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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19
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UNsELFlsHNTss.

'Tis commonly asserted,
We're all a selfish run,
That every blessed fellow
Looks out for number one.
Land sOkes, just look around you
To see It's not the case;
LNhe world is overlooking
With charity and grace.
One chap has information
What figure stocks will be;
He does not mean to use it,
So sells the tip to me.
A bachelor has knowledge
OF how to win a maid;
He does not mean to use it,
So tells me for my aid.
Wen all succeed by taking
Advice on what to do;
Il don't intend to try it,
So tell this plan to you).
-McLandburgh Wilson, in The Sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19
Gamo You Describe.

An amateur golfer, who rather fam
ced himself as an authority on the
game, wrote a book about it and sent
a copy to we'll known player. The
latter replied: Dear sir, l have read
your book with much interest. The
game you describe Gems tC be good
one, but on the whole / prefer golf."-
Tit Bits.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

One fashionable restaurant announces
that well-known sifiieuse whistles
daily after dinner" At some other
restaurants we know the guests do
that-when they see the bill--Lon-
don Evening News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

After being given up, 1 began using
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EngIand's Bane.

Somebody has said that the English
were being left behind in the race of
peoples because the whole nation rose
an hour foo late. | should almost feel
inclined to make it two hours, instead
of one.-Ninteenth Century.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19
Wnnld Perfnrn.

What a joy it would be If the gag
that is placed in the vaudeville come.
dams mouth would only perform the
ordinary functions of gag. Puck.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

Electric fishes, exposed to the action
of radium, have been found to lose
their electric power completely and to
suffer in health.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

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decided to try Lydia Il. PinSham's Vege1 able
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

The bitterness of experience begins
in a woman's life when she first refers
to men as brutes.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

For fifteen years |
had kidney troubles,
and though I doctored
faithfully, could not
find a cure. | had
heavy backaches,
dizzy headaches and
terrible urinary dis
orders. one day Icol-
lapsed, fell insenslble
on the sidewalk and
then wasted away in
bed for ten weeks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

A ray of light, it is said, could move
eight times around the globe between
tho tiSsiSt, q "a watch NIL2O
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19
Wheat as a Builder of Towns.

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1906-05-19

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WASTED TO A SHADOW

But Found n Cure After Fifteen Ysars
of suffering.
A, II, Stotts, messenger at the State
Capitol, Columbus, o., says:
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After.Dinner WhistIino.


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The oasis., 1906-12-01

wages arc rising, bat with il all the business man of householder Is subjected to eexatious and ex. pensive delays. No wonder Mir. Cannon has exclaimed that there is too d--n much prosperity" Con. trast this condition with that in 1893, just after the last democratic administration was inaugurated. Mills and factories shut down all over the country; goods laying on shelves of stores and in warehouses unsold; railways cutting out trains and laying off locomotive and train crews and discharging shop men; and thousands of hungry men wandering about the country in search of employment. Yet there are thousands of people who would return to power the party under which there was so much distress, and displace that under whose beneicent administration the unparalleled prosperity that is now upon the country was fostered and made possible. But the great majority of the American people will not think of that so long as there remains in the public mind recollection of the distressing days of 1893.
The oasis., 1906-12-01
"Too MUCH PROSPERITY. ,

Speaker Cannon is quoted. as as- serting that "what is the matter of the country is that there is too d-n much prosperity" The as- sertion is almost literally true, if not quite. In all lines and man. ufactures the mills, foundries and factories are crowded with orders and are months behind in delivery; the railways have. not sufficient cars to transport the freight of fering, yet all the carshops are working all the time to fill their orders for cars; and with the cars that have been loaded and started toward their various destinations there are not sufficient locomotives to haui all of them, so that every newspaper has accounts of crowded sidetracks and blockaded yards in their respective towns, yet all the locomotive factories in the country are working overtime to try and catch up with the orders for more locomotives; no store in the land can keep up its stock, for the req son that orders are so slow in be- ing filled, and hardly any order can be filled entirely because in some one or more articles all the stores in a town are out, although shipments or orders for such goods are long overdue; many houses, buildings and other structures are standing partly complete, await ing shipments of lumber, structural work or finishings of some kind; labor of all kinds is scarce, none need be without employment, and
The oasis., 1906-12-01

ANTI STATEHOOD shouters have nothing to crow about. In fact the crow IS the other way. They as- serted all along that not five per cent of the people of Arizona want ed statehood enough to be willing to accept jointure. The votes show that fourteen per cent do, and that of those who gave the subject any attention nineteen per cent do. That is splendid begin nlng for any cause. Wait until the next trial comes. There will be far different showing then.
The oasis., 1906-12-01

LOOKS to some people that the sudden spasm of virtue sweeping over Arizona is simply move on the part of the corporations, that have been booked for regulation by Congress, to work the old dodge of throwing a tub to a whale," in the sudden and strenous advocacy by their subsidized newspapers, of abolition of gambling by the municipalities and legislature of the territory. The anti-gambling bill is first on the senate calender at Washington. By showing that the territory is regulating gam bling, and promising its legislature will do all the rest, they may hope that Congress will take it for granted that Arizona "has become good,p suddenly, and will adopt within herself all the necessary re- forms.
The oasis., 1906-12-01

RAILWAY law departments are. preparing to fight in the courts the, constitutionality of the act passed by Congress last summer, provid- ing that corporations must pay damages to their employees for in- juries due the negligence of their fellow servants. Curious is it not, how every effort to legislatet for poor people becomes unconstitu- tional in the eyes of those who care not for constitutions, laws or
The oasis., 1906-12-01

WITH all the railroad talk that has been indulged in at Nogales during many moons, no one has yet suggested that the Goulds may be reaching out in this direction with some of their lines. They have already a line building in this direction from Durango, Col orado, and 1t is an extension of the Denver < Rio Grande and Mis- souri Pacific systems. It is to reach tidewater on the Pacific somewhere-may be on the Gulf of California. In the latter event Nogales might be right on the route chosen.
The oasis., 1906-12-01

downward path boys who would be free from danger were it not for such places; md that to except the social games for prizes in polite society, would except the objec- tionable clubs from operation of the law. The point seems we'll ta- ken. But if it is, polite society may turn around, call for another election, and undo the ordinance just adopted, throwing the town wide open again.
 In this very point there is ex- posed one defect in all sumptuary and prohibitory laws. To be sue cesful they must be limited in their scope and effect. In other words there must be one law for the rich and another for the poor. The wealthy will not stand for sumptuary laws. In theory they are all right for common people, who need protection against them selves and their own self-injurous proclivities. But WE" We who play bridge whist and other gam bling games, in the sacred pre- cincts of society need no such pro- lection; and when government tries to force it upon us, to protect also the common herd, why We will let the common herd go to perdition without protection, and vote to do away with it.
 This game of "plucking the mote out from the eye of thy brother" :" and ignoring "the beam in thine own eye," is very fascinating: but when ''thy brother" gets up and takes a hand in the game, pulling out the beam for you, why the game loses its interest
The oasis., 1906-12-01
PLUcKiNC OUT THE MOTE.

At Phoenix, last week, there was hesd an election to determine whether there should be abolition de gambling in the capital city of Arizona. By decisive majority t&Re people decreed that gambling must go." Immediately the city essOncil obeyeG orders, and within two days adopted the following or dIuance.
 ORDINANCE NO. 395.
 I'm Ordinance to Prohibit Gambling in
 the City of Phoenix.
 The Common Council of Phoenix do a riain as follows:
 Section |. That no person shall deal fkaE ssr carry on, or open or cause to be aEsesned, or shall conduct, either as own sr. proprietor or employe, whether for hETe CT not, any game of policy, faro. nssnte, roulette, rouge-et-noir, lans- sNzaeaset. rondo, vingt-un or twentv-one. EssxAJl. sblo; uAdA F ihCii OIdSSs DluIis fagaan, thaW, seven and one-half, chuck z-Euck, slot-machine, raffie, lottery, ten- EEaS ar any other game of hazard, pool flaEEards or any banking, percentage or th1sBer game played with cards, dice, or any other Instrument or device that is played te 'aHy rule, or set of rules, or system, with view to win any prize, sa@isey, check, credit, cigars, drinks or aasg either tangible thing of whatsoever nature, whether presented or paid for in t5ae present or in the future, that is xsaged upon the issue of contest, with Fl fbe eity.of Phoenix.
 Section 7. d94at no person or persons, tfEas or corporation shall suffer or per- grlf any of the acts or things forbidden hr the preceding section to be done or carried on in any house, room, or other haEl4AAg whatsoever, or in any booth, garden tOr 6ext, or on any lot, vacant ssxa,ce Or @ther place of which he is the ssDner,, 0r ltO the possession of which he is entitled. d1 syIllim owned, leased, oc- cnpied or controlled.
 S,te3Gi0n g. That any person who shall viG1afe any of the provisions of the pre- exsIang sections shall be deemed guilty s,S a m1isdemeanor, and upon conviction sltsEeef shall be punished by fine of meed Jess than fifty dollars nor more than ire iIHndred dollars, or by imprison- rmezztdn the city jail for term of not lees 1han twenty-five days and not more than che hundred and eighty days, or hv both such fine and imprisonment.
 Section i. That this ordinance shall fsxke effect and be in force from an after tEle 3lst day of January, 1907.
 Passed by the Common Council this 2.gta day of November, 1906.
 Approved this 22nd day of November, sg66- l.. W. CoGGTNs, Mayor 4ffes1- FRANK THOMAS, City Recorder
 Upon a cursory glance it would sssem that the ordinance is far n2@re drastic than necessary, but its advocates advance strong req soaas for every point criticised. As au instance they cite its prohibi- tzasa of games for prizes in homes a&ea private places. They assert tSkGa there are in Phoenix clubs wscere young men congregate, and msaaeh gambling is permitted there, serving frequently to set upon the
The oasis., 1906-12-01
positors.

institutions, whenever or wherever their interests are involved in the least?
The oasis., 1906-12-01

ALLEN T. BIRD, Managing Editor. gaANE D. BIRD, Business Manager
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03
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Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03
Francis Wilson'S First Meeting with
Joseph Jefferson.

I was never introduced to Joseph
jefferson; we just shook hands. To
me his name. was the synonym for all
that was highest and best IN our pro-
fession and | had long wondered IT
| should ever come to know him.
/ first saw him one Saturday after
noon, in 1870, as I can see him now,
on the southwest corner of Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue, eating
Malaga grapes out of paper bag.
In those days there was fruit stand
on that corner. He stood on the
-cubstone abstractedly eating the
grapes and watching the crowd file
into Booths theatre for the matinee
performance of Grip Van Winkle,'
which was then in the midst of an
eight months run. How drank
him in and ate him up as he stood
there! And I remember how, boy
like, I brushed past him just to be
able to feel that I had come in con-
tact with him. My action did not
disturb him, for he did not turn to-
ward me or make any sign that he
had heard my frightened words of
apology This relieved me, for 1
was so scared at my temerity that l
should not have known what to say
or do. I followed him, at a re-
spectful distance, across the street,
past the main entrance of the theatre
to that mysterious portal, the stage
door, through which he vanished
from my admiring gaze.
Since that time | have had pleas
.ure in watching people assemble to
witness performances of my own, but
it has always recalled my first
glimpse of Joseph Jefferson and that
paper bag of Malaga grapes. Once,
in later years, as we We're passing
that corner together, / told him of
the incident, placed him in the exact
position in which he had stood, and
begged him to eat imaginary grapes
in an abstract way, and together we
acted over the little comedy, the orig
inal of which was so fraught with
Importance to me. This amused
him greatly, and as we passed up the
street he admonished me always to
preserve as much as possible the sim
plicity and bueyancy of youth
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03
How the Idea of Rip Van Wrinkle
Came to Jefferson.

1t was while lying upon his back
in the hay-loft of barn IN Pennsyl-
vania. whittier one summer he had
gone, from economical considerations
that the first suggestion of Rip
Van Wrinkle came to him. He had
been reading "The Life and Letters
of Washington Irving" Always on
the look out for great American
character suited to his purpose-one
that he hoped would bring him fame
and fortune-the name of Rip Van
Wrinkle arrested his attention. Great
was his disappointment to discover
that the character of Rip did not
speak above dozen lines, and that
the sketch itself presented few or no
dramatic possibilities. There were
to follow this first suggestion Of
Grip Van Winkle," years of only
moderate success from various pub
lies throughout the world. Through
all this his happy temperament bore
him with charming placidity. w..
In the early versions of "Trip Van
Winkle,'' the elder Hackett, Burke,
and even Jefferson had failed to
make any really great impression. 1t
was not until Dion Boucicault had
touched the play with his magic pen,
supplying the necessary interest, that
Joseph Jefferson was woven into the
inseverable ties of public affection.
Not in America, but in England,
was first given the "Trip Van Win
kle'' in the form in which we Ameri-
cans have come to- know and revere
our Rip Van Jefferson. =. fg1ta.4Ss
For years he carried the play about
with him in its imperfect state. He
was confident the character was what,
ne wanted, and equally confident the
play was not. He staged it occa-
sionally, 10th to abandon it. He
knew what it needed, but, probably,
from too close association, he was
unable to supply it. @ 81
jefferson gave his unsatisfactory
version, of Grip Van Winkle''s to
Dion Boucicault to be remodeled and
rewritten. -
I count it one of the privileges Of
my life to have heard Joseph Jeffer-
son, with kindling eye, describe the
September night in '65, when, at the
Adelphi Theatre, in London, an
American play, Grip Van Winkle,"
began theatrical engagement which
lasted for one hundred and seventy
nights.-From "Joseph Jefferson at
Work and Play" by Francis Wilson
in the February Scribner's.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03
SCHOOL BOOK TRUST.

Without doubt one of the most
contemplate businesses that is be-
fore the eyes of the public today is
the school book trust. Cold, hard
facts show it to be a soulless corpor-
alton, whose greed of gain actuates
it to take unnecessary dollars out of
the pockets of parents, toiling to give
their children the advantages of an
education. Through its solicitors, the
trust tries by any means possible to
persuade the various school boards
scattered over this country, to
change the books used in their
schools Once a year. This means an
unnecessary and unfair expense for
the parents Of the children attending
these schools to bear.
A. magazine well known through
out this part of the country, is lead
ing a crusade against this trust, and
it is hoped the best of success will
attend its efforts to rid the country
of such form of graft. Parents
should be encouraged and not dis
couraged in trying to give their
children an education.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906.
INTERESTINGLY THE SENATE.

An exchange says, "The United
States Senateg4s composed Of sixty
seven lawyers, seven lawyer-bank-
ers, nine spectators, two alleged far
mers and four maverisks. The eighty
million decent people haven't sim
gle representative in that body.'
This article sums up in very clear
way the consensus .of@opinion in re-
gard to that mighty assembly, the
United States Senate. Eighty mil
lion DECENT people,! and ninety
Senators! Surely those eighty mill
lion decent people have it in their
power to insist that ninety decent
men be chosen from their midst to
represent them in the Senate. That
they wish it is apparent, or a decent
man like Mr. Roosevelt would never
have received the most overwhelming
majority ever received by presiden-
tial candidate. Will they get it?
Tes, in the neck if it is left to the
Senate to reform itself.
Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-03

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