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he is there with a monthly cash balancs.
and that's very gratifying to contemplate
during a hard winter. Still every now and
then, one of them marries a true genius.
who scars into the realms of art and
poesy. except three times a day when he
comes down to eat. And pretty soon he
has temperamental outburst and she has
black eye. OR maybe it's only an at
finity that he has. But in either event
she gets the sinner.
IF a plain bricklayer gets frizzed up
anu goes home and tenders his lady wife
a chaste greeting by feinting with the
left and then crossing the right to the
point of the jaw. somebody In the next
fat runs out for the cops. and the next
morning the Judge tells him he's brutal
beast and he gets thirty days on the
island to teach him that when party
gets corned like a brisket he mustnt
try to double as the live steer also. But
II a genius hands his life's companion a
brisk casual wallop or two. and she makes
a roar. everybody says 1t serves her right
for not keeping her soul attuned TO the
deeper cravings of his nature. She should
have a higher, nobler conception of the
sphere i'm which a genius moves than TO
go gurgling for help out OF the front
window any time he feels q mood coming
over him and wants to choke her a few
minutes. Hasn't she got a genius, one OF
the elect OF nature, to live with and
shouldn't that be enough to satisfy any
woman? Thank goodness the rest of US
know how to appreciate geniuses in this
even if their wives don't"
''wot do geniuses want with wives any.
way" asked the House Detective.
Many of them have no other visible
means Of support" said the Hotel ClagaB.
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fuller particulars of the proceedings be-
fore the justice, see next page. second.
third and fourth columns. Or words to
that effect
We'll, wot did them round robin guys
expect" said the House Detective, .'ain't
a noospaper got a right to print all the
facts about a divorce sOot?''
1T has," said the Hotel Clerk, and 1t
does. But the point I'm trying to make
is that the mother country is not treating
genius with the proper Difference and re-
spect any more. Now with US. it's DIFF
ferent We give genius its proper due
whether It's expressed In writing an epic
pome or carrying a close election.
"'Twould be an awful thing II we didn't
give q genius any more consideration than
we give to q man who believes in hair
cuts. You go to almost any dinner party
for true Bohemians i. others opposed 20
working for their living these days and
you'll be apt to find there dreamy-orbed
party with an Elbert Hubbard necktie
and his hair all down his back. like one
Of the Sutherland sisters getting ready
for bed. and probably he'll be bathing hts
noble brow in the salad dressing or do
ing a little intensified agriculture on his
finger nails with an oyster fork. But it
wouldn't be right to say anything about
1t. II he was an ordinary guy, well and
good-give him the hook. But IL he's
true genius who can write poetry that no
body. not even Richard Watson Glider,
can understand. or something of the sort.
you want to overlook his little peculiari-
ties, especially IL you should happen to
be the host; because. az I say, they're
evidences OF real genius. and II you re-
buffed him he'd 90 away and probably
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up in the bureau drawers with the clean
shirts of the distinguished plaintiff In
the morning. Every day before break
fast the housemaid used to sweep a whole
clutter of free lances out of the area
way. One tall. slender reporter I'm damp
raincoat was discovered, leaning up
against the hat rack in the front hall.
with bone handle clasped between his
teeth, trying to pass for a wet umbrella.
At least, that's what l hear.
If Barrie had been the German War
Scare or a Corner Stone Laying by His
Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. the
English papers couldn't have been more
generous than they were. They actually
gave him the headlines that they were
saving up for the next United States rail-
road disaster.
And when he came into the court to
get his decree. do you think for a mo-
ment that those mighty Archimedian
levers which move the world to indisna-
ton. sometimes. overlooked the bet? II
you do. you're wrong. No, Stree. There
wasn't a single one Of the great English
journals but spread the hint that while
the eminent man OF letters declined to be
interviewed on SO delicate a subject, still
there were most excellent reasons for be-
lieving that at q not far distant date ne
would lead to the hymeneal register eng
Iish for our word. altar. Larry, that same
young gifted protegee Of his whose great
dramatic powers were first recognised by
the way she wore pair Of pink pyjamas
in a musical show. And we are sure 1t
is the wish of all of our readers. an
we'll as all other loyal Britons, that they
may be married and live happily forever
after. or for q few weeks anyhow. For
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dent Loan Society, whereat the poor OF
Greater New York may obtain loans on
their personal property at one-third OF
the pawnbrokers' rate.
But a fourth man who has as much
at stake in this campaign as any OF
the three candidates is Charles +.
Murphy, the ex-saloonkeeper whom
Croker made commissioner of docks
and ferries and who was chairman or
the Tammany democracy for ten years
prior to his succession as chief of Tam
many Hall seven years ago. Murphy
Is now fifty -one. while Tammany has
celebrated. it's 120th birthday this year.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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HE whole land will
sit up and take
notice on election
night of the three
cornered mayoral-
ty fight in Greater
New. York.
The berth at
stake has attached
to it more arbi-
trary power than
any other Amer
lean Office short of
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MAYOR AUTOCRA1

as commissioner OF education under
Mayor Strong. and has been vice presi-
dent Of the Charity Organization So
ciety. He was also instrumental in
the founding of the celebrated philan-
thropic pawnshop, known as the Provi-
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By Irwin s. Cobb.

ELL" said the IIo-
tel Clerk, II see
Barrie got his d.
vorce without a
struggle"
Not Mike Bar
ry. him that's a
foreman in the
dock department,
I'm hopin' said
the House Detect
i've. II know him
we'll, an his wife.
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He is more Of an autocrat than ever
before. Thus George B. Mcclellan has
arbitrarily closed up thsaters as unsafe
and exercised his one-man power to per-
form. other acts affecting large invest
ments of capital. And the mayor of New
York has the chief responsibility in
directing the expenditure of a vast an
nual budget, sometimes one-third as much
as that OF the federal government. and
greater than the combined budgets of any
other Ave cities In the country.
The new autocrat of Greater New
York will. be free to exercise this rule
over twice as many people as there are
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And that's why I have no sympathy
with the persons who get married to
geniuses and then bleat about 1t after
ward. Look at what they thought they
were getting. And look at what they do
get. I'm speaking now of male geniuses.
you understand. never saw but two
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lady geniuses in my life, and from the
looks of them Id say that the female
kind is not greatly addicted to matri-
mony. One was about the size of the
Statue Of Liberty and had large common
sense feet like Broadway cop. and she
was sculptress. The other one painted
masterpieces and she wore those thick,
convex glasses that look like the bottoms
of two whisky tumblers. and as well as
1 could judge she was growing a brown
vandyke. She already had a nice mus
tache. But with male geniuses, it's diff
ferent. They seem to be great hands for
marrying and giving in marriage.
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GALAXY Half Again as
- Big as Gov. Hughes
Tremendous Patronage-Bu-
reaucrats Paid Better Than
Highest Federal Officials
Absolute Power of Appoint
ment and Removal - How
This Autocratic Power Has
Grown-Mayor of New York
Rules More People Than in
Switzerland or in Norway
and Denmark Combined
Candidates Compared.
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fifty-fve. Gaynor Is a native of Whites
town, n. Y, Barnard of Brooklyn and
Hearst of San Francisco. Barnard was
at Yale with Taft, but was junior when
graduated two years ahead of the future
President. Barnard then took a post
graduate course in law at Columbia
Hearst went to Harvard. but was sus
pended for prank and didn't go back
Gaynor. as a farm boy, attended the dis
trict schools and later a seminary. he
began his career as a schoolmaster in ST.
Louis and Boston. while Barnard started
right in as a young barrister and Hearst
got printers ink on his fingers and be-
came editor and proprietor of the San
Francisco Examiner when only twenty
three. Gaynor also did his turn at jour-
nalism. leaving his school in Boston to
become a reporter In Brooklyn. This was
to his assignment upon law cases that he
took up the study of Blackstone while
still laboring in the ranks of the fourth
estate. While Hearst was buying and
developing his chain of papers i'm
New York, Chicago and Los Angeles,
was also serving in Congress, running for
mayor i'm 1905. as now. and for governor,
a year later. Barnard was making him
self president OF the New York Trust
Company and director of a jute mill. an
insurance enterprise and securities com
pany. All this while Gaynor was busy
at the law.
All three of these men have been known
to their followers as reformers. While
Hearst has fought for municipal own
ership of public utilities and has been
strenuous in demanding legislation. liti-
cation and other efforts to curb the
octopus, Gaynor has proclaimed HIM
self a foe to corruption and a demol-
Usher Of rings" within the party Of his
allegiance. He has written and spoken
a gainst the brutalities of the police and
it was his charge that the police had
prosecuted an innocent lad that brought
about the resignation of Police Commits
sioner Bingham last summer. But what
brought Gaynor his greatest glory was
his successful fight against Boss"
John Y. McKane, whom he had con-
victed for election frauds, and this
victory led at once to the attorneys
nomination by republicans and indie
pendent democrats to the Supreme
Court of New York, 20 which he has
been twice reelected.
While his present rivals have been
thus acduitting themselves, Mr.. Ban
nard, who is still bachelor. has served
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THE average girl has very decided
ideas of the man she thinks she's going
to marry. When she's going on eighteen
and is just beginning to put her hair up
she figures ii out that the only party who
need apply must be a tall, dark-eyed hero
with a hidden past and great sorrowful
orbs and ebon curls floating athwart his
marble brow. and he must know how to
thum guitar dreamily and sing Spanish
love songs to her. and IL he can lean in
a graceful attitude against a broken COL
umn and talk that Phillips Oppenheim
stuff. so much the better. Bat after
awhile experience teaches her that the
brow which Is marble in front is mighty
apt to be marble or some other hard sub
stance all the way through. and with
chuck steak up to % cents. Spanish love
songs butter no parsnips. So the chances
are she hooks up with a good, steady
provider in the wholesale hay and feed
line. who's wearing his figure at half
mast and has two double chins In front
and one behind. ard while this f1eshy
partner hasn't any love songs in stock.
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Copyright, 1909 by John Elfreth watkinsJ
NEW YORK.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
Good Work on Roosevelt Dam.

The report of the supervising en-
gineer of the Salt River irrigation
project in Arizona, states that the
contractors are making rapid spro-
gress on the great Roosevelt dam.
During October 1887 cubic yards of
masonry were laid in the dam and
1906 cubic yards in the wing wall at
the south end.
The elevation of the highest point
of the dam is 211 feet. AS soon as
the water ceases to flow into the
dam, the work of closing the gap be-
tween the ends will be begun. A
large amount Of force account work
has been done on the Mesa-Roosevelt
road to connect it with the bridge
which will cross the top of the dam.
During October the government ce-
ment plant ground ITO barrels of
cement and burned 7451 barrels of
cement. On the transmission line
which is now furnishing power to the
valley, a number of short circuits
were reported. One of these was due
to the carelessness of homesteader,
who climbed a tower to locate his
cattle and was electrocuted. Others
were occasioned by large birds alight-
ing on the wires.
In October $1,000 cubic yards of
material were excavated from the
Arizona canal by the dredger and
%, $50 cubic yards by the excayator.
The work of sinking wells on the Gila
reservation is being carried on and
similar work is progressing in the
Mesa district, with satisfactory re-
suits.
From sales of water delivered
through the government system dur
ing the winter season, the receipts
amounted to S66 ,9O975.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
100000 Lives Thrown Away Each Year
in U. 5.
in U. 5.

The vagaries of diseases that
"human flesh is heir to" are interest
ingly shown in little pamphlet got
ten out by the Provident Life Assur-
ance Society of New York, wherein
tables of increases and decreases give
some knowledge of the fact that as
we are freed of one disease, another
increases.
For instance, it is shown that while
consumption mas decreased from 81 to
PA per cent kidney and heart trouble
have increased from 10 to 1858 per
cent since 18S2-this for Creator New
York alone.
Over the whole United States con-
sumption has decreased 40 per cent
since 1880, due largely, of course,
within the past three years, to the
valiant fight made against it every
where, but offsetting this, kidney
troubles have jumped 81 per cent in
the same period.
Chicago's kidney troubles have
gone up 167 per cent; Connecticut's
139; Massachusetts, is bad on heart
troubles, haying an increase of los
per cent, while over the whole Union
the average increase has been 81 per
cent.
Chicago is down for an increase of
80 per cent of deaths from pneumonia.
Boston shows a decrease of 80 per
cent of typhoid fever, while Philadel-
phia seems to have the record on can
GER, its increase of deaths being 10
per cent.
There are every day 9,5OO,OOO per-
sons i'll in the United States, 1,5OO, 900
of whom suffer from preYentable
disease-disease that could have been
cured if physicians had been procured.
Six hundred thousand lives are sac
riiced needlessly every year in this
and other ways, the pamphlet says.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
Anti-GambIing Law Enforced at.PrescOtt

The anti-gambling law has been
shown to be of full force and effect
in Yavapai county, a Jury late on
Friday evening of last week, having
returned verdicts of guilty against
Chairman Barney II. Smith of the
board of supervisors and Ben Belch-
er, who had been indicted for dealing
in faro games.
Sidney Birch and W. B. Stone, who
had also been indicted, plead guilty.
Belcher, Smith and Robert Birch had
also been indicted as owners of games
but after the pleas of gully had been
offered in the other cases the trial of
the gane-ownership cases was con-
tinued.
District Attorney Ross said that no
action would be taken Immediately
and that if there should be no furth-
er violations of the law, these cases
would be dismissed.
These gambling cases which have
been closely followed since they are
the first which have been brought to
trial since the amendment to the
original anti-gambling law, had their
origin last spring. 1t was reported
that Chairman Smith of the board of
supervisors had frequently dealt faro
and other games and it was then
soon reported that several of the
saloons in Prescott had put in per-
centage games and were running
them as of old. One concession had
been made to the law. Without any
attempt at concealment, the games
instead of being run in the bar-room
proper were being conducted in
small rooms adjacent, cut off only by
partitions which did not extend to
the ceiling.
On account of the prominence of
the persons involved, there was some
delay by the authorities in taking
action. Meanwhile the games con-
tinued until indignation at Prescott
reached a high pitch. Many persons
who did not care anything about
gambling in itself and who might
have favored d repeal of the anti
gambling law were none the less in
dignant at the open violation of the
law. The sentiment was so strong
that the games were stopped and the
matter was laid before the first grand
jury that was impaneled. d.-Republi.
can.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
Arizona POStOffices.

The latest issue of the postal guide
shows that since the first of July
postoffices have been established at
the following Places in Arizona:
Bellemont, Coconino county; Crow
ley, Gila county; Indian Oasis, Pima
county; Laguna, Yuma county;
Lochiei, Santa Cruz county; Mecca
sin, Mohave county; Polaris, Yuma
county. The name of the postoffice
at Wendendale has been changed to
Wenden. a postot1ice has been re-
established at Canon Diablo. The
following named postoffices haye been
discontinued: Jersey, Yayapai coun-
ty, mail goes to Prescott; Mcdowell,
Maricopa county, mail goes to Scots
dale; Peach Springs, Mohave county,
mail goes to Nelson; Vekol, Pinal
county, mail goes to Casa Grande.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
New SmokeIess Powder Used in France.

The Eclair announces that an abso-
lutely stable smokeless powder has
been discovered and is now at the
service of the French army and navy.
Chemical agents, heat. excessive cold,
humidity, light, and Herzian waves
have no effect upon this powder,
which can only be fred by special
detonator.
The discovery, the Eclair says, is
the outcome of researches made in
the state laboratories under NJ. Vieille
which were set on foot Immediately
after the explosion which destroyed
the lena, and for which the deterior-
alton of the powder B. was held re-
sponsible. The Eclair adds that the
new powder has undergone rigid tests
in five fortified forts with absolute
success; that it is as easy to manu-
facture as ordinary powder, only
needing certain highly ingenious but
very simple manipulations which
leave no trace that can be detected
by analysis of the finished article.
It's ballisctic qualities, slightly
superior to those of the present pow
der, do not differ enough from the
latter to necessitate the least change
or modification in either weapons or
projectiles.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
The Price of Copper.

The present position of the copper
market is certainly peculiar. Only a
few weeks ago authorities" were
publicly prOclaiming that there was
''too much copper" and that stocks
we're accommodating so rapidly that
some of the mines would be forced to
curtail production. Suddenly there
came a change of front; these same
authorities" discovered that the
surplus copper in hand would not
last consumers a month, that trade
was expanding so rapidly that i'm
mense buying orders must be placed
on the market, and that the largest
consumers were not carrying any
surplus stocks. Then came heavy
buying of the metal by Henry Mer-
ton & Co. of London, which prac-
tically absorbed all the available
stock up to I3 cents and few points
over. And now we are told that cop
per will go to 10 cents and be main
tanned at about that figure. Proba-
bly, the true condition was antici-
pated by Charles W.. Clark, of the
United Verde mine, in our issue of
October 20. Mr.. Clark, speaking as
a miner and a copper wire manu-
faturer, said he looked for gradual
and decided improvement in the
price of copper early next year, as
industrial conditions favored a large
ly increased demand. This seems to
be the most reasonable cause for the
recent advance in the price of cop
per, and these conditions favor a
further gradual rise in price.-Ari-
zona Mining Journal.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
Many Claim Jumpers Arrested at Miami

Claim jumping at Miami has as
sumed such proportions within the
past few days that nearly a dozen ar
rests have been made and force of
twenty deputy sheriffs has been
stationed at that place, to suppress
any possible violence.
The land which is being jumped is
that lying south and east of the
patented property of the Miami
Townsite company, to which Cleve
w. Van Dyke holds prior right, but
which has not been patented.
None of the patented ground
which includes all that has been
placed on the market, has been
jumped, nor will it be, as the pur-
chasers have a perfectly clear and
6awless title to the ground.
The authorities took hand in the
matter, when Joe Prochaska was ar
rested on a misdemeanor charge, for
tearing down location notices. Billy
Stevens was also placed under arrest
for carrying jumpers property off
of the land he had squatted on and
several others were placed in custody
on similar misdemeanor charges.
Frank L. Toombs, J. J. Mackey and
several other men whose names could
not be learned, were arrested for
carrying concealed weapons. Sew
eral revolvers and two shot guns
were taken away from the men who
were arrested.
Numerous jumpers are on the
ground, one man haYing even placed
location notice on the home of
Cleve w. Van Dyke, which is not
located in the townsite proper, and
claimed the building by reason of the
claim that it was located on public
property.
AS Manager Van Dyke has posses
sorry and also prior right to the land
in question, the jumpers can proba-
bly, do little more than force legal
proceedings on his part, to clear up
his titles, not to the land in the town
site proper, but to other land to
which he lays claim and which he
purchased some time ago from the
original locators.-Globe Silver Belt
The copper era., 1909-12-02
How One Doctor Successfully Treats
Pneumonia

SIN treating pneumonia" says DIR.
w. J Smith, of. Sanders, Ala, 1.-THE
only remedy l use for the lungs is
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
While, of course, L would treat other
symptoms with different medicines, 1
have used this remedy many times in
my medical practice and have yet
failed to find a case where it has not
controlled the trouble. [ have used it
myself, as has also my wife for coughs
and colds repeatedly, and most will
iugly and cheerfully recommend it as
superior to any other cough remedy
t. my knowledge" For sale by all
druggists.
The copper era., 1909-12-02
Grcws9me Find Of Skeleton Near CaIexIcO

. The grewsome find of a skeleton
of man in box was recently made
in a deep wash leading into the New
river near Calexico. The box in
which the skeleton was found bears
the label of the Mesa Dairy Co..
Phoenix, Arizona, addressed to Var
ney Brothers, General Merchants.
Calexico. Members of this firm say
they have not received shipments
from the Phoenix firm for fully three
years.
The box apparently has been but =
short time out in the weather, but
besides the bones of the skeleton, the
box contained part of woman's silk
waist, apparently spotted with blood
and pieces of silk stockings. The
box was partly filed with silt.
The skeleton was that of a man
probably forty years old. Two teeth
in the lower jaw had gold filings.
The clothing in the box is consider
ably decayed and the bones indicated
exposure to the air for year or
more.
The mystery is unexplainable to
Calexico and the skeleton is held
there for investigation.
No light can be thrown on the Cal
exico mystery from Phoenix. Neither
inquiry or directories reveal such an
institution as the Mesa Dairy in or
near Phoenix.
The Mesa Dairy & Ice company is
the name of a business concern in
Mesa City, eighteen miles from
Phoenix, doing general produce
business. Inquiry does not recall to
memory any mysterious incident to
which the Calexico find might be
sequel.