Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — The Rubbar Band Fiend. [ARTICLE]

The Rubbar Band Fiend.

There Is u sharp man about town who is making money with both hands, as It were. Ills stock in trade consists of a piece of rubber hose, a pair of scissors, and a tongue which works with exceeding smoothness, lie drops In on business men aud asks them If they are in need of rubber bauds; if so he will give them the very best sort for ?1 for 500. The uveruge man is likely lo say that he lias no use for so large a supply, aud that starts the conversation. He of the rubber hose, scissors, aud tongue says that lie can supply any number of rubber hands of the best quality on the spot. He can furnish 100 In a minute If the customer wants them, and lie adds that he will cut them from Ills hose right then and there. The customer says he cannot do It, and the rubber band man smiles and says lie has a dollar lurking somewhere in Ills pockets that says he eau. More than one man lias put up Ids dollar on this game, only to lose it, fairly and squarely, for the rubber-band “fiend” gets out his seissore and goes through Ids piece of hose even ns the hungry l>oy goes through pumpkin pie. Those who have seen the operation .say that it is easy for him to slice off 100 ueat little rubber rings in sixty seconds.