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Arizona republican., 1897-11-27
A TAMMANY JOB.

It is said that Mir John c. Shaehan will secure the contract for the con- struction of the New York under ground railway. His syndicate, it is also reported, has bought the iron work, although the bids have not ye. been called for Evidently the job is to be a Tammany one from he be- ginning. The legislature prepared tha way for th1s contingency, however, by letting the allotment of the con- tract depend on the Greater New York election. The New York people cannot find much fault with the great deal, because they not only could have averted it, but, had they been wise, could have refused to undertake the bonding of tha project Besides, no private company offered to help the city out of its perplexity as ito who should advance the funds. fact which relegated the scheme to the domain of political spells in any event.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Dr. c. A. Berry of Wolverhampton England, is in this country to plead the cause of international arbitra- tion. His mission is suggestive in it's connection with the invasion of Eng land by Henry Ward Beecher, nearly a century ago, says the Advance, an organ of the Congregational church. While Beecher was engaged in ob- taining a hearing for the Union cause in England, he met Dr. Berry, and was SO fascinated with him that he ardently desired that Dr. Berry should be his successor. After Beechsr's death Plymouth church extended a call to Dr. Berry, but he refused to accept it. He is regarded as an able orator, and is we'll qualified for the mission which has brought him to this country.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Turkey has postponed its contem- plated reorganization of it's navy. It has a very good reason for Ehe post ponement Turkey owes Russia quite a large war indemnity. When it be- came known that extensive improve ments were planned by the Turkish government, in it's navy, Russia pre- sented her bill Turkey could not pay, and the expenditures involved in naval improvements, were declared off This is a precedent for other ma iuions to follow in laying down a Tur- kish policy Whenever Turkey at tempts to increase it's strength, the showing of bills that it owes other nations will check these attempts, and, sooner or later, the disintegra- tion of the empire will take place.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

It appears from the Vienna advices that Europe expects to be freed from dependence upon America fer food supplies when Russia completes it's Trans Siberian railway. Siberia will have to expand at an unprecedented rate before its bleak steppes can com pete against the wheat and cattle of the United States and Argentine. But what good to Europe to swap a de- psndence upon America for depend ence upon Russia? The latter coun- try already dominates the politics of the old world, and when it can con- trol the European food supply it will have become the absolute master of both Europe and Asia.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

New Orleans has had Louisiana drouths, bank failures, floods and yellow fever to contend againsa this year, butt her business men are still courageously talking of a promising outlook for trade and prosperity. This is lthe kind of pluck that ds now car rying New Orleans commercial inte-- ests SO rapidly to the front
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

The second trial of Luetgert is now in progress in Chicago and the great bill of costs already piled up against the public will be doubled. Hung juries coma high, but it seems Vt must have them, when a sligh- amendment of the criminal statutes would save thousands of dollars to al most every state in the Union.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

the rest of the roadway being choked with sunflower stalks. This is the time of year when householders and city authorities should work together for the improvement of the streets. so that visitors may gain a good inn public spirit is needed in Phoenix
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Pennsylvania is now vigorously enforcing a compulsory education law. We may look for great republican gains in Pennsylvania in few years.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Austria's independent success in bringing the sultan to time would indicate still further that a Euro pean concert is not the music to move Abdul Hamid.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

The crusade against foot ball in some parts of the country is only cal culated to advertise the speediest and best means of breaking heads and limbs.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Germany having concluded that she needed a port in China, simply pick ed one out and seized it. This is an other manifestation of the emperor's taking way.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Some of the streets of Phoenix are in disgraceful condition. In some places the weeds are as high as the heads of horses. North Second ay- enue, two blocks from its northern terminus, is forest of weeds. There is narrow passageway for teams,
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

london has lost some historic as sociations, but will gain cleaner streets and more modern buildings Fire is one of the agencies of pro- gress.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Weyler is becoming a popular here and dangerous man in Spain. The only way to render Weyler innocuous is to putt him back in charge of an army.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Senator Tillman serves notice that he will break the silver question wide open as soon as congress assemblies. It is clear that Tillman hasn't sbeen reading the obituary notices.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Ex-Senator Peffer of Kansas has sold his newspaper property and rH- tired from the business. Henceforth, so far as he is concerned, public op.n- ion will have to mold itself.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

The Sovereign presidential boom might hitch on to the Parker presi- dsntial boom in New York for plsas- ant and harmless company until they come to the forks of the road.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

There is more building going on in Phoenix than in any other town in the southwest Prosperity is coming this way on a run.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

General Blanco seems disposed to try few barrels of oil on the trou- bled Cuban waters.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

In 6he Mississippi valley this year Jack Frost is as big a man as old Santa Claus and as eagerly expected.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

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Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

Stomach troubles are scientifically and successfully reached by Dr. Swet- nam, opposite Ford hotel.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27

PH&Nax. .NovEMBEKa a7. 1897.
Arizona republican., 1897-11-27
The Official Citv Paper

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Arizona republican., 1897-11-27
The Arizona Republican.

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
Antiseptic Surgery.

The medical value of cleanliness has
not been fully appreciated until within
the past few years. Indeed it is even yet
scarcely allowed it's full Importance.
There are yet in the medical profession
men who seem to forget that cleanliness
is often of quite as much Importance as
surgical skill. One of this sort of men,
dentist, with tolerable practice, re-
Gently demonstrated his right to be
called back number by a most objec-
tionable performance, and one Of which
he is no doubt guilty every day of his
life. In giving gas he used cork at
taohed to a string to keep the patient S
jaws apart while the gas was being ad-
ministered. The cork was dirty and
covered with the marks of goodness
knows how many teeth. 1t was soaked
with saliva, and yet this doctor put it
precisely i'll this condition into the
mouth of patient who wished some
teeth extracted. Such an act as this
should bar any man from practice. If
there is no article better than cork to
keep the jaws apart, then the cork at
least ought to be cleansed in some way
after each time of using. New York
Ledger.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
High Prices In Richmond.

General Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning With Grant" in The Cen
tury, deals with the preparations for
the final campaign. General Porter
says:
1t was seen that Grant, by his opera
tions, was rapidly forcing the fight to a
finish. The last white man in the south
had been put into the ranks, the COM
munications were broken, the supplies
were irregular. Confederate money was
at fabulous discount, and hope had
given place to despair. The next even
ing one of our scouts returned from
trip to Richmond and was brought to
headquarters in order that the general
in chief might question him in person.
The man said: 1.-THE depreciation in the
purchasing power of gray backs, as we
call the rebel treasury notes, is so rapid
that every time | go into the enemy's
lines have to increase my supply of
them. On my last trip had to stuff my
clothes full of their currency to keep
myself going for even couple of days.
A barrel of -four in Richmond now
costs over 1000 and suit of clothes
about 81. 200. A dollar in gold is equal
in value to 800 in graybacks. Then,
so much counterfeit Confederate money
has been showed in through our lines
that in the country places they don't
pretend to make any difference between
good and bad money. A fellow that
had come in from the western part of
the state told me pretty tough yarn
about matters out there. He said:
Everything that has a picture on it
goes for money. If you stop at a hotel
and the bill of fare happens to have an
engraving of the house printed at the
top, you can just tear off the picture and
pay for your dinner with it. F."
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
A Wonderful Operation.

81 suppose | performed the greatest
surgical operation of the age, remarked
the youngest doctor in the crowd that
had been swapping experiences. 81 was
taking run through British Columbia
on my bicycle when I was asked to at
tend a young Indian whose stomach
had been pierced by rivals knife.
had no surgical appliances, but fixed
up the cut so that the fellow was
around the next day and is strong and
healthy now. "
"How did you do it?" asked all in a
breath.
"Well, the Indians had slaughtered a
beef that day. picked out a nice, thin
piece of tripe, tied string to it, COW
cred it with tire cement, showed it
through the wound and pulled it into
place just as if were mending pune
ture i'll my tire. 1t was the greatest"-
But the crowd had melted away
San Francisco Post.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
A Sweet Revenge.

1t is claimed that this story originated
i'll Cleveland, claim which may very
well be true, because Cleveland, and
especially the east end, has more pre-
Gocious children to the acre than Bos-
ton could boast of i'll her palmiest days.
This particular prccocious infant lives
OIL "A pretty cross street in that favored
locality. Not long ago she was troubled
with an annoying and persistent tooth
ache. Finally her mamma took her to a
dentist, and the dentist interviewed the
troublesome tooth.
After examining 1t he told her that
the best thing to do under the circum-
stances was to have the tooth extracted,
as it contained a very large cavity, and
this was the seat of the trouble.
Bracing herself firmly in the chair,
she bade him go ahead and remove the
acher. After the operation was over she
carefully wrapped tie tooth in paper
and declared she would take it home.
Next day her mamma noticed that
she was an unusually good girl, and,
upon looking around, located her in "a
window seat industriously poking sugar
into the cavity of the extracted tooth
Her mother demanded the cause of this
strange proceeding.
''Why," she said, "I'm poking sugar
in the old thing just to see it ache. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
PERT PERSONALS.

Abdul Hamid is still proceeding like
man who regards himself as assassination
proof. New York Journal
Mark Twain says that there are only so
jokes in the world. Who Is the author of
the other 4S?-Philadelphia Press.
Now that Chauncey NJ Depew has taken
to riding the wheel a new terror is added
TO bicycle stories. Boston Transcript
1t is not quite clear whether the czar
and the kaiser are fond of each other or
afraid of each other. Washington Star.
If it costs $500 for Klondike outfit,
there is good reason for believing that I'm
Gle Russell Sage will not go.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Thomas A. Edison's fondness for trashy
novels probably accounts for the many
different kinds of shocks he is able to give
the public. philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
Ben Tillman of South Carolina says he
is fighting the devil. If Ben really means
it, then we advise his satanic majesty to
be mighty shifty OH his feet or he will get
knocked out. Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Mrs. Lease assures an interviewer that
she ''intends to throw herself into the gu
bernatorial campaign in Kansas next
year" If she doesn't throw more accu-
rately than the average woman does, she
probably will land somewhere in Nebraska
or Iowa.-Chicago Times Herald.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
The Clever Landlady.

you've got very nice looking land
lady," said Bilkins to his friend Jill
kins, who lived in diggings, "but she
looks a sharper, he added in whisper.
Eyes, you are right" replied Bill
kins, with the smile of man who had
long ago discovered the fact. lit wants
some one cutter than me to get over that
woman.
'You don't say So.
Eyes, when first came here strong
suspicion grew on me that the landlady
helped herself rather freely to the vict-
uals which | brought i'll for my own
consumption. l would stop her little
game, l thought. So accordingly one
day l brought home chop and Il pound
of new potatoes. Having counted them
and finding that there were ten in all,
l handed them over to be cooked When
the meal was ready and the covers had
been removed, strained my neck to
zee the result of my little ruse, when =
lyon found nearly half of them
gone, l suppose?"
"No, nothing of the sort. They were
mashed Pearson Weekly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
A CENTURY AGO.

Imprisonment for debt was common
practice.
Every gentleman wore cue and pow
dered his hair.
An old copper mine in Connecticut was
used as prison.
/ There was only one hat factory, and
that made cooked hats.
Virginia contained fifth of the whole
population of the country.
Two stagecoaches bore all the travel be-
tween New York and Boston.
A gentleman bowling to a lady always
scraped his foot on the ground.
The Mississippi valley was not so we'll
known as the heart of Africa now is.
Vaccination had not become popular,
and smallpox was an everyday disease.
All the population of a village assem-
bled at the inn on 'post day. to hear the
news.
Editors begged their subscribers to pay
up; if they had no money, to send in
wood, cheese, corn or pork.
The church collection was taken in a
bag at the end of pole with a bell at
tached to arouse sleepy contributors.
Quinine was unknown. When man
had ague fits he took Peruvian bark and
whisky.-New Orleans Yimes- Democrat.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
MARRIAGEABLE AGE.

In Germany the man must be at least
Is years of age.
In Portugal a boy of IA is considered
marriageable and woman of 12.
In France the man must he IS and the
woman 10. In Belgium the same.
In Greece the man must have seen at
least II summers and the woman 12.
In Switzerland the men from the age of
IA and the women from the age of 12 are
allowed to marry.
In Spain the intended husband must
have passed his fourteenth year and the
woman her twelfth.
In Austria man and woman are sup
posed to be able to be capable of conduct
ing home of their own from the age of IA.
In Turkey any youth and maiden who
can walk properly and can understand the
necessary religious service are allowed to
be united for life.
In Hungary, for Roman Catholics, the
man must be IA years old and the woman
49, for Protestants the man must be 18
and the woman Is.
In Russia and Saxony they are little
more sensible, and youth must refrain
from entering into matrimony till he can
count IS years and the woman till she can
count l6
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20

Practical Test.

Dom Pedro, the last emperor of Bra
til, was a man of a practical turn of
mind, as the following story told of
him by Spanish newspaper we'll illus
trates:
He once gave ali audience to young
engineer who came to show him new
appliance for stopping railway engines.
The emperor was pleased with the idea,
but wished to put it to a practical test.
DAY after tomorrow" said he,
"have your engine ready. We will have
1t coupled to my saloon carriage and
start. When going at full speed, | will
give the signal to STOP and then we
shall see how your invention works"
At the appointed time all was in
readiness. The emperor entered his car
riage, the young inventor mounted his
engine, and on they sped for several
miles as fast as they could GO There
came no signal, and the engineer began
to fear that the emperor had fallen
asleep. Suddenly the engine came to
sharp curve around the edge of a cliff,
when, to his horror, on the track direct
ly ahead of them the engineer saw a
huge bowlder.
He had just sufficient presence of
mind to turn the crank of his brake and
pull the engine up within couple of
yards of the fatal block.
Here the emperor put his head out of
his car window and demanded to know
the cause of the sudden stoppage The
engineer pointed to the rock, and, much
to his surprise, Dom Pedro began 10
laugh.
Push it to on side and go on, y" he
said calmly.
The engineer oEeyed, and, kicking
the stone, was still further astonished
to see it crumble into dust before him
1t was nothing more or less than a
block of starch which the emperor had
had made and placed on the rails the
night before. -Harper's Round Table.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
THE LISTENER.

1saac +. Bassford of Helena, Mon, is
probably the Oldest inventor in the world.
He is 81 years old.
Denman Thompson is living on his
farm in New Hampshire and he says he
has no notion of acting any more.
Sir Henry Irving has double in the
person of Professor Burden Sanderson,
the most eminent Psychologist in England
DIR. Sanderson is the older man.
George C. Boldt of the Waldorf hotel,
New York, is an enthusiastic Thousand
Islander. He owns two islands in that
region-viz Heart island, five acres in di-
mensions, and Fern island, of one acre.
George S. Deakins of Rowlesburg, W.
Va, surveyor, has the compass and the
instruments which belonged to his grand
father when, with Washington, he sur
veyed the road from Alexandria to the
Ohio.
When Seth Low was schoolboy in the
Brooklyn Polytechnic institute, he ac-
quired local fame as an amateur actor
of no mediocre ability, his part de resist
ance being that of the hero in the "Mer-
chant of Venice
Representative Bailey Of Texas when
boy was considered lazy, but he had his
Ishmael Worth in Mrs. Southworth' "Ish-
mael, or In the Depths" and dates his
career from the reading of that novel.
To reporter who recently asked him to
take part in q symposium on "How to
Make Money" Phil Armour, the Chicago
millionaire, replied: "Young man, put it
down that the Armours don't know how
DO make anything but sausages, and that
thay never aOGyyer fOOl onactiOpE -
Edward H. Neff of New Philadelphia,
O., who has local reputation as an ex-
pert worker in wood, recently sent to Pres
ident Mckinley a small table of his own
make, containing over 5000 pieces of
wood. The wood was taken from the
homes or tombs Of presidents and others
prominent in national history.
The Rev. D. Parker Morgan, rector of
the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New
York, is practical farmer and is an ex-
pert judge Of choice cattle. His friend
General Thomas L. James says that CDR
Morgan not only knows how to raise vege-
tables, but he knows the difference be-
tween Jersey COW and Texas steer"
Ex-senator Mcconnell, who has been ap-
pointed Indian inspector, has had a varied
career in politics, and when he represented
the new state of Idaho as her first senator
his long speeches are said to have driven
Senator George F. Edmunds into private
life. He has been by turns miner, a
stock raiser, merchant and banker. He
has lived in Nevada, California, Oregon
and Idaho.
81 Mohammed Ben Moussa, the giant
Moor sent as the chief of the Maroccan
mission to Queen Victorias jubilee, never
raachn6 London having Oope mad in
Paris on his way there, and then having
been sent home. His madness took a very
queer form. He thought he was Montjar-
ret, the chief outrider who precedes the
president Of the French republic on state
occasions, and insisted on being dressed in
livery, with riding breeches and high
boots
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
Could Stand the Strain No Longer.

A woman who was travelling alone
not long ago wandered one evening in
to hotel parlor. A pretty young girl
at once rushed toward her and breath
lessly asked what time it was. Some
what astonished, the woman glanced at
the big mantel clock and repeated the
hour ''Oh, thank you!" said the
stranger, but without any signs of 60
ing away. 81 suppose you think it
queer, my asking that" she burst out a
moment later, "but to tell the truth
didn't want to know the time at all.
just had to speak to somebody. You see,
I'm ON my wedding trip, and for whole
week l haven't spoken to a soul but my
husband. Why, I've hardly heard the
sound of any ones voice but his. 1t
was really question of my speaking
to some one or going wild. kansas
City Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
Tom Paine In Paris.

IL 1902, at the Cafe Jacob, in the
Rue Jacob, an obscure cabaret in an OBJ
scure street, was frequently to be seen
the once redoubtable Thomas Paine,
then about 65. Contemporaries repre-
sent him at this date as not only fallen
upon evil days, but dirty in his person
and unduly addicted to spirits. That
the general appearance of the author of
the "Rights of Man. was 'mean and
poverty stricken" and that he was
''much withered and careworn" Rain
bach admits, and he moreover adds that
she had sunk into complete insignifi-
canoe and was quite unnoticed by the
government. But he also describes
him as fluent in speech, of mild and
gentle demeanor, clear and distinct in
enunciation" and endowed with an
exceedingly soft and agreeable voice"
words which, in this connection,
somehow remind one Of Lord Popping
toms philosophic eulogy Of Miss Hoy
den. Certainly they scarcely suggest the
red nose and dilapidated parsonage who
drank brandy and declaimed against
religion in his cups with whom modern
records have acquainted u.s. - Long
mans Magazine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-11-20
OVER THE WATER.

Even if 1t does not topple over, the
Spanish throne is likely to be unsteady
enough to make the occupant seasick. -
Chicago Post
Japan would do well to save up that
China nest egg She may be paying in
IDENTITIES herself before many moons
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Poor Spain! She has been sowing vari-
Gus sorts of wind in widely scattered fields
for four centuries and now she is reaping
many kinds of whirlwinds all at ONCE
New York Press.
The country with which England desires
to arbitrate need have no fear. 1t is the
small country which is not in the arbitra-
ton class that will do well to look out
when John Bull is in reaching out
mood.-New York Journal
Russia and Turkey have had more or
less to do with the disturbance in India,
and it is altogether possible that the ameer
has surrendered himself to Russian con-
troll, but it is doubtful if either of these
powers contemplates more than counter
movement against Great Britain at Con-
stantinople and along the upper Nile
Baltimore American