported in the "Overland China Mail," the only illustrated weekly summary of "local" and "China" news.
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