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The copper era., 1904-08-11

The firm Of Pdscoe & Webster has been dissolved by mu ual consent, Mr. Pascoe becoming the sole proprietor MT and Mrs. Webster contemplate taking trip to the worlds fair, and may spend some time in the east be- fore re turning
The copper era., 1904-08-11

The ERA was in error last week in stating that certain moneys had been apportioned to the various school dis tricts of Graham county. The state men. should have been that the super intendent had asked for the amounts named for the purpose of running the schools For the coming year.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Chas. Henry, who has been in poo" health fo~ some weeks past, is stead fly improving, and is again able to look after his business interests, in his new establishment on Copper avenue.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Foley's Kidney Cure will cure all diseases arising from disordered kid neys or bladder. For sale by Arizona Copper company.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

It's a doctors business to study health, Doctors confidently recom- mend Harper Whiskey. Sold by Harry Wripht
The copper era., 1904-08-11
For Rent.

Store and warehouse ou Chase Creek now occupied by s. J. Forbes. Call or ]. F. Hampton, up stairs opposite Cliff ton Hotel
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Cromb & shannon continue to hau- 'le the choicest range and refrigerated meats TelephOre 2S
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Fresh veal, prime beef, mutton and :,ork. Prompt delivery. Clifton Mar let
The copper era., 1904-08-11

The town of Bisbee was last week visited by heavy rain, which did con siderable damage to the town, and but for the new subway, recently com plctcd the damage would have been much greater. The subway saved the town, but 1t was greatly damaged. in fact almost destroyed, and will have to be reconstructed at a considera blc cost.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Mrs. and Mrs. letter and son Ernest, and Clyde Pretty man left early last week for few weeks outing in the Slack river country. Sunday night 3rettyman received fine haunch
 meat from his. H'on, which
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 q 70 that they are pretty .th their Shooting irons.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

Campaign Hats for Republicans and Democ,ats-si.5o 30. For sale by Becker Franz %,
The copper era., 1904-08-11

The Clilt1&>andrY b>'cc6c n-ela-ed down for three weeks to repair ma chinery.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

X Mexican child living near the bridge in South Clifton, met with quite d serious accident Sunday last. The child's mother had made fire in the yard 10 burn up some trash and the child was standing near, when d cartridge which was in the fire eX- ploded, the bullet striking the child in the stomach, causing a serious, though not fatal wound.
 The heavy rains of the past two weeks have been almost unprecedented in the southwest. They seem to have been very general, spreading over the entire southwest. Nearly all Of the railroads leading out of Fl Paso have been badly damaged, the $. F., how ever, so far escaping with less loss or time and damages than the rest or them. The Arizona and New Mexico has so far been most fortunate, as it's trains have been delayed by washouts only two or three times during the season.
 Minor Smms, captain of the Clifton base ball team, left yesterday morning for Texas and other points to be gone for at least a month. Minors coun- tenaucc bore signs Of suspicion as the ERA reporter asked the object of his trip. IL would not be surprise to his many Clifton friends if be brings bride home with him. Minor will be greatly missed at the bail games that will be,played during his absence and it is quite likely that the boys on the team will miss his good work at the roofing bench. As a rooter he has few equals. The ERA extends con gratulaiions and wishes him his full share of happiness. Texas seems to be good field for brides of late.
 On Thursday evening O last week Mr. and Mrs. A. F. William. heard d wild commotion at their door and opened it to find the bulI-dog, B"odie, guarding it against ghostly looking party of ''dames ot ye olded timc," who had made use of a yearly permit to return to earth, and had called to see how twentieth century bride begins housekeeping. The ladies introduced themselves and among the number were Caroline, Hattie, Joseph inc, Becky, Lou Belle and others. After ouc look at the crowd the man of the nouse made his escape, but Mrs. Williams invited them in and took them over her cosy home, where all marveled greatly over the electric lights and other modern improvements, though Samantha did not see how the
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The copper era., 1904-08-11

F.. c. Everitt and Edward Leetch, representing the International Cor respondeuce schools, are spending the week iu this district. The method Of teaching Of these schools are so well known as to need no explanation, suf- ice it to say that during the past few years thousands Of men throughout the United States have been enabled thereby to qualify themselves for higher positions and better salaries. Their capacity for learning has been largely increased by special courses in almost anytime, which have been given by mail, and which any ambitious man or woman can acquire in few months time by proper application. Ever, man should be interested in qualifying himself to earn better wages. There is DO use to be < "piker." Get a scholarship and go to studying.
The copper era., 1904-08-11

The Clifton members of the Inter- national Association of Machinists are arranging to give grand bali at Pretty mans Academy on Saturday night, August 21th, for the benefit of the locked-out machlnists on the Santa Fe system. The boys are selling tickets and the dance Is going to be one of the largest eyer given in the camp. Every body is invited 10 join the boys in having a good time and at the same time helping a good cause along. The best music that can be secured iG this country will be one of the attractions or the evening.
The copper era., 1904-08-11
MINOR MENTION

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
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DEALERS IN WHITE WOMEN

This highly sensational melodrama, which is announced as the attraction at Polls this evening, has been proving most extraordinary attraction. It has for it's basis a number of incid<lts suggested by the infamous cadet sys- tenn" which for many years has been vigorously fought by the police of New York and other large cities of the country There can be no question about the abduction of young girls, and that the selling of them into slavery which is far worse than death is common occurrence, is confidently asserted by the authorities. In the play the matter has been treated will extreme delicacy, and while the gi- gantic evil is portrayed with pictur- esque fidelity to the real truth, there is nothing in the drama which can of fend the most sensitive nature. Prices are 9, B and 50 cents.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
FASHIONS NEWEST RANCHES
Latest Ideas in Trimming and De- signs for Up-to-Date
 Costumes.
Mode gives the following

L'Art de la Mode gives the following fashion hints: ss
 Handmade trimmings are the only ones used on high-priced gowns and . wraps, but many of these are easy to make, their style lying in their original ity and not in their cost. Tassels made of embroidery silk to match the dress or coat, braids made from milliner's folds of silk like the dress, buttons made of the dress goods ornamented with embroidery stitches, etc, are ex-. amples of stylish touches that cost little besides the idea. Many new models show waists, sleeves and coats that would not only puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer" but leave him hopelessly stranded, were he to under take to tell how they were cut Expert pattern makers work longer to-day on making the firstspatkern of an imported waist and sleeve than they formerly spent in making the first pattern of an entire gown. slTSTD
 A great many sleeves are bound at the top. Large evening coat sleeves, wide at the wrists, are boned about the hand to keep them in shape there. Many skirts have bone in the foundation or drop skirt, placed at the top of the foot-plaiting.
 Some new Paris-made bodices show no shoulder seams the bodice being cleverly draped about a yoke and over an undersleeve. Given the pattern, it is an easy style to make, and very ef- fective.
 The prettiest accordion -plaited skirt has p1aits which alternate with other goTes that are plain at the waist line, and tucked from the knees down.
 Velvet is to be more worn this win ter than for many seasons past, for dresses, for cloaks and for trimmings
 The white lace or embroidered net skirt and. colored silk bodice is s smart combination for dressing gowns.
 Black silk gowns trimmed with col- ored laces in coarse designs are new and effective.
 All shades of copper and all the brown shades of leather are much in vogue.
 The new greens are called s'serpent'' shades.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
BIRDS INITIATE ANIMALS.
Ostrich Leads the ornithological Sci by Minicking Roar of the
 Iion

The roar of the ostrich resembles the roar of the lion because the ostrich stole from the lion this sound, even as one playwright steals from another a plot
 An ornitho1ogist made that odd asser- tion in taxidermist's shop. He went on to elaborate it as follows, says the Washington Post:
 Birds from the ostrich down are imi- tative. The ostrich, where he lives alone, is silent, but in a country where lions abound he roars. Why? Because for centuries, admiring the majesty and grandeur of the lion $ roar he gradually learned to roar himself. Believe me, it IS fine to see an ostrich throw back his little head and emit roar like thunder. Butings initiate pipits, and greenfincnes initiate yellowhammers They seek their food in the winter together. and they gradually steal each others calls. The jay is an unsuitable imitator. Some jays will include in their repertory not only the whoo-oo of the kite, the scream of the buzzard and the hoot of the owl. but also the bleat of the lamb and the neigh of a horse. Even the nightingale initiates. In nightingale's perfect song have often heard the tip-sip-sissis pf the woodwarbler and the bub-ub-ub- ble of the nuthatch"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
Jacques
VAUDEVILLE.

It looks as though patrons of the Jacques are in for another week of pleasure such as they have been treat ed to i'll the past few weeks, the show looking like another well rounded and well balanced exposition of high class vaudeville. For the topline honors McWaters, Tyson and company are slated in what they term spectacular musical comedy entitled vaudeville. !" as the title implies, the att comprises features of popularity i'll vaudeville, such as singing and dancing and comedy, and it offers Mir McWaters, who is an excellent singer and an ec- centric comedian of ability, oppOrtun- ity to do some effective entertaining. As special feature the Carl Damman troupe of acrobats introduce their sen sat2Onal feats of acrobatics. This is q European act of high standing and should create a very favorable impress sion. Jack Noenoetti, who is styled s'the life of every party" appears i'll his well known monologues and Miss Louise Dresser, one of the most beau tiful women in vaudeville, and sweet and effective singer, is likewise on the bill. Others are MT and Mrs Allen Shaw in comic manipulating novelty, Willie Gardner, Fields and Hanson and the lectrograph. Prices are 10, 20 and 30 cents; afternoons 10 and 20 cents, ladies 10. Election returns will be read from the stage tomorrow evening.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
MONEY IN SMALL DESIGNS.
Inventions, Little, Simple and Cheap, Are the Ones That Get the
 Dollars.

Something homely,' said the aged inventor. Something little, something simple, something cheap. A hook and eye. toothbrush, a shoe button. Those are the inventions that there is money in. The two inventions that it is con- ceded have made more than all the others are the safety pin and the steel pen. The first gross of steel pens sold for $36. That is, 5 cents apiece. A profitable inven- tion was the baby carriage A woman originated it, and it netted her $50 ,000. Nothing like as much, you see as the safety pin or the steel pen. The smaller and the cheaper an invention is the more chance it stands of being money maker am working now on an invisible hook and eye and nondetachable suspender button. I never in my life bothered with any invention that wouldn't slip into my vest pocket"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
wears a Queen,s Grown

When Jay Gould as young man was wandering about the country trying to sell books, the queen of Spain was wearing as her crown the valuable pos session which noy often graces the head of the book canvasser's daughter. When Queen Isabella was exiled, she carried with her most of her jewels. One of these was 8 crown set with some of the finest diamonds. emera1ds, rubies and sapphires in the world. A few years ago a Spanish grandee, known as Prince del Drago came to America. His sole fortune consisted of the gor- geous crown which had belonged to his grand-aunt. The imperial bauble was offered for sale, and was eventually bought by the. Goulds for s125,0 It is now worn by Countess CasteIlane.-- n. s<<
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
MODERN RAILROAD LUXURY
More People Than Ever Before Are Now Enjoying the Conven-
 fences of Travel.

@I observed" said an infreuuent traveller, according to the New York Sun, that more people than ever be- fore, many more, now travel in parlor cars. There are plenty of people who ten or twenty years ago would never have thought of riding in any but sit~up car who now take, on a day journey, seats in a parlor car, and this not for it's exclusiveness, but for its greater comfort
 Tt is by no means the person of wealth alone who now travels in parIor cars. The man of moderate means, and in fact the man of very moderate means as well, lives now at home in greater comfort than ever before, and when he goes abroad he likes to travel in like or better manner. Aud if he Is going on 8 journey of any distance by day he takes a seat in parlor car and he takes to it very kindly and naturally and unostentatiously
 And still the modern train of lux ury Is 8 wonder, and familiar as it may be we must admire it all the same, and most of all must we admire the train that combines within itself all the many modern features of lux ury in travel; the train which, drawn by a tremendous engine that could, it would seem, haul range of noun 2ains if it could be placed on wheels, has ponderous sleeping cars, in which one may go to bed in comfort in one state to wake up hundreds of miles away in another; parlor cars from which one may look through broad framed windows, as through a great picture frame, upon a great gallery or marvellous pictures constantly chang ing: a dining car in which one may dine as luxuriously as he would, while the train flies at 50 miles an hour past towns and villages and over streams and across the open country, and an observation car, whence one may see the earth itself shoot out behind him.
 Truly one of the wonders of the day is tbis train, a train that tho trackmen on the road still stop to gaze at, with pride and admiration, as 1t thunders by; train that one may en- joy though his purse be not so very fat, but one whose Iuxuries could not have been commanded at any price a scant 50 years ago. when such trains were quite unknown, when everybody rode in sit-ups"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
AN INEFFECTIVE REMEDY.
Error of Housemaid Which She Thought to Correct in
 Queer Way.

Sir William Ramsay visited Philadel- phia recently with the Society of Chemi- cal Industry, and during his visit re- porter questioned him about the drink ing water of the worlds great cities, re- lates an exchange.
 "London's drinking water is most impure, the scientist said. They hold that the English take more baths than any other nation, but it is nevertheless a fact that you Phialdelphians, when your filtration plants shall be com- pleted, will have a larger water supply than London, notwithstanding the big difference in the two cities popula- tions."
 r The reporter explained a new system for pumping water.
 What do you think of that system, Sir William?" he concluded, T think it is slow, roundabout and awkward way of remedying impure wa ter's evils" said the scientist. "It re- minds me of the way parlor maid of mine once tried to remedy the evil of wrongly set table. This maid was Ieft-handed, and in lay ing the cloth she put the knives on the left of the plates and the forks on the right. All wrong, you see l 'sThe housekeeper, coming in to look the table over, noticed the error at once.
 l Why, Harriet she said, you have placed all the knives and forks left handed
 'Ah. so have sighed Harriet. Would you be kind enough now ma am to help me turn the table?"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
WHERE JOKES ARE ALTERED
Jests Rewritten and Doctored by Joke smith Who Brings Them
 Up-to-Date.

Tn the desk of any jokesmith are many unused jests, writes Joke smith" in Booklovers Magazine.
 These derelicts are not valueless Some of them are still available with out rewriting. Merely trimming the edges with scissors and stamping my name and latest address on them in a new spot will make them look like joke0, and some editor will then buy them Others will have. to be rewrit- ten and brought up to date before can hire them out to editors who need their services.
 For instance, I fad, on examining a bundle which Is marked War" that the jokes included therein refer to the anish-American argument. Those jokes were written during the excit- ing summer of 1898. away back in the last century. They failed to find a market at that time, but they may go now if Russia" or Japan" is insert ed in place of Spain" One joke re- fers to man who refused to enlist because he was under bonds to keep the peace. Now, that seemed funny to
 
 now. But I would not sell it six years ago. hope for better luck be- fore the mikado and the czar smoke a cigarette together.
 Here is another. One man begins, "Spain's feet'-but before he says more the other declares: Spain has no feet The first makes the state ment again: "Spain's f1eet"-and is iasAin interrupted. After several such Interruptions the first man completes his sentence as follows: "Spain's fleet of foot" Recent incidents in the wa ters of the far east, taken with other incidents on land, indicate that this joke can soon be started on it's rounds again, with Russia inserted in place of Spain"
 Nearly all of my bicycle jokes, quite popular in tho middle nineties, have been changed into automobile jokes, and in new form many of them saw themselves in print. Those that do not find such haven will be kept, and perhaps within few years they will be available as fiying-ma- chine jests.
 Here is a bundle of Klondike jokes. Some of them can be twisted into Si- berian jokes and given new lease of life. The climates of Siberia and the KlOndike region are much of the same, and those frappe jests will therefore apply to widely separated regions. The X-ray jokes are not inn mediately available To twist them into radium jests would entail as much work as constructing new ones.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
WHAT LOWERED HER VOICE
Talk in Public and Was Laughed At.

Tell me one thing, Fern, demanded the girl who had the end seat in the street car, 'do they burn candles on the table at Miss Cameron's?"
 Fern looked bewiIdered, relates Youths Companion. She had just f1n- , ished telling an anecdote that had noth- ing In the world to do with candles. rNo. Why?" she asked.
 Just because I've heard they do it in some boarding schools to help the : girls cultivate low, soft voices. Dim cathedral effect in light, you know, and all that. They say it hushes you down before you know it. And I asked be- cause couldn't help noticing. as you told that story, how different your voice was from what it used to be before you went away to school don't believe a person in this car except me caught syllable of what you said. "
 s'Oh, know smiled Fern. T have changed in that respect, but it isn't due to candles. And I'm ashamedto say it isn't due to my mothers lectures, either Don't you remember how she used to be always pleading with me not to publish family history and personal anecdotes to all the people in the car? But went right on doing it, and she went right on suffering, until little thing happened abous six months ago ] that made me suffer, too, and since then believe I haven't shouted in public once"
 Absurd girl! You never shouted. I didn't mean that"
 "oh,, twas nothing less. Don't think I'm taking offense But Pm telling you what cured me I went into the city with May Deering one day last winter, and we were lunching in restaurant together, and having gales of fun. Twas dping most of the talking, as usual; and after we ordered, I got to telling May about funny servant we had once for aifew days-a girl who performed round the table in way that used simply t9 convulse us. She'd place a plate be- fore you, anu then suddenly snatch it up again, hold it close to her eyes, strike a grotesque attitude and say: My, look
 at that plate! It's all grease. don't
 know how it got so!'
 Well, you can imagine how told that to May. in my old-time voice, and imi- tating the maids look and her loud nasal tones as we'll as I could. Of course I snatched up. my own empty plate from the table to illustrate, and I'd no sooner set 1t down again than a red-faced indignant waitress darted forward and seizedit and began rub ping it with 8 napkin as hard as she could
 At the same instant saw two rather nice-looking men at the next table nudge each other, and study me as if they thought I was queer. They had all heard, andInot one had understood that the whole thing was quotation. And O Anne, if you could have seen the awful face I made up at that plate and the dreadful voice I usedi
 "Oh, yes. laugh! It was funny, ] know, but that waitress didn't think so and couldn't make her understand Il Hive to be hundred I'll never forget how felt, and the only wonder to me Is that I've ever dared to speak above 2 whisper anywhere since.''