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AMERICAS OLDEST CITY.
It Is Asserted That Tucson Was Set
tied as Early as 1v52.

1t will be Of interest to all our north
ern and western neighbors in the sister,
hood of states which Arizona is soon to
enter to learn that we have in our ter
ritory a city not only far antedating the
George G. H. Hilzinger in his Treas
ure Land" presents the facts in sprightiy
verse and prose:
Ancient in years, but her long life Well
|. spent,
She smiles serenely on the face Of
time.
Sphinx-like, she sat. while ages came
and went,
The Oldest city ana the gentlest
cline"
"The struggle between Santa Fe and
San Augustine on the question Of prior
ity OF settlement has about worn then,
out. San Augustine pants upon her
handy shore. while poor old Santa Fe
grins disconsolately from amid her ruins
Tucson has not. heretofore. claimed any
thing but climate and prosperity. but
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has been maily instrumental in carrying
it out, utterly disclaims any such inten-
ton, and declares there is no need OF
New England federation. 1t was Mrs.
l.. J. Temple, an eN-president of YER
mont, who first suggested an Organ;za-
ton of the six New England states, and
that before the Denver biennial. At the
annual convention in Maine last TALL All
attempt was made to get delegates from
other states to discuss the subject and
perhaps to form a New England con-
federation; but there was not sufficient
interest in the subject to bring out
representatives from the other states, and
nothing further has been done.
Now that it has been definitely decided
that the next biennial will be held in
Los Angeles, interest is lively in the
great national convention. which is still
ten or eleven months away. Newspaper
paragraphs giving the date as March,
and stating that low railroad rate has
already been made, are floating about
the country. but the actual fact is that
he date will not be decided until the
directors of the G. F. w. C. meet next
fall probably at Topeka), and the rate
will not be definitely known before jan
uary, 1902, at least, unless the various
passenger associations do an unprece-
denied thing. All that may be depended
upon is that the railroad authorities
have promised to make as low rate as
possible.
Il
The G. F. w. c. directors at their
meeting in Washington, February %,
received protests from the Massachusetts
state federation, and from several impor-
tant clubs. against their action in def1n-
ing the vote on the colored club ques-
ton, but those were laid upon the table,
the directors wishing to take no hasty
action. They voted. however, to ask the
various clubs and federations throughout
the country to discuss the problem
among themselves and prepare to vote
on it, the question come up at
Los Angeles-as it is almost certain to
do.
A vast amount of ignorance is extant
as to the exact situation at Milwaukee,
and much undeserved criticism has peen
heaped upon the board Of directors. In
speaking of the milwaukee episode"
nine out of ten women refer to Mrs.
RufIin as having been refused seat on
account of her color. Nothing could be
r~ wide Of the truth. Mrs. Ruffln
was never "ofnsAd a seat at the Milwau-
h,ennial: on the contrary. she was
urged and almost entreated to accept
a seat as delegate. The fact is. she
would not take the seat to which she
was entitled as delegate from the club
of white women to which she belongs.
insisted upon representing her col
ored club or nothing. Hence all the
trouble.
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CMbdom. ~

April Is with Mrs. Nuckolls "Ameri-
can Humorists," Mrs. Nuckolls; Read
ing from Mark Twain, Mrs. F. A. Gill
bert; reading from Eugene Field, Miss
Ida Crossman.
April % with Mrs. A. j. Campbell.
Social session and Shakespeare dsw.
April 20 with Mrs. Mullins. Reading
Act II, Tanning of the Shrew; Con
trast: Katharine and Blanca" Mrs. G..
N. Gosman; current events.
May with Miss Crossman. Reading,
Act III, Tanning of the Shrew. "Petru-
chio." Mrs. A. J. Campbell; table talk.
"Our Favorite Prose Writer"
May Is with Mrs. d. A. Dickson.
Reading. Act Nv, Tanning of the Shrew.
Character Study: Grumio and Sly"
Mrs. J. P. Cutting: great men in science.
May 20 with Mrs. A. J. Lewis. Read
ing. Act v, Tanning of the Shrew. Dis
cussion Of the play; current events.
May q with Mrs. Nuckolls. Reports
of outgoing officers; seating Of new off,
GERS: social session.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-15
FAMILIAR SLANG PHRASES.
Classic Origin of Many of these Every
day Catch Words.

A celebrated writer has decided that,
while there is slang that is vulgar. there
|, is also slang which is "of ancient and
honorable origin" The latter kind is
representa- by the words or sentences
Ilthat formerly referred to some legend Of
classic interest, which legend has ere
!, this passed into oblivion for all but those
quarians.
g. An example of this is the slang ex-
OPPRESSION, II must cut my stick" mean.
ing II must depart From time i'm
hmemorial the Irishman, before leavins
I, for some foreign country, has cut a shil
,ielagh to bear him company. while it
Was the custom of pilgrims to the Holy
ll.Land to cut each palm stick as proof
that they had accomplished their pu"
pose So we see that the saying. He
has cut his stick is not as vulgar as it
sounds.
Again, the exclamation, "Oh, cut it
short!'' alludes to the NEUROLOGICAL
legend of Atropos, one of the Tire
Fates, who cut the thread of life spun
by her sister Clotho
How many of us use or hear TIL.
familiar expression, ut was Hobson's
J choice" are acquainted with the rea;
! sort of selection that Tobias Hobson
! offered his guests? This is the genuine
version of the tale: The said Tobias
| Hobson was a Cambride innkeeper, with
| 40 horses in his stables. some better, of
| course than others. When a traveller
! came to request a mount he was obliged
| to take the steed that stood nearest the
! door, although there was SO many others
! advertised as for hire. If the traveller
| objected to that mount, all he could do
| was to wait until some other traveller
! had come for one, and so remove tn s,
Land left it's next door neighbor nearest
| the stable door.
| by hook and by crook" is an allusion
to an ancient immortal custom. which
permitted the neighboring poor to take
! all the wood that they could reach and
| pull down from the forest trees, usins
only their shepherds crooks.
| Even the wall-knawn saying, so simple
| to understand, that is nuts to him."
proceeds so authorities say, not so much
from the pleasure We may all be sup
posed to take in the flavor of nuts. as
the fact that the Romans always par.
took of them at dessert, and considered
them fit toys for children.
A very common phrase is "pay the
| piper" Only the other day a traveller
by train was protesting loudly to his
companion, II soon got out Of it when
l saw that I should have to pay the
piper!" Was he thinking, wonder. of
the famous Pied Piper of Hamelin, wno.
after freeing the town of rats and mice.
was refused payment by the citizens?
ITO take her down a peg" Is nothing
but sailors direction as to the lower.
ing Of the ships colors.
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Some Swell Letter Paper.

In the diplomatic circles of Washing
ton some very gorgeous stationery Is
used. which bears various emblems OF
prominent women. The wife of the Aus-
trian minister, Baroness Hengelmuller,
has stationery which is truly very re-r
markable. The colors of the paper and
ink are more striking than the designs
employed. Green. yellow, red and pur-
pie paper she has used, and violet or red
ink. The paper also has border OF
some contrasting shade. For private
use the baroness uses her first name
MARTA" stamped across the top of the
sheet, and for formal correspondence
the crest of the Hengelmullers, which is
200 years old. Countess Cassini. neice Of
the Russian ambassador, uses Rus
sian crown with q monogram beneath
it. The first secretary of the Russian
embassy uses a heralded device consist
ing of a shield helmet and eagles wings
Mrs. Mckinley uses the White House
stationery, which is always white, with
Executive Mansion stamped on it in
gold and silver. Mrs. Roosevelt uses a
simple monogram of the family initial
Mrs. Cleveland follows simple style.
using only the initials IF. F. c.. Mrs.
Hanna also uses her own Initials. MIS-
Long, wife of the secretary of the navy,
uses "A L." in ribbon upon the station
cry Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins employs
very odd device, consisting of very
small elk stamped in gold, with letters
"ins." Another queer emblem is that of
Mrs. Logan, widow of General John A.
Logan It includes her initials with
hearts and crowns all printed in purple.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst uses plain white
paper with her initials ''T. A. H. stamp
ed in gold and silver. -.
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now she rises to explain that these two
hoary- headed sinners have been wasting
their declining years in trying to prove
private property in what belongs to
neither"
Mr.. Hilzinger comedies, for the sake
of argument, the claim Of Santa Fe that
it was settled in 1905. His description OF
the settlement Of San Augustine is note
worthy for it's sparkling originality.
lin 1862 Admiral Coligni obtained from
Charles TX of France the privilege Of
planting a French Protestant colony in
the new world, and finally succeeded in
establishing one on the river st. Johns,
in Florida. The colonists had just be-
come comfortably settled when the
spaniards, who classified heretics with
.agitators. bounced upon them.
ION August %, 1906 Nhe same year
/ the spaniards entered New Mexico %
Christianize the Indians). Pedro Menen-
deg, with company of 2.4Oo, descended
upon the Huguenots and exterminate1
them, but left the alligators and mos
quitoes.
p philip II was then proclaimed mon
arch of North America, or whatever it
might thereafter be called, and u
San Au6uSlAH vas ~ was lHSH spcie"'
was founded with due pomp and cere-
mony.'
Mr.. Hilzinger gives the date of settle
ment of Tuscon as 1555, some half a
century earlier than the founding of
Santa Fe or San Augustine. He bases
his claim upon authentic documents. in
Guiding a parchment discovered among
the old mission of st. Xavier, dated 1862
when the settlement was ordered to DE
esta blished, and attached to which is an
account of the founding of Tucson, writ
ten in the hand of Marcos de Mia, who
explored Arizona in 1539.-PhoeniX Re-
publican.
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MRS. KENDALL TOCLUB WOMEN
Talk On Ethics Delivered in st. Paul's
Parish Home.

I'VE shall have to resign" whispered
many members of the South Side club to
each other yesterday afternoon, when
Mrs Charles j. Kendall had finished
reading paper entitled Club Ethics"
I'm afraid we can't live up to your
Standard sand Mrs. Lucy d. Hal. Fake,
addressing the meeting out loud. But
we ought to- ii
II can't thank Mrs. Kendall enough
for having given out such a beautiful
lesson, volunteered Mrs. William G.
Keepers. 'She has the right idea Of
how club women ought to behave. I'm
tired to death of having men say we
club women spend our time pulling each
others hair in trying to MAINTAIN har-
mony. Will you believe it, man asked
I really took the woman's-cluh move
ment seriously!"
Mrs. Kendall's suggestions are every
enc of them practical" said Mrs. George
Watson. president of the club. "Just be
president once, and you'll see thai clubs
don't run themselves. Responsibility
must rest on somebody, and If yTu are
an ethical member you'll do your Share"
The South Side club met in ST. Paul's
parish house, and the meeting was voted
the most interesting of the season.. Mrs.
Kendall told the women thatithey must
make use OF that underlying principle
which makes for right acting in clubs
namely, CLUB ethics" She further said:
1.-The club is as important a factor as
the church or the school. It's oi.'e IS are
moral. The very formation of club Is
/ an ethical movement. OVERRIDING in club
work turns it into burlesque, but the
progress of women during The IL st few
years is due to the club regardless of
, it's defects. The ethics of club demand
these things: Loyalty, sincerity, reci-
procity, harmony, sharing Of RESPONSE
bilities, discipline. '-Chicago Her.
ald-Record.
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What promises to be the banner pic
mic and excursion of the year is to be
given next Sunday by the Butte Camp
of Woodmen of the World. It will take
the form Of trip to Mountain View
park at Anaconda, and it Is estimated
that from 5000 to 10000 Woodmen and
their friends will attend.
DR.. T. A. Grigg positively asserts that
there will not be a mosquito on deck
for he has made special arrangements
with them to go elsewhere. The park
Is in ideal condition, grass, flowers and
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trees in the height of beauty. The lake
Is also at it's best.
On the lake is steam launch and
any number of small boats. There is
theater on the grounds which it is said
gives a first-class performance. And for
those who do not care to give them
selves the trouble of carrying a lunch.
there is the best of restaurants right
there.
There will be holly contested game
OF baseball between the Butte team,
the Smoke Eaters, and the Anaconda
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team, the Eagles. Both ST les will be
out for blood.
On the lake there is to be a boat
race we'll worth witnessing. There are
three entries only, E. w. Thomas of
this city, who gained a great reputa-
ton in Canada, Captain Penn of San
Francisco, Matt Beiver champion oars
man of st. Louis, Mo-, who bars no
enc.
In addition to these features there
will be games and prizes for winners
galore.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-15

Put that into your pipe and smoke
it," is an allusion to the pipes of peace
or war that are solemnly smoked ty
some American Indian tribes; while 10
get the sack is fate that someti ines
overlook inmates of a certain sultan $
harem. who We're put into sack and
thrown into the Bosphorus when he de-
sired to be rid of them.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
ERASED EVERY BIRD.
Second Series of the Interstate Shoot
ing Match Won by Harold Money.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2-Splendid birds, fast
flyers. remarkable close shooting and
big attendance of well-known spectators all
state handicap shoot to-day memorable
trap shooting event John p. Daniels.
Of New York; Harold Money, of Oakland,
n. J.; John s. Tanning, of San Fran
cisco, Cal, and Stephen M. Van Allen. Of
Jamaica, N. Y, all of whom had won
previous events, were eligible. Each man
had won two of the handicaps, but Nor
fey, who tied for the honors with Van
Allen at the last event, withdrew and
Van Allen went in as the winner and shot
with the others at the traps.
Daniels missed his eighteenth bird and
killed all the rest, making score of twen-
ty-four Kills out of twenty-five. Fan
ming, the man from the Golden Gate, hit
his nineteenth bird hard, but the left quar-
terer flew out of bounds and he tied Dan
Tells with a total of twenty-four kills Van
Allen lost his fifth, a low-hying incomer
which fell dead out of bounds. He also
failed to stop his eleventh and withdrew at
sixteen with fourteen kills. Harold Money
shot at a lot of screaming flyers, two of
which-his seventeenth and twenty-first-
failed to drop and he was at twenty-three
This left Daniels and Tanning tied and
they agreed to divide the money and did So
Then followed the second series of the
Interstate handicap, same conditions
Daniels made another total of tWenty-four
E G. Griffiths, of Providence. r. l., bagged
the same number. Tanning missed two and
finished with score of twenty-three, but
Harold Money grassed every bird that
rose before him. Quarterers and scream
ers, fast birds or sluggish ones. were all
the same to him, and he won the shoot with
a clean score, Morley, Money, Daniels
Grifflths and Van Allen won most of tho
n oney in the sweepstakes events that fol-
lowed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
STATE SCORED HEAVILY
STRONG EVIDENCE OF THE GUILT OF
j. S. KEITH AT PRINCETON.
Mrs. LYDIA on the Stand Mt Monticello
Fire at New Albany-New Theater
Projected for Marion.
snecial 70 the Indiananolls Iournal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON. Ind, Jan. 1.-The State
scored heavily in the Keith murder trial to-
day, strong circumstantial evidence be-
ing adduced against the defendant, j. s.
Keith. Zachariah T. Kifer and Mary XII
fer, parents of the murdered girl, occupied
the entire morning with their testimony
They described the birthmark and other
distins uishing features by means of which
they identified the body of their daughter.
They testified TO the fact that Keith never
visited their house except when Nora was
at home. They identified with fearful eyes
the remains OF the clothing and hair of
their daughter. Matthew Perrin testified
to the finding of the bloody rug in Keith's
buggy in his barn. and to the fact that
the buggy had been freshly painted. Cabel
Hedges told of finding human hair on
bushes near an old well on Keith's farm.
He helped to pump the water from the well
and found in the bottom a pair of women's
slippers, a hammer and punches of human
hair The hair and slippers were identi-
fled by Mr.. and Mrs. Kifer as belonging
10 their daughter. The old well is hidden
by briar patches and is half mile from
O habitation.
|. An Evansville jeweler testified that Keith
took Nora to his store about year ago
and purchased for her ring. Keith asked
the Jeweler TO testify that the ring was for
his wife. An Evansville hotel clerk testi-
fled that Keith took Nora Kifer to the
Richmond Hotel and registered as ]. Smith
and wife, of Princeton, Ind They re-
manned for two days and occupied the same
loom. Louis Morelock testified to receiv-
ing money from Keith for keeping Nora at
his homo in Evansville.
Jesse Keith. son of the defendant prob
ably will'be put on the stand for the State
tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Members of Cabinet and Ladies En-
tertnined by the President.

WASHINGTON, jan 2.-The social sea-
sen OF the new year at the White House
was opened tonight when President and
Mrs. Mckinley gave a dinner in honor Of
the Cabinet and their ladies. The table set
ia the shape of a double 7 in the state
dining room presented an attractive appear
ance. The prevailing decorations were
pink begonias with ferns. In the East
room large wreaths of evergreens and
holly were hung over the great mirrors
and garlands of the same were twined
about the white pillars. The Marine Band
furnished the music. Those present in addi-
ton TO President and Mrs. Mckinley We're:
The secretary of the treasury and Mrs.
Gage. the secretary of war and Mrs Root.
the attorney general and Mrs. Griggs, the
postmaster general aad Mrs. Smith. the
secretary of the navy, the secretary of the
interior and Mrs. Hitchcock. the secretary
of agriculture and Miss Wilson, the speak
CIR Of the House and Mrs. Henderson. Sena-
tor Allison. Senator and Mrs. Burrows,
Senator and Mrs. Carter, Senator Nc
Emery. Senator and Miss Kean, Senator
BeveridgS. Senator and Mrs. Scott, Senator
and Mrs. Dolliver. Representative and Mrs.
Payne, Representative and Mrs. Grosvenor,
Representative and Mrs. Hopkins. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Dalzell. Miss Root.
James A. Gary and Mrs. Gary, Abner Nc
Knley. Colonel and Mrs. William Barbour,
Mrs. II. s. b. Beale, Miss Jane Cox.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03
NOT WELL FOUNDED.
Case Against Ex-Prison Wardens, Ac-
cOrding to the Present officials.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Jan. 2.-Accord-
ing to Clerk Whitaker, of the Michigan
City Prison, the suit of Isaac Norris,
formerly a prisoner here and paroled in
1898 by Governor Mount, against ex-War-
dens Harley, French and Murdoch is with
out foundation and evidently taken up by
Norris's attorneys at Marion without a
complete knowledge of the case. Norris
asks for judgment of $1,000, which he
claims is the amount of pension money re-
tanned by the wardens, which should have
been turned over to him on his release.
Clerk Whitaker said the case had been
thoroughly investigated by Attorney Gen.
eral Taylor and two representatives of the
pension department at Washington, who
went to Michigan City after complaint haG
been made by Norris. Relative to the case.
after the Investigations of the representa-
tives. Pension Commissioner Henry Clay
Evans wrote to the warden: Il thank
you for your courtesy in furnishing us
with such exhaustive and correct data rela-
tive to the disposition of such pension
money, and for your prompt attention given
in the matter"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-03

ir a town up in CANDIDA where the old Bar.
mum circus was showing. To make 1t more
habit of offering sl0O.to any one who would
go up in the balloon with the aeronaut
when he made an ascension. This was 10
make 1T look as though it was a very dam
gerous thing to go up in a balloon. / had
nothing particular To do and so / waited
Until the balloon was about ready to start
and the offer of 500 50 any man who would
go up had been shouted over and over
and the handbills TAaking the same ar
nouncement had beSn passed around all
through the crowd and then / went up TO
would go up in it for 800. Everybody heard
me and / got cheer and there was no
chance for the show people to back out.
So they told me to get in, and up we went.
We came down sixty: miles away, but got
back and got my sl0s the next morning all
right 1t was the Easiest money 1 ever
made.
81 have been in the steeple-climfd,ig
business for seventeen years, although
made my first climb when / was oi'y
twelve years old. / Was working for T.. D.
Oliver with the intertion of learning the
carpenter and millwtfght business. which
l afterward learned and worked at until l
began climbing steeples altogether for a
living; There was a ;steeple l5i fert high.
in place on top of IT. The spire was a
slender one, and it was thought that it
would not be strong enough for a man TO
years for some Ito put the cross in
place, and no one Undertook the job I
made up my mind that / could do IL all
right and I did. Mr.. Oliver made the
plans for me, and told me just what TO
do after / got to the top of the steeple.
The cross was madS OF galvanized iron
and only weighed 1Q4 pounds. so that I
was able to handle Il all right with the
assistance of the mo in the ground to
haul on the ropes fos me.
THE highest spires / ever climbed was
sl5 feet high. 1t is OH the cathedral in OF
tawa, Canada 1 gildbd the cross on that.
st. Johns steeple here the one have been
at work on. is 262 feet high. including the
cross, which is twelve feet high. I have
left rope around the base of the cross. so
that ii will be easier !work when IL comes
to gliding the cross rsext spring i always
take a contract TO finish job for so much.
no matter how long IL takes. If the
weather is bad so that cannot work. IL Is
my loss
81 have never beSn nervous or dizzy
when / was on a stteple since / stopped
using tobacco. usedsto be a hard smoker.
and when / was not smoking / was chew
ing all the time. fused to be such a
smoker that i would get up in the middle
of the night to smoke a pipe i got so
that I was dizzy anA unsteady, and felt
afraid sometimes NM doctor told me that
IL I didn't stop usings tobacco / would get
a fall some time / made up my mind to
stop. and I have not used a speck of to-
bacco since"