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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-22
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 This process applied to a piece of goods renders it at once rainproof and spot proof as well as making it unshrink- able, however smooth-faced the material may be without changing the appearance of the fabric, however glossy or highly finished the material may be, and many of their blacks. together with all of their eolored are Cravanette finished.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-22
GUARANTEED

Fitzpatrick's Corn Cure is .guaran- teed to remove every corn on any part of any foot; 1Oc per box. Fitzpat- rick's Pharmacy, East Main and wall streets. Telephone 63-4.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
A Royal Road to wealth.

When certain late shah of Persia
became temporarily embarrassed for
money, he had quite unique method
of filling his purse. He would go to
the market, where, after examining
the shops, he would select one and,
turning to the proprietor, would say.
"Will you take me in as partner in
your business for the day." The Of
fer was, of course, eagerly accepted.
The shah would take his seat near the
shop entrance and say to his courtiers
whom he always took with him on
these occasions: Now, I'm salesman.
Who'll buy?" The latter, not daring to
refuse the offers Of the royal mer-
chant, set about clearing the shop Of
Its contents, paying sometimes ESQ for
goods that were not worth f10. No
one was allowed to beat down prices
or to leave the place without making
purchases. When everything was sold,
the shah had list of the cost price Of
each article made out and Loyalty
shared with the shopkeeper the
amount of the profit realized.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
THE CANDY HHBlT.

Under the head of "a Candy Men
ace" California contemporary de-
plores the enormous extension of the
candy industry of the United States,
which now produces over $80,000,000
worth of goods yearly, against $3,000,-
900 in 1860. The taste for sweets is
natural, and indicates a physiological
demand. Those who find fault with
the present large consumption of "arti-
fetal sweets" contend, however, that
this demand is best met by the con-
sumption of the natural sweets ex-
listing in the natural fruits. Our CAL
fornia contemporary says that ''the
necessity for sweets, therefore, should
be met by the rational use of sweet
fruits, such as apples, pears, peaches,
plums, grapes, oranges, pineapples,
nectarines, melons, figs, dates, raisins,
etc The use of artificial sweets as a
means of sensual qualification is inde-
fensible from every standpoint. Chill
dren are not the only sufferers from
the candy habit. 1t has ruined the
health of thousands Of American wom-
en-. Obesity, sick headache neural
gia, nervousness, irritability, skin dis
orders, constipation and a host of other
troubles result. 1t is safe to say that
women have suffered more from the
use of candy than men have suffered
through the use of tobacco"
This is a hard saying. One by one
the reformers of our dietary would de-
prive us of the comforts of life. No
doubt some people are injured by the
excessive use of candy-especially the
adulterated and sophisticated sorts.
But 1t is going rather far and using
rather lurid English to say that candy
eating is "one of the most pernicious
customs of the day." This is putting
it too strong. So also when our con-
temporary adds: The child is fire.
quently a victim of the candy habit
before it can walk. In these cases not
only is the child injured by the taking
of the sweets, but, through the strong
and constant appeal to the sensual
impulse, the foundation is laid for glut-
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
A QuSer Tranaacfi0n.


Sir Arthur Sullivan discovered as
Monte Carlo one time that certain res
taurant proprietors had way Of reg
ulating their charges with the appear
ance and standing of their customers.
When lunching alone, Sir Arthur was
in the habit of frequenting one partic-
nlar place where he knew to centime
what the prices were.
One day there sat at the table adjoin-
ing his own wealthy Russian noble
man. Upon asking for his bill the
composer found that the prices were
exorbitantly high. He sent for the
proprietor and demanded an explana-
ton.
The man, an Italian, recognized Sir
Arthur as an influential client and
was profuse in his apologies. He ex-
planned that the mistake lay with the
cashier. Going over the items to which
exception was taken, the proprietor
said: ''The convert take him OFF di.
rectly, and the butter charge him to
the grand duke. He not notice it,
The idea Of charging to the grand
duke an item against whose extortion.
ate price another customer protested
always struck the great composer as a
decidedly humorous way Of getting out
of the difficulty.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
The .IRIlvAah.

The bay of Naples abounds in me-
dusse, or jellyfish, often growing as
large as two feet in diameter and
weighing fifty and sixty pounds. Some
of them shine at night with a greenish
light and are known as "noctiluca"
(night lanterns) by the natives. The
jellyfish sometimes make migrations in
great groups. sometimes so large and
so thick as to impede the navigation Of
vessels, like the floating plants in the
sargasso sen of the tropics. These
shoals of medus@. as they are called,
may be so dense that piece Of timber
plunged in among them will be held up
right as if stuck in the mud. and or
dinary rowboats cannot force their
way through them. Their migrations
have never been explained. They are
irregular and occur at no particular
season of the year and under no par
ticular influences.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
''Et Out"

A certain congressman was from a
rural district, and as it was his first
time in Washington-and, indeed, his
first visit to any city of considerable
size-the experiences Of himself and
wife were often unique. At home a
guest had been something of a rarity,
but had only meant an extra piece
from the pumpkin pie, a few more
doughnuts and perhaps a deeper In
road into the dish of cabbage or beans.
1t was slow dawning on them that a
congressman at Washington is a host
at large.
Soon after they had become settled
in their new home a friend called on
them from the rural district and be-
gan to express astonishment at the
size of the city and the number Of its
people, winding up with:
''An' so you keep a girl now, Sairy,
an put your washin' out? Well, well,
the luck O. some people! An / s'pose
you have callers most every day?'
"Callers!" gasped the congressman
wife, throwing up her hands in dire
full recollection, Il should say SO, an
eaters. Mary Ann, Hiram an mes
been ct out twice in a week. ."-Ex-
change
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
The Gambling rnutanct.

SO far as we know, the gambling IN
stinct is as old as humanity; it is GER
tainly as old as history. There were
bookmakers of a sort in Nineveh and
Babylon, and Homer in his "Iliad"
distinctly allndes to betting on sports.
1acitus tells us that both the ancient
Germans and our own ancestors, the
Britons, when they had lost everything
else. would stake their own liberty and
that OF their wives and children on the
hazard Of the game.
The laws of ancient Rome strictly
forbade all betting and gambling, yet
Anthony and Cleopatra made bets on
their luck in fishing, and Horace COM
plains more than once of the effemi-
macy of the gilded youth of Rome be-
cause they forsook manly sports and
warlike exercises for the attraction of
the gaming tables. AS is too much the
case with ourselves in the present day.
the youth of Rome left off playing
games to watch them played and to
bet on them. The most fragrant exam
PIE of this was to be found in connec-
ton with the gladiatorial games in the
arena. Roman mobiles and plutocrats
kept their fighting champions, just as
our own keep their race horses. 1t was
70 uncommon thing for fortunes and
even estates to be gambled away on
the issue of a single combat.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
OUR SENATORIAL VISITORS.

1t is probable that the subcommittee
of the Senate committee on Territories,
now on the way to visit Arizona under
the guidance of Chairman Beveridge,
is composed exclusively of Republi-
cans. A dispatch from Indianapolis
states that there is some hope of Sem
ator Patterson of Colorado joining the
Senatorial party en- route, but because
of the involved condition of politics in
Colorado it is hardly likely that Mr..
Patterson will leave his State at this
time. The other members of the
committee named in the dispatch.
Bdrnham of New Hampshire and Nell
son of Minnesota, like Chairman Bev-
eridge himself, exhibited prejudice not
only against Arizona specially, but
against the other two Territorial ap-
plicants for Statehood as well, when
the Omnibus bill was laid before the
Senate committee.
1t was not necessary that Democrats
should be of the subcommittee. The
Democrats of either the House or SEN
ate do not have to be convinced of the
right and justice of granting Statehood
to the three Territories. Every Dem
ocrat in both Houses of Congress IA
vors the bill, and the Senate Demo-
Gratis, like their brethren in the House,
will be unanimous for the Omnibus bill
when it comes up for consideration.
The Democrats are not afraid of grant
ing power to the west. They are not
afraid of any section of their country,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
An unintentionaI Pun.

The difficulties of learning and using
a new language are many, and the un-
fortunate Norwegian in this story from
the Frankfort (Kan) Review must
bave felt that his own efforts were
particularly unsuccessful.
A druggist was obliged to be absent
from his store one day, and his wife
took his place. A large Norwegian.
who spoke English with difficulty, en-
tered and said:
"Hi owe de firm so cents''
"Very WELL" replied the druggist s
wife; lust pay it to me, and it will be
all right"
"Hi owe de firm 80 cents"
"Yes; understand. If you are
afraid. will give you a receipt for it. -
The man looked at her in astonish-
ment and walked out without a word.
Pretty soon he returned with fellow
countryman whose command Of Eng.
lish was little better and who inter
preted his friends remark by explain
ing, "He wants SO cents worth Of iodo-
form"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

The sentimental people of Boston
are organizing to erect monument to
the witches that their ancestors burned
tat Salem. In honoring the victims OF
the witchcraft craze in the latter part
lof the seventeenth century the Boston
folk seem to be borrowing a suggestion
from the members of a lynching party
lin the early days of Arizona, who, dis
that they had hanged the
wrong man, called on the widow and
acknowledged that the joke was on
them.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

or of any portion of their countrymen.
They know that the people of Arizona
are Americans to the core, the children
and grandchildren of Virginia and
Massachusetts, of Ohio and Texas, of
Illinois and Kentucky, of Pennsylvania
and Missouri. Arizonians are of the
Brahmin caste. They are bone of the
bone and flesh of the flesh of the men
who have made the United States Of
America great and free and world
respected.
If the visiting statesmen come with
out prejudice and with minds open to
conviction, there will be no trouble in
convincing them that Arizona of right
ought to be constituted a sovereign
State Of the Union. The population of
Arizona is greater than has heretofore
been considered necessary in warrant
ing the promotion of Territories to
Statehood. The people are educated,
intelligent, progressive, industrious
and prosperous. The taxable wealth
of the Territory is ample to enter the
adult political state. The people are
ambitious to be endowed with the
rights and privileges and franchise OF
their brother Americans elsewhere.
They are tired of the adolescent state
and seek the full measure of American
citizenship to which their blood and
birth entitIe them.
All the people of Arizona, irrespect-
i've of party, should join to facilitate
the investigation of the visiting COM
mttee; but our Republican brethren
are called upon to exercise unusual
activity, and endeavor to convince
their party friends not only of the
/ right, but of the expediency and wis
dom of granting unto the people of
Arizona that which is their natural po-
litical inheritance. Every man on
the visiting committee is a trained
and veteran politician. The Repub-
lican politicians of Arizona must be on
hand to state their case to their party
brethren.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
MORE PENSIONS Demanded.

In an address at a Grand Army re-
union at Chicago few nights ago,
Hon. Green B. Raum, formerly COM
missioner of pensions and now a PEN
sion attorney, proved himself man
of the most generous impulses. ''The
time has come" Mr.. Raum is reported
to have said, when every surviving
soldier Of the civil war should have a
pension" That is to say, every man
who enlisted in the army and was paid
for his services by an appreciative
country ought now to receive bounty
from the government.
Mr.. Raum is kind-hearted man, an
unselfish, sympathetic patriot, who is
quite willing that Secretary Shaw's fat
reserve and imposing surplus should
be divided among those who are not
already on the pension lists. Danish
the thought that the patriotic Mr..
Raum is trying to drum up business
Tor his pension soliciting mill. OF
course. His compassionate soul can
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

President Roosevelt is going to hunt
bears in Missouri. The 10000 Demo
cratic majority recently recorded by
Missouri will probably have the effect
of making the bears cling close to
their reservation in the Ozarks But
the Missouri Democrats can show
Roosevelt some strenuous sport, if he
will go trust hunting with them.
They can show him how to shoot an
octopus.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
Milford Winsor, Manager
,PARTMENT

ot bear the idea of any man being left
s1tside the treasury breastworks who
nlisted during the 'late unpleasant
ess." He sits up O. nights weeping
yer the fate of those unlucky patriots
Who have not established by faithful
service their right to Uncle Sans
bounty.
Il 1t is to be feared that Mr.. Raum's
tender-heartedness will not be appre-
ciated by practical men in any section
of the country Sensible people have
Ilong ago been more than convinced
that every soldier who was entitled to
IA pension, and a great many who were
mot entitled to it, have already received
mot only just but extremely liberal
recognition from the government. The
men whose service was gallant and
faithful and who have wounds or dis
lease to prove it, think that the pension
roll ought to be ''roll of honor" Un-
who do not share this opinion; some
of them, like Green B. Raum, for in
stance, imagine that it should be 'fopen
to all corners" who have employed a
pension attorney-that pensions, like
the "gentle dew of heaven" should fall
on the just and unjust alike. Of
course, as we have said, Mr.. Raum's
motive is purely philanthropic. He
would scorn to attempt to enlarge the
circle of his clients. He merely wants
Ito be good to everybody, SO that all,
Including himself, may be happy and
prosperous.
1 But while Mr.. Raum is in a philan-
thropic mood, he ought to consider the
feelings of taxpayers as well as tax
receivers. If the government does not
place some limit on pensions, the time
may come when it will be necessary to
lput crippled taxpayers on the pension
trolls.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
Her Sentiments.

1t is related of clergyman who was
the father of charming and beauti-
full daughter that one day while pre-
pairing his Sunday sermon he was sud-
denly called away from his desk on a
mission of mercy. The sentence at
which he left off was this: Il never see
a young man of splendid physique and
the promise of glorious manhood al
most realized but my heart is filed
with-rapture and delight"
His daughter, happening to enter the
study, saw the sermon and read the
words. Sitting down, she wrote under
meath, 'My sentiments, papa, exact
Typ
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
The Chinese Quarter.

A student of the Chinese in New York
city notes the fact that when Chinese
sues an American he must perforce
take the case into the regular civil
courts, but that when one Chinese sues
another the general public hears moth
ing of the litigation. 1t is settled by
Chinatown's own mayor, who, although
he has no legal means of enforcing his
judgments, is so backed up by Chinese
public sentiment that any man who
fails to abide by his decision is ostra-
cized. This seems an odd situation in
an American city, but it is after all,
but an application of the doctrine of
'extraterritoriality" by which Ameri
cans or other foreigners in China may
settle their disputes before their own
consular courts.-Youths Companion.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
Anxiana to Do Right.

The children had quarreled, and VIII
lie had struck Tommie Instead of re-
turning the blow Tommie turned and
ran down the hall
Where are you going, Tommie?"
asked his mother.
Kitchen answered Tommie tersely.
what forT'
'You said if anybody was mean to
me to heap Goals of fire on his head.
and I'm goin' FOR the Goals. s."-ChicagO
Post.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
Paying a Debt In Japan.

A Japanese provincial journal has the
following story of a debt: A peasant
had borrowed the sum of Is yen ($7.5O)
on the security of a small house owned
by him. The term for the repayment
of the loan having come and gone, and
the usurer seeing no immediate proba-
bility of getting his money back, the
creditor was dunned to the verge of
distraction. He alleged that he was
unable properly to feed his family ow-
ing to the hard times and that it
would not be until summer that his
scanty acres would yield enough to pay
the loan and interest. Nothing would
satisfy the creditor but that the peas
ant should give up the house. 1.-The
house is mine," declared the usurer
''and if you do not turn out | am at
liberty to burn it over your heads"
This drove the peasant to desperation.
Next day he appeared before the door
of his oppressor with q cart containing
seven large bags of ashes. He had
taken the liberty, he said, to burn the
house down himself, as it appeared i'm
material to his creditor whether it was
burned or not; here were the ashes; he
hoped the usurer would be satisfied.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
A Missing Point.

A good instance of the Importance of
punctuation was afforded in the case
of a contemporary, according to the
London Chronicle, which once an,
nounced the death of the bishop of
Brisbane This was promptly contra
6icted. The explanation followed that
the cable received was: bishop Of
Brisbane found dead sea serpent fifty
feet long" Reading this as two items
Of news, the news editor chose the
piece Of information most slited to his
columns, and the cable announced
THE bishop of Brisbane has been
found dead"
Love is Not Blind.
Love is bend" muruured Mr.. Meel.
ton regretfusly.
That's nonsense" replied his wife
when II girl falls in love with Il man
she sees magnificent qualities in him
which none Of her family can make out
and which become wholly obscure even
to her in the course of year or so."-
t!hica0o Innrnal
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

tony and perhaps intemperance in later
years"
The truth is that sugar is a valuable
food stuff when used in moderation,
but, like other things, does harm when
used to excess. 1t is not improbable
that in urging the use of natural
sweets" our California contemporary
is trying to boom the great fruit prod
uct of California. 1t should not for
get, however, that California produces
the sugar beet, too, in great abund-
ance. --.--s
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
The Last Request.

An amateur sportsman had mistaken
a calf for a deer, and the calf was
breathing its last.
"T-tell mother" gasped the dying
martyr addressing the sympathetic
sheep that stood near by-"t-tell moth
er t-that died gamer
Another @ruggle, and the agony was
over.-Chicugo News.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

The American authorities in the
Philippines have arrested and jailed
two women claiming to be saints.
They would, of course, have had no
trouble if they had asserted the right
of their sex to be considered angels.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

Every man in Arizona should regard
himself as a committee of one to give
information regarding the feelings of
the people and the resources of the
Territory to the members of the Senate
committee on Territories during their
visit.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

The news from Colorado Springs,
where the Stratton will hangs fire,
suggests that if some people worked as
energetically at their own business as
they do to break down other peoples
wills, they might themselves have wills
worth breaking.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
He stnxs mt Home.

Mrs. Gaussil-l suppose you're care
full to make your husband tell you
everything that happens to him.
Mrs. Strongmind-Better than that.
I'm careful to see that nothing happens
to ohim.-Philadelphia Press.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

Senator Depew's assertion that the
trust question is 'ghost" has a strik-
ing verification. All the Republican
politicians are able to testify that they
have seen the spooz, and are scared
by it.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

We would suggest to Senator Bev-
eridge that the largest State does not
always send the largest intellects to the
Senate. Compare Indiana with New
York for instance, or even Nevada with
Pennsylvania.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

In Chicago they claim that getting
wife for So in a matrimonial bureau
is cheaper than the old way of theater
parties, drives, flowers and candy
They always were money savers in
Chicago.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

The east has coal famine and the
west car famine. A car famine has
its disadvantages, but the west
wouldn't trade calamities with the
east.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
She Took Him,

He-Anl good enough for you. dar-
ling?
She-No. George; but you are too
good for any other girl.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

The Alaska Indians still claim that
there are two petrified ships away up
in the north portion of that country.
But as Noah only had one, whose was
the other?
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11

A letter addressed to 'The Doodle
City Administration was sent by the
postal authorities to St. Louis instead
of Philadelphia. Such carelessness in
the postal service is inexcusable.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
Smart.

The successful merchant nowadays
knows how to turn even misfortune
into advertising.
A team of coach horses dashed into
an immense plate glass window in
front of big furniture store and made
great smash up of everything in
sight.
The proprietor instead of shutting up
shop even temporarily. sat down and
with paint brush elaborated the fol
lowing on a big white board and in
stalled it in the window where the
plate glass was:
"A coach smashed this window. You
see even the horses know where to find
good furniture. This is hint for YOU"
London Answers.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-11
For Amateor photographera.

Users Of films will find that after de-
velopment and fixing they may be
washed with ease and certainty by
pinning the strips to a piece of board
and 6oating the same, film down, i'll the
hathtub. In this way they may be left
indefinitely without attention, and as
the chemicals to he eliminated from the
film are heavier than the water the
process is simple and thorough.