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Smyrna times., 1905-02-22
Double Green
Trading Stamps
With every Cash Sale
WEDNESDAY AND
SATURDAY.
French DinnerWare at Clearance Prices

To daily the small
placed
moving prices Dnnerwa that early coming
of the bargains here listed The new
prices regular for the high grade offered make
them truly interesting to the careful buyer.
gold trimmings An excellent
floral with gold
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pink buds and gold traing
Usual $50, This weeks SaS
Sale ~ @o'O
$500
RoyBo n greer the set -. 20
Regularly
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and plates fish decorations green backgrounds
(: /.
china beaded gold acings
DISHES, decorations and hn Each &c
German
decorations pink and blue inch sze 7oc II
inchsi
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Three Specials i'm Table Linens.

With linens that being the
oncn pure heached dot
the yd
full beached
the yard
- ~~ the edoz
A'Scn linen In beautiful patterns Selling
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The Lessened Prices on These Carpets Max
Them Very Interesting.

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The more popular patterns
and all patterns discontinued by basis of this sale W
sma hoor = -oo"'' "a o'nes sunicient lor
Will Readb
Tapestry, grades, now.
Body Brussels
Vevets, $lOO and 81 grads,
Administers $780, sl4O and SLIGO grades, 'o0 an'
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has been all right so far, cause We
have Steered the sheriffs onto elephants
that have corns so they are no good
except to eat, one zebra that was made
up by painter, who painted stripes
on q white mule, and one lion that was
so old he will never sell at forced sale
for enough to pay for the beef tea the
sheriff will have to feed him.
When the creditors in town get too
mad and threaten to attach things, we
invite them to go along with us for
a few days and get their money when
we strike Il paying stand. and we
agree to furnish them a Pullman car
tempting to country people, so we had
full carload of creditors with us
for a week, and we gave them plenty
to drink, so they had the time of their
lives, but they didn't get their money.
After going with us all through Geor-
gia, they held an indignation meeting
in the car, and between high balls
and cheese sandwiches they got sleepy
and we sidetracked their car in the
woods at a station in Mississippi,
where there was a postoftice, sawmill
and a cotton gin. | guess they are
there yet unless Mr.. Pullman's lost car
experts have found the car and driven
them out with fire extinguishers.
Pa came very near being left in that
car with the creditors i'm Mississippi.
He was helping to entertain the guests.
and jollying them up TO believe they
would get their money when we got
90 Memphis the next day, when he
noticed the car had been sidetracked
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vided with money and they flashed rolls
OF bills i'm the faces of the Indians, and
finally Mr.. Indian would reach down
under his clothes and pull out a roll,
and wet his thumb and peel off big
bills, and before we knew ii we We're
investing a fortune in the racing game.
Then the racing began. and the horses
were sent off at the drop of hat, or
the firing OF pistol
| was given some money 10 bet with
the little Indians, cause pa said We
wanted to get every dollar i'm the tribe
for If we didn't get ii the indians would
spend IL for fire water. The first race
was between one OF our best runners
and a sleepy little spotted pony, and
when the hat was dropped the pony
made a few jumps and was off like
a rabbit, and our horse couldn't see
him for the dust, and our horse was
dlstanced.
The next race resulted the same, and
ell day long we never won a race, and
the Indians took our money and put
Il i'm their pants and never smiled. The
old Snowman we had befriended
seemed crushed.
When our money was nearly all gone
to the confounded Indians, and the
sun was going down, he went up to
pa and said:
Uncle. what does this all mean?
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floating kidney? 1t sounds so chic
like rognon saute, or something of the
sort. Is it a bad thing to have?
Mrs. "Vallie" (eagerly)-The most
shocking thing, and comes entirely of
high living. Your kidney simply gets
loose and floats, and if they can't
catch and anchor it you are done for,
suppose. The surgeons said there
never was one so hard to get hold of as
mine, and every time they thought they
had it it fioated off again serenely. You
can imagine what / went through, and
all the time every sort Of charming en-
tertainment going on! "Vallie"-you
know his way-sent abbreviated tele-
grams when I was recovering: Joe
and kid better" and every one thought
it was quite another thing, and l was
deluged with caps and socks and lace
bibs, which was frightfully embarrass-
ing. as (bashfully) we have never had
a visit from the stork, you know.
Chorus-Oh, awfully embarrassing!
AS the sorbet goes round every one
is in prime spirits.
Mrs. "Algy"-Isn't it too bad Mrs.
"Winkie" Wellington couldn't come
today? The doctors are trying to patch
her up for Mrs. "Livy's' bridge, and
they say if she goes out before then
they will not answer for the conse-
uuenceS.
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Mrs "Livy"-Whats her trouble? |
don't think I've heard. She telephoned
me that she was ill, but did not men,
tion what it was.
Mrs. "Algy"-My dear, a complca-
ton of diseases-all of them the most
frightful! The last l heard she was
seeing pink snakes
Mrs. "Dicky' Dwight-Not really!
Why, my dear, you don't mean to say
that she
Mrs. "Algy"--Sh-h-h. They don't call
it that at her house. The butler tells
every one it is nervous prostration
But her physician told mine contiden-
TALLY that nervous prostration of that
sort ends in a padded cell, and If Mrs
"Winkie" sees any more of that par
ticular shade of pink snake she will
simply have to swear off. Poor Mrs.
"Winkie!" Isn't it too bad, with her
perfect taste in frocks?
Mrs. "Livy"-I hope she won't bring
any snakes to my bridge. Livy saw
them the year he was in politics, and
| can tell you it was no merry vision!
He used to wake me up in the middle
of the night shrieking that boa CON
strictors We're coiling around him and
running over the ceiling, and l had to
see them, too, to quiet him. l don't
think his We're pink, however.
Mrs. "Algy"-Pink always was Mrs.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03
EX-GOVERNOR Of Wlsconsin).

town, and he told the committee that
his idea was to have the deserving
people gather ut the park the next
morning, which was Sunday, and wait
there until the managers of the show
could count the money and prepare
to distribute it, honestly and impair
italy, with the advice of the local
committee. That seemed all right, and
the committee notified the citizens to
meet in the park at nine O'Clock the
next morning and receive the money
the citizens had so kindly contributed
to such a noble cause, and they went
away.
Our show has got out of n good
many tight places, but we never got
out of "a town SO quietly and unosten-
tatiously as we got out OF Memphis
during that early Sunday morning.
There was not noise enough made get
ting our stuff to the train to wake up
"a policeman, and before daylight the
different sections of the train had
crossed the big bridge into Arkansas,
and were on the way to the Indian ter
ritory.
Pa and the other managers We're on
the platform of the last car of the
last section as it pulled out across the
river at daylight, and even that early
it seemed as though the whole colored
pOpuiaLlOll Oh MeIlplllS was "a Wv ""S
to the park, to secure good positions
so they could receive their share OF
the money. As the train got to the
middle of the river and safe into
Arkansas, the whole management
breathed sigh of relief. The boss
canvasman said
ut is like getting money from nome,
and pa said "It is like taking money
from the lineup of blind organ
grinder" and the treasurer OF the
show said. as he put the days receipts
in the safe in the business car: 1t
looks good TO me-"
Then they all turned in to sleep the
happy hours away, that beautiful sun
day on the way to Indian territory
and Oklahoma
Well, sir, you can never make me
believe that money obtained dishonest
ly will stay by person, or do him
any good, and that was demonstrated
in the case of our show the next day.
We got acquainted with am old show
man who was out of luck. who used
10 run a wild west show, but got bust
ed up, and as he didn't care where he
went. we took him with as on the
train. and all day sunday he talked
about his show experiences. and finally
he said il we had any horses with our
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK

, show that could run races, we could
make Il barrel of money at Guthlle,
where we were to make our next Stahu,
He said the Indians and halfbreedS all
had Indian ponies that they thought
could beat any horses that ever wore
shoes. and that they would bet every
cent they had on their ponies, and as
they had Just been paid their an
nuities by the government, they had
money in bales, and we could get 1t ALL
il we had horses that were any good,
and money to back them.
His idea was to give out that owing
to some accident we could not give an
afternoon performance, and just get
out the horses and bet the Indians to
a standstill, and win all their money
and give a free evening show, as Il
sort of consolation to the Indians,
Well, it looked good to pa, and he
talked to the other managers, and the
result was that when we got to Guth-
rie we had made up our minds that
as money was what we were after the
easiest way was to get it by racing
our horses.
So when we got settled in Guthrie,
and got the tent mp, we announced
that part of the show was in wreck
down the road in Arkansas, and we
should have to abandon the afternoon
performance, but in the meantime
there would be II little horse racing
on the side, If anybody in Oklahoma
had any horses they thought could
run some.
Well, l thought there were Indians
and ponies and squaws enough before
the announcement was made but in
less than two hours more than a thou
sand ponies We're being brought in and
we got our chariot racers and our
bareback hippodrome horses and they
were being led around and admired,
and we all laughed at the little runts
of Indian ponies, and the Indians got
mad and backed their ponies.
Pretty soon the races began in the
vacant lot just outside the town. The
old Snowman we had brought up from
Memphis was made master of cere-
monies, cause he could talk Choctaw
and Comanche and other Indian jar
gon. and things got busy. The In
dians wouldn't run their ponies more
than an eighth of a mile, or quar-
ter, and we consented, because the
poor little things didn't look as though
they could run block, they were so
thin, and sleepy
Pa was afraid the humane society
would have us arrested for cruelty TO
animals. All our fellows We're pro-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03

'Winkie's" favorite shade, you know.
Mrs. "Dickey' Dwight-Did tell you
that [ go under my operation next
week? Peritonitis or something, has
been lowering over me for IA long time
and DR.. Carver gets to work Saturday,
It's the very day of the coaching pa
rGde-isn't that simply awful?-but
there wasn't another day 1 could spare
for a month, so / had to give in. He
strictly forbade my coming today but
l wasn't going to miss everything So
silly of a doctor to think he knows
more about you than you do about
yourselfi He also forbade my eating
pineapple, so here goesl If you are
going to be operated on you may as
well give them lot of work to do.
Heavens! what pain in my side!
After the coffee had been served Mrs.
"Algy' gets up, shaking out her ruff
fles-
Mrs. "Algy"-Well, l must be going
I'm due at the Farleys at five-Good
by, Mrs. Allerton; have had the most
charming time-simply the most
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dreadful state that preservation was
out of the question. You know / was
at the Brownie Wentworth's house
party when 1 was taken ill and If the
operation had been postponed half an
hour longer l should never have sur
vived it-positively never! All the sur
geons agreed to that Naturally, you
could not keep an appendix of that
sort.
The others (regretfully)-Oh, too bad
Mrs. "Billy" Badgeley-Had mortifi-
cation set in in your case? You know 1t
had in mine and all the papers were
printing bulletins of my condition,
while crowds stood around to hear the
latest news. ] am quite sure L had
turned perfectly black!
The champagne cup is passed around
and they all drink abstractedly.
Mrs. TEDDY" Allerton--By the way,
Mrs. Rivington, you ask about my
gash-it isn't possible that you haven't
had one yourself,
Mrs. "Algy' (hastily)-Oh, dear, no!
had my trouble with superiority at
the same time as the king.
Chorus-Did you really? Wasn't that
just thrilling! Tell us about it, please!
Mrs. 'Algy"-Well. you see, was in
London, and they thought it must have
been the duchess marble floor which
was so cold to my feet in my thin slip
pers when I was dancing. The court
surgeons attended me. But "Algy
cabled to DR.. Carver to come over, as
he thinks there is nothing like Amer
lean doctors when it comes to cutting
AS DR.. Carver had several very impor-
tant cases at the time "Algy" said for
him to bring them all over with him
and he sent a fully equipped hospital
ship for the purpose. The patients en-
joyed the trip very much, and one OF
two of them fully recovered. He lost
only one, I think.
Mrs. "Teddy"-You must have beer
frightfully ill!
Mrs. "Algy" (modestly)-Well, rath-
er, and it was feared that 1 shouldn't
be able to wear low gowns for a whole
year. Fortunately it was not so bad
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l thought your horses could rum"
Pa said: "Damtino, never was no
horse racer, nohow."
When our money was all gone and
our horses We're nearly dead from fa-
tigue, the managers all got together
In the big tent for a consultation ON
finances. and it was the saddest sight
ever saw. Pa tried to be cheerful,
and he said:
well. we will give the evening per-
formance, and when the Indians are
all in the tent, we can turn out the
lights and turn the boys loose on them,
and maybe they will find some of the
money i'm their breechclouts.'
You don't mean to rob them, do
your said the boss canvasman, and
pa said: mo, no; far from II. We
will borrow 1t OF them. 1t is no harm
to borrow from an Indian"
Just then the treasurer came in with
an empty tin box he had carried the
money out in, and he said there would
be no use of having AN evening per-
formance, cause the Indians had taken
their ponies and squaws end money
and gone towards the setting sun, and
pa said: Where is that old show
man?" and the treasurer said: "He
has gone with them. He is their legal
adviser, and Went down TO Memphis
to rope as into the game"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03
THE scene is veranda at country
club during the luncheon hour. The

THE scene is a veranda at a country
club during the luncheon hour. The
persons are some smart young ma
irons in charming frocks, nibbling
daintily at the delicacies of the season.
Things have been going a trifle heav-
lily until Mrs. "Algy" Rivington chances
to remark:
How is your cash, dear Mrs. Aller-
ton?"
Mrs. Teddy" "Allerton, becoming sud
denly animated-You do well to ask.
My case was the most horrible on rec
ord, you know; simply the most hor-
ribe! So many complications. AS DR..
Carver said: My dear Mrs. Allerton,
you always do have things in the most
extraordinary fashion; not at all like
anybody else!" Which 1 suppose is
perfectly true. In fact, they are going
tn lecture on my particular case at the
next clinic.
Mrs. "Livy" Leavitt (refusing the
softshell crabs in her interest)-Oh, are
they really? How perfectly lovely!
But, tell me, how many stitches did
you have? My own cash was nearly
four inches. you know!
Mrs. ''Teddy"-Why, DR.. Carver says
there were as many stitches as there
would be in a coat, and that he felt
more like a tailor than a surgeon.
Mrs. ''Dicky'' Dwight-Dear me, how
exciting! But, tell me, did you keep
your appendix? You know Mrs. Jim
mie" kept hers.
Chorus of All-Oh, tell us about
it, Mrs. "Jimmie!'
Mrs. Jimmie" Ridgeley gracefully
piucking at an artichoke)-Well, you
see, Jimmie" had often said he
couldn't part with single bit of me
not a single bit-so before I went un-
der the anaesthetic I made them prom
Use to keep the appendix. The doctor
put it in alcohol and had a cut glass
jar made for it with Il gold top. 1t is
inscribed with the date and From Ju-
liette to James and stands on Jim.
mics" dressing table.
Chorus-How perfectly cute!
Mrs. Teddy" Allerton with some ri
valry)-Mine was in such Il really
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as that. But l missed the duchess
shooting party in Scotland.
The others-Oh, awful.
Mrs. ''Valle" Huntley-ISn't 1t the
most mortifying thing? The doctors
have all refused to perform the oper-
alton on me and 1 still have my ap--
pendix! / have called them in several
times and have almost begged them on
my knees to cut. But they positively
declined. You can imagine how dread
fully humiliating it is to me! But l
had a floating kidney once and that
was very serious. 1t had to be anchored
and | suffered horribly. They sent for
my picture from all the papers and
"Vallie' had to recall the invitations
we had out for dinner dance. The doc,
tors agreed that 1t was worse than any
simple, uncomplicated case of appen
dicitis In fact, there was very little
appendicitis in our set that season.
Kidney troubles were ever so much
more in vogue.
Mrs. Larry" Vernon (briskly)-Why,
that was the very season had my APP
pendix removed l remember that you
and l were operated on at the same
time and that you were out lots sooner
than 1! / was on my back q whole
month and had seven trained nurses.
was a bride at the time and poor
Larry" walked the floor day and
night, wondering how on earth he was
ever going to get the wedding presents
back to the correct senders as l
hadn't kept the cards Indeed, Mrs.
"Vallie," you are quite mistaken
about there being no appendicitis In
our set that season. l had it, and there
were several other cases that l know
of!
Mrs. "Vallie" (apologetically)-We
I know there was one year when there
wasn't any, and the doctors didn't
know how they We're going to make a
living. DR.. Carver simply sat in his
office twisting his thumbs.
Mrs. Teddy dactfully)-What is n
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and he knew that was the way we
We're going to dispose of the creditors.
He thought some one would tell him
when to get off, but he was sitting
up with Il landlady from some place
in Georgia that we owed u lot of
money for feeding the freaks, and she
was Threatening if she didn't get her
money she would have the hearts
blood of some one. SO pa was, afraid
to leave for fear she would stab him.
But when the car stopped on the sid
ing, pa took off his coat and hat and
yawned, and said he guessed he would
turn in, and she let him go to his berth,
and he got out on the platform, and
just then the second section of our
train came along and stopped for
water and pa crowled into an animal
car and laid down in the straw with
the sacred COW.
She beloved all night cause the
sacred bull, her husband, had been at
tached for debt at Vicksburg, but when
pa got in the car in his shirt sleeves
and bumped mis- shoulders up on ac-
count of the cold, the COW thought
maybe she had been unnecessarily
alarmed, and maybe pa was her hus-
band.
So she quit believing and laid down
and chewed her cud till daylight. Then
person she got mad and chased him
up into the rafters of the car, and he
had to ride there until the train got
to Memphis. The hands rescued pa,
but he got away from the creditors all
right.
We made a new lot of creditors at
Memphis. and they proposed to go
along with us, but we shook them off.
Gee, but we made a killing i'm Mem
phis. and don't you forget it. We had
handbills on all the wagons In the pa
rade telling the people that the pro-
oeeds of the afternoon and evening
performances would be given to de-
serving persons, in charity. and the
intention was to use the money to pay
off the hands.
My, but how the people turned out
The tents We're all full. and we had
more money than we have had I'm a
month before and after the perform
ance at night the mayor and some
prominent citizens waited on the man
agement and asked when and where
we were going to distribute the money
to the deserving persons.
The managers appointed pa 10 stand
off the committee. Pa said he had no
ticed. in walking about the city, Il
beautiful park in the center OF the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-03
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph 3. Bowles.)

Copyright, 1913, by Joseph Is. Bowles)
- EE, but this show has been up
against 1t the last week. We
haven't made a paying stand
anywhere.
The show business is all right when
you have to turn people away, or let
them in on standing room. Then you
can snap your fingers at fate, and
drink foolish water out of four-dollar
bottles of tizZ that has the cork trained
50 1t VIII pop out clear to the top of
the tent, and make a noise that makes
you think you own the earth, but when
you strike the southern country where
the white men have not sold their
cotton and the negroes have not been
paid for picking it, the audience looks
like "a political caucus in an off year,
when there is nobody with money
enough to stimulate the voters.
When the audiences are small, and
half the people in attendance get in
on bill-sticker's passes, and you can't
pay the help regularly but have to
stand them off with promises, you are
liable to have a strike any minute
The people you owe for hotel bills, and
horse feed, and supplies, follow you
from one town TO another threaten
levy on the animals. 1t takes diplo-
macy and unadulterated gall 20 run a
show.
We are playing now to get back into
the northern states, but we have TO
leave an animal of some kind in the
hands of sheriff every day, which
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charming! Quite the gayest luncheon
of the season!
Mrs. "Dickey"-So must I be going.
1t has certainly been sweet-oh, that
pain!
Mrs. Jimmie-I must run and get
ready for the Bobbys dinner; the very
jolliest feast 1 ever attended. Thank
you SO much.
Mrs. Vallie-And T. too, thank you
dear Mrs. Allerton; your affairs are
certainly always the liveliest and most
spirituelle.
Mrs. Livy-I can't tell you how I
have enjoyed myself; nothing of yours
ever drags. If only other hostesses
understood the art Of pleasant conver-
sation at table.
Mrs. Larry-So good of you to be
so entertaining. my dear Mrs. Allerton.
Mrs Billy Badgeley-My dear, it has
been simply peachy. BY! byl
They all drive. of motor. off with
the pleasantest recollectionS of Mrs.
Teddy's luncheon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-09
OTTO JORDAN SORE
 OVER CRITICISM
Attacks Frank Buxton of the Atlanta News From Behind and Badly
 lnlures Him.

Atlanta, September s.-Cspeciai.) )--The trial in recorders court of Manager Otto Jordan of the Atlanta baseball team, who assaulted Frank Buxton, sporting editor of the Atlanta News. last night because of his crltieisms of Jordan and the team, was postponed today by Recorder Broyles because Buxton's condition Is so serious that he was not able to attend court.
 Jordan Is said to have taken Buxton unawares. struck him in the face, knock ed him down and then pounded him in the face after he was down on the asphalt near the Arragon hotel. Buxton's face Is badly bruised and cut and he Is con fined to his room. It is not likely that the police court trial will take place be- fore next Tuesday.
 The attack made by Jordan upon Bux- ton is generally condemned as unwar- ranted and unjust, and 1t is stated today that Jordan regrets his nasty action in the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-09
SUMMARY.

SUMMARY Two base hits-Abstein 2, Evans. Sacrifice hits-Weikart. Stolen bases-Evans, Kennedy, Abstein, C. Smith, Tarleton. First on Birmingham 1; Shreve- port. 4.
 Left on bases-Shreveport, 10; Birming- ham, s.
 Struck out-By Breitenstein, 2; by Sal lee 8. lee, 4.
 Hit by pitcher-Bartey ?, Breiten- stein 1.
 Passed balls-Matthews. Double plays-Weikart to Kennedy; Hanley to Evans to Weikart; Alcock to Niles to Tarleton. Time. 1:50.
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