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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

An amusing incident of mistaken
identity occurred one day last week
at the Greenwood hotel while the
"Runaways" was in the city. Quite
a number of the chorus were guests
of the hotel, among them some Of
the best looking. One in particular,
while working on the boards every
evening with Arthur Dunn, did not
know the little comedian personally,
and it seems from all accounts that
she had made up her little mind to
become a favorite with the star.
Stopping at the same hotel was a
regular, and he may or may not
resemble Dunn, but the member of
the chorus evidently thought SO;
and she thought 80 in such a decid-
ed manner, that she firted with the
stranger in question during the din
ner hour of the first day, and he re-
cognized her goo-goo business with
a quiet nod. in the lobby she
brushed against the fellow, and
spoke to him in such a sweet little
voice that he came near captivating,
and would have done SO, no. doubt,
had not the girl been accompanied
always with a man, who frowned
like a brigand every time a move
ment was made. However. an op-
portunity was soon afforded the girl
to delude her of her belief in the mat
ter, and she pretended to be genu-
inely shocked that she had made
such a tremendous mistake, and as
she did not hurry away when she
learned that the stranger was not
Dunn, her action was duly translat-
ed to mean that she was satisfied to
be with the new man, and he was
satisfied. too. And that is the end of
the story.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Judging from the record of the
past week, the stuff called whisky
which is used in this city must be
the original forty-rod article. One
fellow is said to have taken a few
drinks and then got a fishing pole
and cast his line in the street in
front of a hotel. OF course, there is
some excuse for this fellow. as the
streets looked like a sea to a sober
fellow, but just why the man should
go fishing, is not explained. An
other deluded man was perfectly
content to be locked up by an officer,
after having dallied awhile with a
bottle, thinking he was being stored
away for the night in a folding bed.
Still another fellow, we are told,
went home and put his umbrella in
bed and stood up in a corner all
night. Rumor also comes to this
Office that yet another sinner gave
his wife three dollars while at break
fast next morning. The doctor is
still with him, however. and the
chances are against his complete re-
eoycry.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25
Let Us Get Better.

Very few of the rich, rare and racy
occurrences of life ever get into the
newspapers, notwithstanding the
fact that there are many wise ones
who believe that the press prints too
much. If those same wise ones only
knew what any paper could truth
fully print land often about them
selves that is, the wise ones, we
mean, they would stop up their ears
and put a paddock through their
lips. There was never a truer say
ing than "One-half the world does
not know how the other half lives.
Aud it is equally true that the ignor
ant half is always trying to find out.
But the old world has always been
pretty much the same.
Ever since the days when Job
and Jonah and Noah and the rest of
those old fellows, as boys, played
mumble-the-peg about the base of
Sinai, or went IN swimming in the
edge of the flood, the conditions
have been similar; they had tallow
dips and creased woods instead of
electric lights, and wore a good deal
more atmosphere for clothes than
we do, but they had new wines in
old skins and old wines in new skins.
and we have kept up the custom of
keeping all kinds of wines in our
skins ever since; those old boys
fought, bled and died over their fair
ones, married them, divorced them,
ransacked their little domain for
gew gaws with which to attract and
bride the females Of their choice, put
one another to death, traded, traf-
licked, plundered, had mobs by the
rabble, and otherwise tickled the
devil. The preachers do not always
tell us these things, but the Bible,
or the history of the Hebrew race,
does, and therefore we have it
straight. The prodigal son, the
worst limb on the family tree, re-
ceived the handouts, and that is
generally the case today.
There is no doubt but that we
have improved some in the art of
getting the other fellows substance,
as we'll as getting there quicker, but
w ,en we get right close up to mere
man we have no difficulty in find
ing his double in the chapters from
the beginning,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

There appeared in last issue, it
will be remembered, an advertise
ment asking a meeting at the post
Office with the angel who SO kindly
wrote a note to the editor Of this de-
partment, and 1t was our intention
of having been promptly on the spot;
but circumstances, over which we
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Editor J. a. Richardson, who
sounds the Suntlower Tocsin at In
dianola, was a visitor to the city one
day last week, and made this Office
a pleasant call. Mr.. Richardson has
had an eventful career in the news
paper business, and his Indianola
property is very valuable. He says
be is going to sell his business at
the end of this year and go to farm
ing and enjoy life. He has made a
fortune and owns a couple of fine
plantations, besides.
We air a goin' to quit the editors
business and jine the preachin
gang. Our Ticker might not cum as
regular but the eatin' will be more
numerous, and, speakin' double,
there won't be no devil to pay
Hardeman Free Press correspond
ence to The Commonwealth.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

In anger flew her saucy jaws
And cuss words darted from her
tongue
The girl was fighting mad becaws
Her skirts would not stay hongue.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Girls are making dresses for
The coming month of June,
In which to catch Bronchitis, Or
Some other fellow soon.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Everybody has seen the man who
is always prepared to get something
for a song" But nobody ever saw
him when his voice was in tune.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

The Commonwealth has already
got the entire State and some of the
Northern country talking about
Greenwood and Lefore county. And
we propose to keep hammering along
the same lines until there remains
no doubt in the mind of any that
this is really the best city in Mississ-
ippi. When you plant your patron
age in The Commonwealth, you not
only help yourself, but you help your
home town and county and every
thing in it.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Whoever writ that piece which
says we never get too old to learn
was a smart person, and the sayin'
has just cum home to us. Fer some
time we have been dom our own
cookin', but last week our trusted
subscriber died and failed to bring
us a load ov stove wood and left us
in a pickle. We air not much ov q
engineer but we pulled out of the
store n ov these new tangled gas
olene stoves, which we got fer adver-
Using, and tried to cook supper on
it, but it wouldn't work. Being out
ov Ticker We used the gasolene as a
substitute and it worked to a rosey
perfection. Mother bein' the ne
cessity ov invention has helped many
a Teller outen a bad place.-Harda-
man Free Press correspondence to
The Commonwealth.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Some lawyers are like some watch
es-that is, they only have n case.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

The Memphis Commercial asks:
what is it that makes a good
piano." Rest, Horatio, rest.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-02-25

Col. NJ. W. Connolly tells in Sun
days Memphis Scimitar all about
the Hardeman Free Press, and the
paragraphs that have given to that
country paper a national reputation.
Many people have always believed
that the Free Pree is a myth, and it
is so far IS being responsible for any
of the paragraphs that have been at
tributed to it; but as a newspaper it
does exist and is owned by John H.
Reaves, and is published in Bolivar,
Tennessee. The paragraphs ap-
pearing in::The Commonwealth, how
ever, are all home grown and belong
to Greenwood.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
OFFERS NEW GARBAGE PLANT
Henry Wagner of Cincinnati Will
Make Proposition to Board
of Public Works

Henry Wagner of Cincinnati will go
before the board of public works at it's
next meeting and try to persuade that
body that the new garbage incinerator
that the city is installing is not the
proper thing at all and that the new up
to-date mechanism that the company
with which he is connected is building
is the only proper solution of the gar
bage question.
In a communication to the board of
public works he says that if his propo-
sition to handle the garbage is accepted
he will at once proceed to install plant
to cost $4,000 or $25,OOO The process is
a rendering and drying tank that cooks
the garbage and extracts all the grease
and oils, leaving them absolutely odor-
less.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
INDIANS TO RAID REDOND0
Red Men Plan Reunion at Seaside Sep
tember 27, for Which Elaborate
Pronram Is Arranned

Redondo will be captured by the In
dians of Southern California Wednes-
day afternoon and evening, Septem-
Der 27.
Cocopah, Mojave, Tehachapi, Palma,
Winyouretta and Manitou councils
have made arrangements through their
committees, of which Chief j. Donnelly
is president and Chief Boyd is secretary,
to hold Red Mems reunion.
Arrangements have been made to ac-
commodate 1000 Red Men and their pale
face friends. There will be amusements
in the afternoon and the real fun will
occur in the evening. The Indian snake
dance. led by Chief Donnelly of the
largest New York tribe will take place
at o'clock around the camp fire.
Forty-eight chiefs in full Indian Co.'S
tune will participate. Following this
will be dancing by the Indians and their
guests. The Redondo Railway COM
pany has made special excursion rates
for Indian day."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
SALVATION KILLS BIG BEAR
Dewey, Pride of EastIake Park Zoo,
Licks CaIomeI From Wounded Leg
and Paws Death Penalty

A fondness for calomel caused the
death of Dewey, the big black bear in
the Eastlake park zoo.
In friendly tussle with another bear
the leg and calomel was applied to heal
the wound. But bears have ways of
their own of administering to their
hurts and Dewey licked the calomel off
in his efforts to heal himself.
More of the drug was applied and as
the bear had acquired a taste for it he
licked that off, too, with the result
that salvation caused his death.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
THESE LIVE AGENTS SELL
THE HERALD
IN THE CITY.

HOTEL VAN NUYS BROADWAY news
stand, 416 South broadway.
HOTEL NATICK news stand, ITO Wesi
First street.
HOTEL HOLLENBECK news stand
Second and Spring streets.
II. f. GARDNER, 3O5 South Spring
street.
HOTEL ANGELUS news stand, corner
Fourth and Spring streets.
HOTEL WESTMINSTER news stand,
corner Fourth and Main streets.
HOTEL ROSSLYN, 437 South Main
r.. A. ROHN, 513 south Spring street.
RAMONA BOOK COMPANY, 2O7 West
Fifth street.
j, RAWAk, Hotel Lankershim news
stand. corner Seventh and Broadway.
NEW ERA BOOK COMPANY, 651 South
broadway.
Main street.
HOTEL NADEAU news stand, corner
First and Spring streets.
OLIVER tS HAINES, los South Spring
street.
HOTEL VAN NUYS news stand, Fourth
and Main streets.
II. Il. MOORE, 1922 Pasadena avenue.
ii. SI0LINo, corner Seventh and Hill
streets.
FREEMAN LISCOMBE COMPANY, Six
teenth and Main streets.
MR. HARMON. 194 North DAILY street.
MIR. GANSERT, corner Seventh and
MRS. KORBEII.. 1s6S East First street.
BANKS a GREEN, 1000 South Main
street.
HOLMES BOOK COMPANY, 257 South
Main street.
NJ. A. REM, 61s East Fifth street.
NJ LOENNECKER, POI East Fifth
street.
G. WETHERILL, PAS South Main
street.
b. AMOS, 514 West Seventh street.
f.. JOPE, $50 West Seventh street.
G. SAKELARES, 515 North Main street.
JACOB MORTENSEN, 312 North Main
street. -.t
HENRY PORATH. 823 Central avenue.
A. :. RALPH, 117 Commercial street.
w. L. SHOCKLEY, 151 North Main
street.
MAX ROTH CIGAR CO., 100 South Main
street.
j. r. ALLEN. 1916 East First street.
LADD & STORY, 2133 East First street.
c. TATE. $500 East Fourth street.
SU PHELPS, 172S East Seventh street.
A. METZGER, 80 East Ninth street.
MIR. CUTBUSH, corner East First and
Utah streets.
F. DEHMLOW, 2592 West Pico street.
STOVE CO.. 2663 West PicO
street
A. ELMSTEAD, 2O2O South Main street.
Fl. STRICkLIN. 2053 Santa Fe avenue.
Fl. G. Able. 524 East Fifth street.
A. VI. DUFF, Twenty-first street and
Maple avenue.
J. X. DUKE, 2O2O Central avenue.
DAVIS q SATCHELL, 105 North Boyle |
avenue.
t. j. HOUSE. 2OO1 East Main street.
J. VALDEZ. 1926 East Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
FIRE BOARD TESTING HOSE
Big Purchases Recently Made Being
Examined-ResuIts Carefully
Guarded by Commission


Members of the fire commission have
been testing the new hose recently pur-
chased from the New Jersey Car Spring
& Rubber company, represented in Los
Angeles by the Los Angeles Rubber
company, and the results of these tests
are being carefully. guarded. AS re-
suit of testing few lengths of the hose
Wednesday there was star chamber
conference of the fire commission in the
mayors private office and the commits
sion adjourned to continue the tests.
With the 10000 feet of hose which
comes from the New Jersey company
and 5000 each from Harper & Reynolds
and Cass & Smurr the city has bought
the largest quantity of fire hose that 1t
has purchased in it's history and the
results of the tests will not be made
public until all the hose has reached
the city. Only 5000 feet has so far been
received from the New Jersey firm
Commissioner Walter j. Wren saw ten
lengths of the new hose tested and
stated that so far everything had
seemed all right.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
RIVERSIDE TO BE INVADED
Kniuhts of Columbus in Great Num-
bers Will Spend Sunday in the
Oranue City

Sunday will be big day in Knights
of Columbus circles in Riverside, the
occasion being the exemplification of
three degrees by visiting teams under
the auspices of San Bernardino council.
A special train will carry the Los
Angeles knights to Riverside Sunday
morning, where they expect to descend
in such large numbers as to control the
Orange City for the day.
The special train will leave at 7:45
o'clock from the Arcade depot via the
Southern Pacifis to Riverside, returning
from Riverside at o'clock Sunday
night The committee in charge con-
sists of Alphonse Zinsmeister, chair
man; j. ]. Everharty, DR.. H. P. O'Con-
nor, Felix McGinnis and Thomas P.
Higgins.
Delegations from Santa Monica, Long
Beach, Pomona and San Bernardino
will attend in large numbers to in
crease the force from Los Angeles coun-
Gil. The first degree will be exemplifed
by Pomona council, the second degree
will be in charge of the Santa Monica
degree team, and the third degree
will be expounded by the old state de-
gree team, all of the members of which
body will be in attendance.
The ceremonies at Riverside will be
in keeping with the solemnity of the
occasion. Mass will be sung by the
Rev. Stephen Cain, who will be ad-
mitted to the order on the same day,
and the sermon will be preached by the
past chaplain of Los Angeles council,
Rev. D. w. ]. Murphy. The choir will
be composed of Knights of Columbus
specially organized for the purpose.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
C0NSUL'S BODY INFERRED
IN THE CITY OF MEXICO
REMAINS MAY BE ExHUMED AND
BROUGHT TO Los ANGELES
Telegram Received by Friends of
Family States That Final Resting
Place of General Andrade Will Be
in San Mateo Cemetery

A telegram was received in Los An
that the body of the late Gen. Andrade
Mexican consul, had been inferred
there. but that in due time it would be
shipped to California for interment, as
requested by the family.
1t was not known at the consulate
yesterday when the body will be shipped
but 1t is expected that it will lie in state
in Los Angeles by request of the many
friends.
1t is expected that the interment will
be in the Catholic cemetery in San
Mateo.
Antonio Lozano Castro, acting consul,
will be appointed as consul upon the
of Gen. Andrade
previous to his departure for Mexico,
as he intended to resign the consulate
upon his return. Mr.. Castro is a nep-
hew of the famous Mexican general,
August Lozano.. His position with the
government has been that of sub-chief
to the chief of the consular department
of foreign affairs, where he had served
for twenty-one years. Gen. Andrada
took pride in the fact that this con-
sulate was considered one of the best
by the Mexican government.
Enrique de la Sierra has been selected
as chancellor of the consulate, and Ed
ward ]. Andrade son of the deceased
consul, who had been connected with
his father several years as legal adj
visor of the consul, will continue in that
position for Consul Castro.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
INTERPRETATIONS

Eogales Mining Company-Directors
James H. Blanchard, Miles F. Moore,
Jackson Jacques. Olin G. McWain, w.
f. Carlin ]. NJ. Carpenter and C. O..
Burkert Of Los Angeles. Capital stock
$4,000. with 81 subscribed.
Charles Mckenzie Co-Directors:
Charles Mckenzie, II. o. Meyer and C.
w. Fisher of Los Angeles. Capital
stock S5o,OO0 with $51OO subscribed.
Garvanza Congregational church-Di-
rectors: L. T. Case, C. f. Allyn and
o. A. Deardurf. No capital stock.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
'SOPHS' USE GUNS
TO REPEL HAzERS
RIVALRY AT OCCIDENTAL IS
INTENSE
Freshmen Surprised by Receptions in
Which RevoIVers and Ammonia
Guns Play Important
Role

Revolvers, shotguns and ammonia
guns have become the chief implements
of warfare between the freshmen anc
sophomores of Occidental during the
last two or three days. The usual
friendly scraps" of the two classes
have taken a more serious aspect this
year, and the students are wondering
as to what will be doing next.
On account of the large number OF
freshmen, the "sophs" have had rather
a hard time and have been routed in
every encounter up to date, ac-
cording to report. Strategy and
midnight maneuvers have been OF
no avail to the bewildered "sophs," who
at every move have seen the 'freshies'
ready to pounce upon any luckless VIC
tim who should stray too far from his
brothers protection.
The freshmen. grown confident by
their many victories and not content
with daylight skirmishes, decided to
disturb the sleep of one solitary sopho-
more who lives alone in his little shack
at some, distance from the others of his
classmates.
Shot at Freshmen
Creeping stealthily to the door about
midnight the freshmen sought entrance
when the reports of a rifle and the
whistle of bullets about their ears told
them that the man behind the gun had
a little the best of the argument.
Accordingly, they abandoned the at
tack. Not content, however, with one
such experience they repeated the per-
formance the next night only to be
met again by the flash of a revolver
and a stream from an ammonia gun,
which sent them flying in every direc-
ton.
The next morning this same sopho-
more, who is one of Occidentals foot
ball men, seeing the colors of his rivals
futtering from the telegraph wires,
rushed into his room and, seizing his
shotgun, fired two shots at the unof-
Tending flag.
Immediately he was caught and
bound and his gun was knocked to
pieces by the enraged freshmen. No
one has as yet been injured in these
scraps but everybody is beginning to
have a wholesome respect for this wild,
excitable sophomore.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22

Many people are afraid Of ghosts. Few
people are afraid of germs. Yet the ghost
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
JAPANESE ENTER A PROTEST

Local Japanese have entered a pro-
test against the signing of the peace
treaty with the following resolutions
ITO the honorable cabinet and execu-
tive council of Nippon, greeting; We,
the Japanese residents of Los Angeles,
loyal subjects of his most gracious and
imperial majesty. Mutsu Hito II, have
drawn up this resolution to express our
disapproval of the terms of the peace
treaty that has just been concluded.
We consider it disgrace to be so
robbed of the fruits of the war that has
cost so much blood and money. We
beseech your honorable excellencies to
express your disapproval in the same
terms"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
CLERKS FOR PosToFFIcE

The following have been selected from
the civil service list for positions as
clerks in the postoffice: George Francis,
Walter H. Lobenstein, James Mackin,
Newton Van Why, John L. Ballenger
Thomas w. Powell, Timothy r. Nc
Anally, Arthur A. Bissell, William
Funk Houser, Hugh R. Ataininger,
Doris Anderson, Grover C. Moore and
Charles c. Morrey.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION

The United States civil service COM
mission announces an open competitive
examination for the position of clerk
and carrier in the Los Angeles post
office to be held November IS. For ap-
plication blanks and further informa-
tion apply to Frank c. Mulkey, local
secretary at the Los Angeles postoffice.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22

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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-22
COUNCILMAN SELLS HIS MINE
Realizes $4,000 for "GoIden Dream
in GoldfeId District, Retaining
Many Other Claims

Councilman Smith has returned from
Goldfeld, New, where he sold his gold
mine, the Golden Dream, for $4,000.
He has other claims in the district
which he will develop.
He is of the opinion that there is a
great deal more gold in that part of
the country than is indicated by the
prospects of the mines now being
worked.
If you want to go east, G. HaydOck,
Agt. Illinois Central R. r., 23s S. Spring.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-01

stage the tumult of sound almost in
st ntly died away, and in d silence that
was strange in contrast the celebrated
editor began to speak. There was hardly
a person present who was not well aware
of the long warfare he had waged against
Butler. and all leaned forward eagerly to
catch every word he was saying about
the traditional victim of his pen, who
was sitting within three feet of him.
shall not attempt to chronicle Dana's
Speech no one could do this from men,
ory without failing utterly to do 1t
Justice. | shall only say that it was
overfowing with tact and cleverness, and
that at its close, when Dana said: And
now, ladies and gentlemen. [ have the
honor to introduce to you one of Ameri-
cas- foremost soldiers" there was burst
of applause that shook the building.
Buffers voice was husky when he
began to speak. 1t was not nervous
ness, but an emotion that arose from a
far deeper source. The kind and gracious
words from apparently the most relent-
less of his enemies unmasked him.
But as a vent for it he threw his feeling
into his address, He spoke of the Irish
soldier as if he loved him. He surpassed
himself in eloquenCe. and the audience,
ardently Irish in its sympathies, was
carried away by his emotion and his
oratory. There were deafening cheers,
that did not subside in long moments.
Never before had the Academy of
Music known such a night.
When the address was finished, and
the enthusiastic band was making the
air quiver and dance with the refrains of
old Erin, and the military men were
pressing closely around the General to
shake his hand, | was clutched by the
arm by Charles DelmonicO.
"Morrissey," he cried, its been
great, great I'm not an Irishman, like
YOU, but tonight | wish | was, and for
my deficiency | want to make amends.
| want you to get together party of
about twenty-five. including Butler and
Dana of course, and bring them over to
my place for supper
We had DelmonicO's best supper-rOOm,
and the best of his food and wines in
unlimited quantities. Besides our guests
of honor, the colonies and majors were
all there TOasts were drunk to General
Butler. to Mr. Dana, to both together, to
the Irish soldier, to St Cecelia's Church.
The former foes again made speeches
and pledged each other, and between
them the hatchet was buried forever