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Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-28
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1 But that invades the privileges of the elite and destroys the peculiar demon stration of expert massage. That bill never would pass. Another thing re minds me of glaring Inconsistencies. Everywhere hands are raised in holy horror over "Salome." oliye Prem. stad goes through the dangerous feat of removing, one by one. the seven filmy veils that drape her dreamy form while she dances. It Is danger. ousthe critics so advertise. And the very next night these whiskered protestants rush for reserve seats in the playhouse. Oh, fudge! And now, ''Salome" is to be so moderated as not to offend their sense of propriety. There are those content If not called to cross the line. They're willing to play the role of a matador. They would love to tease the bull with a big red flag provided they don't get gored. They are quite willing to toy and tumble with any old thing. So they are going to put out the lights now just as the bewitching Salume presses to her breast the severed head of John the Baptist The lights will go out just as she kisses the grue- some lips. Criticize Salomai Yes:
 Provided they get seats close under the foOt-lights where they can see for themselves. Oh, fudge, say-fudge! That's the worst ever! Most the kiss es are the worse because they are given in the dark. But forsooth we don't see, the rest is alright.
 There is society and then there is society We are face to face with one strata of the Four Hundred sort. It proves to be no more than the phantom march of ghosts. Only the winding sheet is lifted-nothing but hideous bones. Jerome is doing that for some of New York's elite Many a skeleton has grown restless in the family closet. One can almost hear the muffled clank of the chains that dnd hiEs. Suppose .Eour web of life were likewise tangled. Suppose your private life were dragged into the limelight. The horrors of it all!
 Truly, iR a very dim past, one said:
 Without ye are as whitened sepulch- CTS: within ye are full of rottenness and dead mems bonds" Mel and women tramp our streets Imprisoned ghosts, grown brave by years of con- cealment, at last risk to much. Our smiles hide the deadliest secrets. Sometimes we drop the key-and the spectral thing breaks for freedom. The tragedy-then public shame Al legiance is a fitful flame. It's like 8 will-o'- '-the-wisp. Too often it forsakes in the evil hour. There are but few friendships that do not prove to be only fire lights thrown up from the bogs of appetite and passion Most of the crowd that fling roses at the marriage-feast will lead the mob at the hanging. One needs but to be pursued by sleuth-hounds to discover. undying friends. Put your ear close to the average human heart. The sound is like the moaning of a tired and restless sea. It will not hush-it cannot Hidden boulders tease and
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lamb from the quiet and peaceful vale below. Stanford White presents paradox in nature. His mind was ca pablo of eagle-flight, for he was rare genius. But the sluggish blood of the beast was in his veins. He widowed in the stench and muck of the farthermost bogs. White had his head in the elouds-his hands in the dirt. Strange-passing strange! The marvel is that one could live for even one brief day in both these extremes at one and the same time. But there was a secret quarrel Down in Bo- hemia, common brawl; in the Ghet- to, a fracas; with the millionaires, brain storm" emotional insanity" More and more does this tale or Sodom warn us that Mans greatest happiness can be found only in the peaceful and contented home, where no man can enter except he has the passport, the sign and grip of gen tleman."
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happy class who live in the millennium when the plural noun lies down with the singular verb and little conjunc- tion leads them. They call it study and travel! Pshaw! These oggling mothers are rubbering-they'r out on man-hunt. They pack millions across the seas to buy them "a dock" Anything-oh, anything whose names appear on the musty roster of the crown. They had not the brains to discover regal blood on this side the earth Men of royal right pass theIr doors every day at home. The gleams of title and the glare of gold have put out the old lady's eyes. An American youth-honorable, intellec- tual, aspiring-don't need any crown. He was born king, crowned already But these gay old mammies must drag their girls into the worlds matrimo- nial market. They pay no attention to the fact that once an empty car riage drove up to the home of the Goulds; Count Boni and his friends got out
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-28

An avalanche of Americans move on
 Europe every year. Millions of our
 country's gold are dumped on the Continent. It has come to pass that
 as ocean voyage Is only jaunt You
 have but to don your cap and grap
 your baggage. One starts for Lon
 don, nowadays, like he would start
 upstate out of New York. With
 some, travelling is a fine art; with
 others, a fad. You're somebody if
 perchance your toggery bears the
 pasted tags of foreign taverns. Lug
 gage must show by all sorts of labels
 that 1t has run the gauntlet of the
 worlds custom-houses. It is popuar
 for mothers and daughters to form pri-
 yate touring parties. They go quite
 alone-and go with perfect ease. The
 mother has dreamed her dreams. She
 proposes to do a stunning thing that
 shall set Paris a-gog. She is stark
 wild with the thought that the conti- ment has corner on royal blood Of course, her fairest girl has quit her
 braids and thrown aside her dolls
 long before their time She's a flash
 ing, dreamy debutante. That's goodi
 Mamas just got to have a marionette
 some puppet for the amusement of
 the king. Court-juggler, buffoon. or
 ape-anything, lord, if so be the goal
 be won! Not so much that the child
 of her bosom shall be happy in her new-made home, ncr that her prize
 shall be the least above the average
 in mind and spirit. The secret mo
 tive is not the happiness of the child,
 but the deliberate resove to buy a
 place in the family of the king. So they must be off for foreign parts. The father buries himself yet more deeply 1 in financial tides. It is for him to put up the coin. One zone in society
 is as free as the air of Gods great outdoors. These are the born free men of a realm whose aristocracy are noble thinkers and whose peopc revel
 only in the things that are pure and
 beautiful. The door to another sphere
 is barred and bolted. The password is a bank account. You literally buy your way in. It Is not a question of sense, but dollars. Thereby, hundreds of men and women are living on the i verge of mental and moral ruin. ! Shortage on intellectual and moral worth forces the old man to buy a seat for his women in the kingdom of the
 mighty. They pose-he grinds. All
 his blood and nerye-force keeps the
 mill going. Who cares-so long as
 his life Is covered by a policy! Isn't l that what a mans for in these days
 when homes are boarding houses,
 wives are petted dolls. and society becomes the areno on which is staged human vapidness in all its utter emptiness. Something is woefully
 wrong with the social fabric, or else
 the aspirant is radically deficient. In the high places men actually buy
 prestige for the.r wives and daught-
 CTS. The most successful in the so- l cial world are rarely endowed with tremendous talent. If they were, they would desert this empty sphere for the industrial or the artistic realms. The , most of the newly rich belong to that
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]. MARVIN NICHOLS.

And DOW the Canadian folks come forward and say American news papsss shsli not enter their donin- ion. They refuse only those giving the testimony of the Thaw-White trial. Tnepe never has been one whose pro ceedfags were more eagerly sought for. It Is suggestive. The great dallias are not published for pastime. Trse, they are both the frsmers and the opponents of public opinion. The press ts civilizations most mighty en- zine. But papers are run for revenue. The expert managing editor never lifts his hand from the worlds heart. He knows it's every throb. He sees the drift of the public mind as though he were looking at 1t through a power ful x-ray. He spreads the banquet. He waits in silence to see the pabulum that pleases most From preacher to tramp, the sickening and sensuous details have been eagerly deyoured. Everybody has read between the lines. Some things could not be printed but the individual mind demands enough suggestion to supply the miss ing link It has run the gamut and is not winded yet. People will have what they want if it is in the market. Editors know the public cravings. They put the stuff on the market there are buyers by the tens of thou sands. This is not to say that the press is vile and distorted. It was never cleaner. Somehow, We rush to a riot of the senses. People come in throngs to the hanging Somehow, we min around prostrate forms. Drag a body through the street and the crowd will come. There's a weird fascination about a deadly secret flung to the breezes. The higher in society the more furious the frenzy. Don't blame the press. The public rushes pell nell to a hanging.
 There never has been an age that did net have it's Napoleon of finance. A New York divine put a puzzle to his banquet friends. It happened to be the worlds first money-wiZard. Noah was wise. He floated a stock company that forced the world into involuntary liquidation. That's the theory. Things have not changed. No man is 8 inaRcier today unless he knows the art The secret is to hold the victim by the throat until 1t bleeds to death. The world has never had such a wizard as Rockefeller, the bill iionaire. John D.. III. is a year old today. When he is fifty years old, far younger than his grandsire, he will be five times a billionaire And that only By compromising his inheritance
 It is simply dazzling. He could pay his nations debt twice over, and then have millions left That would prob ably keep the wolf from the door. We laud the gift of s32.O00.000. The in come of Rockefeller's holdings is fig ured at over s70.0O0,O00 every year. He didn't touch his principal and had over $40,oo0. poo left. No mans gift is really great until the sting is felt. 1t did sting-but it stung the other fellow. The advance in Gil came in due time. And now they are fixing
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the will. It has leaked out that Uncle John D. is going to give the universe a shock. He IS debating the gift of S250, ,00o 900 to charity. That's colassal. He'll force christendom yet to change her age-worn creeds. His money is going to be tainted when 1t taints ours. In the fitness of time we shall all sing the praises of John the Baptist and the saving grace of Standard oil
 There are some who seem predes- tined to live below the fog-belt For that reason. everything they see looks hideous and uncanny. They have no range of vision. The low-hung mists bring no distant horizon. They peer uneasily through the haze. And be cause of it, nearby things seem so dis toTted and unnatural. Because one looks at the sun through colored gog- gles is no sign old Sol has changed. He might swear to it. That don't mean that anybody believes it. The man who looks at the world through a smoked glass is not authority. To the fellow in the fog everything is spectral Some writers in these days make one think of that. There are magazines and papers whose range of vision is bounded by the cemetery fence. Some writers can't present a man to the pubic until they get him turned wrong side out. And they must be dead sure that everything is put back in the grave except the bones. Like scayenger beasts in the streets of the Orient. they are bound to gnaw a bone-green or dry. They need but the cover of the night, the death-bound oath, and the dim flare of lights that give no sign of their secret coyerts. These yellow jour nals remind me of graveyard ghouls, anyhow. They are forever grabbing among the carcasses of a dead past. They're hunting bones-they must find bones. That is a strange liter ary ambition that contents itself with being a public scavenger. Some pa pers are to the public press what scavenger wagons are to a city gov ernment. When my number is called don't want them 10 hunt for me in a garbage can.
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written Specially for The Review

{ fret its worried waters. What if the curtain were drawn? Is there one whose absolutely real life steps to the front? He who risks It must be pret. ty sure of his hiding places. We must not curse the one whose skeleton has stalkod out into the garish day. In cursing others we may curse our selves.
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Upholstered dens, roof-garden re- sorts, dazzling caves, studios of the wealthy genius, bachelor suites in the sky-scTaDer round the corner from the Vaudeville. Such is modern life. It's a fast life. It's the New York unlimited. It goes the pace that kills. Habitats of the depraved and the rich
 luxurious, brilliant, wild with beauty. These are not the lairs of an ignorant mob. They are not the
 trysting places of criminals fresh from an underworld. They belong to those influential enough to forbid the court to publish names. Hasems- perfumed and sweetly scented. None but the elect and chosen pass through its barred gates. Birds of prey al
 ways build their nests up high. How. ever lofty the eyrie, they bring the
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THE sses DAILY REVIEW BsBE ARIZONA SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 2s

tacular career of "a pie girl" The girl that goes to The Dead Rat chooses to pass through that gate of death. No man is responsible. Her hour strikes when the door opens. Humanity is not driven through places beyond which they certainly know is the slaughter house. have read somewhere that it is the queen of spiders who spins the silken web. Some of us believe 1t, anyhow.
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An Oklahoma man seventy years of age has been sentenced to prison, for ninety-nine years for murder, but ot course, he may get the usual commu- tation time for good behavior
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Criticism is given to ludicrous stunts. It often patronizes the thing it condemns. It never fails to be an advertising medium. It unfrocks in constituencies as nothing else can or will. Nor does 1t offer fig-leaves for the garments of which it stripped us. Wisconsin is the first to legislate on theatrical attire. The other day one of her Yenturesome solons dared to introduce bill It required that the skirt of an actress shall reach at least four inches below the knees. It came in an ace of being defeated. It was a terrible blow at the modern effort to elevate dramatic art. Will another one of these solons now dare to introduce another bill? For in stance, one that shall require the skirt to reach at least four inches above the belt, or that the collar shall begin at least within twelve inches of the neck.
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A Philadelphia girl is in the hospital afflicted with dancing mania. The wonder is how she contracted any thing so lively as that in Philadelphia.
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Up the Canyon, down the Canyon, help J. E. T. get the franchise. (Adv.)
Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-28

Up the Canyon. down the Canyon, help J. E. T. get the rancnise. (Adv)
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Up the Canyon, down the Canyon, help J. E. T. get the franchise. (Adv1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
SAN FRANCISCANS
LIKE ROLLER POLO
Pacific Coast Sportsmen Introduce the
Game and 1t Is Rapidly Be
coming Popular.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Feb. ia
new pastime. that is. new to the sport
loving fraternity on this coast, has been
introduced in California, and roller polo
bids fair TO become most popular
The Pacific Coast Roller Polo League
has been organized for the purpose of
bringing the game into favor through
out the State. At present the league
consists Of five teams, the Auditorium
(San FranciscO). Lakeside Oakland,
Princess (San JOSEF. Pavilion CVaIlejo).
and Crockett CCrOcketO. Teams have
also just been formed in Stockton and
Sacramento. and will be admitted into
the new organization probably next
week
A schedule was drawn up recently.
and several weeks OF play have already
been INDUCED in. the local poloists hay
ing thus far made the best showing.
The Auditorium team has defeated
Crockett two games. Lakeside one
game, and VanQUished the Vallejo in
one match and the other ended with a
1 to l score. The contests are played
on q Standard set Of rules. only that
the heats number three. each being Of
ten minutes duration. Three five-minute
rests are allowed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
EUROPEAN TOUR FOR
AMERICAN MADE CARS
Entries For Gold Cup Test Will Close
May COMMITTEE Formulates
Rules TO Govern Affair.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Entries for the
American Gold Cup tour. which is TO
be an annual invitation tour across
Europe exclusively for American made
automobiles, viii close May J.
The committee IN charge Of the az
engagements has formulated the rules
10 govern the tour. and has fixed on
May I3 as the date Of embarkation for
the cars that are entered. Every car
entered Will be carefully examined by
the technical committee in charge be
fore IL is permitted aboard ship. and the
right IS reserved 10 refuse participation
IN the competition 10 any car not me-
ChaniCally III TO undertake the long
journey. Several picked mechanicians
from different factories will accompany
the cars.
Elimination trials viii be held IN the
vicinity OF Liverpool at the end OF the
run. as il IS expected that there Will be
good many perfect scores These
trials viii probably consist Of hill climb
ing or mile trials, and with the abso-
lutte results Of these trials the jury OF
the touring committee viii also take in
TO consideration the daily report Of the
officials who have attentively watched
the achievements Of each car on the
road several times a day during the
tour.
The tour is designed as sort Of tray
cling exhibition" OF the American auto
mobile industry. and there viii be no
question OF average speed per hour or
rules relating TO economy or endurance
tests
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
GRAND PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR CHESS TOURNAMENT

OSTEND, Feb 16-Leopold Hoffer,
the manager OF the forthcoming chess
carnival TO be held at Ostend, Belgium,
during May. announces another splen-
did program. including a championship
tournament limited to those six masters
who are able 10 show the best records.
Two thousand dollars. with an added
pension Of $3.50. have been set aside for
the event 4 contest on a larger scale
numerically viii be open TO about thirty
masters. w'th a prize fund Of Sl2.5O0.
plus a pension OF $500. The amateurs
Will compete n three classes. with $500
for the first. 800 for the second and 500
for the third. There will also be q
woman's championship tournament for
prizes aggregating $500
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
BUGKING THE TIGER
TABOOED IN WEST
AntiGambling Bill Passed by Arizona
Lawmakers Closes Up the
State.

PHOENIX, Ariz-. Feb. I6.-Bucking
the tiger. the favorite pastime Of Arl-
IONA sports. has been tagged 3 by the
legislature Gambling has been made a
felony. and now silence instead OF the
click OF the roulette wheel and the Chirp
OF the Crap-shOOter reigns in the gam
bling halls.
The anti-gambling bill went into ef-
feet a couple Of weeks ago, and the
Phoenix gamblers celebrated the event
by holding wakes over the death OF
the tiger. All the gambling parapher-
MALTA was dressed IN Grape. and gloom
hung Ike fog over the once brilliantly
lighted halls. The gamblers viii be good
Indians and make no effort 70 defy the
authorities. Though Arizona has re
formed" gambling stories founded at
Tucson. Tombstone. or Phoenix will
probably find their way into print for a
few years 10 come.
Perhaps enough money has been lost
around the green tables OF this Terri
tory TO pay the national debt Until
now Arizona has been wide open Cam
blers paid licenses for protection. and in
the main the games were run on the
square. Il was a dangerous thing 20 be
caught cheating at cards OF dice There
have been instances Of gamblers forfeit
ing their lives for swindling an honest
miner who only asked a square deal
and an even break But. as a rule, the
games were square. and the player got
fair shake II he won a big stake he
was paid. an1 II he lost he was expect
ed 10 dlvvy Up. This was all there was
70 Il.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
ENORMOUS SALARY
FOR JOCKEY LYME
American Rider Close to
Record of Tod
y Sloan.

LONDON. Feb. 16.-w. b. Purefoy.
one Of the wealthiest men on the British
turf who made most Of his fortune bv
lucky speculations on the stock ex-
change. has engaged the services of L.u-
Glen Lyme, the American jockey, for the
approaching fiat race season
Mr.. Purefoy will not tell even his init
mate friends what terms he has offered
TO Lyme, but 1t is said at Newmarket
that they are the most liberal terms
ever offered to any American jockey
with the exception Of Tod Sloan.
Lyme visited England in 1903. and won
several races for J. b. Keene. Foxhau
p. Keene has. by the way, only a small
stable now in this country, and there
are only two steeplechasers owned bv
him here. One Of them, ar aged horse
called Lick Penny, has carried Mr..
Keene over the stiffest country, both in
America and here.
Every one in the horsey world IS TAX
ing the keenest interest IN the Inter
national Horse Show, which Mr.. Alfred
Vanderbilt is engineering. His famous
coach horses are to be stabbed at Red
Hill farm, in the north Of London.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
AMERICA LEADS ENGLAND
IN THE SPORT OF KINGS
Spectators May See Entire Race on This Side in Majority
of Cases, But Not SO in Britan-Other
Gossip on Foreign Sports.

Persimmon. who led the list OF winning
sires for 1906. and probably will for 1901
From the lot some great race horses
should be developed.
The colt PerambUlatOr. a son OF Per
simmOn. is the most likely one OF the
string. He is in for the Derby. and II
he develops as he should. Lord Beres-
ford and Mr. Marsh are more than hope
ful that he will land the blue ribbon
for their royal patron.
Fred Taral, the well-known Amer
lean jockey, who has been riding with
great success for Baron Springer In
Austria, will be seen in the saddle this
year in at least enc English race. Baron
Springer's fast racer Bon Marche IS In
well in the Batthyani Handicap at Lin
coin. and unless some accident prevents
will run With TaraI up. TaraI has been
riding for twenty-five years and Is as
skillful now as when he was young
ster- He has a son riding now, also
for Baron Springer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-17
FLORIDA GOLF BEGINS
WEEK FROM TOMORROW
East Coast Championship Will Be Held
at Miami, Palm Beach, Ormond,
and st. Augustine.

PALM BEACH, Fla. Feb. l6.-Dates
for the annual series OF Florida East
Coast golf championships have been de-
cided upon. Nassau will lead off. as
usual, taking February % to February
q. Miami follows on March 4-6: Palm
Beach, March lib; Ormond. March
1920, and st. Augustine. March 26-2S.
The three days following the last
named session the yearly amateur cham
pionships viii be held at St Augustine.
the customary place. These dates are
substantially the same as last year
The open championship Of Florida at
Palm Beach today promises to be the
most important one on record, for Alex
ander Smith, national Eastern and
Western open title holder. has agreed 20
compete: also Willie Anderson, ex-
national and Western champion. who
has held the national title more times
than any other man In addition. Joe
Mitchell. Of Cleveland: Charles Thorn.
of LenON; James Norton. of Narragan-
sctt Pier. John Pierson. of Staten Island.
and other widely known professionals
who have Southern greens this winter,
will play.