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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Jr, S9022 20; Charles T. Montvomerv
$1s.5oS:Oi, and William Fl. Tavlor
$77l0.37. Letters of administrst;on
were granted in the estate of Ketber;na q
at $6377. "pp'a'"eu
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Ware followers on the city COM
mittee are perhaps wondering how they
are going to make race now that Tom
Cunningham has taken the wind out of
their sails.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

bidding against one another in order
to get the buyers.
This is good news to sweeten the
days reading.
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Because some of it's members heIned
load shin with shells for non Bolshe-
visit Russia. the charter Of Philadclphia
Local No. is to be revoked by the
New York I. W. W. The local men are
playing in luck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

A man was arrested yesterday for
selling eggs at thirty five cents dozen.
The officers of the law knew at once
that no American hen could afford to
lay them at that price.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The four cloth thieves who lost
their $4,000 loot because their horses
I pull it are probably now nego-
tiating for a motortruck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The law of Pennsylvania prohibits
municipalities from going into business
for gain but the scarcity of houses NAV
yet drive them into the real estate bust.
ness on the grounds of public neces.
sity."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Popular interest will begin to CEN
ter on Santiago. Chile. now that It is
known that six inches of snow fell there
the day before yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Doctor Furbush says he hasn't
time to take a vacation. True to type !:
as careles Of his health as a cobbler is
Of his shoes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

A woman is running for United
States senator in Nevada. Perhsps
Miss jeanette Rankin might be able
to dissuade her.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The big corn crop isn't going to
make things any easier for prohibition
agents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Lenine and Trotzky now have ad-
ditional evidence that Uncle Sam doesn t
like them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

We notice a lot of hat stores are
advertising straw Kellys at 81 off, but
they don't say how much on.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Tennessee apparently is unwilling
to part with the limelight by disposing
of suffrage.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Erwin will have to think,up some
thing better than a pot Of gold to win
his freedom.
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SHORT CUTS
The Ponzi front had no back after
all.

Sooner or later, happily. Wen see
an end to The Crank.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The modern definition of govern
mental regulation" appears to be
making good deficit"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

1t must be admitted that the Erwin
Bergdoll verdict was reached without
unseemly delay.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Pultusk simply shows that pro-
nouncing Polish proper names is like
an operation in dentistry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

British Laborites, who are toying
with bolshevism, might also read with
interest the Associated Press wireless
message from Constantinople to the
effect that the Turks are showing in
difference to the treaty signed at Sevres,
France. as it will be Cancelled when the
Bolshevists cross Rumania and Bull
garia and expel the Greeks from Thrace
and Smyrna. Turks and Bolshevists
as we'll as Germans are in the scrap
paper business.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Ever notice, queried The Pest, how
people are much reader to tell you
where to go than how to get there?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

As we understand it, golf is an
eighteen hole discussion followed by a
post mortem.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

She (scornfully)-What pretensions
have you to culture? He (defensively)
/ have never worn a silk shirt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The fact that the bicycle is agains
coming into favor may be due to the
high price of gasoline and shoe leather.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The drug venders who asked a DO.
liceman II he wanted "a shot in the
arm" evidently didn't have the right
dope.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The thing that differentiates boil
shevism from all other governments is
its avowed intention to ignore its debts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

The Ponzi bubble having been
pricked, all his victims may 60 to work
again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Today provides the sneeze signal
for thousands Of unfortunate Americans.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14

Jnuuirer--There's no grabbing at
Mt. Gretna. Try Beach Haven.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-14
FINANCIAL QUAcKERY IS
BACK AT THE OLD STAND
Ponzps Preposterous Game and the
Public Appetite Which II Whetted
Are Painfully Traditional

DoNZI will soon be forgotten.
Memory to be worth cultivating
must be accompanied with the gift of
Interpretation. Individuals possess it,
and sometimes they have employed their
talent in transmitting history from a
sterile record of dates and names into
pregnant comment on human motives.
But the great volumes grow dusty. In
the mass, mankind is impatient Of the
retrospective preacher. In the green
garden of gullibility imagination bodies
forth the form of things unknown, eager
hands rise to clutch the impalpable,
the inextinguishable cheerfulness Of hu-
manity gilds the scene with irresistible
allurement.
The past is solemn bore. Dance on
to the contemporary tune Of easy
A shortage Of revelers is al
most inconceivable. Is there not lone
born every minute?
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A separate peace must inevitably
be preliminary to separate pieces.
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Ponzi's favorite song is probably
I'm FOREVER blowing bubbles"
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While eminent operators are dis
cussing. the best way 10 cut its claws,
the Bear continues to- ASe them.
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And that is why, in the real signifi
Ponzi" will be unremembered, and why
also the blame attaching to him has
something of the nature Of a particu-
larly unpleasant boomerang. The
heavy end swings around into the pub
lie that gleefully made him and bitterly
bewails his financial demise.
As with most unalterable truths,
triteness dulls the edge of preachment
in the Ponzi case. 1t is rather the
magnitude of the promises and the ex-
tent OF the downfall which distin-
guish this reckless adventure from
hundreds of others in which public
participation is dishearteningly con-
slant.
Blue-sky laws have been framed to
check the ancient and abiding popular
faith in countless schemes in which risk
is discounted in the dazzling glamour Of
prodigal reward. Something, of course,
has been accomplished by such legisla-
ton forbidding the sale of stock in en-
terprises not subjected to an examina-
ton of its backing and state report
on the property assets.
But paternalism of this sort is lin
tied in scope. The J. Rufus Walling-
ford mind is ingenious, and no statute
has ever been devised equal to combat
ing the fertile invention of financial
wizards or the credence of their ir-
reprsssible adherents.
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Not the least seductive feature, it
must be confessed. of the Ponzi ex-
plot was the profitable possibilities of
the present chaotic state Of interna-
tional exchange. Seven cent fraLcs and
one cent marks, to say nothing of the
cheap money of the Balkan states and
of Italy, have glorifed the American
dollar. Visitors abroad have of late
been amazed and delighted to learn how
far their native currency would go.
Investments entirely legitimate have
been made in foreign mediums of ex-
change. AS these rose profit was eX
tracted in precisely the same way as
money is made in the stock ] 7rket.
Bankers throughout the country have
been quick to realize the situation. The
foreign exchange system mas been ex-
amined with the closest scrutiny.
The rigidity of the postal order
rulings fixed by the International Postal
Union has made it possible to purchase
coupons on the basis of the now ficti-
tious par value of, say, French or
Italian money. But what could be
done honestly in this way had probably
been developed TO the fullSbefore Charles
Ponzi began to operate.
American inanciers are reckoned as
shrewd as any, and common sense is
certainly strained by the supposition
that the secret of multiplying millions
by so comparatively simple an opera
ton was unknown to any one except a
miraculous Italian American and his
agents,
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TNHAT night the caucus was a camou-
l. flage. Instructed delegates voted for
their candidate and then rushed pell-
nell in the grand finale to the Elkin
standard.
Next mornings convention was a
mere ratification meeting. The ways
had been creased. There was no oppo-
sition and the perfunctory work of the
body was, as I have stated, completed
in the shortest time ever consumed by
a Republican state convention. Henry
F. Walton nominated Elkin and Frank
B. McClain seconded II.
1t was a master stroke of master
political mind.
E.kin could not we'll decline an honor
that was thrust upon him, as Quay we'll
knew. 1t removed him from active par
ticipation in further political contests.
Crowned with high honors, he was gem
tly but firmly eliminated from the path
way OF Quav's future.
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agents.
The fundamental weakness In the
Ponzi program was that which has
characterized every get rich quick
scheme ever launched. The simple
question, Why was it necessary for the
inventor to ask the public to share his
treasure? could be raised. 1t Is this
pertinent query which subscribers to
stock promising speedy fortunes so in
variably fail to sound.
To reason why no such deterrent is
invoked is to solve the whole riddle of
human rccklessness. When we know
why frail canoes are overloaded, why
pedestrians rush in front Of swift rush
ing vehicles, why people dash on and
off moving trains, why thousands Of
CaIamtous chances are taken every day,
We shall understand why financial
takers beget their fatal and monotonous
round of successors.
The brevity of the human memory is
perhaps a partial explanation, but that
really l.oTounds another enigma. How
can the b.ain capable of registering and
retaining rrofusions of impressions of
all sorts become so pdralyzed when an
alleged sudden road TO wealth is re-
vCalcd?
Public Cupidity will not solve the
mystery, for human beings in the mass
possess innumerable countcrbalancing
antidotes to sefshneSs. More likely it
is the ungovernable power of the imagi-
nation which, when the prospects Of
fortune are entertained, scars to dizzy
heights. 4 childish delight in fairy
tales and a naive taste for the improb-
able have been among the prime allies
Of the unscrupulous promoter.
Such traits of the human family will
account in some degree for the feats
attempted 200 years ago by the no.
torious Scotchman, John Law. This
able but unpriIcipled gambler was the
hypnotic blower of the unprecedented
and still unexampled Mississippi Bubble,
baSeless scheme which plunged the
whole of France into frenzy of spec
ulation, made millionaires of valets
and dragged the regent of the kingdom
into the mire of the most preposterous
finances. Ponzi was a parochial
amateur beside Law. His methods, too,
were relatively petty compared with
the impossibly grandiose endeavors Of
the MOVING Bspirits of the South Sea
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Philadelphia. Saturday, August II. 1920
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-07

-Four rooms now be- ready TO occupy; paved
run sized lot; bath connected 1850 cash,
$50 per month. Price 1880.
The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1920-06-24

Crepe de Chine Silk Shirts on Salt
at McCOnathy's.

Crepe de Chine Silk Shirts on Salt
lat McConathy's.
Miss Luda Reynolds returned on last
Sunday afternoon, after a very success
full year at Columbia University, New
York. Her friends are indeed glad tC
welcome her back.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Dalton had as
guests last week their daughter, Mrs
Clarence Gloer and family of Bryce
Hand and their son, Mr.. Gordie Dalton
and family Of Rust0n.
Mrs. J. A. Oden and daughter, Mrs.
B. E. Bagley and children and Mrs.
Geo. Shields and daughter Elizabeth of
Shreveport, have been recent guests of
Mr. and Mrs. 0. d. Aud.
i Miss Fife Raglan who has been with
her sister, Mrs. Pollard Williams while
a student of the Arcadia high school
left a few days ago to visit her sis
ters and other relatives on the river.
Get an Iron Bed from Mcclellan for
less money.
One of the most popular diversions
Of late is the old fashioned "Fish Fry"
Numbers of parties have left here
daily for various destinations and all
report great success in landing the
"fnny tribe"
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Oakley went
over to Ruston Monday to see their
mother, Mrs. Land, who was stricken
with paralysis. They brought her back
with them and it Is hoped that she will
rapidly improve.
Are YOU taking q trip? We have
trunks SIS to $75.-MeCOnathy's.
Miss Monte Edwards Is to be con-
graduated upon completing her bust
ness course In such short time. She
returned from DraughOn's business col
lege this week, completing the course
In one month.
Mrs. Jap Colvin, formerly of this
place, now resident Of Monroe, has
numbers of friends here, who are
grieyed to know of the critical state Of
her health and hope to hear of her i'm
provement soon.
Iron Beds. Lots Of them in good
and better ones at J. L. MeClellan's.
LOST-A IA karat plain band ring,
size 6, with the initials A. J. b. to U.
f., some where in Gibsland, Saturday
afternoon, June 10Th. Finder will
please return to Miss Olive Foster
Homer. La. Box 118. 1t pd.
SIPS Window Shades, S6 inches by
! feet, on sale at 88e.--J0s. DaWidof
8 Co. z
Mrs. Wilson of Jackson, Miss, Is the
guest of her son, Mr.. obs. Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson, at the home Of Mrs. II.
B. Dalton. We expect the main reason
for her coming was to make the ac-
auaintanee OF her new granddaughter.
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PARTITION SALE

Mrs, Mona L. Barlow vs.. J. H. Barlow,
No. 522S, Civil Docket, Third Dis
trict Court, Bienville Parish, La.
Under and by virtue of an order
eminating from the above named Hon
orable Court and to me directed, | will
sell to the last and highest bidder, in
accordance with law, at the principa,
front door of the courthouse in the
Town Of Arcadia, Bienyille parish, La.
within legal sale hours OH
Saturday, July "a, 1920
the following described property, to-
wit:
That part of the W 1-2 of NE IA,
Sec. 13, Twp. IA n, R. 6 W., lying
west of the fence on the western side
Of H. R. Rogers land and the southern
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boundary being the branch rising abou
$50 yards west Of H. R. Rogers farm
and running in westerly direction
through J. E. Rogers farm containing
% acres more or less, and also NE Ia
Of NV II, Sec. 10, Twp. IA n, r. g
w., and being the same property pur-
chased from T. l.. Holman by deed re-
corded in Book "ZZ," Page 436 and
which was purchased by T. L. Hol
man from F. A. Rogers by deed in
Book MN" Page 1855, Conveyance
records of Bienville Parish.
The above described property to be
sold for the purpose Of partition.
This the 18th day Of June, 1920.
j. e. CURIE. Sheriff.
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RECEIVERSHIP SALE

Receivership of Leidigh-nalton Lumber
Co., Ltd, No. 20, Receivers Docket
3rd District Court, Bienville Parish
La.
Under and by virtue Of a commits
sion issued out Of the above named
Honorable Court and to me directed, |
will sell to the last and highest bid
der for cash, at the principal front door
of the courthouse in the Town Of Ar
cadia, Bienville parish, La, within
legal sale hours on
Saturday, July 18th, 1920
the following described property, to-
wit:
Lots 1888, 139 and 143 with improve
ments, Il IL of Block ''Z' and improve
ments; / Burroughs adding machine,
This sale to be made subject to con-
firmation apd approval Of this Court,
This the 18th day Of June, 1920.
w. H. LAZARUS, Receiver.
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Silk Shirt Sale at McConathy's.
Nj kdiss Mabel Lyons is visiting In HON
I sssfhis week.
Palm Beach Suits for $3.50 at Me
Conathy's.
Miss Norma Duty spent Sunday in
Monroe, the guest Of her sister.
Iron Beds. Lots Of them In good
and better ones at J. l.. McClellans.
Mr.. j. B. Herring left on Sunday
to make a visit to Memphis, Tenn.
Miss Happy Tooke has returned from
a pleasant visit to Shreveport friends,
Miss Aubie Dawson of Bernice, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Terry N.
Harper.
Mr.. Bill Grigsby who has been work
Ing out Of Houston, Texas, spent the
weekend at home.
Mr.. Abe Dreyer Of Monroe, Is spend
ing a few days with parents, Mr. and
Mrs Joe Dreyer.
y Fifty Thousand Dollars worth Of
merchandise at reduced prices at Jos.
Dawidoff 9 Co.
~ Miss Willie C0nger Of Monroe, spent
last Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. w. N. C0nger.
=, Mrs. Louie Madden Of Shreveport,
has been the guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. II. B. Dalton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bridger Lucky OF
Choudrant, were guests on Sunday Of
Mrs. Lucky's mother, Mrs. Goodwin.
A. L. Crowson who has been staying
with his brother, Bryan, at Baton
Rouge, for some time, arrived here this
week.
Mp A. Tooke and son, G. A., Jr,
retuf3 to Shreveport on Monday
after d visit to Mr.. and Mrs. H. l..
Runge.
q For a good nights rest get an Iron
4 Bed from Mcclellan, to sleep on.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Vaughn OF Mon
], roe. were the guests on Sunday OF
bsMr. George Sutton and daughter, Miss
! Florence.
MIR. and Mrs. Cecil Thomson and
baby of Shreveport, have been recent
guests Of their grandmother, Mrs. ..
&, Houston and family.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bryan had as
guests Wednesday, their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Gloer, Of Bryceland, also Mrs.
d N. Jones and daughter, Vashti.
Mrs G. G. Travis and little daugh-
t0r and Miss Nora Whitman accOmpaIl-
fed BY DR.. Stovall, spent Sunday In
Haynesville the guests of Miss WHIT
&nan's sister.
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PecuIIarlties OF Poultry,

The foraglng habit of domestic poui.
try illustrates some OF the differences
observed In the manners Of wild birds.
Place a brood OF ducks ln Il field and
they will generally pursue one course,
marching In a body over the field with
great regularity. A brook Of chickens,
on the contrary. will scatter. occasion.
ally reassembling, but never keeping
close together unless they are follow
ing a hen. Turkeys scatter themselves
less than chickens, but do not equal
ducks In the regularity Of their move
meDts.
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much improved, although he is still ii
a serious condition. It was very much
feared awhile that he would lose his
limb, but now it is hoped that it cah
be saved, and that blood poisoning has
been arerted. His brothers MessrS
Robert and Henry Butler, and his
uncle, Mr. Geo. Young, of this place
have been recent visitors at his bed,
side. He is now comfortably located
at the st. Francis Sanitarium in Mon.
roe
For a good nights rest, get an Iron
Bed from J. L. Mcclellan, to sleep on,
kilograms were received here Fri
day bearing the sad intelligence Of the
death Oh that day, of Mrs. Thomas }.
|Tilley, pauline Dixon, at her home
in Houston, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Tilley
have hosts of warm friends here where
they formerly lived, who are deeply
grieved to Know Of the untimely death
of this excellent woman. She is suryiv-
ed by her husband Mr.. T. ]. Tilley and
three sons Homer, Flank and J. b. Til
ley and one married daughter wht
lives in San Antonio. Deepest SYM
pathy is extended to the sorely bereay-
ed family,
Death of Mr.. John D. Anderson
Mr.. John D. Anderson died on Tues
day afternoon at 200 o'clock, after an
illness Of about two weeks. Until his
recent illness he was apparently in his
usual health, although In reality he
had been far from we'll for many years,
but his was life Of mselfish service.
For several years his companion has
been an invalid, and his one thought
has been her care, and his beautiful
devotion to her has touched many
hearts.
Mr.. Anderson was a loyal and de-
voted son Of the "Old South and his
devotion to the Confederate cause
his belief in the justice of it; his de-
sire to preserve the truths Of South
ern history, was one of his strong
characteristics.
Mr.. Anderson was born in Wetumpka
Ala, but came to Louisiana when a
boy-just year before the war be-
tween the states. He was one of the
first to volunteer in 1861, and joined
the company known as the Arcadia
Invincibles," organized at Camp Moore
They went from here with the 10Th
Louisiana regiment-One hundred and
four of them-and Mr.. Anderson was
the last, but one who survived (Mr
John Robinson of this place being the
other), Of the Heroes in Grey" Mr..
Anders0ns war record is one of valor
and courage. He fought under that
great leader, Joseph E. Johnson in
Tennessee. and was in most of the great
battles of the war-ShilOh, Atlanta,
Vicksbzurg siege and many Others At
the battle of Bakers Greek he was
slightly wounded. He received a fur
Tough home and was returning to his
with some of his comrades
when he was captured by the enem,
and imprisoned at Alton, ILL.,, about
three months before the surrender.
Mr. Anderson was a very successful
planter and business man, and he was
always held in the highest esteem and
respect by all with whom he became
associated, and the community sustains
a griev0us loss in his DEATH But after
all is said and done, what finer epitaph
could be written than to say the simple