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Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13

MT. Huntley Walker. who in two evenings' play won ffs.00o at Monte Carlo. and on the second evening broke the bank" at one of the tables, is, nevertheless. by no means a record breaker in this field. whatever he may be in automobilism. t
 No one can have forgotten how MT. Charles Coborn's song took the mu- sic hall world by storm few years ago, or Monte Carlo Wells" who in spired it. In two days play this man won a huge sum. placed as high at ( 50 900, but subsequently he stated that in the end he lost not only all his winnings. but also considerable part of the capital with which he started operations
 Among the many well-known sys- .esns with which attemRts have, been made Ito break the bank" is the Fftzroy system. --AbOut couple of years ago Lord Rosslyn announced that he had so improved on this sys- l tenn that he was certain to win with it, and he formed Syndicate to ex- pioit 1t, Sir Hiram Maxim ridiculed the no- ble Earl's claim, Sir Hiram has studied the game purely from a math- ematicai point of view, and insists that eventually every system must | fail, because the Monte Carlo tables are so arranged that, luck not being | taken into account at all, the bank | is bound to win steady percentage. f In August last year Lord Rosslyn | stated in letter to the Press that at Ostend he had won f5.000 in a fortnight, playing stakes of 3 francs and 10 francs. Further. he was bold enough to state that, if he tried his | system at Monte Carlo with a capital | of e15,00o. the bank would be out of existence in 10 years.
 Later. the Earl challenged Sir Hi ram Maxim to test his system. and 1t was arranged to try 5000 coups with capital of Gl0.000. The test was held in September.
 Fortunately for the Earl, the stakes were in counters, and not in real money The very first days play brought disaster. At the end of i he had lost G1S6 By the end o | six days, however. things had i'm. proved and he was winning my e525 after having played 3,oo0 out of 5.oo' coups.
 After this. disaster crowded npoI disaster, and on September 50 Lort Rosslyn admitted that his system Wal
 beaten.
 One of the most lucky winners a
 Monte Carlo was Lord Nilliers, who a few years ago. left the tables aftel having transferred G30.000 from thu coffers of the bank to his own pock cts. But even this feat was throwl I quite into the shade by Mir. Jaggers Ia Yorkshire mechanic. By careful,
 watching the play he discovered tha
 one of the roulette whels had som
 defect which biased its actions H
 used his knowledge with iudgmen
 and skill. and had cleared e12O.oo before the bank eventually discovere'
 his secret.
 Probably Mir. Jaggers got his ide
 from an incident that considerabl
 startled the Casino management | few years before, and which migh
 have proved very much more exper , sic to them than was actually tn case.
 One day the director of the play Wa
 casually watching an old lady, Mat
 anne K. whom he knew to earn he
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Methodist soiscopaI Church.

The children have been in prepara- tion some time fer the "children's
 Day program to be given this morn
 ing. Songs, recitations. flag drill, and other attractive numbers. The par ents and friends of the scnolars are
 expected to be present. Program, at
 10: :0o am. At the 11:00 o'clock serv-
 ice the sermon will be adopted tp the thought of Children's Day. Reception of new members. Bap- tism and the Holy communion. Young peoples meeting is more largely attended Of late, yet We hope l for a few .nore- | Have I a Safe Guide in My Cons cience.- will be the question for the | evening sermon. Several have man | ifested an interest in this subject or late. We may not settle it, but will give our views,
 | Tuesday evening the regular month | ly meeting of the lEpworth League. | Wednesday evening the prayer service at the usual hour.
 ! Thursday Ladies Aid meeting, to | which all the ladies of the congresa
 ton arc invited.
 Thursday Is the day set for the Sunday school picnic at Lewis Spring
 Committees are appointed 10 lood after the details of the trip. All Wi,
 have a good time. Round trip 5e' and Si.00. Special train. Parents and friends are invited.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13

Del Adelphia, now business man and member of the Town Council of Tuhwila, lays claim to having been the first person to carry the Black Art" across the Arctic Circle.
 Adelphia since early manhood, and until only recently, has followed the vecatiol of magician. and his wander iIgs as such with various theatrical and vaudeville companies have taken him over the United States several times ana into many foreign coun' tries. IT 1901 he and his own com paay toured Alaska and Northern British Columbia, giving perform ances al every way station where a little dust could be gathered to- getller as a reward, and while on this
 iaunt Adelphia says he crossed the circle into the frigid zone and startled the natives with his tricks in legeTde- main.
 q shall never forget. said Adel phia in describing his northern triI 10 a group of friends recently, the lime 1 performed before Chief isaaes and bunch of his subjects at Moose Hide, a typical northern Indian village a few days before Christmas, jsel II had given a performance the ia, beiofe at Dawson, and an acquaint
 ance had made there suggested tha we could have some rare sport D
 Invading Mcosehide with magic. | Accordingly. accompanied by m. new friend. I drove over there tn next day m sled. The wondermen oi tne SIwashcs was first excite shcn two mysterious looking trunk were nnloaded from the sled in frol of the chief hut's. A few words { the chief by my friend put us in goo with him and he invited us insid with our trunks. summoned the sal ages from the outside and introduce me in his crude way as the whit medicine man.
 1 I mad things all my own way. aa during the performance l was able [ Tesurrect old tricks that I had lad { drop from my repertoire years az because they had become so commo that white audience would laug me down should l have the nerve exhibit them in this day and age.
 T started off with the old threai bare stunts. such as palul.rg card turning water into wine. &c.. and
 was not many minutes until va
 looked upon by my ignorant audienf asa veritable devil.
 What did those poor children
 nature know about the double cor ysrtment listol. the mysterious ee
 basket. the loaded hat or the traps
 the tables? A chair 10 them was
 chair. nothing mere. The old chi was nolplussea ster, after ha
 manipulated the esg bag for msn"f
 he asked to be allowed to feel insif
 it, and found 1t was empty. Aga
 he felt and it was full of eggs. ees
 were eyerywhere-on the floor, und'
 the table. in the folds os his ga ments, and he was given gre
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13
BL LACK ART HARD ON POTATOES Indians Cut Up Whole Crop Trying
 to Find Half Dollars Like Ma9icianS

laugh when I even plucked a couple from his mouth, guess he is still
 trying to figure out whence they came and where they disappeared.
 .The abject simplicity of the na-
 ties was forcibiy shown when
 grabbed one of the youngsters by the
 nose and told him to blow through
 that organ. He did, and l told him
 sharply to blow hard This he did
 as l commanded, and l thought he
 and all the rest would drop dead
 when a whole pack of playing cards
 shot out apparently from his aostriis and fluttered to the ground. This trick was repeated by request upon another young native and another deck of cards was blown from Si ! wash nasal appendage and scrambled | for by the youngsters. l looked out of she door of the hut a few minutes later to see three or four of the lit- 1 tie fellows outside holding each otli- l CTS noses and blowing fer dear life ] in an effort to produce more paste l boards.
 l My potato trick, though, brought | the show to a speedy climax. If I hadn't stopped when ] did I'd have been bankrupt I asked old Isaacs if he Ilai potato. The chief ordered bis sauaw to bring o1e. which she did. I then called for a knife. and twith the Euife 1 started to cut the potato in halves. The savages crowd ed round me to watch developments and were amazed when the knife
 struck something hard in the center
 of the tuber. I could cut no further Iirt fiually worked around the ob l structicn, and, when the potato wal
 divided, there was a bright new hal dollar. I tossed the coin outside ane
 vou should have seen the scramble
 II for it.
 T didlt have to ask for a secont , potato; the trick was repeated ans 1nother half dollar given the Indiou as a souvenir A third time l va . ,rey ailed upon by wondering hosts t
 ,pen a potato, but by this time ever. buck. klootchman and paUocse in tn
 ,rowd was armed with potato an
 l samorirg to have it onened- l sas ! the seasons profits dwi1dling and ! did aot require a great stretch or fn ! agirstiop to picture certstn lonf Q haired wizard stranded in the far a
 frozen NcrfhIand. mushiDg his va F out to civilization with eaunt fanin ]. doegipg his tracks.
 { Let's duck-beat it." I whispere 3 fo n,v white co-nnsnio1- and while 2 diverted the attention of the scran
 bling and insisfent aborieiues. my ps f bustied our kits of paraohernai'a | + the dog sled and at the psichoioi g icaI moment made a dash for hbe n ty and we were off.
 B 'I hear since that our visit was fo f lowed by a potato famine In Mocs' 1 hide, for no sooner had we left tn ,. village than the inhabitants tn thel e mad quest for silver half dollars. ra' E sacked the camDs for potatoes an E cut them into bits. cursing their luc r and the white devil for their dssa r. pcintmept. There. wasn't a pofa' t left h Moosehide.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13
MENWIiO HAVE BROKEN BANK. Famous Gamblers Who Made Some
 Marvellous Coups at Monte Carlo

living by securing good places at the beginning of play. and afterward selling them at a good price to late- comers.- Madame X- played onl 5f t4s) at time. and then only occa- sionally: but the director noticed that she always. or nearly always. won. and after she had risen he went up to her and Congratulated her.
 How much will m'sieur give for the secret?" demanded the old dame. But he only laughed, his experience teaching him that he had nothing to fear from any system. tft
 "One day you will be glad to buy" was the woman's parting warning.
 About a week later she returned to the tables, accompanied by three young Italians and they soon attract ed atention by always yinniug, The suryeillants. who were ordered to 1, watch the party, reported tnsan hours time that they had won 10000 francs -G2,S00.
 For a week this sort of thing went on, and when the party had broken the bank" three times at that table, M.. Blanc, the then master of the ta- bles. was asked to come from Paris. When he saw what was going oh he asked Madame X-to come to his private office. and there, after much haggling. persuaded her to sell .;her secret for the low figure of 10000 francs.
 When the play was ended. and the rooms closed, the old woman explain ed that, after some years at the table, she noticed that the wheel had be come warped. As. the result, if 1t
 Gf Qrfad from, n Norf0in nninf if almost inariably stopped at a certain point. Thus. If the croupier spun the wheel with the number g. opposite him, the number 26 was certain to follow; if zero were opposite him. g would follow, and similarly with other numbers.
 The defect was soon remedied. and the management considered the SC cret cheap at the price they paid. not withstanding that madame and hel
 Italian friends had cleared 30o, ,0ed francs lover f12,000) in play.
 Gamblers are well known tc be superstitious, and many vii
 trust to luck through thick and thin
 and let systems go to the winds. Quite recently there occurred al
 extraordinary incident, which seem
 to justify-or, at least, to account fo the amazing faith that some peopl' j place upon omens.
 For a time the players had beeI . suffering from a persistent run of ba, , Tuck, when fly alighted on the No T 13. Immediately there was nov , among the players, and in a few mo : ments the middle dozen-the Nos. | ] to 24-was literally covered wit stakes.
 |
 [ There was an anxious moment a the marble was sent spinning roun' } the roulette-wheel; but presently th . croupier anounced the winning nun ber-lS.
 Three times in succession did tn number come up. and the landing c
 the fly cost the bank 95.000. ! But after all. the winnings of thi individual or that are but exception: l l In the end, the winner is the bani t Every year somei hing like a millio F and half sterling drops into tn 2 coffers of the Casino. and of thi
 el 0oa 100 goes to the shareholder s representing something like 70 DC + cent on the original value of tn r shares.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13
South sisbee Church.

Sunday evening service at South
 Bisbee at 7:30 pm, when the children under Miss Burrows training are going to entertain the mothers. fathers. aunts. uncles. sisters. brother and friends with their glad songs and shining faces: for this is Children's Day, the day of all days. There VIII be baptism also, on the program Come one. come all. and be made to feel like child again. Wednesday evening. regular prayei service.
 | Services at Warren as usual: Sun I day school 10 am. and preaching a' II am.
 | Don Luis-Reopening of Sunday school. Preaching Friday evenings al 7:3e. A cordial invitation is extended to all these services.
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Presbyterian Church

Sunday school at s:45 am. Mir. C. A. Buchner. Superintendent. Sunday is 'Children's Day" and special atten- ton will be paid to it in the school All should remember to bring In then little church offering boxes, and help to make the offering to missions . large one. Lesson for the day: Heroes of Faith.- Hebrews u:l-ao
 Brotherhood at 6: i5 pm The secona study Of ~Immigration" will be neid It deals with ''The Immigrant and tn. City," c. E. Buchner will ieau the meeting
 The Sacrament of the Lords Sup Der win be observed in the morning at II o'clock. The members should mase a special effort to be presen, at this service. ss 1t will be the las' communion service before the pastol takes his vacation. ..
 Preaching by the pastor at 7;se D. m.
 Woman's Missionary meeting ans Ladies Aid meeting on Wednesda' afternoon. | Prayer meeting Wednesday at ':s'
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First eaptis. Church (cIawson HilD

First Baptist Church tciawson HiiD
 Eyangelistic services continue th's week. Preaching every night by Re'' Williamson of Yuma. The meeting thus far has been fruitful. Souls have been saved and saints encour' aged.
 Bible school in the morning at ten o'clock. Lesson Heroes Of Faitn. Heb. 1l:1-40. Mr. J. H. Demarest, 
 Worship and sermon at 1l:o0.
 Y.P. |. at 6:45 pm, topic Vi tuous Women. Prov. 31:10 Mir. R. D. owen, president
 Childrens Day service begins at I:3O, followed by solo, Calvary, by Mir. Blair and an address by Rev Williamson.
 The officers of the BY .P-u vii meet on Monday evening at 1:4o ' complete committees and plan anu arrange for future work. The Ladies Aid will meet in the parsonage oi Wednesday afternoon. We invite yo to all of these meetings. Jno. F. Kanarr, pastor.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13
Christian science Services.

The regular Sunday services of tine Bisbee. Ariozna, Christian Science Society are held at 11:00 am tn Medieoyich hall. two doors east Of the Copper Queen Hotel.
 The subject for June 18th VII os: God the Preserver of Man. The subect and sermons are copyr1ented b. the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy
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Church of Christ.

Opposite Central School.
 S:45 am. Bible school. We are overriding Phoenix in the contest. Three more Sundays will tell who are the winners.
 I1:00 am Communion and sermca-
 7:45 D. m. Evening worship
 Bethany class at Jiggerville. 3:3O in the afternoon.
 open-air address at the plaza at i, 6 45 D. m-
 Union Sunday school picnic al Lewis Springs on next Thursdas. Anybody can go. Al. the Sunday schools of Warren district are in il and invite everybody who wants a pleasant outing to go along. A specia train will leave at S:30 a. m. Ticket: are 5ec and $l-00 for round trip i Ice cold lemonade. an you want wilfrbe furnished free by the Sunda, schools. Bring your lunch. | W. E. Spicer. minister
Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-13

pm. Topic: "Worshiping Only God John $. F.. Fry. pastor.
 John F.. Fry. pastor.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
A RARE HORROR

The peculiar nature OF the railway
horror just reported from Windsor
on the Boston & Maine Railroad, in
which an engine and train Of FIVE cars
left the tracks and plunged through
the brick walls Of way-station, kill
ing and wounding 80 people, takes
rank among the rarest Of railway
horrors in American annals
The cause and source Of the dread
full accident must have originated
miles away from the scene Of the
climax, and while it is attributed to
the blowing out Of a plug" on the
engine, there must have been some
deeper and grosser cause behind it.
1t happened upon one of the oldest
and best regulated lines on the con-
tinent, and the very nature OF the
thing indicates degree OF carless-
ness somewhere, in factory, shop or
round house, yet to be exploited by
the most searching and implacable
scrunity. 1t has almost the appear
ance of an evil inspiration, when it is
considered that trained engineer
and fremen, faithful and loyal en-
ployes, were not masters enough OF
the mechanism they were driving, to
check its action and speed and save
their own lives and the train. The
common popular familiarity with rail-
way accidents offers no parallel for
this extraordinary disaster; and the
| very Government itself will be justi-
fed in making thorough and not
able examination into the secret OF
the affair; for if the American travel
ling public is to be no safer than this,
the time has come for general over
hauling of the laws of mechanics as
applied to these great systems oi
transit.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
ABOUT woMANs CLUBS

CHICAGO, March 18.-Are wo-
mems organizations conducive to
race suicide ?
This is the question which is today
agitating the Chicago woman's club,
the cause being a communication by
Mrs. Henry Hiestand, who asserts
that, "There is no use denying that
the squeaking of machinery in a
meeting of women is distressing"
"To one with immature. nerves"
she continues, "it is positively dan
gerous. Grandmothers, middle aged
women whose children have grown
up and mature unmarried women
with some worldly experience can
stand it, but young girls contemplat-
ing matrimony and motherhood
should keep away"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
OF COURSE MOTT

CHICAGO, March lS,--"Thcre
never will be war between Canada
and the United States" says George
w. Ross, former prime minister OF
Ontario, and a member OF the Canad-
ian Senate, who is here attending the
meeting OF the Railway Maintenance
Association. "We are too close to-
gether in many ways" he added
"and yet we are unlike in many.
You are homogeneous, while we are
not, but may become so.
mo other country or nation is 50
homogeneous as the United States
and this has been made so through
the achievement OF your railway en-
gineers."
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
THE PAYNE TARIFF

The main interest the common peo-
ME Of The land have in the tariff is
that Il shall be areed upon, settled,
and applied, in order that the busi-
ness and commerce Of the country
msy 20 forward and furnish work
and the incomes essential for all.
This, Of course, aside from the neees-
sity for providing revenue for the
maintenance and operation OF the
Coz ernment.
The detail the differences, the
wrangling, are left TO the great com
bines, manufacturers, factors, job
bers, commits merchants and
those FIRST in touch with the sched-
ules; the questions Of markets, profits
and Of supply and demand, are very
remote from the asnall fry and per
haps it is just as we'll, since they
could not master them if it were left
to them to do so.
The Government needs a few hun
dred millions Of money more than 1t
has at present to conduct its affairs
properly and safely, to pay its way
and wipe out the deficits. The peo-
Die have got to furnish forth these
millions and they viii do it cheer
fully enough, as they have always
done it. We do not take our
@sweatings" from Uncle Sam; they
fall to Us from intermediate sources
in the line of irrational profits de-
manded upon the tariffs named by
him and the "high-hnancing' of those
who have a voice in his councils upon
this great measure.
The story is an old one with the
people. The telling Of it once more
win not make any material difference.
But the time it takes to perfect the
new law is what we concern our
selves with; that is the limit of our
interest in the matter, and it IS the
deep and unanimous wish Of the peo-
Die. that the Payne tariff, or some
body-eise's tariff, may be compiled
confirmed and put in operation BY
the first Of June at the farthest.
But while the matter is under ad'
;ustment, it may not be prodigiously
cheeky for us to frankly urge oui
delegation in Congress to Stand pat
for that inheritance tax; it will helr
us some;.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
HOMEMADE MONEY

The first, best and most logical use
Of homemade money is the spending
Of it right at home, within the radius
in which it was earned, and no man
or woman is free from the duty OF do
ing this thing. Even if it be not
spent, it must be held in the commu-
nifty to which it owes its existance,
for any other course spells disloyalty.
This may not apply to the big sur
plus: vet even that should first be
applied, as far as may be, to the ad-
vancement of the city, town or Sec
ton in which it originated; no one
has a right to drain his home place
to build up another remote from the
ihome-community. Astoria has felt
the rank injustice of this bad faith
very sorely for the past II months
and most of her people are in no way
mealy-mouthed about expressing
themselves on the subject.
The Astoria dollars belong to AS
toria; especially when its investment
abroad offers no more tangible evil
dence Of return than characterizes
most of the investments made at
Portland. Some Of them are, OF
course, understandable, rational, but
in the main they have been in the
nature of Swapping a devil for a
witch" and simply paying commits
sions on barren buys.
| 1t is high time the ordinary Astor'
ian was thinking this thing out and
trying to find home business, al
interest, right where his little savings
were wrought,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-03-19
BOWSER HAS A HEART
Feelings Torn Up by Sutferlngs Of
a Woman Who "ThreW a Fit"
NO AID FROM BETTER HALF.

In Protfsrlna Relief the Old Phlleso'
phsr Gets = Sudden Shock and Re-
turns Home to Faint Fer the Flrst
Time.
Icopyrlght. l9O9, by r c, MeClare,l
"HERE was a grim look on Mr'
Bowsers face as he came home
from the Office, and. Ike q
good wife and thinking some
thing might have gone wrong at the
ofilSe, Mrs, Bowser chattcd away and
pretended not to notice Il, AT the din
ner table he was moroso and sullen,
answering only In mouosyllables, and
she drew a long breath rs the meal
was ended and braced herself for the
conflict to come. when husband
kisses his wife goodby and calls her
dearle on leaving home In the morning
and comes home ten hours later like
an old bear that has tumbled out OF q
tree II Is a matter for investigation,
Mrs. Bowser didn't delay on reach
ing the sitting room. but turned and
asked;
well, what great and unforgiyaole
crime have committed now|
woman. have | the privilege OF ad'
dressing a few words 70 your stitiiy
inquired old bruin.
Certainly"
Then let me say that as ! got on
the car at the corner l saw a woman