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Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
MOST HONEST TRAMP DEAD.
He Got the Title Because He Couldn't Pass a 1000 Bill He Found

To Potter's field last week went New York's famous and most honest tramp. who had died in the almshouse on Blackwell's island. He was known as Sim Wray, although the last name Is thought to be one that he assumed.
 Wray got his reputation for honesty in 1884, and traded on It until he died. He never pretended to be honest to his friends, and was always willing to tell the story of how he got the repu- tation. In the winter Of 1884. three days before Christmas, without a cent. Wray started out to see what could be gathered along Madison avenue about the Madison square garden. He asked several persons for the price of a bed and got nothing. Wray used 10 tell the story as follows:
 "I had held up about forty persons and was afraid the cops would run me in. The Bowery was so thick with panhandlers that I got away from it. We were tackling one another, and I believe that the old joke of I am work ing this side of the street myself orig mated that winter.
 This night it was showing.
 Right in front of Parkhurst's church l nnds a pocketDook- In 1t was q thousand dollar bill. I was afraid 1t might be counterfeit, but I decided to pass it.
 ''I tried for two days. I tried forty places. I got the ha-ha everywhere went with it. If I had had swell clothes I could have had it down at a bank and got change; but I was afraid of getting pinched, and when I'd ask anybody for the change of a thousand 1 they'd give me the laugh.
 Christmas morning I picks up a pa per and there was a man advertising a reward for that S1,000 bill. He was stopping at the Hoffman house. I went up there and I had hard work getting to him. But I got to him. and he says: You are a tramp. but you are the most honest man in the world He goes down into the office with me and gets s200 and gives it to me. Then he lines me up at the bar and buys a bottle of wine. A lot of swelIs heard the story, and they buys me wine.
 Along comes a reporter, and the next morning my picture was in the paper and I was it New York Press
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

sessed privileges to which he had pre- viously been an utter stranger. He went wherever and did whatever he pleased, without the slightest restraint. His change in diet seemed to make him spirited and mettlesome. He tried to get up personal encounters with differ ent residents of Stone Bruise, but tn. latter avoided him with singular una nimity. He had become great, but he had to inherit also the solitude of greatness.
 It was in keeping with the unique history of Pegleg Wilson's goat that his death was as mysterious as tis life. A strange cowboy from Las Arimas rode through Stone Bru,se late at night, a revolver in each hand. firing at any object which attracted his at tention. He rode down the trail to- ward Black Feet, and it was known that Pegleg Wilson's goat had wan dered down the same trail earlier in the evening. About ten minutes after ward those citizens who had been aroused by the cowboys shots heard d mysterious explosion, and neither the goat nor the cowboy were ever seen in New Mexico afterward.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
PEGLEG WILSON'S FAMOUS GOAT.
It Was Terror to the Residents of a New Mexico Town.

The story of some bad Charleston boys who are supposed to have stolen fifty sticks of dynamite was enough to make good many people uneasy yes terday. It was afterward stated that the boys were unjustly suspected, but until the rumor had subsided many people in Charleston felt about as the residents of tSone Bruise, N. M., felt during the undisputed reign of Pegleg Wilson's goat.
 The Boston Traveller being thus re- minded of the story tells it as follows in a recent issue:
 Those Bostonians who know any thing about the palmy days of Stone Bruise when it was the richest mining camp in New Mexico" are familiar with the story of Pegleg Wilson's goat. The goat was one Of the celebrities of Stone Bruise. It succeeded in getting a living where even a Rocky mountain burro would have starved to death. It ate anything from the tailings of the lixiyiation mills at the Sierra Grande mine to the canvas roof which served as a ceiling of the "city halp' at Stone Bruise Its cosmopolitan and indis- criminate appetite one evil day led the animal to eat twenty seven sticks Of dynamite together with several quarts of sawdusO out of a box left near the prospecting shaft on the Jumping Jimmy mine.
 When the citizens Of Stone Bruise realized what had occurred Pegleg Wilson's goat was regarded with mixed feelings of awe and aversion. That same afternoon he was discovered by inc Mexican grocer of Stone Bruise in the act of devouring some of the cab bages which lay at the door of the gro- cers little adobe hut. The Mexican seized 8 pickhandle and rushed upon the goat. but was promptly seized by several Of the leading ciizsns before he had time to strike blow.
 From that date during the remain der of his natural life the goat p-s-
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
CURE FOR FoRGETFULNEss.
It Is a Lazy Habit Which Can Be Overcome.

A successful business man said that ed when he was IS. and which were ever afterward of great use to him namely: Never to lose anything, and never to forget anything"
 An old lawyer sent the young man with an important paper, giving him definite instructions what to do with it.
 But" inquired the young man, sup pose that I should happen to lose 1t, what shall I do then?"
 You must not lose it," said the law yer, frowning.
 'I don't mean to-" said the young man, but suppose I should happen to?"
 "But say you must not happen to. I shall make no provision for such an occurrence. You must not lose it.
 This put new train of thought into the young mans mind, and he found that if he was determined to do a thing he could do it. He made such a pro vision against every contingency that he never lost anything.
 He found this equally true about for getting. If Q certain matter of im- portance was to be remembered, he plilHSu IL uOWAOn ms mlnO, fastened lI there, and made it stay. He used to declare: tvT
 When a man tells me that he forgot to do something tell him he might as well have said. T did not care enough about your business to take the trou- ble to think of it again
 ''I once had an intelligent young man in my employ who deemed it sufficient excuse for having neglected an impor- tant task to say, I forgot I told him that would not answer; if he was suf- ficiently interested he would be care ful to remember. It was because he did not care enough that he forgot. l drilled him with this truth.
 He worked for me three years. and during the last year of the three he was utterly changed in this respect. He did not forget q thing. His forgetting. he found. had been a lazy and careless habit of mind. and he cured it."-Coun- try Gentleman.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

been that he has had his hours of labor greatly shortened, and his wages have not been decreased.
 But there have been other advan- tages to the printer also. The intro- duction of these machines has to large extent been responsible for re- forming him. He has to keep regular habits. The three weeks spree has to be cut out. Jobs are not so easy to find, but they are easy to keep if man is sober and industrious. The composing room force has to be better organized. The absence of a man ne cessitates the idleness of a machine, and that is equivalent to the loss of several printers in the old times. A new man has a hard time getting on in a strange town, and so he tries to stay where he is well off. There is no as much in -subbing' as there used to be. It is needless to speak of the great advantage to the paper or to the pub fishing house.
 Twenty years ago no one could have made a printer believe that the present state of affairs would ever come to pass. Of course Mergenthaler got his first patent in 1874. He got another in
 
 so on. But the machines were still in the experimental stage, and while the inventor succeeded in placing them in several offices, they were thrown out as being deficient in many ways. The typos were jubilant. I remember when we first heard that a matchmaker in Baltimore had invented and was per fecting a typesetting machine. It was 9 1ODC in the S0S was a common pression at the time: You can't make a machine with brains But that same patient matchmaker did do all he set out to do, and more. His machine is the most wonderful thing ever planned by the brain of man. look at it when in operation, and see it doing half a dozen things at the same time, and there is something uncanny about its movements.
 ''In 1888 the machines were first tried in Washington, so far as I remember. They did not stay long. It was while the invention was in its unprotected state that the printers had a chance to get control of it themselves. Mergen- thaler offered it to the typographical union, but his proposition was refused as being absurd and chimerical. Some
  but the younger ones were in the ma jority. and they fought it bitterly.
 Tn 1893 the linotype first really sup planted hand labor in Washington, and it was about this time that the print CTS began to feel the machines all over the country. To show that printers are pretty sensible people, I will state that the union never made any fight against the introduction of the ma chinec.
 When they were shown to be per feet the inevitable was gracefully ac- cepted. I have heard that there was some small opposition in Louisville in 1888, but that was before the invention was deemed practicable. The union has never stood in the way of progress. We have always thought well of Mer- genthaler. and he has at all times shown friendliness toward us.
 'The change from hand work to the machines was easily made. As @ usual thing the operators were made up from the ranks of the younger printers. All the men in each office were given trial of three weeks. and the dozen or more who were most proficient at the
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
MIR. JOHNSON, POLITICIAN.
The Democratic National Leader Dimes
 in the House He Plastered.

A little less than thirty years ago labored by the day in the Sherman house. With others he plastered the hotel from garret to cellar. He was John Johnson, a plasterer.
 Last Monday a big man dressed in a frock coat conferred with a score of men of national reputation in a room in the same hotel. They were the mem bers of the democratic national execu- tive committee-the leaders of one of the two great parties in the country. They were shaping the next years battle for millions of votes. The big man in the frock coat was one of the foremost men of this inner circle. He was John Gilmore Johnson, the active manager of the democratic national committee.
 The story of MT. Johnson's life is one in the story-but there's lots of hard work. Few persons know that the man who will direct the national cam paign of the democratic party was a plasterer working by the day in Chi cago. MT. Johnson doesn't talk much of himself. He speaks of and for other persons. That's his business. He was never elected to an office in his life, because he never ran for one. Scores of men have been elected to office be- cause Johnson ran them.
 Mir. Johnson was the son of mason contractor of Brooklyn, and was the second of a family of eight children. It was. therefore, only natural that he should become a bricklayer and a plasterer. He was scarcely 14 years of age when he was apprenticed. He learned both trades and learned them well.
 Just after the Jig fire he came to Chicago from the south and went to work at his trade-or. rather, trades. He was then 20 years old There was a big demand for skilled laborers, so John Johnson-it was John Johnson in those days-went to work or Field & Letters warehouse, laying bricks He preferred the plasterer's vocation how ever, and secured employment at the Sherman house, which was then being rebuilt after the fire. He worked at this for several weeks. He helped plaster the dining room of the Sher- man house, the room in which he and Senator J. K. Jones and other leaders of the party dined last Monday noon.
 That Johnson was a good plasterer is evidenced by the fact that the same plaster is on the dining room now. Probably the dapper Mir. Campau, com mitteeman from Michigan, would have been tremendously surprised if. as they dined. Mir. Johnson had told him that he, besmeared with white and logged out in overalls, had plastered that very room. creeping along on the lofty scaffOlds.
 By a peculiar coincidence Mir. John son worked at his trade in the Clifton house, the Palmer house, and the Ire
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

mont house, as we'll as at the Sher- man.
 The Clifton house. in those days was quiet and unpretentious sort of hostlery, but it had an especially at tractive dining room. As Johnson work in this room he thought to him self that some day he would like to come back to Chicago with enough money in his pockets to afford putting up at this house. This desire became one of the biggest ambitions the plas- terer had. MT. Johnson did come back to Chicago and to this ho.el He was easily able to pay for the privilege of eating in the dining room. He was di- recting a national campaign.
 After working down town for some time and boarding in a humble lodging house on the west side, Johnson se- cured Q job at the Marine hospital in Lake View. There he worked for near ly q year. In 1874 after two years la Dor in Chicago, he left the city.
 Hard work and good habits, backed, of course. by good natural ability, laid the foundation for this mechanics sue cess in life.
 Mir. Johnson is only 47 years of age, being born February 22, 1852, in Brook lyn. He is of Irish descent. He re- ceived a two-years' education in the common schools. but left before he could have graduated. to take up the trade of plasterer. Tn 1865 his family moved to Illinois. settling in Chilli cothe., In this state Johnson started out as plasterer and bricklayer. When about IS years of age he came to Chi cago and worked for a few months at his trade, and then went south. Two years later, in the winter after the big fire, he returned to the city and work ed on the various hotels as described. Although his calling was humble, he earned good wages, plasterers being paid s5 a day at that period. He was careful of his earnings and nearly al of his spare time he devoted to the study of law, a pursuit which he had started in upon when he was 15 Or l6 years of age When he wasn't plaster ing he was reading law, or interesting himself in politics When he wasn't in law or politics he was plas.ering.
 Tn 1874 he was called to ChiLicothe by the death of his father. The charge of the large family devolved principal ly upon him from that time. In 1876 he married Lura Will of Chillicothe. Tn 1878 he moved to Kansas, settling in Peabody, which has been his home since then.
 By this time he had so mas cred Blackstone and other yellow bound books that he ventured to apply for admission to the bar and successfully passed the examination He accord ingly put away his trOwel and mortar board and hung out a shingle, "AttOr- ney-at-Law." He proved as good a lawyer as he had a piasterer, as his record shows. He was postmaster at Peabody for one term. In 1856 he was member of the executive and campaign committee of the national committee and enc of the active managers of MT. Bryan's campaign. Last May he was placed in charge of the democratic na- tionaI committee during the absence Of Chairman Jones in Europe. position which he continues to hold, Senator Jones not feeling robust enough t. apple with the trying work os an ac- tive management Of a national cam paign.
 Mir. Johnson has taken deep inter est in fraternal orders. In 1887 he was
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

president of the National Fraternal congress and is now general attorney for the Modern Woodmen of America the largest beneficiary society, with nearly 5CO,00O members, and is promi nent in similar societies.-Chicago Journal.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
COURAGEOUS MAN.

Science may find all the different va
 rieties of deadly microbes it pleases on yreenbacks. When it comes to putting money in his inside pocket science will
 find man the same old reckless dare ievil-New York Press.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
MILLINERY

Have you got your new fall Hat, or do you want your old one retrimmed? Whichever you want, we can do both for you-either retrim your old one or sell you a new one. But whichever we do for you. you may be assured that we will do it to your entire satisfaction. Our prices on all Hats are 50 per cent less than elsewhere.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
ANNOUNCEMENT

Phoenix thrown the latch strings of the city visiting public during the Indian Cowboy Carnival The Boston Sore always the leader merchandising has done likewise and invites all the carnival
 thousands different articles and admire Remember do not to buy anything what Want) but and ma yourself home you you seeking information call upon
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
HIS ESTIMATE.

What co you th-nk of Podger?"
 ''I cont think much of him. to tell the truth; but the more I think of him the less I think of him. n."-Phi,adelp2i2 Bulletin.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
Muslin Underwear

What delights a woman more than fine Underwear, with it's fine faces and embroideries and lots of tucks and all overs? We have a line of Underwear that is hard to equal anywhere. Ladies Gowns in muslin. cambric, long cloth and nainsook, trimmed in lace or en- broidery. Also full line of Skirts, Drawers, Chemise and Cor set covers at prices that must be seen to be appreciated.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
CLO THING

Everybody admires a neat, per feet fitting, stylish Suit, and why not have them in preference to the shabby kind, the kind that does not fit or give any satisfaction? We have the first named kind and at prices that would make you think that they were the second named kind, but we assure you that if you visit our clothing department you will be surprised to see the neat, stylish, up-to-date goods we offer at the very lowest prices.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05

Are you thinking of buying a Tailor Made Suit, either for dress or travel ing? If so. don't fail to see ours. We have both kinds in all up-to-date ma terials, and in the most stylish makes. The prices are, as usual, the lowest for the best goods.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
LADIES' SKIRTS

We have just received a big ship ment of separate Dress Skirts. and as we want them to go before the car niyal Is over, we have put prices on them that will move them. So don't be slow. but come and look at them, for to see them will mean to buy them.
Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
1.-THE BOSTON STORE ':'

What gives a woman a better shape than O good fitting, comfort the popular makes and also at pop ular prices, which makes them still more popular. Try a glove fitting like the below cut. It will be sure to please you.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-02-02

CHARLES KUNZ of this city Is well quail
fled to write an essay on the Powers of
Imagination" Charley bad tbermom-
eter which will only register % degrees
below, evidently thinking that is low
enough for any respectable thermometer
to 60, particularly IN a we'll regulated
household. His brcther-In-law, Charles
Gustaveson, who was visiting him placed
the thermometer on the porch On Sunday
to learn the TEN perature outside. 1T fell
and was broken bnt was returned to the
room and hung 10 its accustomed place
without the break beng noticed. The
mercury escaped leaving just enough to
reach the % below zero point.
Monday morning Kurz got up to "stlr
the coal stove" He was 10 d1shabille,
The room was really comfortable, but
Charley glanced a. tie thermometer
found II was % below 10 the room in
which a subdued coal fire had been burn
Ing all night and his teeth began 20 chat
ter He gave the fire few pokes but
the impression of % below was too mnch
for him and his arm became paralyzed
with cold. With whoop such as he
used to utter when boy, he made a dive
for the bed and then he lifted up bis
voice IN proclamation of the wonders be
had seen and the ruin that was wrought
by temperature hitherto unk nown to
human experience. His brother 10 law
was aroused by Charley's calculations &C.
cen'ed by chatterlng teeth, and examined
the tn rmometer closely and found the
break Charley at once changed frop
shlverlrg to perepiring.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-02-02
GOLDEN " EDDING.

The golden wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred. Schmitz was celebrated at
the home of the old couple in Newton
on Tuesday evening. They were mar
ned January 81, 1S49, in Newton.
Charles A. Reuter- performing the
cermony. They raised family of 9
children, 3 sons and daughters, all
living and prosperous and some promi-
nent IN professional life Mr.. and
Mrs. Schniitz have lived continuously
upon the farm which was purchased
IN 1913. then In a state Of nature. up
to the present time. They prospered
from the start, being industrious and
frugal. Unlike most farmers, Mr.
Schmitz sought to give all bis sons
an education beyond what the country
school afforded. They have all left
the old homestead but family reunions
are frequent there and they vivify old
recOllectlons,
Both MIR. and Mrs. Schmitz came
to this country IN 1877, both single.
Mrs. Schmltz' maiden name was 10
hanna Groile. They located in a very
favorable section of the county and
the farm is one of the best equipped
in the county.
All the children were present on the
interesting occasion and there were
guests from the city, Chicago aud
other places. The couple were the
recipients of many gifts suitable to
the occasion. They were both decked
out in golden leaf AID were actually
burdened with congratulations and
TIE kindest attentions The old gentle
man was SO highly pleased that he
announced his determination TO have
his diamond wedding, by no means an
idle boast when the bodily vigor of
the two is considered and the even
ness with which their lives run. 4
double quintette was rendered by
members of the Concordia. In hearty
enjoyment the affair rivaled the nup
tlais OF young couple. To day the
entire family will have group picture
taken.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-02-02
REEnSYMI. Wis Ian 81 IL


am a a Il ftr,ed to Answer the charge mac
a al lst me by the Manitowoc Citizen, Il a. | IT
m! to excuse myself to the taxpayers of Man.
ow, county for what | have done regarding
the publishing of the proceedings of the county
b ard l do not wish to be excused for what
have done in the matter, because L know that
have one my duty to the best of my ability and
for the BEST interest of the people at large. re-
gsrdless of politics o. friendship and every SEN
sit lie man 1T. But the Citizen cannot con-
cede 1t because it would like to have Its private
grievance appear public wrong. The pub
fishing of said proceedings should be done SO as
to bring the same before the people ali through
the county. ln order to d. this as much as pos
sltle in one paper. the printing could not be let
TO the Cit zen because said paper is not known
throughout the county. 1t seems that the Citi-
zen now admits not having general circulation
in the county which l think is very sensible.
Yours truly,
W. c. MAERIz