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The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
A JUGGLER'S TRICK.
Clever Feat of Illusion Performed by
East Indian.

AN East Indian.
The wonderful featS of East Indian
jugglers have formed the theme of
many a letter from travellers in the
orient, but none il more surprising than
that for which an old seadog vouches
While he was an officer on board a
r. and o. steamship two natives came
aboard at Madras, he says. They were
a juggler and his assistant. After they
had performed number of minor
feats and gathered quite n crowd
around them they called for sack
and piece of sailcloth.
These having been provided, the
chief juggler made a small tentlike
structure with the canvas and some
stools. He then placed his assistant
in the sack and allowed a sailor to tie
the knot which bound him fast pris-
Oner. This done, the chief carried the
sack into an open space, warning the
people to stand back some distance,
and then carried Oh an animated con-
versation with his assistant, whose re-
plies could be distinctly heard coming
from the sack. Suddenly the chief
rushed forward, picked up the sack
and dumped it overheard, where. to
the horror OF the passengers and crew,
It sank out of sight.
Immediately the captain rushed for
ward and seized the man, under the
fall belief that he had murdered his
companion, but the juggler only
smiled and, pointing to the canvas,
asked that it be raised. This was
done, and the supposed drowned man
was discovered squatting on the deck.
So realistic had been the throwing
overheard, however, that it was some
time before the surprised passengers
could realize Il murder had not been
committed.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
NOT SGRAMBLING.

Although the names of number of
Republican Representatives in Con-
gress have been more or less "promi-
nently mentioned in connection with
the Speakership Of the next House,
it can not be said that there is any
thing like lively rush toward
the official shoes that Speaker
Henderson will vacate on the 4th of
next March. This becoming modera-
ton may, to some extent, be credited
to that extreme delicacy which has
long been an admirable characteristic
of our statesmen and politicians. Add
to this their habitual modest depre-
citation of their own merits, and we
have a good start toward a satisfac-
tory explanation of their discreet re-
serve on this occasion. But we think
there is another, and if possible a
stronger reason why the field is not
crowded with aspirants for the
Speakers gavel, and why their friends
are not splitting, or at least cracking,
the welkin in their behalf.
A wise man before he enters a con-
test for a prize, thinks it advisable to
satisfy himself that there is prize to
contend for. He remembers the boy
whose request for the core of an apple
= was met with the response: There
amt a-goin' to be no core" 1t is
doubtful If any Republican member of
Congress who would be able to make
presentable claim to the Speaker
ship, If that position were within the
control of his party, is free from Sc
rious apprehension that the next
Speaker may be Democrat.
Instead of being constantly buoyed
up with confident and firm faith
that in this canvass their party is
going to score it's fifth successive vic
tory, sensible Republicans regard the
outcome as extremely doubtful. The
Republican leaders are making no
claims" The Democratic leaders
are Saving wood" A suggestive dis
patch printed in The Citizen yesterday
said that politicians Of both parties
were disposed to privately admit the
great probability of a Democratic vic
tory. The confidence OF the Repub-
licans in the ote-getting capacity of
the prosperity" argument is shaken
by the recollection that unprecedented
prosperity did not avert disaster from
the party in 1892. And that conf
dence gets more shaking from the
prevalence Of strife among themselves.
These and other facts and phases of
the situation admonish ambitious Re-
publican Congressman that their pres
ent business is to hustle for votes and
bully the trusts for dough-" rather
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
A Delicate Compliment.

To be able to compliment without
seeming to fiatter is rare gift, and
probably no race of men is endowed
with that gift more extensively than
the French.
An example of the Frenchman's rare
tact in matters of this sort is shown
in that sweet little story of man
who had ventured to compliment a
white haired old lady upon her beauty.
"Ah," said she, a fear you 1atter
me. You call me pretty? Why, ! am
an old woman, my hair is white. and
see here is wrinkle"
"A wrnkle?" he replied. Never,
madame; that is not wrinkle. 1t is
but a smile that has drifted from its
moorinss"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
Woman in. an Unconscious COndi=
ton Found on Sidewalk.
Upon Examination at the Hospital, Her Body was
Discovered to be Covered with Scars, Caused
by the Hypodermic Injection of Morphine -
Facts Published as Warning to Other Women.

The above headlines recite the
actual experience of a poor wreck of
q woman who had once held an hon
orable and lucrative position in
large mercantile house in New York.
Her health began to fail, and instead
of taking rest and proper medical
treatment she resorted to stimulants
and morphine.
The hospital physician discovered
that her primary trouble was an
affection of the womb, which
could readily have been cured in the
first stages. If when she had first
felt those severe pains in the back,
the terrible headaches, the constant
sense of fullness, soreness and pain
in the pelvic region, she had heedA
the warning that serious troubleWvas
in store, and commenced a regular
treatment with the Pinkham Rene
dies, as did Mrs. Rober of Chicago,
whose letter follows, SAe polypus
in the womb would have been dis
solved and passed away, and to-day
she would have been well woman.
Why will women let themselves
drift along into terrible suffering
and sickness in this way, when there
is monumental proof that Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
pound is daily relieving thousands
of women from this very trouble :?
There is no excuse for any woman
who suffers to go without help. Mrs
Pinkham is very glad indeed to give
her personal advice to any one who
will write for it, and the following
letter simply goes to prove that the
Vegetable Compound will positively
cure female ills:
''Since the birth of my ba by
suffered A~om womb trouble, backache,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
FORGING A FASHION.
How Hats Were Introduced to the
South African Savages.


Andries De Villiers, a Boer, was the
| person who first introduced hats among
the South African natives, says the
HatterS' Gazette and profit, not phi-
lanthropy. was his motive. One morn
ing many years ago lie CHANGED in Port
Elizabeth to come across cOnsign-
ment of damaged hats offered for q
mere song. He bought the whole lot,
| packed them away III his wagon and
started for Kaftirland.
| When he reached Tembuland, he un-
| loaded his stock, opened his kegs of liz
uor, without which no trade was made
in those days, and began business. But
| he found his venture likely to prove an
Improbable one. The natives did not
want hats, They wanted blankets and
beads and looking glasses and anove
all liquor, but they looked aSkance at
hats. Then a bright idea came to An
| dries. He wanted to introduce those
| hats. He did introduce them. His sim
| pie expedient was to refuse to sell any
thing to Il kaftir unless lie bought a
hat too. The Katfirs wanted his goods,
SO they bought the hats.
When Kaffir buys anything, he
feels bound to make use of it. The ma
tiyes therefore donned their head gear
and returned to their kraals. Now ap-
peared the brilliancy of the traders
| idea. Fashion rules the world. 1t is as
strong in Africa as in America, and
when those who had stayed AT home
saw the travellers return in all the glo-
ry of this strange covering they felt
behindhand and old fashioned. Their
desire to possess the latest thing in
hats became intense They paid An
dries a visit, and his stock no longer
hung heavy upon his hands. The hats
| were soon sold.
This happened some time ago. and
now every trading store keeps a supply
OF hats constantly on hand. They are
said to be manufactured expressly for
the natives, and no one who glances at
| the show will doubtit.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
A VorAclonA Spider.

1t is q curious study to watch the
little white, brown specked spiders
which hover among plants seeking
what they may devour. 1t seems al
most incredible that they will conquer
and carry off to their dens insects
twice their size, but this is just what
they do. capturing flies of the largest
kind. They will hide under the petals
of the flowers and when Mr.. Fly comes
buzZing along they will spring out at
him, and the next thing he knows he is
being dragged off to be served up at a
spider luncheon. They grip the fly by
the neck, if he has a neck. and dart
down the leaves skip to the grass and
away, sometimes taking flying leaps of
q foot and a half, then disappearing no
one knows where. It's the old story of
the spider and the fly, only the spider
doesn't stop to coax. but boldly carries
off his booty without saying, BY your
leave"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
Free Medical Advice to Women.

Women suffering from any form Of
female weakness are invited TO
promptly communicate with Mrs.
Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters
are received, opened, read and an
swered by women only. A woman
can freely talk of her private illness
to a woman; thus has been estab
lishcd the eternal confidence between
Mrs. Pinkham and the women of
America which has never been
broken. Out of the vast volume of
experience which she has to draw
from it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge that
will help your case. She asks moth
ing in return except your good will,
and her advice has relieved thousands.
Surely any woman, rich or poor,
is very foolish if she does not take
advantage of this generous offer of
assistance
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
An attentive Daughter.

He (after marriage)-I don't see why
you are not as considerate of my com
fort as you used to be of your fathers.
Sle-Why, my dear, am.
He-How do you make that out?
When l come into the house, l have
to hunt around for my slippers and ey-
erything else | happen to want, hut
when used to court you and your ia
ther would come in from town you
would rush about gathering up his
things, wheel his easy chair up to the
fire, warm his slippers and get him
both a head rest and foot rest, so
that all he had to do was to drop right
down and be comfortable.
She-Oh, that was only so he'd go to
sleep sooner.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
Pulling Ont the pers.

S6sie, aged four, had been out in the
country on visit. On her return she
urged her mother to let her keep a
COW.
But. Susie" said the mother there
is no one here to take care of the COW
and milk it,
"Oh, yes. I'll do that, mamma"
''Can you milk a COW? How do you
do it?''
"Oh, know how. I'll just pull the
pegs out like the man Goes. .'-Lippin-
colts.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
KNOX ON THE TRUSTS.

Attorney General Knox's speech at
Pittsburg is everywhere regarded as
an outline of the administrations
program in relation to the trusts. And
yet it ignores the Presidents plan call
ing for constitutional amendment,
and it practically condemns the Re-
publican party on the score of mac
tion.
In the first place, the experienced
and astute corporation lawyer consid-
ers the Sherman antitrust act mad
equate, inasmuch as the worst of the
trusts of today can not be regulated
under it and the supreme court deci-
sions that go with it. But adds Mr..
Knox, Congress has the power to enact
laws that will be sufficient. This is
plainly a condemnation of the Repub-
lican party. Mr.. Knox as much as
says that the Republicans have per-
mitted the trusts to become a menace
and towering evil in the land when
they could have regulated and re-
strained them. This is certainly plain
talk from the most competent man in
the administration.
Mr. Knox's address is, however, an
indication that the Republicans have
some idea of waking up to their duty
and that they are getting ready to
promise that they will regulate the
trusts to some extent. 1t is safe to
say. however, that the regulation they
elsewhere The trusts are tied to the
Dingley tariff, and the Republican
party is owned, body and soul, by the
beneficiaries~ of that plunder. There
will be much antitrust talk on the
part of the Republicans before the
election in 1904, but there will be little
or no action before that event, and
probably none afterwards. There is
scarcely a trust in the United States
that has not intimate revenue relations
with the Republican party-scarcely
one, and no intelligent man expects ac-
ton against concerns that furnish the
sinews Of war in all important elec-
tions.
The trusts will be gotten under and
fully regulated in the interest Of the
general welfare when the Democrats
regain power in all branches of the
government, and effective action soon
er than that is a delusion and a snare
The whole truth is, trust regulation is
! closely bound up with tariff revision
and there never will be a revenue ta-
riff, pure and simple, until real DEM
| ocrats come to power again.
In the meantime, it should not be
forgotten that the Democrats have all
along insisted, what Attorney General
Knox now admits, that Congress has
ample power to regulate or destroy
the trusts.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
No Farther Delay.

A couple had been engaged to be
married for about fourteen years, and
still the swain had not mustered up
courage enough to ask her to name the
happy day. The other evening he called
in a peculiar frame of mind and asked
her to sing something tender and touch
ing. Imagine his surprise when she
sat down at the piano and sang, Oar
ling, am growing old" There was no
further delay.-Scottish American.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
SAN Under the Smell.

Mrs. Powers-Hezekiah. IL you were
to live your life all over again and it
came to the matter Of choosing a wife
do you think you would choose me?
Mr. Powers submissivelyl-Ther
no doubt about it. Maria. provided yon
wanted me.-Rlchmond Dispatch,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
nOStetter'S
Stomach BitterS

Has been before the public for so
years, and has met with remarkable
success as a family medicine because
it is reliable, and will cure when other
remedies fail. 1t is therefore recon.
mended to those who suffer from
LOSS OF APPETITE, INSOMNIA.
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA OR
MALARIA, FEVER AND AGUE. One
bottle will convince you that it Is the
best medicine in the world for the
stomach. BE SURE TO TRY IT.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25

irregular menstruation, also intense
nervousness.
After trying different remedies
with no relief I was induced to try
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. To my surprise and
delight found after taking my first
bottle very great improvement. I
continued its use and it has made me
a well woman.
81 am SO grateful to you for my
recovery that I wish to thank you,
and if this testimonial will be of any
use to other suffering women, you
have my full permission to publish
it, Mrs. MARY RoBER, 5492 Ellis
Ave, Chicago, Ill.-$5000 forfeit if oriqinGi
of atoue letter proOing genuinensss cannot be pro-
dgced
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
than scramble for pledges of support
for the Speakership.
REGARDING OLD HGE.

Since the beginning of time, old age
has been the biggest bugaboo ever set
up to turn affrighted mankind into
ways of Righteousness and pure living.
Eat, drink and be merry today, while
you are young, for tomorrow you will
be old, and old age is an abomination
unto all-such has been the rule upon
which those supposedly wise have at
tempted to run the world. "Remem-
Der now thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, while the evil days come not,
nor the years draw nigh when thou
shalt say, have no pleasure in them" :"
Thus saith the preacher. But that he
was the first of a long line of black
garbed pessimists that have come
drearily dropping down through the
days, who that has lived does not
know? Do the days come oftener to
Graybeard than to youth when he
may say, II have no pleasure in
them?" Or rather, has not a blessed
disposition made it that changing ages,
like the seasons, are successfully well
coined, and each as it comes for the
time seems the best, and in winter we
would not turn to spring, as in Spring
we do not hope for winter?
Old age has it's consultations no less
than youth. Supposing the windows
are darkened and the light has gone
from the west. Some people prefer
the soft starlight to the glare of day.
1t is something to have lived and seen
and been part of many things.
What man, having lived, would begin
| again? The test is good The fear
full schoolboy, looking ahead to the
advancing years, breads the added
tasks that are set before him. But
the years arrived, the tasks at hand
all seem easy and natural and right.
Providence has made it so. 1t is
doubted il a man ever feels truly old.
The spark of youth somewhere within
us burns to the end, and feelings and
desires belle the face in the looking
glass and the plying looks of friends
No matter how slow, stealthy and in
sidious the approach of the Pale Pre-
torian, when he comes he is uneXpect-
ed unlocked for. AS long as life is in
him, wholesome man is filled with the
thrill Of living.
Therefore, why fear old age or give
it thought? 1t is only a scarecrow at
best 1t will come upon you before
you know, and even when it comes il
is doubtful if you will realize. Hear
Robert Louis Stevenson, the greatest
master of our language produced in the
nineteenth century: ga sort of equa-
Bile jog-trot of feeling" he says, 'is
substituted for the violent ups and
/ downs of passion and disgust; the
same influence that restraints our hopes
quiets our apprehensions; if the
pleasures are less intense, the troubles
are milder and more tolerable, and, in
a word, this period for which we are
asked to hoard up everything, as for q
time Of famine is, in it's own right, the
richest, the easiest and the happiest e1
life. Live so that when the so-called
evil days come, you will still be able
to rule yourself"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
His Art.

"Oh, Mr.. Growelle," gushed Miss
Nupson, "how did you ever learn to
paint such beautiful pictures?"
Il asked man once" replied the art
IRt- "and be told me how."-IndianapO-
lis News
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
A Clerical Conundrum.

Archbishop Whately once asked the
question: why can man never
starve In the great desert?' and
answered 1t himself as follows: BE
cause he can eat the sand which is
there. But what brought the sand
wiches there? Why, Noah sent Ham,
and his descendants mustered apd
hred." ..-.----..
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25

All the actions ami attitudes OF chi..
dren are graceful because they are tbs
offspring Of the moment. without at
feA.tation aud free FROM ail pretense.-
Fuspll
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
The ResponsibfIity.

Anxious Father-Do the best you can
for him, doctor. That is all / can ask.
II it is the will of Providence
Surgeon-Don't try to place the re-
sponsibility on Providence in this case.
Mr.. McJones. You bought the toy pis,
tol for the boy yourself.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
Taking Pains.

Genius" quoted Smuthers. 'is an in
finite capacity for taking pains"
Then" remarked Smithers. "oid
Groanache must be genius He gets
every ailment he hears any one else
has" Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-10-25
What MOreR

He-YOu might at least have given
me some warning that you We're going
to throw me over.
She-Well. haven't ! been nice TO
you for over Il week?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-01
UNDER A new NAME.
tsDiamond Contract" Scheme Being
Worked by. the Tontine Men.
JUDGE McGEE'S ORDER EVADED
Ex-Omcers Of Defuncts Association
Claim 1t Does Not Keep Them
Out OF the Business.

1t was supposed that the order OF Judge
McGee annullng the charter OF the Dia-
mond Tontins Savings association not
only wiped out that association, but gave
the death blow to the diamond con-
tract" plan of investment. However, he
former officers OF the Tontine association,
Messrs. Devore, Sprong and others, are
still in the same kind of business, are
employing the same or similar mea assures
or contracts. The business Is conducted
under the name of the Devore Diamond
Contract company, in the old offices Of the
Tontine Savings association In the. New
York Life building. "
IS: There Is no lettering on the doors and
windows to indicate that any OF her con-
Germ than the Tontine is still occupying
the Offices.
Those connected with the new concern
claim the order of Judge MCGEE affected
only the Tontine Savings association aud
was In no respect an injunction against
the members from operating similar
business under different name. They
declare Themselves to be the successors to
the Tontine association. Their former
patrons, they declare, have faith in the
system and faith In the men themselves,
looking on the methods as legitimate.
practical and safe. 20 =-s S'
e. D. Ziesel, one of the uTontine direc-
tors and a member OF the new partner
ship. says the Devore Diamond Contract
company will continue the business as If
nothing had happened. Asked if that
meant that the old natured contracts
would be redeemed he said that It, GER
talnly was the intention. The patrons,
with the company for eight years; were
willing to GO on 4t.. ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-01
WORK ON HELLO CONDUIT
INTERURBAN TUNNEL PUSHED
Operations Are Begun on the Min
neapO1is End-Supplies
Are Slow.

Work upon the Minneapolis end of the
interurban telephone conduit now under
course of construction by the Northwest
ern Telephone Exchange, was. begun yes
terday. crew of thirty men was put
20 work at Washington and University
avenues. In st. Paul a strip of four
blocks has: been builtS on .,selby avenue,
haste being necessary as the street is to
be paved. The route Of the conduit is out
selby to Smelling, to University, to Wash
ington avenues AND this into the down
town district. TReff d fdlistance is about
As soon as. the G aniaRaAaHSy can get sut-
fcient supply of conaiH5lI on hand two adj
ditional crews Willie put to work in
Midway; one working in each direction.
Not anticipating the early spring the com
puny was late in its so}Tpt1er and the ma
terial does not mneSH,4trom Indiana as
raj idly as desired.
The conduit is laid ABOUT 215 feet under
ground It is, expected greatly to facili-
tate the interurban seTHee, both by maxi
ing interruption by STORMS impossible,
nd by doing away wifhsthat singing of
the wires due to the, PROXIMITY Of street
railway wires.
Work upon the Third avenue under
ground conduit will begin next week: It
is to, extend ten blocks from Franklin
avenue TO Lake street.