Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-11-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found in
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody

When you don't know what to say,
don't say it.
Time is money, and killing time is
counterfeit money.
Everybody believes in dreams. That
is, till they wake up.
If money was really trouble, how
much easier it would be to borrow it.
Every dog has his day." and most
of them have nights which drive the
neighbors to drink
General Funston probably thinks
that he will be in less danger of the
Filipinos than in the hands Of Kansas
politicians.
Admiral Dewey's Japanese dog, Bob
who acted as mascot on the cruiser
Olympia on the homeward voyage, is
dead of paralysis.
About the straightest thing in this
crooked world, says the Chicago News,
is the outline of railway on the map
issued by the company.
Paint on a woman's face is always
deceiving-that is, the woman who
uses it deceives herself into the belief
that she is deceiving somebody.
A great many people, while they
have been too polite to say so, felt all
along that Admiral Dewey's new house
was too extensive an affair to be mere
ly utilized as bachelors quarters.
That Connecticut physician is again
advocating his policy of killing of pa
tents when he sees that they have no
chance of cure. This radical treat
ment, however, is probably not applied
to patients who pay their bills.
Union labor in Chicago has deter
mined to ask the city council to pass
an ordinance denying police protection
to all non union men who continue to
work on a job which has been Struck. ;"
The Federation of Labor will urge the
movement and the general report today
in workingmen's circles was that the
demand would be made on the alder
men next Monday night.
1t has now been definitely decided
that the Dewey arch fund must amount
to round million of dollars. 1t is al
lowed that this sum looks large, but it
is the opinion of the committee that ev-
cry dollar of it can be well spent in
enlarging the scheme of artistic en-
bellishment. No doubt of it. Now let
New York go in and raise the money
without any delay and without any fur
Their appeal for outside help. 1t is New
York's affair.-Boston Herald.
Another disputed chapter in Admiral
Dewey's career has been written
Alright through the revelations of his
recent courtship. Evidently before the
Spanish war began he. had been told,
as a reply to his special application for
special consideration, to "go and get a
reputation" He went and got it, but
the orders that drove him to Manila
apparently were neither Secretary
Longs nor Governor Roosevelt's.-New
York Sun.
The widow of United States sena-
tor is about to go upon the variety
stage. Well, why not? 1t is better than
keeping a boarding house and groanfng
before the boarders. If it comes to that,
there are several senator's who could
earn their wages more honestly doing
songs and dances than they do at pres
ent, because they do nothing at pres
ent-Brooklyn Eagle.
Sportsmen who have a taste for big
game should take trip to Arizona, in
some sections of which mountain lions
are so numerous that Stockmen have
offered bounty of SIS head, in addi-
ton to the regular territorial bounty.