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Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
MAMMOTH MINE SOLD
Bought by Frank W. Fletcher Geo.
 Blair Again in Charge.

The gold mine at Mammoth was sold Monday to Frank W. Fletcher of AL pena. Mich. who represents the bond holders. says the Tucson Citizen. MT. iIetcher's father. who is now dead. loaned to the Mammoth Gold Mines company through the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York. S45O. GOO. The interest was to be paid every three months and if the company missed two payments. the whole amount of the mortgage was to become due. This instance occurred and the company was thrown in the hands of a receiver, George P. Blair. who had been made superintendent by the Eng fish stockholders at the request of Mir. Fletcher, was also made receiver.
 The sale was set for Monday, but the English syndicate tried to get it post poned through their New York attor- neys in order that they might bid on the property. Shrrlf Truman of Flor CnCc. acting as master commissioner, had no order from the court to post pone the sale and the property was sold to MT. Fletcher for $500. 900 and interest, which will aggregate S50,0O0 additional. The old company has nine months in which to redeem the mort gage and will no doubt do so. as they were arra nging to bid on the property.
 
 hardly do any extensive work on the mine until they learn the intentions of the former owners.
 George r. Blair went out to Nam moth on the stage this morning to take charge of the mine for Mir. Fletcher. The cyanide plant did not come under the mortgage. but the court included it in the receivership. A. NJ. Franklin. attorney for the company. has refused to obey the order of the court and give up the funds of the cyanide company now in his possession. The cyanide plant had been working the tailinss Of the mill under the supervision of Su- perintendent Blaisdel and proved paying investment. It burned to the ground last summer.
 There is little chance that the Mann moth mine will resume unless the Eng fish syndicate redeems the mortgage or agrees not to do so and allows the purchasers to go ahead with the work permanently without fear of being mo- tested by the old company redeeming the mortgage. although the latter would have to pay for all improve ments that had been put on the prop erty.
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
MINING NOTES.

The many friends of J. J. Pearce. one of the original owners of the Common wealth mines at Pearce. will be pleased to learn that he is opening up another promising producer in his gold prop erty near Benson. A recent strike made shows the ore to be of high grade. Several carloads of shipping are have been extracted and will be shipped to Pueblo. while arrangements for regular shipments will follow. The ore carries a high percentage in lead
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15

averaging 40 per cent. while the gold assays from $40 upwards-Prospecto
 Ava Haywood. who will be pleas antly remembered by q great many people in Prescott, for his inimitable impersonations. a few months ago. is now q millionaire in Texas. He pur- chased fifteen acres of land in that state on which number of oil wells have been sunk and it is stated that he could make clean-up of his interests now for $1 500. .O00.-Journal- Miner.
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15

WARNER'S SAFE CURE is absolute cure for any form of kidney disease. One bottle will cure almost any light case and the free trial brings relief, while if the disease is all lowed to make any headway, that it affects ;he different organs, it Is liable to take months to clear the system of the microbes and pre- vent RiI ght's Disease. Diabetes, Uric Acid Poi son, Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout. Female Weakness and all other complications of the Kidneys, Liver, Bladder Urinary Organs and the Blood
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
Bargains in Pianos

For less than half price, the following well known pianos: One elegant Fisher. almost new: one fine Everett, little used: ons0Pease, good as new, and one extra good bargain at S110.OO, all up rights. Our stock of new pianos con sists of the celebrated Steinways, Kranich & Bach. Sterling, Starr. Rich mond and Emerson.
 We don't handle any cheap western makes. but sell our high grade pianos cheaper than any ever sold before in Arizona and challenge comparison with the largest music Houses on the coast.
 Zobo Self-Playing cornets. from 25c up. You sing in the mopth-piece and you have brass band music.
 Tuning and repairing a speciality.
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15

A man jumped Drake Watson this afternoon. and began a long harangue about the Sarnpson-Schley controversy. 1T will meet you next Sunday after noon" MT. Watson said. and have it out. But just at present 1 am busy"
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
TRY THIS SIMPLE TEST:

Put morning in glass bottle let stand hen a n o it. a of
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. 100 WILLIAM ST.. NEW YORK.

Johnson: He that thinks he can af- ford to be negligent is not far from being poor
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15

What if there is a pickle famine? Mir. Heinz alone has fifty-one commodities left to pick from.
Arizona republican., 1902-02-15
Why is ROYAL Baking Powder bet ter than any other?

Because in it's mammoth works a corps of chemical experts is con- stantly employed to test every ingre- dient and supervise every process of manufacture to insure a product ab- so1ute1y pure, wholesome and perfect in every respect.
 the most digestible food are made with Royal Baking Powder.
 nakne owoeR sr.New
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

. ,f acquaintance.
 Tt was just so with Miss Graydon' said he. She eventually came to re- member me. as I have already ment'oneo' and she has helped me so much!
 Helped you in what. If may ven ture to lnquire?" said l.
 .'Helped me to climb the hill again! he exclaimed. "I am only a little way up. but I'm gaining. Morton" he crled impulsively, using my name without handle and quite as if he had known me well. did you ever see any Of my work?'
 Have you fnished?' he asked eagerly. Come home with me. l want to show you my picture.
 Really, l was in the middle of my dln- ner. and yet 1 was quite ready to go. There was an enthusiasm in his manner that drew me strongly We arose and put on our coats, but Ladd made no sign ot an intent to pay the reckoning. puS my hand into my pocket.
 That's all right" he said, with laugh They'll charge 1t up here to my account I'm a silent partner here. couple oi months ago I found myself short Oi ready money. I put everything into in vestments and had hung up my bank for A good big note. So l thought I'd make a deal of some kind. You may remember that there used to be two other restau- rants on this block and they ran a sort of cutthroat business. So l consolidated
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

They are going to move the railroad station to the other side of the town, and that will turn the trade away from me-
 "He was speaking of the road that runs up the side of the Rigi, and he was quite right about the effect upon his business.
 How do you know they are going to move it?' asked, and he replied that he had private information that the lana was being bought.
 Let me think about this till tomor- row said I. It seems to me that I smell money
 That afternoon I hobbled around the village a bit, and next day what do you suppose I did to that good hearted ola inn-keeper who held me for two months board without a penny Of security! Weli' sir, borrowed every franc he had In the world, every one. With that money l bousht up a few choice bits of real estate that the railroad people hadn't secured but would absolutely have to get, and the result was that old Jean Martel and d1- vided a very neat little pot. We had 'em' do you see?
 "Martel secured another house near the site of the new station, and l came on to Paris. The first thing l did here was to find Miss craydon. We had remark able interview for you must understand that I was a man without past l couldn't remember whether had met her in France or in America, and at first she couldn't remember having met me at ail' So we had to begin all over again, ana. to make matters worse, think she loved somebody else, though have never dared to ask her about that, Pardon me for these absurd condolences. but can't seem to feel that we are strangers.
 I admitted possessing the same queer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

commanding air. yet his words and tone were those of gloom. Which was the sham, which the real>ry?"
 Tt may be-" l thought, that some one has left this poor fellow a fortune and he Is trying to convince himself that wealth has been his ruin.
 Such affectation is not uncommon in artistic Bohemia, though l had never known 1t to survive the touch of pecu- niary reality. By my observation 1t was always somebody else who had been ruined by money or myself who might be and never l that am actually now the victim of a golden smile of fate.
 When one is curious about another s private affairs, there are two honest ways open-to stop thinking about the subject or to ask direct question. Yelled in- Quiry l despise. So when we sat down said:
 If it's not an impertinence, what are you so blue about?"
 He answered me with a perfect frank ness that made me ashamed of having in wardly accused him of affectation.
 T must begin a new life tomorrow" he said, 'or, to be more exact, 1 must re- sume an old life, very much better and higher life, and I don't feel. equal to it.. That's the trouble. It doesn't seem to be in me, blast mel"
 The last words were spoken with a painful sincerity.
 I've promised" he continued-'-I've promised that I will go to work and ac- complish something. This is the time of year for high resolves. you know, and this one shall be kept"
 T judged you must have accomplished something already said I, that you must have won success. Pardon my men, tioning 1t. but you have a very prosperous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

Lucy. "It was only . fsw minutes. Iee| I-I never quite forgot you. When you said you were Mir. Ladd. that faint mem! ory deceived me. Thought that must have seen you somewhere, perhaps when you were poor and starving
 Meanwhile the little Frenchman stood at stuart's feet. lowing with absurd rcv- erence.
 q congratulate you. fslicttsts you.s'
 Please TO away" said Stuart weartIy. and then to Lucy: My poor child. did not mean to do this. I thought fhe picture was mine. am only . csm- monplace fellow. I never did anything worth while"
 T love you just as much." she wi,fs- pered, kneeling beside him. You can't help it. You inherited 1t, this money and the making of money. We will bear it together"
 stuart slowly got upon his feet. his hand clasped In hers.
 What shall be in the new year" he asked-'fn the new year that is SO close to us? Only my poor self"
 Tt is the same with all." said Lucy.
 Perhaps that's tho practical view, responded Stuart, with something like q return to his former manner. Perhaps that's why so many earnest resolutions fail and SO much advice is vasueless- No man can escape from his own individuals ity; no man can escape from his ancss- tors, for that matter. Some poor and slight amendment of our faults. some 1t-' tie striving upward, is all that is permit ted trs, yet that is duty. I cannot be the new man that I promised you to De. but I can be a better fellow, Lucy, than have been. Will that server"
 understood her to say that 1t would.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

knowledge. Heaven knows where l put it. 1 am paying half a dozen detectives to locate it, but they are all at sea. Of course 1 labor under the difficulty of not being able to remember who my friends were, and then l have changed so much that people distrust me. They refuse to believe that 1 am really Warrington Ladd It seems that l used to be bald and thin and always in rags.
 So far as I can learn," he continued, T must have fallen into shame and des- peration about a year ago. l must have hidden myself and avoided those who knew me. Then in the early spring went off on a walking tour. I found a fellow who met me in Belgium in May. He says he didn't get a chance to talk to me because he was running for train, but that I was looking much better. had gained flesh. was decently iress ,d and in general had changed good deal, though nothing to compare with the present You see. the lightning acted as a hair restorer on my head while 1t klll- ed my beard entirely, and of course that makes a tremendous difference.
 You say you don't remember your friends?" said I.
 "No," he replied, 'and the queer part of it is that when I do succeed in cud- geling my brains until somebody's name drops into view it's usually the name of some one who swears that he never knew me. Take this as an instance: When began to get my wits together again up there in Viznau I remembered a girl-face name, everything. I was sure that used to be in love with her. Her address was absolutely the only one that ' could re- call. SD when the paralysis got out of my right hand and arm I wrote her a let ter. describing the circumstances and in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

tpajug very do.icdtely that mT heaft was still true to her The reply came promptly-a very clever sweet hStle let ter. l. appeared that the yourg lady had never had the happiness of meeting MT Ladd, but that she would not le averse to doing So when he should return to Pa ris. What do you make of that?
 Have you seen her since you got back?"
 He ST fled at me in a fine. frank, youth full fashion.
 "The day when I don't see her is a day lost" he continued and then, more gravey, she is Miss Lucy Graydon, an American girl, studying music here. She remembered me when l had found hei after my return. She can't recall where she saw me any more than l can recall where l saw her It must have been fo' | q moment only, but l think 1t was lons enough to seal her fate and mine. l hope for the pleasure of presenting her tC you. perhaps this evening. She may TUT in here before we are through dinner She's a regular little Bohemian-Bohemiar ar crystal. which is as pure as diamond my friend-and she is a thorough artist Except for her, I should never have lived through these last few months
 Have you had a hard time?" l asked And by the way, I should fancy yol might have been badly stuck in Viznau | 1 suppose you were i'll quite a long l while"
 T was laid up for a month" he re | pied didn't have cent, you know noi any place to get one. When l began t( | crawl around and bask in the sunshine | on the veranda of the inn and grow fat the landlord-may his name be called blessed; he was the fellow that found | me, and he never let me lack for any
 thing in his house, though l think he hac | small hope for pay-che landlord, olC | Jean Martel. Frenchman, ventured t. l ask me about finances.
 | You artists never think about sucf things. he said I wish all the worlc could do the same.
 '" What the bill?' I asked. He named the sum. and it seemed very small. Somehow I didn't worry | about 1t in the least, though of course l was sorry to owe any man.
 " Business is not good. said he apol ogetcally, and it is going to be worse
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

them organized a stock company ana took some shares and a little casn TOT my trouble. The concern Is making gooo | money. whereas none of us three used 70 | get much more than a living. US tne | trust principle But, blast the wnoie sup | feet. let's go and look at my picture
 .Jadd." said fervently, do you sup
 nose there's a flash of lightning anywhere up in the sky that could transform me | to a money makerT q hope not, for your sake' saio he | sadly. ,,. It was only a little way to his studio. which was in one of the picturesque olu buildinxs of the quarter. the same rom I which Ladd had once fled in terror of his landlord. as learned later. We climbed three fiiahts of stairs, and there we found A pretty, gray eyed girl sitting on the
 banister rating.
 "Lucyv' cried Ladd. why didn't you come to Verdun's?"
 'I thought you would nave finished bv this time" she replied rye oeen
 here only half minute.
 Ladd presented me and then nuhs opoh the door, We entered large, well ap- pointed studio. separated from the nv, ing rooms by a wide arohWay oeped with curtains. While Ladd was turning on inc lights Miss Graydon crossed to an easel upon which was . picture. one looked at it for a moment and then took | if down and set 1t in the corner Wltn us | face against the wall.
 "You haven't worked much teday, said | she.
 Ladd exhibited deep contrition. "rve been at the bourse." he said, add- | ing hastily: "Of course that's no excuse but my affairs are getting tangled Cen found those French brokers! when you | tell them to do thing, they either so crazy and do it the day before or else they forget all about it and don't do h at all. I've been knocking some of their heads together. I won't waste any more time with them, Lucy. Honesty' | won't"
 He turned to me with decision.
 Now, Morton" said he I'm going 70 show you my picture" T thought you told me that you naa only one." said I. There are several. He crossed the room and took up the canvas that Miss Graydon had put down. 1 Do you call that a picture?" he de- manded with a bitter laugh as he set II | on the easel. - It was a Iandscape-crude. yet not with out merit From what l had heard or | Warrington Ladd. knew this bit to be somewhat in his style. but as . sample ] of his work 1t was impossible unless
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

air. and my friends told mo that you were in hard luck.
 "Poor?'' he uueried. "Yes. believe so hut I don't remember anything about H. Cant understand it either. Why should anybody be poor? Good Lord. it's easy enough to make money! D..
 You don't remember the time when IL wasn't, eh?" said I, with laugh Tor my own recollection of such a time was very c,aar and. moreover, I recalled many amusing stories of Ladds struggles Tor existence.
 .I ought to explain that statement at the start" said he. "I was struck by lightning in Switzerland last July. IL knocked me senseless, painted me blue from head to foot. burned OH my mar and eyebrows, ripped my clothes into rlo- bons and in addition performed strange antics inside my head. When l woke up' I didn't know my own name, dldn kho" where I was nor how came to be there. And upon the last point, by the way l have never been able to get any informa- ton Rut it appears that my memory was better just before l woke up than if has ever been since. I talked quite sensSbly in my delirium with an English doctor who happened to get hold ot my case. and so l statred life anew With d few facts to guide me
 II was in Viznau, beside Lake Lu- cerne. 1 was painting on hill when the shower swept down from Rgi. l must have taken shelter under a tree. small finished picture and a fresh canvas were wrapped in my coat and lay at the foot of the tree trunk. I and my easel and stool and empty portfolio were all up In heap when they found me. The doctor said he didn't believe that since the be- ginning of the world any man had ever taken SO much electricity and survived 1t. I am glad it hit me and not my little pie"
 His voice took on a singular tone of tenderness as he spoke thus of the pie ture.
 You value it beyond any others?'' said l.
 II haven't any other" he replied. My stuff must be packed away somewhere in Paris, but I can't find it. The fact Is, and he colored noticeaby, T was in ar rears for rent of the little studio where I used to live, and it seems that I snug gled the stuff out without the concierge s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21
woman's Height and Weight.

Women who are correctly proportioned and neither too fat nor too lean are few in number. It may not be amiss to give some correct idea of the correct propor- ton of the features and the body.
 The mead should be one-seveath of tho body, the nose, forehead and chin of equal length. the distance between the eyes the length of the eye Inc distance from the Inner angle of the eye to the dividing hne of the lips should measure l-4 inches to l-2 inches.
 A woman of i've feet should weigh uo pounds, a woman Of ] feet 1 inch shopld weigh 15 pounds. woman of rest inches should weigh 120 pounds, womaal of feet inches should ~vei gh 1T pot'nd3 a woman of feet inches should wcigI i34 pounds, a woman of feet lnchef should weigh l42 pounds a woman or Y feet 6 inches should weigh 1i6 pounds, woman of feet inches should weigl 152 pounds, a woman of feet inchet should weigh l60 pounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21
those friends who mad spoken to ma

those friends who mad spoken to me quite good are made by the thousand in Paris Yet there was in this picture a certain attractiveness. In spite or It's faults, in spite of it's crudities. l found myself interested In it.
 This man may not be a great artist !" said l to myself. but he knows human nature" Yet I could hardly fancy that such merit had won the praise that had heard a year or mere ago.
 of course it isn't finished yet" said Miss Graydon, who was obviously ashamed of 1t for Ladd's sake.
 "Of course 1t never will be-" added Ladd gloomily.
 Then rose up. as the foolish man al- ways does to explain and simplify his friends troubles which he does not in the smallest degree understand.
 "If you don't finish that picture" said I, you will make a big mistake. It is sure to sell Of course" added hastily, T know just how you feel. You feel that you have cheapened your art. In the old days of poverty you were true to your
 ideal, and 1 surely wouldn't wish you ever to be false to 1t. Yet the painter must live, and you have done right in these last months to descend to the level of the public taste and make some money. After all, the fact that you have sold enough pictures to surround yourself with this luxury is proof that the work was not valueless. and"
 Iadd was staring at me with an amused incredulity.
 Now. that's funny" said he shaking his head as a puzzled man sometimes VIII. Do you really believe that I'd sell pictures especially my own pictures, as a business proposition? Of course If a fel- low could corner pictures or even con
 rol the trade in a certain section of the city there might be money in 1t. But to manufacture them for sale! How can | people have such ideas? And yet I sup pose I had 'em once"
 MT. Ladd had not sold any of his pic- lures recently" said Miss Graydon. He would not. sell anything that was not wor- thy of him
 Not in pictures" sah Ladd, but I sold some stock today" and he laughed with soft and gentle cadence, By the way. Morton if you've got couple of thousand dollars that aren't working
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-21

TIER more than a years absence I was back again in Paris.
 But Paris did not seem the same, per- haps because so many people whom I had expected to find there had g 0 n e away. Moreover, the little hotel where 1 used to live had been
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-01
University Convocation.

Albany, N. Y, June 3O.-A number
of distinguished educators are here to
take part in the fortieth annual con-
vocation of the University of the State
of New York. Today was devoted to
receiving the visitors and arranging
the final details of the program. At
the state capitol tonight President
Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia
university opens the proceedings with
an address on Fundamental Princi-
pies of Education in the United
States" Other prominent participants
are President Schurman, of Cornell
university; President Campbell, of the
College of Saint Francis Xavier, and
Prof. George E. Vincent, of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-01
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grew better at nce and now, at the
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as she has her bottle of Kodol handy"
Don't waste time ~doctoring symptoms.
Go after the cause If your stomach is
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rests the stomach and strengthens the
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