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The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
GETTING AWAY FROM HOME
The Spirit of Restleswmess and the
Desire For Change.


Desire For Change.
Judging by good deal of the con.
versation of the present day, there are
large number of people who have a
positive horror of home. This curious
revulsion OF feeling is taken by many
persons as sign of social deteriora-
tion. For our own part we find it diff,
cult to take it quite seriously or to see
in it anything more than a passing
whim.
Nobody nowadays likes monotony.
Change is what people desire-not per-
haps any great change, but lots of
small change; not necessarily for the
better, but for it's own sake. Now.
there is a great sameness about ones
own four walls, be they ever SO hand
some. We all feel at times an overpow.
ering desire to look at something else.
We cannot change the patterns or the
pictures on them every day, and neither
they nor the home furniture ever seems
to alter in expression.
Again, there is a terrible sameness
about ones own cook. Experience ena-
bles ,us to foretell the taste of every
thing at home, from the soup to the sa
worry If we are rich and from the NUT
ton to the cheese If we are poor:
whereas il we dine at restaurant
everything down to the salt is differ
ent, and the restaurant is refurnished
daily with new faces.
Then, again, the music and stir going
on around one avoid the necessity for
much conversation, and conversation
In the home circle is sometimes diff
cult end sometimes dull. 1t does not do
always just to say what one thinks. 1t
is such bad practice for dining out,
and, this being the case, it is not easy
sometimes to think what to say.
Nowadays we get, socially speaking.
tired OF. our friends and even Of our ac-
quaintances. We want them to pass
continually before us like street pro.
cession. Instead OF that they rather
resemble stage crowd and keep COM
ing up again. There is a limit to those
we know, e. limit even to those we
should like or should be likely to know
even by sight, and at q restaurant this
latter limit is disregarded. The barrier
IT good manners which forbids thGs
those who are acquainted with one an
other should speak is sufficient to pro-
tect our station or our dignity, but 1t
LIS not very high fence, and it is one
which it is amusing to look oyer.-Lonr
aon Spectator.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
Moral suasion and a strap.

"She seems to have abandoned her
moral suasion IDEAS relative to the
training of children"
"She has?'
"How did it happenT'
'Well, was largely instrumental in
bringing about the change. You see,
she has no Children of her own, and
grew weary of her constant preaching
and theorizing, SO loaned her our Will
lie." ,A,,er -. .~,.s
."Loaned her your boy?'
Precisely. She was to have him a
week on her solemn promise to confne
herself entirely to moral suasion."
''Did she keep her promiseY
"She did, but at the expiration of the
week she came to me with tears in her
eyes and pleaded for permission to
whale him just once."-New York Mail
and Express. ~
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
ENTIRELY TOO CLEVER.
Gxperience OF q Doctor En PrescrSSs
ing For a Patient.


An anonymous physician who has
written some confessions" for the In
dependent tells this story about him.
self:
Il received request to call from
an old patient who was afraid she was
taking scarlet fever. / responded at
once The patient was one of two
elderly sisters whom ! h2d attended
for many years. greeted her In the
sitting room and noted her pulse while
In the act Of shaking hands with her.
BY some witty remark contrived to
make her laugh, which enabled ME to
see her tongue. Then I said in play
full tone: If you will get me a glass
I will treat you to some of my patent
soda water She did so. | put a tab
let in the water and she drank it.
II want you to know that l take
pride in my original methods. / try
to educate my patients to like, and not
to dread, the visits of the doctor. In
this case all OF my work had been
done without the direct knowledge Of
the patient and felt very good over it.
So bade my patient goodby with ex.
treme cheerfulness.
"She looked surprised, and then said;
AOf course you will come upstairs and
see my sister, Not today / said
Give her my respects Why she
said, looking mystified and startled,
how strangely you talkr Strangely :?
/ echoed. 'WhyY Because / sent for
you to prescribe for my sister and you
decline to see her. 1t flashed over
my mind In an instant. / had pre-
scribed for the wrong sister. wal
entirely too clever"
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
How a Woman Gets q seat.

'T will tell you how to work it. said
b woman, whose figure showed she
would be tired by standing, to COM
panion in a Broadway car. When
there is no vacant seat. watch for two
men who are in conversation and
stand right iD front of them.
Zach one will want his friend to
think he is very polite. SO both of them
will jump rl1llt up and offer their
seats. That's the way l do and it uev
sr falls New York Herald.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
For the Use OF the Right Hand.

The buttons on coats. etc, are placed
on the right side and the shed of the
hair in boys to the left evidently to suit
manipulation by the right hand. The
great philosopher Newton records that
at first he confined his astronomical
observations to his right eye, but after
ward he managed to train his left. But
there are persons who could not do this
owing to the unequal strength of their
eyes.-Chambers' Journal.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
Recinrncifx.

Suburbanite-Well, you have told my
fortune. How much?
Gypsy-Only 80 cents.
Suburbanite-Here it is. Now I'll
tell yoar fortune for nothing. II any
Of my chickens are missing tomorrow
morning, I'll have your entire gang
run in.-Chicago Tribune.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
A curioun Cuator, .

In some parts OF Brittany a curious
marriage custom prevails. On certain
fete days the marriageable girls appear
in red petticoats, with white or yellow
borders round them. The number of
borders denote the portion the father
ls willing to give his daughter. Each
white band denotes 500 per annun;
each yellow band represents 5000 a
year
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
Entertained Her.

did Miss Gaddy entertain your pro-
posalY' asked the close friend.
''No." was the sad answer. lit
seemed to work just the other way
Exchange.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
CURED OF PILES AFTER 40 YEARS

M. G. Haney, of Geneva, Ohio, had
the piles for forty years. Doctors and
dollars could do for him no lasting
good. DeWittS Witch Hazel Salve
cured him permanently. Invaluable
for cuts. Bells Pharmacy.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
Soothed to slumber,

What de reason Brer Williams she!
his eye wen de collection basket gwine
roun'?'
He say de singin' do him so much
good dat he 'bleege- ter fall asleep en-
dream s,E heavenv nv-Atlanta Constitu
don,
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24

The longest pendulum ever made
was 377 feet in length and was swung
from the second platform Of the Eiffel
tower.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24

You need not suffer from headaches,
weak eyes or nervous troubles fl you
wear a pair of accurately fitted glasses
DR.. II. A. Schell. the eve specialist has
returned and will examine your eyes and
give expert advice free. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24

and does itpromptly and effectually.
SIS. S. purifes and invigorates the thin
acid blood, and builds up the entire sys-
tenn; then the unsightly eruption and sores
heal, the akin becomes smooth and soft,
and all signs of the Eczema disappear.
Our special book on Skin Diseases free.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
What is home without
The Citizen.

Wanted, a Wife" November rs.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
Winter Eczema
OR letter n.s9 Is sPs v.eis'Is: IF ts:

OF lna I tor
1nenting disease called Eczema. It slum-
bers through the summer and breaks
out in winter. The head, feet and hands
are the parts most often attacked, though
it sometimes appears on other parts of the
body, the skin hardens, cracks open and
bleeds, while the itching and burning is
at times almost unbearable. Scratching
only makes it worse, sores and scabs
forming where the skin is broken.
In this form of Eczema brownish white
crusts sometimes
form which scale off SKIN CRACKS
in fine particles, -. - - -
leaving the skin raw AND BLEEDS
and inf1amed. tits
especially painful and severe when con-
fined to the hands, which often become so
badly affected that the sufferer is unable
to perform the lightest work. This, like
ali other types of Eczema, is due to acid
poisons in the blood and not to local
causes. The trouble is more than skin
deep, and washes, soaps, powders and
salves nor anything else applied to the
surface can possibly do more than soothe
the burning and itching or relieve tempo
rarily the inflammation and pain.
1t is the acids thrown off by the blood
and which are forcing their way through
the pores that cause the skin to harden,
crack and bleed, and produce the irrita-
The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-24
SKIN CRACKS
AND BLEEDS

tion and sorenes SIS.
S. S. S. 1leutralizes
these acid poisons S
and c1eauses the blood
of all irritating sub
stances and hur1ors
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29
Will It Pay?

The latest thing in the line of
monopolies or trusts, as they are
called without any apparent rea-
son, is the combination Of prac-
tically all the companies operating
Atlantic lines; but this trust diff
fers from all others in two i'm
portant respects. It is the first
successful effort made by capital
lists in one country to consolidate
in a holding company Incorporated
in their own country number OF
companies or businesses incorpor-
ated and almost entirely owned
and controlled in foreign coun-
try. It owns no valuable franchise
or grant and can never obtain a
natural monopoly, and no sort of
protective tariff can be devised
and enacted for it's benefit.
On the other hand it is bur-
dened with the usual percentage
of watered stock and has to pay
the somewhat large promotion fee
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29
8 there any kind of rig that can

is there any kind of a rig that can
take the place of the one we all
know when we are off for a days
fishing? I want to hear the min
now buckets rattle, I want to feel
the lines in my hand, and when
we come home at night, don't you
think the horse likes the good
story or the jolly song? I know
it. And speaking of country doc
tors, don't you think on those long,
lonely, sometimes beautiful night
rides that the horse is his nearest
friend? While the smoke from
his fragrant cigar floats off on the
cool night air, the good old horse
joys slower and listens to many a
(shall I say professionally secret
But why enumerate-the occa-
sions are too many and varied.
There is no such thing as the
passing of the horse. Do away
with him and you relegate to the
dead past the horse fair, the horse
radish, the horse-chestnut and the
horselaugh; and these alone are
institutions which can not be
downed. IL. r. M.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

ing demand on his powers have
developed the beautiful animal as
we have it today. That this IL SO
no one can doubt; witness the
development of speed in our own
generation. This of course is
partly due to equipment and the
art of track building. but breeding
is the paramount issue both for
the slim greyhound-like racer, or
the equally handsome draft and
coach horses. It is true that the
common horse might decline and
only the thoroughbred developed,
which would be practically the
distinction of the "Classes and
Masses" as usual. But I do not
believe this either. Automobiles
and self-propelling vehicles Of
whatever sort must advance great
way yet; the cost must be reduced
to fraction of what it is at the
present time; and, notwithstand-
ing Thos. Edison, Tesla, Santos
Dumont and host of others, the
horse will still have his field Of
,, usefulness. His ability as beast
of burden or help-mate must nee
essarily be the main cause of his
perpetuation as a common horse.
unless we make necessity a point
of exception. Should we consume
him as promiscuously as we do
cattle, I have no doubt he would
be bred for this even.
But barring all these points he
would still remain. The love of
man for horse and horse for man
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

of twelve and a-half million dol
lars in addition to the heavy
lawyers fees and other expenses
incidental to the Incorporation of
a big company. Under these cir
cumstances the public will be
deeply interested in the outcome,
because if it should be an unqual-
flied success-that is to say if it
manages to earn dividends equal
to or greater than those formerly
paid by the constituent companies
and at the same time furnish as
good service without increasing
existing rates-it will 60 long
way towards solving the vexed
question of whether these great
consultations are mainly bone
fetal or the reverse; and at the
same time it will be a practical
refutation of all the popular argu-
ments now being used against
such consultations.
Just where the pruning knife of
economy can be applied on large
scale by the combine in matters
which could not have been dealt
with by the original companies is
difficult to see, except in the mat
ter of advertising, and it may be
doubted if this expense will be-
greatly curtailed, altho it may be
diverted to other channels and
ultimately be- of greater benefit.
For the other operating expenses,
each ship must of necessity be
worked by it's own set of officers
and in every way be little world
to itself the greater part of the
time it is being worked, and any
economy exercised by the direc-
tors of the combine might have
been exercised by the directors of
the original company.
AS for the purchasing of raw
material and supplies in large
Wholesale quantities, thereby eff
fecting a great saving in the cost,
one has only to look over an At
lantic liner to Immediately realize
that company which owned
eight or ten Of them could COCA
sionally deal in carload lots; and,
even if it were fitting out only
one, the number of articles it
would purchase in ten cent pack
ages would be limited to q very
few. E. G.. A.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29
The Passing Of the
Equine.

Paper Read Before the ChdottduQud Circle.
Called upon in an emergency by
our president to prepare paper, to
refuse never came to me at all, for [
feel that we are all indebted to this
circle for the hours that it enables us
to forget. It is wise provision that
allows us to choose our own sub
ject, and in the following classic
you behold the product of a
mighty intellect concentrated for
this supreme effort. Desist from
debate and pin your faith to the
critic, and given the usual time he
will puncture this to exceed the
most exacting demands.
People tell us that the day OF
the horse is passing and that the
~chawdows'' of a long endless
night for him are already falling
After many hours of careful and
painstaking research, devoted by
day to huge sets of manila and
sisal and by night 70 the walls OF
my cell, l am prepared to state
that this is not so.
Historians tell us that in pre-.
historic times, when style was un-
known. which would be about
~'umteen hundred" B. c., the
horse was much smaller and also
of q cloven hoof, that the exigen.
cies arising from an ever increas.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

is nearly as old as love itself, and
is famed in song and story; and of
all Gods creatures the horse de-
serves this bit of sentiment, for [
know of nothing more beautiful in
the animal kingdom than beau
tiful horse-an animal with intelli-
gence almost human, and a devo-
ton deserving at least the best
possible usage. / think no other
animal has ever reached such ex-
tremes in value or none ever will !;
from the high bred racer, COM
handing perhaps as high as
$4,000, to the derelict car horse,
at maybe SO cents. And yet a
horse is horse for "a that"
I may look into the future
about SO cents worth, as Bill Nye
says, and see great cities where
traffic has become noiseless and
almost horseless, but away from
that we will always have the horse.
Where is the automobile that will
make the winding turns of a
country road on mellow night in
June and carry two Souls with but
a single thought, etc., without
steering? Where is the horseless
carriage That can go around a ring
while the lady jumps through
hoops and balances SO airily and
gracefully on top? Where is the
locomobile that the small boy can
drive the COWS home with and give
us intermittent views of the land
scape between him and the seat as
he bounces up and down? Where
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29
NOTES OF TRAVEL. i sss:r'
FROM MEXICO TO ALASKA.
Seventh !.
R6Net

all North American rail and water.
It is 1924 miles from the City of
Mexico to Ell Paso, Texas, via the
Mexican Central road, about 1900
miles from Ell Paso to San Fran
cisco via the Southern Pacific, 754
miles from San Francisco to Port
land via the Southern Pacific and
1856 miles from Portland to Seattle
via the Northern Pacific, making
total of 1864 miles of rail from
the City of Mexico to Seattle. It
is $500 miles from Seattle to
Dawson via Pacific ocean, Boring
Sea and the Yukon making
grand total of more than 5000
miles from the City of Mexico to
Dawson.
This is about equal to the dis
lance from New York or San
Francisco to Manila (not Iowa,
but P. IT,. But in the trip l made
in North America one encounters
greater changes and varieties in
climate, scenes, vegetation, ETC.,
than are to be found in going from
here to the Philippines. While it
is 1900 miles from Seattle to Daw-
son via the water route, it is only
1000 miles via the shorter route,
which is ocean steamer to Dyea,
1000 miles, and thence over the
trail to Dawson, 600 miles. But
now that the Yukon and White
Pass railroad carries passengers
from Dyea to the head waters of
the Yukon, one can make the trip
to Dawson via this or the all water
route from Pacific coast points
with comparative comfort and
pleasure.
With regard to the trip.made
by the writer, brief descriptions Of
Mexican cities and scenes we're
given in former articles in this
series. From Ell Paso west the
principal towns are Deming in
New Mexico, Tombstone, Tucson
and Yuma, Arizona, all these
towns being division points on the
Southern Pacific road, and all of
them are located in one vast, hot,
arid desert. Crossing the Colorado
river at Yuma we are in California,
but in one of the poorest sections
of that state, the road running
through what is called the Colo
RADIO desert for a distance of per-
haps a hundred miles; then as we
approach San Bernardino we are
in lovely country and inhale the
fragrance of beautiful orange groves
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

from there to Los Angeles, which
city is something like seventy orl
eighty miles farther west. Los
Angeles is q picturesque town of
about lOO,O 600 inhabitants.
There are numerous nice towns
and cities and sections of splendid
country in California, Oregon and
Washington, and there is also
plenty Of poor country in these
states. But Oregon and Wash
ington are comparatively new and
much of these states that few
years ago seemed almost worthless
has been and is being converted
to uses that render it valuable
Portland has never had any great
booms nor made as much noise as
many other western towns have
done. but [ have been there a
number of times and every time 1
have visited there, however short
the interval, I beheld vast and
substantial improvements. 1t has
a population of about 100000 with,
perhaps, as much culture as is
found in any other city of like
size. It is progressive, up-to-date
and, to ny view, Portland is one
of the most beautiful cities in the
United States.
On the whole, western cities and
people do not differ very material
ly from those Of the east. None
of the people wear horns and none
of them fail to know whether they
are living in last month, next
month or this month. The diff
ferences between the north, south,
east and west are more imaginary
than real, and in the very near
future these peoples will be merged
still more closely together by
means of airships. It will be re-
called that [ predicted in these
columns six months ago that some
inventive genius will go from
Paris to the st. Louis Worlds
Fair in an airship. Now comes
the announcement from St. Louis
that it has already been arranged
for airship trips between st. Louis
and the city of Washington dur
ing the great fair. With the adj
vent of airships during the next
three or four years, distance will
be practically overcome and space
annihilated. One will then be en-
abled, if one is so fortunate as to
be in touch with one of those fly
ing machines, to start from any
point in the United States in the
morning and reach any other
point in the United States before
night. One can then start from
New York after breakfast, carry a
lunch with him and take supper
in London. II. j. B.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

~ Al performed by poems VINO
can live as cheaply as
Chinese. Some of the better class
of miners receive as high as a
dollar per day. Skilled labor COM
mands S. per day and is done
chiefly by Americans. Bicycle re-
pair shops, plumbing, machine
shops, etc., afford opportunities
for American mechanics. Ameri-
cans with little capital find OPP
portunities for profitable invest
ments in hotels, mining, coffee
and vanilla raising and other en-
terprises. The officers and most
of the employees of the Mexican
international railroad are Ameri-
cans. The Mexican Central ranks
next with regard to preference for
Americans, and the Mexican Ma
tional third. The Interoceanic
road employees native Mexicans al
most exclusively, and the Vera
Cruz road English and natives.
The Cuernavaca road has Ameri-
can officers and conductors. The
International roads officers and
employees are recruited very large
Nv from the Southern Pacific road
those of the National from the
Central railroad of Georgia, and
those of the Mexican Central from
the Santa Fe. The Vera Cruz
road has some of the old English
coaches with side door entrances
and numerous small compartments.
Most of the equipment Of this
road is English and that of the
other roads is American.
These six are the longest and
most important roads with the ex-
ception of the chihuahua and Pa
"citic, or Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient, of which mention was made
in my last paper, as being in pro-
cess of construction. There are
few other short and unimportant
roads. All section mon on all
roads are natives.
The writer made a trip not so
very long ago from the City of
Mexico to Alaska and Dawson,
Northwest Territory, or Yukon as
that Territory is now named. This
is rather extensive trip to be
made in one continuous journey,
In what is practically one country,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29

HIRTY- SEVEN cents is
about the average daily
wages paid for unskilled
labor in Mexico, all of
this class of work being
performed by. poems who
can live as cheaply az
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-15
H|IO NOTES

Hilo, Sept. 12.-The Registration
Board will be in session al Fireman's
hall Monday and Tuesday afternoon
and evening. Don't you forget 1t.
d. w. Marsh and f. c. Wright are
the youngest Elks in the Hilo herd.
They had their antlers nailed on last
Monday night.
Senator Russell has received a re-
ceipt from the committee in Russia,
for the 500 raised in Hilo for the IA
mine sufferers in that country.
Last week three Russian settlers ar
rived from Manchuria and have located
above Mountain View. They left Rus
STA because OF the disorderly condi-
tons which made 1t impossible for
them to peacefully follow agricultural
pursuits.
Fred Braymer OF the Hilo Mercantile
Co.. was stricken with nervous pros
tration week ago today while In his
Office at work. He was taken to the
hospital and later transferred to his
home. Mr.. Braymers recovery was
rapid he being able to be out again
Tuesday.