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Sharp County record., 1911-07-28

The farmers in Jackson county
complain of too much rain.
Eight marriage licenses were is
sued at Newport last week.
The Confederate monument fund
at PocahOntas has reached 1922.
An effort is being made to secure
free mail delivery service at Bates
vile.
An ice cream factory is operated
in connection with the ice plant at
Batesville.
Scarlet fever is said to be preva-
lent in the Locust Creek locality,
Jackson county.
Since the first of the present year
there have been SO residences
built in BateSville,
There is talk of building a mac
adam road between the towns Of
Imboden and Smithville.
Plans are being made to connect
Mammoth Spring and Salem with
an automobile line
The Christian Pilot, a long time
religious journal at Batesville, is
now published in Little Rock.
Grandma" Berry of Yellville fell
from the porch at her home one day
last week and sustained a broken
LED, which accident caused the aged
lady much suffering.
While out hunting last week near
Tuckerman, jim Pulse accidentally
shot his companion, M. l.. Hardin,
through the foot. Amputation of
the foot may prove necessary.
Virgil Cox, negro bootleeger,
was arrested and fined $100 at
Newport recently for plying his
| goods.
AT Powhatan one night of last
week an unknown thief broke into
the store of Vim. Campbell and
stole $40.
Tax Collector Shelpman Of lnde-
pendence county settled with the
state treasurer, turning in $31,539.-
so, lately.
A new drug store will begin bus
mess in Franklin at an early date
Hunt Puckett will have charge of
the concern.
Ab LanGston of the Engle section,
in lizard county, was painfully in
jured one day recently when he was
thrown by d mule.
Willie Tibbs, an orphan boy, aged
r. was drowned in White river
near Newark several days ago while
fishing with net.
Well drillers at the place of L. +.
Johnston of Albertha, Randolph
county, found water last week at
the depth of 287 feet.
The program for the Confederate
reunion, to be held at Melbourne |
August 3, 4, 5, appeared in last
weeks Melbourne Times.
A car of ice attached to a freight !
train left the rails and turned over
at Batesville a few days ago, The
car was completely demolished
1T. Jones, 1t Is stated, having
grown wealthy in Oklahoma during
the last few years, has returned to
his old home place in Baxter coun-
ty,
I'D. Edwards, a Randolph coun-
ty farmer, a few days ago lost a
thumb, the result of an awkward
swing of the ak while he was split
ting kindline,
A BID two days picnic-Aueust 2
and 3-will be held at Walnut
Ridge by the grand lodge OF 0dd
Fellows. The occasion Is extensive
ly advertised.
Major II. II, Hilton and Uncle
Sharp County record., 1911-07-28

Ill NSe
the absence of Judge
WAS slightly ill. The
must have felt the
ways other than as a
bf avoirdupois.
%
mber of that splendid
cation, the Saturday
throws considerable
manner in which that
Bug, the Congressional
Ices its deception upon
1 is not very generally
is a fact nevertheless
majority o f I h e
roads in the Cong
brd were really never
ll. For instance: Not
Congressional Record
beech Of fifty thousand
it said was delivered
Representative Lewis
lon the proposition OF
hit controlling the ex-
les and kindred inter-
eech was never deliv-
essman Lewis simply
bnt one minutes time
brmission to have his
he had written, pub
Congressional Record.
|se, fires the Congress
Containing his speech"
constituents as proof
waking things up in
Take notice also that
ional Record 6 oe S
halls free. This makes
cheaper to COMPRESSION
ho deliver addresses
ty thousand words in
be. 1t is a fact, too,
men are allowed to
eir speeches in the
Record, at convenient
hey imagine they have
points, with such fa-
B as loud applause on
ic side" or prolonged
Hen the fact is that the
B applauseless for the
sufficient. reason that
WAS speechless. The
Record is not a real
bngress. If ii were II
pe so voluminous, but
ine perhaps,
o
Vile Guard suggests
the GERM theory con-
BUS diseases is being
Probably so, but how
ire you going to prove
do at all to dispute
those who say they
hey are talking about.
ecience, you X II 0 ",
i or not We swallow
o
Who measures his acts
law allows him to do
pd citizen in the eyes
lt a far better citizen
bsiders the effect of his
thers and heeds the
cti0n to do unto 9TH
puld have them do I'M
wark Journal.
Jaw has ever been pro-
)acted than the Golden
better law than the
will ever be proposed
4 It Is the correct rule
10Th private and public,
there can be no I'M
ANY law proposed OR
Those having authority
b which does not have
therein the great prin-
Iolden Rule Is neither a
law, An application
D Rule to the everyday
e would make living
| |Dlpaanut An aool,ea-
Sharp County record., 1911-07-28

The man who thinks he knows II
all never gets O chance to tell 1t,
The new era., 1911-02-09
Doctors Said He Would Die
A Friends Advice Saves Life

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tors from far and near, but they said it
was no use to doctor as would die any
way. was at the end of my rope and
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Rosalie, Wash.
Subscribed and sworn to before mo this
23rd day of July, 1909.
VERNE TOWNE, Notary Public.
The new era., 1911-02-09


roguery in working between the public and some
swindling game: In this case. working among
those who stop In at the auction and pretending
to have connection with the sale. betray1ng
a score of people day after ingratiating himself
in their good graces through cunning and craft
Without these shills no sham auction can ex-
ist. OF course III smaller towns only two or three
be used, strangers are more easily noticed
in such places. They are the crooks on whom
the proprietor relies to pick out unsuspecting Wis
itors shared by the bargain lure and jockey them
into buying misrepresented articles.
The sh mixes with the crowd. His business
is to look just like an interested buyer and lie In
wait for the fly for which the elaborate web was
spun.
This Individual for whom the scenery Is set
and the actors dressed, is called in technical slang
"a rummy." The old threecard monte men chris
tened him sucker"
Picture room 40 feet long and 20 feet wide.
Double doors to the sidewalk invitingly open
above them hangs enticng red flag bearing
the name of what purports to be legitimate
auction firm; beneath that in large letters. are
the words:
SALE TODAY.
Pick out any acquaintance who lives in small
town, is fairly prosperous, and has come to the
nearby city of10 900 to 10000 population to look
around for the day, purchase present for his
wife and some implements for the farm.
He has read In the papers and magazines &C.
counts OF book art and antique auctions and not
ed the hugh prices brought by rarities. When he
stumbles to the fragrant flag Of the fake auc-
ton house and looks In at the window heaped
with a miscellany OF antiques. he is suddenly
stirred by that perennial longing for a bargain.
He glances through the door. There is
ried auctioneer struggling with eight dullfaced
people. He is trying frantically to sell pair of
opera glasses.
Genuine Lemier gentlemen; concave and con-
vex lenses, put up In this heavy morocco case"
the auctioneer cries, "and 81 is bid for them.
Think CT that Not tenth OF their value. Why.
The new era., 1911-02-09
ECZEMA GONE, BoILs CURED

my son was about three weeks old
when noticed breaking-out on his
cheeks, from which a watery sub
stance oozed. A short time after. his
arms, shoulders and breast broke out
also. and in few days became solid
scab. l became alarmed, and called
our family physician. who at once pro-
nounced the disease eczema The lit
tie fellow was under his treatment
for about three months. By the end
Of that time, he seemed no better. I
became discouraged, and as l had
read the advertisements Of Cuticura
Remedies and testimonials Of great
many people who had used them with
wonderful success, dropped the doc
tors treatment, and commenced the
use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
and in few days noticed marked
change. The eruption on his cheeks
was almost healed, and his shoulders.
arms and breast were decidedly bet
ter. When he was about seven
months old all trace of the eczema
was gone.
During his teething period, his
head and face were broken out in
boils which l cured with Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Surely he must
have been great sufferer. During the
time Of teething and from the time I
dropped the Doctors treatment. used
the Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Oint-
ment. nothing else, and when two
years old he was the picture of health.
His complexion was soft and beauti-
full. and his head mass Of silky curls.
I had been afraid that he would never
be well, and feel that I owe great
deal to the Cuticura Remedies"
(Signed) Mrs. Mary W. Ramsey. 224
E. Jackson St., Colorado Springs.
Colo, Sept. "a. 1910.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Why He Betrayed Himself.

Dear count" said the beautiful
heiress, suppose was to tell you
that my father had lost all his mon
ey. Would you still want me?"
All, Eat would make not re least
diffairence. You are re most beauti-
full, re most lofely! should still say
will you be mine, mademoiselle.'
"And wouldn't you care If my broth
er had married chorus girl?"
mot in re least little bit, made
moiselle."
"But If mamma insisted on going
to live in the palace with US, would
you"
mix" he said, forgetting his dia.
lect there's some things even
wouldn't do for money"
The new era., 1911-02-09

were going dirt cheap Two ladies' beside him COM
miserated because they wouldn't have enough
Gentlemen and ladies'" the auctioneer went on
solemnly 'if had this article in Chicago or New
York it would bring one hundred dollars, hun.
dred dollars. You couldn't duplicate 1t at retail
for less than two hundred. 1t is the finest piece Of
art glass shown in your CITY,"
Can get one hundred dollars? Ninety? Eighty?
Seventy-ive dollars? Can get sixty? Fifty? Give
me forty; thirtyine; thirty!"
Fifteen dollars!" came halting voice from
beside Jones.
Jones was Interested. He sensed bargain.
Had he known that when the auctioneer said
'thirtyline" 1t signal to the shi beside
Jones to bid $50 with line through 1t. or fifteen
actual dollars he would not have been enthu-
siastic.
"sixteen!" Seventeen" "Half!" "Eighteen!"
staccato offers punctuated the atmosphere after the
auctioneer's encouragement.
The little beside Jones shook his head
sadly.
Gee, it's gone beyond me-" he sighed. turning
to JONES' itll go dirt cheap. too. II you could buy
that for $50 it'd be bargain sure enough"
Twenty eight is the last bd' walled the auc-
tioneer. why, you could take 1t out and pawn
it for more than that"
Jones thrilled as the auctioneer turned to look
squarely at him.
You'd give thirty, wouldn't you?" he cried
Jones gulped and nodded.
The auctioneer skifuy led up to the grand
landing by taking offers OF "thirtysiy" and thirty
seven" from members of his troupe He had felt
out his carefully and knew that $40 would be
Joness limit
"Will you give me forty?" he said simply, in a
level Tone leaning far over the showcase
Jones hesitated. gulped. and then nodded his
head abruptly.
Jones' was pleased with his bargains until he
got home and his wife told him he could get the
same punch bowl for SO anywhere and that the
other stun was worthless.
The new era., 1911-02-09
The Latest Golf Story.

Two Scotchmen met and exchanged
the small talk appropriate to the
hour. AS they were parting to go
supperward, Sandy said to Jock;
Jock, mon, I'll go We round on
the links in the NORM"
"The morrn?" Jock repeated doubt
fully. {
"Aye, mon. the morrn." said sandy.s
"I'll go We round on the links the
NORM"
AYE weer," said Sandy, "1'll go ye.
But I had intended to get marriet in
the norm" n'."-Cincinnati Times-Star.
The new era., 1911-02-09
didn't Know Where He Went.

One Of the queer epitaphs in the
graveyard of Old st. aPul's church at
Norfolk, Virginia, reads:
Behold the grave, how low lie!
AS you are now. SO once was l. As
l am now, SO must you be.
Then be prepared to follow me-"
1t is said that during the Civil war
soldier was responsible for scratching
on the tomb with his saber the addi-
tional lines:
"To follow you am not bent
Until know which you you went"
The new era., 1911-02-09
Making Her Suspicious.

what makes you so dissatisfied
with your bonnet?"
I'm afraid it doesn't look we'll on
rne."
What in the world makes you think
tbat?"
Every woman I know says 1t looks
lust lovely on me-"
The new era., 1911-02-09

A schoolma'am was teaching her
class the mysteries Of grammar.
Now, Johnny" said she. Sin what
tense do l speak when l say I'm
beautiful"
"Past tense"
The new era., 1911-02-09
Knees Became Stiff
Five Years Of Severe Rheum atIsm

Tho cure OF Henry J. Goldstein. "A
Barton Street. Boston. Mass, Is anoth-
er victory by Hoods sarsaparilla.
This great medicine has succeeded in
many cases where others have utterly
failed Mr.. Goldstein says: 'I suf-
fered from rheumatism five years, it
kept me from business and caused ex-
cruciating pain. My knees would be-
como suf steel. I tried many
medicines without relief. then took
Hoods sarsaparilla, soon felt much
better, and now consider myself on.
tirely cured I recommend Hoods"
Get It today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called earsatabs.
The new era., 1911-02-09

"She appears worried"
Naturally. She doesn't know
where her next husband is coming
from."-Town Topics.
The new era., 1911-02-09
IJnalterabIe,

The cook met at the polls her misc
tress.
Hero at all events you've got
nothing on mel" exclaimed the former
slangily. but with dignity.
Except a hat, a wrap, silk petit
ccat and the Lord only knows what
else!" retorted the latter something
tartly.
For there are conditions which no
merely political revolution can ever
alter.-Puck.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Nothing Much.

II don't know whether I ought to
recognize him here in the city or not.
Our acquaintance at the seashore
was very slight"
You promised to marry him. didn't
you?"
Yes, but that was ALL"
The new era., 1911-02-09

by 5ove. left my pocketbook un-
der my pillow!"
We'll, your servant girl is surely an1
honest person.
That's just the trouble. She will
give the pocketbook to my wife,
tliegende Blatter.
The new era., 1911-02-09


night in a cheap store. leased from month to
month. and stays until trouble occurs or the field
is worked dry
New York city alone demands to be duped
by no less than eight practically permanent COM
panies of this Sort only shifting their positions to
greener fields the crowds change
There three ways to tell legitimate auc-
ton II the place is permanent and advertises
sales certain days, II the goods to be sold
catalogued piece for piece, and II there no
outside hired to control the bidding, then
1t is certain that the sale is genuine
The fake auction game is played under the
pseudo patronage of reliability The auctioneers
license. issued by the city is hung conspicuously
near the door and the goods claimed to have
been consigned from private sources pawn
brokers in nearby cities 1t Is Misrepresentation
from the start. AS matter rsof fact the goods
were picked up in job lots from novelty houses.
jobbers, Japanese stores and regular auction sup
ply firms who handle Job lots of trashy stuff
and to be found in all the larger cities. The
worries they handle made of cheap clay by
shrewd Japs who have scraped through the shell
of American bluff and found the fabbiness of the
flesh beneath These antiques crumble to pieces
after six months In heated apartment Practi-
caily all the goods handled In these stores
made the same principle and bought at from
One-ffth to eiftieth of what they will bring at
auction.
There is nothing criminal In selling at
orbitant profit il the purchaser gets the square
deal. But fake auction company is primarily
cneatS
a square deal.
The proprietor is the arch rogue His profit
depends selling article at anywhere from
fifty to two, three and sometimes five hundred
dollars. The auction does not pay II run for the
average buyer; 1t is merely a trap, plant" for
the occasional good thing" who happens in and
is quickly relieved Of large amount of money
through an elaborate system he never suspects.
1t is joyless game. played cut-and-dried
rules which admit of no freshness originality
The average cast-for they all actors and
play the same cheap show every day-s made up
of one hacker. proprietor, two auctioneers,
(the pae-faced people with mushy morals), their
number depending on the size and situation Of
the store
The hacker usually is shrewd and unscrupu-
lous man who rents vacant store, fills 1t with
scattering of cheap, snowy articles to attract at
tention and a number of large socaed works
Of art" and antiques" which, inspection
prove to be minors. The range from foun
tain pens at ten cents to deceptive "ivories,
"bronzes" and paintings by the old masters" that
bring from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars.
and sometimes more. from the uninitated.
The proprietor hires pretty girl cashier and
counts her additional attraction. He gets
one or two auctoneers-they usually travel in
pairs to relieve another and the pubc-and
guarantees them ten per cent. OF the sales; which
commission runs from forty to two hundred dollars
Q week.
Then the dealer incorporates the backbone Of
the whole crooked business-the body Of "shills."
The new era., 1911-02-09
M were but a cocktail when

My lady needs a bracer.
Her lips I'd kiss-I told her this.
But she replied, NAY, nay. sir!
"A cocktail you can never be
Forgive me IL say, sir,
You ne'er can be much more to me
Than just a simple chaser"
-Goodwins Weekly.
The new era., 1911-02-09
Letter -
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Aisehaato., \. 4.
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For sale at all drug stores. Price City
cents and one-dollar.
The new era., 1911-02-09

Teacher-Can any little girl tell mo
why our heads are covered with hairf
Little Girl-To have something to
pin more hair to.-Life.
The new era., 1911-02-09

The one who faces the world cheer
fully will in the long run accomplish
much with his life.-Punshion.
The new era., 1911-02-09

PILES CURED IN TO IL DAYS
Your druggist viii refund money II PAZO ONT
MENT fails to euro any case of Itching, Blind.
The new era., 1911-02-09
DENVER DIRECTORY

BON LOOK GaSpis pfnlss IL s Ma%mosh fanaa Of Maa daa
log mailed free. Cor. 18th & Blake. Denver
The new era., 1911-02-09
THE AUcJ2oMkxR ..s

The word "shill," or "shll-
liver" in full, is of inde-
terminate origin. 1t Is
synonymous with cap
per-" booster" ringer"
dummy" Stool" stool
pigeon" and Outside
man." all technical slang
titles for the shabby crea-
ture, the human buzzard,
who picks up his foul liv-
inn h.r
The new era., 1911-02-09

mummy, darling, Will you tell mo
something?"
well, what is 1t, dear?"
After I've finished school. what
shall do whilst I'm waiting to be
married."
The new era., 1911-02-09

misrepresented article. These bogus auction stores
more harmful to nation than all the old
time lotteries. policy games mail-order faxes ana
Circus gratis. including gold bricks and shell games
combined.
They not honest They play heads we win.
tails you lose." Uncle Sam doesn't want TO bring up
his boys in the business; yet he countenances 1t,
The new era., 1911-02-09

one in his pocket; so his eyes continually
roved toward the cut glass in little Japanese
cabinet.
He didn't know It, but before he was in the
place two minutes, while the auctoneer was
trying to feel him out" with the watch one
Of the shills had noticed Joness interest in cut
glass, and had called the auctioneers attention
to the fact by touching the cabinet signif-
cantly.
The auctioneer, on his perch above them
ALL had control of the situation. He noted
the signal from the shill, jotted down mentally
that Jones wanted cut glass. and knocked
down the watch he had been experimenting
with to one Of the shills for ruinous price.
which was all helpful in showing Jones that
shrewd man could pick up bargain II he
laid low, attracted no attention and bided his
time
"Sold for six ninety. Put 1t with the other
goods for Mr.. A Deposit sufficient" the auc
tioneer cried to the pretty cashier.
Jones did not bid on the first piece Of cut
glass; The auctioneer did not look toward him
once to give him chance. The piece was
knocked down for $780, 1t was frightful bar
gain Jones would have given IS for 1t him
self But the auctioneer passed abruptly to the
next article
Jones pressed forward this time gor
geous punch bowl was put up. He heard vari
GUS exclamations around him. all tending to
civ h i'm, in fho hat
The new era., 1911-02-09
THE PROPRIETOR

from line to line. we md
In nearly every state
from one to forty cities
supporting temporary
auction swindles. Few
are permanent; 1t is a
mushroom blu 8 1 n g g 8
which springs up over
The new era., 1911-02-09

and over oSU OF MS CltleS
issue licenses regularly
to the auctioneers OF
these fake companies.
giving them the privi-
lege of swindling the
public at a nominal fee.
Any town with over
10000 blind. Barnumized
Yankees waiting to be
buncoed is considered a
fertile field.
From coast to coast.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-15

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RED, Graniteville, Vt.
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Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-15
SCHLEYS CAPITAL SENDS
BUDGET OF news
Our EIIaViIIG Correspondents
Weekly Letter

Ellaville, Ga, Sept. 13-On last Sab
bath morning the inhabitants of our
town were saddened by the announce
ment of the death of Mrs. " w. Will
liams. Mrs. Williams had been i'll but
day or two, having been stricken with
paralysis from which she never rallied
Her remains were inferred in Buena
Vista Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Williams is survived by her
husband and seven children, Messrs.
Laurence and Turner, of Buena Vista;
Mrs Will English, of Americas; Mrs.
H. F. Dixon, and Mrs. J. R. Jordan,
Messrs Rogers and Seab Williams, Of
Ellaville. The funeral services were
cOndu ted by Rev. R. E. Bailey and
Rev. Lawhern.
Mis- Dorothy Cheney left Tuesday for