Arizona republican., 1900-11-04
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 The situation in northern Wisconsin ! can be gatner=d q from the experience oi : a oanvasser for a democratic-populis paper. who was recently sent on 8 triT in the northern palr Of the state ana the lower part of the Michigan p6n:n- sula to solicit subscriptions. His em- ploy5r gave him a few hundred copie: of portraits Of William Jennings Bryan to use as q premium and marked oui his route in a book. At one place the solicitor found gang of men digging | ore from an open mine with steam shovel. He offered his paper and the Bryan portrait premium to the first man who could find time to talk to him This is what the man said: Do you see that steam shovel digging ore an all those men loading it and trimming | the caIgOes? Do you see all those cars on those sidc;racks? Go down to the docks and you will five big steam CTS Waiting for cargoes of ore. It is in such demand that there is not pound i in stock and the shops can't bad until the ore is mined. Thrse anl four years ago these m n were sitting around | home so poor they could not buy d chvw of tobacco. Now they are get ting all the work they want al good pay. and there is room for other men if | they want to work. ThOsa fellows don't want a picture of Bryan and they don't want a paper that is saying that times are bad when they are good After the solicitor had heard these things a half dozen times, he says, he headed for Milwaukee, canvassing the towns all the way back. where his ex- perien3e was about the sam5.
 
 A little Pennsylvania Presbyterian church has a remarkable acoustic qual- 1 fly. The lowest word, a mere whisper, ! spoken from {. certain seat in one uf the front pews is plainly audible in the gallery. On the evening of a recent wedding q charming young girl was Tshcred into this front seat. She was q sal blonde. robust, supple. and of car iiige buoyant with health and youth. She was. indeed. an admirable exam pie of the well bred American young girl of today. After she had seated h-rself she turned and shook hands wi5h some young matrons in the pew behind her. Then she said. and in the y her. This is the first long dress l have eyer had on. Do you like lt?" What ever were the answers she received, she smil and blushed over them and then went on: CT am l6. but I look older don't I? l never put my hair up before tonight, either. I am so glad you like it.
 The New York Times relates a. rath- CT g1'ucson9e club joke, apropos of the custom of lowering the club flag and posting a n1Ortuary notice on the club bulletin board when q member dies Tt is such a delusion," said q club man with some protesting disappointmen in his voice. 'I catch sight of the poll on my way up here and discover the flag at half staff. An say, is it possi- bic he is gone?' My spirits brighten and my steps quicken. Perhaps now, at last. l hurry into the club and up tn the bulletin board, but-it's never the right one. Never"
 
 The census enumcrators in many cases failed to realize .he importance of mortality statistics. In one of the eastern states" says a correspondent of the Chicago Record, 'an enumerator had only two deaths in a population of more than 1900 for the entire year. which the sup5 rvisor thought was nos sufficient, so ne sent back with the fol- lowing explanation: Dear sir: There was four more people that died, but they was widows Evidently he did not ccnsii,r widows of sufficient inn portance to be included in the census
 
 MT. and Mrs. Paul Riecke, of Cali fornia. are in charge of a signal sta ton on the brow of a lofty peak in the Sierra Nova5a mountains. where they keep q sharp lookout. fed glass in hand, for fircS which might break out in the snow sheds that skirt the rail- road through the rocky wilds. If a small flame should pass unnoticed for an hour the whole chain of sheds might be consumed and the tracks endan- gered. The woman watches by day ani her husband by night.
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 It would be difficult to guess the amount of money Sims Reeves received during his long cancer as d singer. but he was known to have been paid as '",' ''H "'''"v TOT SlnSAe appearance. And y it is safi that the civil psn- slon Of G1OO granted him in his old age by Queen Victoria was the only ,,hing that saved him from want in his lat ter years.
 
 Bishop McLaren, of Chicago. says in recent interview: "If I judge this country by other countries, it must e5-her grow or c, ase to be a first-class rcWer. A nation capable of legitimate