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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-06-04

Blobbs - IL the policeman on yoS
beat squaref
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round Philadelphia Record
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

vote is concerned. Dispatches from
all over Ohio presage the election of
Harmon. The insult to Foraker would
also seem to make certain the electoral
vote for Bryan.
Illinois is the next great state where
the Republicans are divided into hos
tile camps Primaries were held Sat
urday, and the result will only widen
the breach. The stalwarts call the re-
formers hypocrites, and the latter cali
the stalwarts rascals. The spot inn
mediately under the fifth rib of the
Republican party in Illinois will be
punctured early and often on election
day. Indeed. it would not be surpris-
ing if the victory of Cleveland in 1892
were duplicated by Bryan in this year
of our Lord 1908.
Iowa, for the first time in the memo
ny of the present generation, is fight
ing ground in a presidential year. Here
also the G. o. p. is divided into two
factions, with Governor Cummins
leading the tariff reform element and
Senator Dolliver, Pete Hepburn,
LATE Young, George d. Perkins and
the rest of the old guard, perhaps
gang would be the better word, on
the other. The death of Senator ALI
son is likely TO complicate matters I'M
less the enemies of Cummins swallow
their wrath and allow him a seat in
the senate and it is by no means GER
tain they could beat him if they tried,
Senator Allison's majority at the pri-
maries having been only about $4,000.
Bryan is exceptionally strong with the
Iowa farmers. and his reception at
Des Moines, where he is TO discuss the
tariff, will show which way the wind
Is blowing in the Hawkeye state.
Indiana and Nebraska need not be
discussed. There hasn't been a living
chance of their going Republican since
the Denver convention, and the action
of the Western Passenger association
in refusing to grant rates for those
who wish to be present when Bryan is
notified, after like courtesies had been
extended to the Republicans when
was needed TO make the vote of Ne
braska certain for Bryan.
The situation in the other western
states has not changed during the past
week The trend of public opinion is
still towards Bryan. the gathering
clouds indicating a political cyclone in
Kansas, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
AS the issues become more sharply
drawn and the campaign progresses
there is every sign of hope for the
united Democracy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
A VETERAN OF 95 YEARS.

West Virginia boasts of the oldest
living former member of congress,
James c. McGrew, who will be %
years old on Sept. II. Mr.. McGrew's
entrance into politics was Occasioned
by his election to the famous secession
convention at Richmond, Va, in Feb
ruary, 1861, forty-seven years ago. He
was elected to congress in 1868 and re-
elected in 1870, and declined third
term. Senator Hale of Maine is one OF
the few survivors of the two congresses
of which Mr. McGrew was a member
Ninety-five years is a long span Of
life. When McGrew was born James
Madison was president and the coUn-
try was engaged in its second struggle
with England. Adams and jefferson
had thirteen years of life remaining.
and with the exception of Washington
Mr.. McGrew might have been ac-
quainted with all the presidents. The
veteran West Virginian was nearly
grown when the first railroad was
built. The telegraph, cables under the
ocean. the telephone. electric lights and
wireless biography all belong to his
day. TO say nothing of the sewing ma
chine. the printing machine and the
thousands of other mechanical labor
saving devices. The bicycle came into
general use when he was an old man,
only to be succeeded by the automo-
bile as a means of Swimming over the
ground. and Mr.. McGrew has lived
long enough TO see the beginning of
the era of airships.
1t is given to but few men to live
far beyond the allotted span of life.
three score years and ten, and still re-
tain their mental faculties and a fair
degree of physical strength and activi-
ty. Mr.. McGrew at IS is still interest
ed in business and politics and bids fair
to round out a century. by far the
most important and wonderful one
hundred years since the world began
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
BLACK, THE REFORMER.

The whole community will heave a
sigh of relief to know that Tom Black
councilman, has undertaken to reform
the clubs of the city. Moved TO indig-
nation that the saloons should be
closed on Sunday while the wicked
clubs are permitted to dispense malt
the spirtuous joy to their members,
Black is going to institute a reform.
No distinctions between classes for
him; no barriers that permit the PAM
pered aristocrats 10 absorb inspiration
on the Sabbath while the poor work
ingman' is barred from the social.
physical and spiritual uplift of the
saloon.
Not while Blacks strong jaw retains
its cunningi
In conversation he is going to close
the clubs; legally, of course, he can't
do it. and knows it, but conversation
is inexpensive. and Black enjoys il
when he does the conversing. Mean
while IT might occur TO the disinterest-
ed that nothing in the statutes or city
ordinances prevents any citizen from
taking a drink at home, providing he
has 1.-The makin's" and his wife's per-
mission is attainable.
Blacks talk is twaddle. the vapOr-
ings of the cheap politician, who thinks
he can make capital by appealing to
class prejudice. Like all of his type.
Blacks value to the public, including
the poor worilingman," is exactly in
inverse ratio to the volume of his con-
versation and the lOudness OF his pro-
fessions; and in this case both volume
and loudness indicate that the poor
workingman" is due to suffer a,
Blacks hands, as usual, whenever OPP
portunity offers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
LOs Angeles Times.)

They're saying that Scoty, the cow
boy. miner and coin slougher of Death
Valley, who did all that high and lofty
spending while back, has turned into
a tightwad," said man from southern
California Il don't know whether the
story is true or not, but | do know that
twenty years or so ago Scotty's shak-
ing down of himself, if confined to some
western city. and not brought to this
side of the Rockies, would have created
so small a ripple that nobody would
have known anything about it except
the beneficiaries of his blowing off bug.
The SWoops of the juSt-gOt-it boys from
the camps upon the big western towns
used to be so common that nobody paid
any attention to their Whirls. We saw
a lot of Scotty's way of sloughing it off
in Los Angeles. But / am here to say
that Scotty never did do the real burn
ing money stunts that were pulled off
for example by Judd Bisbee when Judd,
about twenty years ago, pulled into
Los Angeles from the Sonora country,
in Old Mexico, with a bundle that
bulged out all over him. Judd. after
fooling around with grubstakes all the
way from Kootenai country to Central
America, was one of the first Americans
to land right on the high-grade pay
dirt III Sonora. The syndicate people,
especially the English kind, were quick
to get to the Sonora country. Judd al
lowed them to sink a hole in his patch
of dirt. and then they came to him with
a first offer of 100000 spot cash. Judd,
he took II. They'd have given him
100000 or 100000 just as easily, for
Judds plot was one of the incest pieces
in Sonora-they've taken millions out
of it since-but Judd Bisbee was all for
the quick stuff and he bit on the first
bid.
They gave Judd $4,000 in gold and
check on the Bank of California for
$4,000 Judd slushed around the So
nora camp with the boys for three or
four days before starting for Los An
geles. a comic opera company was
stopping at the Los Angeles hotel when
Judd got there. Judd foregathered with
the troupers and their manager spun
him hard-luck story. Then Judd
bought up a whole theatre at which the
comic opera outfit was due to play dur
ing the next week. and had the an
nouncement printed in the Los Angeles
papers that the show for one week was
going to be free and on him. The the
atre was packed and jammed with hi
larious no-pay audiences every night
during the week, while Judd sat in a
box, tossing handfuls OF gold at the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

The contest being waged for the
highest office in the gift of the people
is remarkable in many respects. Both
leading candidates may be said to have
been forced upon their respective
tickets. Taft by the power of the pres
ident and Bryan by an uprising of the
rank and file of the Democratic party.
Another remarkable feature is the fact
that the Democrats are fighting for the
great granger states of the middle
west. hitherto impregnable Republican
strongholds. while Taft is attending
horse shows. leading germans and
playing up TO the aristocracy Of the
two Virnicias, and we hear more talk
Of breaking up the "solid south"
Taking New York as a starter. we
find the Republican brethren in a des-
perate struggle over the nomination
for governor. Hughes wants it. but
the real leaders of the party are fight
ing him. The all of Roosevelt, Taft
and Chairman Hitchcock has been in
voked. but so far no one has succeed
ed In pouring oil upon the troubled
waters, and the chances are that the
man who wins will have 10 undergo
the knitting" process on election day.
In Ohio a beautiful situation has de-
veloped from a Democratic point of
view Judge Taft has undertaken the
job of eliminating Foraker and carry
ing the state for himself at one and
the same time. The Buckeye Republi-
cans will open their campaign at
Youngstown Sept. ?, and Senators For
aker and Dick have been invited TO be
present They will be labelled ex-
hibits 1 and .. il present. and will oc-
cupy a place on the platform, but they
won't be allowed to talk. This insult
wideps the breach in Ohio so far as
Taft i concerned But there is a sec
ond source of danger for the Ohio Re-
publicans. The Democratic nominee
for governor is Former Attorney Gen
eral Judson Harmon, man of high
character and great ability. Against
him the Republicans have renominated
Governor Harris. the most unpopular
man in the state, so far as the German
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
pROGRESS OF PROHIBITION.

The general superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league, DIR. p. A. Baker,
is responsible for the statement that
nearly forty million people in the
United States now live in prohibition
territory, which is about half of the
present population. According to the
figures given. saloons have been closed
at the rate of thirty each day during
the present year, 1,50O having been
wiped out at one fell swoop in Illinois
Prohibition is now effective in eight
states
Partisan politics is tabooed by the
Anti-Saloon league, and no bond of
sympathy exists between the members
thereof and the Prohibition party.
which may in part account for the
phenomenal success of the league in
the last few years.
Superintendent Baker was in Saie
Lake recently. and in an interview,
after leaving here. said:
II have Just reached here after a
trip TO Salt Lake City and other places
in the west. i find conditions there ex-
cellent for our cause. In Wsoming
idaho and Utah they are working for
a law that will provide for county To-
cal option and are seeking to elect
men to the legislatures who will pledge
themselves in the passage of such
a measure. The Mormons are in favor
of the county local option movement
and are working for it diligently. The
authorities of the Mormon church are
cooperating splendidly in this work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

each of the two vermouths, bourbon
whisky and absinthe. frappe and serve
in old-fashioned whisky glass
Mint Highball (Brown's)-Pony of
white creme de menthe, dash of lemon;
serve with ice, long glass, filling it up
with carbonic mint leaves if desiredl:
Tie Allison (Rector's)-Juice of han
lime. piece of ice. several leaves of
mint, pony of gin; serve in long glars,
filling il with ginger ale.
The Sazarac (Fleischman's Stake
two whisky glasses. Fill one with
cracked ice. In other mix Bourbon
whisky and Pechaud bitters, with
dash of absinthe. Pour over cracked
ice.
A Spruce Street Peach (Fred's)-
Teaspoonful of powdered sugar, dis
solve in water, crush fresh mint, juice
of two lemons, jigger of Santa Cruz
rum, jigger of whisky layer of fine
cracked ice. then one whole pitted
fresh peach, another layer of fine
cracked ice: dress with mint leaves;
serve in tall glass, with straws.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

along at the rate of 81 per day per man
for three months. Judd provided scores
OF kegs OF beer every day for the buns
who fiocked to the eating tent from all
over California and by the thousands.
Big detachmentS of police had to be
sent out to keep the buns in order. This
bum benevolence of Judd's lasted for
fifteen days, when the police closed it
down on account of the disorders and
depredations of the beer hordes Feed
ing and beering those several thousands
of buns for the fifteen days dente.,
Judd's roll to the tune of almos,
$40 600.
'Judds next bit of lavishness broke
up the discipline at the military post
near Los Angeles, for a couple of weeks
or so. Judd drove out to the post one
day in a hack with a bunch of boon
companions that he'd picked up-there
were fifteen or twenty hacks filled with
them behind his carriage. They hap
pened to hit the post " hiie guard noun;
was going on and the evolutionS of the
soldiers made a hit with Judd. When
guard mount was over he had Wort
passed around that he'd be at the cam
teen for the purpose of entertaining &c
hands of the soldiers. When the SOL
ciers, who knew about Judd, rushed e
the canteen, Judd couldn't see the beer
staked one of the ambulance men to
hustle to town for a wagonload of
champagne, and, by taking a circuitous
path, the ambulance man managed to
get the wine inside the post gate and
thus to the canteen. The whole post
had champagne bun on before the
canteen sergeant had to turn the box
on them by announcing that the after
noon closing hour had arrived
Judd was deeply concerned over this
situation. He felt as if il in some way
reflected upon his brand of hospitality
So he got on a chair and invited all
hands of the soldiers to join him down
town. They received the invitation
with a hip-hip. Judd met them down
town. sand-well, there wasn't enough
soldering at the Los Angeles post for
whole string of days and nights to
give the post a military air. All of
the groggery keepers in Los Angeles
We're instructed to give the soldiers
everything they called for, no matter
what it was. At the windup Judd gave
every soldier of the lot an order for n
$50 suit of clothes. IT was long time
before any of the soldiers had a chance
to get their measure taken for the
civilian buds. for as they drifted back
to the post in great decentralization
during the next week or so they were
nearly all of them clapped into the
guardhouss."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
JUDD BISBEE AND HIS ROLL
DFr OF THE B1ones TEST OF SONORA MINER TWENTY YEARS AGO

funniest on the stage who happened to
tickle his soused riSibleS. AT the wind
up of each act, every night, Judd would
rise in his box and invite the whole
audience to the bar attached to the
theatre, and the big raft of extra bar
keeps employed for the week were in
structcd to let every man who walked
up have everything he asked Tor, from
Il glass of sasp'rilla to quart of the
hiss juice. Probably that weeks en-
tertainment of thu comic opera outfit
and the people who attended the shows
set Judd back a good $4,000, if not
more.
AT no stage of the whirl did Judd
Bisbee's blow-it-in scheme take the
form of buying any extras for himself.
He was probably the most unselfish
money burner that ever liked out of
camp. When he arrived in Los Angeles
he staked himself TO one suit of store
clothes, but never during the two
months that his Sonora claim wad
lasted did he fall into such frivolity
as a billed shirt. He stuck to his ole
blue flannel shirt with the black tie,
nor did he renege on stuffing his store
pants INTO his boots
Breaking a Drought.
However. he drank champagne ex-
ClQSINtly- DttIl dll lily lie
about gittin' my fill o this here laugh
in water he would say noiding up his
glass, and l reckon L better lap enough
of it t last me. l sure will have plenty
o. time Z lick up the red pizen o. tn
plain people when 1 git through derv-
ishin around here
Judd wasn't a gambler at all. Short
carders who saw what good thing he
was as a spender tried in vain to in
veigle him into poker games, and the
faro bank men fruitlessly sent their
most accomplished runners after him.
But Judd never was SO SOuSed that he
didn't turn down these overtures. 4
reckon. pard.' he told a faro bank run
ner who tried to nail him for q little
play just to pass the time, that / can
slough it off fast enough without
nudgin up against another mans
game. This yere game I'm playin'
now's my own, and so won't have no
holler a-comin' when 1 get through and
wake up without a stack o. whites
After blowing the comic opera
bunch Judd next conceived a violent
sympathy for the hordes of buns with
which Los An,reles was infested at the
time. He mate arrangements with
crafty caterer to have the buns fed.
The caterer put up a huge eating tent,
and a smaller cook tent on a lot on the
outskirts of town and contracted with
Judd to feed every bum that swung
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
THE PHENIX.

(Oliver Herford in the Century,
The PheniX was, as you might say,
The burning Question of the day;
7 he more he burned. the more he grew
Spcn.!iferCuS in feathers new
And from his ashes rising band,
lid business at the some old s-1ni
Bur thaugf good people went about
AMI talked. they could not pu: him out.
i Ani.d'rous IBID indeed, they say
lie is rot quite extinct today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

If the Young Turks succeed in re-
forming their country 10 the extent of
adopting western methods in modern
warfare, and at the same time hold on
to their religion, they'll be tougher
customers than ever on the battlefield,
and they have always been noted for
their fighting qualities.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
misunderstood.
(ArgOnaut.)

The busy man stopped before an office
builulng and leaped from the carriage
At the same moment an ambitious urchin
ran forward and piped: Hey. mister,
kin l hold yer horse?" No, you can t..
snapped the busy man. Wont charge
v much" insisted the urchin. II don't
care about the charge" impatiently re-
sponded the man, throwing blanket
over his ebony steed. My horse will
not run away" Gee. mister. i didn't
think he'd run away MOP" mo, l
thought he might fall DOWN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

Barney Oldfield swore off racing
when his wife was nearly killed in an
auto accident, yet we read of his being
hurled through a fence when his ma
chine skidded during a race the other
day. Barney vii probably quit racing
when he's dead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

Prior to sitting on broken arch of
of st. Paul's Macaulay's New Zea-
lander is enjoying a view of the finest
fleet on the seas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
TIE TAME cry.

Uncle Remus's Home Journal)
What building is that" asked n
stranger OF Willie BillfuzZ, pointing TO
the Schoolhouse.
'That?" said the boy. why. that's The
tannery" And he fselingly rubbed r <
back as ne passed on.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

Since the shutdown of the paper
mills the price of the article used in
printing has been gently but none the
less firmly boosted. Thanks to Speak
er Cannon, Representative Sherman,
the Republican candidate for vice
president; Mann, Payne and Dalzell
there is no escape from extortion for
the publishers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

According to James ]. Hill of the
Great Northern, what the ocean car
rying trade needs is mot subsidies, but
intelligent legislation which is proof
that Hill is still a Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

and they are securing good organiza-
ton all through the country
So it would seem that the campaign
is on in Utah, with the prospect of
long period of drouth in some of the
sparsely settled counties.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

The ruling of the Jersey judge that
"a man is privileged TO swear in his
own homo" must be hard on fisher
man who would be compelled to run
home every time "a big one got away.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
NEW cory OF ZONES.
(Everybody's MagaZine.)

(EverybOdy's MagaZneD
Bobby" said the teacher. how many
zones are there?'
1.-Two" answered Bobby, with a little
questioning note in his voice. Then, see
ing the puzzled look that came into the
teachers face, he ratified on without a
stop: zone male and the other female;
the male can be temperate or intemper-
ate. the female frigid or torrid-" and
he stopped for breath.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
SHORT ITO START WITH"
London n

Hondon NeWs.)
An advertisement from the Morning
Post:
Man required for demonstration pur-
poses on old English rack (Star Chamber
PATTERN; would have TO be slightly
stretched to show how rack worked: man
should be short to start with Address,
etc.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
COMPARISONS ARE DANGEROUS

(JddgeD
"A man told me this morning l looked
the image of YOU.
Where is the fool? I'll thrash the life
out of him.
TOO late. l killed him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
THE WOMAN'S WAY.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

philadelphia PressD
No said the higher critic. Il don
believe everything in the Bible. For in
stance. / don't believe there was any
snake to tempt Eve
You don't?'
NO ] feel pretty sure il wes Just an
apple worm ard she magnified it."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

CEverybody's Magazine)
A N. Downes. late secretary of New
YOrk's fire department. related at a din
ner fire story. "At the end of the first
act of a. drama" he said. "a man leaped
hurriedly to his feet. L heard an alarm
of fire he said. L must go and see
where it is His wife. whose hearing was
less acute. made way for him in silence.
and he disappeared. 1t wasn't fire. lie
said. on his return. Nor water. either,
said his wife. coldly."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

The news that the Pillsbury-Wash-
burn mills were controlled abroad will
come as a severe jolt to most people
An enterprise American only in name.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
SUITED.
Pick-Me-Up.)

Auctioneer-GOing. Going. Gone Here
sir, It's yours Great bargain, sir. The
frame alone is worth the price.
Connoisseur tripping out the picture)-
The frame was what / wanted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

During the heated term other citi-
zens besides Peary feel like making
dash for the pole
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
SHE HADN'T.

Chicago JOurnal)
Mrs. Van TRAVELLED you ever see the
Sierra Madre range?
Mrs. Newflush-LaW. no; / always used
a gas stove.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10

1t was a wise individual who re-
marked that the reason teethinS pa
bies cry is because they can't cuss.
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EQUALLY DEAR.


IIIIuSITdItu I3IlS.D
Il hear you are engaged to one of the
RiccbOy twins. How do You distinguish
one from the other?"
Il don't try"