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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
THE SOCIETY BROOK.

with Apologies to the Late Laureate)
Il came from London yesterday,
My voice and / together;
To babble, in my usual way
Amongst the fern and heather.
I chatter in a ceaseess flow, 4
My tongue is silent never;
Wherever people come go
L chatter on forever.
There's naught that keeps my chatter
down,
There's naught my talk abridges;
MY words avail to sting the town
Like half million midges.
Il interrupt the newest play
With words propelled like pebbles;
babble in my boX'S bay
In piercing SharpS and trebles.
My accents rise, my accents fall,
In idle nOthingneSSeS;
1 even babbe in my stall
Bout other WOmen'S dresses
No matter what the stage may show,
Nor though the piece be clever;
Actors may come and actors go
But guSh on forever!
Il rush about to dance and rout
The smallest talk retailing;
My prettiest doings shouting out,
My slightest ills bewailing.
Beneath the sun, beneath the stars,
Persistently l prattle;
To species of conjunction bars
My ceaSeless flow of tattle
Folks fret, folks frown, with gloom they
glance
At me as on I chatter;
They eye me angrily, askance-
All that, though, doesn't matter.
''For still babble with a flow
That laughs at their endeavor;
Most things this season come and go,
But l go on fOrever!' London Truth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
Flowers on His own Grave

Calumet, Mich, Sept. tn the little
village of L'Anse lives shoemaker
named Peter Murphy. Ten years ago it
was necessary to amputate his leg Just
above the knee. When he recovered from
the operation he arranged to have a fu-
neral service. The amputated member
was placed in a small coffin and buried
with all respect and honor. He attended
the funeral himself and wept genuine
tears as the earth was shoveled on top
OF the rough box. He purchased an ex-
pensive tombstone, had a likeness of the
leg cut into the stone and then had it
inscribed with the facts of the case Mr.
Murphy never neglects the sacred spot
where his leg is buried and every week
he hobbies to the cemetery, where, in
summer time, he keeps the grave prettily
decorated with flowers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
En- DarraSsed the Young Man.

A certain young married woman who
lives IN Cleveland has beautiful brown
eyes, says the Plain Dealer. There are
other young married women with beau
t1ful brown eyes, but these brown eyes
are like Katisha's shoulder blade, worth
going miles to see.
Not long ago the owner of the brown
eyes, and her lucky husband, and the
baby, were going to visit a relative.
Hubby carried the baby and mamma
hailed the car. Hubby and the baby
stepped aboard first, and hubby and the
baby sank into the only vacant seat.
This left mamma standing up.
But not for long.
Presently stolid-appearin Young fell
low happened to look up. He didn't see
hubby and the baby, but he did see those
lustrous brown orbs.
Take my seat, MISS he said. as he
sprang into the aisle He didn't notice
the smile that ran around as the young
woman graciously accepted the seat.
DO you notice the draft from the
door, miss?" he tenderly inquired, mo-
ment or two later.
Not at all, thanks
The eyes caught him again.
Lovely weather we're having?''
BEG pardon. What did you say?''
Il said it's beautiful weather"
1T is, indeed"
lie SaSped Tor breath, ana every body
who noticed the little comedy, and the
car was full, smiled.
Just then wall from a rear seat
arose. Mamma whirled around, and
looked back There came another wall
and papa with his precious burden came
forward.
Here, May" he said, 81 guess you'd
better take the baby"
And everybody laughed joyously when
the startled youth turned very red and
started back to the rear platform.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
ROSE ADAIR.

Twas in green-leafy springtime
When the birds on evry tree
Were breakin' all their little hearts
In merry melody;
An the young buds hung like tasselS,
An the flow rs grew everywhere
Twas in green-leafy springtime
[ first saw Rose Adair.
0, Rose Adair, O, Rose Adair,
You are the radiant sun,
The blossomed trees. an scented breeze,
An Song-birdS all in one.
l met her sowin' mushrooms
With her white feet in the grass,
Twas eye-but mornin' in the smile
o. my sweet colleen dhaS,
An / kissed her, 0, so Sweetly,
That not one should know
But the roguish stars they winked above,
An the daisies smiled below.
O, Rose Adair, etc.
The father in confession, Rose,
Won't count that love sin
That with a kiss taps at the heart,
An lets an angel in;
Twas so love entered into mine,
An made his dwellin' there
If that's sin, the Lord forgive
Your beauty, Rose Adair.
o, Rose Adair, etc.
The leaves will fall in the autumn,
An the flowers all come to grief
But the green love in my heart of hearts
Will never shed a leaf,
For the sunshine of your bonnie eyes
Will keep it green an fair,
An your breath will be its breeze o spring,
o, lovely Rose Adair!
o, Rose Adair, etc.
Maurice O'Neil in Temple Bar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
Thirteen New Cases Under Treat
ment at Key West.

Washington, D. c., Sept. 7.-Telegrams
from Surgeon-Gen. Carter, now at Key
West state that up to last night the
American physicians reported sixty-four
cases Of yellow fever at that point Dr.
Carter expresses the opinion that DR..
McLanahan of the navy department, who
is i'll with fever, will recover.
A message from Mama states that the
one case reported from that point has
been isolated.
Jacksonville, Fla, Sept. THE state
board of health here today reported thir-
teen new cases OF yellow fever at Key
West, w. Hunt Harris, state senator
from Monroe county, and son-in-law Of
DR.. j. G.. Porter, state health officer, be-
ing among the number. No new cases
are reported at Miami
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
TWO FIRES IN LOUISVILLE.

Fireman and Spectator Fatally In
jured-Property Loss $25O.OOO.
Louisville, KY, Sept. Sire today
destroyed the stove foundry of Bridge
ford & Co., causing loss of 5000, 1000.
Insurance about 100000. Sam Reese,
fireman, was fatally injured. The
Phoenix Tanning company, situated in
another part of the city, was destroyed
by fire owing to lack of engines. Loss.
$4,000; fully insured. John Zehnder,
a spectator, was fatally hurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
SMITH is CHAMPION.

Defeats Laurence Auchser1onie on
Their Tie For the honor.
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 7.-Will Smith, the
Midlothian professional golf expert, to-
day won the title Of open champion Of
the Western Golf association by defeat
ing Laurence Auchterlonie, the Glen
View professional, in their play of the
tie for the honor. Smiths score for the
eighteen holes was "a, or five under bo-
gey, while Auchterlonie could do no bet
ter than "a. 1t was medal play and the
title was practically decided at the end
of the first nine holes Smith b beauti-
full all-around golf making the nine holes
in 81, while the Glen View mans score
was 46. Coming in Auchterlonie did
better, making it in 38, but Smith kept
up his remarkable golf, and duplica ted
the score Of the first nine holes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
SHELLS WERE LOADED.
Several Spectators Injured at Sham
Battle in Columbus, o.

Columbus, O., Sept. S.-During he
sham battle in the Paine spectacle, "The
Battle of San JUAN" at the State fair
grounds, Charles Krag. aged 10 years,
spectator, was killed. Revitta Smithsoa,
private Of Co. E, Court O., engaged in
the sham battle, was fatally wounded,
and Max Guggenheim, merchant, spec
tor. was seriously wounded.
1t is supposed loaded shells were acct
dentally mixed with blanks furnished the
soldiers in the sham battle, though it is
claimed all ammunition was carefully in
SDpctp0
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
GUESTS GOT OUT IN SAFETY.
Hotel Belonging to A. +. Stewart Es-
tate DESTROYED by Fire.

New York, Sept THE Garden City
hotel at Garden City, l.. l., is burning
All the 16O guests got out in safety.
The volunteer fire departments of the
neighboring towns are endeavOring to
save the building from total destruction
Already destruction of $4,000 has been
done.
The building, which belongs to the A.
L. Stewart estate, cost 100000 and
the furnishings 5000. The estate car
ried it's own insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
YELLOW FEVER SITUATION.
Fifteen New Cases and One Death at
Key West, Fla.

sey. assistant state health officer now at
Miami, wired the state board of health
here today that no new cases of yellow
fever have developed there, and that the
first case is doing we'll; that there are
fifteen new cases in Key West and three
that should have been reported yester-
day; one death occurred yesterday. The
patient was named King.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12
SCHOOL CHILDREN INJURED.
Wagon Load of Them Collide with a
street Car in st. Louis.

St. Louis, Mo-, Sept. San electric
street car on the Lindel line collided
with a wagonload Of school children at
Charming and Lucas avenues today, in
juring six, of whom two will probably
die.
The injured are: Clara Engler, fatal
ly; Arthur Larimore, driver of the wag-
on, fatally; Elsie Engler, three children
of James T. McCabe
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-09-12

Once more did Satire take the Chicago
girl to task.
You are too we'll satisfied with your
selfv' quoth Satire
.fAlas,' exclaimed the Chicago girl,
bursting into tears. With the big feet
you reproach me with having, how can
You have the crust to expect me ever to
kick MYSELF"
But it is never the part Of Satire to be
consistent. Detroit Journal.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
PEROsTs BAYREUTH.

It is announced from Milan that the
able Perosi will shortly possess in that
city a hall as exclusively devoted to his
own compositions as Bayreuth is tC
those of Wagner. The priest composer
has been in a sad dilemma hitherto
Some admirers objected to purely re-
ligious music being given in a theater
and others were equally averse to Z
church, after the devotional functions
of the morning, being used as a con-
cert hall in the evening.
Don Perosi has circumvented the diff
ficulty by securing a hall of his own
In the outskirts of Milan is a very Old
church known as the Church of Peace
The building has long been secularized
and after having it's acoustic properties
carefully investigated, the able has
purchased it.
1t is now being adapted to the pur-
poses of a Perosi's Bayreuth, and the
composers unfinished oratorio TIL
Massacre of the Innocents' will be
brought out there this winter.-Lon-
don Leader.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08

has increased his force with every
available man that has been possible
to get hold of this week and is still
looking for men.-Williams News.
]. B. Grand. assistant engineer for
the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon Rail-
road company, met with painful and
what was at first thought dangerous
accident last Thursday afternoon, says
the Williams News. Mr. Grand, with
assistants. was going out to set CEN
ters' for the track laying force. They
were riding on a hand car and Mr. Gil
rand was standing between the levers
helping pump the car. In some man
ner his foot slipped from under him
and as he fell one side of the lever
caught him across the shoulders. doub
ling his back and crushing him to the
floor. Had the car been going at
high rate of speed the lever would have
undoubtedly broken his back.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
JEwELRY OF POLISHED WOOD.
Nearly s200, 900 Worth of Il Sold at the
Worlds Fair.

The polishing works of this city is
now engaged on the stupendous job Of
getting out 100000 worth of polished
chalcedony, or petrified wood. to be
taken to the Paris exposition. This
petrified wood is hauled from it's native
heath, in Arizona. a distance of fifty
five miles to a railroad, and then
shipped to this city to be cut and pol
ished. this being the only place in the
world having facilities for treating the
petrifaction, which is seven tenths as
hard as diamond. 1t is shipped here i'll
great logs and stumps, weighing many
tons each, just as they have laid for
many ages during the process required
by nature to turn the wood into beau
tiful and variegated cOlors of stone
The process of saving the stone up in
shape for polishing is most tedious, the
huge machinery used for the purpose
being able to saw only from an inch to
three inches a day into it. After be-
ing cut and polished the stone is work
ed up into every conceivable SHAPE
from cuff buttons to tops of center
tables and great columns. which cost
a small fortune. All kinds of jewelry
are made from it as well as trinkels
and handsome articles suitable for
souvenirs.
One of the chief attractions at the
worlds fair was the exhibit of chal-
cedony, which had been polished and
prepared in this city. 1t is stated mat
during the fair sales of this stuff were
more than 100000 a month
The great exhibit which is to be
made in Paris will be a wonderful ad-
vertisement for Sioux Falls, for the
reason that no where else on earth is
there machinery mammoth yet delicate
enough to saw, polish and put into
shape the variety of articles that will
be on exhibition.-Sioux Falls Is. d.
Journal.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
CORK LEG KEPT HIM AFLoAT.
Why a Would-Be Suicide Failed to
Drown Himself.

Rather than live in Rochester N. Y.
Patrick Walsh decided to die in New
York He arrived in this city yester-
day with the sole idea of taking his
life. His mistake in the method he
chose for his taking off lies in his fail
ure to take stock in the unsuitable
qualities of cork. Mr. Walsh was
equipped with a cork leg. and that
buoyant adjunct prevented him from
drowning himself.
He boarded the NTusconetcons at
Christopher street. In the middle of
the river Walsh threw himself over
board. But he had forgotten the buoy
ancy that lies in a cork leg. The deck
hands. satiated with recent suicides
angrily lowered the ladder used in such
cases. When the boat reached Walsh
he capsized. but the cork leg protruded
high above the waves. Mr.. Walsh's
countenance had disappeared, of course.
but showed up again long enough to
Shout Il don't want to d.
Before he could finish the cork leg
again assumed supremacy and shut off
his further remarks. When the boat
reached Walsh it was in time for the
oarsmen to see his face once more and
to hear him sputter. ''Ach ZACH! I want
to die" but the rest was lost. owing
to the floating power of the not-to-be-
drowned cork leg.
Pull him in said the Disguised Off
Ger in charge of the boat, and two boat
hooks, placed where they would do the
most good, restored Walsh's equili-
brium physically if not mentally
Walsh swore that he was earnest all
the way to the Jersey shore, and even
on his journey to St. Mary's hospital,
in Hoboken, where he was taken. Pneu-
monia has developed, and the physi-
clans say that, while Walsh is unable
to talk. he often asks for a pencil and
pad. on which he feebIy traces, On
that leg
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
Arizona Day by Day
Live News Token From Territorial Exchanges

Wiley f. Jones was in Stafford all last
week making contracts for building his
business block near the depot.
j. J. Birdno and family returned last
Tuesday from a months visit with
friends in Idaho and Utah.-Safford
Arizonian.
w. B. Fonda has force of men at
work on his mine near the San Juan,
and the prospect is looking better at
each shot.-Safford Arizonian.
Charles White buried one of his chill
dren last Sunday. The grief stricken
family has the sympathy of their many
friends in their Stafford
Guardian.
Mr. Lock, the Southern Pacific tele-
graph operator. who has been stationed
in the city for a year or more. has been
transferred to Yuma, where he viii
hold down an instrument indefinitely.
Tucson Citizen.
Our townsman f. w. Hayes intends
to build a row of brick cottages on his
quarter block south of Patterson's lum-
Der yard. They will be a great i'm
provement to that section of our city.
Stafford Guardian.
hllB IeluIltu a
very successful three weeks trip in So
nora. He contracted for the purchase
of a fine bunch of big steers and did
considerable mining business. He will
return to Sonora in a day or two
Tucson Citizen.
Appliances are in place for the re-
moval of the smoke stack and boiler Of
the Goose Flat pumping plant. which
will be taken to the north of Prescott
city water supply point. The Goose
Flat pump. it is said. is not worth NOV
ing.-Courier.
James w. Blakely died at the home
of his father, Judge w. G.. Blakely.
Wednesday evening of heart failure.
The deceased had eaten his supper
down town. returned home, and in 4
little while his heart ceased to beat
Kingman Mineral Wealth.
E D. futile has let the contract to
build an adobe building with brick
and glass front, on the lot opposite the
Bell & Power building. There will he
two rooms, one for the postoffice and
the other to rent Still the good work
goes on.-Safford Guardian.
Inspector c. s. Ford informs the
winslow Mail there have been 1857
head of cattle shipped from that sec
ton this fall. HoIbrook hsa shipped
1852 head. Winslow 6,O15. Navajo
about 1000. The shipment of sheep, he
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08

You are in no danger of being sick If
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They filter your blood and keep it
germs.
Your other organs may need care,
but your kidneys most. because they do
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The treatment of some diseases may
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BILE.
If your water when allowed to remain
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twenty-four hours, forms sediment or
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
JOACHIM AND THE BAPBER.

Here is an authentic story of Joachim
tha great German violinist
On one of his visits to Londou he en-
tered a barber shop for I shave. The
bal Der did not know him. j I'd eyed his
flowing locks with the air of & man who
knew Sust what he would 10 TO them
wien he got his customer in the chair.
Hair cut. SIR" he demanded with a
tone That called for IN affirmative ar
swer.
The virtuoso signife1 his perfect sat
isfaction with the length of his !iirsute
adOrnment. but his barber thought shat
he knew his business.
Just little long at tine pack, ne in
simulated as he adjusted the cloth.
Jcschim explained that lie liked it
that way. and the tonsonIl artist was
silent for awhile.
Rather thin on top. sir" he said,
convey ing his own idea that TO sac-i-
ice length to thickness was poor poll
cy. But Joachim glared at the barber
and tossed his lion-like name The
tarber scraped away fer awhile in a
moody, disconnected fashioa. I;ut it
was hard to discountenance him.
Better let me trim the edges for
you, sir. Just half an inch all aroun ]. -
Joachim remained firm, however, and
then the barber, losing what little tact
and ingenuity he had. vented his feel
ings in the most scathing expression OF
contempt that suggested itself to his
tonsoriaI mind with:
We'll, of course, if you want to look
like q German musician it's nObOdy's
business but your own
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08
YUMA'S NATURAL GAS.
Experiments Gratifying and Claims
Are Located.

1t has been demonstrated beyond the
question of a doubt that the gas ~a-
Gently discovered issuing from various
places in a sandbar in the Colorado
river directly below the railroad bridge
has a commercial value, says the Yuma
Sun. With a very simple apparatus
the gas was made to burn for the pc
riod of five hours last evening, produc-
ing a strong, steady flame. A small
tin funnel was placed over hole in
the sand and which emitted Il quantity
of gas. and when a match was applied
20 the small end of the funnel a flame
shot up from six to eight inches high
and burned continually. The gas is
escaping from more than one hundred
places in the river bottom, indicating
an unlimited supply. The original dis
coverers, o. H. Willis and Colonel
Brooks, have located a number OF
claims and will soon begin development
of their find. The origin of natural gas
is a mystery which scientific research
has vet failed to solve. Various theo-
ries have been proposed, some ascrib-
ing it to a vegetable, some to an ami
NAL origin, while some writers consider
it as originating in chemical changes
in the primitive rocks. Illuminating
gas, however is usually found in con-
junction with large deposits of coal or
petroleum. In any event the immense
quantity of gas that is now escaping
from the ground located by Messrs.
Willis and Brooks will warrant the
expense of its systematic prospecting
and development.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-08

The eastbound Limited will leave
Los Angeles on the same day
that the westbound leaves Chi
cago, but the exact leaving time
has not yet been definitely fixed,
but will be announced soon. This train
will carry nothing but Pullman palace
cars of the latest make and style and
will be the most completely equipped
and up-to-date trans-continental train
in America. The S. F. P. & P. people
are endeavoring to have arrangements
made so that the eastbound Limited
will make close connections at Ash
Fork to accommodate the Phoenix peo-
pie.