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Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
A SMALLPOX
 SCARE IS
 EASY TO START

Years ago when this newspaper man was working in Topeka. Kss.. a small. poN scare started up there. just before the date Of the state fair. which was to be held in that city. that worried the city officials and commercial club and state fair directors into gray hairs and sleepiess nights There might have been a smallpox case or two m the city. but there was no epidemic of the disease; no Quaran- tine; no danger But every day let- ters came to the commercial club and state fair officials asking sbou; the smallpox epidemic and urging them 70 give up or postpone the fair because CT it. From a dozen towns and cities came these messages of inquiry and oi fear
 It soon dawned upon the Topeka men that sCme one was de HberaJelv spreading a propaganda that would ruin ihe state fair if it were not stopped Investigation developed the fact that these letters of warning were all posted from a little town down in Case county So the newspaper man was sent down there Co find the writer and set at the causes and be ginniugs os th.s most harmful mali cious and fnundationless ana.r
 Tho town was not gs Ni as Don
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
HE TOOK UP
 HIS JAIL AND
 WALKED AWAY

H. E. Grover, the old ranger and well-known peace officer of the bor der for the last twenty-five years. did the newspaper man the honor 10 make him a little visit the other day, and under subtle and persistent pressure, yielded the following little yarn that had to do with one of his many sd- ventures in the old days when this country was young:
 It happened at a settlement called Pierce. or Pierce's camp, the news paper man is not certain which. and Grover was marshal or deputy sherif or special marshal. or something like that at the time. And the time was rough and ready. Bad men. gun men. Mexicans. cOwpunchers. COW stealers. outlaws and masteTless men rCved to and fro along the border then and many of them passed through Pierce, some stopping to dice and 10 drink for a day.
 One Of these was a wild Irishman among the Irish. He was as big as a bear. and almost as strong. He loved whisky because of its strength and he loved a fight for a fights sake. Both were to be found in plenty al Pierce This Irishman had not been in town an hour before he was in the middle of a rough house. Grover pushed forward and pried his assail- ants away and disarmed the belliger- ent son of the Emerald isle and placed him under arrest
 And 1t was then that Growers real troubles began. There was no jail Grover finally solved the problem with simple ineeniOusness. He took his fighting Irishman over tO a big freight wagon and shackled him to the wheel to cool of and await the verdict Of the town alcalde the next morning
 it was no trouble at all 10 cool of, for it was a ecld night Along about midnight the prisoner began to get cold and restless and he forthwith pro ceeded to remove the tap from the wagon wheel; remove the wheel itself from the axle and. staggering under his heavy burden. make his way down to the saloon and roll inside with his wheel
 Here is your darned old jail" he said to Grover. Its too cold so I brought it to the fire"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
THIS HORSE HAS SURELY EARNED
 HIS REWARD

One of the greatest express con panies in the world has a branch in Bisbee that is not living up to the traditions of the parent corporation. It is using a horse to its express delivery wagon that has long since served his purpose and done his due and had his day. This horse is weary and old with service. He has climbed the mountain sides of this canyon and cut the curves and backed the grades and delivered the goods. Now he Is sped with the spavins and is travel ing upon his nerve and not upon his youthful vigor and strength long sicce departed.
 This newspaper man has all his fife admired the express company hcrses' in cities large and small. Big horses these. prancing and powerful. Well fed. well groOmei: shining brass bar ness and bright buckles and proud step and jingling accOutrements. This newspaper man has read of ,ae days when Buffalo Bill rode the pony eX- press across the plains upon the fleet est, best horses in the world, and he has seen pictures of old Powder Face and other famous steeds that carried the express.
 Always he has thought of the eX- press horses as the best money could buy, and he has admired the care and pride the company always seemed to have in its faithful servants in the shafts and in the harness.
 But here is a lone and lamentable exception to the rule. Never day passes but that some citizen or busi- ness man upon the street calls this newspaper mans attention to this poor old horse and his weak legs and his brave heart and willing spirit and heavy load.
 Surely this express company is big enough and rich enough and kind enough to maintain the old traditions in regard to all it's horses everywhere all the time.
 IL is not fair to this great company 10 allow one overwOTked faithful old horse to stand as a blemish against its good name for kindness and care or dumb servants. AND. 1t is not fair to the horse,
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
A5B[ant0Md6. E5 By GIllen A. Cain.->

actors and managers got together 70 give a great benefit performance for some worthy cause or other. Figman was selected to put on a stunt in which he was to give an impersOna. ton of Augustine Day, the great Broadway manager and theatre man. Now. Daly was an odd and eccentric person, and the oldest thing about him was his hat. It was of peculiar texture strange shade and exclusive and wonderful block. Figman and his friends wasted a week trying 10 imi- tate that hat. and finally they brihed the hatter's assistant and stole the original block. The rest was easy. A natter made duplicate.
 The night of the big benefit a big theatre was crowded with the elan of New York theatre goers and be- hind the scenes was a galaxy of the brightest stars that ever twinkled on Broadway. Figman came on with his Daly impersOnatiOn the last act of the performance As he appeared upon the stage some irrepressible friend in an orchestra seat yelled out:
 "Oh. Max. where did you get that hat?"
 The house took it up with one great and delighted yell. The Daly hat was too well known and too exclusive to be worn. even in a play and by a player. for that question not to rock Broadway.
 The next day it was still worse Where did you get that hat?" greeted Figman everywhere he went. And it has greeted many thousands from New York to Mandalay ever since.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
IT'S A ROUGH ROAD TO THE
 HUACHUCAS, MATES

As soon as it rains." said Dick Ky an, county engineer. to the newspaper man early in last month, we are going to fix up the road to the Hua- chucas." Now. the newspaper man is great admirer of the county engi neer. He believes that this person is a wizard at about everything to which he turns his delft and supple paw to do. So when the Snows and the rains came later in the month. this newspaper man curried his woOlly flivver one bright Sabbath day and pointed it's nose to the mountains.
 But evidently the Hon. Ryan had not had time to get to that Hereford HuachucaS roadbed with his scrap CTS. dragS and teams. for it was as rough as a ducks foot every foot of the way. In fact. it is the toughest, rOttenest. ripped up. ramshsckle road that this newspaper man has ever travelled in this vale of tears. Only a flivver could have successfully negoti- ated it's bumps and breakers and badness. All along it's broken. bat tered way were big cars laid up for repairs. One had broken spring; sn- other a broken axle; and still another a twisted wheel. A dozen irate and ironical motorists were patching blow outs with old shoes and repairing tires that had been torn to ribbons by the ruts and rocA and revetments of this road.
 From Don Luis to Hereford the road is simply indescribable. It is a spav- ined nightmare running wild through the mesquite From Hereford on to the Huachucas it is passably. and that is all
 This road is the one highway lead ing out from BiSbee to a pleasure grounds and a beauty spot to which the tired man and his wistful wife may go to seek suroease from the sorrow of the red sand and the stark canyon walls. The road winds foi thirty miles through a grand valley, and al the end of 1t comes to a magic spot in the mountains where running water and growing grass and bud and bloom all unite in a happy effort to make a gent young again.
  or a couple of tires on this trip. It is too far to jolt and bump ALL the way to Ramsey Canyon.
 And while this newspaper man knows that the Hon. Ryan has abou' two thousand miles of road in Cochise county 10 patch and to mend. and that he is busy and a much hSrassed engineer and builder. vet still does he pray for a road drag on the adobe that offers the only track to the playground near this district We must play a little or we eanno, work.
 If the Hon. Ryan does not drag that Hereford road before the good old summer time comes round again. this man will be compelled 10 trade his faithful and fast-flying fliv- yer for a hurrO and patiently and toll somely make his way 10 the Hua- chU,as. for make his way there he must. at least every week to drink from that Ponce de Leon spring.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
GETTYSBURG SPEECH CALLED MARVEL OF
 POETIC SPLENDOR

Lincoln's undying Gettysburg sd dress has been put into the new poetic style by Dr. Marion Mills Miller, who finds that "the speech 'is as perfect a poem as ever was written. and even in the minor qualities of artistic Ian guage-rhythm and cadence. phonetic euphony, rhetorical symbolism. and that subtitle reminiscence of a great literary and spiritual inheritance. the Bible, which stands to us as Homer did tG the ancients-it excels the finest gem to be found in poetic cabi nets from the Greek anthology down, ward" pr. Miller's interesting DO etic" presentation of the address fol lows:
 Fourscore and seven years ago Our fathers brought forth on this con
 .tinent 4 new nation. Conceived in liberty. And dedicated to the proposition That all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil
 war. Testing whether that nation. Or any nation so conceived and so
 dedicated. Can Ions endure We are met on a great battlefield of
 that war, We have come to dedicate a portion
 of that field As a final resting-place For those who here gave their lives That that nation might live. IL is altogether fitting and proper That we should do this. But, ih 8 larger sense, We cannot dedicate We cannot cOnsecrate- We cannot hallow- This ground. The brave men. living and dead. Who struggled here, Have consecrated it far above our
 poor power Tc add CT detract The world will little note or long re
 member What we say here. But We can never forget What they did here. It is for us, the living. rather. To be dedicated here to the unfinished
 work Which they who fought here have so
 nObly advanced It is rather for us to be here dedicated To the great task remaining beIore
 us That from these honorable dead We take increased devotion to that
 cause For which they gave the last tul'
 measure of devotion; That We here highly resolve That these dead shall not have d!eC
 in vain; That this nation, under God, Shall have a new birth of freedom; And that government of the people, By the people. and for the people Shall rot perish from the earth.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

Luis. The newspaper man combe6 it from the eyebrows to the back of the neck and could not find even a ciew. Then he tried the girl at the telephone office. Bingi The rest was as easy as shooting fish. She knew a girl down on Onion creek who had started the whole thing on an endless chain of letters plan at the Onion Creek Sewing society cone pleasant autumn day. The newspaper man got this girl on the rural telephone. She owned up. Why? Oh. just because. A month ago she had nursed a woman with smallpox who said she had con tracted the disease while in Topeka.
 And this simple country girl had laid down the milk pail and the churn and taken up the pen. and. writing from the little cabin in the clearing on Onion creek, had upset a large city and caused anxiety in the state capital and worried a group Of the big business men of her state until they did not know which way to turn. Her sewing society, by ex- pending a dollar in stamps. had been in a fair way to cost Topeka town some tliEIl lnOuSduu uOitdTS.
 ''It is as easy to spread a smallpox scare as it is to break an egg. and almost as hard to make right again.
 But the story of the beginning of that scare, played up by all the pa pers, saved the day. and Topeka had her fair. Yet to this day the moral of it impresses the newspaper man cf the far-reaehing and vital effects upon great things, for either good CT evil. that are often had by small and humble beginnings. The part that an humble and average citizen plays in his community and state is often more important than he imagines. So he ought to be careful of what he does or says; of the example he sets; of the tales he bears; of the things for which he takes a stand and the things he stands against. His home, his town and theirs and his own good name are in his hands. and his hands alone.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

And there is still word to when the quarantine both within the district and against the district will be lifted A of smallpox developed this past week indefinitely postponed the date of relief plug citizen of layman that if this embargo society, pleasure and business is be lifted til there is such thing smallpox along the border that will remain in full force and effect for rather indefinite period That all danger Of epidemic has passed doubt. Too much hardship and in- convenience and loss of business being suffered by the entire district keep this drastic regua in hour longer than absolute and i'm perative necessity.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
THIS IS THE
 STRAW THAT BROKE
 THE CAMEL'S BACK

All his life this newspaper man has loved to read history. And. knowing the pleasure and the profit and the philosophy he has gained from the narratives of the men and nations Of long ago, il has been his fond dream and ambition that both his boy ard his girl pore over the printed page of past events. The boy promises to fulfill this hope, but the girl does not. The dream about the girl was shat tered the other day in a letter she wrote her fond dad from boarding school upon the subject of history as follows:
 My grades will be sent to you in 9 day or two. They are all we'll up in the nineties except history l just cannot seem to get on in this study, and I try awful hard because [ know you so wish me to do so. It Is just horrid. and I don't like it. But, dad, I have been studying GuizOt very hard lately and can tell you all about the battle of Tours Charlemagne was there. and he looked perfectly stun ming in long white mantle and big plume in his hat"
 The newspaper man read thus iaI and threw up both hands and fell in a faint. He passes. He gives up the ghost and calls the sexton to come up with his spade and bury all hopes for this girl for any real love or Un- derstanding of his beloved history study It is all over. Charlemagne at Tours, Oh. ye narrators of events, forgive this girl, A stunning white mantle!" Oh. ye brave Gauls who battled with ax and spear and shield and hauberk against the Saracen for seven terrible days upon that bloody plain and saved Christendom from the MOslem, forgive this little girl for turning from Vogue for a fleeting instant 10 desecrate your yalor and fierce endeavOr and sacrifice.
 This gentle schoolgirl saw only the great Frankish warriors mantle and the it of it and its effects as it hung from his shoulder to heel But the mans small son thinks only Of the old warrior as swinging a sword and showing a spear into his enemy's vitals. And SO it goes aud will always go. The eternal feminine. sweet and gentle and looking always at the softer side; and the real boy, seeing only the strength and courage and fighting qualities of the hero he is Co worship. Thus is the world ordered and mol1cd by hands stern and hands soft into a perfect whole
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

Bisbee lady. calling in the telephone en- editorial regarding the high price Of bran wishes supplement with declaration that cornmeal is selling at twenty pound Shades the first Indians that planted in the American wildernessl To what pass have come when the pone; the poor mans friend and standby the simple. humble cheap old slab of cornbread must be paid te of twenty per pound? And navy beans the faithful comrade and plebian blood brother of cornmeal these have ascended from the ranks the proud brotherhood nobility of sugar and wheat and porterhouse old days. These latter in the clouds and cannot be at all But how, pray, is simple plug citizen to economize at all when beans and fail him in his dire extremity? Again, boy page Mir. Hoover and page him until he answers the call.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
THOSE THIN ARMY BLANKETS

The following bit of soldier dogger el. iEclosed in a letter from France. is said to be popular among members oi Cf the American expeditionary forces I'm here with my army blankets, As thin as a slice of ham. 4 German spy. think. was the guy Who made 'em for Uncle Sam. How do [ sleep Don't kid me; My bedtick is filled with straw And Jumps and humps and big fat
 bumps
 That punch me until I'm raw. Me and my two thin blankets. As thin as my last thin dime. As thin, l guess. as a chorus girls
 dress,
 Well, have one heck of time I pull 'em up from the bottom Ny nighties are B V. D.sl A courle or yanks to cDver my sharks And then my tOo;sies freeze. Ycu could use them fer porous blast
 CTS.
 Or maybe to srain the souu. Ny pillows my shoes when ! ;ry to
 encore
 And Fre chilblains and cough and
 crDuu.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
POefs Corner
THE JUST CAUSE.

There is a light where'er I go. There is a splenGOr where wait. Though all around be desolate. Warm on my eyes feel the glow The fght is long, the triumph slow. Net shall my soul stand strong aud
 straight; There 's a light where'er l go. There is splendOr where l wait. My enemy is strong. know. His arms are sly, his guns are great. l do not fear him CT his hate. ln fog, in darkness. grOpes my foe. There Is a light where'er l go, Herman Hagedorn in Everybody's
 NagazinG
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
ORIGIN OF THE
 SAYING, WHERE DID
 YOU GET THAT HAT?'

While over in Fl Paso last week the newspaper man had the privilege Of attending a luncheon with Max Figman. the celebrated actor and comedian. who would have been hero hut for our smallpox quarantine. Fig man made a Speech at this dinner, and. unlike most famous actors who reci;e lines sc well and impToyise them so poorly, he made rattling good speech And in this little talk he told ol the origin or the well-.nown sryiug. Where did you get that hatr
 According To Fisman, some years ago in New York iCt of we'll known
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17
Sunday Morning, February IT, 1918.

The report by a national committee chairman upon the Y W. war work made in this issue of The Review considered by all readers their counrys good heart It is close up view of this wonderful work, given first by lady who lived part of every year in the southwest and knows how to deliver sage in words that the southwest under stand and in which it can have faith
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

Sufficient argument has been offered during the past state cf Arizona Ceven His Excellenfy. Governor Hunt that the death penalty is needed the statute books Of the commonwealth. IL is rather nconceivabe that any man should desire death one kills another But that question can left jures which noted for their cIemency and wiling to give the accused the benefit of the doubt
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

comes home closer every day. does the fact tha- the decision placed the gov ernment in the hands Of politician mas learned nothing and forget nothing The last offense is the interference with COoise county building by the state engineering department recently pot cal and not road building purposes. Our road camp is closed and the state funds and help which are ours furnished by us and apporoned by law withheld from our uses The stand of the county commissioners in this matter will be approved by nine property out of ten in the county. And much serious and farreachng than funds work. is the fact that this nation is this war governor As man is in small matters so he is in great ones
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

The European edition of the New York Herald, dis. cussing the strong editorial declares that with the close of the year 1917. many Englshmen who had wagered the duration of the paid their bets and this year the betting the length of the IS very light It pretty general opinion London that the will end in April. 1919. COntinYing, the editorial says Ask the Englisman of standing about the war. and he will presumably say: "Oh. the United States and England will finish it up France will give up but she has done her bit already and not be expected to give much more Of her waning strength did her share battle fields. Now is the of England and the States bring it all finish-and they be counted to do it." Great Britain counting heavily the vitality and of the United States. There is much amiable feeling than formerly toward the Land Of the AL mighty Dollar" As one of the American soldiers from Kansas remarked recently in London restaurant: "I Icoks as the Land the Almighty Dollar Land Almighty Tuppence have hooked up together for real business"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

Ne and my two tliin blankets. Banded mp under my chin. Yes, a German spy. ! think was The
 guy
 And gcsh. but he made 'em thin'
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-17

And the Lord said unto Gideon. Py the three hundred that lapPed will I you and de liver the Midianites into thine hand; and let all the other people go. every to his place. Judges 712
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-18

Cleveland is TO have church exclusively for
the deaf.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-18

customers from other countries to our markets
and--even more important, in my opinion-car-
ry alert Americans sightseeing and trade extend
ing in other lands. The sea win once call
American youth, for we shall need thousands Of
navigators and hundreds of thousands of sea-
men,
81 think it especially important to once more
put the sea into the imagination of the Aneri-
can boy. Our literature is rich in the adj
venture of yesterday. Many an American boy
ws;ld 90 tc sea if he knew that there are new
opportunit Our new merchant marine af
fords those opportunities.
"Our navy has, for a generation, been a
thoroughly national institution, drawing many
of it's officers and sailors from nand states.
Our fresh-water sailors on the Great Lakes are
second TO in ability, and the Great Lakes
merchant marine, like American railroads, sur
passes those of other nations in efficiency and
reasonable carrying rates.
81 want to see our new merchant marine oc-
cupying the same place in national thought and
the every day affairs of all Americans that our
Navy now occupies. I want the whole American
people to think about it as often, and with the
will maintain mercantile marine unless we can
back it with American public opinion.
81 am business man, and so this looks to me
like straight selling proposition. 1t is not
enough to build and operate big merchant ma
rine.
We have got to sell it to the great American
public and particularly the farmer and workmen
who make up the backbone Of this country, and
the boys who must again be brought under the
spell of the sea- Selling is nothing more than
making people see what your goods do for
them, so our merchant fleet must be brought
home to Americans everywhere in terms of
direct benefit