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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08
CONTINUOUS SHOWS.
They Were Started by q. F. Keith In
Boston Store.

They Were Started by 3. F. Keith In
a Boston Store.
II was In the month Of January, 1888,
that Mr.. B. f. Keith, who had been
studying the show business with far
seeing eyes for many years, presented,
in a store that be had leased in BOs-
ton. the first continuous show ever
seen on any stage He paid his per-
formers $50 a week for a single turn
and $40 for double and required them
20 give eight or nine turns day. His
top liner" or chief attraction was a
pound and a half baby. The doors Of
his playhouse We're thrown open at
noon. and from that time until half
past 10 al night the performance went
on without interruption.
Patrons were allowed to spend the
entire day I'm the theater, and at first
so many awaited themselves Of this op-
Dortunity TO get q substantial filling OF
amusement at a small cost that Mr.
Keith realized that he must either
abandon the idea Of a continuous en-
tertainment or else invent some meth
cd by which the audience could be
driven out Of the building and place
made for those outside who were wait
ing FOR admittance. Necessity is tia
mother Of invention. especially wher
it is mated with sharp Yankee wit. AND
It was thus that what Is known M
stho chaser came into the world
Jams J.. Ford IN McClure's Magazine
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08
THE GREAT PYRAMID.
Il illustrates the Wonderful Ability Of
the Ancient Egyptians.

II illustrates the Wonderful Ability Of
the Ancient Egyptians.
The cost Of the labor and material
necessary TO duplicate the great pyra-
mid Of Gizeh at the present time would
amount to considerably more than
S50O0O,OOO, according to a paper read
before the Society Of Engineers in
New York city by e. S. Wheeler. says
the American Architect. The cost Of
the material alone Is estimated at S48,-
100000.
This structure. one Of the wonders Of
the world, is founded on solid rock at
a depth Of about 12O feet below the
surface level and rises to height OF
454 feet. It's base covers an area Of
almost fifteen acres.
Mr.. Wheelers scheme for the repro
duction Of this pyramid cOntemplates
first the setting Of a base Of concrete
This would represent about 100000
cubic yards Of material and would
cost at least S1O,OOO,OO0. The estimate
for the supersructure is about $3e,
100000, and It would contain 3,31S.OOC
cubic yards OF backing stone and 14O,
900 cubic yards Of facing stone. Mr.
WIeelers estimate Of labor is $4,000,
600 days.
These figures are cited TO show thu
great engineering skill Of the Egyp
tians and the fact that no task ~ con
struction appeared 10 be too large 10
a people whose eXtant monument
showed their patience and ability q
overcome obstacles that would daun
even the modern engineer.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08
LINc0LN'S HOUSE.
~ Occasion When He Did Not Recog-
nize 1t at First Sight.


"Mrs. Lincoln played a good joke on
her husband when he was practicing
law and journeyed about from court
to court on horseback" says Major
Bittinger. "Those trips often took
several weeks at time.
"On one of these trips Lincoln was
gone for about four weeks. He re
turned late one night. Stopping his
horse, he dismounted at the usual
place. He turned to go into the house
and then stopped. Although he was a
man of temperance, he thought he
must have been imbibing on the sly
some time that day, for before him
stood a building lie had never seen
before. He thought 1t over for a min
ute and then went across the street
and knocked at a friends door. They
were in bed, and some one sang out:
"'Who is itT
"'Abe Lincoln was the reply. I've
been looking for my house. Can you
tell me where it Is? Guess l must
have been lost. | thought it was just
across the way. When I went away
the building was one story high. and
now it Is two
''It was explained to him that dur
ing his absence Mrs. Lincoln had add
ed another story. He laughed anC
went back to the strange house"
He used to tell the joke on himself
many times, according to the major
National Magazine.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08
THE USEFUL PIG.
A coIored Woman's Story Of Trade
and Its Results.

A colored woman was being exam
ined at a conference at Tuskegee. do
the people in your community own
homes?" came the query from Mr..
Booker Washington.
81 thinks they's fixing to own 'em,
sah'
"But do they own them"
"a heap of times you can't jest tell,
sab. But they's holding 'em down."
do you own your homer"
"Yes, sab, 1 do" proudly. "And I
can tell you Jest how I got it. I
snapped a puppy dog for it."
''Tell us about it."
"Well, It was this way. When I
started 1 didn't have anything at all
but jest little yaller puppy dog.
81 took the dog over to my brother
in-law's. He had eight little bits of
pigs, oh, jest so little, and l snapped
the puppy with him for one of the
pigs. It was sech a little pig that II
didn't look like it would live, but
nursed it good. and I prayed to the
Lord to make that little pig come for
'ard to do me good, and the pig lived
and grew.
1.-THE first year turned her out and
when she came back in the fall she
brought me seven little pigs with her
That was my start. I've never had to
buy any meat since. This winter I've
killed three hogs, and I've got another
at home now ready to kill. I've got
forty acres of hand now, all paid for
and house, and it all come from thai
one little puppy
''Do you hear that" exclaimed Mr.
Washington, "you meni Some o.
you'd better go back home and swaI
your dogs for pigsr' - Philadelphia
Ledger
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-08
I. o. 0. u

Meets every Thursday night at
8 D. No., Odd Fellows Hall All
visiting brothers are cordially in-
vited TO attend. -. SCgNELL,
Secretary.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
NEVER AmaH TO se eMvlED.
Philadelphia Writerrs Idea os Statue to Be Accorded Bachelor in
 Society,

Tho bachelor is punished already. not only in losing the joys of home. but being an object of contumely. So long as bachelors are willing to put up with all the losses they sustain in celibacy far be it from the majesty of the law to impose further penalties. It vas Cicero or a man of his day who remarked that it was onerous for a man to get along with a wife, but i'm possible to get along without one. The bachelor is not a man-only a more or less imitation of one-sometimes a very poor one. He thinks he has a good time fin escaping all the major responsibilities of life, but be is de ceiving no one but himself As an example and a warning he has his uses in society. As an individual he Is apt to find that he is eating only apples of SoGom. The man who de liberate1y remains a bachelor Is al ready punished enough. Let him alone in his misery until some nice girl comes along and carries him of. And we may remark that no man Is bach elor of his own initiatiye-no matter how much be may think so. He is simply a human derelict whom the women have examined and passed by. The bachelors are the disjecta mem bra of society whom no woman will have. That Is awful and it Is enough.
 Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
MUSIC APPEALS TO EsKiMoS.
Voices Good and They Sing in Tune, According to Traveller in Regions
 of the North.

Music is one Of the chief pleasures and accomplishments of the Eskimos. At the Labrador missions violins are used by them in the church choir. and brass bands are organized. In Along the Labrador Coast" Dr. Townsend tells of an evenings entertainment with the Eskimos at Main.
 For over an hour these natives sing to us.' he says, familiar music with Eskimo words-'Rock Of Ages Holy Night interspersed with what I take to be secular songs. Their voices are harmonious and the singing is of a superior order. We return the compli- menf .n the only way we can with a graphophone It Is indeed a terrible come-down to The Old Apple Tree and Everybody Works But Father but the Eskimos seem to enjoy it, and greet the songs and their explanation by the interpreter with peals of laughter.
 "A song in which man beats his wife seems especially to amuse them. A Moravian brother told me that they had been unable to win the Eskimo from the wife-beating habit Even the wives resent any interference on this score.
 An Irish jig makes them shake with joy, and am sure they would dance were there room to stir
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can be enforced. Then. 10 add 10 this confusion of the laws, the legisla- lures of the various states meet at least once in every two years and proceed to bury the people under an avalanche of statutes on every imag- ,nable subject. Each successive state and national administration has found itself seriously handicapped in its efforts to administer one law with out violating the provisions of half a dozen others.
 The fault seems to be in taking temporary impressions for serious public necessities, and in making an effort to cure momentary evil which if left alone would right itself in a very short time. In obeying one law We break another. and many of the laws on the books have been found so inadequate, So confused in then provisions. or % utterly unnecessary that we go on breaking them withcr, any qualms of conscience.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
Terms fer InebrietY.

According to Hotten, some of the terms denoting inebriety are as fol- lows: Eeery. bemused, boozy, bosky
 corned. foggy. fou, fresh. hay, ele- vated. kisky. lushy. moony. muggy, muzzy, on, screwed, stewed, tight and why In an intermediate class stand podgy. beargered. blued. cut, primed, lumpy. plowed. muddled, obfuscated, swipey. three sheets ill the wind and topheavy But the acme" says the same authority, 'is only obtained when the disguised individual cant see a hole in the ladder or when he is all mops and brooms.' or of his nut O. with his main-brace well spliced,' or with the sun in his eyes, or when he has Tapped the gutter and got the gravel rash or on the ran tan.' or on the re-raw, or when he is .sewed up.' or regularly scammered.'
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
VITAL STATISTICS
 FOR C0CH|SE COUNTY

Dr. A. R. Hickman went to Tomb stone this morning to attend a meet ing of the county board of health. This. meeting is being held today for the purpose of making arrangements for putting into effect the new law providing for gathering and preserv- ing the vital statistics of the several counties and the territory, such as deaths, births, etc. Dr. Hickman, who is the county health officer, stated this morning that he could not say just what would be done at the meet ing of the board, but that it would likely divide the county into districts and appoint men in each district whose duty it would be to gather the required data and return 1t to the county board of health. He will sug gest that each incorporated city in I the county be made separate dis i trict and that outside of the cities that the districts be she same as the | judicial districts of the county and
 he thought it likely that the justices
 of the peace in the several precincts
 would be named as the statistical of
 ficers to whom all vital statistics
 would be reported by physicians and others.
 The board of supervisors will be 1T
 session today for the purpose of at lteGding to the routine bushes of tn
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
fFrom Douglas International.)

tFrom Douglas internationally
 The outlook for Douglas this fall is very bright New enterprises and new people will be coming to the city and the time will De propftious for securing new members for our club.'-S. W. French in his resume of the work of the past years work of the Country club.
 While there may be some wonder as to just what MT. French had in mind when he spoke of new enter prises coming to Douglas in the near future there will be few to doubt th4t his remarks were based on Enowi- edge of an early brighter future for Douglas. Indeed, the entire popuia- tion of Douglas realize that the fu- ture growth of this city will be great CT than its past growth. The compile tfon of the Mexico and Colorado rail road to Courtland will bring an i'm. pertant trade to this city which has gone elsewhere in the past. It will mean that the citizens of Courtiand Gleeson and Pearcc will have quich and easy access to Douglas and that they will naturally come here when leaving home to make purchases o1 i, their needs which cannot be secured at home. The building of the Heii ming railroad from Agua Prieta st Cananea will be another stimniant ts the trade of Douglas and bring man. thousands of dollars to this cit, which have heretofore went else where. Not only this but it is be lieved that the Cananea road vii | eventually bring large ore shipment from the Cananea district to tn ] Douglas smelters for reduction.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
AERIAL ExAcoERATIoFs.

Alexander Hamilton declared that a public debt was a national bless Ing. That being true, If the nations of the earth keep up their presen. pace in war preparations, there ought to be blessings to spare within the next few years. Dreadnaughts on the seas, scareships in the air, great guns on the coasts. and rapid-fre guns scattered through the interior are the sine qua non of the nations. It looks as if the world were run ming mad over new methods of of' fense and defense. The era of uni versal peace that loomed up so grand ly but a few years ago has passed Into shade, and is now one with the dreams of youth.
 Men are still chasing rainbows; they still listen to the voice Of the false prophet and read the signs Tor tomorrow in the skies of today. In primitive times men dreamed of some awful explosive. placed by the gods in their hands, which would blow up ! their enemies while they slept. To- day the children of these visionaries put their simple faith in the airship and expect it to perform wonders They have already imagined mys- ter.ous fleet in the sky over London. ready to drop down bombs of Ger man make upon Britain's capital. They have planned destruction to the ships in the sea and the cities on the shore from these monsters of the air. and it is said that even our own
 war department has it's plans laid for coyey of airships 10 patrol our
 coasts.
 The biggest thing about an airshil Is the quantity of superheated aii that inflates it, and much of the tall of the day about airships is of tht same stun. The mighty dirigibie invulnerable. lightning-proof ant
 wind-defiant, loaded with it's mortar
 and paraphernalia for trainings dow
 death-dealing bombs. is still a rain bow which all the world can see bu
 may never reach. Perhaps 1t vii
 some day become practicabi
 means of transportation; v1tnou doubt it may be used used as spy
 a lookout to give notice of the al | proach of an enemy; doubtless. well, it may be used as a messer
 ger to carry a few men from camp t
 camp or from ship to shore But
 Is not going to accomplish all tn
 horrors now being claimed for t.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
eestina Into Prae.iee.

It is often pleassnter to theorize than to perform. A young law student. says a writer in the Philadelphia h quirer. was making a study of certain processes of his future profession. He showed an inclination to sit in the house and speculate idly. instead oi doing some of the domestic tasks which stood waiting.
 Deduction is an interesting proc ess," declared the youth to his ia sher. For example. there is a hear of ashes in the yard. That is evi dence that the family has recently had fires"
 "Weil. John,' interrupted his ia ther. suppose you pursue your stud ies little farther by going out and sifting that pile of ashes. Youth: Companion.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
Dickens. Method of spe.kina.

Before making speech Charles Dickens would decide on his various heads and thep in his minds eye lik- cart xLeei-he being the hub. From the hub to the :..e he would run as many spokes as there were subjects to be Ueated and during the progress of the speech he would deal with each spoke separately. elaborating them as he went round the wheel; and when all the spokes dropped out one by one and nothing but the tire and space re mained he would know that he had accomplished his task and that lis speech was at an end
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crude because of the unceaslng, end less, rapid grind. the insatiate sreeu of the empty columns that must be filled. For six years he had written column of special matter each day while managing and editing masa- zine. And now, despite the realization that he was doing himself an injury by forcing so much work, he was 10th to say good by to all those readers who had become as a great congrega' ton to him. Somehow, there seemec to be a something tangible between them and him, tie that bound. As he trified with the typewriter keys, his mind wandered away to the kindly old lady in - who had writ ten him how every day she read his stories and his poems and his para graphs and how she had been helped and entertained and her life made happier thereby. And the boy from -, He. too, had joyed in the poems of boyhood and in the stories and iests. .....
 One by one there passed in review the kind words written and spoken by those who thought to stop and express their appreciation There had been some harsh words, too. but the young man shut his lips firmly and waved them aside What did he care for critics? It was no sorrow to leave eritics-but to leave friends-ah, low different,
 With a grave face the young man left the house and started up the road to the station. A squirre1 he had known chattered loudly after the re treating figure. The neighbor's dog skulked homeward with look of sor- i row in his eyes. The young man had patted him kindly upon the head-and ordered him home!
 | But ahead, in a linden tree gros- beak piped his lay joyously, a stray cat trotsed after the writer and rubbed her shiny coat against his tRusers' | leg. In the east, the sun was break | ing through a cloud of milky white | aess and the sweet breath of blossom ing wild grape waited across his nos. trils.
 Before him lay ambition and desire, bigger chance at bigger game. With a smile upon his face. the young man pressed onward confidently. He was young and there was yet much to I do, much to overcome' At the brow | of the hill. he turned backward upon the scene of his labors and whispered softly:
 'Gude nicht, and joy he wi you a I ks
 The imperfect Pilgrim. have a home. Though palmer bound For holy lands I pine for 1t, | I know it's sheltering walls around
 The hearth. and lamp that shine for 1t | Tine door apart.
 l I shall return by windward seas
 And blue sAores of Iilyria
 To find it filled with melodies From Eden. beyond Syria IL is inv heart
 Arthur colton.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09

William Lorimer, the new United States senator from Illinois, is a na- tive of England. When a boy he ein- igrated to America with his parents and located in Chicago. He rec.eved
 little schooling, for he was put to work at an early age to help support the family. After he had grown to manhood he worked for several years as street car conductor. Then he drifted into politics, became a ward leader in the Chicago stock yards dis trict, and in real estate and othei ventures soon acquired comfortable fortune. For the past fifteen years 1, he has teen a representative in con E-eSS.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
BURIED UNDER MANY LAWS.

As a nation We pile on law upon another until the grist for each year makes a very large volume. and much of the legislation is so hastily and thosghtlcsaiy done that nobody seems to know or care whether the law of today conflicts with the law of yesterday. or whether the provis
 ions of the law of today are such as
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
THE COMING CEiE6R 6RATiON

From day to day the Review has kept the people of Bisbee and the War ren district accurately advised of the progress of the arrangements for the coming three days celebration. It is the intention and desire of the Bisbee Board of Trade, and the rank and file behind that progressive organization tp make the coming Independence day celebration bis enough and sufficient. Iy attractive so that the attendance will include not only the residents of the Warren district and State of So nora but also a large portion of the Territory.
 The committee that has charge of raising of the necessary funds for the successful carrying out of the great est three days Fourth of July eelebra- ton ever held in Arizona, or anywhere else, is meeting with generous re sponses. Merchants. mine operators and civilians are united in the desire for Bisbee to hold a rousing celebra ton of the day when it was first de cIared ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be. free and independent states; that they are ab solved from all allegiance to the Brit ish crown. and that all political con nection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved"
 We are glad to note that the central celebration committe is receiyeing val uable aid not alone from the members of the many subcommittee but alst from every patriotic Bisbeeite, old and young. Douglas too, is lendin' helping hand. again exemPiifying ths close civic tie that binds together th' two most progressive cities in the Ter ritory.
 In arranging ways and means for tn big three days joiiification. the cen tral committee did not lose sight Q the fact that July falls on Sunday and that while that day comes righ in the middle of the celebration, should, with propriety. be given ove to fitting religious observance A of the ministers in Bisbee have bee placed on the religious portion c the celebration and the program fd that day will be zealously carried oJ as outlined by them.
 So it will be seen that nothing hs escaped the men who are in charge { the coming festivities and it can l promised to the thousands who wi travel to the Warren district ne. month from the four points of Arizor and Sonora that they can come pr pared to see the Fourth celebrated ; it never was before in this. or at other section of the United State
 Loud shall the eagle scream in Bl bee. not alone because another dependence day is beins properly c served, but too. for the added reas' that a free and independent Peop live under tho stars and stripes
 HisSee and the Warren district happy, prosperous and contented-
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
American Girls RespoosibIe.

Probably the American woman is answerable for good deal of the unrest among the daughters of France for she comes among them with all sorts of daring projects and perfectly lovely clothes. She marries their brothers. she studies art, music and literature in their country and she walks sereneiy cn along the path of liberty. to the amazement of men. angels and the Parisian.-The Queen.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09

When Aldrich and the other Repub- lican bosses are driven out of Wash ington by summer heat. compelling the adjournment of Congress, deep, grateful sigh will be heard in all parts of the country.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09

Bisbee done herself proud on Dec oration Day. Every one who visited the copper camp expressed themselves in glowing terms of exercises proyid- ed in homer of the day.-Cochise
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09
BACON TO SUCCEED WHITE

PARIS. June 7.-Private advices from Washington state that Robert Bacon, former secretary of state, has accepted the ambassadorship to France and will succeed Henry White. at the end of the year.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09

Streets tern up and great lengths Of iron pipe laying around in the way cz vehicle and pedestrian traffic are mighty unsightly and inconyenieat' but they all go to show thai BisSee is I,rc cc-cssi7s and growing
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-09

Stop knocking and keep boosting. With the nearing of the end of the terrible tariff ,inkering in Washing ton. times are growing better by leaps