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Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

Were late this spring with everything,
And Echo must do her share.
Now, where has she gone since the
break of dawn"
Echo mockingly called back, "Where?'
You're parrot bird to repeat my
word
There are still the stars to do,
And the cobwebs, here-who'n brush
them clear?'
Echo gleefully sang out, "Who?"
you insolent Miss, you shall smart for
You shall be like a parrot bird.
Save to mock away at what others say,
You never shall speak word.
"Of what you've heard, repeat one
word
The last shall be your choice
Even grasses and trees can sing in the
But you must borrow a voice"
AS the singer ended far in the dis4
tance came the faint echo: Voice"
"I'm sorry for her." said Teddy, and
he hitched his stool a little further
away from Juno.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
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bridge prizes she won at my house
last winter. 1t isn't so much the laxity
of her behavior but I never could abide
any one in trade. That is social sin
1 positively cannot forgive.
Nine. La Comtesse taking out her
vanity box and discreetly retouching
lips, chin and the tips of her ears
Mon dieu. CONNIE ellie est bette. She
was always so vain. She must have
known it was merely sa dot that was
her charm. What need of Vertu when
one has une dot? AS our dear Flaubert
so cleVerly said, La Femme richie
semble avoir autour dele, pour gar
der sa vertu tous ses billets de banque.
That any woman could consent to be
cared for for her money-Figurezvous
Artie (pinching her cheek, then re-
garding his fingers dolefully)-Ter-
riblement awful, ncht wahr? Only just
figurez-vous if any one cared for you
for your rocks, adoree Comtesse!
Nine La Comtesse (extending the tip
of her dainty pink tongue and eleYatins
her already retrousse nez)-Mechant!
AS if une telle chose were possible!
Mrs. "Lissy" (serenely)-Well, any
how, Mrs. Puggy's queered herself for
all time and eternally and she gets the
marble heart from me- Miller, my
butler, told me some time ago he didn't
want me to have anything more to dc
with the woman. I'm having his
miniature done now by Raffelini, who
did the king. you know, and I'm afraid
he wouldn't sit any more If l didnt
strike her off my list after this. A
swagger, English butler is naturally of
twiee as much account as any mere
Mrs. Puggy Ruggles
At this moment Mrs. "Puggy' her
self appears, having changed her mind
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

ought to do something to crowd her
out. Society is getting so mixed these
days! I don't know what We'll come
to if we keep letting in Tom, Dick and
Harry It's too plebeian for me, and /
mean to cut her more for her lack of
family than for anything she's done.
Fancy it, her grandfather was in trade!
People, of course, of sufficient position
can do anything they please, but for
any one in trade to presume to such
thngs (She shudders visibly and
draws her thread lace scarf more
closely about her).
Madame Ia Comtesse Can American
heiress welded to a lightweight French
nobleman who is making ducks and
brakes of her fortune)-Mais ellie est
maintenant delcassee. One cannot, nat
urellement, associate with one who has
how do you call it In your English?-
une petite tache connected with her
name. He only married her in the first
place for her money-que Voulez-vous
alors, she had nothing but money
absolument rien!
Gwyndolyn van Gildersleeve (the
acknowledged belle and beauty of the
coterie. Her picture is always in the
papers and she is referred TO as zone
Of our most cultured and intellectual
girls She has been presented at court
and her portrait is in the Beauty book.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK

and what it was best to do about it.
| was sitting alone on a front seat,
thinking over the scenes of the alter
noon and wondering what the young
senator's son would do with the
money he won of me and whether he
had depopulated the White House Of
rats and mice, so the president would
notice it. | was thinking about ele-
phants and wondering if they We're
towards by nature. or had acquired
cuwardice by associating with man
kind, when pa came along and sat
down by me, a picture of despair,
cause Bolivar had fractured one of his
ribs and the fat woman had paralyzed
his knees sitting on his lap while they
brought her to after she tainted when
she thought a rat was climbing into
her sock.
Pa sighed and said: "Hennery, I
wanted an exciting life, to keep me
from broodng over advancing age,
and chose the circus business, but l
find it is rather too strenuous for me.
Each day something occurs to try my
nerves. 1 do not claim that you are
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well, she isn't. She was just wood
nymph who lived in tree"
"Can 1 see herr" asked Teddy.
mo, she's nothing but voice now. If
Juno doesn't mind Apollo will tell you
why she is such a queer creature"
All the gods looked toward the queen,
who frowned and flashed a little, and
Iris, who hurried in, began to cool her
with a long fan made of peacock
feathers.
Well" she said, after a pause; "it
makes me mad every time 1 think of it.
but 1 don't mind for once. Don't be
long about it, Apollo"
Teddy listened eagerly and Apollo
sang:
ECHO
Echo one day went dancing away
Where the shadows stir in the wood
She was fresh and fair as the rose in
her hair,
But she wasn't so very good.
She gossiped away the livelong day
And chartered and laughed and played
Till Juno came by, with her head held
And mutfered, where is that maid?
'I sent her this way when the dawn
was gray
To polish the face of the moon.
Twas dim last night, all frosty and
But she s%1su could have finished by noon.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
AffernOOn Performance
Ex-Governor Of Wisconsin).

told the trainer to put the elephants
back into the pyramid and hold them
there till the bell rung for them to
cease their stunt. The trainer couldn't
do anything with them and they bel
lowed and lodged mice and shied at
rats, and Bolivar took his trunk and
sWatted pa clear across the ring.
The elephants followed Bolivar to
the main entrance, each elephant try
ing TO walk on the heels of the one
ahead of him and all the circus hands
trying to head off the elephants, but
they wouldn't head off. They were
simply scared to death, and they
broke out the side of the tent near
the lemonade stand and went whoop-
ing out into the open air and freedom,
while the audience yelled with joy.
Young Mr.. Senator said to me
What do you think of elephants
now?"
told him to take his money and be
darned.
The audience was getting nervous,
so the band struck up "A Hot Time III
the Old Town." and they were quiet
ing down as the curtain to the dress
ing room raised and the horses for the
chariot race came out Just then II
woman with red socks got up on u
chair in the press seats and pulled her
another woman screamed and jumped
up on a seat with her clothes at half
mast and yelled that there were mice
Oh the seats. In less than two min
utes every woman in the audience and
the bearded woman and the fat woman
were standing up on something, mold
ing up their dresses and shaking their
skirts and screaming, and when the
fat woman fell into the arms of the
bearded woman in faint and the
bearded woman dropped the fat
woman, pa told the bearded woman he
was ashamed of her for screaming,
cause she ought to be more of man
than that
Well, every mouse and rat in the
bunch seemed to be looking for women
to scream at them and there was no
use trying to run a show with such an
excited audience. so pa had the band
play Good Night. Ladies'" ana ne an
nounced that the performance might De
considered over for the afternoon.
Everybody made a rush for the exits;
Each woman held up her skirts ana
fairly galloped to get away from lhe
mice and rats.
They all got out of the tent hnally
and then the managers had meeting
to find out who started the trouble
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--Chee. / think she done noble! When
turns over me face and fortun' to
one O youse wise guys with a lam
gushing look at Artie), youse'll come
home some fine day and find your goil
has flew de coop. No blankety blank
hum-drum married loife fer mine!
Dakota every time! Savez? (She huns
tne palms" which the orchestra has
just finished playing to rag time
tempo and shuffles her daintily sfo6
feet. All regard her with spasm OF
admiration).
Artie-Gwennie you're the right stuff,
but l cawn't marry you, angel, be-
cause I've promised Mrs. "Lissy' to he
engaged to her until "Lissy" dies and
then to step into his shoes. But II
you'll wait until Mrs. "Lissy' goes the
way of all flesh I'll make you Mrs
Artie No 2. What do you say, peaches;
is it a go?"
Gwendolyn (holding out a richly jew"
eled hand with beautifully manicured
nails)-Your init on it, Artie; I'll marry
you some time when I've married few
others.
Mrs. "Lissy" (shrilly, kicking Artie
with her watered silk slipper)-Now,
see here cuteness, you're not to go ell
gaging yourself to any one but me
nor making any dates after my death.
If you do, I'll break with you now, and
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

to wait for the elephant stunt, and
when the thing was ripe We were to
empty the whole mess of Vermin into
the ring.
Something Was Wrong
l felt as though something was
wrong, cause l saw the new moon
over my left shoulder the night before
and now L wish 1 had died before this
thing happened. When the Japanese
jugglers went out of the ring l knew
that was the cue for the elephants to
come in, and when the dressing room
curtain was pulled aside and old Boil
var came out at the head of the herd
and they marched around the outside
of the ring, clear around the tent my
heart jumped up into my throat and
/ felt sick.
The senator's boy said: "When these
rats and things begin to chase your
cid elephants you won't be able to see
the tails Tor the dust they will kick
up"
Then 1 thought of the money pa had
given me to bet, and | offered to bet 1t
all, and a negro produced funds and
took my bets like bookmaker.
Well, after doing turn around the
big ring the trainer steered the ele-
plants into the middle ring and the
great audience leaned forward to catch
every trick the elephants did. Us boys
held on to the bags that the mice and
things were in, waiting for our cue.
The elephants stood on their heads
and hind feet and fore feet, laid down,
fired pistols and did everything.
Finally the trainer formed the whole
herd into a grand pyramid. with old
Bolivar in the center each elephant
holding an American flag with his
trunk and waving it, and the audience
broke out into a cheer that fairly
ripped the canvas.
"Come On!"
Then I said to young Mr.. Senator:
Come on with your rats now and I
win $50"
All hands picked up the baskets and
bags and went to the side of the ring
and emptied the whole bunch of more
than 500 into the ring. The rats and
mice rushed for the elephants and then
turned and made a rush for the re-
served seats.
Oh. dear! what time we had. The
elephants got down off that pyramid
so quick it would make your head
swim, and old Bolivar trumpeted III
abject fear, and tried to break away
but pa came along with tent stake
and hit Bolivar over the head. ana
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

| about going to Dakota, and ANNOUNCE
ing that she is going to give the big
gest ever" of the Newport season. She
swoops down upon the group, address
ing each familiarly by his or her first
name. "And what have you been gos-
siping about, pals?'
Mrs. "Lissy" (reproachfully)-Gos
siping! That is something we never
do Surely you know us better than
Mrs. Wimbleton-W -Westchester-Char-
ity for every one, above all else, that's
my creed.
Artie Vane (taking out his gold
bound date book)-I can let you have
tomorrow, darling, at harf after
! twelve.
The Only Mrs. B.-I trust you will
| join us on the Aphrodite, dearest Win
fired, when we go over again.
The Only Mr.. B.-Pray do; you shall
have the stateroom the empress occu-
pied.
Mrs. Willy de Lisle-How can you
mention that odious word gossip? 1t
is thing / never soil my lips with,
and as far as you are concerned-you
know the sincere esteem in which 1
have always held your entire family,
Winnie, my dear!
Madame la Comtesse-Your beauty,
cherie, eXempts you from any un-
kind tongues. Nothing but good can
be said of you, croyez-moi!
Gwendolyn van Gildersleeve-Gossip
Us?-Nit!
Then they all crowd around Mrs.
"Puggy," coddling and fondling her,
and begging for bids to her biggest.
The orchestra plays "A Great Big Girl
Like Me" and perfect happiness pre-
walls,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
Nearly Fell
Off His Stool

TEDDY had been taken up to Olym-
pus so often by the Bronze Run
ner that the trip became very easy
the north of town. 1t is the first to
for him. Sometimes he didn't even
know when it happened until he found
himself in the great hall among the
gods and goddesses. Once when he
came in that way he laughed when he
opened his eyes and called out merrily,
Here 1 am again" And from some
where across the great hall came
faint Again"
Teddy nearly fell off his stool.
who's that mocking me?" he asked,
half angrily.
Everybody laughed. and Cupid came
to sit beside Teddy.
"Why, that's only Echo" he said.
Haven't you heard her on earth some
times when you were shouting pretty
loud?"
"Why, yes" said Teddy slowly, but
1 didn't know she was a god-goddess,
mean"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
"" so near drinking himself

"Lissy" so near drinking himself to
death, too!
(Artie takes out his embroidered
handkerchief, trimmed with lace, and
weeps into is picturesquey).
Gwendolyn Ga sorrowful expression on
her exquisite face)-Trun down!
Mrs. Wimbleton-W Westchester-But all
this is miles from Dakota and Mrs.
"Puggy" Ruggles. l want to see that
woman punished for iner conduct. Let's
give her such a cold shoulder when she
gets her decree that she'll have to
drown herself! We must maintain prin-
Ciple in our set or people will begin ~
talk about us.
The Only Mrs. Babbington-Yes don't
you know, it would never do to get
ourselves talked about. People OF quite
no family are all going to Dakota these
days and getting their names in the
papers. SO frightfully bourgeois! AS
said to the shah:
The Only Mr.. Babbington, looking ur
from his Times-Wasn't it the grand
duke to whom you refer, my dear? ]
remember your little chat with him al
the pink breakfast we gave him on the
Aphrodite. You told him how strange
American ways seemed to you and how
you feared you would never get ac'
customed. I also said to the emperor
"Cher garcon, for uncouthness COM
mend me to the Americans!"
Gwendolyn, in an undertone-Come
off the roof, Babbie!
Mrs Willy De Lisle, laying her
hand on the Only Mrs. B's-I quite
agree with you. dear Mrs. Babbie
We must certainly give her the cold
shoulder and make her feel her place
She gets no bid to my vaudeville on the
3Oth, and I've asked her to return the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

ment and told pa what the senator's
son offered to bet, and pa said: Here's
$780, and you can take all the bets you
can get. Why, this herd of elephants
would walk on mice, and rats, too. You
bet with him and tell him to bring
along all the rats and mice he can find
in the White House and you can turn
them into the ring Monday afternoon
when the elephants do their turn, and
if an elephant bats an eye l will eat
his ears for mushrooms"
Took the Bet
went back to young Mr.. Senator
and took his bet and told him l had
plenty more money to bet the same
way, and he said the next afternoon
he would come with his mice and rats
and lot of money to bet that you
couldn't hold that flock Of elephants
with log chains when he opened his
bag of rats and mice.
Well, how it got into the papers / do
not know, but the next morning they
all said an interesting experiment
would be made the next afternoon at
the great and only circus to determine
once and for all whether elephants
were afraid of mice, and that a sem
ator's son and a son of one of the pro-
prietors of the show would conduct
the experiment by turning loose lot
of mice and rats in the rings at pre-
cjsely $3.50 p. m.
Well you never saw such crowd in
a circus as we had that afternoon. 1t
seemed as though the whole popula-
tion turned out foreign ministers, ne
groes, society people and clerks. That
senator's son and the whole family,
and the neighbors, must have been up
all night catching mice and rats, and
il took nine boys and three servants
to carry the baskets and traps and
bags of mice and rats I passed them
all in and we lined up on a front seat
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

~ EE, but L must be an easy mark.
T have got so I bet on a sure
thing, and when fellow bets
OH sure thing he is bound to lose.
1t was this way. The show arrived
in Washington, D. c., on a Sunday
morning and, as usual, all the boys in
town came to the lot to see us put up
the tents. l was around with pa and
the boss canvasman, and the town
boys could see L belonged to the show,
and they envied me and wanted to get
acquainted with me, so L would let
them walk around with me and go
into the tents Sunday afternoon and
see the animals.
There was one boy with a SOFT of
rough rider hat on and buckskin
fringe on his pants and everybody
said he was a senator's son, but the
other boys had rather be acquainted
with me, because 1 belonged to the
show and L took pity on the senator s
son and let him walk with me, without
looking cross at him or snubbing him,
as 1 do most boys who try to butt in
or me. 1 got to liking the senator s
son and had him come in the tent, and
we put in the afternoon looking at the
animals.
The elephants were chewing hay and
looking fierce and the senator's boy
said elephants were the greatest cow
ards on earth, and said, mot on
your life; the giant in our show is the
greatest coward and the behemoth of
holy writ is next" The senator's son
said elephants were such towards they
were afraid of mice, and we could take
a trap full of mice and turn them loose
in the ring and the elephants would
stampede, and he would bet five dol
lars on it. l excused myself for mo-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

dovey, and when come back, no mat
ter whose name I bear, I'll always be
the same to you!" / kissed her fondly,
then, but, of course, I'll cut her dead
when she returns-anything so fright
fully middleclarse would never do
for me!
The Only Mrs. Babbington (who has
entertained four TsarS, Sultan and
Shah or two aboard her yachD-Aw.
naturally, we don't do such things on
the other side. It's only over here in
your America that such things hap
pen. I wrote to the sultan last even
ing and said: Dear friend, she's no
associate of mine. Rest assured of
that" Naturally, he's very particular
about the women he knows, and no one
in the least promiscuous would ever
be admitted to his seraglio. The last
time we chatted together, just before
the Tsar came aboard the Aphrodite,
he said, "Chere Madame Babbie, I
want you to be very choice about the
women you know, for my sake!" and I
promised him faithfully.
The Only Mr.. Babbington (stroking
his pointed beard and looking unc-
tuously bland)-Ya-a-s when the
prince and | were strolling about Pic
cadilly he expressed the wish that I
would never be intimate with any but
the royal family. You are so rash in
your acquaintances over here! (The
Only Mr.. b. carefully unfolds his Lon
don Times from his pocket and glances
casually through it, N. B.-The Bah
bingtons are both Americans.
Mrs. Willy De Lisle (who has only
just arrived" after a struggle in
which there was almost bloodshed with
the elect. who wanted to keep her out
because her father made his millions in
ready made garments. Two years ago
Mrs. Willy had never been heard Of
in NewporD-I certainly think we
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

TO blame for it all. but I think L could
enjoy my position with the show if
you would take the first train that goes
north and leave me for a while. What
l need is rest. Go, boy, go!"
felt sorry for pa but 1 put my arm
around him and [ said: PA, do not
fear. will never desert you until
the season is over. Wherever you go
l will go and l will keep you awake,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

don't fear. Now that we are going
into the sunny south, where every
man may have it in for you, cause you
were a Yankee soldier, l will stay by
you, and there will be things doing
that will make you think the past has
been a sweet dream, See, pa?"
Pa sighed again and said: This is
too much!" and he rushed off to find
the elephants.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

THE scene is the Casino during the
Sunday evening concert. The
characters are-but they will speak
for themselves. The subject is little
piece of gossip which has futtered
about the cottages for few hours.
Mrs. "Lissy" Carrollton (the acknowl-
edged leader of the "gilded gang"
nodding her white lace hat with it's
gorgeous plumes significantly)-Hav
you heard the news? Isn't it the most
shocking?
Mrs. -Westchester (di-
vorced from her husband and married
to another, who divorced his wife to
marry her)-Simply scandalous, and L
shall never speak to her again! 1t is
against my rule to notice any one about
whom there is the smallest scandal.
My circle may have to narrow down.
but if 1t gets to four people l shall
stick to my principles. She is beneath
notice and 1 have put a line through
her name on my list already. She gets
no bid to my dinner-dance on the 9th.
"Artie" Vane, lady's man, leaning
back indolently in his chair and fam
ming himself Ianguidly with a gold
spangled FAM advised her to go slow
when l was looking over her new
evening frocks. I said, "Winnie, girl,
you'll make a serious faux pas if you do
it. Dakota is a thoroughly narsty
place in summer. and it's getting beast
ly middleclarse to leave your husband.
Take my advice, honey. and cut it out"
But she just put her arms around my
neck and said: "Artie, my darling, it's
too late. have engaged a cottage at
Sioux Falls and paid three months in
advance and it would never do to lose
the money. But L won't forget you,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22
Not a Real Golfer

Sandy having been asked If Mr.
Meadowcroft was golfer replied:
'"Weel, no, not a real one. He missed
a game to be at home when his second
child was born."--Chicago Record-Her,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

to wait for the elephant stunt, and
when the thing was ripe we were to
empty the whole mess of Vermin into
1inp
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-22

- EE, but must be an easy mark
I I have got so I bet on a sure
thing, and when a fellow bets
Arizona silver belt., 1905-12-14
New England and Clifton.

It is reported here on good authority that as soon as the roads from the New England and Clifton Consolidated d Copper company can be put in shape that company will commence the haul ing of ore to Clifton where it will be smelted. The company is known to have some of the best ground of the district and the beginning of ship ping will mark an important step in the progress of the company. The company intends to build twenty-inch tramway from Clifton up the Frisco river to the shelter after which it is proposed to ship at least 1900 tons of ore monthly. As the ore runs in the neighborhood of l5 per cent copper
 this will make a notable increase in the output of the district. .-Morenci Leader
Arizona silver belt., 1905-12-14
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Pinal Mountain Lodge No. il, Knights
 of Pthias

At the regular meeting of Pinal Mountain Lodge No. II, K. of F., held December z, 1905, the following off cers were elected to serve for the en- suing term:
 A. A. Ollson, chancellor commander; J. G. Russell, vice chancellor; D. c. Palmer, prelate; R. H. Ollson, keeper of records and seal; George F. Briggs, Master of finance; L. E. Wightman, master of exchequer; R. Grice, master at arms; J H. McEwen, inner guard; H. H. Wightman, outer guard.
 R. P. Ollson and w. S. Grove were elected grand representatives and J. Anderson and s. c. Saylor were elected grand alternates to the grand lodge to be held in Douglas, Arizona, during the second week in April, 1906.