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Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
DANGER

An aged woman living on an isolated mountain ranch some distance from this city, was suffering from a malady for which the physician prescribed a rem edy in the form of capsules. The old lady trusted her medical adviser. but for the medicine she evinced much sus. picion.
 Some time after she had taken the capsules she was asked by her son how she felt.
 "Porely," she said.
 "Don't you want nuthin to eatq'
 "No."
 Soon, however, she arose from her bed and took her seat in rocking chair. Thinking that the attention would be gratefully received, the son filled her pipe and taking live coal from the fire carried both over To where she sat.
 "Take that away, son, yelled the old woman in the utmost fright. "Don t you know better n to come near me with fire when I've got them ca 'tridges in- side of me
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
Procf Positive.

\ certain prominent and excellent lawyer of Chicago, but one of the quietest and most unobtrusive of men, steals around noiselessly, with his hands meekly clasped on his breast and seraphic and perpetual smile. A bonmot at his expense is told of the late Emory Storrs, brilliant adyo- cate and an exquisite wit. He went to the lawyers office and inquired for him, but was informed that he was out. "Oh, no; he isn't" he replied. T klIow that he is in" But I assure you Mir. Storrs, he Is not in." 'Now," responded MT. Storrs, "I know better. He must be in. It is so still in there!'
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26

it up in the sky. He did that every day last week, vile countless thousands from Littleton, N. H., & Portland, Me, & Cohasset looked & waited & watched in vain. Aha, Mister Wright wud say, the way the wind blows around the wet part of my second finger indicates that there is big wind up on Broadway & the way my eyes water shows that the breeze around the Flatiron building is sumthing feerce There will be no flight today. To the shed.
 That is why I am not so keen for the arey plane, sjd Pa. You see, Pa sed, that if aery.planes is ever going to car ry passengers from place to place, they must find sum way to disregard the wind Good hevings, Pa sed, if they are going to be at the mercy of the winds. what chanst wud aeryplane have talk ing passengers around Boston harbor! Suppose a nan wanted to go from Bos- ton to N. Y., to poas there was to see the Red Sox trim the Giants & suppose there was jest time to catch the aery- plane $ the man which runs the aery- plane shud sniff the breeze < say: The breeze from the harbor cleerly indicates that we had better go & see the Boston Nashunal Leeg team. But 1 think 1t is wonderful, Ma, the way Mister Wright s aery-plane dipped & rose X curved in magestick circles.
 That is nothing, sed Pa. A house fly can do that, & house fly isn't afraid to take chanst. Did you ever watch one CD of them deer little insecks start from the bald island on my he'd X sail cleer to the other end of the table, cir cling the sugar bowl and returning safe ly to said island
 I think it sham the way you talk about hero, sed Ma.
 No wonder you think so, sed Pa. You and Mister Wright ought to be grate friends, beekaus both of you are always feddy to go up into the air.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
CARNEGIE F YEARS
 0LD YESTERDAY
Capitalist Still Busy With Exploiting Many Philan
 thropic Schemes

NEW YORK, November 25.-Andrew Carnegie, capitalist, manufacturer and philanthropist, celebrated his seventy second birthday today. He spent the day quietly in his Fifth Avenue home in company with his family and a few intimate friends. Invited to partake of the Thanksgiving dinner.
 MT. Carnegie IS still devoting the most of his time and attention to his vast schemes of philanthropy. Colleges, hospitals and the hero fund, together with the Foundation for the Advance ment of Learning, are receiving most attention. The great philanthropist is not giving much money nowadays for libraries, though he says he is well sat isfied with his expenditures in the lib rary line.
 A recent estimate places the total of Mir Carnegie s benefactions at $l5S, 100000. Of this vast amount about $3O, 900 900 has been bestowed upon public libraries in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland and Wales. The Carnegie institute has reeeivel all most $20,000,000 and the college pro fessors pensions have amounted to about $l5,000,000. Small colleges in the United States have received $20,000,0 ,000 and about half that sum has been be- slowed upon Scotch universities. The Hero Fund benefactiOn amounts to lO,0O0,000, and like sum represents the amount given for the endowment of the Carnegie institute in Washing ton. The remainder is represented in miscellaneous gifts in the United States and Europe, notable among the latter being the $5,000,000 Dunfermline en- dowment and the $1,750,000 given for the establishment of the Peace palace at The Hague.
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Ada Rehan, who spent the past sum mer in England, has just returned to America.
 E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe will appear in the coming Shubert produc- ton of "False Colds"
 The Shuberts intend shortly to bring out a play from the Danish, entitled ''The Head of the Firm
 One of the novelties in "The Jolly view, is a scene showing the three decks of the Lusitania.
 One of the early musical attractions of the season will be "The King of Cadonia, with a east including William Norris, Eva Davenport and Clara Palmer.
 Jules Eckert Goodman, the author of :" The Test" has written new play entitled Mother" which is to have an early presentation at one of the New York theaters.
 Arrangements have just been eomplet, ed for Henrietta Crossman to bring her successful play" Sham" back to New York during the first week of January of next year.
 Thomas w. Ross will be at the head of the company in "The Fortune Hun. ter, when Conan and Harris produce that comedy in the Olympic theater, Chicago, on December 9.
 Henry B. Harris has purchased from Paul Armstrong, the author of "Sa- lomy Jane," his new play, "Whom the Gods Love- The hero is a young man of Italian American percentage.
 Miss Katherine Grey, who is now on the way to Australia, will play Mrs. Fiske's original role in "ISalvation Nell. l.' Her repertoire includes ''Sa- iomy Jane,' "The Lion and the Mouse, and "The Third Degree.
 John Drew, who intended playing a new comedy by W. s. Maugham this season and also to make production of "Much Ado About Nothing" has postponed both enterprises, in order to continue playing "Inconstant George ,,
 Miss Edith Ellis, the author of Mary Jane's Pa,' is responsible for the staging of "The Lottery" new comedy by Rida Johnson, which the Shuberts will send on tour with Jame- son Lee Finney, Julia Hay and other notable players.
 "The Great Mrs. Alloway," play by Douglas Murray, will have its first production in America some time during the coming season. Mir. F'rohman, who recently presented the play for the first time in London, with Lena Ashwell in the leading role, also owns the Ameri- can rights.
 Gulmera's "La Pecadora,' ' which has been translated into English by Wallace Gilpatrick and Guido Marburg, under the title of "Heart Hunger, !" has just had a successful premier in one of the theaters of Paris, with Mi mi Aguglia, the Sicilian star, in the leading role.
 "The Lily" the first play written by David Belasco since "The Girl of the Golden West, '' will be given its first production at New York on Decem- Der 23. The play is an adaptation from the French of Pierre Wolff and Gaston Leroux s drama ''La Lys." It will have its initial performance in Washington, D. C., on December G, and
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
Two Women Claim to Be Relict of Supposed Bach
 elor Officer
GREAT SURPRISE
 TO MANY FRIENDS
Four Children Said to Be Offspring of Much
 Married Man

CHICAGO, November 25.-Members of the police department were astouud ed yesterday when it became known that Lieutenant Patrick J. Cunningham who died at St. Elizabeth's hospital Saturday night, had for years led a double, if not a triple. life.
 Known among his brother officers as an "old batch, - the announcement that he was claimed as husband by two wo- men served to set tongues wagg,ng in every station in the city. One woman claims she married him under the name of George Miller. She has four ehil- dren, of whom she says he was father. Another woman, it is said, claims a common law marriage.
 There was no man in the police force who was more popular than Cunning ham. He had been a lieutenant about ten years. Prior to his promotion he served as patrolman and sergeant at tue Lake Street station.
 For the last twenty years he lived in boarding house in Ashland avenue near Union park. Even those who sup posed they knew him "like a brother v were dumfounded to learn of his alleged marriage entanglement.
 Regarded as Bachelor
 Perhaps no one was more surprised at the news than Inspector John Wheel CT, under whom Cunningham had served as lieutenant at the Harrison street sta tiOn for several years. A man represent ing himself to be a relative of "Mrs. Cunningham called upon the inspec- tor in the afternoon regarding the fEn- eral arrangements. The inspector thought the visitor was joking or else he was an escaped lunatic.
 'Pat Cunningham married!" ex- claimed Wheeler. "Why, you re crazy. we known him ever since he went on the force and l always believed him to be an old bach like myself. v
 The caller told the inspector that Cum nngham was married to his relative under the name of George Miller by Justice of the Peace William ("Biff'0 ) Hall. The wedding ceremony, he said, took place about thirteen ears ago.
 Four children, he asserted, were born te this union, and they live with their mother on the southwest side.
 Called Uncle Pat" by Boys
 z 'I was never so surprised at any thing in all my life, said Inspector Wheeler, later. "Pat and l used to of ten talk about marriage and more than once I heard him say he was glad he never got buckled up. A couple of boys used to come to the station once in while to see him, but we all were of the impression that they were his sister s children. I never heard them call him papa or father. It always was Uncle Pat
 After the first visitor to my office went away l heard another story about my old friend Pat. Another woman, l believe, claims him as her common law husband. And to think that we all were of the belief that Pat was an "old bach and woman hater."
 Cunningham joined the police force in December, 1885. He was veteran of the Haymarket riot.
 Relatives say they will contest the claims of any women who seek, as his widows, to share his estate, which is valued at $S,00O.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
Why?

Two ladies previously unacquainted wre conversing at a reception. After a few conventional remarks the younger exclaimed "I cannot think what has upset that tall blonde man over there He was so attentive little while ago but he won t look at me now. 1"
 Perhaps" said the other, Che saw me come in He's my husband" l"
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after a week there and week in Pitts burg it will be taken to New York for the opening of the new Belasco-Stuyve- stan theater, just completed.
 Marie Dressler will soon appear~in a new musical play by Edgar Smith and A. Baldwin Stone, called Grille $ Nightmare. !"
 A new play, entitled "Don," by Ru- dolf Bosier, was recently produced at the Haymarket theater, London and scored a success.
 Henry Miller has withdrawn "The Great Divide" which he was present. ing in London, and is now playing "The Servant in the House. ' Rehearsals of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's "Fires of Fate,'' are now pro | ceeding in New York and the first pro duction will be made in Chicago, De. cember 6.
 Charles Frohman and Cyril Maude have agreed jointly to produce Austin Strong's latest play, "The Toymaker of Nuremberg" in London during the next month.
 Sir Charles Wyndham and Miss Mary Moore will begin an American tour some time toward the end of January, appearing first, for two weeks, at the Empire theater, New York. Wilfred Lueas, who is supporting Rose Stahl, in James Forbes comedy, "The Chorus Lady," will retire from the dramatic stage at the end of this concert singer.
 Marjorie 's Mother,' is the title of the Bisson & Turner comedy in which Clara Lipman is 10 be the star. Un. der the name of "La Marriage 'Et- oilen it was acted by Joanne Granier in Paris last year.
 Paul Diekey, leading man with Henri etta Crosman in 'Sham'', has recent | ly written play, called 'The Ghost Breaker which has been accepted by | Henry B. Harris and will be produced by him during the present season. Rehearsals were begun the other day in New York of Jacqueline," new | play by Harriet Ford and Caroline King Duer, in which Henry B. Harris will present Grace Ellston some time before the coming holidays.
 When it shall become necessary for Margaret Anglin to produce a new play it will be a comedy of modern life written by John Luther Long, with whom the actress signed a contract to that effect in New York recently | A London season is under discussion for John Mason, the original Jack Brookfeld of "The Witehing Hour. Mir. Mason is well known in London having played there for two seasons in "The Idler,' with George Alexander with great success.
 "The Sign of the Rose, ;" in which George Beban is appearing in vaude vile, is to be expanded into three act play next season. The same general idea will be retained and will form the groundwork for the second act of the three-act drama.
 James Bernard Pagan, author of "The Earth" was for four years an actor-two years under Beerbohm Tree | While with the latter he was understudy to Louis Waller, Mir. Trees leading man.
 Arrangements have just been eomplet' ed for the production at Waber's the | ater, New York, on December %, of 1 the musical comedy, "The Daughters of Liberty" now in its sixteenth week at the Princess theater, Chicago. The last performance of "The Climax" at Waber's will be on December 22. "The Daughters of Liberty" is by Adams and Hough and Joseph E. Howard.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
FIGHTING GOING ON
 NEAR BLUEFIELDS

MOBILE, November 25.-Officers of the steamer Bluefelds, arriving today from Port LimOn, Costa Rica, say it is reported at Port Limon that fighting is going on in the rear of Bluefelds. As the Bluefelds was leaving, a large American cruiser was making into Port Limon.
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  by introducing pledge 600 to the prisoner tue alternative of signing the pledge the wokhoue
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Hot Drinks at Anderson's.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
Golf Talk

The Golfer-"I suppose you get a lot of practice in the winter9"
 The Caddy-" Navy, we dinna. If it isna rainin' 'tis snawin, an fit isna rainin' or snawin', 'tis freezin,' an it't isna rainin or snawin,' or freez- in tis the Sabbath, and it s fair sick ening."
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-26
LYMAN GAGE WEDS
 MRS. ADA BALLOU

SAN DIEGO, November 25.--At the residence of MT. and Mrs. George IL. Ballou at Coronado this evening, their daughter, Mrs. Ada Ballou, became the wife of Hon. Lyman J. Gage, formerly secretary of the treasury, and now q resident of San Diego.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03
A Nature One.

NIkOLA TESLA, famous for his origi-
/ " nal and daring electrical researches,
said the other day of perpetual motion:
1T will come-that is to say. some
thing equal or superior to ii Will come.
There Is the Wright machine, for in
stance; doesn't that solve the Impossible
problem of mans lifting himself Up by
his own boot straps?
Ambition" said NJ. Tesla accom-
plishes daily miracles. Remember the
ambitious hen.
This faithful creature always laid an
egg OF the same size the porcelain
nest-egg used on her decoy.
'Perceiving his hens intense ambition.
the farmer put a porcelain goose egg in
her nest. She laid goose egg.
Then the farmer, greatly pleased, put
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03

room is a museum of relics of the Lin
coin campaigns, including framed copies
of the scores of notable cartoons carica-
turing Lincoln. Besides these articles
named the little museum contains 1000
Lincoln biographies. 80 memorial SER
mons preached the Sunday following his
death, ninety funeral marches dedicated
70 him, $50 medals bearing his likeness
and 5000 classified newspaper clippings
relating to him. Some of the most cele-
brated Of his recent biographers have
spent days at the house making re-
searches among these data.
Out Of the front windows are seen,
directly across the street, the great
gray facade of the old Ford's Theater,
whose curtain. rung down after the
flight Of Booth across its stage. never
again rose upon a play. The play
house was Immediately closed by Sec
rotary of War Stanton, and subsequent
ly an investigation eXonerated MI.
Ford from any responsibility for the
tragedy. Ford thereupon sought heavy
damages for the suspension OF his bust
ness and the dispute was ended by the
governments purchasing the theater.
1t was then converted into a medical
museum for the army, and 1t was d
chastity coincidence that the Verebrae
of Booths neck and the part of the
spinal cord penetrated by Boston Cor
belts fatal bullet were both exhibited
in this museum as curious specimens
of morbid anatomy from gunshot
wound. When the medical museum
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03
The Boss.

MFR. CROKER. at banquet. said of a
ATA boss Of the past
No wonder he succeeded. He was SO
kind to his supporters. 1t was his boast
that he never forgot a friend. In his
zeal to live up to that boast he some
times made mistakes.
Once, for instance, an Albany support
er got married, and. on the birth Of a
little girl. invited the boss to come and
be godfather at his daughters christen-
ing.
The boss was always busy. He was
always getting his appointments confused.
And three months behind time he turned
up at his Albany supporters house with
a vague idea that something or other was
expected Of him--he didn't exactly know
what.
Greeting him, the supporter gave a
bitter laugh.
so you haven't forgotten my little
girl after all?' he said. jeeringiy.
OF course ] haven't forgotten her.
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A STRANGE HATE.

A LBERT KIRBY FAIRFAX - now,
"A since the dictum of the house OF
lords, the real Lord Fairfax-talked at an
American dinner party in London about
his new title.
Since the title was mine." he said, Il
wanted 1t acknowledged. Now / am used
to it-already used to 1t. In fact, ! am
already tired of the eternal your lord
ship this and your lordship that which
servants so literally rain on me.
Zone can get tired, You know. even OF
the most delightful things. I have a
the little park of Russell Square. The
daily drudgery has given the old man a
perfect hatred for the open air. And
every evening at 9. when he enters the
dark. smoky. stuffy tavern of the Mag
pie and Cock he initiates his chest, snifrs
smiles and says:
Now, at last, can breathe freely: -
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ONE SWALLOW, ETC.

II X: ADAlR. a western detective, was
- talking in Duluth about criminals
and the new year.
''Undeniably," he said. "crime does in
some slight degree diminish in January
on account OF the criminals new year
resolutions. But new year resolution
doesn't make permanently good man
summer.
Last season., he said. my investiga-
lions OF crime passionnel' in Chicago
that hotbed OF crimes passionnels'-
caused me to disguise myself as a tramp
.'Shadowing a governess. | sat on a
park bench on bright afternoon. and
beside me sat a comfortable old gentle
man in blue goggles. had ON the worst
rags and tatters you can imagine. | was
especially proud Of my coat-a black coat
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Continued from Sixth Page
automatic wind, snow and rain gauge a
kite reel and suspension case by means
of which marine barometerS on board
ships are safely housed when not in use.
He has done much to improve rain and
snow gauges and many other devices. He
made important Investigations of ane-
mometers for the measurement of wind
velocities and pressures and has a large
share of the credit for bringing wind
measuring devices to their present state
of perfection. The first self-registering
weather instrument ever made was self
registering thermometer. and its inventor
was Lieut.. Gibbon, a Signal Corps officer.
Electricity and clockwork play an impor-
tant part in all STRENGTHENING weather
devices. The sunshine recorder, the in
vention OF Delos Z. Marins, clerk in the
weather bureau, has undergone improve
ment, and now there is an instrument
that takes record Of sunshine, wind and
rain, all on one roll Of paper. The sun
shine recorder is small glass tube. with
an inner tube containing mercury. and
one end of the inner tube is covered with
lampblack. AS soon the sun begins
shining the mercury interrupts an electric
current and causes the recording needle
to vary it's course.
instruction in Tueteoroiogy has been
one Of the duties of government meteorol-
oeists not only at headquarters, but at
various schools and universities.
Nineteen weather bureau attaches give
instruction at eighteen schools and uni
versities throughout the country. Frank
H. Bigelow is we'll known In WASHINGTON
An account of his activities as an astro-
physician and meteorologist was given in
speaking of astronomers. He is one of
the foremost investigators. and his sys-
tematlzation of meteorological records
has received much praise. Eric r. Miller
Of the Mount Weather staff teaches me-
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Fools VS.. Race Suicide.
tsIY7ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

HW1LLlAM JENNINGS BRYAN is
" very popular as a lecturer" said
a Lincoln man. "A lecture by Bryan
means crowded house always.
introducing Mr.. Bryan 1 once praised
his eloquence. his wit and his learning
He responded to my praise in a pleased
way. He said I had been potter than
old p. Z. Barnum
Up. T." he explained. was in a crusty
mood one morning when Jenny Lind, the
famous singer, capered into his office
rumpled up his hair and said
Mr.. Barnum, how do you account for
my tremendous popularity
It's just fad P. T. grunted. Just
fashionable fad. There's truth in the
old saying. you know, that one fool makes
many
I can quite believe that said Jenny
Lind. and she glanced at group picture
of p. T. and his children over the desk
What large family you've got, Mr..
Barnum. -
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was removed to the present building
alongside the National Museum they
were taken there and are now on eX-
hibition to physicians, along with the
peculiarly enlarged spleen of Guiteau,
the assassin of Garfield. At the time
of the Mckinley assassination an en-
terprisinE newspaper photographer ap-
piled for a permit to photograph these
specimens for the illustration of a
timely article. but he was Informed
that permission would be given only
on condition that publication be linn
tied to scientific treatiseS.
In the old stable back OF the theater
Booths remains, rolled in a blanket.
were stored for time after having
been exhumed from their secret grave
in the arsenal grounds and before be-
ing reinterred in a second secret grave
in the Baltimore cemetery. where they
are believed to still repose at an un-
marked spot known only to the Booth
family and to few cemetery employees
sworn to secrecy.
Old time negroes still tell tales of the
spccters long believed to haunt the old
theater and to pursue those who Ven
tured upon the adjacent alley leading
to this stable. To these phantoms some
attributed the terrible fatality which oc-
fifteen years ago. after the removal of
the medical museum therefrom and
after its occupation as an annex to the
War Department. as 1t still is at this
time. This second tragedy within the