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Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
watch Little Weaknesses.

One of the strangest paradoxes in human nature is that men and women, struggling apparently with all their might to succeed, are yet constantly doing things. saying things and think ing things which drive the very sue cess they are after away from them.
 Some men work like Trojans to gain a coveted position and then, by get ting puffed up with conceit or some foolish or weak act, knock the scaf- folding. which they have been years fin building, out from under them and down they go.
 Their lives are a series of success sive climbs and tumbIes, so that they never get anywhere. never accomplish anything worth while.
 Others are always driving success away from them by their doubts, their fears, their lack of courage, their lack of confdence-driving it away by thought habits which repel success conditions.-Home Chat
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
Plaque of Black Mice.

4 horde of black mice. carrying de struction from field to field, has caused damage estimated by the officials of the department of agriculture of s250,. 900 in the Carson river valley.
 The press of that part of the state reports that whole fields of alfalfa have been devastated, potato crops ruined and shade trees even stripped of their leaves. The government sta, ton on the Carson river has placed men in the field to exterminate the plague. Strychnine Is being used in many cases, as was done by the Dan berg rangers south of here. The black mice plague ragged in Humboldt cousty last fall and during the winter was re- ported near Genoa.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
4TH OF JULY CELEBRA-
 TON AT DOUGLAS

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Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
Word Has Changed Meaning.

"Bushranger," once a respectable term, has now sunk to the lowest depths. In the early Australian news papers such advertisements as Want ed, good bushranger," were quite common. The word then was synony- nous with "bushman," one skilled in knowledge and experience of bush life But now a good bushranger" would be as ridiculous as an honest burglar. for a bushranger is the superlatiyely bad man of the antipodes-a bank robber, a despoiler of gold escorts and mail coaches and the terror of the countryside until he is captured or shot.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03

IContlnueu rom t1fSt Page.) fifty are as follows:
 E. A. Toyrea. chairman: John Bow en, Ben Frankenburg, D. E. Woody, N. D. F. Nichols. l.. R. Brown, c. NJ. Henkel, Wm. Robinson, c. D. Rine- hart. M. J. Cunningham, J. J. Walsh. W. A. Schwartz, James Letson, w. D. Kinsey, w. H. Brophy, l.. R. AL len, I. W. Wallace, c. l.. Caven. B. Caretto. B. " Braievich, l.. c. Shat tuck, John Sugich. Robert Coughran, Wm. Wolf. Gus Johnson, Otto Geisenhofer, Gus Hickey, L. J. Overlook, Asa T. Hoy, Jos Muheim, NJ. M King, J. B. Anderson, Parker Woodman, A. w. Edwards, Mac Sinclair, John Twomey, Mark Medigo- yich, Thomas Grady, Tony Downs, J. | T.. Hood. R. M Moore, George Neale. Jacob Schmid. Charles A. Hicks. R. A. Kirk, E. E. Ellinwood, Emil | Marks, C. Al. McKean, M. A. Peter son, c. W. YanDyke. J. M. o'Conneil. Ed F. Williams, R. M Martin. F. J. Graf, c. S. Thompson. Frank Harring- ton. Dr. F. E. Shine. Dr. E. w. Baum. Bud Spiers. Jack Wohsschleygel. w. J. Chapin. John Coretto, W. P McNair, w. P. Wise, Alfred Cohen. Sam Mill tunivich, Gerald Sherman, R. c. Stan ford, J. R. Cosby, c. A Bennett, Jos. D. Downs, W. E. Hankin, T. A. Hughes. w. F. Tester, J. W. Hogan, E. G. StrickleF, c. w. Barker, Louis | Brown. Frank Molinar.
 After the return from Douglas,
 there will be a grand concert by the military band from the fort, and the greatest display of fireworks that has
 ever been seen in the Warren dis | trict. c. E. Rinehart, who is in charge of this part of the celebration, | states that he has his assistants em- ployed, and that none but the very | best of the latest in aerial displays will be used. To fire the big bombs,
 some of which weigh as much as twenty-five pounds and explode five
 times during their flight, a big mor- tar. weighing 150 pounds, has been secured. A score of magnificent rockets will be set off. Four balloons,
 with all their beautiful display, will be sent up. The side of the moun- 1 tain back of the city will be used as the' place from which the display will | be made.
 The programs for the two concerts ] follow:
 l. March. "Old Faithful" Holymann ?. Song for cornet and baritone:
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
Origin of Common Words.

Alligator" is merely another form of the Spanish "el lagarto," the lizard Shakespeare chased the alligator as a fish, to judge from Romeo's descrip, ton of the contents of the apothe. cary's shop: "An alligator stufFd, and other skins of ill-shaped fishes" Some what like alligator" the lizard, the ''hyaena," which merely means SOW, and ostrich" which comes from the Latin word for bird and a Greek word that meant either sparrow or an ostrich, as the case might be-any bird. in fact. The ostrich Is just the -bird-bird." according to etymology.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
AN ARM CUT OFF
 WHILE STEALING RIDE

A Mexican while riding the bump CTS feA and was run over by an Fl Paso & Southwestern train last even ing about 6 o'clock by the Copper Queen store. One arm was cut Qr at the shoulder and other injuries sus- tained. The man was taken imme- diately to the Copper Queen hospital on a fiat car and is reported as rest ing well and ill no danger of dying. The Mexican's name is Lucio Ruiz and he is said to have a wife and four children.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
AT THE AIRDoME.

A sale" of excursion tickets over the Bisbee-Warren street railway is now on. Coupon tickets can be bought from man at the terminus ot the car line for 30 cents, thiI in. cludes the trip to Warren, return and admission to the Airdome.
 G. Albert Penny, late of Mayor of Tokio' company. has signed as pianist and manager of the Airdome Robert Newcomb, Bisbee's favorite vocalist, has also signed as the illus, trated song singer.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03

In the Shade of the Old Apple
 Tree ... =. ... .... .Alstynne. !, Waltz. Lazarre ....... Blanke 4. Selection. The Merry Widow
 ......... ............. Iehar ,. Waltz: Besos y Pesos. -
 '....-... ..'..... ..,.. Martinez 6. lntermezzo, Napanee Williams
 Star Spangled Banner T. March. SThe Stars and Stripes
 fOISNSi .s.ss.... ..-.s- loOuSd P. Solo for eornet: The Idol of
 My Heart .. ........ .Stahl .3. Waltz. Italian Nights. . .Tobani 4. Selection. Southern Planta-
 ton Songs ~ Conterno ,. Waltz. My Hearts Tonight in
 Tennessee .... ..... Rocker 6. lntermezzo. Arrah Wanna.
 Star Spangled Banner.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
ASSASSIN sURRENDERs.

ST. PETERSBURG. July "A man named Polovzeff reported to have killed Deputy Hertzenstein ill July, 1906, surrendered himself to the Fin nish authorities today and will stand trial in Finland.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
DENVER IS CHOSEN.

CLEVELAND, July 2.-Denver was commended by the board of directors of the National Educational associa- tion today as the place for the next annual convention.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
BAD FLOODS IN CHINA.

HONG KONG, July 2.-Detailed re- ports from floods in southern China show hundreds of people are being drownedt and thousands are starving.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-03
WEATHER FORECAST.

WASHINGTON, Juy 2.-Fer Ari. zona, fair Friday and Saturday.
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26

for moment before he left in the afternoon, if possible. He had slipped the note with a coin into the stable boys hand and was in the saddle when the superintendent came out of the hot little box that did duty as a telegraph office. and the two were quickly out on the grade.
 So this Is the railroad MT. McLane claims is standing on end and leading up to heaven instead of across the Sierras over Ju1ahs route?" Alfre stopped his horse and looked bac through the deep cut. across the deeI CT rayine where the bridge-buildel= were at work. That spider web looks wickedly frail." he added.
 Its strong enough to hold our fly till We meet our time limit. Plenty of time for stifening up and filling in afjerward"
 The horses hoofbeats were now ringing clear on bare granite. "Wher do you get earth for your fills2 T trees here don't seem to have TO hold against a summer zephyr"
 That's one of my small troubles Sometimes We have to go half a mile afeld for soil. And carts-they can make 'em fast enough. I've got 2,5e men and 300 carts; but we'll have [ double that at once if we make on . miles on time. And where undes the canopy the men are to come from l can't see. Talk of bricks withou, straw; Pharaoh's job was easy com pared to mine"
 They had pushed on as far as the
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
CHAPTER ili.-continued.

Your first business will be to learn more of the railroad. I'll ask our sec. retary. MT. Miller, to let you have i'm mediate access to the records. You'd better take a run over the road. That will speak louder in a day than any ether record could in a year. As soon as possible you'll go 10 San Francisco. ger in touch with the Nc Lane crowd NcCoppin and our other enemies there and learn what you can of their plans against us" He glanced at the superintendent How can We wedge him h there the quickest. Crockers k vons do for ne 10 ia= troduee him
 a.i can fir that. TAe situations right in my hand. and no smack Of railroad in fl, either. I'll send h.m 70 Harmon. No one knows fhs1 hes 10 work for Hs as soon ss his term or the bench expires Mrs. Harmon $ the queen bee in society down there She'll land the young man where we want him, first fling"
 Good enough But We cant allow you much time in San Francisco. Yin cent You must work fast. nov as wide swath as you need-don't mind the dollars. be the Boston aristocrat and get through in time to cut in al Carson City. There's legislation pending in the third house of that baby legislature over there that We need to know about"
 Some further instructions ensued and the conference ended And Alfred was soon engrossed in minutes of di, rectors meetings, supreme court de clsions. newspaper reports and com. ments. state and national legislation- everything that would aid in making him master of the history of the road He worked fast and thoroughly, in. sptred anew with enthusiasm for the great business to which he had prom. fsed allegiance.
 Back of his ardor lay another spur desire to see Stella. She was there where he shortly would be. at the front" She had written him of her safe arrival. of Jake Bennetts kind protection. of Mrs. Bennett's loving care and the invitation to remain with them.
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
to he "Fronts and nack In a day. Hia

10 the Front" and back In day. Hi, answer to Mir Croeker flashed back or his brain: No man comfort should count against railroad business" That decided him. To stay meant one day later in San Francisco. one day less to study a situation where any hour might be the hour of fate for the Cen tral Pacific railroad.
 The fussy little engine was now facing west. waiting it's message from the lever. The signal sounded and the train was starting when a barefooted bo! came blowing round the rear car carrying small package and in- formed the conductor breathlessly that 1t was for that dandy feller that went of this morning with the boss"
 Here" cried Alfred. reaching down as the boy ran alongside. Alfred caught the parcel and threw coin to the bearer
 The train labored slowly up the grade and around the hill while Al. fred united his package. It was a neat luncheon and wrapped in the folded napkin was a spray of wild for. get-me-not. From Stella, Impulsiyely he lifted the blossom to his face, and in the action caught the hutter of a woman s gown high on a hill that over topped the track There stood Stella granite boulder for her lookout, be hind her shining laurel. Her hat hung by it's ribbons, her cheeks were glowing from her hurried climb, and the wind futtered her full skirts and tossed her shining hair. She waved her handkerchief as the train passed
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26

finished grading and were returning. From the story of the pierced noun tains and from George Gregory Alfred had proved Gov Stanford's prediction about the record of the road. IL had told him more than words or pages of written details.
 Gregory looked al his watch and up and down the line Of the grading sharply. The noon hour had almost passed. T guess you can find your way back alone. I'm needed here"
 Aren't you going back-goiag somewhere for dinner. Mir. Gregory ?~
 No. guess my stomachs as fast. proof as yours. Already his alert eye was elsewhere, and Alfred knew himself dismissed.
 The superintendent snapped 10 his watch cover, regardless of the spring Blast that Simms! His gangs the last on duty again, Goodbye, Mr. Vincent. Come and look us over again" he called. and dashed of toward the of lending foreman. As Alfred passed on the trail below the superintendept's far-audible ire followed him, a unioue word panorama, expressible only in dashes and stars
 Muscle-sore. Alfred alighted from his steaming bronco at the depot only five minutes before two. No time for stel. la unless he stayed over night. Should he do it? Indeed, ought he not to re main to see with his own eyes how she was circumstanced iG this rough town2 He remembered his promise 10 Uncle Billy. Mr Crocker himself had said Alfred could not get comfortably
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26

with a stick an foot than most folks with two good laigs."
 "Aw. spare my bushes. MT. Ben. nett Say, is the old man in the hotel?"
 Yes. Cant yo' let him swalleh his dinneh in peace9 He don't need but hVe minutes: an it ain't often he gifts lick al Sally E. S chicken fixin's. He wouldn't today if that thar ornerv train want two hours late"
 Well. this disaateh Il help his di- gestion."
 Thought 70 all want lowed to read the yalleh lightnin'."
 T didn's read it. And-I ain't giving it away Sabe?e
 The boy barely halted and was al the dining room door when Gregory came out.
 Whats the racket. Al?s' he said. A message for me-" He spoke a little thickly. his mouth full of a fast dis. appearing apple.
 The message was brief. and his comment was an explosion of oaths Yet the boy grinned. IL was glad pro fanity.
 Do you know what's in this. Ale"
 Yes. sir; l couldn't help it."
 "How's that2"
 I've learned the telegraph sIDee I've been messenger
 The dickens you say: Whats your speed?"
 T get most Of the press dispatches sir"
 How about sendiag2"
 Not so good sir; bat I'll sooa catet up if--" lie Stopped abruptly.
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
CHAPTER W. The Whip of the Blast.

Deep in a small gulch. the red earth bleeding through it's torn mantle crouched raw little railroad town Cabins tents. huts, lean-tos propped against trees. scraps of shops. false fronted stores and ginmills" huddled new and paintless between the clash. hlg hills.
 It was an hour before noon when a lender little engine, with spidery wheels and huge. overlapping smoke. stack. puffed into the rude shed that vas hung up on the mountain side above the town and called by courtesy \ depot
 man paced the boards neryously impatient at the sacrifice of time re- auired to meet so indefinite a person age as elegram-introduced young man in our employ who wishes 10 see your work. The restless man was George Gregory, superintendent of con structlon. the human engine that exc cuted the commands of the officers al Sacramento. Alfred presented a letter from the governor, a magic bi. of pa per that arrested even George Greg ory's lurid thoughts at the sight of this 'dandified ballroom cublet."
 The atmosphere was decidedly clear. CT when the superintendent looked up from the letter When will you be ready tn go over the grading. Mr. Vim cent? III have your horse sent any time you say after dinner
 After dinner. sir? The train leaves at two o'clock. doesn't it2"
 Yes; but youll not go back today. will you?"
 Can, get to the Front and back by two7"
 No. not to the Front; yet you can see nearly all of the completed grade if you start at once Yo1l miss your dinner. though
 'I don't wish to incommode you. sir. Could mt some other person conduct me? Dianer is unimportant. l must return to-day if possible
 A shade of appreciation crept into the superintendents keen glance. -yery well. Mr. Vincent I'll have your horse in ten minutes. You ride? Our stock is cantankerous at times.
 T ride little; if not well enough. I'll have to walk
 -Plucty!" thought the older man, as he dispatched a messenger for Altred's herse and employed the wait in send ing teiesfams 10 the Sacramento office
 Meantime Alfred wrote q short note to Stella explaining his haste and tell tag nsI .hst he would be at ths hotel
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
CHAPTER V. The Corning of Uncle Billy.

Down the rain-soaked street of the railroad village hastened an alert youth carrying yellow paper. Where all was hurry. one flying figure more CT less would not have been noticed but this one carried crutch; one foot was turned backward and hung high above the ground. Yet one forgot to be sorry for the cripple. so quick was he, so shining with good nature. Every one called him boy" though he was 20.
 Hello, Al, Whats yo' hurry?' asked a bystander You can do mo
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
SYNOPSIS.

The story opens during trip of the Overland Maift through the Rocky mountains. while efforts are being made 10 build up the country. Uncle Billy Dodge. stage driver. Alfred Vincent a young man. and Phiueas Cadwallader. in uoduced. They come across the re mains of a massacre. Later at Anthonyts ned their destructive work there also. Stella Anthony. daughter of Anthony. Keeper of station. Is introduced The traV- slers find that Anthony has been killed Vincent with letter of introduction to Gov. Stanford is assigned his work in nnearthing plans of enemies of railroad. being built
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
(To BE CoNTINUED.3
Ear From It

Former Resident-How things have changed here in % years. I wouldn', know the :own. What has become oi f1oogus, who used to shave notes and lend money at two per cent a month !
 Hotel Gierk-Hes gone to his re ard.
 Former Resident-Whatl Is he lead
 Hotel Clerk-Dead. Not on your life Hes president o; 6 trust eox pany in New York
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
Alfred Stopped His Horse and Lookec
 Back Through the Deep Cut.

appointment that did not lift while he attended to his scant baggage.
 The uperintendent came out short. ", giving nasty orders to Bennett as the two walked toward the big roan known as the Boss Lightning Striker They passed Uncle Billy, but Bennetts face was a mask till the roan clattered out of sight, when he turned back. another soul looking from his eyes
 How air yo' pegs fo' walkjn'. you ole bronco bnster2" Bennett questioned in hearty voice. skipping his heavy hand on Uncle Billy's shoulder.
 They set off briskly and in single file up the steep cutoff that made in one mile the elevation of five miles of grading.
 What kin do for yo' all, you rotary. eyed ole coon?" Bennett asked with another bear cuff as they cane abreast
 T want job on Charley Croekehs Dutch Flat stage line Can I get itT'
 You bet yo' bottom dollah. They need men like you Just chuck yo' application to Crockeh, and-no Ge right to Spalding; he's boss of ths company's new stage line But what's yo' alfs groueh agin the old man."
 Haven't any in particular. There's little gal oYeh hyah, Bill Anthony's dauehter-'
 Shore We tuck her ir fur yS sake; kep' her fo' her own. The ole woman's dead stuck on her; wanted her to stay right along. but she wouldn't"
 That's her, all right. You remem. ber Bill Anthony" Reckon l do. He's that gold.plated ole cuss that built sort O suburb to the Golden City over thar in Washoe, ain't he?"
 Same. But the Injuns got him; an the girl has no relations that she knows of; so I sent her oyeh hyah to you. l want to be neah her. and"
 Bennetts nudge sent Uncle Billy of the trail. You ole Mormon, Amt thinkin' O marvin her yoself, are ye?"
 Well, by jiminy! I'm not that kind of sardine. Shes IS, maybe. and Tn squinting al my fftieth birthday. + I'd had a daughteh. an she was like Stella Anthony. the prince O Wales wouldn't be good enough for her. See where I'm driving 2"
 They came suddenly to the pick. n~a IL gang were spiking the chairs over the danses of the rails 10 the ties. Instantly banter and familiarity van lshed, and Jake Bennett became the quiet. lynX-eyed overseer. They had surprised the men working well under the temporary foreman; yet Uncle Billy saw a sweep of fresh energy speed down the line, as the under man took up his hammer and Bennett swiftly examined the work done in his absence. He spoke scarcely a word. but his straight eye saw every poor joint. each badly set chair" and his own hands often assisted in the read iusting.
 When he returned 10 the end of the section where Uncle Billy was waiting he said, The boss has powerful good news to-day. That dispatch was a copy Of one the governor got from Huntington al Washington The rail road bills passed. an the c. P. com pany.s got anotheh yeah on the fust oo miles an right smart mo land be. sides"
 lTn Rr 1.nN-.rr,-rn
The Forrest City times., 1908-06-26
If vhat~
 ~Td rather not say, sir" ssOr nrrnrrnt nf fhn nnara A..x

"On account of the operaturC
 Hes an O. K. friend to me. ety.s
 "H'm," The superintendent mountt<, and was h full gallop toward the sta. ton before he was quite seated. 'l shan't forget you, boy" he called back over his shoulder.
 Jake Bennett and Alvin Carter walked to the station together. They arrived at the station just as the train pulled in.
 The first passenger through the car door was Uncle Billy.
 Why, durn my eyes. What re yo' all doin' hyah. Bill Dodge?" asked Ben- nett as Uncle Billy stepped to the platform.
 The two shook hands, but Bennett turned away with hurried word and disappeared within the station.
 Uncle Billy gazed blankly toward the office, his face clouding with dis.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-02
STUDY OF EGYPT RESUMED.
Excelsior Literary Club Again Takes
Up Interesting Subject.

The Excelsior Literary Club met at the
home OF Mrs Vedantus Edwards. 1872
r street northwest Tuesday afternoon
last. with twenty-seven persons pres
ent. After the usual opening by the
president. Mrs J. Finney Engle. the STUDY
Of Egypt was resumed, The Rosetta
Stone" being the subject Of the lecture by
Mrs. Edwards. hostess.
The Rosetta stone. now in the British
Museum. was described as a homely block
Of stone. with its edges crumbled or splin-
tered. and covered with rows OF hierogIy-
phics. denote and Greek characters, and
bearing the inscription. Captured IN
Egypt by the British Army I'm 1901"
The finding Of the Rosetta stone at the
Rosetta. mouth of the Nile. by the
French, and the chain of events which
led to It's capture by the English were
graphically described.
The efforts OF DR. Thomas Young
scientist. to translate the inscription. and
his ultimate failure. followed by the sue
cess Of the French scholar ChampOlliOn
who found the inscription 20 he a decree
issued by the priests Of Memphis. con-
feTring divine hOnOTs on PtOlemy Y.
were related.
A brief history Of the youthful king
and query as to the mission of the
Rosetta stone concluded an instructive
paper