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Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
The New Hook Spoon Free
TO All.

| read in the Chris ian Standard that
Miss A. NJ, Fritz Station A., st, Louis,
Mo, would give an elegant plated hook
spoon TO anyone sending her ten 2-cenu
stamps. sent for one and found it is
useful thai showed it to my friends,
and made $l3 90 in two hours, taking
orders for the spoon, The hook spoon is
household necessity. 1t cannot slip in
to the dish or cooking vessel, being held
in the place by hook on the back. The
spoon is something that housekeepers
have needed ever since spoons were first
invented. Anyone can get sample
spoon by sending ten 2-cent stamps to
Miss Fritz This is splendid way TO
make money around home.
Very truly, JEANETTE s.
43.l3t
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
"GO TO Canton or Quit"

The following dispatch
from Chicago shows the ex-
tent to which the railroad
corporations are going to in
duce their employ es to vote
for Mckinley, The dispatch
was dated the 18th inst.
Indisputable evideuce was
given to the National Demo
cratic committee this morn
ing that the railroad cor
poratlons were compelling
their employees to make the
pilgrimage to Canton to-
night. Under pain Of dis
missal, the employees of cer-
tainly one railroad, at least
were forced into making the
much -talked-of trip to visit
Mckinley.
This morning a delegation
of railroad men told Chair
man Jones that yesterday
the foreman in their respect
i've departments came around
with a request for them to
60 to Canton. Upon several
OF the men debating the
question, they were told if
they did not care to take a
day off for the journey the
railroad would give them a
permanent holiday. 1t was
further brought to the at
tention of the men that dur.
ing the last big strike the
railroads had adopted an in
terchangeable blacklist sys.
TEN, and any one discharged
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
Did You EVer Make Homer
EUSUR

Mr.. Editor-I have read how Mr.. G.
=. B, made so much money in the Dish
washer business and think have beat him
| am very young yet and have had little
experience in selling goods, but have
made over eight hundred dollars in ten
weeks selling Dish Washers. 1t is simp.
y wonderful how easy it is to sell them.
All you have to do is to show the ladies
how they work an they cannot help bns
buy one. For the benefit of others | will
state that got my start from the Mound
City Dish Washer Co., St. Louis Mo.
Write to them and they will send you
full particulars,
| think lean clear over S3 900 The
coming gear, and | am not going to let
the opportunity pass. Try it and pub
lsh your SUCCESS for the benefit of Others.
j, X. G,
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
Mckinley and the Farmer,

Free silver will not cure
the competition of Russia;
India, and the Argentine Re-
public" so says Maj. McKin-
ley to the farmers.
Does not the Major know
that these three countries are
on a silver basis-all use a
mong their farmer silver
and when they sell their
wheat in competition with
that of the American farmer
in London, does he not know
that through exchange t h e
farmers of these countries
are paid a profit of nearly
100 per cent over and above
what the American farmer is
paid in gold. Does not Ma
ior Mckinley know that the
silver paid to these pauper
farmers buys for them in la
Dor, land or products quite
as much as does an e q Il a |
quantity of gold of the Amer
lean farmer for him, a n d
that while the American far
lner only gets 50 cents in
gold that the India farmer
gets three rupees, SO cents
in silver, and that the pur-
chasing power of these ru-
pees in India are equal to
the purchasing power. OF 90
American gold cents, in this
country and therefore we,
by our legislation, maintain,
ing the standard advocated
py Maj, Mckinley enable
the Russian, Indian and Ar
gentine Peasant farmer to
get 40 cents advantage over
the American farmer on
every bushel of wheat sold
by them in competition with
that of the American farmers
over whose eyes Maj. Nc
Kinley tries to pull the wool
The system is one that builds
up the Indian, the Argentine
and Russian, develops their
production, and pulls down
and destroys that of the
American farmer. National
Intelligencer.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02

from one railroad might just
as we'll get out of the busi-
ness. At least 50 men, who
are for Bryan, went to Can
ton to save their situations.
The Democratic m anagers
think that they have the
proof which will enable them
to prosecute the company.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02

Lampwick' | ordered a sample and
went to work AMI the first week | clear.
ed $40, the second week | cleared SIS. I
expect to run it up to S25 a week in the
near future, as the Perfection Metal Tip
LampwicS mak,s such beautiful white
light and does away with smoky chin.
neys and bad odor and saves oil, it 10
easy to SELL II you wish to try it send
IL cent stamps to Miss A, M. Fritz,
Station A. st Louis, Mo-, and she will
send you sample outfit, this is good
way to make money around home.
43-l3t. Miss TINA W.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02

will look at this matter IN a
common-sense view and with
a view benefting the great
mass of the American people
but will concede that the ba-
sis of our redemption money
should consist of both gold
and silver. Hence it is that
the plain people of this coun-
try disregard all the false
prophets of the gold stan
dard people.
The fact that the gold
standard countries are to-day
bonding their people in the
scramble for gold, one nation
outbidding the other, driving
down prices OF all commodi-
ties, drying down the prlce
of labor and it's products, is
an object lesson that must
be needed. We are frequent
ly taunted with the sugges'
ton that we intend to Mex,
icanize our currency, and
some people would try to
make us believe that should
we 60 to the free coinage OF
silver we would become Mex
icanized, Chinaized, and ia.
panied and Hindooized, and
that we would lose our great
intelligence, our high civil.
zation.
But we answer that even
the despised greenback, that
was issued during the war,
because we had neither gold
nor silver with which to pay
our soldiers and carry on the
great conflict, aided ou1
great government in main
tanning the rerpetuity of this
republic. We used the
greenbacks freely, not only
during the war, but for ten
years after the war, yet the
American people did not &C
to the level of the Mexican,
Hindoo, Chinese or japanese
but, on the contrary, retain
ed their high civilization, in.
telligence and productive
power. Mexico, however,
as we'll as India and other
silver using countries, since
1873, have prospered, and
are to-day in a prosperous
condition.
There need be no fear, sc
far as the great m ass of the
people of this country is con
cerned, in opening the mint
to the free coinage of sill
YER.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
SOCIETIES.

AT " h"ids regular communications on on
&: sssardy before lst pST%Sy' sandsy " N. facD
RMsicalf. sec'y'
A 4 Se meets at Masonic Hall lst Thurs
az Il each month, nI at 2'sIScE RST X P; W. IN NJ.
~ MRS. KATEHuDDLEolNN' W. "
- WlI1zE AULT, sec'ty'
surAt CHAPTER No: 80, R R. na:oni: a; A..
hoIds regular convecatiionss a at satnrday MaSoGS
MIN IN Evening shade' the 81 "A'u''"'
IL ea6h month. uoC.1ER uP.
.sm q. Bavidson' See.
BrREAH LODGE, No. 81, I. o. Q
1&k =. holds regular meetings every ever ii
s55{ fernate Friday night. 20
y = '''A''' L. T. MEDLEY, N q.
|no.' b. Collins, Sec'Y. ..-.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02

Georgia will be the next state to
have a general election for all state
officers, October 7th is the date.
The residences of DR.. C. E. Nc.
Auley and A, |. Cathey were de.
stroved by fire at Prescott last
week.
Robt. Mahoney was killed by a
steam shovel while working in the
Cotton Belt gravel pit near Bear,
den.
The large GIN and saw mill of
Col, G, +. Banchum, ten miles east
of Little Rock, burned last Friday
night.
In the coming election Missouri
will vote on the removal of the
state capital from Jefferson City to
Sedaia.
The sentence of John Carter, who
was to have been hung at Conway
last Friday, was commuted to life
imprisonment.
The Mallory wagon and harness
factory at Pine Bluff was attached
by the sheriff Friday night. Assets
will fully cover liabilities.
A large pelican was captured near
Jonesboro that measured lO4 inches
from tip to tip Of wings, and It's bill
was Is inches long.
The White County News pre-
diets that two years from now
White county scrip will not be
worth more than so cents on the
dollar.
By their increased democratic
vote several counties in the state
show that they are entitled to IN.
creased representation in democratic
conventions.
The Kansas City branch of the
Armour Packing company received
an order direct from the Japanese
government for eighteen carloads of
canned beef.
Abe Holloway has instituted SUIT
for $4,000 damages for alleged un-
lawful Imprisonment against Hugh
Dunlap, contractor for Pulaski coun-
ty convlcts.
The barn of Mrs. Logan Griffin,
near Three Greeks, Union county,
together with 600 bushels of corn
and other feed stulfs, was set on
fire by some one and burned.
Burglars and hlghwaymen were
trying their hand at Fayetteville
last week. Their bungIlng style of
work leads to the belief that they are
local new beginners.
The total number of poll tax re
celpts issued in the state was 2Ol,>
l05 and that many were entitled To
vote at the election on the 7th. OF
these 50,9S5 were not voted.
Galloway College for young
ladies', at Searcy, opened again two
weeks ago with an increased attend
ance over that of last year. This Is
one of the best female colleges IN
the south.
Misses Nora Beavers and Pearl
Dromgoole, both of Little Rock,
won IN the Little Rock Gazette.
free scholarship contest. Miss Bea.
vers selects Galloway college, at
Searcy, and Miss Dromgoole goes to
Ouachita, at Arkadelphla.
The dead body of Geo. W. Lam
dreth, an old citizen of Hot Springs
county, was found IN his horse lot
last Saturday. His skull had beer
crushed in two places, lie lived all
alone and was sepposed 10 have con-
siderable money.
Mr.. McCulloch a teamster at AL,
frey'S Heading Factory was hauling
heading one morning this week
when his team got scared, backed
off the drykiln platform all falling
In heap on the ground. One oI
his horses had his neck broken, -
Jonesboro Times.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
OFFICIAL.

~ svsaaraan First District-P D. McCullocf
eSIdence Merianna, Lee County. ,,o,or
Senator, Second Dist-Clay Sloan. Powhaiahh
1deo. i8fh Judicial Dist-John Is, McCaleo'
tyening Shade. ,, Mol.
Pros. Atty. 10th Dist. Buck Baker, MEL
SHxRr CouHrY-Representatlve--T. /, Herrn'
Judge-W. @. Murphy.
Clerk Justus,
eherif-Ge0. W. Mullen.
Assessor-Jno. w. Mclean.
Trea3urer-P. H. WilkersOn.
CO, Examiner-A. B. Brewster.
THE COURTS,
Circuit Court, N. Dist-First Monday in jan
lary and July. In S. Dlst-Second Monday In
February eHd August.
County Court-ist Monday in january, April,
uly and October. .,
Probate Court, S. Dist-lst Monday in Februe
Try. May, August and November.
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
Marry This Girl Quick.

saw In YOUR paper that l3 year old
boy made 81 ,?6 the FIRST hour bo voik.
cd selling t Perfection Metal Zip
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
Vhv Silrer is Needed.

| I OK JOul udl' w II oAS PNO
pie demanding the restora.
tion of the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1?
The people answer: Because
silver has been the money
among all nations for the
last 1000 years." 1t has al
ways been the money OF the
plain people. 1t answered
their purpose for exchange
better than gold.
We once made an effort to
put a gold dollar in circula-
ton. 1t proved to be en-
tirely too small for ordinary
use and the people rejected
it. Silver, on the other hand,
can be coined into money OF
convenient use for the every
day transactions of the peo-
pie. AS a basis for money
gold is insufficient. There
never was a sufficiency of it..
In times gone by, and prior
to 1873, the nations of the
world used silver without
limit, as we'll as gold, when
the mints we're freely opened
to the coinage of silver as
we'll as gold,
Never before 1873 was it
found that there was more
silver and gold both together
than was necessary for the
transaction of the business
of the world. In fact, never
in the history of the world
has there been a sufficiency
of both metals combined to
satisfy the demands for a
medium exchange. At all
times in the past, as well as
the present, these m e t | S
have been supplemented and
aided by paper issues,
These paper issues have been
called forth from the fact
that there was not a suf-
6ciency of the two metals to
answer the demands for cur
rency, If, therefore, prior
to 1873, there never had
been a sufficiency Of the two
metals to answer all their
purposes for money in meas
uring the value of property
and making exchanges, it
must follow that since 1873,
and at the present time, the
free use of both metals would
not satisfy the demand for
money.
Even with the free coin
age Of both metals, the mon
etary demand would not be
supplied, but paper money
would have to 60 in aid of
the metallic. The product
i've power of the people Of
this country, and l might
say of the civilized world,
has greatly increased since
1873. The population has
increased and with it the in
ventive genius of man afas
improved production of the
saving of the labor, Vast
increased productive the ma.
chinery and appliances for
power necessarily means
that if power necessarily
means. that if we are to
maintain the level of prices
we must not only coin gold
and silver freely, as we did
prior to 1873, but must have
the aid Of paper issues based
upon the coins,
The fact that we have
been compelled to issue
| $267, 900, 600 of interest-bear
ing bonds IN the past three
years in order to maintain a
gold reserve and thus sus.
tain gold demands and the
Sharp County record., 1896-10-02
DirectOry'
RELIGIOUS,

..h,.y Il Methodist church first and ih,po itnn
~ ss'"s ~ each month. ReY. A. B. hai'oih'
Hyer5body is invited to attend
-echool every Sunday morning "
n3.y = ~ Eethodist church. Eyeryp0qy 10
~ y = <,,s s.4 C. j. WILSON,
"a 70 come socretarv. superintendent
, 1896-12-23
BRIEF

The Cuban steamer Three Friends
had an exciting chase with a warship,
but eluded pursuit.
Judge Hoadley is of the opinion that
congress may legally but unwisely rec
ognize Cuban independence.
General Weyler is at Artemisa and
his troops are now engaged in herding
cattle.
The miserable pacificos of Cuba must
either enter the towns or be shot and
starved in the country.
Pacific roads were roasted in the sen-
ate by Alabama senator, who charged
them with fraud on a gigantic scale.
Senator Pettigrew advised trying the
experiment of government ownership.
Governor Holcomb of Nebraska is
hot for interference in the Cuban revo-
luton.
The Spanish army has met with
heavy reverses in the Philippine ISL
ands. The natives all but wipe out
two heavy divisions. which had been
sent to invest Noveleta.
, 1896-12-23
BLUNDERS o.


\ Well known Orator Points Out Some
Humorous instances.
Mr.. Joseph NalIns, himself a well
known publlr speaker. gives The WoIn-
ms Signal some amusing instances of
the hunlors Of public speaking. 1t is.
he thinks. II lack of iiucncy that causes
She speaker so often to blunder. Mr..
Ialins has listcnd to u temperance ora
tor ~deplorlng the fact That n friend re-
sorts to 1.-THE frequent use Of the daily
glass. He heard a notable lady speaker
speak of Stun children brought into
the world with 10 more idea of home
comfort than the children of negroes in
Africa.'
One speaker said, 81 rise emphatic
ally, and another said, ~ stand pros
tratc with astouisiIucnt." Yet another
fcclingly told his audience that it was
mot the platform speaker, but tho
house To house visitation and the utter
ancc of the silent word by the caller
which did the most good" The state
ments that ''tlir previous speakers sug-
gestions Were very suggestive" and that
another speakers remarks were "mis-
calculated to mislcad'' Mr.. Malins also
mentions.
Then there is the speaker who always
misplacos his "h's' and who prays THAT
we might be brought to the halter
lhere was IA night OF fancy when the
speaker ASKED suppose II q modern
balloon dropped upon an unlnhaoited
lsi'h"' What would the natives say:
Inc 1enti lecturer SAID OF his COM
ing experiment mat All depends upon
the present condition OF the body q
, 1896-12-23

A GREAT

Mr.. Clarence Eddy. the Chicago Or
ganist who will give a grand recital at
st. Matthews cathedral on WedneS-
day evening next, has just returned
from a our of Europe, where he won
f1attering recognition. His present
tour is in the nature of a "home-com-
ing" and every American should be
willing to greet him wherever he ap-
pears, if only as a tribute to his art. In
his W country it is needless to quote
from the press as Ito his ability and
varied repertory. but we give a few
extracts from the press OF other lands:
lie Steele" May 18th, 1856: The
Partisan public, attracted by the re-
Of the eminent %organist, Clarence
Eddy. came in crowds to the Trocadero
last Tuesday to hear him. A large
number of organists were present at
this beautiful concert.
La Republique Franchise" May
18th, 1896: Mr.. Clarence Eddy, the
American organist. who was lately
heard at the Trocadero, attained the
greatest success.
The eminent virtuoso presented the
different works with a superiority
which earned for him numerous re-
calls. Many artists were present at
this recital.
, 1896-12-23

James Smith, one of the authors oil
the celebrated REJECTED Addresses, >
was better paid for a trifling eXertior
of his versatile muse than any poet sine
the world began. Ono day he met the
late MI. Strachan, the kings printer,
at n dinner party and found him suffer
ing from govt and old age, though hi
intellectual faculties remained unim'
paired. The next morning he transmit.
ted to him the following ieu d~'esprit:
Your lower limbs seemed far from stout
When last l saw you walk.
The cause ] presently found out
When you began to talk.
The power that props the body's length.
In due proportion spread,
In you mounts upward, and the strength
All settles in the head.
This compliment proved so highly &C
ceptable to the old gentleman that he
made IN immediate codicil to his will,
by which he bcqueathed to the writer
the sum of SO, 900. being ut the rate OF
1875 for each ine.-Pearson's Weekly.
, 1896-12-23
BLUE PETER IN WHIST.
Tho Signal For Trunps First Employed
by Lord Henry Ecntinck.

There is il house i'll London which
should be the Mecca Of all whist players
who believe in the new school and the
"informatiOn' game, II shrine before
which they should bow respectfully as
the fountain head Of all that is modern
in the game. This is 81 st. James
street. and it is within sight of Mari
borough House. It's fame rests chiefly
OH the fact that it was at one time
known as Graham's club. and that
within its walls Lord Henry Bentinck
first introduced the blue peter, or
signal for trumps, which consists in
playing "a higher card before n lower
when no attempt is made to win the
trick. That signal has been to the whist
players of the world Ike the pillar of
fire to the children Of Israel For moro
than 40 years it has led them up ane
down in the wilderness of arbitrary con-
ventions, but it has never brought them
to the. promised land of better whist.
, 1896-12-23
Highest Of all in Leavcning Power-Latest US. Govt Report
@A!a!!! kfS s!1H&
ABSOLUTELY PURE

The blue peter was the introduction
to whist of a purely arbitrary signal or
convention, and its seed has spread like
a thistle's until it has entirely overrun
the old game of Calculation, observa-
ton, position and t%enace,' leaving III its
place long suits, American leads, plain
suit echoes, four signals and directive
discards. These seem to have chokcd up
all the dash. brjlliancy and individual
ity in u whist players, reducing them
all to the same level, not by increasing
tho abilities of the tyro, but by c~urtail-
ing the skill Of the expert. R. Frederic
Foster III Monthly Illustrator.
, 1896-12-23

business all yer the country that real
ly is the story in a few words"
Among the heavy depositors is Nor
man Kittson whose every dollar was
in the Bank of Minnesota. The Union
Stock Yards bank which closed its
doors simultaneously with the Bank OF
Minnesota. was owned by the latter
president, William Dawson. John F.
Flanagan, cashier. That bank is per.
fectly solvent. 1t had a capital stock
of 5000 and there is absolutely no
danger of its depositors losing any,
thing.
, 1896-12-23
Nervous

People fad just the help they so much
need, in Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t fur
nishes the desired sti ength by puri-
flying, vital: ing and enriching the
blood, and Jus builds up the nerves,
tones the stomach and regulates the
whole system. Read this:
81 wan to praise Hoods Sarsaparilla
My health run down, and 1 had the grip.
Afte- that, my heart and nervous system
badly affected, SO thai l could not do
ny own work. Our physician cc"e me
some nelp, but did no. cure. ldecided
to try Hoods Sarsaperilla. Soc: / could
do all my own housework. l have taken
, 1896-12-23

nlgn as IL 900 ounces in silver to TIN
ton and as the white metal was ther
worth in the neighborhood of SIPS ar
be imagined.
Besides these fortunes, which came
in rapid succession. Tabor made from
1000, 600 to $1,000, 900 out of the Morn,
ing Star. Matchless, and other Lead
vile mines. and at one time it was said
that his daily income was greater than
York city and Nevada.
In 1880 the city of Denver was a
prosperous town of so, 900. 900 inhabi-
tants. Tabor's confidence in her future
induced him to come here in that year
and begin the erection of La Veta place,
a terrace. out on the prairie" as the
town folks declared. which cost him in
the neighborhood of 81 600, 600, and at
that time was the handsomest resi-
dence west of Chicago. This he i'm
mediately followed with the Tabor
block AID the Tabor Grand opera
house, at a cost of nearly 81, Ovo. 900.
Fortune came quickly: so did his
financial troubles, and five years ago
he was compelled to seek assistance
from a New York insurance company.
They advanced him $500, 900. The panic
of 1898 increased his distress, and a
second mortgage for $4,000 in favor
of Mrs. Smith was placed on his prop
erty, and in the end she came into pos
session by settling the first and fore,
closing her WI
Mrs. Smith not many ear ago was
Mrs. Laura Swickheimer. She and her
husband David lived in Rico. a mining
camp in the southern part of the state.
and, like Tabor, he was 4 prospector,
and was working a claim he had named
the Enterprise. For two years he had
worked his way into the side of the
mountain. hoping with every blast to
open up the vein.
Each day brought only dfsappoint-
b'h III q ot'huN h''i NuS' vi supplies
and funds, until at last not a cent nor
loaf of bread remained in the cabin.
With heavy hearts the couple nailed up
the entrance to the Enterprise and be>
gan preparations to tramp out of the
camp in search of other work.
The old Concord coach which came
in from Durango that night brought
Mrs. Swickheimer a letter. On open,
ing 1t she was almost paralyzed to find
a notice from a lottery company in.
forming her that a ticket she had a
month before purchased for 81 had
drawn a prize Of 81 5000. After a reason,
able delay the money came, and then
the question arose as to whether work
should be continued in the old tunnel
or a new location sought for.
1t was finally decided to put in one
or two more shots of dynamite. When
the smoke cleared away after the first
explosion Swickheimer could hardly
believe his own eyes. for there before
him was a wall of rock so full OF min,
eral hat there could be no mistake as
to its value. The mine was easily de-
veloped into a producer, and after TAX,
ing out over $500. 900 in profits it was
sold to a foreign syndicate for 2,0OO,-
OO0.-Denver Correspondent New York
Herald.
, 1896-12-23

Willic-DobLs. in all my life I never
saw u more natural expression Of CON
tempt than you have put in the face Of
this Who was your model?
Dobbs-I used two models ut the
same time. One was an old maid, and
the other had had three divorces. The
painting, consequently. is a composite.
Cincinnati Enquirer.