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, 1902-11-24

MOUNTAIN HOME LODGE NO. 81.
l.. A. to the b. of K. 7. Meets in G.
A. II. hall second ahi fourth Thurs
at 2:3U.
Mrs. Francis Store.. Misuess.
Allie Ientz, Secretary
, 1902-11-24

WYOMING CAMP NO. $3.50, MOD
ERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA
Meets second and fourth Wednesdays
Ia, G. A. R. hall. c. w. Bursard, v. C.
8. Wallace. Clerk.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
How s.onv1etu KAN TamaU.

Ft is at once interesting and pathetic
10 go through the cells Of the eastern
penitentiary and to note the objects
which, with tedious pains, the prison
ers have made to while the time away.
Here a mantel will be hung with a
lambreQuin elaborately fringed, the
fine knots and delicate patterns Of the
threads comparing with the work Of
the French lacemakers. The lambre.
quin is of an odd blue hue, and the Wis
itor is told that it is made OF an old
pair Of prison trousers.
On a little gilt bracket Is small
stuffed animal. The bracket, SO deli
cately turned, is of newspapers pasted
together and gilded, and the animal Ia
q rat, caugEt in homemade trap.
stuffed with rags and with pieces OF
chewing gum colored with shoeblack.
ing for its eyes.
A wall is completely covered with a
really artistic decoration OF reeds, OF
which are perched at least 200 birds.
each accurately colored and drawn
There are also numberless checker.
boards and sets of chessmen that IN
the delicacy Of their inlay work and &
the intricacy of their carving would do
honor to the craftsmen Of the ORIENT
Philadelphia Record.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
A Rare Drug.

'The price of many drugs used ir
medicine is astonishing to those whc
are not acquainted with the subject" !"
remarked a druggist to a Philadelphia
Times representative. "There are sev
eral that are worth their weight in gold
(about $50 an ounce, while ST. So and
S. an ounce are quite common prices
in pharmacy. But. there is one drug
that I can recall which is worth more
than its weight In gold. This is pseudo
physostigmine. don't think that IL
has popular name. It is Too rich fos
that. In the Pharmacists list 1t is
quoted at 81 grain, or $437.s0 ar
ounce. The seed from which the drug
is made grows In India and Brazil, az
we'll as In parts Of South Africa. This
seed, tradition says, was once used by
native chiefs as an ordeal. The ordeai
generally resulted in the death Of the
man upon whom it was tried and so i
was considered as great truth finder.
The prepared drug la sometimes usee
now in prescriptions for the treatment
Of heart disease"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
BOILING IT DOWN.
a Valuable Lesson In the Gentle Ar
of Omitting.

a Valuable Lesson In the Gentle Art
of Omitting.
''It was this way" was explaining
a quite fresh and young appearing
gentleman to much older companion
as took seat near them in the res
taurant. 81 thought that 1t was quite
a clever short story, and as the pro-
fessor had asked me to read it to him
for the purpose Of criticism he listened
patiently for the thirty minutes that it
took me to go through it"
"'Good for the first writing he said.
but you must learn the art of omitting.
You have unnecessary sentences. Find
them, omit them and come and read it
again
81 followed his advice, and the next
time it took me twenty minutes to
read 1t.
Better he said. Try it again, for
there is more you can omit
II didn't show the annoyance that /
felt, but did some more cutting and
condensing. Then | read it to him
again in fifteen minutes.
AdI AS ACOk CA ~ GA4C NO1ECNk GA4nSss
he said, with an approving nod, but
there is chance for little more prun-
Ing
''It was with an effort that ] re-
strained myself, but knowing that he
is an authority ip literary matters for
the third time went to the slaughter
Of the innocents and, returning the
next day, read it to him in ten minutes.
"'That is something like he ex-
claimed, slapping me on the back.
Another little omitting seance will fix
it,
"'This is a little too much / an
swered as seized my manuscript,
with show of feeling You had bet
ter tell me to omit every word of it.
"'Thats it, my boy, that's it, he re
piled. Tt is too much. Omit the rest,
and you will never hear word of adj
verse criticism
''I'll be hanged If I didn't take his
advice again and throw the story in
the wastebasket."-Ne York Herald.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
THE ARABS OF YEMEN.

Story which Throws o. Strong
Light on Their Character. esv.
The Times Of India tells the follow
ing story to show the character of the
Arabs of Yemen. A man of Zaraniks
who several times cut the telegraph
fines and who was punished more than
once was caught on one occasion by
anArab sheik in charge of the lines.
The sheik intended to send him to
Needy for Imprisonment. but the wife
Of the accused came in and stood as a
guarantee for his future good behavior,
The sheik accepted the bail and re-
leased him, but shortly afterward he
again resorted to his old practice of
Getting the wires and bolted away to
another village at distance CT days
Tuarch. where he had another wife.
The sheik then sent for his first wife,
who stood security for him, and told
her he would disgrace her among the
Arabs If she failed to bring in her Aus-
band.
The woman asked the sheik not to
spread the black sheet Ia custom of
the country when any one commits a
breach Of trust until the following
day. She started that night, taking a
sharp dagger concealed under her
clothes, to the village where her hus-
band was staying. She found him
asleep in his abode and stabbed him,
cut his throat and carried his head
back to her home. The next morning
she went to the sheik and presented
the head of her husband. saying: Here
is your criminal. and I am freed from
the bail. Please do net attix the black
sheet. London Telegraph.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
ssEatan~ Crow.n

The term "eating crow comes from
an ante Revolutionary story. A sol.
der of an English regiment stationed
in Virginia shot pet crow belonging
to a farmer The latter entered 8
complaint with the colonel. who sen,
fenced the soldier to eat the crow
The farmer was left alone with the
soldier to see that he did it. After
the soldier had consumed portion of
the bird he took his gun, presented it
at the farmer and told him to eat the
remainder of the crow or he would
shoot him. This was the origin of the
eating crow story.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04

has been reached ahead of
time. Bad blood and weak
circulation more often
produce these miserable
feelings and signs of de-
cay than anything else.
An inherited taint or
poison of some descrip-
ton is at work in the sys-
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
WATER RIGHTS INvioLATE.
vDrin@s and Wells In Palestine APe
Protected by Severe LAWS.

vDrin@s ana Wells In Palestine Are
Protected by Severe Laws.
Water is the most precious thing In
Palestine, and the laws which protect
springs anu wells are very severe.
Most Of the wells are artificial Rich
men at very great expense have CHS
eled basins and reservoirs out of the
rocks to receive the flow from springs.
and in many places where no springs
could tie found they have drilled
through the limestone hundred feet
and sometimes twice that distance to
the artesian basin.
None but very rich sheiks can afford
such an expenditure. Nevertheless,
they have not only been the greatest
Oenefactors OF their fellow men, but
those who have sunk wells and built
fountains have erected monuments to
their fame more enduring than palaces
or temples or shafts Of granite.
The temple of Sol@non has vanished
forever, but the pools which he walled
ap with masonry and filled with water
still remain. The wells that Abraham
and Jacob drilled in the rock as acts
of piety as well as power are as iE,-
mortal as their names and will live for,
ever as long as men feel thirst.
According to just custom of the
country, water rights could never be
forfeited No man who owned a well
might refuse his neighbor water for
his family or his fiocks, but the lord
of the spring was inviolate. No cred
tor or enemy could take his waite,
rights away from him. To injure OF
tll up a well was an objectionable
crime. When the Philistines threw
earth and stones into the well Of Abra
ham, they intended to challenge hirI
tosa war of determination. These Gus.
toms and regulations remain today,
Chicago Record Herald.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
The Extinct Northern "sea Cow"

The Extinct Northern SSSea Cow"
In the year 1854 the Bering explor-
ers discovered gigantic species of ryti-
nee, or northern sea COW. These enor-
nous manateeS were similar in gener-
al habits to those of the South Ameri-
can coast and We're from twenty to
thirty feet in length and from ten to
twenty feet In girth. They were very
stupid, harmless beasts and lived by
browsing ON seaweeds and other ma
rine growths near the land. The sail
ors were not slow in finding out that
a sea cow steak beat seal meat "all
hollow" From 1854 until 17GS they
We're the principal food Of the sailors
and explorers on our western coast.
This being the case. it is not at al sur
prising that the northern sea COW. new
er very numerous species, should be-
come extinct In the short space of four
teen years. The last of the giant man
atees was killed in September, 176S q
few months less than fourteen years
after the discovery of the first one.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
WOMEN WARRIORS.
Many Have Fought BraveIy-Escas
pades of a Queen.

The muster rolls of the civil war
show a number of cases of soldiers who
were discovered to be women.
One of the most remarkable women
was Christian Cayenagh, who lived in
England in the nineteenth century. She
was married and had three children.
Her husband was carried off to Hol-
land, where he had to enlist as pri-
yate soldier. His wife dressed as a
man and enlisted so as to be near her
husband. She was wounded at the bat
tie of Landen, made prisoner by the
French and carried to st. Germain-en-
Laye, where she remained until she
was exchanged. Then she quarreled
and fought duel with her sergeant
and was transferred to another regi-
ment Again she was wounded at Ra-
MILES, when her secret was discover
ed. She was, however, permitted to
remain with the regiment as cook.
Many English officers recall the case
OF ''Dr. James Barry" This woman
served in the British army about fifty
years ago as a surgeon at the Cape, at
Malta and at Barbados. At the Cape
"he" fought duel with an officer who
had called him" woman.
Mrs. Lindley, the wife Of soldier,
went through some Of the sharpest en-
gagements of the civil war. She en-
listed in Company D, Sixth Ohio cav
airy, and fought at Fort Magruder
Hanover Court House. Bull Run, Ante
tam and Boonsboro. She is said to be
still living and the mother of several
children.
Christina, queen OF Sweden, was edu
Gated and dressed like boy from heI
birth because her father was disap
pointed at not having son. She was
more king than queen and after
four years Of rule resigned her crowr
and went of to amuse herself in Eu
rope. She was dressed in mems clothes
and acted as uproariously as any mar
who ever owned his clothes by right
OF sex. She was only twenty eight al
the time.-Savannah News.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04

tenn, causing stagnation and general
unhealthy condition of the blood; and
this, and not the weight of years, is drag
ing you down to an llntimely old age and
making life protracted torture.
For purifying the blood and toning up
the circulation nothing is equal to S. S. S.
1t removes from the system all the waste
matter that has been accumulating for
years, and makes the blood rich and pure,
stimulates the appetite and digestion, and
invigorates the entire body.
S. S. S. is purely vegetable remedy,
and the best purifier and tonic for old peo-
pie, and those who are beginning toshow
age because of the run down condition of
the blood. With rich, pure blood there is
no reason why old people should not re-
tain the happy disposition and buoyant
- - - spirits of youth.
- - If you have cam
- - - cerous sore, Rheu-
~ - = matism, or any of
the ailments CON-
mon to old age, write us about it, and our
Physicians will advise you without charge.
Book on Blood and Skin Diseases free.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
A Wise Answer.

The shah once asked group of court
ieYs whom they thought the greater
man-himself or his father. At first
he could get no reply to so dangerous
question, the answer to which might
cost the courtiers their heads. At last
a willy old courtier said. "Your father,
sire, for, though you are equal to your
father in all other respects. in this he
Is superior to you-that he had a great
er son than any you have"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
FIRST Ensaa.h Book ON sport.


The first book On sport ever printed
in the English language was rhymed
treatise called the "Boke of st. AL
bans," its author being a woman, Dame
Juliana Berners. It's second edition was
printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1896
A descendant of her family. Lord Ber
ners, was the translator of Froissart'a
Chronicles" 1t is true that old manu-
scripts existed, such as the "Veneris
de Twecy" Of the time of Edward H.,
but it was Dame Juliana who was the
real ancestress OF sporting literature
In England, for she also composed an
essay on hawking and another Oh
Fishing With an Angle" the last be
Ing of such excellence that Izaak Wal
ton himself did not disdain to take a
hint from its pages.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04

SUMG SCklS1U4C @WV1CG gO
women passing through this
trying period.
The painful and annoying symp-
toms experienced by most women
at this period of life are easily over
come by Lydia f. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t is espe-
cially designed to meet the needs
of woman's system at the trying
time of change OF life.
Tt is no exaggeration to state that
Mrs. Pinkham has over 5000 letters
like the following proving the great
value of her medicine at such times.
"I wish to thank Mrs. Pinkham for
what her medicine has done for me-
My trouble was change of life Four
years ago my health began to fail, my
head began to grow dizzy, my eyes
panied me, and at times it seemed as
IL my back would fail me, had terrible
pains across the kidneys. Hot flashes
were very frequent and trying. A
friend advised me to try Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. have taken six bottles of it
and am to-day free from those troubles.
] cannot speak in high enough terms
of the medicine. recommend it to all
and wish every suffering woman would
give it q trial. p BELLA Ross, SO Mont
clair Ave, Roslindale, Mass. - $4,000 for-
felt III original Of abovs letter provfnq 0enuineness
eaRnof b. produced.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
A Hot Come Back.

President of the Getyourcoyne Gas
.Company-Heavens. doctor! You don't
mean to say you are going to charge
me So for pulling one tooth?
Dentist-Yes; dollar for pulling the
tooth, the balance for gas furnished
at your regular rates.-San francisco
Chronicle.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
University of Athens. .

The University of Athens is very old
It Is conducted on the German plan
Most of the professors are graduates OF
German universities, and the German
language is heard about the building
more frequently than any other excep'
Greek. The institution has a large
amount of property, and several of tbs
chairs have been handsomely endoweS
nv private tnuividnals.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
Logic.

"The vessel Is on the rocksv' shouted
the captain, thrusting his head in the
ships saloon.
That's good news" remarked the
idiotic passenger who was taking his
0rst trip abroad. $50 long as we are
on the rocks we can't sink. Ohio
State Journal.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-12-04
Showing
~ Some people begir
AH0 to show age before
"A MN~@ the meridian of life
n en@ is reached, or they

have lived out half their days. They are
prematurely gray, haggard apd sickly,
and seldom free from an ache or pain of
some description.
Cold feet, chilly sensations, stiffness in
muscles and joints, weak stomach and
poor digestion, lack of energy, and drows-
mess. NERVOUSNESS. etc. show that old age
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
THE CATSPAW DELEGATE.

Statesman Wilcox is in a peculiar
and unhappy position. He does not ap-
prove OF all sections of his own leper
bill and intends to fight the one which
imposes upon Hawaii the care of main
land unfortunates- According to Mr..
Kaulia. who lately had a letter from
our intelligent Delegate. Mr. Wilcox is
stern in his insistehce that section ? of
the Wilcox bin shall not pass
The appearance of a Delegate in Con-
gress to fight his own measure is most
unusual. and is one of the innova-
tons which the statesman from Hawaii
has introduced. The only explanation
TO be made is that Mr.. Wilcox never
read the bill before he introduced it. II
was his bin only in the nature of q
loan. Whose bill it actually was we dc
not know. but we are ready to concede
that its putative author could have
done better himself
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15

A peculiar breed of domesticated
sheep, having goat-like horns, has been
kept by natives of the Bunden ODER
land, Switzerland, and appears to have
been descended directly from the So
called peat-sheep of the Swiss lake
dwellings, Alarm is now felt at the
present scarcity of the animals. The
breed is already nearly eXterminated
through crossing, and another interest
ing type of animal life will have dis
appeared in a few years unless steps
are taken to prevent it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15

duct If as it does everything ii takes hold
| of viz. on a liberal and scientific pan
a plan that no doubt would De the envy
of all nations of the earth Large puiiu-
iugs would be erected upon tne most
modern and scientific plans, with cement
or concrete walks and baths and every
thing that can tend to make an abandon
ed people comfortable
The TERRITORY of Hawaii, as well as the
ReDublic of Hawaii, and the Monarchy
before it. have all done well-yes, more
than we'll for their unfortunate citizens
but that is not saying the Federal gov
ernment cannot afford to do even more
+har vUa have done Every intelligent
person or prospective tourist VIII always
avail himself Of reliable information IN
re the country or locality he desires to
visit, especially if there be any question
as 10 the safety of the trip or healthfui-
ness of the locality, and when as all the
printed matter in regard to HAWAII Is
abundant and tolerably correct, there
seems no lack of the medium OF informa-
ton. Now, once more: III you or WEI
doomed to go to the settlement, We would
say by all means, If you have any re-
gard for our welfare hand us over 10
the Federal government, where We couic
Fave the many advantages the Federal
government could give, not the ieasl
among them being the attention OF the
foremost scientific specialists in the
world.
The saving would not be 100000 per
wear. but about $4,000, as the biennial
apprepriations run. This outlay is not
precisely a loss, as the money goes into
local trade, which it might not do In
the case of Federal expenditure.
But even a saving of 100000 annually
would not cut much of figure COM
pared to the losses in the tourist trade
and from lack of homeseekers, ETC., due
to making this a dumping ground for
the victims of loathsome disease. AT
present the nation knows little about
Dur leper colony; but it would not be
long after we had advertised Hawaii
m each State and Territory as place
% immune the whole country's lepers. |
before this group would be known as
he Leper Islands. That phrase would |
'tigmatize us beyond escape. We could |
make no Roadway against it.
AS for the care of the iepers we doubt |
hat they would be as we'll satisfied
With life in hospitals, as subjects of
-oung surgeons, surrounded by the
tern police or military restrictions by
which the government would try to
.eep the peace between the natives and
he desperate white victims from the
as they are now with their
rec village life.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15

The new chemical elements of the
last few years have impressed us with
their suggestions Of secrets yet to be
revealed. A French writer notes that
the rare metals from uranium ores
polonium, radium and actinium, dis
covered in 1898 and 1S99-have startled
us with properties that appear to be
opposed to existing physical and chem
ical theories. and probably open the
way to a new era in the history of
science. They seem to create energy
from nothing. Without perceptible loss
or outside aid, they produce light and
electricity, and their emission of Bee
querel rays-which resemble Roentgen
rays. and were first noticed in 1896 in
uranium-is 100000 times greater than
that of uranium. The self-luminosity
Of radium, sufficient to show writing,
IS not sensib'y diminished at the end
Of year The new metals impart
fiuorescence to the diamond. alkaline
substances, paper. etc. and their salts
nave powerful chemical action-con-
Vert'ng oxygen into ozone. discoloring
glass and porcelain, energetically af-
fecting Photographic plates, and at
lacking the skin and DESTROYING the
termination of seeds. These are effects
OF the radiation.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-15
DISEASE AND ovERpOpULATlON.

Nature takes care of humanity in its
own way, and it's way is not always
past finding out. When devastating
wars began to cease, when science ale
waited plague and philanthropy famine
and charity kept the poor from dying
s at the gate, the population of the world
at once began to grow so fast as to
threaten, at the end of three or four
hundred years, to compel men to fight
each other for subsistence and thus
achieve the survival of the fittest. But
nature does not intend to have it so.
She demands an equilibrium; and so.
as wars decrease. and plaques abate
and famine ceases to count its dead by
the myriads, it brings in the diseases
of civilization of which tuberculosis is
n type and proposes to check a threat
ening growth of human numbers. Year
by Year tuberculosis adds to its raw
ases: and as Ii decimates the throng
Ing millions it puts farther and farther
away the day when mother will turn
against child and child against mother
in the mad effort to get something to
eat.
That the danger, automatically con-
sidered. is not overdrawn, can be cas-
:iy shown. 1t is not believed by scien-
lists that the cultivatable area of the
earth could be made to sustain 10000.
coo 900 human beings. The world con-
tains. not to exceed $4,000. 900 square
niles of habitable land, every acre of
which we will assume to be productive,
y hich Is an estimate too liberal by
about 10. 000.000 square miles. 1t is gen
orally conceded that a square mile of
ordinarily fertile land will sustain 200
human beings and little or no more.
Hence the extreme sustaining capacity
of the earth is 7.4Oo. Oo0, 900 people. Be-
yond that would be cannibalism or the
procurement offood not yielded by the
md When will that number be reach
'ed2 The calculation Is easy. The pop
siatien Of the earth is now doubling
erery ninety-eight years; let us say.
With every century. Starting with
1.5e0. 10000. the present population of
the world-in 1897 there will be 3000.-
COCO human mouths to feed; in 2097,
{, 900. 100000. and in 2197. $4,000, 900 900, or
more than 800 to the square mile 1t
fas never yet been oisproved, as claim
cd by Nautilus. that while the food
products of the earth increase arith-
snetically the population multiplies in a
eeometrical ratio, and that want must
therefore come to mankind in the end.
But here nature comes in with tuber-
erlosis germs and increases the death
rate: and il this does not keep the pop
nlation down to its proper ratio with
the means of subsistence. then some
other devastating malady will appear.