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Tombstone epitaph., 1906-11-11
It Worked Out Badly.

There is such a thing as carrying the discount business too far, as the smart advertising agent of a new publication discovered.
 "As I understand" said the mer- chant, your rate is $50 a page for 6 single insertion and you deduct l per cent from this rate for each additional insertion?'
 That is correct" replied the agent ''The total rate decreases by l per cent for each insertion contracted for after the first" he went on to explain. If you agree to take it ten times, there will be nine insertions kfter the first, and you will get per cent of the rate. In other words, you will orly have to pay S455O each time"
 "'The idea commends itself to me- said the merchant thougbtfully. and f you will stick to that plan will be glad to make a contract with you to use a full page for 101 consecutive Is sues"
 The agent was jubilant until he thought 1t over. Then he wasn't. This discount business can be carried too far.
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aroused to anger, and he promptly added full charge of large shot to the weight of one of the brothers, caus- ing death almost instantly.
 When the interest in the death of Siegel had died down, says the Chicago Tribune, Haas led his bride to the altar and continued business at the old stand, not caring to go away on 6 honeymoon trip. His business pros- pered and everything went along smoothly until one night as he was going home from the store he was shot dead from ambush. the bullet fired by the unseen foe entering the heart. The finger of suspicion, as it is sometimes called, was pointed at the surviving SIegel, but when he asked the men of Cortez to proclaim publicly that they thought he was the man, not one of them opened his mouth. This particular Siegel was the best shot in several counties.
 John Haas went to Cortez from Mount Giiead to settle up his brothers business affairs. for the widow was too prostrated to think of anything but her sorrows, but she frightened up after Johns arrival. He was not bad looking, and, being a good business man, soon strengthened out all the commercial kinks. He had business to attend to in Ohio, but he length ened his stay at Cortez until it was too late to return. He had fallen in love with his brothers regct, and the end of it all was that he married her. He, like his brother William, lived hap oily with Jane, who was still the most beautiful woman in Cortez, until his sudden death. Whether the Siegel brother still had vengeance in his heart or not is not known, but it is said he was in town when William died.
 There was still another Haas broth CT, named Henry, at Mount Gilead, and it became his duty to go west and look after the interests of the widow. He was more or less reluctant, but he did not shirk his duty. He went to Cor tez, put the business in proper shape, and then began to finger. He might have gone back to Ohio again, but he didn't. The widow was not so young as when she first married, but her eyes were still bright and Henry, be ing unmarried. liked her. To all ap- pearances she was not averse to his company, and at last he ventured to suggest that it would rot be bad idea if they became man and wife. AS a saving clause he remarked that it were better, perhaps, if they were wed at Mount Gilead and made their per manent residence there. He though, the climate at Cortez unhealthy. She agreed with him, and in few day, they will go to Mount Gilead, get mar ried, and reside at the old Haas home. stead.
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ABOUT HOODOOS.
They Are Terrible Things Once
 They Are Let Loose.
Asnt Belinda Babcoek, an old Chi eAgo Colored Woman, Bxereisss
 Her Occult Powers for Good PasDoses Only.

Genuine hoodoo doctors are rare in these days of positive science, and even folks that have been "hoOdooed'' are few in such a northern city as Chi cago. But in the colony of co!ored folks that re side on both sides of Stat street below Twenty-secOnd there ara few veterans left who know how to apply and how 10 avoid the evil med icine," says the Chicago Tribune.
 Aunt Belinda Ba bcock can hoodoo you. The little pickanninies too small to know their 10, abs, know that. But the older folks know that Aunt Belin- da, kindly old soul, never exercises her power except to ward of evil.
 'Hoodoos is terrible things" says Aunt Belinda, shaking her head. An I'll tell you how l knows. When l was a young gal, Twin in New Orleans, be- fore the war, when 1 was family serv- ant, l met a hoodoo man first. Of co'se l had my beau in them days. Another colored gal tried to git him away from me and make love to him, so we all come together one day and had terrible strong arguments at the scene of meeting. When she found she couldn't win him she says to me: I'll fix you yet she says. But l only laughed. l wouldn't have laughed if had knowed what she would do.
 "Thisis some of the hoodoo she done for me. That gal got the hair switch I wore, an she got three needles and three pins an three eggs, an stuck them pins az sss5!s. in the eggs, au wound the hair around them and buried them under my doorstep, where l had to cross them every day.
 'I began to feel as though I was burning up. l Jes' got crazy. raved around all the tune. So see was hoo dooed, an went to hoodoo doctor to see what was the matter and if there was any way 10 git even; and he says there was.
 Then 1 had to get nine ground pup pies-nine puppies that had been killed
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Beayers stfIl at Large

With all the army of administration special attorneys and the regular force of the department of justice and Unit ed States marshals and secret service men hunting down George w Beavers, the principal postoffice grafter, he Is still at large. The latest reports of hls whereabouts show that he is enjoying himself at the seashore resorts and will doubtless be on his usual Broadway beat iD a week or two. Does G. W. B. know too much that be might disclose if brought 70 trialf
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DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Lady Marcus Beresford, who found cd the English Cat club, has about 15o felines.
 Mrs. Carrie F. Adams of Fort Gib- son, I. T., Is said to be the only Daugh- ter of the Revolution who is an Indian
 Mrs. NJ. D. Halpin of Shawnee. Okla, has the private bookcase used by Presi- dent Franklin Pierce during his occu- pancy of the White House.
 The president of the London Society of Women Journalists is Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, the wife of the member of parliament of that name. She was born in Texas and educated at Wash ington.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Joy, wife of ex-Con- gressman Charles F. Joy of St. Louis, has begun a movement in Los Angeles for the establishment of a school of philosophy, the institution to he located In a temple of science to cost $1 ,O00- 600.
 Mrs. Adda F. Howie eleven yeArB ago was a prominent Milwaukee so- ciety woman Today she is renowned throughout the United States and Can ada as the best authority on Jersey cattle breeding and dairying In this country.
 Mrs. Hetty Green says: "Wben I went to Quaker school they used to make us eat at the next meal whatever we had left on our plates. The d. rectors said that if the rich girls did not learn to economize there would be no money left with which to educate the poor girls. My Quaker simplicity Is the reason folks call me mean" The widow of Jefferson Davis lives on the seventh floor of a quiet New York hotel, white haired woman with keen eyes, tense manner and ( soft voice Her apartments are crowd ed with mememtos of ''the lost cause'' and never a day passes without visit from one or more of the men who iu some way were closely identified witt 1 the Confederacy.
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and dried in the sun and powdered up. These puppies are mighty important in hoodooism. After I ground up the dried puppies like pepper I put them in jar for nine days. and then he told me to bury them in a convenient place where we tbres could meet again and get my beau to meet me, an of course she come along to see what we was up to.
 Well. there was a terrible time. As soon as she come where the ground puppies was buried the earth began to crack open, and she was awtully taken. She tore her clothes all to rags in her terror. and she ran frantically through the streets of New Orleans till she come to the Mississippi river, and she jumped in and was drownded. and the hoodoo was tooken away from me.
 Then l began to study hoodooism. When you want to git rid of an enemy you got to git snake and kill it and dry it in the sun and grind it up into powder and sprinkle ii in the hallway of your enemy's house. Then most terrible germs will invade her system and she will die
 'Or if you pu; ]; In anything she eats snakes will grow in her stomach and she will die.
 And there is the baby hoodoo. If you take a baby that dies and leave it on shelf to dry and then grind it up and put the powder in your enemy's food it will hoodoo her and she will die
 ''If you drive a nail wrapped in the hair of your enemy under her doorstep it will cause her husband to leave her. Or if you prick your finger till blood comes and write your enemy's name with it on a card and bury it she will die.
 "Hoodooism is terrible" says Aunt Belinda Babcock. Only you got to believe in everything you do and say. Hoodoo won't work unless you believe in what you're doing. I ain't never hoodooed. because always carry ten 'ent piece and pinch of salt in the toe If my left shoe.
 'If you want to find out if you are hoodooed. put . tencent piece under your tongue. and if il turns black you are. Or you can go 10 a hoodoo doctor at midnight in the dark of the moon and he will look through you with a burning candle, and he can see the hoodoo v 'tn-s 'e ors D. 'hey ain'f Dr. Hobbs spara. us Pilis cure all kdne, ilf- san
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insurance sup<rv,sion.

There is no doubt that public senti. 1ient in favor of government supervi- sion of insurance companies is becom. ing stronger. Practically all prominent insurance interests now approve the plan. The fact that their attitude is largely the result of the vexations due to the variety of state insurance laws is one of the important arguments in favor of national control. Life insur- ance is business in which the public is peculiarly and very closely interest ed It Is not wise to subject these large beneficiary corporations to the vagaries of many sets of lawmakers. in spite of the fact that our insurance companies have greatly prospered un- der the existing system.-Bufra,o Ex- press.
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THE HAAS BROTHERS
Three of Them Have Fallen h Love
 with Jane segsr.
Two of the Romancss Were SaaAa sd with BLood-Ths Third May End
 Happily for Both Bride |. and Groom :

Jane Segur, or Haas, the latter be- ing the name she has borne for many years, has had two romances, both stained with blood, aud her third may be bioodless-if the prospective bride and groom get away in time. Jane Segur is to marry the third of the Haas brothers. She had previously married the other two, but death in- tervened and she became twice a wid- ow. The third Haas seems to have no fear, but all the good shots in Monte yuma county are not dead yet and there is no telling what may happen.
 Twice married and widowed, Ars. Haas is soon to become a bride for the third time. and is willing to run all risks.
 Thirty years ago William Haas was prosperous young merchant at Mount Gilead, O., but the balm in that Gilead was not sufficient to .atisfy the yearnings of his soul for greater wealth, SO he removed his goods and other belongings to Cortez, Nsb., and set up trading house.
 The belle of Cortez when Haas first made his appearance was Jane segur. and she was as pretty as a maiden dared be.
 Two brothers by the name of Siegel were particularly attentive to Jane, and they gave 1t out that the man who married Jane had better make his will before the marriage ceremony was performed. Now it happened that little Jane had fallen in love with Will liam Haas, and accepted his offer of heart and hand. When the siegels heard of it they became more than ordinarily strenuous. They talked to Haas in an unseem!y manner until his Ohio blood becoming hot he was
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Surface employees te receive p cents per shift over and above present wages.
 The voluntary increase of wages brings with it a sig nificance equa ed only by sat- isfactOry returns from the re ductlon works. The action is a guarantee that the company is meeting W ith success, and as the mlles yleld mJre gen. erously, so Tn a corresponding ratio Is the managem ent prone to divide with the toiler, The employees of the T. C. M. Co. are to De congratulated upon their good fortune. The llb- erality of the company IS. to be commended, aud its .ac- tion will make of the miner an inalienable:: e::friend.
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French Cooking.

French economy is a fact. The soup often has no meat. All water in which vegetables are boiled is saved, to ap- pear on the table as soup. The water Is salted, but is not thickened, and the soup is nothing more nor less than the water which the "extravagant' Amer lean housewife throws out. The Ger man cook saves fl, too, but she turns 1t into q most palstable soup by adding -four and butter cooked together, sea- sonings and bits of the vegetable. Never can the traveller forget the thin, tasteless, innutritious slops served In various parts of France ss soup. The water, masquerading as soup, forms one course of the dinner. Then comes the vegetable in c cream sauce or dressed with oil, or as salad, with oil and vinegar. Perhaps . bit of meat may precede the vegetable. and after the salad will come . sweet This ia when thines % well. The common people have lsss.-Exchangs.
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]Q6az| - k eAsEM

Although to superficial observation
 1t might seem that the great bodies of the universe could radiate thei,
 light forever, the modern generaliza.
 tons of physics show that such can
 not be the case, writes simon New
 comb in the International Monthly
 The radiation of light necessarily in
 wolves corresponding loss of heat
 and with it the expenditure of some
 form of energy. The possibility of
 such restoration completely tran
 scends our science. How can the lit
 tie vibration which strikes our eve
 from some distant star and which has
 been perhaps thousands of years fin
 reaching us find its way back to its origin? The light emitted by the sun
 lO,OOO years ago is today pursuing its way in a sphere whose surface is TO- 900 light years distant on all sides. Science has nothing even to suggest the possibility of its restoration. and the most delicate observations fail to show any return from the unfathoma- ble abyss.
 It can be said with the confidence of demonstration that the energy gener- ated by the suns contraction could not have kept up its present supply of heat for much more than twenty or thirty millions of years.
 It will suffice to say in general way that the study of earth and ocean shows evidence of the action of a SC .ies of causes which must nave been going on for hundreds of millions. quite probably for thousands of mil. lions, of years.
 Moreover, the commencement of the geological operations of which we speak is by no means the commence ment of the earth's existence The the ories of both parties agree that for untold cons before the geological changes now visible commenced our planet was a molten mass, perhaps even an incandescent globe like the sun. During all those cons the sun must have been fin existence as a vast nebulous mass, first reaching as far as the earth's orbit and slowly contract Ing its dimensions. And these cons are to be included in the physicists estimate of twenty or thirty millions of years.
 Granting the evolutionary hypothe- sis, every star has its lifetime. We can even lay down the law by which it passes from infancy to old age. All stars do not have the same length of life; the rule is that the larger the star, or the greater the mass of matter which composes it, the longer will it endure. But no cautious thinker can treat such a subject with the ease of | ordinary demonstration. How can he essay to describe what may have been going on hundreds of millions of | years in the past? Can he dare to | say that nature was the same then az now? Who knows but that the radiant l property that Becquerel has found in | certain forms of matter may be a resid- | uum of some original form of energy | which Is inherent in great cosmical | masses and has fed our sun during all | the ages required by the geolog;st for l the structure of the earth's crusts?
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From Mondays Daily.

Probate Judge Goodbody went t,
 Bisbee this afternoon to rally with thu democrats
 Mrs Frank Doan left Saturday fo Phoenix on visit to her relative: and friends.
 James Sabin and Hattie B Murray both of Bisbee, were married by Judge Goodbody today.
 Scot: White, ex-sheriff of Cochise county, is spending a few days with his host of friends in Tombstone A more devoted man to his friends or a more loyal democr tt never lived Scott White makes a trip of 300 miles in order to vote for Mark Smith for Delegate to Congress, Stewart Hunt for Sheriff. oppose iointure with New Mexico and support the Demo- cratic ticket from top to bottom. That is the kind of man that Scott White is known to be.
 The total vote cast in 1902 for dele gate 10 Congress was 9,68S. the vote cast in 1904 was 19,667. It is estima,- ed that the vote thus year will b. 24,OOO.
 Dr George E. Goodie!low, a prom inent physician and surgeon in Tomb stone during the camps halcyon days, is an arrival from Sen Francisco. !. has been fifteen years since the doc tor left Tombstone. During his ab- sence he has been prominent in the public eye-on the field of battle, a. we'll as attracting wide attention through his skill as a surgeon and successful practitioner. l 6 dealt gently with the doctor, his we'll preserved health leading one to be lieve he had partsken of the elixir oi life.
 Mrs. Kate Brown and children re- turned this morning from the east. where they have been visiting for A D nber of m ,nths.
 Mrs George Raferty left this after noon for Bisbec, where she goes to  visit her sister. Mrs. George Porter.
 A temporary injunction issued b, Judge Sloan has been served upon the members of the Prescott city gov. ernment to restrain them from the further install ton f the municipal electric light plant. F. L. Wright, of the Prescott electric light plant, is the man behind the injunction. With in 20 days the hearing as to the per manency or dissolution of the injunc- tion will be had.
 An ordinance prohibiting women and minors from entering saloons. wine-rooms and other places where liquor is cold, was passed by the Globe city council on October 30th and to become effective December 1st, 1906.
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kAISERGRAMS.

The kaiser is carefully guarded. but not always well edited.-Washingt Star.
 In Russia there is now a large and an increasing demand for catskins. In Germany, we understand. the demand is for cats paws.-London Globe.
 The kaiser has forbidden the impor tation of English oysters. Which leads ns to believe that the oyster has broken Its long silence and been guilty of lezs Rajesty.-Toronto Star.
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SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

Recently fallen rainwater possesses radio activity.
 So powerful is the new electric light in the Dunkerque France) lighthouse that its beams are visible at a distance of forty miles.
 Professor Raoul Pictet has proved that at temperature of 200 degrees acids do not act upon metals, their molecules having ceased to live, and yet the microbes of many diseases sub jected to that temperature, practically 1mmured in block of frozen air, enjoy good health.
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River Flows in
 the Old Channel

Colonel Epes Randolph returned to the city today from Yuma, says the Tucson Citizen. He has been for several weel directing the work of turning the Colorado back into it's old channel.
 The dam is completed and the river has en conquered. Thousands upon thousands oi tons ot rock which were used in its construction insure safety against the river again reak- ing away from its channel and doing hundreds Of thousands of dollars of damage.
 In the gigantic battle with the hig river, the Southern Pacific was com pelled to spend far ir to the hundreds of thousands. Nevertheless i'. went steadily along and uude rr persona! direction of Col. Rand,lph was successfully accomplished. It is admitted to be one of tb, greatest engineering feats in recent years
 At present large gang of men is engaged in building levees along the banks of the Colorado river bel W Yuma. Nine miles of levees will be built.
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A Leg Pulling Scheme.

We may soon look for an interview with Representative Babcock demand Ing a reduction of the tariff on steel trust products, If he intends to be . candidate for chairman of the Repub- lican congressional committee This way of pulling the leg of the trust worked to a charm in 1S9s-O2 and is not to be desplsed at the present june fIIro
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Fertile Mexica.

Mexico produces anything that can be raised in any other country. So varied is the climate that in the same state can be raised any product of the tropics and of the polar regions. Cot ton. wheat. rye, silver. silk. cocoanuts, bananas, rice, cocoa, vanilla. logwood, mahogany. hides and wine are the prin- clpal products.
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Hungary.

Hungary took Its name from the Huns. who in 316 drove out the Goth. and took possession of the country The first appearance of the Huns ir history is In China in the year 300 B. C.. when they were called HioLg. nu, signifying giants
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SiRES AND SONS.

Dr. Joaquin Aurelio Nabuco de Arau- jo, Brazilian ambassador to the United States, Is a writer, scholar and ar orator.
 Ramon Rivero of Mexico eloped | succession with four sisters, deserting each in turn. His mother-in-law has had him put in jail.
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4 Martin.s Neat.

Four finger rings and seventeen brooches were used in the construction of martins nest which has been dis lodged from beneath the caves of a house in FrogmOre, High wycombe, England
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Tie corn crop of the United States for the present year is estimated at 2,716OOO, 900 bushels and may likely go over that. If the American hog doesn't live in clover for the next six months ft will not be the fault of the agricul- turist.
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William F. Powell, United States minister to Haiti. has rendered his res ignation to President Roosevelt. He gives as his reason for resigning the prevalence of revolutions, riots and levers.
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In Mexico it has been ascertained that in . community consisting of over 1000 persons 95 per cent of them are color blind. The asylum for the Amerl- found
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Tombstone Resident
 Burned to Death

The remains of Juan Senoqui, the unfortunate Tombstone Mexican, who was burned to death, was inferred in the county cemetery yesterday. From reports had of the tragic affair It is still thought the origin of the fire was. due to a lighted cigarette and Senoqui, who is thought to have been drinking, was overcome sby the smoke and unable to find his way out of the burning room. His body was badly charred. The faithful little dog of Senoqui met the same fate of his master, being unable to get out.
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At last the arctic explorers have bit upon a plan 50 simple 1t is a wonder it has not been thought of before. They are going to ride to the north pole on mules
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Mrs. Gruudy.

Who is Mrs. Grundy? She is a tyran- nical person who first figured under that name in a certain forgotten old play by Thomas Morton called Speed the Plough
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The floral chrysanthemum is once more seen in the gardens. while the hir- sute chrysanthemum again appears on the football field.
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The season approaches when the ti- ties to current poems will change 1n q word or two from gentle zephyrs to beautiful snow. etc.