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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

Send congressman to Washington
who think more of the advancement
of agriculture than Of building of war
shfps. We want business men at
Washington, and not mere politicians.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

:, 7 was in terrloie condltlon,
|t'sn 1,oon,s Kidney Pills have cured
|al have enjoyed perfect health
l ~, nv all dealers. so cents a box.
W. WV MiIburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
There is only one thing that is NOR

There is only one thing that is more
discouraging than every other thing
combined, and that is to have land dur
ing the crop season continue to remain
under water. Land subject to over
flow always has been and always will
be a most trying proposition to han
die
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

Three of as good colts as ever iaie
.ves on I saw the othe: day in nelgh
boring field, and from dams 'hat nav
been worked in the field constantly uf
IN the time the colts were loaieu
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
,sora Than Proof.

,.,.ions Oficial-Has your friend
and administrative ability?
~ ',,,siaetic Indorser-He never
-,,od a baseball game yet where
E.,rbody kicked.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

was So Udu WIFI hIu-
ney trouble that l
could not straightep
up after stopping
without sharp pains
shooting through my
back. l had dizzy
spells, was nervous
and my eyesight af-
fected. The kidney
secretions were ir.
regular and too fire.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
/, Knocks Malaria Out.

The old reliable Cheatham S Chill
,,ic cures quicker and more perma-
,ntly than any other remedy. One
,,tIe is guaranteed to cure any one
70 You cant lose. Try it.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

Milk quietly. clearly, quickly aho
thoroughly. Cows do not ike uhheo
assary noise or delay. Milk at nearly
the same hour each night and morn
inc and milk the cows in the same
order,
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
Political Note.

II think" said the old man, "Bill
was cut out fer on O. these lection
eerin' fellers."
How so?"
We'll, he can't git II out his head
that twice one amt ten!"-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

Hicks Capudine Cures Nervousness,
Whether tired out, worried. sleepless or
what not. 1t quiets asd refreshes brain
and nerves. It's liquid and pleasant to
take. Trial bottle l0c-regular size Csc and
boc at druggists.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
TERRIBLE CONDITION.
- nv sharp Twinges, Shooting
s''''' pains and Dizziness.

- Center, SIS South Oak
hl' lake City, Mimi, says: Il
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
THE EFFECT OF WEALTH.

oaAe-Who is that awfully freckled
on the horse?
.4''e-Nhy, that's Miss Gotrox. She
pn several millions in her own name
smle-so? My Aren't her freckles
eoming?
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

We tarnish the splendor of our best
actions by too often speaking of them.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30
He Evidently Had One.

What is a pessimist, pa?"
"A man who has a note to meet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26

that there were some new stamp mills
way on the west edge of the camp that
I'd been wanting to inspect and write
about for some time.
ut was late in the afternoon when Col
Inns climbed the rickety stairs of the
two-story wickieup. where the paper was
got out. Ben Sturgis, seated at his desk,
a pine ia BILE, with his right side turned to
the one door. was reading over "a bunch
OF the proofs Of the patent insides for
in without knocking. Collins instantly
recognized Sturgis.
oh. you're an editor now. you sand
toad. are you? was Collins greeting as
he stepped in the middle of the room with
his right hand on his starboard gun. so
you're the Tucson mule whacking shrimp
that writ this thing about me, huh?
"Sturgis pretended to look scared al
most to death. He placed his cob pipe
on the desk with hand that seemed to
shake with a veritable palsy of fear. Then
he began to stammer inconsequential
things. Sturgis' acting in the tight
pinches was what helped him to get out
of a lot of difficult messes.
"'Now none O. that id whimperin'r
bawled Collins. whipping out his right
hand gun and taking a few steps closer
to where Sturgs sat trembling realistic
ally.
"Sturgis broke into wrenching sobs. the
sobs of a cornered man with the fear of
sudden death upon him. He had figured
out the effect that sort of thing would
have upon Collins, and his dope was cor
rect
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26

Sunday clothes and go out and vote the
republican ticket.
In Wheeling, w. Va, where Mr.. Bryan
spoke TO crowd of twenty thousand or
so. I noticed one we'll dressed, middle
aged man who was simply foolish with
enthusiasm. He hadn't snorted much in
the preliminary stages OF the meeting,
but when the Peerless Leader got half
Nelson on the republican party and put
it's shoulders to the mat he threw Mt.
He howled and yelled and threw his hat
in the air and did more than any six
men to make noise.
After the meeting he came up on the
stage and shook Mr. Bryan's hand and
then stood off on one side looking at
him admiringly.
Great man. isn't he?" I suggested to
the perspiring enthusiast, just TO start
him going again.
He is indeed" he responded. nodding
his head vigorously. land tell you that
If wasn't republican I'd vote for him
in minute"
Wouldn't that jar you? 1t certainly
did jar me, but after I got my breath
I went back at the strange person.
why" I said, II saw You making
more noise than anybody down there in
enthusiast"
Great Scott!' said the republican. Il
am enthusiastic. I'd rather hear Bryan
talk than any body I know. He's a won
der, and just sets me to going And
sometimes it takes me two or three days
to get the things he says out of my head.
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myself to listen to any more of t, and.
slipping around on the outskirts of The
crowd which was foming around the
alcoholic one, / stepped unobserved into
another elevator and came up Are to
my office.
"Of course it was my duty to have
had this singularly mean impostor ar
rested, but could not suffer the thought
of the badinage which such a course
would individually have moved my
friends to indulge in at my expense. AS
it was quite a number of gentlemen of
my acquaintance who have offices in
this building dropped in upon me in the
course Of that afternoon, asking me, in
burlesque fashion. to contribute quite
ridiculously large sums of money to
charitable funds which they claimed to
be fathering.
"One of these-a patent lawyer with
whose family my family is on terms of
social intimacy-informed me. with tho
straightest face in the world, that he
was asking donations for the reclama-
ton of a friend of his living in Washing
ton who had become addicted to the hash.
eesh habit. Not Immediately penetrat-
ing his humor-for, as I say. he kept a
very straight face about it, asked him
the name Of his unfortunate friend liv-
ing here.
"'Wee Lung he replied. bursting into
raucouS and somewhat chagrining laugh
ter and then, of course. perceived the jest
"A little while before this decidedly dis
committing experience / was the victim, az
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the most liberal contributor; so I gave
him two $40 bills.
Now, really, dislike to speak of the
sequel. 1t fills me with chagrin to think
that there are men in Washington of
such plausible address and engaging
exterior who can sink so low as to-
We'll, anyhow. you may judge of my
state Of mind when upon entering the
building upon my return from lunch
that day I found the elevator man en-
gagged in an alteration Of words with
my visitor Of the forenoon. My visitor
of the forenoon was in a most dis
graceful condition of drunkenness. He
was insisting to the elevator man that
he be allowed to ride to the sixth floor
this office of mine, you know. is on
the sixth foor-while the elevator man
was firmly refusing to permit him to
board the elevator at all. Just as came
upon the scene my visitor Of the fore
noon, whose condition Of intoxication
was such that he could barely stand UP,
was adverting to me in almost unimag-
inably humiliating phrases. He was
telling the elevator man that he wanted
to see Mr.. Softeneezy for the purpose OF
obtaining from me about four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for the pur-
pose of supplying the natives of the
Congo Free State with red flannel Union
underwear. and that
But, really, you will have to excuse
me If 1 forbear mentioning any more
of the unworthy fellows drunken con-
versation. Anyhow, I could not permit
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ilarity in the way crowd may be spur
red into enthusiasm by high-class oratory
without any after effect on its votes.
Twelve long years ago democratic
manager of long experience. who was
high in the Bryan councils. summed
things up pretty well when he said: IF
folks only voted the way they hollered
we'd win this election hands down. But
I'm afraid they won't And he found
his fear justified.
Mr.. Bryan is marvelously effective
stump speaker. He Is forceful, convinc-
ing, and eloquent to degree. He makes
phrases to order, and they fit with nicely.
He drives home point upon point with
pistol-shot smacks of his padded palms.
He emphasizes with all-embracng ges-
lures that take his every listener into
his confidence. AS political oratonist
he is all there, and then some. CONVEX
sationally he is woolly and wide.
Why do good republicans go home from
one Of Mr.. Bryan's meetings, after he
has had them at his mercy for a couple Of
hours, contemplating political assassina-
ton? They hear his golden voice and his
arguments make them numb in the head.
grand beast after all. and whether it
wouldn't be a good thing to give preda-
tory wealth a shower bath. knock the
criminal rich on the head, elect senators
from the feet up instead of from the head
down, and turn a real live referendum
loose in the land.
Then they go to bed and sleep peace
fully, and next morning they put on their
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~

reached the bottom of the stairs before
Sturgis was down stairs. too. and stand
ing over him.
"'You were quite right to look me up.
you big bogus string beam Sturgis said
to his man in a calm. sort OF judicial
tone. which the bunch gathered close
about to listen to. You wanted the ed
itor, you said Well I am the editor.
When an editor attacks you. look him
UP every time and get an explanation
time in the future that you want any
thing rectified or fixed up or Strengthened
out, don't hesitate to look me up again.
N.Y. office hours are from Z in the morn
ing until the next morning. Come
again. Now is the time to subscribe
Then Sturgis walked upstairs and sort
of Strengthened up the mess and resumed
the reading of patent inside proofs for
the next days issue. while Collins. banged
up beyond recognition. and unable to
speak on account of his bitten tongue.
picked himself up and slouched off. He
quit Creole that night and never came
back. either.
II heard all about the thing before get
ting back to the office from the stamp
mills that I'd been busy inspecting When
I breezed into the office. eager to get the
story at first hand from Sturgis, / found
him sticking type and smoking his cob
pipe.
Anybody been In. boss?' asked him.
Yep: one hombrey, said Sturgts taxi
ing his pipe out Of his teeth and splitting
at the cat. But the son-of-a skunk didn't
subscriber "
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HEARpzANpz Sen A IIHEzzeARIIAL -

sary. He puts all OF them off until morn
ing, confident that they won't cool. Con-
Sequenty after Comet-like tour OF the
country for about a month. he is now or
was when l left his car, as fresh men,
tally and physically as when he started
and in even better shape vocally. The
more he talks the clearer and stronger his
voice seems to get, and he has no fear OF
any trouble from that source during the
continuation of the campaign.
- CAMPAIGNING this year with a pri-
~ vate car is somewhat more expensive
than OF yore. There have been times
when a private car was one of the cheap
est things on the market. The candidate
was willing and the railroads were
thoughtful and kind.
But there's nothing like that now.
Every candidate who feels a desire to
chase around in predatory private car
must pay for it-and private cars come
high. They cost $50 a day, plus eighteen
fares for every mile covered, plus much
money for servants. plus much money for
food, plus very much money for incident
ais. Formerly, too. newspaper men as
signed to cover campaign tours were
guests of the touring headliner. That's
when private cars came easily and mile
age was a negligible quantity. Nowadays
when candidate is campaigning the ex-
penses of the care are divided among the
number of people on it and the total Is
distressing 10 everybody concerned. 1t
must be mighty nice to be pluto. De-
spite Mr.. Bryans derogatory remarks, I'd
like TO try 1t for awhile.
IRVING c. NORWOOD
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liquor habit to gain the upper hand of
him and through this wretched Indulgence
had fallen to a most miserable estate.
The promising young lawyers wife
had been obliged to leave him and re-
turn to her people, and the man himself
was in the final stage of utter impe-
curiosity and helplessness. There was
my visitor went on-but one chance
for him, and that was to arrange to
have him treated for his destroying
habit at a certain local institution.
which, said my visitor. had had re-
markable success in curing its patients
appetite for liquor.
My visitor-himself by no means a
well-to-do man, he informed me-was
Undertaking, at a considerable sacrifice
of time and personal feeling, to raise a
fund for this purpose. He was at some
pains, he informed me, to breach the
matter only to such men as were known
to him as being of broad and generous
view in respect of such delicate mat
tiers, and my reputation as a man of
this character had reached him, he
added, rather agreably Several men in
this Office building, he told me, had
been good enough to write him their
checks for this worthy purpose. and he
felt reasonably certain that L
However. there is no need for me to
dwell further upon his exceedingly
well turned phrases, particularly as he
was most adroit at seeming to take it
for granted that I would prove to be
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THE UNDERSIZED EDITOR WORSTS THE PHONY MAN.

ern chaps In the Creole rush. and these
were the kind Collins picked out to i'm
pose upon. One of these fasteners told
Sturgis how Collins had run him of
fairly staked claim that had been duly
registered. Then Sturgis got his hammer
ing tools out and began to hand it in his
paper to the hard one from Arizona. Ben
wrote and set that stuff up himself-he
was his own printer He said in his stuff
that Collins was a phony and a bogus;
that he'd killed three men in Arizona and
New Mexico by shooting them in the
back; that he really didn't have the nerve
Of fiddler crab. but just a big way Of
talking; that he'd never earned an honest
dollar In his life; that Creole didn't need
him little bit, and that IL the decent
folks of Creole intended to preserve their
self-respect and to keep the camp from
becoming hog camp 1t was up to them
to boot Tim Collins over the south trail
just as soon as they could spare the time
to do 1t.
"And all like that. Fighting, killing
stuff. of course.
when I saw that thing slapped bang
in the middle Of the first page figured
that the Office wasn't going to be very
sanitary pretty soon. / was just out there
from the cast. Moreover I had met up
with Tim Collins, and 1 considered him
pizen bad.
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he reached with his right hand into the
waste paper basket and picked it out,
never letting 60 his VOLTS clutch on Col
Inns wrist with his teeth. The gun safely
in his right hand. though. he suddenly
let go the teeth hold and jumped to his
feet with such force that the top of his
head caught Collins under the extended
chin, and as the braggart's tongue was
lolling part of the way out of his mouth
at that instant he bit his tongue almost
in two. This caused him such agony and
stunned him so that Sturgis had time to
wheel around and face the big one.
Then, hauling far back to get all the
over the forehead with the gun. and the
ing was behind those wallops with the
bad mans gun. Collins. dazed, only half
conscious, went to the floor like log.
"Sturgis put the gun on the table.
pulled the other gun from Collins belt
and placed that on the table, too, and
then leaning over he caught Collins by
the two hands and dragged him to the
door, which was still open. Collins wrig-
gled but he was too far gone to put up
any resistance.
"Yanking him TO sort Of sitting pos
ture, SturgiS gave the bad man a kick
and Collins huge carcass rolled down
the rickety stairs to the landing below,
right alongside the pavement The
bumps he got going down sort of reused
Collins, and when he reached the bottom
he sat up and put his hand to his mouth.
A number of passersby stopped and
looked at him. The bad one had hardly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26

Not only have the prices been top ones,
but from the beginning of the dreary.
sloppy production the sidewalk in front
of the theater has been Uttered with alb
solute hordes of ticket spectators. some
times as many as $50 of them, who
clawed and grabbed at men and women
passing by and howled their pasteboard
wares in their ears and all but dug their
hands into the pockets of the paSsers-b by
in order to make them come across for
seats for the silly show at the rates of
S. or Sc per seat. I live not far from
this theater. and not once during the
many times I passed by there at the
height of the ticket spectators nightly
interference with the passage and COM
fort of the pedestrianizing citizens did
/ hear one New York voice appraised in
protest against the mauling and hauling
tactics Of these raucous ruffians. Moo
Yawkers stand for any old thing from
anybody without any murmur. and think
they're lucky just to be alive in Moo
Yawk
Well. one night last week tall. aagu-
lar. big-hatted man, obviously a south
erner was walking by that tneater. or
trying to walk by, when he was laid
hold OF by five or six of the ticket
spectators at once. They got the grape
vine clutch on his coat lapels and his
coat collar and pulled and yanked him
around like crew of Bowery clothing
store barkers, demanding that he dig
into his teanettes and produced five or
six metallic men for seat at this show
that is dear at twenty-five cents. lie
didn't want any seat for that or any
other theater. All he wanted to do was
to pass on his way and get away from
there. He was, as 1t afterward came
out, a buyer for firm in Georgia. he'd
put in nifty day a-buying. and he was
on his way to his Broadway hotel to climb
into the shucks just as rapidly as he
could make It, when the spectators pulled
that mauling thing on him.
He couldn't quite understand the game
at first. and he was patient about it.
Go way from me. man." he said to
one beaky fellow who was particularly
offensive at that hauling around stuff.
"Tuhn me loose sub. All don't want any
thin yo' got. I'm on NAH way, and All
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I now firmly believe, Of the Establishments
of a fascinating and singularly attrac-
tive female. She came to my office with
what seemed to be perfectly straight Gre
dentials from some charitable friends OF
mine in Baltimore. She was a young wom-
an with winsome countenance and a
really engaging exterior Rather or
nately dressed. I considered for a mo-
ment. but Immediately she began to speak
| discerned that she was a young person
of the greatest seeming refinement. mod
esty and culture. She quickly advanced
to the pith of her purpose in visiting me
of whose sympathy for human misery. she
said quite handsomely. she had quite fire.
quently heard. She had been informed,
she told me, OF the names of consider
able number of working men, with chill
dren dependent upon them, who were out
of employment. She had personally in
vestigated their cases and found them to
be very worthy. She was making a
little canvass, she told me. among men Of
my character-and no Others-for the
purpose of obtaining relief for the wives
and children of these unfortunate I'M
employed men.
Il leave 1T to your sense of fairness II
there was the least possibility for me
to listen to this winsome young woman's
story without being impelled to help her
cause even before she had finished her
moving narrative. Promptly-all too pre-
cipitately, as I now know-I wrote my
check for $50 and sent one Of my en-
ployes out to have it cashed, and really
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collins enjoyed his sobs keenly. The
bad man meant to kill Sturgis for a sure
thing. but he extracted so much enjoy
ment out of the spectacle afforded by
Sturgis apparent anguish that he was
willing to protract the misery of the
understood man.
'Sturgis. his face drawn into an ex-
preston of agony, rocked back and forth
in his chair, letting out the dry, tearing
sobs. that seemed to rend him apart.
while Collins. gun in hand. stood regard
ing him gloatingly.
- 'Fraid O. tn blazin' hill you're goin'
to, hey? he said. croakingly to Sturgis.
Curtin up. hey, at tn thought O. -
That's as far as he got. Forgetful of
Sturgis' record as a quick thinker. and
looking upon the small man rocNng back
and forth in his chair as prey almost too
easy. Collins kept edgin toward Sturgis.
probably with the idea of first slapping
him with his open palm or of splitting in
his face-an old trick of the bully's.
But he got too close. Sturgis reached
out with a cat-dab of both his hands and
era bbed hold of Collins right arm be-
tween the wrist and elbow. Jerking the
bad mans arm to his mouth. Sturgis fixed
his teeth in Collins wrist and bit clean
through to the bone and then kept right
on gna wing. The pain of it caused Collins
to relax his hold on the gun which he had
in his right hand. and the shooting tool
dropped into Stursis waste paper bas-
ket Collins was hammering Sturgis on
the back of his head with his huge fists
to make Ben let go with his teeth. But
the instant Sturgis saw the gun dropped
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friend-who wisely kept aloof from the
scene-that she would not dare do such
a thing. The hanson cab driver was
good-naturedly endeavoring to dissuade
her from her extraordinary purpose.
When she saw the crowd beginning to
form the lively young woman, no doubt
fearing to attract the attention OF the
police, desisted in her argument with the
rough cab driver and entered the street
car which l myself was about to take.
She and her gay friend took seats directly
opposite me in the uptown car l could
not help but dart occasional glances OF
disapproval at the young woman. Not,
however until she and her friend were
about to leave the car did this audacious
young woman. happening to glance my
way, recognize my countenance. Then
she seemed to study my face. a puzzled
smile on her own. for some time before
she mentally clinched the recognition. AS
she was passing out of the car she leaned
over and said to me in the most chirpingly
impudent tone imaginable:
why, hello, old Papa Bright-EyesI
You're perfect dear of an old come-on.
and I'm going to drop in on you again
real soon. so l am! And. would you be-
lieve it, the shameless young person ac-
tually reached out an impertinent hand ana
chucked me under the chin! / never was
so shocked In my life, really. Now do
you think that that callous young person
really would have the hardihood, the I'M
exampled temerity, to call upon me again
at my officer"