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311 Cell Terms for "Con" Men 341 Panel-House Thieves 348 Gambling and Crime 358 A Heartless Fraud 401 The Bogus Mine 409 A Giant Swindle 418 Quacks 426 Fabulous Losses in Big Turf Frauds 448 Fake Drug Vendors 462 Bucket-Shop 471 On "Sure Things." How to Learn Their Real Character 482 Huge Swindles Bared 487 The Social Evil 500 Suppress Manufacture and Sale of Dangerous Weapons 508 Getting Something for Nothing 517 Want Ad. Fakers 527 Millionaire Banker and Broker Arrested 533 Dora McDonald 551 Mike McDonald 581

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PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.

The two arch enemies of happiness and prosperity are the Devil and the Grafter. The church is fighting the Devil, the law is fighting the Grafter. The great mass of human beings, as they journey along the pathway of life, know not the dangers that lie in wait from these two sources. Honest themselves, credulous and innocent, they trust their fellow man.

Statistics show that four-fifths of all young men and women, and nine-tenths of the widows are swindled out of the money and property that comes to them by inheritance. Every year thousands of laboring men spend their hard earnings and beggar their families by falling in traps laid for them. Thousands of innocent girls and women, struggling for a respectable livelihood, fall victims to the demons who traffic in human honor.

The Grafters spend millions upon millions of dollars annually in advertising in America alone. There is not a Post Office in the land where every mail does not carry their appeals and thieving schemes; and they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the trusting public. The State and National Governments spend millions of dollars a year in trying to catch and curb these grafters. Some of Satan's worst grafters are found in the church, working the brethren; and he has them by thousands in every walk of life.

The object of this book is to protect the public by joining hands with the church and the government in their work against the Devil and the Grafter. The author reveals and exposes the Grafter with his schemes, his traps, his pitfalls and his victims. The reader of this book will be fortified and armed with knowledge, facts and law, that should forever protect him, his family and his friends from the wiles of the Grafters.

It is with the confidence that this work fills an imperative need, and that it should be in the hands of every minister, every physician, every teacher and every mother and father in the land, that the author and publisher send it forth on what they believe to be a mission of good to the world.

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WORDS OF COMMENDATION.

From Chas. S. Deneen, Governor of Illinois:

J. M. Longenecker, former State's Attorney, says:

R. W. McClaughrey, Warden of U. S. Prison at Leavenworth, Kans., Ex-Warden of Illinois State Penitentiary and Ex-Chief of Police of Chicago, says in a letter to the author:

J. J. Badenoch,