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The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
AN EXTRAvAGANT OUTFIT.
and a Boa in New York
City.

find that $4,000 for a sable coat is
only a fair price, in fact it is a very low
price for a coat of fine sable, writes
Cleveland Moffett, in THE Shameful
Misuse of Wealth. in Success Maya
zine. AS witness this talk that l had
the other day with New York's leading
furrier:
Can o show me a good sable coat?"
l inquired.
Russian sable?" he asked.
Yes said 1, something especially
ine-say about S. OO."
He smiled: We haven't ANYTHING
made up that l would call especially fine.
We have a rather short coat of rather
light skins, moderate quality. that will
cost $4,000"
Ten thousand dollars!" exclaimed.
Then what would a good coat cost?"
He continued to smile and produced
a number Of fine skins-the real i'm
perlal sable, very dark with silver lights
playing through the soft fur. And he
showed me the price marks, $3.50 a
skin, about ten dollars a square inch.
This is the best Siberian sable" he
went on. "a coat Of moderate length.
say 30 inches. requires so skins, and"
Sixty times $50" l murmured.
"Thirty-three thousand dollars, which
includes the cost of making"
And a longer coat?' l gasped.
one reaching to a lady's ankles
would require, say so skins, that is, S4O,-
OOO,' he replied, rather m~atter-of-fact.
And you sell coats at such prices?'
l continued in amazement.
Eve sell this kind of sable as fast as
we can get it. The best skins are very
scarce"
And a muff?" 1 asked, meekly, lust
a muff?"
Five skins" said he, $3.50. There's
one in the showcase"
And a boa? A little boa?"
-Four skins at least, hat is So. 300
Here then evidently I erred not on
the side Of exaggeration, but of under
statement; l put down $4,000 as the
maximum yearly sum that a few New
York women spend on dress, including
everything, whereas nearly $50, 900 may
be spent simply for a fur coat with boa
and muff!
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22

| pursued by a force laying siege to a
| great fortress. The first step is, of
course to invest the place-that is to
say, to surround it and cut it off from
communication with the outside world.
The surrounding force takes up its po-
| sition Just out of the range of the enc
| my's guns, and the object before them
is to get over the intervening ground
and into the works without being torn
to pieces by the concentrated fire which
the defenders guns can bring to bear
on every part. With this view the
fortress is approached by d series of zig
gag trenches, SO pointed that they can
not be e%nfiladed by any guns in the
fortress. In order to accommodate the
forces necessary to protect the workers,
the trenches are cut laterally for a great
length, partly encircling the place and
affording safe room for a large force.
These are the parallels, and are general
ty three in number. When it is decided
where to place a parallel, a strong body
of men is sent to the spot at nightfall,
| Ind while the attention of the garrison
is distracted by false alarms, the work
is begun Half the men lie down in
front of the proposed parallel under
arms, while the other half, bearing each
a pick and shovel and two gabions, set
to work to dig the trench. By daylight
sufficient cover will have been formed
| to conceal the workers and the protect
Ing troops. During the day the trench
is widened sufficiently to allow wagons
| and troops with guns to pass along. At
night again other parties will be set
to work at the zigzags of approach from
the depOts out of range to the first
trench. These ZigzagS are usually made
not less than 1000 yards in length.
The first parallel, being completed,
| breastwOrkS are made for the protection
Of cavalry, and batteries are erected in
the most suitable points. Then the zig
gag business begins again, and thus the
second parallel is reached the angles of
the zigZags become more acute to pre-
vent enflading. The third parallel is
at the foot of the glacis (the parapet of
the covered way extended in a long
slope to meet the natural surface of the
ground, SO that every part of it shall
be swept by the fire of the ramparts),
and it is from here that the storming
parties make their attack. Here, too.
the miners tunnel and lay their mines.
Our illustration of a gallery gives an
idea of the labor that has to be expended
over the trench-work before any assault
can be made.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
Not So Small

"Why little JAPAN" asks the critic.
It's population totals at least 5000, 900
more than that of Great Britain. If
you include Formosa and the other
an%nexations of 1895, the Japanese peo-
pie numbered 1880, 900 six years ago,
and they were then increasing by
nearly SOC, 900 a year. Japan also has
some very big towns. Toxic has a
population of about 1,500,00 Osaka
between SOC, 900 and 900, 900, and there
are about 20 others with a population
of more than $4,000. Japan has all the
other marks of greatness including
a beef tax and a law of divorce. For
every four couples married one is di-
voTced."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
THE CZAR.

The czar may choose to hold his job
And steer affairs of state,
But if hat little kid was mine,
You bet, Ia abdicate;
I'd kiss his little dimpled fists
And take him, and 'twould be
A case of Observation-Disclosures
By-the-back-door for me.
Aye, let who will a monarch be
And dynamiting dare,
And dare the shouting, bowling mob.
And dare the torch'S fare;
The great affairs and pomp of state
For some may hold a thrall,
But, by my home and wife and babe,
They dwindle and seem small.
Alas! poor little ~czarevitch!
Twill not be his to go
The happy fiower-bordered ways
The poo mans babe may know;
If he were mine-but l believe
| nave already said.
I'd throw his kingdom overheard,
And give him peace instead.
j. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
She Had II

A young clergyman, doing his holt
day shopping in a New York depart
ment store, asked, at the book depart
ment, for Carolyn Wells new collection
of parodies by well-known writer's.
Have you "A Parody Anthology?' !"
he inquired OF the young saleswoman.
Il think we have" she replied CLAN
cling at his clerical garb. Turning to
another clerk, she asked: Have we
got "A Parody on Theology?' Town
and Country.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22

Thorpe, "and hen l can't please you.
I'm a slave to you. That's what-that's
who l am"
You're not a slave to anybody. told
you last week to get a cook. Why didn't
your
Who'd stand her OFF,"
Il usually pay my bills, madam"
You're remarkably slow about pay
ing mine"
I'm not the Bank of England"
Harold, I sometimes wish l hadn't
married YOU
Good! So do L."
Il might nave lone BETTER"
Il wish you had"
You might have done worse"
Il don't believe it."
You may not be bothered with me al
ways. Something may happen to take
me out of your life forever"
Yes, l suppose it may; all things are
possible. Anyway. whatever it is, it's
worth waiting for"
"Of course you understand, dear. that
should you apply for a divorce, you could
not, under the proposed law, marry
again inside Of two years.
Nor you inside of five, darling"
Il wouldn't want to-. In fact, l think
if every woman were given five years in
which to consider matrimony, she
wouldn't want it,"
IF she began considering after she
was 80, she wouldn't get it. You needn't
get the divorce microbe into your mind,
T 0ly Tho~rn. rnthipn ~ IL OF 1-i-l -
going to wreck this should-be happy
family. We were united in holy wedlock
at a cost of $3.50 for the license, $40 to
the officiating minister, to say nothing
Of incidental expenses. Possibly we
have both erred g~rievously, but we have
instituted a home, and it is our duty to
the public and to the state not tt destroy
it"
How beautiful To what state-or
did you mean a t~erritory?"
1.-The marriage state; and to the public
because it depends upon us as a source
of revenue Dissolve this home, and
taxation will be undermined; light,
water, heat, food, clothing and kindred
interests will be Inconvenience"
What about Hs?'
A individuals? Who cares? 1t is
the home the public would preserve; the
home must be shielded, so long as the
inmates can pay rent on it. AS an emf
nent celebate said this week, For every
divorce that is granted, there is a home
destroyed"
THE homes hat are destroyed by
divorces" argued Mrs. Thorpe. are q
small per cent of the homes that are de-
stroyed by lack of them. When people
are mismated and their domestic rela-
tons have become mutually odious, the
religious aspect OF marriage becomes q
tEavesty. If not 4 tragedy. Separate
them, and each might find true afini-
ties or-h'm-they might not; compel
them to remain together, and the natural
rebellion of a chafed spirit viii lead to
evils more menacing to the moral status
Of public and state than divorce"
Whom God hath Joined together, let
net man put asunder."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
SALT IN THE
Be- emily FRANCES SMITH
ST HERE will be an auction sale O.

SIT HERE will be an auction sale of
rugs Tomorrow said Mrs.
Thorpe, pouring her husbands second
cup Of coffee, and that reminds me that
our north N
Needs its window washed" finished
Mr.. Thorpe. Il noticed that. If a wom-
an would devote One-tenth Of the time
that she does to looking for bargain
sales to"
Doing mental labor that could be
hired with one-third of what her hus-
band spends for cigars"
Shed have more muscle and less
nerves." added Mr.. Thorpe, sweetening
his coffee with salt. Good heavens,
Mary! When was your coffee pot
washed? Now, now, little girl, I mean
it has a beastly taste. o it happen to
be buckeye ~juice?"
L try to do all I can," mourned Mrs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22

Nothing daunted because padlocks
were put on the door, the ~stovepipe
taken away and no fuel furnished to
keep the building warm. Miss Jennie
of Lew Beach, Sullivan county, N. Y.
succeeded in finishing her term of school,
though the trustees had officially de-
clared the school discontinued. With
the help of her pupils Miss NOVEL; got
new stovepipe and fuel, but she could
not get her pay. She appealed to the
state department Of education, which
erdered restitution In full.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
A Bad Model.

81 must say I'm s'prised at our min
ister," said Deacon Longface. He
seq all Christians should take pattern
of the bee as a model of industry"
wat S the matter O. thet?" demand
ed his wife.
why, the bee works OF the Sabbath
same's any other day."-Catholic
Standard and Times.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
Where the Birds Go.

Teacher-Can you tell me, Tommie.
what becomes of all the birds when the
summer has gone?
Tommie-Why, I guess they get put
on all the winter hats, ma'am.-Yon-
kers Statesman.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
Not Perfect

Father-He's a spendthrift and you
shall not marry him.
Daughter-But. papa, he will be able
to support me before long. He's prac-
ticing economy Eow.
HI might practice economy, but
I'll warrant he'll never become pro-
hcient in it."-Indianapolis Star.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
JOY Ahead.

Jenkins-Aren't you disappointed
that your baby was a girl?
Popley-No, indeed. I've just been
thinking how much pleasure it will at
ford me some day to tell some foreign
duke or count that he can't have her.
philadelphia Ledger.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
Fixing the Blame.

Langham-Yes. the poo fellow had
three doctors attending him before he
died.
Kahn-Well, can't they find out which
one was to blame?-Town Topics.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22
Great Changes Since Then.

There isn't q doubt that my seven
year-old daughter thinks I am a wind
bag as far as education goes"
"How's that2"
Il tried last night to show her some
thing about geography-forgetting that
all l knew about it 1 learned 80 years
ago."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-04-22

THE idea! Miss Blowitin is going to
marry Jack Spender to reform him."
She ought to be able to do it all right.
Jack will never spend any monsF she
gets hold of."-Houston Post
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12

greatly. It seems a very reasonable solution of the trouble.
 MT. Collins has large interests in all the properties of the Circle, and is a big winner. We wouldn't like to guess at the amount he is ahead, but it is a very gratifying sum, well re- paying him for his skill and faith. He believes all the properties of the Circle will prove successes.
 Referring to Calumet and Arizona, in which he is a large shareholder, ne stated to the editor of Iron Ore, in visit paid us a few days since, that it could measure up twice as much ore today as it could a year ago, and twice as much as was ever exposed at the Irish Mag shaft of the property. He says both the Irish Mag and the Oliver shaft slook well, and that the Oliver is proving wonderfully rich. The ore found on the Buckeye claim, 600 feet from the first deposits found at the Oliver, is described as being of large size and very rich, and of great importance to the company, in that it practically gives it another mine. He says there are many years ore now showing in the Calumet and Ari- Zona. and that it cannot help earning big dividends. He claims that any one can make a success of this property, nature having contributed so much to render this easy. The Copper Queen, working right alongside, has been ac- tive in ore production twenty-seven years and is bigger and richer today than at any past time. He thinks the coming year will add much to the al ready known value of the Bisbee camp in general, to the Bonanza Circle prop critics in particular, and that the town has only fairly started on it's mining He is a frequent visitor to Bisbee and keeps in close touch with all that is transpiring there.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
Y. N. L. A. WILL HAVE TWO ARIZONA HOMES Advent of this Wonderful Dr. qanizatiOn into COChiSe
 County

Wttbin a short time the territory of Arizona, which until recently was without Y. NJ. c. A. building. will have two association homes, both eminently adapted to the purpose for which they are to be used. New Mex ico will have its first association build ing within a short time.
 C. G. Titus, general secretary of the Y. N. c. A. in Fl Paso, returned yesterday from Douglas, where he has been aiding in the final work on the Douglas building, and he brought back with him the report that Bisbee will soon be in line with modern asso- citation building, and that Las Vegas, N. NJ, will complete the trio or terri torial homes.
 'The contractors say that they will have the Douglas Y. NJ. C. A. building completed about the first of the year, g said Mir Titus. Tt will be dedicated and occupied with as little delay as possible.
 Phelps, Dodge & Co. have given out the good tidings that the Bisbee gymnasium will be used for an asso- citation building. The gymnasium is undergoing some slight improvements
 
 is expected that the association will take charge of the building. The structure cost s20,000 and will make q splendid association building. The Phelps-Dodge people came to the con clusion that the building could be con trolled to the best advantage by the '. N. c. A. and turned it over to the international committee
 Las Vegas is building a Y. NJ. C. A. building, which will be the first structure of the sort in New Mexico. It will cost about S25,0O0 The asso- citation has not yet been organized in that city It will begin it's active work when the building is completed.
 +'We have received information that George D. McGill, railroad secretary on the international committee, who has been taking an active part in as- sociation work in the southwest, Is sick in Chicago with the grip. .'-El Paso Herald.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
THE ABSOLUTE.
(From Iron Ore.)

Tom Collins and associates has an option on the above property located in Keweenaw county and about three miles north of Lac la Belle. The hold ingS consist of twenJy-eight forties, these being on the dip of the lodes of that district. There are yet some days before the option expires and whether the lands will be taken or not re- mains to be decided by the holders.
 There are several reasons why this tract looks good to MT. Collins. There has been work done in that vicinity and on the strike of the formations running through the property which has shown a lode very rich in copper. about the richest amygdaloid the dis trict has ever produced. It was enough to suggest 10 MT. Collins that it well deserved a little closer examination, and the option accordingly followed. During the past week there nss been rumor constantly pressed D the ef- fleet that the Keweenaw Copper com pany had joined hands with MT. Col lins and his friends. forming a consoli- daIion of interests. There was no foundation for the rumor which was stated as a fact. and upon the Dresan- tation of which the Keweenaw stock jumped up to $20 from a very obscure former position.
 The rumor of the consolidation has been emphatically denied by the Col l Iins' interests. There had been nego tiaJions and examinations, but these had led to no bargain, and the matter is still unsettled.
 The gentlemen holding the option upon the Resolute property wsE il distinctly understood that II they take it there will be no public distri button of the stock. The lands vii be developed by private parties. Ii copper is found the public may have an opportunity to come in. Should copper in paying quantity not result the public will not want to joIn. The parties now interested, should they close the deal for the lands, will takt an the chances, and plainly say the af fair is all chance. The district ha: not been practically explored. It re mains to be seen what it holds in th' way of a paying copper lode and l will take time and money to deter mine this. They want no person t' be deceived as to the rail condition It is a gamble pure and simple, and they 20 in it is with this understand ing. Should the Keweenaw Coppe
 company join hands the proposition
 will still be subject to the same sor
 of description. The forming of
 combination with the latter comPan.
 will probably be decided in few day
 but there is no certainty that such deal will be made.
 The people optioning the Resolut
 are progressive mining men who vii
 spend money wisely. It will be
 good thing for ~old Keweenaw"
 they decide to take hold, for they vi
 give it a trial that will be of the mos vigorous kind. u wiD also be an hoI
 est business.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12

many of us have so far entered into
 the possession of the Christian spirit
 as to look upon all men as our broth CTS by virtue of their human birth.
 and to cast out from our hearts the
 un-Christlike feelings that prevent our rising above the petty barriers of race or creed or color. and recognizing the
 majesty and worth of a human soul
 find il where we may, treating it as we would be treated, judging no man because of the name he may happen
 to bear, but seeing in him the image of the one great Father of us all in each more or less marred and broken 7 l am pleading only for the Christianity of Christ: for a larger Christianity than that that has so often borne his name. The Jew may not care to have me say a word on his behalf, and if any sentence of mine should offend even the lowliest of his race, or seem to be uttered in any other spirit than that in which one man might stand side by side with any of his human kind and plead for justice and far play wherever prejudice and unbrother- Illness have done their evil work, my own pain would be greater than his. It is, after all, only indirectly for him l speak. It is we who are the offend CTS. The shame and guilt are ours for the un-Christlike spirit we have shown. It is he who does the wrong, not he who suffers it, who most needs the pity of the thoughtful men. My friends, have I brought into the pulpit a theme foreign to the spirit of the gospel that was given to the world by Jesus the Jew? That spirit is al- ways the spirit of real and conscious brotherhood, the spirit of fairness. ! have long felt that I owed it to my self to speak this word of justice ana of truth concerning a people toward whom, for more than a thousand years Christendom, faithless to it's Lord, has borne itself so often with most un- Christian spirit a people that bear still the seal of divine election, whose are the promises, and for whose final vision of Gods truth as it is in Jesus because I am a Christian, I must ever pray. Above all else I shall be more than content if 1 have done anything 10 help a single soul to feel how the religion of Christ lifts us to the no- bility of man as man, till to us asi members of the one great humanity ttat claims us all there is neither bond, nor free, Gentile nor Jew-''a mans a man for a that"
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
FREE DELIVERY FOR DOUGLAS.
Material for Numbering Houses Has
 Arrived at Copper City.

Douglas, Ariz., Dec. 11.-(SpeciaL)-
 It was learned this morning that Dicus & Sims, who ordered the mate rial for numbering the houses and names for the streets of the city, have received the bil for the material, and it is now expected to arrive on every incoming train. The material was purchased at Niagara Falls, N. Y, and was shipped On the 23d. As soon as the material arrives the work of num- bering the houses will be started al once. Postmaster Caldwell stated yes terday that as soon as the houses are numbered it would require but a short time to put free mail delivery in operation. This service will greatly relieve the present congested condi- tion at the postofice, where there are now some thirty applications for boxes which cannot be supplied.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
NEW MINING ASSOCIATION.

W. A. Desborough of San Francisco has been in Tucson several days or ganizing the Arizona Mine Owners Association. This association will be composed of mine owners living in this territory, and its object will be the promotion of the mining industry generally.
 Mir. Desborough went from Tucson to Phoenix, where he will continue the work He says mine owners are fall ing in with the idea readily, and are anxious to have such an organization formed. MT. Desborough had with him an exhibit of copper that ran 9t per cent. This was taken from the Calumet and Arizona Oliver shaft near Bisbee. He will place this spec imen in the exhibit room of the Fnl ton Iron Works at San Francisco This company has fitted out an ex hibit room especially for Arizona products.
Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-12
REMARKABLE CURE.

q was much afflicted with sciati- ca,' writes Ed. c. Mud. Iowaville, Sedgwick Co.,, Kan, going about cn crutches and suffering deal of pain. I was induced to try Ballard's Sncw Eminent, which relieved me.
 q used three soc bottles. It is the greatest liniment I ever used; Fave recommended it to a number of per sons; all express themselves as being benefited by it. now walk with out cruiches, able to perform great deal of light labor on the farm"
 25c. soc and $1.00. Sold by Rine- hart's Pharmacy.