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Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-05

/, ing would not pay.
81 took money along to close a deal
had II been as represented, but my
money comes too hard to present II to
land grafters. / would not be held up
in that manner so the boosters got
mad. On the way home one of them
said: q could pull this cord and put
you on ! showed him my ticket and
defled him Later he apologized.
Quite number in the party did
bite. But those who invested did so
as a speculation. Nobody but boost
ers, agents or large land owners had
a good word for that section of Mex
leo.
Il don't ask the people to take my
word for ii. There were others who
did not buy. They viii tell the truth
If you write them. They are: J. W.
Durfinger, Hutchinson, Kans.; B. F.
Gilbert, Beloit, Kans.; Sam Hall,
Mesa, Ariz., (he purchased $50 acres
and expects commission); Fred
Clark, McCook, Nebr.; w. H. Camp,
Thorndale, Texas, who said the boost
ers offered him $3.50 if he would in
uuence a lady to buy two sections. He
also said the boosters wanted him to
sign up for drunk man, but he re-
fused to do So / can furnish other
names.
THE story that any proposition was
offered or asked to get me TO boost
the deal is untrue in every sense of
the word. Why should / be bounded
by these people when paid my own
money to learn the truth about what
they were taking hard earned Bfsbee
dollars for2 Why should / be attack
ed when / did nothing but insist on
seeing the gold brick before bought
it? The whole thing is open to just
criticism and after / paid my own
good money TO learn, ] will tell the
truth about this land of Oaxaca,
Isthmus of Tehuantepec. burial ground
of dead hopes and depleted purses
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-05

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Cattle receipts.
5000 head. Market steady. Beeyes.
s3.5O07.S0; Texans, $3.60@4.40; west
erns, $3.4065.75; stockers and feed
ers, s2.70@475; cows and heifers,
sL6e@510; calves, s5-5o@5.70.
Sheep receipts, 10000. Market was
strong. Natives. $2.50@4.S5; westerns
<2.7594.S0s yeariings, $4.2545.10;
lambs, s4.25@6.so: westerns, s4.25@
$3.50. -l,.-
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-05
AMUSEME NTS.

The Captains Mate was the offer
ing at the Orpneum last night, ana
was one of the jolly plays which has
been given by the company. 1t is q
comedy drama in four acts and the
several members of the company had
an opportunity to show to a good adj
vantage. There was fairly gooa
house in attendance and liberal ap-
plause greeted the company many
times during the evening. The Street
er-Bryan company are giving the
theatre loving people of this city al
opportunity of seeing fine line of ex-
lcellent plays which are being thor
oughly enjoyed.
81 attended Mr.. Dixon's play The
Clansman, last evening" said Govern
Or Robert B. eileen of North Carolina
10 a Raleigh News and Observer man,
fearing from what i had heard that 1
would be disappointed and join with
those who believe that the production
OF such a play would be Of no benefit
| to cur section. ! am glad now that
went, for my views have undergone a
complete change, and / unhesitatingly
say that ] wish every young man ana
wosnan in the south could both see
and hear the condition of things
| through which their forefathers pass
cd in the days of reconstruction; for
in 50 doing they would not only appre-
ciate what they suffered, but likewise
know the jnstness of their cause. It
viii do good also for the northern peo-
eIe to study southern conditions MS
\
play rises above his books / heartily
iapproye it, and believe it will do
good. No respectable negro can take
exception TO it, for it shows how kind
" the true old servant was treated,
and how Only the incident or wicked,
felt the vengeance of those Fighters
, OF wrong, the members of the Ku Klux
Khan. The play recalled to me many
things l heard and saw while boy.
6iied M heart with the feelings that
then we're uttermost Ing the minds of
cur people, and thank God That peace
has AZ last eonYe and our country once
more is prosperous. Success TO the
play Is assured in the south, and | be-
iieve il viii be gladly received by the
better elsss OF thinking people in the
north
'.ThT Clansman,T with its marvellous
story Of the triumph OF white suprem-
lacy in the south. viii be at the Or
pheum Theatre on Thursday evening.
December 10.
Mr.. McManahan. the advance agent
for the Clansman, visited Bssbee ana
was in conference with manager NJ.
AZ 1.
one OF the most striking plays which
has ever been seen in this city and
the stage setting wiz be something
Bisbee daily review., 1908-12-05
STREET THINKS
MESSAGE HARMLESS
Spectators SomeWay Get Ink
ling of What Roosevelt viii
Say To Congress.

| NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-Restraint
under which operations for higher
prices in the stock market labored
. during the week was thrown off to
large extent today, the advance was re-
sumed with more of the appearance of
harmony than any movement shown in
many days. The change can not be
explained by any striking item of
news, although much discussion of the
supposed contents of the forthcoming
message of President Roosevelt.
Word was passed around in tone
very mild and contained nothing. cal
culated to brighten the most timid
SPECTATORS The action owed some
thing to the relief afforded by specula-
tive liquidation already affected.
| This was notably true of Steel, in
which selling was persistent through
out the week The freedom with
which that stock advanced wos of ma
teria1 effect in shaping sentiment. The
Gould group was conspicuous feat
ure IN tn edealings. Great Northern
preferred was the leader of the high
priced stocks Bonds were strong.
Metal Market.
| NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The London
tin market was lower today. Spot,
R133 It's Cd; futures, 9135 lis Sd.
The focal market was-dull at 2s.S7k
| @2e.6215.
| COPPER declined to e62 15s for
spot; e63 f5s for futures in London.
| Locally duh and unchanged. Lake,
1871 @14s0c; electrolytic, 14.121z@
l1425c; casting, 14.00@14.121sc.
| Lead unchanged at 13s Sd in London.
Locally dull, $42594.30.
Speiter lower at e21 % Sd in Lon
don. Locally dun at s5.10@5.15.
Local iron unchanged.
Stock List.
NEW YORK, Dec American
Smelling, 921k; Amalgamated Copper.
/ IS: Atehison. SO 1-S; st. Paul, Isl Is:
New York Central, III 1-S; Pennsyl-
vania, 1295k; Reading. 1873 IA; South
fern Pacilc, 11S 3-S; Union Pacific.
iis1%: U. s. Steel, So 1-s; Steel pfd..
,I12%.
Chicago Grain.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Wheat steady.
final quotations for December, s1-05s;
May, s1.10 SIS; July, s1.03%
Corn closed steady. December,
61s4c; May. So i-4c.
| OATS closed strong. December, soc;
May, 52652- 1-sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
THE CRY OF THE WOLF.

A few weeks ago on the salt air that
blows inland from the sandy stretches
OF Cape Cod there was waited a report
that made heavy the heart of the
country from Maine to Florida and
from Boston to the Pacific coast. 1t
was announced that following the ex-
ample set in this somewhat unfor-
tunate year of grace the cranberry
crop had taken it into its head or into
its boys to fail. There were to be
cranberries, of course, a few small,
puckered, currant-like limitations. but
the full-bodied brown and scarlet
cranberry was no more. The pickers
in their poke bonnets were picking
almost in vain and their employers
were IN despair. And now, having put
that cup to the lips and drained its
bitterness, there comes the story that
the cranberry harvesting season prac-
tically came to an end last week with
better results as to quantity and quail
lty than had been anticipated; that
the late berries are sounder and
larger and have better color than
those of last year, and that, for the
most part, growers are very we'll sat
%N%NNN "ASA LAAC OulCOInG OF their Ia
bors.
1t would be interesting to learn
what 1t is in mans internal or Internal
economy that constantly tempts him
to cry wolf when there is no wolf.
AS surely as the seasons revolve, these
melancholy predictions are sent broad
cast. Late in the winter orange groves
curl up and die; in the spring the
peach trees are ruined; as autumn ap-
proaches the cranberries wither and
1ade, and last of all the turkeys and
DUCKS and geese give up the ghost.
And yet all in due time oranges an
pear as of yore, carloads. and boxes
OF oranges. oranges piled in yellow
mounds, and oranges wrapped in col
ored tissue paper, resembling the balls
OF tnsel that make glad the Christ
mas tree; peaches arrive as usual. bas-
kets and crates of blushing. tuicy
peaches; cranberries roll in in bar
rels, and turkeys and geese and ducks
are everywhere in evidence, forerun-
ners OF the holidays. If at first they
hang rather high. SO to speak, a thaw
soon melts the courage of the market
man and places these birds of para
disc within the reach of all.
There are oranges and peaches and
cream and turkey and cranberry sauce
for everybody-no dearth of good
annually everybody is
hlled, as described, with these gloomy
forebodings in a world which has
enough vexations that are real, surely,
to suit the most fastidious and exact
ing grumbler that ever lived. 1t is i'm
possible to fathom the depths of the
malevolence that prompts this sort of
thing. 1t is unnecessary; it is mex
cusable; it is flying in the face of a
bountiful Providence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15

rial" was the austere reply. ssWhai
does this-er-flirtation mean?''
The man advanced toward her with
glowing face.
cit means that I've found my little
girl again, Mrs. Cotton, and this time
I've captured her before she could run
away, as she did from Newport"
Its Dick Hampstead enlightened
Eleanor. Bob sent him out instead
of the new bookkeeper, and Just had
to say yes to atone for the cavalier
fashion in which you hustled him into
the Kitchen
But he didn't tell me" began
Vida.
You didn't give me chance-or
perhaps I gave you none. Bob told
me that Eleanor was to be the cook
and 1 was only too glad to come. I
have not seen Bob since he was mar
ried, and I did not know that he had
married Eleanor's sister. or you would
have seen me out here before"
And you want to get married." ex-
claimed Mrs. Cotton. What will
Uncle Henry say!''
He'll say Yes declared Hemp
stead, "or at any rate he should.
Didn't I save him from the thirteen
hoodoo?"
ST suppose that will help some" adj
mitted Vida. Anyway, I'm glad you
two are to be married. for with
Eleanor to cook. and you to be butler
I shan't be afraid of any more dinner
parties. only when there are but thir-
teen at the table,
ITO save the day as well as Uncle
Henry" completed Hampstead. =
copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The fiatterer generally practices on
himself.
The doctor would hate to know
everybody we'll.
fellow can go down hill without
having any pull.
To swallow the truth most men
want it sugar-coated.
Many churchman's motto is:
"Love me love my dogma"
When a girl is color blind she has
little excuse for making a fellow green
with envy.
Even at the deaf and dumb asylum
they raise a racket when they play
tennis.
Blobbs-'T like to see a man in a
hurry" Slobbs-"Yes, he isn't apt to
stop and tell his troubles"
Nell-"I wonder why she ever mar
ried him. Belle-"Oh, she had an
idea several other girls wanted him."
The law regards a man as innocent
until he is proven guilty, consequently
a criminal is a man who is found out.
Little Willie was looking at the pie
lures in his natural history. Uncle
George" he asked, will a lobster hurt
your" mot unless you eat it," re-
piled Uncle George. who was suffering
from an attack of dyspepsia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

Some kinds of meanness are more
unpopular than others.
At some time in the life of every
man he tries poetry and the chicken
business.
If a woman is sickly, it is not usu-
ally discovered until after she is mar
ried.
We wish we could hear of woman
who. knowing the men, was satisfied
with them.
Every windy day we wonder at how
thin it is possible for some women to
become.
way of discovering his faults as mar
rying him.
Do your duty, and attend to your
work faithfully, and you will not suf-
fer much from hard times.
At some period of her life nearly
every married woman has thought Sc
riously of leaving her husband.
The only time some husbands take
their wives arms is when they assist
them into a carriage at funeral.
On Judgment day, when we hear
everyone's record read, we shall pre-
tend to be shocked, but We won't be.
Ask any man how he is getting along
and he will reply: 20, kindly Slow
No one seems to get along very well.
An Atchison woman does up her hair
in such a tight wad 1t is said she uses
a monkey wrench to give it the final
twist.
This actually happened the other
day: A reporter asked man, How
do you spell your manner" I'm no
scholar" the man replied; II don't
know"
Life is a perpetual Joy and surprise
to the father and mother of a 16-S car
old girl: They never know one hour
how she is going to do her hair the
next, and every day sees something
new and startling. She breaks the mo-
notony one day with a pompadour as
high as heaven, and the next day AZ
pears with more curls than Spite dog.
She always has more hair in the pres
ent than she had in the past; others
hair comes out. but hers seems to
grow in, puff. or. a curl or a wave at
a time Maybe she would amount to
more If she stuck to the door knob
coiffure, but think how monotonous ex-
istence would be to her parents and her
neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Most people die before reaching the
age of discretion.
All men are equal-as long as they
remain in the bachelor class.
A girl always has a good time at a
party If she has on a new dress.
The man who doesn't acquire wis
dom as he grows older bunkoes him
self.
A splendid way to get engaged to
young widow is by trying to avoid her.
One-half the world manages to get
along by inducing the other half to go
short.
The man who fails to make good
always claims he didn't have a fair
chance.
A mule doesn't cost half as much as
an automobile, but is almost as dan
gerous.
When a man feels that he is expect
ed to make love he goes at 1t in a
half-hearted manner.
Never judge people by their clothes.
Even poorly dressed man may not
be millionaire.
Most children bear unmistakable
evidence of having been born to make
a noise in the world.
Some people would never attract
any attention in the world if it wasn't
for thier impudence.
Even married people may be happy
if they have sense enough to settle
down and try to make the best of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Reckless boast from the Kansas City
Globe: kansas City now has a police
force second to none in the state, bar
ring Emporia and Bonner Springs"
An agricultural note from the Walnut
Valley Times: "A tramp enjoyed the
hospitality of Farmer Hedde on Bird
creek for good meal Wednesday and
talked briskly of wanting a job, and
Hedde had the job for him. After his
meal he sauntered about while until
time to begin work. when he murmur-
ed, Goodbye; I've enjoyed myself here.
Don't work too hard!' And Hedde was
such a good man that he didn't kill
him."
Fred Lobdell, editor of the Dighton
Herald, who is running for representa-
tive in Lane county, frankly admits
that he intends to neglect his business
during the campaign. He says: From
now until after election my time will
be largely taken up with things politi-
cal and little time can be put in on the
paper. I am sorry that circumstances
compel this action, but when fellow
gets in game he must play according
to rules"
A fashion note from the Humboldt
Herald: THE editor had a chance to
look at some of the patterns for hats
which must be worn by the ladies this
winter If they would dare to be seen
on the streets. Some of them are of the
1lalleA style. 1Hdl LIl6y W6Tt u6-
signed by an italian washerwoman who
had been in the habit of carrying the
family washing home on her head and
had neck muscles like a prize fighter.
The frames cover town lot and loom
up like four story building. To them
will be added seven pounds of velvet
and feathers and price that will weigh
the old man down, and the result is a
creation that equals one of Wagner's
operas as played by brass band"
The Atchison Champion prints this
item of news. which will interest the
people of Kansas: The contract for
the new home of Mrs. ]. ]. ingalls,
James Nesbitt, Mr.. Nesbitt being the
lowest of seven bidders. The house will
have eight commodiouS rooms with a
large reception hall. and will be built
of brick and stucco. with a red tile
roof The plans were drawn by Saylor
& Sondon of Kansas iCty, with an eye
single to the comfort of Mrs. ingalls,.
Large enough to entertain child or
two when they come home. 1t viii be
small enough and convenient enough
for her to live in alone. Preliminary
work on the house began today, and
the contractor will push it to compile
ton as rapidly as possible. Mr.. Mes
bitt hopes to have the house ready for
occupancy by early spring. Mrs. ingalls,,
who has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs A. J. Davis, In Vancouver bar
RACES all summer, will leave there Oc-
tober 10 for Kansas City. where she will
divide the winter with her two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. E. B. Blair and Mrs. ]. E.
Hunt"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION

Despite an unfortunate tendency to
indulge in personalities among the
leading candidates and their leading
champions in this presidential cam
pafgn 1t is on the whole proving to
be campaign of education. The
education may not be quite UP to the
point of emitting everybody to a.
graduation in political knowledge but
it has left the common mind a little
ahead of where the opening of the
contest found it.
Considerably more Is known now
than was known about the personali-
ties of many of the leading men of the
country-their private and public
characters and their habits and meth
DDS of dealing with their fellow men.
This knowledge has been of interest to
the people for it has shown some of
these leaders to be examples of good
citizenship worthy of imitation while
1t has revealed few as Objectionable
and has led to their retirement from
public activity in Difference to the
public conscience and sense of honor
1t has informed the public as to
some of the vital issues as we'll. If
the banking question in all of its rela-
lions to the people is taken up as an
example it has been so thoroughly
gone over that many have got a better
understanding of it than they ever
had 1t has been discussed by men
directly concerned in the business and
competent to speak from experience
and by others concerned on the side of
the people for the best protection and
security that can be had in managing
trust that is so intimately bound up
with the welfare of every community.
All sides have learned something and
all are better for the knowledge.
The same is true of the tariff oues-
ton which ought to be approached as
a business proposition for careful
study rather than in the excitement of
a partisan campaign. The facts tell in
this matter and they have been eluci-
dated to an extent that puts the aver
age man in possession of a good deal
that used to be considered as a sort of
property right of the politician. The
everyday man and his neighbors can
talk on these matters as we'll as the
president and his cabinet and talk
with an increasing degree of intelli-
gence.
The matter of the authority of the
issue and it has been presented by the
best legal talent of the country in a
light so plain that the popular appre-
hension of the subject is clearer no
doubt than it ever was before 1t is
the function of every true interpreter
of the law to bring the Interpretation
to the comprehension of the great
mass of the people since the laws bear
dirQOf1xy l. 1r1.-
has been a good deal of this during
the campaign and the people have I'M
doubleday made an advance in a most
important direction.
1t is more a newspaper campaign
than one of stump speaking and as the
true newspaper is disposed to bring
every side of every subject into the
limelight and as the people are more
ready to read and WEIGH all theories
and policies it follows that this is
necessarily a campaign of education
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's unreasonable to expect people to
believe everything that is told them.
\
No man should ever think of speak
ing of fright that he got on his we'd
ding day. fk+t
1t would seemingly be a trif1e i'm
pertinent for a person to go to a bank
and ask If the cashier is in.
X
A wealthy man may appear ostenta-
tious but he is generally mighty shy
when contributions are sought of him.
X X X
A young bride is apt to feel awful
ly sorry for one of the presidential
candidates because her husband is go
ing to vote for the other one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Husbands to Board.-"Three of my girls
are in love-" What are you going to do
about it?' Order a longer dining-room
table, I guess."-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal.
Knicker-Let's sit out the dance in the
conservatory. Stella-But they say that
plants have eyes and memories.-New
York Sun.
The Man NEW arrival at summer hoteD
IL IL suppose Pos, there's no prohibition of kiss
An Englishman, witnessing his first
baseball game. was struck by a hot one
family: ' What was e9Hs * fo nd as they
told him.. "oniy a foul!' MY word.' he
exclaimed. II thought 1t was a MULE
Boston Evening Transcript.
II see they are to have a hookless
got to be an expert in hooking them" he
groWied, being a natural kicker.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
He talks DOOR" Then he must be
rich" IT don't know. Some men are deep
PRESTON it W as5 for the inn
aid.
Mrs. Nabor-How is your husband going
to vote this fall? Mrs. Hardsense-He will
not vote at all. He says that in this age
OF trained men it is absolutely folly to in
trust the country to men who have had no
experience in presidenting at all.-Puck.
What possessed her to marry her second
husband on the anniversary of her firsts
death? so as not to have too many
dates to celebrate. THE Smart Set
Tommy" said the hostess "you ap-
pear to be in deep thought" "Yesm,"
replied Tommy, ma told me somethin' to
say if you should ask me to have some
cake or anything, an I bin here so long
now forgit what it s'-Philadelphia
Press.
Harry is 8 years old. pa he asked
one day. 'if I get married will have a
wife like mar Very likely" replied his
father. "And if 1 don't get married, will
/ have to be an old bachelor like Uncle
Tom?" Very likely well, pa" he
said. after a moment of deep thought, ats
mighty tough world for us men, amt
it?'-Success.
HE is wonderfully original" isn't her
girl the story of his life without hint
ing that he used to be a bold, bad MAN.
KansaI City Times.
Porpoise-what is the whale blowing
about? Dogfish-Oh. he got SO many
notices for his feat in swallowing Jonah
he's been blowing ever since.-Boston
Transcript.
Young man, don't you know that it's
better to be alone than in bad company"
Yes. sir. Goodby, sir. "-Philadelphia In
Quirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15

John ]. Schenck, Shawnee's able
county attorney, says that the enforce
ment of the prohibition law is the east
est proposition on earth. 1t certainly
has seemed to be in his hands and it
is safe to say that never in the history
OF the county has this law been so eff
fectively and vigorously enforced as it
has under the excellent administration
OF Mr.. Schenck, and in this particular
he has received most valuable assist
ance from John Wilkerson, the sheriff,
and his deputies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15

the financial end of the Republican
campaign are assiduously chasing for
the pots of gold which are supposed
to be at the end of rainbows. And they
seem to be meeting with just about as
much success as others who have gone
on similar hunts.