Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-03
HOW Men Are Nude
A Mining Camp Messenger Boy Meets Pioneer Miner in Sick Room; Refuses to Take Aged Mans Money for Tip; Do They Grow Them Like This in Other Communi ties? Let Western Union Tell

The Western Union publishes a serv- ice bulletin or something of that sort if it does it ought tO-and in the next number there should be the pic ture of a Bisbee boy and a story about him After that the Western Union should see to it that the story of the boy finds publicity all over the country. It owes 1t to all of its boys. Its service has not, unfortunate ly, tended to give the boys the kind of reputation they are mostly deserv. ing of. the sort that helps them up- ward. and the company could O much worse than helping right this thing by telling stories of its boys such as that of the Bisbee boy. All of which is quite true by way of prelude
 The reporter came upon the story because he happened to drop in to see an old-timer who was ailing bit The old-tmer was a transient and roomer at a hotel It was dinger room in a second-class house, and the old timers week occupancy had made 1T none the less untidy. for the old timers housekeeping ideas have firm foundation and superstructure built on the simple lines of outdoor life in desert and mountain. wherein the book of rules provides that the tidy ing up part of the business belongs to the wind and the rain the efficient right and left hands of Nature.
 The old-timer had been lying in bed with a misery in the knee. to which he was amply entitled by reason of hard days rambling among the shaft houses of the district Indeed, half oi the days tour over the rocks and hills would have put many a younger man in worse plight Frcm the bed he had arisen to write telegram, and he had sent for a messenger boy be- fore he began to write
 The boy was there when the re- porter arrived. sitting on the opposite side Of fbe little table on which the old-timer struggled with his writing. laboring with a bit dim memory. dim eyes, and a dinner light Had the hcv been in fhn W. U. office he would have been at liberty to go home, for the hour had passed within which messengers are held He looked tired and a bit wistful. but mingled with it was sympathy for the white-haireo old-timer and his blunt pencil across the table There was going to be no impatience with the old man - as much showed in determined lines of the youths face. He was a small, wiry lad alert, keen and in the mood of the mmoent good to look upon. He got up promptly when the reporter en- tered and ocered him his seat, the only chair in the room except that Of the old-timer. The latter thanked the ny snd told hf-n to sit on the bed The lad looked at that already mUeh rumbled convenience and tactfully declined. It was evident that he con sidered it already sufficiently mussed- The reporter took the chair and the boy stood up. The ol--iimer contin- ued painfully on in the dim light with his night letter. He was using all of the 5O-word allowance
 Yes, the boy said, he was kind of tired. Yes. there hadn't been a great deal to do most of the day, but gosh. how they had rushed him during the last several hours, from 4 o'clock on Two messages had been way up on the hills. and he had been to two houses where the kids were just get ting over the humps, and to one place where they had had the small pox. Was he afraid of contracting smallpox or mumps2 Not at all Had been vaccinated. Didn't know wheth- CT he had had the humps. but thoueht it a safe bet that he had. for it seemed to him he had surrounded and enter