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Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-09

Christian Aid. Thursday, Apr. 13. Solo Club, Ben Chase, Apr. 15. Children's Home Assn, Mrs. Montgom- cry, May 8.
 St. Johns Hike, Monday Apr. 10. M E. Aid r. W. c. A Thursday Apr l3 Pythian Card Club, Mrs. Waters, Apr.
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not been accustomed to having, includ-
ing seats. When the hall finally was
filled he used his choicest profanity in
denouncing those who had come to hear
him and did the reporters to turn, as
was his cheerful practice.
In spite of all this New York refused
to have it's eye knocked out. He raved
and ranted with all the power of his
wonderful lungs, but the city only
twitted, kidded, and sent him on his
way back home minus his cash.
AS the crestfallen apostle departed
from his high priced hall after one final
failure he CHANGED to look across the
square and saw cheering crowd as
big as the one he had at his meeting.
"Why, what's all that?" he asked an
attendant.
Gust one of those blamed soap-boX
speakers, DOCTOR" was the reply.
A new expression fitted across the
face of the self-styled apostle. He had
purchased Madison Squares secret at
a high price, but it was his own. The
next morning he returned to Chicago
and resumed his discourses there from
the vantage point of brand new soap
box
One of the beauties of the Madison
Square forum, from the standpoint of
the seeker after new views on the
philosophy of life, is that he has the
widest variety of thought to select
from. Omar Khayyam and the makers
of electric belts divide honors in accept
ing credit for full measure of human
happiness. Herbert Spencer or Jere-
miah O'Leary becomes the idol of the
crowd according to the speaker it pat
ronizes.
Possibly you have your own favorite
philosophy. You would hear it eX-
pounded? Then lend Madison Square
your ear.
Time, noon of any sunshiny day.
Yes, We'll have to edge our way through
this crowd in order to get within ear
shot of the collarless disciple of Herbert
Spencer. Pardon me, didn't intend to
use my elbows, but would you mind
stepping off my foot? Now we can
hear what he's saying.
"Of course, it's unnecessary t have
these big wars. Bloodshed? Wy, hui
manity's like err maniac slashing hizone
flesh with a knife. Foolish! Wyn't we
settle these problems by the common
sense way? That's the way Herbert
Spencer, the greatest exponent of COM
mon sense who ever lived, would have
us do.
"Now, look a. here! You're a coffee
expert"
You blush, move from one foot to the
other. but do not deny the soft i'm
parchment as he points an accusing fin
ger at you.
"Tm a coffee expert, too. We both
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All
different smiles, and more silence on
their part.
"But those jackals shan't muzzle
me!' she exclaimed. 'I'll talk to the
world in spite Of them"
Then go to Madison Square" was
the terse advice of one Of the bearded
gentlemen.
She did. She viewed the battery Of
speakers who were bombarding their
audiences with astounding truths and
near-truths. Finding that each speak
er provided his own platform, she went
to a nearby wholesale house and in
vested ten cents in a pedestal for her
self. She returned to the spot, mounted
her box-platform and Immediately
made her debut as an open-air speaker.
The substance of her message was
that it is crime to be more than two
hops and a jump ahead of the wolf.
Possession of wealth, she said was am
pie evidence of wholesale wrongdoing.
And wealth, to this speaker, meant any
thing in the way of cash over carfare
and lunch money Possession of
handbook was set forth as sufficient
grounds for leading its owner to the
nearest tree and slipping a moose around
his neck.
Somehow the sentiment proved eX-
tremely popular to Madison Square au-
diences. They applauded any attack
upon the criminally inclined coal dealer,
grocer or even delicatessen owner, who
was credited with designs upon their
kard-earned cash. So the young wom-
ans audiences grew steadily day by day
as she took more and more liberties
with this new-found freedom of speech.
Such was the first public appearance
of Emma Goldman. Since then she has
attained that pinnacle of success for
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. series of jail SEN
fences. Many are the happy days she
has spent in cells of every variety of
penal institutions If Miss Goldman
does not write a volume entitled 'Pris-
on Cells | Have Inhabited" it will not
be because she lacks the information
upon which to base such a treatise.
And all because of the unparalleled OPP
portunities offered by Bughouse Row!
There are many Madison Square
speakers, however, who have failed to
appreciate the subtle value of the soap
box as stepping stone to success. Take
the case of the late John Alexander
Dowie, he of flowing beard and silken
robes. Having attained a measure of
fame and chest of gold by speaking
in Chicago's streets, he decided to come
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a soap-box! Instead, he dug deeply
into his strong box and rented Madison
Square Garden. He advertised, spent
money lavishly, and provided his pros
pective audience with everything it had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
By RAY H. LEX

down to New York and, to use the pict-
uresque language of one of his follow
ers, "knock little old Manhattan's eye
out"
But he failed to provide himself with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
"What Happens VIII
YouPma Kettle of Wat|
ON the Fire?"- Mad;,o
Square KNOWS. "Wha|
Does HerbertSbenc~ Sad
About Cofee?"- Mad;|
SON Square VIII TsAYou
Talk Is Cheap There, and
Cheapest at High Noon

Cheapest at High Noon !
go into that lunch cart over thsx -,
drink cup Of coffee. You say II, g..
/ say it's rotten. But we do not cc,,.
to blows on account of our differsr,
We call in five more coffee experts N,
they all say it's fine coffee. So IN /.
the minority, and the world goes :,
saying that this partic'lar brand cos.
is a fine drink.
what does Herbert Spencer 50,
about this ?"
The speaker stoops and lifts a BON;
volume from his soap-box. He oper, !
and reads us just what Herbert Soc.
Ger did say about it.
Now this beautifully bound volur,
which ordinarily sells for
Horrors! Our idol has fallen. M
missionary Of a newer thought, but Al
book agent. Let us move hurriedy oil
to the next soap-box.
This harangue sounds good. Canye
see the speaker? Go on, push up !
little, so we can get a look at him. N
wonder we couldn't see him. He's on
a messenger boy. On strike, evidentE
Yes, he's joined the milk dealers, III
coal barons and the rest of the plotte|
in the conspiracy to raise the high I'd
Of living. His hat seems to be in NJ
ring, so to speak, but only to receive III
contributions of a sympathetic crow
for his cause. Listen:
Come on, now, gents, help de stli
ing messengers! We want more mone
and we earn it. Youse all know wen
de fellers dat are right. Dey tink DE-
can get skoits in dere to do our vol
but dey amt got chanst. Dis Is
just cause. Now, fellers, we need you
help, we need money, and
You put your hand in your pocks
and draw out some silver without tas
ing your eyes off young Mercury's fac'
Rather a good line of talk for young
ster, at that.
Come on, now" urges the four-fc'
orator, "only two bits more and g
two fifty. Suppose you wuz in Oh
place. Only two bits. Who's goin'
help us win? Tanks, fellers, you're .
right"
A shower of silver falls into the blu
cap, and the young speaker, graboin
his earnings in one grimy fist, hasul
abandons his rostrum to enter oth'
fields.
What's that hort-haired woman
the corner raving about? Her hgul
suggests the Rock of Gibraltar, and D
arms are as energetic as windmill
a breezy day. Let's move in benin
this fat man.
look at those figures" shrills u
speaker at the top of rasping soprs'
voice. Look at 'em, | say! Men
America, what does the great Presloe'
tial election teach you? Just one tnln
gentlemen. Just one thing. d
shakes her clenched fist and settles %
mannish sailor at a more belligere'
angle.
What happens when you put ks
tie full of water on the fire? What na
pens? Why, that water boils ana o0'
until the lid of the kettle is forced o.
And, gentlemen, that is just wnss
happening everywhere to-day IN inc
great United States. Woman sullfs'
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A wild-eyed young woman pounded
upon the pine top of kitchen table IN
the rear of an East Side tenement and
announced that message for the world
vas pent up in her breast. Two beard
cd men, who were slipping beer from
tall stems, smiled, muttered through
their whiskers and shrugged a shrug
that indicated little interest in the mes
sage.
SO the young woman seized a pencil
and unburdened herself through the
medium Of an article for the magazines.
But. somehow, the editors were squeam-
ish about the particular brand of vir-
ilty she injected into her copy. They
refused TO publish it in the free and
easy style of the contributor.
Next, she sought the lecture plat
'"ilN, out uisCoNeIeu uheAPe0Veu opoI@-
clcs in that direction. Merely having
message for the world, surprising as it
may seem, did not prove the open
sesame TO the coveted spot she hoped
10 occupy in Carnegie Hall.
TO the energetic young woman it was
AL astounding discovery. In this coun-
Try OF boosted independence there was
10 free speech She rushed back to
her bearded companions and repeated
her discovery to them. There was
more Struggling of shoulders, more in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
Lack of Capital Need
Meier Deter One from
Going Into the Talk Bua-
ness at Madison Square;
McidentalIy, 1t Meier
Does. Capital, in Fact
Is a Much Sc0rned and
Hated Thing i'm Madison
SqnareOratoricaICircleS

IN THE accurate terms of the City
Directory it is called Madison
Square; certain philosophers who
frequent Greenwich Village refer to it
az the Citys Babel; but those who visit
the spot in quest of wisdom or amuse-
n,ent have more appropriately named
it Bughouse Row.
No matter which Of these names you
may decide is most fitting, there Is no
questioning the fact that the square
has proved the stepping stone to notorl-
ety for half of the nations seekers al
ter a place in the limelight, and has
offered free amusement for those work
ers who do not care to spend their en-
tire lunch hour consuming coffee and"
from a one-arm chair.
No psychologist has been able to eX-
plain Just why the city, by common
consent, has selected this particular site
rather than City Hall Square, Battery
Park or any one of numerous other
seemingly favorable spots upon which
to locate its greatest public forum. 1t
may be that there's some magic quality
in the sunlight in which the orators
bask. or in the shade in which the au-
diences stand, or in the traditions of the
spot itself; but the fact remains that
Madison Square has acted like mag
net to the opponents of weird and bi-
zalre ideas ever since the city reclaimed
it from the COW pasture of which it was
a part.
For the speakers at Madison Square
freedom of speech has become devel-
oped to its highest or most fragrant
state, according to the point of view.
There are no censorious editorial pen
ellis or stern representatives of the law
to clip the wings of oratory. All one
must Go is to await the arrival of the
monday sunshine and the lunch hour
crowds, remove the stopper from ones
idea tank and burst into speech. It's a
poor ism or ology that won't draw
score of interested and admiring listen
ers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
By EDWARD HUNCERFORD

name and then marked underneath the
cryptic legend: "Wells Fargo never for
gets"
Captain Hume caught the two men
who had looted the Central Pacific train
near Sacramento-one might almost say,
of course. After safe lapse of time they
had returned to dig out their treasure.
They dug in every direction, but they did
not find it, They returned again and dug
again. But the gold was gone. 1t was
irretrievably gone. When the bandits
finally realized that, they fell back on their
profession once again. After all, there
were other trains, other express cars laden
with golden opportunities. 1t was one of
these that they held up few months
later-not far from Redding, California.
This was to be a complete job. While
one man tackled the express car, the
other wandered into the sleepers. The
passengers tumbled out Of their berths,
held up their hands, and consented to a
removal of their watches and their wallets.
That is, all the passengers save one con-
sented to the performance. This man
he was the sort that novelists like to de-
scribe as abig, outstanding man"-said
that he would die in his boots rather than
surrender to any outlaw. He was the
sheriff of Tehama County and he had a
reputation to sustain. In the end he sus-
tanned his reputation-and he died with
his boots on, right there in the aisle of the
Pullman sleeping-car. But the outlaw
who had killed him paid the price before
he ever left the car. The rest of the pas
sengers took courage from the sheriff, and
they fell upon the murderer and filled his
body with bullets. The other thief heard
the commotion in the sleeping-car, and
rode off into the brake, leaving his booty.
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express people. ats the biggest job he
has ever had to tackle" And they knew,
when they said it, that the veteran head
of the secret service had tackled some
pretty big jobs. On one notable occasion
he had traced an absconding cashier to
desolate island in the South Sea islands.
There the cashier had laughed at the de-
tective. For he was safe-there was no
extradition law there; he had the money
in gold bags, and with it he had married
the princess of the island and had been
crowned its king But Wells Fargo, in the
person of Captain James Hume, did not
laugh. 1t watched the absconder, at the
point where he was eXtradition-proof.
Hume watched him as cat watches rat
hole. He was waiting for him to come
out. In the long run Captain Hume lost.
The rat never came out. He spent his
gold, and the queen went elsewhere. He
drifted low, even as the low standards OF
the South Sea islands go. And he died in
a raging fever, derelict beach-comber,
realizing for the first time that he had
spent thirty-two years on forlorn island,
veritable prisoner, denied even the as
ISOLATION of white men.
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cedes the breaking of the dawn, two
masked men halted the Overland ex-
Il press. At the point of the rifle they
forced the engineer and the fireman to
detach the locomotive and the express car
from the train and to run forward out of
the shadows of nearby wood. Then
they entered the express car through its
blind end" and catching the messenger
off his guard, looted it at their leisure.
And what loot! Fifty-two thousand dol
lars in gold was the rare prize that the
bandits threw out of the broad center door
of that express car.
In all the history of train robbers, no
other one had succeeded in capturing so
rare a prize as this. Measured by mere
weight, it passed two hundred pounds 1t
was a troublesome haul because of this
very fact. And, after the bandits, cool
headed in their hour of success, succeeded
in getting their Northumberland treas
ure out of the car and the train on its way
again down the valley, they We're troubled
to know how to carry it. Sacramento was
but few miles distant. In an hour it
would be known in that capital town that
the Central Pacific Overland express had
been held up and robbed; posses would
be organizing; the outraged law of the
State of California would slowly begin to
assert itself.
So, as the gray fog gave way to the dim
outlines of early morning, the two men
dug deep hole not far from the point
where they had held up the train. Into
this hole they dropped their plumber,
quickly covering it again with soft, fresh
earth. They marked the place in their
memory, sprang quickly to their horses,
and rode away into the gray. And, as
they did so, man came out of the fog and
began feverishly scraping at the top of the
soft, fresh earth.
If California considered that its reputa-
ton for law and decency had been vio-
lated, how about Wells, Fargo 4 Com
pany, whose express lines radiated the en-
tire State? For more than forty years it
had been said throughout the West that
there were two dangerous institutions fol-
bad men to tinker with-the Federal gov
eminent and Wells Fargo. This Sacra-
mento robbery did not chance to be the
governments affair But it was decidedly
Wells Fargo's. Moreover it marked a
sort of climax in series of bad train rob-
berries. Within comparatively few
months two of the express company's
messengers had been killed in defense Of
its treasure. And this, coming hard upon
the heels of those two offenses, was the
last straw.
"Its a Job for Captain Hume" said the
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They sent down to San Francisco by
telegraph for Captain Hume, and he
came hurrying up to Redding on special
train. For three days he rode of into the
brake, alone, in search of the other bandit.
When he returned, it was with the BAN
dts body-and this confession:
"That gold from the c. P.'s gone,'
gasped the bandit ave haven't it,"
"Of course had been Captain Hume's
laconic response. "We've got it,
Jesse James Predecessor
by slow, laborious, painstaking method
of piecing together clues, Captain
Hume had found the man who rose out of
the gray that morning as the bandits rode
off. This man was hobo-a man who
slept his nights under the California stars
and who measured off the railroad miles
as his daily walking expedition. By pure
luck he had CHANGED upon the hold-up;
and he had carefully removed the gold to
hiding-place of his own. But, before he
could spend more than fraction of his
suddenly acquired wealth, Captain Hume's
long fingers were upon him. The inscru-
table mental processes of the Wells Fargo
chief of secret service had again proved
unfailing. And the company's reputa-
ton, gained in the days when it operated
and protected more than two thousand
stage-coaches, had been maintained.
This was something more than twenty
years ago. 1t marked the practical ending
of train robbery in California. The sport
had been made unhealthy in the Golden
State. But there were places, to the east,
where it seemed to be alive and thriving.
In northern Missouri, for instance, train
robbery had been almost recognized in
dustry since the days of the Civil War.
when man named Bill Anderson had
held the entire countryside terrorized for
months at time. Anderson was train
robber and much more. He and his gang
fought several battles with United States
troops-on one occasion meeting two hum
dred regulars sent to capture them and
leaving but thirteen to tell the story. The
James Brothers Drank and Jesse) and the
Younger Boys shared some of his exploits
in the closing days of his nOtoriety and
succeeded him. For after ne was finally
gone, his body literally riddled with bull
lets by the troops sent to catch him, the
men of the black flag still terrorized the
country along the banks Of the lower Mis-
souri,. For time their record ran high.
Their successors in the ungentle art OF
holding up and robbing trains were group
of men known as the Dalton gang. For
forty-five months they successfully stood
off the law. They had the little towns ter
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A Great Detective

JAMES HUME was one of the great
y detectives whose biography has never
been written. He would have preferred
that it be not written. He never craved
notoriety. He was not dramatic. But his
memory was long-reaching, and when he
got hold of man he never let go. 1t was
because of Hume, and of the bulldog tao
tics of Johnnie Thacker, his associate,
that when they buried bandit out in the
West they put upon his wooden slab his
Evening star., 1916-07-24
CAPT. BRANDS BODY i
TO REST IN ARLINGTON
Funeral Of Army oMcer Who Died
at Hatchita, N. M, to Be
Held Wednesday.

Capt. Christian BRAND Of the 18th
United States Cavalry. who died at
Machita, N. NJ, Sunday, July 1e, aged
f1fty-three years, will be buried In Ar
lington cemetery Wednesday morning at
1890 o'clock
Capt. BRAND was born in Denmark,
May 10. 1863. and came to the United
States when very young. He enlisted In
the army as a private and rose through
the ranks. After a short time as a pri-
vate he was promoted to corporal, and
not long after that to the rank of SER
genat.
Promotions to first sergeant and then
to quartermaster sergeant came rapidly
after that, and in 1898 he was commits
stoned a first lieutenant in the 9Th Vol
unteer Infantry. He served as first lieu
tenant and as captain in the Porto Rico
provisional regiment.
In 1901 he was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the regular army and was
assigned to the 1st United States Cav
airy. He reached the rank of captain in
1911. in the 4th United States Cavalry.
and later was assigned to the 18th Cav
airy. in which he was serving at the time
Of his death.
Evening star., 1916-07-24
ENGLAND TO SEND SHIP
FOR SHACKlET0N'S MEN
Vessel Now Being outltted for At
tempt to Reach Elephant
Island.

LONDON. July 24.-In view Of the
possibility of the failure of the third
attempt now being carried out by Sir
Ernest Shackleton in a small vessel to
rescue twenty-five men of his antarctic
exploration party left on Elephant Is
land. in the South Shetlands. and at his
most urgent request. the government, it
is ohlcially announced. now has decided
to dispatch = vessel from England for
this purpose as soon as she is fitted out,
no suitable wooden vessel being avail
able at any South American port
'The Governor and Company Of Ad-
venturers OF England Trading Into
Hudson Bay" has sratuitously placed
their vessel Discovery. especially built
for antarctic exploration. at the dis
posal of the admiralty. Lieut.. Com
mander James Fairweather. an expert
enced ice master. has been appointed to
command the vessel, now fitting out at
the Davenport dockyard. On compile
zion Of the preparations. If news is not
received of a successful issue of Sir
Ernest's present attempt to reach Ele-
phant Island. she will then proceed
thence. taking the explorer on board on
the way.
1t is anticipated. says the announce
ment, that the vessel will have no diff
Guilty in reaching her destination, and
1t Is sincerely hoped that she will res
cue the stranded party.
Evening star., 1916-07-24
SANITARY INSPECTORS /
BEGIN PROSECUTIONS
Will Proceed Against Grooers an6f
Lunchroom Proprietors Violating
the Health Ordinance. =;

Extensive prosecution Of groosry
store and lunchroom proprietor8 who
fail to comply with the sanitary regu-
lations Is expected to be the outstand-
ing feature in this week'0 endeavor
by tho health department to safeguard
Washington against an epidemic OF in
fantile paralysis.
Complaints against two dealers will
be hoard in Police Court tomorrow. but
these are expected to be only the FORE
runners of a number of such cases. In
spectors OF the department are max
ing thorough Investigation OF condi-
tions In downtown lunchrooms and
grocery stores, and wherever 1t is
found that flies are being tolerated be-
cause the regulations for their ex-
clusion are not complied With prose-
cution will follow
No new cases OF infantile paralysis
have been reported to the health de-
partment since Saturday. There are
but seven on record. all of mild type,
whfle In two or three cases the dag
nosis is doubtful. Health department
officials believe that Washington will
escape an epidemic of the disease.