The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1868-04-01
Swindler's Column.
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GREAT DISCOVERY!
EVERY MAN HIS OWN ARTIST.
.r-f. A SCTENTIFIC W0NnER

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EVERY MAN HIS OWN ARTIST.
.F5s A SCIENTIFIC WONDER.
An instrument by which any person can
take correct Likenesses or Photographs. This
instrument, with full instructions sent by mail
for one dollar. Address,
.'9s' Re c. AMES & Co,
181 Broadway, New York.
This party have been advertising in coun-
try papers very freely, and We have no doubt
they have gulled numbers Of the young of
both sexes, though the whole thing bears
swindle on the face of it.
The Lynchburg Republican, in late issue
rays:
We notice in the Washington Chronicle Of
yesterday, that the concern Of G. B. Ames &
Co, at 181 Broadway, New York, is nothing
better than an unmitigated swindle. This
statement is made in that paper upon the au-
thority of the Superintendent Of the New
York Metropolitan Police. As we have been
favored with small bit Of advertising from
these gentry, for which We have never receiy-
I'd any payment, we take pleasure in giving
our newspaper friends the benefit of the above
information, that they may be guarded ac-
oordingly.
KELLEY'S WEEKLY SWINDLE.
These gents have an illustrated paper got
ten up on the gift enterprise order, and if
you don't bite at their flaming advertisement
they will find out your name and send you
the following
~ NEW York, March, 18th, 1868.
PETER FUNK, Esq,
Dear Sir:
No. 17165 has drawn prize valued at $3.50.
j Five per cent on this amount will be 81 so
This amount Of assessed per -centage must in
all cases be sent on receipt of this notice,
With directions by what Express you wish the
Prize sent. Yours respectfully,
~ A. A. KELLEY l. CO.,
Address all Letters to A. A. KELLEY & CO.,
808 Broadway.
IF you are green enough to send any
amount to them, you will get certain mum.
ber of shares, in some bogus oil Company, not
worth the paper it is printed on. Or worse
still, you may, upon writing to them again
get very polite letter, stating that your
money has been miscarried, and that the
prize is waiting for you and that another re-
mittance will bring it. So much for A. A.
Kelley & Co., but that is their style.
ARANDALE & CO., swINDLE
e This is another Of the wondrous gift en-
terprise swindles, who advertise freely and
send out big circulars well calculated to de-
ceiye. These gents will find out your address
and mail you several tickets. They claim to
have dry good and jewclry department,
each ticket, as a matter of course, calls for
q seme valuable prize, which il to be sent on
payment of one dollar 1t desired they will
send by express, G. o. D., but you will not be
allowed to take it from the Office unless you
pay in advance, and once taken you will find
it no easy matter to get your money back, and
DO swindled in the end
THE WEr BLANKET.-It is in the power
It one individual Of this species to spoil the
fun Of as many as half dozen comfortable
disposed guests for it is in small assemblies
that his power is so terribly felt. When he
makes one of large party it does not matter
50 much, as he can then only exercise his
clammy influence over one or two sufferers in
his immediate vicinity but in a small gather
ing the presence Of such one is positively
fatal. 1t is curious to observe, on such osca-
sions, how gradually but surely he affects the
spirits Of those with whom he is brought into
contact. He is always tacitly at variance
with the rest of the company. Sionsncs ogo
aox seems to be his motto. If they are in
terestcd, he is bored.
He will not talk, neither will he listen or,
If he does. it is with many unmistakable in
dications Of apathy and unbelief-a quality,
this last, which he seems. indeed, to take
every opportunity of making manifest. lie
sneers when other people talk, and if he does
open his mouth at all it is generally to con-
tradict. A terrible parsonage this, who
would be sufficiently formidable even if he
came single handed in the social field; but
he seldom does so, being generally aeeompa-
MED by swiRs, who takes her tone from her
husband lbeing much afraid of him. and
so manages to diffuse, as it were, the moist
ure which comes from the original blanket.
and assists materially in damping the spirits
Of the assembled company.