The Pick and Drill, 1899-09-02

Here is a field for reform: "Down with the theatrical lithographers! A has the billboard! The immorality of the stage we can escape by boycot boycotting - ting boycotting the theater; we do not have to go there. But the billboards, ablaze with vulgarity: debauching the eye with salacious suggestion; staring us out of countenance with their brazen shame shamelessnes - lessness shamelessnes - these we cannot help seeing: they are thrust upon us; they stand in our way; they hail young girls and boys on their way to school; this thing is a crying shame; a flagrant offense against public modesty and good morals; this, it is our right and duty to destroy. Even the hardened and blase cities have cried out against the indecency of the billboard. Let us blow a mighty blast on the trumpet and move forward to its destruction. And while we are at it. we can but observe that the billboard pictures have repeated themselves in minia miniature - ture miniature here and there in more secluded places. Yes, in the cigarette boxes, although that wasn't just what I was looking at And in artistic advertise advertisements - ments advertisements of multitudinous beers and innumerable whiskies; yes, that is terrible, too; some of those pictures, had they appeared in such high colors and attitudes in pamphlet form a few years ago, would have landed the printer in the arms of Anthony Com Comstock; - stock; Comstock; pity it is there should be so much coarseness and vulgarity even in the lines of trade that cater to the appetites of men. But there, we can see some reason - or, rather, some motive for that.'' - Bob Burdette, in Los Angeles Times.

The alleged coalition of the South and Central American republics)?), for mutual defense against the United States, very graphically illustrates a "tempest in a teapot." Were it not for the moral force exerted by this -rovernment in their behalf, there wouldn't be a single one of them in al! that country today in <ondition to coalesce with a Digger lidian. The ingratitude of republics is proverbial, and those jim-crow repuolics to the south of us, simply enphasize the truth of the proverb - "-epublic are ungrateful. The "coaltion" of a pack <>f insignificant fic*. against a big hearted mastiff withoit their reach and wholly indifferent tothe fice com-[ bine, could not be more or I more farcical. If this government i- to be run solely in the interests < f. commerce, then commerce should be nade to pay the running expenses of he govern government. - ment. government. And if this govermient must spread itself over all creaion. solely in the interests of com lerce. then commerce should be madeto bear the expense of the "spreading act," and for its protection by the jovernment. If commerce is the principal industry of the land, let that "prinipal indus industry" - try" industry" pnv the principal lart of the tax s. This is bid right aid it should do so. How is it in thi: Territory? Does the "principal indistry" here pay its just proportion ol the taxes? | We believe it does not. J is the poor j devils who pay taxes at of all pro-1 portion to real propery values, and ; whose "principal indusry" is the la-i bor of their hands am the sweat of i their brows. Is this ri ht? Is it jus-I tice?

There are mines. There are mining men. There are prospects which do not deceive. There are plenty of wildcats which disgust men with min min' - ' min' ing. The Mining World says that a mining camp with but a single pay- I ing lode running through it offers a i good field for the wildcat mining , broker or speculator. Virginia City, t Nevada, is a place in point. The Com Com-1 - -1 Com-1 stock was a paying proposition wher wher' - ' wher' ever it was struck. It made Virginia | City famous. Men made fortunes in i mining upon the Comstock and in dealing in its shares. But the Com Com; - ; Com; stock didn't make wildcats pay, but it ; made them sell, and many men lost , their all in trying to make something 'out of them. Esmeralda, Austin. I Pioche and other points in Nevada | had their rich mines; they also had their wildcats. The latter "queered" j the former. Wildcat propositions are j a curse to any mining center. They breed doubt and distrust of really I good lodes, for the same confident, apparently honest, business-like repre reprej - j reprej sentations are employed to dispose of I a wildcat that are used to sell the i former. But, happily, the day of the . wildcat has long since passed away in I most all of the old mining centers, j Every tub must stand upon its own ' bottom, and about every mining man in established camps knows the bot bot! - ! bot! tom of every prospect hole and min min' - ' min' ing shaft in the district.

Law of Evolution. Most of the gigantic animals of geo geological - logical geological eras belonged to species which have completely vanished, and of those which have living representa representatives - tives representatives it is difficult to say whether they have undergone a true change of size or whether the modern examples are merely survivals of smaller contem contemporary - porary contemporary varieties. The larger animals have a. tendency to disappear first in a partial failure of food supply, (rigan (rigantic - tic (rigantic armadiiloes, closely resembling those of the present day, were formerly abundant in South America. The remains of huge sloths are found in Cuba and North America. Sharks attaining a length of more than 10(1 feet are found in comparatively recent fossil deposits. Another fish which represents a larger prehistoric species is the American bony pike, which is one of the few survivals of the enor enormous - mous enormous Ganoids of the secondary strata. The tiny nautilus of the present day had kindred 10 or 12 feet long in early times. Another small shellfish, the pteropod, whose delicately complex structure is packed in an inch of shell, is found in fossil remains to have reached the respectable length of a couple of feet - Cincinnati Enquirer.

Throughout the entire west, bu j more'particularly in the territories of ! Arizona and New Mexico, the idea of | National irrigation prevails almost unanimously with the people. No more meritorious proposition can pos - sibly come up before congress, than the one of constructing great national ' reservoirs for the storage of the per per; - ; per; manent and flood-waters of the coun country. - try. country. Such a system would bring mil mil' - ' mil' lions of now worthless acres into mar mar-1 - -1 mar-1 ket and under successful cultivation, : adding thereby wealth, population, ' and general prosperity to the whole i country. The government would be enabled to dispose of its public lands, I under these reservoirs, and to cover 1 into the United States treasury mil millions - lions millions of dollars, more perhaps than the first cost of any and all reservoirs I so constructed. It would make of the I great southwest, or arid region, the ; paradise for the eastern home-seeker, I and thus relieving the overcrowded populous centers along our northeas - ern Atlantic seaboard.

conception and impracticable with growth and age. The government at Washington is alone resposible to all foreign powers, and these states - gov governments - ernments governments are becoming- the millstones that drag the general government down into the political mire. We now have forty-tour "independent com commonwealth - monwealth commonwealth s" e ndea vori ng - wi t h their everlasting kicking- at something- or other - to form one independent g-ov g-overnment. - ernment. g-overnment. The whole scheme was got gotten - ten gotten up, as it was in South and Central America, solely in the interest of a legion of office-holdet s, who live and wax tat off of the toiling masses, and whose substance they devour with the rapacity « f wolves. We are cursed with too many governments and se sequentially - quentially sequentially with a multiplicity of elec elections - tions elections which keep the whole country in an everlasting turmoil and an un unsettled - settled unsettled condition all the while.

There is an old "chestnut story - ' going the rounds of the press, and we have read time and again for. Io! these many moons, which tells the alleged first experience of an unsophisticated Westerner at a society evening party. He remarks: "'Guess I've gotten into the wrong room: this must be the baby-feeding depart department." - ment." department." This fellow was no more "unsophisticated" than is the editor of the Tombstone Prospector, who guilelessly, or carelessly, or from a lack of "general reading and informa information," - tion," information," credits the "chestnut story" aforesaid as original with the editor of the Copper Era. at Clifton, Arizona. For the scissors editor on the Daily and Weekly Tombstone Prospector to be guilty of such unsophisticatedness is unpardonable, to say the least. As to the Copper Era fellow, well he is - iser er - well, iser he is a "joe dandy - ' in playing some people - one people - for chumps.

From the above showing it is evi evident - dent evident that the so-called "Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling Company" is a fake and fraud, and that its office in New York is carried about in some bilk's hat. On the letter heads of this wonder wonderful - ful wonderful company- - "the Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling Company are the following names, ete., etc.: "Wm. R. Whitehead, president: J. S. Mantali, treasurer; C. Henry Mosher, secretary. Mines and mining offices (also in a hat). Spenazuma, Fort Thomas, Arizona. Transfer to treas treasurer's - urer's treasurer's offices (same old hat), rooms 914. 915, 916, 20 Broadway St., New York city." At the latter offices (?) is where the "sucker" transfers his cash and receives pieces of printed paper there therefor. - for. therefor. which paper he may use for wrap wrapping, - ping, wrapping, if not too badly pocket-worn.