The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-03-21
WNNEMuccA NEVADA, TUESDAY EVENING" MARCH 2l 1905

opening a fine IA X. case and sweeping
your thumb across the FURNISHED gold
move quietly out. Before going take a
plain FURNISHED case and spin it, around
on the show case The reason for this
is that the fine dust on the show case
next time you call you can accuse the
jeweler of handling secondhand goods
In about ten days stop in and see the
jeweler again. and don't forget to inti-
mate that you know all about watches
and that you don't trust him or believe
a word he says. After he has made you
a price on the one that suits you best
and offers to warrant it one year, advise
him that you can order one with 36 more
jewels and 30-year warrant for just
onehalf what he wants for his. Then
pull out red catalogue anu snow him
IAN engineers spcial," and with you
don't land on me look leave the store
In the next few days it will occur to you
that you might trade in some old
clocksk, watches and other junk Look
around get two or three old watches and
call the jeweler again; he will be glad
to see you and won't suspect the pres
ence of those old watches. Get the price
as low you can and then suddenly
spring the old watches on him Be sure
| and tell him that with a little cleaning
out they will be worth $40 each; he won
know any better and will think that ne
| is cheating you. Anyhow, he uses al
and as one old one will make three new
ones, you see he makes an enormous
profit out of you.
After paying him the small cash pay
ment and the old watches, ask him for
a chain and charm and a buckskin bag
and written guaranee for 20 years. ano
| ance policy. Then take your watch Il
every jeweler in the country and ask
| him how many jewels there are in Al,
You can, by perseverance. find one THAI
will lie to you and then hasten back to
your jeweler and demand your money
back He will at once dissect the watch
give you a spyglass and prove has homes
ty. Take the watch home, show it to
your neighbors. tell them that it was
made to order for you and that it COS
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down and then take it to the jeweler
| He will not charge you anything fol
winding it, but while he is doing this for
you you must insist that you wound !.
three or four times and that you got up
in the night on purpose to wind it. Men
tion something about throwing the thing
door and leave in huff AS you pass
down the street, set it by every clock
you come to. not forgetting the barom-
| eters. Before you retire wind it up as
far as 1t will go; to make sure this time,
give tht stem a quick hard jerk at the
last round; this will cause the main
SpiihS anu tAit WitSStS W ulStIiSdSt dilu
will make the thing produce beautiful
singing noise. When you look at it in
the morning it will be stopped. Their
wind it steadily for thirty-five minutes,
and pour in some coal oil. Next strike
1t violently with an elm club drop in to
see the jeweler, pull out the watch ana
be surprised that it has stopped. Explain
! that it was all right when you left home
and that it has not had the slightest in
jury.
The jeweler will probably think that the
hair has worn off the hairsprng and may
give you a new watch. Explain to him
that your patience is about exhausted
and that you want one that will run
Remind him that after paying such big
! price you ought to have a good one. and
you will probably get good one this
time. Garry 1t at least twelve years be-
fore you get it cleaned or oiled. When it
stops, take 1t back and have it cleaned
OF course il will never be a timepiece
again, but you can put in the rest of
your natural life telling people how that
low-lived jeweler stole all the jewels out
of your watch.
THE REASON WHY.