Weekly journal-miner., 1912-07-24

teen hundred to two thousand dol lars; and the glass is kept as ex- quisitely clean and polished as that in the most exclusive Paris or Vienna restaurant It is gaily and yet graciously decorated with cut glass bottles filled with generous looking wine, and with the most alluring display of gay and not gaudy bottles, no more vicious-look- ing that an array of happy cordials. The bartender is man of mark and of great ability after his kind. He is selected because of his agreeable nature. his tact. his humor. and be cause he is a good mixer His skill in mixing drinks is one of his chief. est assets; and he thinks a very great deal of himself The saloons in towns like Prescott and Phoenix are open night and day: they arc never closed. do not know whether the whole thirty-two saloons of Prescott, with its five thousand people. are open night and day, but certainly the big ones arc. and the bar-tcndcrs only have from four to six hours duty in the day. and are paid as night as four or five dollars. that is. from sixteen to twenty shillings per day. For them also are the free drinks. Everybody asks the bartender to drink. just as in the early pioneer days a man would never order drink for him self alone at the bar. but would "set 'em up" for the crowd. no matter how large Edward Camp bell. one of John Lindell's popular bartenders. had been a boxer. He was simple. good hammered man. with whom you could have taken long journeys. which is saying much He had trained prizefighters. and that is why he became my masseur while I was in Prescott But not for money. He had his social position to keep up. He did it out of personal friendship.
 "In my last fight Campbell said. "l knew was done at the end of the second round. and wished 10 God could have stopped: {: but my friends wouldn't have it. and when 1t was over I could have been sold for jelly. The match was a draw. but I'd had enough. I've never put on gloves except for fun since"
 You had gloves on - how could you be SO badly punished. Campbcll?' l asked.
 He laughed Look here, Mir. Parker" he answered, "them gloves you might just as we'll have none on at all. They're made so thin you can hurt like h--l with them. and when you put rosin on the knuckles you can cut a cheek like a bit of cheese"
 He was good bartender and good masseur, and he filled me with envy.
 I'm going home to supper" he said, after having given me massage at eleven o'clock one night
 What are you going to have, Campbell,"
 Boiled rabbit, some pickles, and a chunk of cheese" he answered.
 And then?" asked hclpiessly.
 "Oh. then I'm going to bed!" he answered.
 l prayed to be delivered from the poison of envy. Boiled rabbit and pickles and cheese at twelve o'clock at night, and then bed! Yet Campbell had cheeks like a Devon shire dairymaid Arizona has a re- markabIc climate.
 Even hunger, like other sorrows of human life, is taken with some sense of humor in Arizona. Al whistle blew in the town of Pres colt at twelve o'clock noon. Al man standing on the pavement said. as he listened;
 That means dinner to some folks but it's only twelve o'clock to me
 Every country has its anomalies; and the United States has its full-| 1T not overflowing--share of them. It certainly is a reflection upon the great-heartedness of the American people that they pay their ambassa- dor a salary not greater than is given to the minister of some little South American republic. When II found that the governor of the state of Arizona, which sends a senator to Washington who gets