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The herald., 1896-04-19
-TAs Pyronaniso's Smile.

xiss Marshal Whitcomb has been pretty
buV sAt4ng testimony in regard to fires
lately, and while speaking about examin-
ing witnesses the other day he mentioned
several curious things he had noticed. He
says that In every case where he has dis
covered q pyromaniac he has his suspicious
Of the person's guilt aroused by peculiar
smile which plays around the corners Of
the mouth Of the guilty one when under
examination. It is hardly smile, rather
. peculiar puokering Of the corners of the
mouth, an expression almost indsflnable,
but Il seems to mean, well, I'm too
smart for you to catch me, anyhow" The
marshal says he can recall dozen cases
whore he noticed this smile, and at the
time had no other cause to suspect a wit
ness, yet by following these smiling ones
ho has obtained the most convincing testi-
mony Of their guilt and almost invariably
confession from. the guilty ones them
solves. Boston Transcript.
The herald., 1896-04-19
A hit Of Medical Advice.

Whom the humping sensation begins in
the head, take equal quantities Of pure
cayenne pepper and flour; mix them up
with water to form smooth paste thick
enough to spread like q salve. Put this
upon piece Of soft paper and apply 1t to
tho back OF the neck Just below the edge
OF the hair. In. warm weather it is best to
wash the neck with q cloth wet with soap
and water, as tha oily perspiration may
interfere with the action of the plaster.
One great advantage Of cayenne pepper
plaster over mustard is that while the lat
ter frequently blistsrs the former never
does 90, no matter how strong 1t is ap-
piled. In the use of mustard, If the skin
is broken, all treatment must cease until
II heals, but with pepper when the plaster
loses its effect another may be applied
without unpleasant consequences. --Ss~
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Gaul--tne N.-------..-s. Antuefn peoples
has been most disposed to recognize a
modicum Of the greatness Of the passing
age. When Daniel O'Connell was the
uncrowned king Of Ireland, he could
hardly be said to lack the appreciation
of his countrymen. The French are not
wholly incapable of understanding that
genius may flourish in the present tense.
But among English speaking peoples
and the Teutonic races generally there
is either total oblivion to passing
greatness or positive and acrimonious
denial of its existence. The Germans
would as soon expect to see Prince Beo-
wolf coming up again from the slaugh-
ter of the Grendel in his cave as to see
Humboldt on the streets of Heidelberg
or to hail Blucher on his black horse
riding through the Brandenburg gate.
From all this the writer totally dis
sents. The unbelief of the age in its own
greatness and the greatness of it's prod
ucts is fallacy, hurtful to civilization,
cruel to mankind. At bottom it is not
true that the great men are all in bronze.
We doubt whether the majority of the
great men have taken the form Of statu-
ary. There is strange delusion in the
mind on this question, an unaccountable
blindness and weakness with respect to
the stature and power Of men. If we al
low the greatness of the past, we must
also allow the greatness Of the present
for the past was the presenter else
we must suppose that the universal evo-
luton is working retrogressively and dis
astrously in man.
The close Of the nineteenth century,
instead Of being barren and unfruitful
in the production Of genius, has, we
doubt not, its full share of that sublim-
est quality known to earth. We doubt
that the German race has ever produced
a stronger man than Prince Otto Eduard
Bismarck Of Schonhausen. Great Brit
ain has today thinker equal to Plato
and greater than Francis Bacon. He is
Herbert Spencer. She has poet who is
superior to Milton in all the essentials
OF great song. and he is Algernon
(Earlos Swinburne. She has two or
three scientists Of this age who have
done more for the natural history Of life
than Newton did for the history and
law OF the planetary worlds. America
has one man, an unlettered man, whose
genius has carried him further into the
arcana Of force and has brought forth
richer treasures for the benefit Of the
human race than has the genius of any
other single explorer in the wide years
OF time. America has living orator
greater in the magic Of his power than
was Everett. greater than was Webster
IN his best estate. America has living
editor who is greater than Raymond,
greater than Greeley. America has y
.statesman-in the west-whose courage
is equal to that Of Patrick Henry, and
whose plea for the. under man is as in
cisive as that Of Jefferson. And finally
America has poet who is the equal OF
Robert Burns.
. JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.
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ought to be qualified to Judge. We find
no concurrent belief Of the greatness OF
any single American. Leave it to the
newspapers, and they will answer in
the negative. Leave it to committee
Of preachers, and the report will he that
there were great men, but they are all
gone All the great bishops and preach
ers are dead. Leave it to the lawyers,
and they will decide that the great ju-
rists and great chancellors and advocates
are in bronze. All the great orators and
lawyers are Of the past.
Suppose we should be called on to
nominate a great man. What would the
newspapers say regarding any possible
candidate? What would the politicians
say? What would the preachers say?
What would the magazines say? What
would even the literati say? The sky
would be rent with vociferous contra
dictions. Americans might agree that
Bismarck is great. that Gambetta was
great and possibly that Gladstone is
great, but how about Cleveland2 How
about Sherman? How about Hill! In
particular, how about Carlisle? How
about Charles A. Dana and Rudyard
Kipling? As for the Thousand impossi-
bilities we do not venture on the humor
Of mentioning them.
A like Judgment prevails with respect
to the products and producers Of the in
tellectual world. Here also there is
practical atheism with regard to the
greatness of any living American. The
opinion is substantially this-that the
age is one Of intellectual decadence.
The great orators, the great essayists.
are gone. The great poets, SO the critics
tell Us, are gone. Irving and John
Quincy Adams and Fulton and Morse
are gone. Practically men do not believe
that another Webster or Clay could ex-
list. They positively disbelieve that any
such poet as Shakespeare or Goethe
could be reborn on this earth. There Is
q total want of faith in the intellectual
and moral fecundity Of the age. We tell
over the names Of the giants who in their
time did something to illumine the
world. but there is no thought that an
other Laplace or another Leibnitz might
appear on this scene Of action. Tho idea
that Socrates or the Christ might come
again seems absurd and unthinkable.
There is not the slightest expectation
that a poet like Byron could again cleo
trify England; that Schiller might re-
appear in Germany, and, as for Victor
Hugo, his second apparition is as little
expected as the resurrection Of Charlie.
magne There is q practical assent
throughout the world that weakness has
supervened that genius has disappeared
or dwindled into mere talent; that all
living song is no more than an echo Of
song that is dead; that all art is nc
more than reflection Of the glories Of
the art that is past. sso
We know from historical data that
this inexplicable but certainly fallaciouf
view Of human greatness has prevailed
in the past as much as it prevails in the
present Every epoch has denied the
existence of the genius and strength
which nature and time bestowed upon
It. Each age has sought to disallow and
to disprove the claims Of every tall son
Of the morning who has honored tho age
with his presence.
The enthusiastic southern races have
not been 70 vicious in: this respect al
have the strong races Of the north. The
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pure and immortal, is not a loadstone to
the heart Of man. 1t is for this reason
perhaps that Lewis a. Morgan, one of
the greatest American historians, is un-
known; that Andrew Carnegie has
wider fame than Alexander Winchell,
and that Budd Doble, with his catarrh-
al name," has greater renown than
Emerson.
OF certainty the people Of 1854 did
not think that their leaders were great
men. At least they did not agree that
any one was great. There was only
dim apprehension that Lincoln was
great. It seems amazing that nearly
half Of the people were willing, and a
large minority Of them eager, to vote
against him for re-eleotion to the prssi-
dency. Grant had then reached Peters
burg and Sherman was somewhere in
Georgia. The whole horizon of the south
and west smoked with war. A million
Of men were under arms and great
armies were in the almost daily grapple
Of death. And yet it was questioned and
questionable il the majority would not
put Mcclellan in Lincoln's place. Few
people reckoned that greatness was on
trial or that there was anything more
than the usual politics at stake. Lincoln
was able to command the voice of the
majority, but even the majority looked
to him as sort Of necessary first man
in the drama with0ot much considering
the question Of his historical stature
Tho nvpNA Ln1 30
Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and
Hancock and all the leaders in the field.
The same was held Of Seward and Stan
ton, Of Sumner and Andrew and Morton
and all the men Of the cabinet and
council The great men did not exist in
the consciousness Of the age. Some
thought that they we're beginning to ex-
ist There was, we think, sort Of dim
opinion that the great man was yet to
appear-some tall figure that would rise
above the turmoil and dwarf not only
the common leaders Of tho army and
the senate, but Lincoln himself and
every man on whose hsrculean shoulders
the burdens Of that stormy and tre-
mendous period were laid.
6SSokAAn8 W tiio CuluulOu VO1C0s bu0L0
is not at the present time one great man
in the United States. If SO, who is he:
OF the 10000. 600 of people in our coun-
try there ought to be at least one great,
but if we accept the opinion of the age
there is not one. Why not? If our An
glo-American race is equal to the other
races, then it ought to bring forth as
we'll as they. There were great Greeks
and great Romans There have been
great Englishmen and great Frenchmen,
and especially great Germans. History
comedies that there have been great
Slavs, great Swedes and great Italians.
There may have been great Spaniard.
If 60, he was Cervantes. We are dispos-
ed to think that there have been great
negroes and great Indians. There is a
consensus that great Americans have
lived. Are they all dead? That is the
question. Has it come to this--that par
ty and plutocracy, creed and greed, de-
mocracy and decadence, have blotted
out tho heroic part of American life and
left rs only littleness and imitation and
pretense in the bottom Of the crucible?
Certainly the opinion practically pre-
walls that there is not one great man in
our country-except in bronze. Suppose
We submit the question ta those who
The herald., 1896-04-19
Greatness Recognized Only After
Death
NO AGE THINKS ITSELF GREAT
Every Epoch Has Denied the Existence
Of Its Own Genius
Dut Great Hen Have Existed They Still
Exist - Americas Living Treasures.
What . French Orator Cried
lcopyrssht, 1895. by John Clark Ridpash.l

fCopyrisht 1896, by John Clark Ridpath.l
VI
On q certain occasion q French orator
ID the national assembly became apos-
trophio and cried out, where are the
great men Of France?" No one seemed
able to tell him, and taking silence for
applause he again cried out. II repeat
the question, NJ. le President, Where
aro the great men of France?" Here
upon some one solemnly said, "In
brouze!" The response seemed to satisfy
all the requirements Of wit and truth.
Was there not much philosophy in the
sa1donic answer that the great men are
in bronze? What does such question,
10 answered, signify2 Are the great
men always in bronze? 1t would seem
%.
The problem Of the great men and Of
the place which they hold in human
adais-the question Of their coming
and their going-is exceedingly diff
cult to solve. Thus much We may say
with tolerable certainty-that the great
,men belong to the agitated epochs Of
history. There goes an aphorism that
psace hath her victories no less renown-
ID than war. This would imply that
peace hath her heroes as we'll as war
has hiA But the facts do not seem to
7 answer to the aspiration. Philanthro-
pists have always sought to make the
world think that the calm of human So
ciety is better than the storm, the stiffness
cf peace more sublime than the thunder
uf violence, but mankind does not ac-
cept the dictum as true. History goes
with the common voice and is constrain.
ed, somewhat against her leaning and
Z ceuscience, to admit that the great men
arise only in those times when the toe
sin Of battle
etayay the frenzy Of . cyclone through the
highlands Of the heart.
The reason Of this break in human
Judgment is no doubt to be found in the
Inmate admiration Of men for power in
visible exertion. There is strange in
difference to thought and the work of
4 a1hoHaht, however bold and high. In the
yssssnt stage Of our mortal evolution
tho mind flies from the eublimest page,
s1ldtured with the loftiest ideslity, to the
SouShest forms Of dramatic action. vio-
lenco of every kind is followed with q
.1hnnb afouud the world. 1t is action,
actfen. that draws the race a. the mag
~ draws the bar. Ideality, however
The herald., 1896-04-19
HIS SELF DENIAL.

The Things Were Herr and 30 Was the
Problem to Solve.
The honeymoon was over and they had
settled down to show themselves staid and
steady old married people.
Harry" she said, knitting her pretty
brows as If greatly perplexed, "I've been
trying to arrange things . little system
atlcally today"
'Quite right" he said. 'It's time w
were settled and had everything arranged
properly."
"Yes, but, Harry, the fact is IL
"You what? Nothing has gone wrong,
has itf" he asked snxiously.
"Oh, no, but every one WAS 70 kind 10
US that find it little hard Toto II
wouldn't be proper to sell any Of the pFss-
ents, would its'
Certainly not"
"That's what I feared" she said, With
. sigh. "You see, don't know Just what
to do with them ALL"
''Do with them?" he exclaimed, with
masculine readiness to settle any problem.
"Why, use them, Of oourse!''
"But how, Harry Howl" she asked.
1--WE have eight clocks and only . seven
NON fat"
He gave q low whistle.
"Then we have five dozen silver spoons
and four cake baskets"
He began to look perplexed himself.
"There are 10 butter knives and fruit
Dishes" she added.
He swore softly to himself, but made NO
suggestion.
/ I'VE have three sets Of fruit knives
and"-
"Enough," he exclaimed. "Do what
you please with thern.''
But, Harry, want you to-
They're yours" he interrupted.
"They were all given to you, and mot TO
me, weren't they9 1t wouldn't be fair for
me to assume any right to them whom
they wore expressly given to you"
And thus she first learned of mans abil-
!ty to dodge difioult problem. Chicago
Post.
The herald., 1896-04-19
A Kurdiah Tent.

The tents Of the Kurds, in which they
seek the pasturage Of the mountains in
summer, vary much in size, though In ap-
poarsnoe and shape they conform through
ont to ono plan. The covering Of the
tents oonaists Of long, narrow strips OF
black goats hair material sewed together
langthways. Along the center Of the tont
this roofing Il supported on three to i've
Doiss, accoFding to tho sise, and stretched
ont. BY ropeg wh1ak made fast to the edge
The herald., 1896-04-19
A woman's rootprint.,

A forty miner tells tale Of how the Cal
ifornians OF the stirring gold fever days
regarded women. Women were few and
far between and were appreciated accord
Ing TO their scarcity. One day the prints
pf womsn's steps were seen on the road,
and the "boys" iuclosed 1t with sticks and
shssred 1t. dancing and singing.
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Of the roofing, are pegged securely to tbs
ground. The poles within the tent, being
of some height, usually 8 to 10 feet, the
edge of the tenting docs not nearly reach
the ground, but walls are formed Of mat
ting of reeds, held together by black goats
hair thread, which is often so arranged as
to form patterns on the yellow mats
Blaokwood's Magazine.
The herald., 1896-04-19
Linens, Towels, Etc.

more them thew are
the wind valIs 10
We this bargain is ~
Have 35 e.
eols, and yard is Zoe
5000
DC
ad The 1Z.ZO
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Extreme views are never just; some-
thing always turns up which disturbs the
calculations founded on their data Tan.
cred.
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It is singular fact that the quills of
geese raised on the continent Of Europs
are moro serviceable as pens than those
grown on English soil.
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Waists

There not suspicion uncertainty the popularity We
recruited themin
50.Cent large assortment of beautiful
collars
Don't while
SILK Waists all the silk U
Parasols,
China Silk
The Chdn Bonns
NULL silk embroidered lace trimmed Z1C
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Crowninr = Csar.

When new car is crowned, from i've
70 SIX hundred thousand Of hia subjects
&9m al parts Of the empire aSsemhle at
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Underwear. Etc.

aides Combination Suits low neck and low Sleeves Jersey En
sh with ribbon around neck and good value QUO
Ladies' White Wool Vests low neck weights all zr
sizes; fine; selling /OC
dozen Ladies' Jersebbed Vests nk sleeveless pink blue
and all sizes; good value selling lOC
Just received dozen Chiden Gmgham Sunonnets
brown checks and light blue and pink percaes only zoe
ladies' Ggham Sunbonet blue and brown checked gnghams A.
ly made and we'll trimmed selling 4UC
We selling embroidery s6 and &c var
just what want for the sailor collars ~
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A Study in
....BlaCks
A Group of
Silhouettes

e. 5 :$$$ : =
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Notions, Gloves, Etc.

Notions, Gloves, Etc.
cbi nj Pins good ouanUy sizes II
ancym
Arizona republican., 1896-07-31
JAILED FOR A JA!CKASS.
Man Takes Woman's Place on the
 Phoenix Chain Gang.

Payment of debts is about as prac- tical test of honesty as can be sug- gested in this more or less dishonest world. Rather a unique instance of such honesty occurred in the Phoenix police department the present week. One of Sonora's olive hued signoritas had disturbed the virtuous quiet of block Al and received in consequence a sentence of five days in the city bas- tile. After whiling away two-ffths of her term she was surprised to find her self suddenly liberated.
 A Mexican man had persuaded the city marshal to incarcerate him in place of the woman. He served out the remaining three days of her sen tence, working hard on the chain gang, and then went forth without ap- parent consciousness of any jail taint clinging to him. It appeared that he owed the woman on account of a burro purchased from her and had no means of payment. When he heard she was in jail he volunteered to be- come her substitute and by doing so obtained $3 credit upon his indebted ness. We cannot help idly speculat- ing whether any white man would spend three days in a city jail to pay $3 on account of a jackass obligation due strumpet.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-31
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE Both Committees Too
 Busy for Talk. Tons of Printed Matter Out in
 the Mails. Democrats Sending Out Silver Liter ature-Republicans Mixing 1t
 with Tariff Matter.

WASHINGTON, July 30.-It was stated at the Democratic congressional campaign headquarters today that the entire force was buried under demands made for literature to be used in the campaign. In reply to question as to whether requests were for silver lit erature, the official in charge respond ed: Entirely. We get no other re- quests" The committee is away be- hind its orders thus far in the matter of documents and a large force will be employed in the mailing and folding departments.
 At the headquarters of the Republi- can congressional campaign commit tee there seems to be a large force en- ployed and already tons of documents are being sent out. Vice Chairman Apsley says the demand is for both financial and tariff literature.
Arizona republican., 1896-07-31
BICYCLE SLANG.
Wheel Circles in the West Have a
 Vernacular of Their Own.

A writer in a western journal won ders why, in the east, where cycling is so universal, and where it had it's origin, there is not more general wheel slang He goes on to say:
 Cyclist it a legitimate and compre- hensive word that is shorter than wheelman or wheelwoman. In far away New Zealand the awful word "cyclodonna' has been coined as a substitute for wheelwoman. In many western town the fair rider is called "bloomer," without regard to her costume The word "scorcher" as in- dicatfng speedy cyclist, is fairly en- grafted. upon the language In Chi cago, however, the 'fscorcher" is called "scoot. The technicalities of the machine have led to attempts upon the part of young men to coin expres- sions. Your tire is punctured" indi- cates that the story you are telling lacks the probable element of truth. Reckless statements are called "coast- ing" A very ancient yarn is not a chestnut" ," but a century" A young couple sharing mutual fondness are riding tandem" A man leading a fast life is "geared too high" An old fogy is referred to as a Thigh wheel. A chaperon is known as a pace maker" A cheap bicycle is called a 'gaspipe' machine. A professional racer is ''pro."
Arizona republican., 1896-07-31
OF FRAGILE BEAUTY.
Our Grandmothers Were Not All We
 Have Been Told.

Our Grandmothers Were Not All We
 Have Been Told.
 The young woman of the present generation who ventures to have a headache or nerves" is immediately confronted by indignant critics with her grandmother. If the grandmother is living the fact of her continued ex- with her fathers her grandchild is con tronted with her ghost, the ghost is en- dowed with as many excellencies as those with whom Betsy Trotwood en- lowed the niece who never was born And as poor David Copperfeld was re- preached with the virtues of his imag~ mary sister, so the granddaughter of the period is reproached with the ghost ly perfection of her grandmother, who never had headache-at least accord ing to tradition-but who, on the con. trary, was model of physical perfec- tion. When it comes to the testimony of those who saw the grandmother in flesh = that is another story" Abbe Robin, chaplain in Rochambeau' s army during the revolution, wrote of American women in 17s2: "They are tall and well-proportioned, their feat ures are generally regular, their com plexions are generally fair and without color. At 20 years of age the women have no longer the freshness of youth. At 35 or 40 they are wrinkled and de- crepit."
 And Chevalier Louis Felix de Bear your, after praising the beauty of the American women to the skies, says: At the age of 25 their form changes, and at 30 the whole of their charms have disappeared" These observers were not mere nasty travellers, but had lived here for years, and their verdict IS that the women of nearly 100 years ago showed fragile beauty and early decline which this end of the century damsel, with her athletic record and her prolonged youth, would scorn.