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Arizona republican., 1907-09-11

shrieked: "Renie," Startled. the baby swayed-and over the cliff her little body shot. By heroic effort the dis tracted Spanish girl managed to get the baby to the cabin.
 It was not many hours before the Freemans were by the little sufferer and the village doctor had his gentle hand on the throbbing brow of the child. In her delirium. dreaming of the flowers again. little Renie would faintly smile and whisper: Don you tiss me now" for in her feverish vision a butterfly had dared to poise on her little lips. Nobody blamed the Spanish girl. The father and the mother had seen their days of torture. The curly head tossed wildly for some place to rest: the tiny bosom heayed in the fight for breath: the parched lips be- gan to utter faint and frantic cries Eight days now since the fall-since the fever. and the crisis had come.
 In that last desperate struggle the doctor sent them all from the room All but Theresa-somchow. there was Ia pathetic appeal in her dark Castilian eyes he could not resist. She, too knew the battle was to be won or lost that night Through all the fateful moments the doctor kept his finger on the baby's pulse. When the little arm flinched under one more thrust of the needle Theresa whispered:
 He's hidin'. jest a-waitin' for de babyi Can't you drive him away. doc tor?" And poor Theresa shook like the leaves in a mountain storm.
 Can't you. doctor - please. can't you?"
 And while she whispered frantically little Renie managed. in spite of the death-rattle. to sing one line-"Wock- a-by. baby. in de chee tops"tthe song that had SO often stirred that mountain air
 Her fever-tired voice trailed the verse into silence. Under the weight of sorrow and helplessness Theresa fell down by the bedside and began to pray. The doctors face grew rigid and he set himself for another charge against death.
 But the girl prayed on.
 The hours dragged by until in the gray dawn of the morning the moun- tains stood propped against the sky cold and clear Through the long stretch of another day the doctor and Theresa stayed by Renie until twilight began to creep once more into the val ley. Just as the stars stole out the baby bgan to toss her little head and sa--:
 J.'Thesa, Thing for baby - thing ''Wock-a-by' co- babv,"
 But in her long vigil of prayer the Spanish girl had caught the vision of the shepherd. rising sun was crown ing far-off hills with sapphire glow And as she sang the lullaby the Shep- herd had gone into the mountains where Renie had wandered and laid her tired little head on his bosom.
 And this is the rose that the flower girl planted in the garden where the frosts never fall.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-11
WOCk- BY BABY.
CBv J. Marvin Nichols.)

The Freemans lived in a shack down close to the. Lake Michigan shore. John Freeman came from a Family whose fortunes were swept away in
 the great Chicago fire of the early sey- enties. By sheer necessity he had to forego the chances of an early educa- ton and join the ranks of those who toll terribly. IL was one oeaseless struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
 1 Wrecked in that same wild confla-
 grafton were the fortunes of ;he Hud- sens. They, too, settled not far from ' the shores of the lake. Charley Hud-
 son was but one more who stepped ! fIom plenty into the squalor and want | of the ver:' poor.
 i The women who presided in these
 respective homes adapted themselves | to the terribly changed conditions. No' one word ever escaped their lips that would add another weight to the al- ready crushed hearts they adored. The days were gone when they s1ared the
 comforts these men provided. And / now. that fortune smiled no more, they
 would without complaint suffer with them the bangs of poverty and toll only the heroic can do that-but John ] Freeman and Charley Hudson's wives were cast in that sort of mold.
 One night the lengthening shadows , brought no familiar step. Far in the night, friend of the family kRcked softly on the cabin door. Opening Il
 gently. he slipped in lest the lake breeze would whiff out the candle burning dimlv in the corner. Mamie Hudson the wife who had silently suffered so i long-read the story of something tra-
 gic in the face of the beOated messen-
 ger And it was true-for Charley
 Hudson had been killed by d hoisting machine just as he started home from
 work When they brought his mangled
 form into the home he loved-for man loves only that which holds his treas ure-the woman that had shared his joys and sorrows swooned away. The
 last chord had snapped. The home
 was empty now-for its light had fled.
 Mrs Hudson Was often seen sitting on the front stoop holding to her heart all that was left her from fortunes wreck her own little Mamie. Here they could watch the racing waves that sought the farther shore. Here they
 sat in the twilight and listened to the { roar that sounded like the moaning of
 tired and restless sea.
 After Charley Hudson was killed.
 Mamie's great brown eyes were always filled with tears. She began to fade
 like the whitening rose. So often she talked to the baby girl about a land beyond the sea of time. And often out upon the lake was borne sweet re- frain as the mother sang of d city be-
 yond the stars-a place where the loved
 and lost shall part no more.
 And while the anxious friends read
 signs of d coming tragedy. The pathos
 of sorrow was congealing into a silent
 desperation that meant something aw-
 full. The overloaded heart must some
Arizona republican., 1907-09-11
A COMBINED EXPEDITION
 AGAINST THE PAPAG0tS
The Rangers Will Join the Pima County Sheriff in Search For an In dian Murderer.

Sims Ely. private secretary to the governor. yesterday received a com municatiOn from Captain Wheeler Of the Rangers saying that he had been requested by Sheriff Pacheco of Pima county to aid him in the capture Of a Papago Indian murderer. The crime was committed in the Ajo country where the murderer is surrounded by his friends. who refused to give him up to the county authorities. and it was the opinion of the sheriff that his capture could not be effected with out the presence of an overawing force.
 Captain Wheeler further stated that accompanied by ten Rangers he would leave with the sheriff and a posse for the Ajo country today. It is improb- able that with such a force the ,au- thorities will experience much, diff culty in obtaining possession Of the murderer if they can find him.
 But those officers who are famil- jar with that wide scope of country extending from the Ajo on the west to the Sierritas on the east. and the in habitants of it. that an expedition of a hostile nature into it must be strong enough to do what it sets out to do.
 Those Indians are not quarrelsome and outbreaking but many a man has gone in there and was never after ward seen. The Indians have from the earliest times been notorious cat tie thieves. Their depredations became so extensive a few years ago that it became necessary for the cattlemen of that region to form the Pima County Cattlemen's Association. They could obtain no relief from the county or the territorial authorities and the govern ment. though it is supposed to be re- sponsible in some degree for the con- duct of its wards. would do nothing. The fact is that it has always held a lighter control over those Indians than over any other tribe within the jur- isdiction of its agents.
 Some of the members of the newly formed cattlemen's association favored the sending of a large punitive force into the heart of the copntry and inn planting the fear of God and the cat tlemen into the hearts of the Indians The wiser members of the association saw that would not do and another plan was adopted.
 The association secured the services of Sam Finley, a former peace officer of the territory and a line rider, had him appointed deputy sheriff with power to arrest cattle thieves where ever he could find them: and sent him into the Papago country.
 Finley had long enjoyed the repu- tation of being absolutely without fear and he had proved the reputation in a hundred different ways. He en- tered the service of the association at a salary of s125 a month and began patrolling the Papago country. He made many arrests. brought the h. dians to Tucson and most of them were sent to the penitentiary. Sud denly after service of about six
Arizona republican., 1907-09-11
"HELLo! IS THIS 'MoRDEN's BIG
 SECOND HAND sToREr"

Yes"
 Say. will you please send me one of those new sL5O- High Chairs. three s1.OO Chairs and that new s14.00 Plate Glass Dresser? How is it you can sell these things so cheap?'
 You see We get our goods in car load rates: our rent is cheap. and we give our customers the advantage of ehis. Small profits and quick sales is our motto"
 401 F.. Wash. St. Phone Black 64.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-11

months Finley threw up the job. When questioned as to the reason he said that he had never felt afraid in his life before and never knew until now what a disagreeable sensation it was He would not continue to experience 1t for S125 a month or any other sum.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-11
FOR OVER SIXTY YEAR.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. IL soothes the child sOstens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the est remedy for Diarrhoea Twenty-Five cents a bottle
 Guaranteed under the food and drugs act June 3Oth, 1906. serial number i09s.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
KITTERY TO CARIBOU.

Roscoe Parsons, aged forty, of East Will
ton, was struck by lightning Friday while
standing in the doorway of his farm
house, and died shortly afterward.
The Simondson & Stevens lumber mill
at Sprague's Mills was burned Wednesday
night. A large quantity OF lumber was
also destroyed. The loss is $1,000; unin-
sured.
George Fl. Fancy, aged twenty-six, of
Biddeford, lineman employed by the
Kennebec Lighting & Heating Co., was
instantly killed at Hallowell Saturday by
live wire.
Alarmed by an epidemic of scarlet fever
which has broken out in the Holy Ghost
and Us colony at Shiloh, inmates are max
ing efforts to escape. A few have sue
ceeded in escaping, but many have been
captured by the guards.
A call for State conference of charities
and corrections to meet in either Lewiston
or Auburn about Oct. p has been signed
by number of the prominent people of
Maine. AS Maine spends about 81, 600, 900
year for her charities and corrections, it
is important for the workers along differ
ent lines to meet to compare notes.
The small yacht in which Richard A.
Lee, son Of Prof. Leslie A. Lee, of Bowdoin
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
An Interrogation.

While dining with friends in Cam
bridge. Bishop Phillips Brooks de
scribed with much enthusiasm col
lege service he had recently attended
at was an inspiration to see all those
young men singing so heartily. Els
pecially they seemed to throw theiI
whole souls into the hymn:
Am I a soldier of the cross
A follower of the Lamb?
Even Dr. X, the president of the col
lege, sang as if he felt the contagion
of inspiration" ''Dr. X. sang that?
broke In an incredulous listener. docs
DIR. Y. believe that?" "Oh, no." re-
piled Bishop Brooks quickly. HE was
merely asking for information"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.
A Peril Always to Be r.let Promptly on
EoSra SI,85.


1t was on board the Northern Light,
says Captain Osoon in "A sailor OF
Fortune" that false alarm Of ire
was sounded aud disaster pre- gented
only by prompt action. A passenger,
looking down through the boiler hatch,
saw the red painted boiler fronts and,
seeing the fiamci,ae color amid a clor !
Of steam. shouted. Fire. Immed-
ately the whole vessel was In an up-
roar. and a dangerous panic was i'm
mlnent. was one of the underofii-
GERS
The climax came when the quarter
master saw minister Of the gospel on
the rail trying to lower the bow Of one
Of the slips boats. | ran to him and
ordered him to come down on deck.
The minister paid no attention. and !
seized his coat tail to drag him dowl;
by force.
Perhaps 1t was an old coat. for the
seams parted. and second later had
the ministerial coat tail in my hands.
He came down then. He was angry
and was likewise a spectacle to look
upon.
He started to call an Indignation
meeting. but most of the passengers
had recovered from their fright by this
time and were inclined to be merry al
the reverend gentleman's expense.
He went raging to the captain. who
summoned me to appear. I came. still
carrying the coat tail in my hand.
"Mr. Osbon." he said, "what are your
orders in case Of false alarm of
fireT'
my ORDERS" said, "are to stop 1t
by any means necessary. I may knock
a man down. throttle him or split him
wide open.'
The captain turned to the irate min
lister.
Those are Mr.. Osbon's ORDERS" he
said. 'You are fortunate that it was
only your coat that was split OPEN"
The danger from the false alarm Of
fire on shipboard is second only to
the real thing and is always a peril to
be met promptly.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
The calIiqraphy of the pumases.

Both the Dumases' hands are those of
busy men. but the elder Dumas could
go on forever. He never stopped to
punctuate. One of his literary canons
was that clear style punctuates itself
There is good deal in this. The son
never missed comma. semicolon, CO.
Ion or full stop. He had not the IA
theirs facility, which resembled trop-
ical vegetation at the end Of the rainy
season.
The younger Dumas beat his brains
terribly and forced them to bring forth
plays, but his letters were jeux d'esprit
He ought to have been a preaching
monk or an advocate. He liked to
preach and point morals and to kick
his fair penitents to give them real
cause to cry. But he was not the brute
he liked to pass for being. Nothing
can be more refined than his hand
writing. The original manuscripts of
his plays are scarcely legible, the cor
rections and ensures are so numerous.
But he did not let the copyist or, In
deed, any stranger see them, but re-
wrote and added pungent and preg-
nant sentences as he did so. The first
thoughts OF some authors are the best.
They were the worst of Dumas Ills
unless when he was answering a let
ter--answering. mind. 1t was then
case of steel responding to flint.
Sparks flew. If there was an explosive
about, it went off.-Londen Truth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
Phoenix Park, Dublin.

OF all the pleasure grounds we saw
abroad ! liked Phoenix park. In Dub
lin. the best, says a writer in the
Guidon. 1t covers nearly 1000 acres,
and the seven mile drive around it is
delightful.
Acres of 1t are let to citizens for pas
turage, and herds OF fat kline lazily
chewing under the trees or idly stand
ing In a cool stream give a touch not
found In any other resort
On one plat when we were there a
detail of his majesty's redcoats were
practicing target shooting. Yonder
came three Dragons back from cross
country run. The vice regal lodge,
plain and white, looked, In spite Of the
vastness OF the green grounds about it,
hot and uninviting in the glare of the
August sun.
In sight Of the house, but long way
from 1t, Is the spot where Cavendish
and Burke We're murdered some years
ago. In vain do the gardeners try to
keep grass above 1t. AS fast as bit
grows it is taken up and carried off by
relic hunters.
Scores Of deer were roaming about
so tame that they frequently came
close to our car. One big stretch of
rolling land was crossed and recrossed
with what looked In the distance like
bitches. They are troughs. our driver
told US. into which at morning and
night water is pumped for the deer,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
An Act of Heroism.

On one occasion General Lee, while
making an observation, stepped to a
somewhat exposed position to secure
a better view and thus stood for a
moment at personal risk when General
Oracle, who was in the party. quietly
stepped before General Lee without
obscuring his view and remained thus
covering the body of his superior until
the fieldglass was lowered and the
danger over-a simple, quiet act. but
showing cool bravery and self sacri-
ficing spirit.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
SPEED OF FISHES.
Tarpon, Shark and MaekereI Are tho
Swiftest Of Swimmers.

When scientists desire to find out
how fast certain bird flies, 1t is nee
essary only to set up poles and note
by stop watches the time the bird re-
quires to cross the interval. The speed
Of fishes is more difficult to ascertain.
Nevertheless. as the Saturday Even
ing Post explains, estimates have been
made showing that the mackerel, con-
sidering its handicap in size, comes
close to being the champion racer.
Unquestionably the mackerel travels
sometimes as fast as an express train
at high speed-say, at the rate of sixty
or possibly seventy miles an hour.
Other things being equal, the larger
the fish the faster 1t swims, just as the
huge steamboat is able to travel at a
speed much greater than the little har-
Dor tug.
Undoubtedly the energy employed
by fish OF great size. such as a thirty
foot shark. when travelling at its best
gait is something tremendous. An or
binary tug. which represents maxi
mum of energy in a minimum Of bulk,
utilities about 200 horsepower. OF
course 1t Is only guess, but it would
not seem to be over the mark to sup
pose that seventy foot whale makes
use Of 500 horsepower when it propels
its huge bulk through the water at a
rate of thirty miles an hour.
A whale, which is mammal and not
fish, might be compared to freight
train IL the shark is cannon ball ex-
press. but 1t can beat the fastest ocean
greyhound" in speed contest.
The tarpon is probably faster than
the shark. 1t is believed that tarpon
In hurry can travel at the rate OF
eighty miles an hour.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31
central" and HER WORK.

The telephone company is engaged
in what has become one of the most
important of public services. Its pur-
pose is to put people into commune
cation with each other in the quickest
way possible and to maintain COM
munication without interruption.
Above all, it endeavors to perform
this function-always performed un-
der exacting conditions and frequently
in the face of considerable difficulties
with unfailing courtesy.
The New England company, having
provided most efficient plant for the
needs of each individual community,
trains it's operators painstakingly be-
fore it allows them to handle the pub
lies business, and supervises their
work closely after they are assigned
to the regular switchboards of its ex-
changes. Applicants for positions as
operators must meet high personal
standards before they are accepted
even as students. The care with
which the raw material, SO to speak,
is selected, appears in the fact that
only go per cent. of the applicants
who present themselves are finally
employed. One of the advantages of
the training system is that it enables
a young woman who finds her ideas
about the work to have been wrong,
to withdraw without waste OF time or
embarrassment, and allows the COM
pany to determine pretty definitely
the ultimate fitness of the candidate
before the interests of telephone users
have been entrusted to her.
AS students, the operators are taught
to do their work in diligently as we'll
as with mechanical precision. They
are given practice in the actual opera
ton of the switchboard, special ap-
paratus being provided for that pur-
pose, and educated to meet the almost
inconceivably varied situations likely
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31

to arise when they become the COM
posite young person known as Seen
traP' They learn not by rote alone,
but by observation and experience as
well, their teachers taking the place
of the public for the time being, and
present, so far as they can, the pub
lies various phases. Even the most
skilful training cannot, of course, i'm
mediately make a beginner as efficient
as an experienced hand. 1t does in
sure uniformity of methods, however,
and equips the novice to become an
adept much sooner than she other
wise could. 1t makes her self reliant,
and enables her to deal understand
ingly with the emergencies constantly
arising in the work of the exchange.
The discipline of the central Office is
strict, but every employee is treated
with the utmost consideration. The
amount of work each operator has to
do is determined with great care that
no one shall be overloaded and there
~ ooSSe oiAo OAoo tAC VI
the service. Besides the chief opera
tor, there are supervisors, their num-
Der depending upon the size of the
exchange, who keep the work of
operators under constant observation,
see that it is done in accordance with
the rules adopted by the company as
necessary to good service, and act as
mentors in cases of difficulty.
The New England company takes
great pride in its operating force. 1t
believes that in no industry is there
to be found more efficient, earnest,
faithful set of employees - faithful
alike to the company and to the pub
lie to which the company is RESPONSE
BILE. The work of the telephone oper-
ator has taken no mean place among
the professions of women, and it is a
source of great satisfaction that the
public's appreciation of "Centrals"
character, and the greater considera-
ton which follows better acquaintance
and understanding, are more general
and more apparent each year.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-07-31

college, and John A. Morrison, OF Med
ford, Mass, left Mere Point on July Q, was
located Sunday in about twelve fathoms Of
water OF Seal island cove. All doubt as
to the fate Of the two Bowdoin students is
thereby set at rest. The bodies were not
found in the yacht.
James A. Donohue, State commissioner
OF sea and shore fisheries, made raid on
the fish dynamiters Of Quoddy bay last
week. From the little fishery cruiser
maintained by the Canadian government,
to which the fishermen on the American
side OF the line pay no attention, be
watched the dynamiters, and secured evil
dence which landed several of them in
court. The maximum penalty for dyna-
hitting fish is fine Of 500 and sixty DAYS
in jail.
Adam ]. Markley, of Bangor, Maine
Central engineer, died Wednesday after
noon from injuries received in smash at
Bangor early in the morning. Engineer
Markley was in charge OF the engine
which brought the Washington County
freight train in early Wednesday morn
ing. As the train ran across the bridge
from Brewer and out on the spur track
before backing into the yard, the breaks
did not hold. The engine crashed through
the bumpers at the end of the track and
plunged down fifteen-foot embankment.