t^-rv ,/ _ar„»_ j.,-^ V- sssa*jw»s®*5 fK INTERNATIOWAC FALLS PRESS SEVEN Jl •^v YEARS OF MISERY §J, 6s jSKM.E.TWINELLS Lr^ AH Relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's COJ*YR/C//r 3Y PEARSOft PUO. COI Vegetable Compound. Sikeston, Mo. "For seven years I wisely directed, will cause her to Buffered everything. I was in bed give to her little ones only the most for four or five days wv.^VJHSi at a time every wholesome and beneficial remedies MERICANS' have the reputation of being month, and so weak and only when actually needed, and quick witted and shrewd. As a could hardly walk. I the well-informed mother uses only I cramped and had matter of fact we are Barnumized the pleasant and gentle laxative remedy—Syrup backache and headache, bluffers, far more gullible and credulous and was so of Figs and Elixir of than any class of any nation. nervous and weak Senna—when a laxative is required, Right now, in nearly every moderate-sized that I dreaded to as it is wholly free from all objectionable city of the United States we see anyone or have are falling in line and dropping gold substances. To get its Beneficial anyone move in the room. The doctors into the tills of organized fake auction effects always buy the genuine, I gave me medicine to stores and taking in exchange manufactured by the California ease me at those a misrepresented article. These bogus auction stores Fig Syrup Co. times, and said that I ought to have an are more harmful to us as a nation than all the oldtime (operation. I would not listen to that, V. Crops Eimwhen lotteries, policy games, mail-order fakes and nd a friend of my husband tolci circus grafts, including gold bricks and shell games, about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and what it had done combined. for his wife, I was willing to take it. They are not honest. They play "heads we win, In Saskatchewan (Western Canada) JNow I look the picture of health and tails you lose." Uncle Sam doesn't want to bring up 800 Bushels from 20 acres feel like it, too. I can do my own housework, his boys in the business yet he countenances it, Ifrfcw- of wheat was the thresher's hoe my garden, and milk a cow. and over 530 of his cities •return from a Lloydminster can entertain company and enjoy farm in the issue licenses regularly them. I can visit when I choose, ana season of 1910. Many to the auctioneers of fields in that as well as jiralk as far as any ordinary woman, other districts yielded tiny day in the month. I wish I could these fake companies, from 25 to 35 bushels talk to every suffering woman andgirl." of wheat to the giving them the privilege I don't believe you gentlemen would give $2.50 acre. Other grains in Mrs. Betkhne, Sikeston, Mo. Deiia of swindling the a proportion. to see statue of liberty do Salome danced Two The most successful remedy in this URGE PROFITS public at a nominal fee. country for the cure of all forms of dollars bid, oh, shill! Two dollars!" Any town with over female complaints is Lydia E. Pinkham's are (has derived Jone3, your out-of-town friend, Is undecided 10,000 blind, Barnumized E E Vegetable Compound. whether to go in or not but at that moment a O E S E A A N S Yankees waiting to be It is more widely and successfully oi Western Canada. fellow near the door shakes his head to a seeming This excellent showing causes tosed than any other remedy. It has buncoed is considered a prices to advance. Land values stranger beside him and says in a low voice: fcured thousands of women who have should double in two years' time. fertile field. "It's a shame. Things are going for nothing. Grain growing,mixed farming:, been troubled with displacements, inflammation, From coast to coast, cattle raising and dairying Wish I had the price to buy some of that cut ulceration, fibroid tumors, are all profitable. Free Homesteads of 160 acres are Irregularities, periodic pains, backache, glass. It'll sell for a song." to be had In the Terr best that bearing down feeling, indigestion, districts 160 acre pre-emptions Jones overhears and is interested. He thinks at 83.00 per acre within and nervous prostration, after all other the mind of everybody in that store Is centered certain areas. Schools and churches in every settlement, means had failed. Why don't you try it? on the opera glasses, going so cheap. He smiles climate unexcelled, soil the richest wood, tvater at their rapt attention and the auctioneer's hard and building material FLORIDA FARM for $ 10.00 CASH plentiful. luck complaints. The smile would disappear instantly For particulars as to location, low settlers' railway rates and if he knew that he himself was the sole descriptive illustrated pamphlet. And $5.00 a month. Five acre truclc concern of the eight minds in that audience, and "Last Best West," and other Information, farm in the famous Pensacola District write to Sup't of Immigration, between two railroads, canning factory the auctioneer. He would be furious if he knew Ottawa, Canada, or to ton property, for $300.00. Have a soil expert Canadian Government Agent. that the whole sale of the opera glasses was a sham that when and demonstration farm to show you Cftas. Pilling, Clifford Block, Grand Forks, N. D. how. Invest near a growing city in a the auctioneer saw Jonesey looking in he immediately transmitted J. M. MacLjchfcn, Drawer lW.Watcrtown, S. D. climate that can't be beat. Write for LT-Holmes, 315 Jackson St, St. Paul, Minn. this fact to the shill nearest the door by saying, "Oh, shill," casually literature, (Use address nearest you.) 39 in his speech. Jones had never heard the word, so naturally 1PENSACOLA REALTY CO., Pensacola. Fla., P.O. Bat 21 he didn't select it with suspicion from the auctioneer's jargon, and Constipation PARKER'S nothing when the man near the door remarked about cut suspected HAIR BALSAM glass bargains. Cleanses and beautifies the hslr. Vanishes Forever As a matter of fact Jones was interested in cut glass. Promote* a luxuriant growth. Never Fail# to Restore Gray His wife liked it and occasionally he invested in some, it Hair to its Youthful Cuiea scalp disease* & hair being the nearest he could get to diamonds. Prompt Relief—Permanent Cere fOc, and 31.00 at Druggists So he sauntered In casually and watched with an PATENTS CARTER'S LITTLE amused smile the frantic auctioneer trying to sell a watch. W atson E. Coleman,Wash. LIVER PILLS never iugton, D.C. Books free. Higheat Jones wasn't interested in watches. He had references. Best results. fail. Purely vegetable—act one in his pocket so his eyes continually ThE PROPRIETOR surely roved toward the cut glass in a little Japanese ENLIST AID OF CHURCHES but gently on from line to line, we find the liver. cabinet. after in nearly every state Stop in ^Powerful Weapon Brought to Bear He didn't know It, but before he was In the from one to forty cities dinner the Fight Against Tuberculosis. place two minutes, while the auctioneer was distrea supporting temporary cure indigestion— trying to "feel him out" with the watch, onei auction swindles. Few improve (K* complexion brighten of the shills had noticed Jones's interest in cut are permanent it is a B»m,Saudi the eyes. Soull Pill, Small Pric#, Just how serious a problem tuberculosis glass, and had called the auctioneer's attention us in TJif CAJM/FX Genuine mutm Signature is to the average church, and in to the fact by touching the cabinet significantly. which springs up over lust what ways pastors are called upon night in a cheap store, leased from month to to minister to those suffering from month, and stays until trouble occurs or the field The auctioneer, on his perch above them this disease, is the subject of an investigation is worked dry. all, had' control of the situation. He noted which the national association New York city alone demands to be duped *l| the signal from the shill, Jotted down mentally for the study and prevention by no less than eight practically permanent companies that Jones wanted cut glass, and knocked •of tuberculosis is conducting in connection of this sort, only shifting their positions to down the watch he had been experimenting with its plans for tuberculosis r»| greener fields as the crowds change. with to one of the shills for a ruinous price, day on April 30. Statistics are There are three ways to tell a legitimate auction. which was all helpful in showing Jones that being gathered from thousands of llllllllliiui! If the place is permanent and advertises a shrewd man could pick up a bargain if he ministers regarding this subject, and sales on certain days, if the goods to be sold laid low, attracted no attention and bided his Among other figures the number of are catalogued piece for piece, and if there are no time. TH£ AUCTJO/i£jzAI •deaths last year from tuberculosis in outside men hired to control the' bidding, then the church congregation will be given. "Sold for six ninety. Put it with the other it is certain that the sale is genuine. It is planned to place these statistics goods for Mr. A. Deposit sufficient," the auctioneer The fake auction game is played under the (together with other educational material, cried to the pretty cashier. pseudo patronage of reliability. The auctioneer's The word "shill," or 'sbilliver" in the hands of every minister license, issued by the city, is hung conspicuously Jones did not bid on the first piece of cut in full, is of indeterminate in the country for his use in connection near the door and the goods are claimed to have glass. The auctioneer did not look toward him origin. It is with Tuberculosis day. Millions been consigned from private sources or pawnbrokers is not a "food"—it is a medicine, and the once to give him a chance. The piece was of synonymous with "capper," circulars and pamphlets on the pre only medicine in the world for cows only. in nearby cities. It is misrepresentation knocked down for $3.80. It was a frightful bargain. Vention "booster," "ringer," of tuberculosis will also be Made for the cow and, as its name indicates, from the start. As a matter of fact the goods Jones would have given it him­ "dummy," "stool," Jstool $5 fob issued, both from the national office a cow cure. Barrenness, retained afterbirth., were picked up in job lots from novelty houses, self. But the auctioneer passed abruptly to the abortion, scours, cakeduddcr, and all similar the pigeon" and "outside and from headquarters of the 450 affections positively and quickly cured. No jobbers, Japanese stores and regular auction supply next article. man all techincal slang 'anti-tuberculosis^associations who will one who keeps cows, whether many or few, firms who handle job' lots of trashy stuff can afford to be without "Koto-Kim." the titles for the shabby creature, Joues pressed forward this time as a gorgeous Jco-operate in movement. I It is made especially to keep cows healthy. and are to be found in all the larger cities. The the human buzzard, punch bowl was put up. He heard varl Our book 'What to Do V/hen Your Cows ivories they handle are made of cheap clay by Are Sick".sent free. Ask your local dealer for TH£ iSH/JLL. who picks up his foul living ous exclamations around him, all tending to His Opinion. 'Kow-Kure, "orsendtothemanufacturers. shrewd Japs who have scraped through the shell by rascality and give him confidence in the fact that things Dairy Association Co., Lyndosiville, Vt. Nephew—What do you think of the of American bluff and found the flabbiness of the roguery in working between the public and some were going dirt cheap. Two ladies beside him com *)pera flesh beneath. These antiques crumble to pieces swindling game: in this case, working among miserated because "they wouldn't have enough Uncle Josh—Them women in th' after six months in a heated apartment. Practically those who stop in at the auction and pretending "Gentlemen and ladies," the auctioneer went on boxes ought to be able to raise enough all the goods handled in these stores are to have no connection with the sale, betraying solemnly, "if I had this article in Chicago or New 2 money on their diamonds to buy some made on the same principle and bought at from a score of people a day after ingratiating himself York it would bring one hundred dollars, one hundred CRUISES ^clothes with, by jinks! one-fifth to one-fiftieth of what they will bring at in their good graces through cunning and craft. dollars. You couldn't duplicate it at retail auction. Without these shills no sham auction can exist. for less than two hundred. It is the finest piece ol There is nothing criminal in selling at an exorbitant EASY CHANGE Of course in smaller towns only two or three art glass ever shown in your city." TWO GRAND CRUISES of about profit if the purchaser gets the square 'When Coffee Is Doing Harm. can be used, as strangers are more easily noticed threa and one-half months' duration each. "Can I get one hundred dollars? Ninety? Eighty? deal. But a fake auction company Is primarily a The first to leave New York Nov. 1,1911. in such places. They are the crooks on whom Seventy-five dollars? Can I get sixty? Fifty? Give ring of cheats never intentionally giving anyone and the second from San Francisco Feb. 17, A lady writes from the land of cotton the proprietor relies to pick out unsuspecting visitors me forty thirty-line thirty!" 1912, by the large transatlantic steamer a square deal. of the results of a four years' use snared by the bargain lure and jockey them 'Cleveland" "Fifteen dollars!" came a halting voice from The proprietor Is the arch rogue. His profit of the food beverage—hot Postum. into buying misrepresented articles. beside Jones. depends on selling an article at anywhere from "Ever since I can remember we had The shill mixes with the crowd. His business laclading All* Expenses Aboard and Asbore Jones was interested. He sensed a bargain. fifty to two, three and sometimes five hundred and used coffee three time? a day. It had is to look just like an interested buyer lie in ffritt for Illustrated Booklets Had he known that when the auctioneer said dollars. The auction does not pay if run for th© a more or less injurious effect upon wait for the fly for which the elaborate web was HSMBURG-AMERICAN LINE. 4I-4S average buyer it is merely a trap, a "plant," for "thirty-line" It was a signal to the shill beside Broadway, New York. P. 0. Box 1767 spun. all, and I myself suffered almost His the occasional "good thing" who happens in and Jones to bid $30 with a line through it, or fifteen •death from indigestion and nervousness This individual, for whom the scenery is setand is quickly relieved of a large amount of money actual dollars, he would not have been so enthusiastic. MMSSm caused by it. the actors dressed, is called in technical slang through an elaborate system he never suspects. "a rummy." The old three-card monte men christened "I know it was that, because when "Sixteen!" "Seventeen!" "Half!" "Eighteen!" It is a Joyless game, played on cut-and-dried him "sucker." 1 would leave it off for a few days I staccato offers punctuated the atmosphere after th* rules which admit of no freshness or originality. Picture a room 40 feet, long and 20 feet wide. would feel better. But it was hard to AIlen'sUlcerincSaTvecuresChronicljleers,Bone auctioneer's encouragement. Ulcers, Scrofulous Ulcers. Varicose Ulcers,In­ The average cast—for they are all actors and Double doors to the sidewalk are invitingly open «ive it up, even though I realized how dolent Ulcers, Mercurial Ulcers, White Swelling, The little man beside Jones shook his head play the same cheap show every day—is made up Milk Lep.Fever Sores, all old norcs. PmttfoiT above them hangs an enticing red flag bearing .harmful it was to me. (•flare. BfMlieOc. J.P.ALLEN.Dept.AB.St.Panl ,Mlnn sadly. of one backer, or proprietor, two auctioneers, one the name of what purports to be a legitimate "At last I found a perfectly easy pretty girl cashier, and from two to ten "shills" "Gee, It's gone beyond me," he sighed, turning auction firm beneath that, in large letters, are •way to make the change. Four years FRED J. PRATT, M. D„ Specialist (the pale-faced people with mushy morals), their to Jones it'll go dirt cheap, too. If you could buy the words: •go I abandoned the coffee habit and EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT number depending on the size and situation of that for $50 it'd be a bargain, sure enough." SALE TODAY. fcegan to drink Postum, and I also influenced St. Anthony Falls Bank Building, Fourth and the store. "Twenty-eight is the last bid," wailed the auctioneer. Central Avenue. Take any east side car. Pick out any acquaintance who lives in a small the rest of the family to do MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA The backer usually is a shrewd and unscrupulous "Why, you could take it out and pawn town, is fairly prosperous, and has come to the the same. Even the children are allowed a man who rents a vacant store, fills it with It for more than that." nearby city of10,000 to 30,000 population to look Virginia Farms Homes to drink it freely as they do and scattering of cheap, showy articles to attract attention around for the day, purchase a present for his Jones thrilled as the auctioneer-turned to look crater. And it has done us all great and a number of large so-called "works wife and some implements for the farm. squarely at him. FREB CATALOGUE OF SPLENDID BARGAINS «ood. U. B. CHATFIN & CO., Inc., Richmond, Va. of art aad "antiques" which, on inspection, He has read in the papers and magazines accounts "You'd.give thirty, wouldn't you?" he cried. "I no longer suffer from indigestion, prove to be minors. The range runs from fountain of book, art and antique auctions and noted Jones gulped and nodded. 'and my nerves are in admirable tone pens at ten eents to deceptive "ivories," The most democratic thing in the hugh prices brought by rarities. When he The auctioneer skilfully led up to the grand «ince I began to use Postum. We "bronzes" and "paintings by the old masters" that stumbles on to the flagrant flag of the fake auction the world landing by taking offers of "thirty-six" and "thirtyseven" never usp the old coffee any more.' bring from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars house and looks in at the window, heaped from members of his tioupe. He had felt "We appreciatae Postum as a delightful and sometimes more, from the uninitiated. I with a miscellany of antiques, he is suddenly: out his man carefully and knew that $40 would be and healthful beverage, which The proprietor hires a pretty girl cashier and stirred by that perennial longing foj» a bargain. Jones's limit. not only invigorates but supplies the counts her as an additional attraction. He gets He glances through the door. There is a worried "Will you give me forty?" he said simply, in a •best of nourishment as well." Name one or two auctioneers—they usually travel, in auctioneer struggling with eight dull-faced KNOWN THE WORLD OVER level tone, leaning far over the showcase. I1- fgiven by Postum Co., Battle Creek, V: airs, to relieve one another and the public—and people. He is trying frantically to sell a pair of Jones hesitated, gulped, and then nodded his Mich. ISO guarantees them ten per cent, of the sales which opera glasses. head abruptly. Road "The Road to Wellville," In commission runs from forty to two hundred dollars "Genuine Lemier, gentlemen concave and convex Jones was pleased with his bargains until hr fpkgs. "There's a Reason." week. lenses, put up in this heavy morocco case," got home and his wife told him he cculd get th Ever read the above letter? A nevt Then the dealer incorporates the backbone of the auctioneer cries, "and $2 is bid for them. same punch bowl for $10 anywhere and that th appear* from to The? THE BEST MEDICINE •ae time time. be whole crooked business—the body of "shills." Think of that! Not a tenth of their value. Why. other stuff was worthless. •mre and fall of human genuine, trae, STWSSSTgSSfesi jtBtereat. Ti"