Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-09-30
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ONE of the American institutions that in danger of
becoming extinct is the old time faker as truly
Yankee product apple pie baseball the and
back-face ministries.
Od-tmers may have noticed something ackng this fall
and not been just what What they the street
faker the Ioudmouthed gentry always accompany our
county fairs and the circusses.
Montague Silver, greatest man west of the
|NegheneS and typical OF his profession, rises memory
1t is September evening back yonder in the old
home town Monagucs big red GYPSY wagon parked in the
public square
Towering above the hoIf-awcd hafjubant faces of the
popuaceis Montague himself beaver hat coat checkered
vest goaee and aincuong of the Brazilian diamonds
large a hcory which Monty carried in stock
Under the Pickering light of banjo shaped gasoline torch
The old laker dispensed WaWa the remedy whose
iormula procured while captive among the Sioux
When interest in tonic of 98perccnt alcohol strength
waned Monty brought forth combination handy tools
eight handkerchefs for quarter and the Little Giant Prize
Packet that included everything under the sun especially a
trick ring Tor squirting perfume in friends eye,
Usually street faker came regularly once year but
rarely twice to the town especially when the Chinese peach
trees he left behind turned to be dog~ood bockha,s
The faker nourisbed before the days of scientific
craftsmanship OF which he the original dscovere many
a captain OF industry much of his selling ability to
boyhood evenings listening under the gasoline torch.
TO gather the crowd together and hold them when they
restless and showed signs of drifting away to pooroom
homes there bacfac entertainer who told the Joke
about the mule breaking its leg when kicked mother in law in
5be jaw.
The ninsres sme-he was the old-time favorite song,
My Gals igh-Bon Lady"
Once in while these days, you see Montague Silver
end his backface entertainer passing their plumber from
But mostly the aker does business from suit
cesesized stand camped district nook or side
street gutter.
The game isn't what used 10 be, The street takers had
too much business ability continue small scale they
branched Then it's hard get a street crowd to-
sether these days when pedestrians have nearly all taken
autos, nobody walking.
The street faker vanishing into memory where he
stands clear and conspicuous, encng obc monument
10 the simple pleasures and thrills of days when Bryan
young and his champions vong to get heir hair
cut until he entered the White House as president
Pink shirts and pink collars being sporcd by the ex
kaiser London Daily Mail correspondent after visit
TO holland.
All around Bill is per<ing up.
He emerging from strict scclusion leading hoer exist
and works daily his garden full view of anyone passing
the castle home of the notorious exile
Chopping and saving wood? Not these days Instead
Bl is thinning The FIR along the road, clipping and
trimming ike barber. His gang of helpers with him
Just inside the wire fence in their shntseeves Occasionally
Bill is reported strip off the of his gray suit
He talks necessarily but his talk is limited to trees and
landscape gardening
Tie prince pays to his father
and dasbos all the country in his new motor car He
spends much time playing lawn and croque and he sees
many visitors.
The story Holland is that he would his father more
often were for the fact that Bill makes him help in the
garden, viz Fl.
Recently he took two weeks vacation while plumbers
installed bath in his island home What do you make that
Wason2 Well Sherlock it looks if the excrown prince
spend another winter where he important? To
extent he is anticipating any immediate
to Germany.
IL getting along that historic date Nov l.
The will have been four years though seems