Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-01
Visitors at Aizona'S Display at St. Louis Fair Would Not Be Deceived by Arizona'S Real Yellow Metal.
Beat Second Farmer to Re- mark About Faker and Learns hTat He Had Once Been Victim of Gold Brick,
(Arizona Citizen.)


 Hon. A. C. Bernard was once a res ident of Missouri. He has been breath ing the wild Tree air of the southwest however, TOT more than a score and half of years, and is thoroughly wean- ed from the east.
 During the worlds fair Mir. Bernard was present in an official capacity. He had frequent opportunities to meet and study people, and he can see nothing in the eastern makeup which, when compared to the western, is much more than an incandescent to an arc light.
 Just what the exact term is should apply, l am not wholly certain, but in some communities they have what they call yaho0s' and 'yapS,' and I saw more of these and more 'Reu- bens' during my six months at the St. Louis Worlds Fair than I ever eX- pect to see again during my whole life" Mir. Bernard remarked recently. Tt is surprising the number of per sons who scarcely know straight up q remember one day we were standing in our booth showing our gold, silver and copper exhibit to the visitors when an uncle from one of the Missouri districts came up. He was typical of the kind that are DOT 1 trayed on the stage. He had the rather scrubby chin whiskers, the l broad, black hat and the red bandana to mop his brow of the precipitation caused by the St. Louis heat. He gag ed at our gold nuggets for a time. "'Hee-haw,' he chuckled, after be l had looked for fully a minute. Then he came over to me and said: You, all can't fool me. nohow. with any of them goldarne5 gold bricks. bit once. but never again. I'm onto you Them there ain't nothin' but iron xiv cred with copper
 For perhaps a moment l was non Flused, and then seeing the humor of i the situation, I called the uncle aside and whispered softly into his ear: , Let's shake on that. You are the first man to discover the gold brick Here's a good cigerr and for heavens sake don't expose our game 1 And the uncle walked away, and chuckled to himself, with his scrub 1 by beard keeping time to his chuck ] les"
 On a later day another character visited the exhibit. Mir. Bernard dopeC ! him out to be 1ankee, rom Ne" York. He gazed at the gold nuggets looked wise, and yum-yummed to him self It seems that on this day MT
 Bernard was not feeling in his usua jovlal mood, so he forestalled another
 expose" by remarking: Be careful
 there. or you'll get gold-bricket
 again"
 A surprised expression came oveI
 the Yankees face. "Haow did yt
 know that was gold-bricked, consarI
 IL" he exclaimed, and walked away without allowing MT. Bernard a chance to explain had he cared to do so. In the exhibit was a display of cop per pyrites. They resembled golC somewhat. Now, St. Louis street ga
 mins are shrewd as any in the coun try, and it was not lcng before sever
 al lads had spotted the sack contain
 ing the copper pyrites. Taking knif' and stealing over to the sack one o the lads ripped a hole in it and tool
 out as many of the supposed gold mug , gets as he could carry. Then he pu his friends wise" and before tn
 game was stopped about ten pound of copper had been carried away.