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Sharp County record., 1904-09-16
Notice For Publication
Land Office at Little Rock, hrl|
Sept. 10, 1904

Lunu Olhce W Llt'ie Huoh nii
Sept. 10, 1904
Notice is hereby given that the folls
~ named settler has filed notice Of his \
ton to make final proof in support Of his
and that SAID proof VIII be made beiorl
Clerk Of Sharp county Ark, at Evening 81
Ark, on oct y, 1904, viz:
VlRGlLL HOLCOMB
Adult heir OF .IohnJ.. Hocomb, decd|
H, E. No. 23172 for the southwest ql
southwest quarter section %, southeast q \
southeast quarter section 26 and north
northwest quarter, section 3G, township
north range west,
He names the following Witnesses to prod
continuous residence upon and cultiyati
said land Wis
iohn Gulley, W. A. Edwards, J RI \
man, 4. } davidson, all OF Evening Shade
Harry II Myers, RegiI
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Lime and Cement
Sash and Doors.

For the next thirty days we will
push these articles by getting in
behind them with Goodbye Prices.
We bought in car lots. Write us
for prices.
TGiiey EuDa6er &c Feed ca.
BATEsvILLE, ARK
Headquarters for lumber shing-
les, farm seeds, smithing coal,
paint, etc,
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HAS SOLD A PILE OF CHAMBER
LAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.

n I have sold Chamberlain Cough
Remedy for mole than twenty years
land it has given entire satisfaction.
i have sold pile of It and can reco'
mend it highly. Joseph McELHIN
EY, Linton, Iowa. Yon will find
this remedy a good friend when
troubled with a cough or cold. |
always affords quick reirtf and is
pleasant to take, For lie 10y all
druggists.
Sharp County record., 1904-09-16
VOTE FOR COUNTY JUDGE.

Below may be found the vote
cast at the general election for
county judge:
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ANNOUNCEMENT

THE FRANKLIN SCHOOL will begin its annual
session Sept 49, 1904, and remain in session months
Expenses: Tuition from 81 to $3.50, according to
grade Board from Sc to 81 per month.
Moral influences good. Work thorough and prac-
tical Before deciding to 60 elsewhere, write tor fur-
ther information to
q. w. ALcoRlT, Pri1a-
FRANKLIN, Ark
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lone DOLLAR A YEAR.
TOCAL NEWS.

IA mule buyer is advertised
to be in Evening Shade next
Misses Jane Price and Jelne
Bacon left Wednesday for Searcy
to enter Galloway College.
You can get your choice be-
tween a Studebaker and Spring
Held wagon from S. P. Turner at
Hardy.
Judge John B. McCaleb was
"a Little Rock this week attend
Inc a meeting of the capitol COM
|missioners.
The school in the coloFed dis
|trict, just west of town, closed
last Friday. W. A. Kennard OF
La Crosse was teacher
h Mr.. Hackett Of Gut Creek,
who was announced as an inde-
'pendent candidate for assessor,
seems to have been forgotten en-
tirely by the sovereign voters.
h If your wagon needs repair
Inc 90 to s. P. Turner at Hardy
for your spokes, fellows and tire
Iron. He has the largest stock
ever brought to Hardy.
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Nr5 Pottl Lille
Collins Uncle
OOm5 Odnta
Quvs.

sive are no more culightening. They are
usually dated. but the name Of the town
In which the writer lives is seldom Civ
en-. and for the most part the signatures
on the letters are merely given names
or childish nicknames. Sometimes there
is found a Santa Claus letter which con-
tains money, either as a thank Offering
for the kindness of the good old saint in
former years, or else 10 enable the toy
king 10 buy presents for the poorer
child, and in such cases exceptional ef-
fort Is made TO trace the letter and re-
turn the money 10 the donor. or rather
10 his parents. for Uncle Sam has suf-
hcient sentiment IN his makeup 10 want
10 preserve childish illusions.
The requests made IN many OF the
Santa Claus letters are highly amusing
Many OF the boys who write are evident
~ imbued with the American idea that
If you want anything you must ask for
1t, and IN most instances they seem TO
believe in asking a-plenty" while they
are at It. The little girls are more mod
est in their requests, and with marvel
Gus unanimity, suggest dolls as the most
acceptable gifts. Those persons who are
by our tendency 10 become "a
military nation would ind confirmation
for their fears IN the Santa Claus let
ters for Of late years there have been
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places where Uncle Sam has no postof-
fee, but since postage has in most in
stances been paid on these letters it Is
the pride Of the United States Govern
ment 10 make every effort TO deliver
each and every letter intrusted TO its
care, something obviously must be done
with these waits of the mails.
Under the present system the bush
els OF Santa Claus letters which are
dropped into pOstfhces and letter boxes
in all parts OF the United States and our
new possessions are forwarded direct 70
the Dead Letter Office at Washington
a branch OF the Postohice Department
10 which IS referred all the mail matter
which Tor any reason cannot be deliv-
cred. Perhaps the most important di-
vision OF the Dead Letter ONCE is the
one which concerns itself with letters
and parcels which cannot be delivered
because OF unintelligiBle or insufficient
addresses. and IL is 10 this postal bureau
or Identification that the Santa Claus
letters make their way. To be sure, the
addresses upon many Of these letters Is
legib!e enough, but OF course the post
men would be al their wits end were
they called upon 20 deliver them, and so
the perpleXing pieces OF mail matter are
sent 10 the postal graveyard 81 the seat
ar Government.
When it IS explained that more than
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20,000 OF these Santa Claus letters are
handled at the Dead Letter ONCE each
holiday season, the public will begin
10 appreciate why the woman who is in
charge of TINS novel work has become
10 be known as Uncle Sans Santa
Claus" or Mrs. Santa Claus" The
children postm!stress, as she might
perhaps better be termed. is Mrs. Patti
Lyle Collins, one % the most expert OF
the high-salGried women in the Govern
ment employ. She has been playing the
role of official Santa Claus for more
than twenty years, and In that time
has handled upward of a half million
letters intended for Santa Claus.
Fate Of Santa Claus Letters.
There is only one thing 10 do with
most of the Santa Claus letters and that
is 10 destroy them. When a letter
reaches the Dead Letter once Uncle
Sam makes every effort 10 return IL TO
the writer-if successful in finding the
addrezs-and If there IS nothing on the
outside OF the envelope to indicate where
It originated, the communication IS
opened and a search made inside for a
clue TO the identity Of the sender. This
same course is followed in the case Of the
Santa Claus letters. In not one IN
a thousand h. there anything on the out
side of the letter 20 Indicate its source,
and as a rule the contents OF the mis-
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Dead Letter Office At Washington where oil
Santa Claus Letters are di5pO Sed ofos.--

tremendous increase in the requests for
guns. cannon, drums, bugies, swords,
and toy soldiers.
Wanted a Little Sister.
Some rather odd suggestions are con-
tanned in Kris Kringle's grist. A little
girl IN Rhode Island sent "a greasy piece
81 paper, on which she had printed with
obvious labori0us effort: Deere Thanty,
you are We bestest of all We Thantys and
I luv you We mostest Plcse dere Jlstr
Thanty brung me a Little Sissteer. I'd
ruver haV a Little SISTER than any
uver presunt fur / an so lonstum. Dere
Nice Thanty, gud by Celia Young"
A little lad who feared he might be
Disseminated against because he no
longer lived under the Stars and Stripes,
wrote from Canada; Dear Kris Kringle,
We've moved since last year and are
living up here now. It's not as nice
country as Wisconsin, but 1 do hope
you won't forget 20 come on that ae-
count Yours. faithful Johnnie Gray"
Fully two-thlrds of the holiday orders
which Santa Claus Is asked 10 hI are
placed in envelopes which bear simply
mis- name and no other address. but
some Of this mail bears what is plainly
designed 10 be the most explicit direc-
lions 10 aid in its delivery to the proper
person. Ore juvenile correspondent in
scribed her envelope MIR. Santa Claus,
Toxic. Iceland, First Snow House from
Gate" a second missive was addressed
to SANITY Claus Workshops Toyland,
In the Icebergs of Greenland" and a
third envelope read Mister Kris Krin-
gle, Snow Town, Montantop, The Moon"
a youngster who wanted "a whole heap
Of guns and drums and d war vessel
with d serch lite sent his request TO
Mister Saint Nicholas. Chimney Street,
lcicle Land. care North Pole and a
wee maiden. the margin of whose letter
was adorned with wobbly round figures,
each marked a Kiss" dispatched her
communication to SANITY Claus, At Mis-
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TO make her we'll And pIese Mister
Zanty Johnnie and i are nawful lone
STUN sum times so II you viii bring sum
candy and a HOBBY horse and a doll We
wud be glad. Yur friend always Mary
Williams"
Appeals Sometimes Answered.
OF course, Uncle Sam cannot very well
grant these piteous little prayers. much
as he would like 10. but Mrs. Collins
who is as kind-hearted as old Santa
himself is supposed to be. often takes il
upon herself 10 show these notes that
touch the heart strings 10 men and
women OF means who welcome the OPP
portunities thus Afforded 10 prove that
it is more blessed TO give than 10 receive,
and many a desOlate home has been
filed with the sunshine OF human kind
ness on Christmas morning By the ar
rival OF an unexpected Christmas box
that strengthened a thOusand-fOld child
ish faith in the aH-enbraclng generosity
or the dear old Santa.
Santa Claus has one other class OF cor
respOndents-the little shut-ins whose
wistfuI little missives are fraught with
even greater pathOs than the condolences
OF the tots who are facing poverty out
have the boon Of good health. There
are real heroes among them. too, as wit
ness the manly ring in the letter from
young Bonnie Lambertson, OF Colorado.
who writes:
Dear Mr.. Sanity Claus you needn't
bring me a sled nor a pair Of skates
this we're cause my hips got worse and
cant walk and run any more. but oh Alr.
Sanity there's lots left l can do and 1
hope you'll send me a ship that I can sail
IN a tub of water by my bed and a knife
thatl be sharp so Will I lie still can
whittle and then I wont get lonesome
when the other boys are playing out
doors. 1 shall be very much obliged"
And there are many such letters which
bring tears to the eyes OF Uncle Sans
Santa Claus.
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TRICKS OF MEXICAN SHARPERS
llT HAVE been IL busIness &C

ILE HAVE been In business here just
four months" said the owner
of a Colisee Niejo jewelry store
10 a representative Of the Mex
lean Herald" and 1 am now more than
ever convinced Of the fact that the
jewelry business must be extremely lu-
cratiye in Mexico City. 10 enable US 10
stand the losses 20 which We are at
any moment exposed. / had put in a
long apprenticeship ia tne line Of com
merce before opening up for myself.
having been fourteen years with the
house that claims TO be the largest in
this republic. I acted as salesman. as
traveller. as jewel expert. and as repre-
sentative of the establishment I'm mat
ters of extreme delicacy 1 thought :
was fairly wise. Yet my record in four
months includes a midnight robbery
when my show window was burst open
and $500 worth OF goods carried off Not
one cents worth have / recovered. II
also includes the purchase of fake in
voice Of goods a man on a neighboring
street whom ! knew 10 be getting along
successfully came 20 me recently and
showed me factura. lie said he did
not need the goods. as he was already
overstocked, but would let me have them
M their cost price. ! put up $3.50. and
received "a collection of imitation jewel
ry such as "annibal savages Of the Solo
mon Islands would not deign to accept
as a gift. Then a boy worked me for
watch while pretending 10 pay for IL
and getting mR confused By doing some
sleight of hand with The change.
Some days ago wtH dressed man
came in and asked 90 see my best dia-
m0nd rings. The finest of them was
the one he liked the best. lie examined
il from every point OF view, seemed on
the point of purchasing, but finally said
the price was too high and left Two
days later another man came in and,
after examining various articles asked
for rings. This same valuable one
seemed 40 appeal 90 him. lie took "a
long time ia looking at ID and in fgur-
ing over the price. Ny Two boy assist
ants were meantime more than usually
busy with another customer Al last
the man handed back the ring 20 one OF
the boys. s,id he Gid not want IT, and
proceeded TO leave. A thought OF suspi-
ciou suddenly flashed across my mind
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Some of the Odd Requests Contained in
Missives to Kris Kringle Which Find
Their Way to the Dead
Letter Office.

ter Wanamaker's Store or Where Sanity
Claus lives in the Moon"
Many OF the petitioners for Santa
Claus bounty seek TO gain his good
graces by assurances as 10 their good
behavior during the year. as for in
stance the diminutive lassie who writes
''Dere Sanity, ! have been a gude gurl.
Mi grandma says i hav and she nos cose
she members when she was little guri
Derest Sanity pless brung me a doh and
on hav IL a big dolly that can shut its
eyes and has hair. Yurs affeshiOnly
Margaret Snyder" Another youngster
closes with: When you come down the
chimbey you can ask mama if / have
bin good boy, so gOod-by. Your friend,
Charlie"
Very Youthful Flatterers.
Yet other juvenile schemers resort 10
hattery. An artful little shaver down in
Georgia last year wrote: Dear Mister
Santa Claus. the Presents you bringed
US last yere was fine. you sure do no
how TO pic out fine peasants for a fell
Ter. o Mister Santa Claus 1 do hop you'll
bring me a railroad train like the one
you give Quentin ROsevilt last yere
even If / afnt the Presidents son Mi
BuL De proud OF fallEOau Lfdln ike
that and I reckon that you hay another
Xix it in your shop. / no that you hav
the best shop in the wurld You are such
a good Santa Claus and make folks so
happy, you'll fetch it TO me won't you
pleze. Very Respectfully Your Johnnie
Edge"
In the big sacks Of Santa Claus letters
which arrive in Washington during the
closing days of the year are many pa
thetic appeals which tell of crop fall
ures, fathers out OF work, and not in
frequently OF sickness rs recOunted by a
little girl who wrote: Deer Mr.. Zanty
i'm Heaven We've moved so far from our
HON / am most AFRAID you win not find
Us this year way out here in Dakota but
/ do hop that you will for mover is sick
and j want YOU 10 bring sum medeseen
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NE who they were II appears the lady
is really from Yucatau and that her hus-
band was a wealthy man there. But he
fell upon evil days and came to MexicG
in the hope of repairing his fortunes.
and best OF all il is said he has nov
found wealthy hackers here whs rliH
reinstate him in his position in Yucca
tan.
ut must be because i am new in the
business that apparently every class OF
CRATER in the city is after me. The other
day Well dressed woman came in 10
purchase n pair OF earrings worth 500.
She offered me > pesos cash and pawn
tickets 70 the value of SlsOo as security
that she would pay the remainder IN a
week but that was game on which L
could not be caught. OF course, the
woman is in league with some unscrupu-
lous pawnhrokars. III the victim pays
his money and takes out the pawned
articles he finds that me has acquired
goods that are not worth One-tenth OF
The sum marked on the pawn ticket and
il he does not take out the articles ne IS
sim. of course, 10 the bad on tae original
deal
All Have Expert Watchers.
The dry goods stores and groceries. As
well as the big jewelry people. all have
expert watchers-out against the light
fingered gentry and the fim-fiImmers.
They are very careful not 10 modest
the innocent. and, in fact. they are very
careful also in handling the crooks
themselves. for if they speak too quick
~ and are not able 10 substantiate their
charges. there is always the possibility
OF a criminal libel suit with a demand
FOR mig damages being brought against
the establishment
Recently IN one OF the dry goods stores
a man who stated he was "a commercial
traveller called and Left a number OF
padlOcked sample cases IN charge OF tie
manager. lie would call for them in the
afternoon. Later when the manager
was m lunch aa3ther man called and
carried away the sample cases Finally,
in the afternoon, the nrst man arrived
and finding his Valtse gone raised q
great CIV. alleging that they contained
silks aad lIc~s worth over $50 The
matter was compromised for Il good
round sum. though the dry goods people
had more Jha1 "a suspicion all the time
that il was only new move in an old
game.
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ENGLAND'S OLDEST STATESMAN
Spencer Charrington Is
Hale and Hearty at
Eighty-Six.
london. Decemhar 10

- PENCER CHARRINGTON. whose
portrait IS sent herewith. enjoys
the distinction Of being the old
est living member OF the British
parliament. lie is eighty-six years old,
but hale and hearty. as he proved a
while ago by sitting out an all night
session Of the house which lasted TWEEN
ty-hVc and a-baif hours. His colleagues
showed their appreciation of his vigor
and devotion 90 public business by pre-
sentinE him with a silver cup. with an
Inscription commemorative the occa-
sion.
He IS the senior partner IN a great
brewery business and a rich man. hut
not quite rich enough 20 reap the re-
ward which wealth accumulated ia beer
usually brings here-a peeIage. He has
a brother. T. n. CharrlugtOu. who put
himself entirely out Of the running for
such honors by chuclling up his share
in the brewery concern and doing his best
- spoil 10 by devotiug himself 10 tenn
pCTancc ana evangelical work. Spencer
CharringtoE is none the less popular in
the house because ke seldom iufiicts q
speech upon 81, although he never shirks
sitting.
"A ether times be is generally 10 be
found attending 10 his business. Tie rep
resents AN East End London cCustitu-
eney in which his brewery is The most
conspicuous Landmarks. AS the largest
employer u labor there. and the pur.
veyor OF its NEST popular commodity be
has uEht griD on the SCAT a. parlia-
ment. which Pee has held lor eighteen
year. IL some Ceusor.ous moralizta
mas ind fault with the source OF hi-
wealth hil method OF disposlug Of f.
meets with their entire approval, for
he has The reputation Of being man OF
b0uudIess CHARITY.
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. PENCER CHARRINGTON, whose
portrait is sent herewith. enjoys
the distinction Of being the old
est living member OF the British
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Distributing Santa ClGUs
letters.
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins
Gets Mail Addressed
to Saint.
She IS Kept Very Busy
During the Holiday
Season.
By WALDON FAwcETT.

~ RCSAIC old Uncle Sam, in the
- midst Of the activities and re-
sponsibnities of running a great
Government. finds time TO take
formal notice of the favorite Christmas
tradition. He even has an official Santa
Claus However. this recognition of the
patron saint OF the Yuletide isn't wholly
voluntary on the part of the officials at
the National Capital AS a matter OF
fact it is really forced upon them by
the circumstances that old Kris Kringle
has an immense mail about the holiday
time and much OF il originates in the
United States and must be handled by
The Yankee postal employees
No other firm or Individual in the
country is deluged with mail IN the odd
spasmOdic way that Santa Claus Is. All
through the year from the beginning of
January 10 the end of November the
postmasters and letter collectors find
many d missive addressed 70 the Jolly
old fellow OF the reindeer team, but with
the advent of the month Of December
and the approach OF Christmas there
comes a perfect avalanche OF letters ad-
dressed TO Santa Claus, Kris Kringle.
or St. Nicholas. There are fat letters
and lean letters in envelopes large and
small, and most OF them have the post
age stamp in any place but the usual
one, while not a few bear no postage
stamp AT all, but only a crudely drawn
counterfeit.
Some Unique Destinations.
OF course, these letters come from
children. and one and all conhde 10 the
magical filler Of stockings just what the
youthful writers would like best TO re-
ceive for Christmas. They are directed
10 'Snowland." Heaven" North
Pole" Iceland" and a host OF other
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Pike Attractions
Were Profitable

The gross amount OF receipts from
concessions at the St. Louis Fair will
reach over 100000, This statement
was made last night by one Of the Fair
officials familiar with the figures or
this sum the Exposition Company will
receive in the neighbOrhood of 81 900 O0J
as its percentage. The Intramural Rail-
road has been "A paying proposition. It's
receipts are not figured in the total
although Il has earned as high as 5000
per day. IL Is the property OF the Fair,
into whose treasury its gross receipts
will 90. Other concessions, not on the
Pike or its tributary branches, will
bring the total gross receipts up TO a
high figure. The full list Of Pike con-
cessions and the amount In gross each
one has taken in during the seven
months Of the Fair is as follows. For
six months the aggregate amount was
ascertained. The several months re-
ceipts are estimated.
Some of the Receipts.
Some Of the receipts taken in were as
follows:
Creation. S366.lS Chinese village.
So, 100; Boer war, S62I $50; Moorish Pal
ace. s34. 23O: Fair Japan, 500 go: Naval
exhibit, SSO4. 200, Cairo, Sl44. sos: Cliff
Dwellers. y49525; Hereafter, $751;. $40:
Battle Abbey. S55 COZ; Shoot the Chutes,
SII7.S SOB: Asia. $i76.43O; Irish Village
S436. 2ll: Paris, S232. 1876: Under and over
the Sea. SIS. $50. Siberia, $50. 23J; Galveston
Flood. SOS. ll2, automobiles Sls6 OlS:
gondolas and launches. S245. 269: Tyrolean
Alps 81. 0ST, ls7; Hagenbecks. 1891. 100
roller chairs. SIP 1872; Fire Fighters
S3s5, $50; Ferris Wheel, SCI, 753; Paiais du
Costume, 574 $40: Scenic Railway, S3i7. $50;
Jerusalem, sid7, l55i the Inside Inn
81 $50, 3l5.
Some Were DisappOinted.
Many Of the attractions in the list did
not make cent. Others did fairly we'll.
while still others did q good business.
All the cOncessiOnatres were figuring on
an attendance Of 100000 That some
Of them were disappointed in receipts
naturally follows. The Inside Inn is
said TO have made good money while the
TyrOlCan Alps. which comes next i'm re-
ceipis. IS said To have lost money. owing
80 It's expensive installation and heavy
operating expenses. The BOer war did
not make "A great deal for it's pro-
priet0rs, although il was one of the
bis drawing cards OF the fair.
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1 grabbed the ring from the boys hand
and saw at a glance that / was being
robbed. Running 10 the door / seized
my well dressed thief. He made no re-
sistaCce or argument. but promptly
handed over my ring and took back the
glass substitute that he had been trying
To palm OF. / felt that day as if
had won several hundred dollars in the
lottery.
~ Won't Take Anything To-day"
Then. a little later. / had a visit
from the three aristocratic ladies in
black. They examined number of ear
rings and other trinkets. the one that
locks like the mother OF the other two
had voluminous lace parasol with her
All three were handling the goods and
iabbering Ike jays. and trying 10 keep
my attention distracted from their move
ments Occasionally one or The other OF
them would drop an article into the par
ascl. At last the old lady said: 4 think
/ won't take anything today
d" Madame. / said you are talking
considerably more than you have a right
to- and made a pass FOR the parasoI.
She started 20 make a fuss. and as there
was policeman near the door I called
him in. The three were marched IL the
cOmmisaria, and the old one. / under
stood, was consigned 10 Belem. / heard
no more about her. but three days later
the old dame put her head in at the door
and executed in my direction a gesture
which among the common people is re-
garded as very insulting.
''The now celebrated lady from Yucca
tan very nearly caught me mapping. she
came with "a little boy who apparently
was well coached He pointed 10 a sold
watch and said. Mamma, / want that
watch" and began 10 cry. L shall buy
you the watch. but / have not the
money with me now. / must go TO the
hotel and get it, But / want it now
snhhal Tho nLiIn