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Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
WHY?

Why isn't kissing one way to remos paint? Why isn't a begging letter more CT less touching?
 Why isn't a boil in the pot worth two on the neck?
 Why doesn't the father of twins serve two masters?
 Why should man expect to get his price if he has it?
 Why are all long-haired men sus- pected of being poets?
 Why shouldn't temperance advo- cate always try to appear sober?
 Why is man with winning ways always unpopular with the other play CTS?
 Why does the company issuing the map have the only curveless raIlroaa thereon ?-Chicago News. SPANISH PROVERBS OF WOMEN. No season is as brief as a woman's love-
 Women and weather are not to be trusted.
 Choose neither a wife nor linen by candlelight
 A girls hair draws more than a ships cable.
 A woman may be loyal to love. bu, never to lovers.
 Woman is curious creature, with long hair and short ideas.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
SPAIN A WRECK.

The marine parade through the Med- I iteranean sea by Admiral Camara is
 attracting considerable attention, and thus far there is reason to believe that 1 the Cadiz fleet will sooner or later re- i turn to the port from which it started The folly of paying fortune in canal
 tolls for the privilege of chasing sever al thousand miles to Manila. there to
 be obliterated by the American ves-
 sells, is apparent to every one. The
 so-callsd third squadron" to be set
 afioat by Spain is largely a creation of
 fiction.
 The utter incapacity and unprepared-
 ness of the Spanish vessels has dem-
 onstrated that Spain's boasts prior to the declaration of war were silly. Thus lar not single effective shot has been fired by Spanish warship. The most serious blow struck by Spain was the sending of a six-inch shell into the hull of the battleship Texas. That hit may be set down as an accident and the men on the Texas are to he con gratulated upon escaping with the loss or but one man. That the American vessels are to escape all injury is not within the bounds of reasonable ex-) peotation. At the same time the gun- nery of the Spaniards is amazingly de- fective, but the American command CTS are taking no chances.
 The Spanish navy is already exposed as myth, and in whatever of work is to be done by Spain her navy will play no important part. The Spanish navy Is already out of the game. and even her boasted torpedo boats have failed 70 make a single stroke, either offen- 'lve or defensive. With Spain's navy moved from the problem it is only question of time when her army in ;uba will be compelled to succumb spain cannot send assistance to her nen in Cuba, and without material as- distance their defence will be unayail- ng. Spain is already beaten, and it is crime for her to delay the day of eace. Spain can have no hope of vic- ory, and every day lost means mora death and suffering and debt for ths lasses on the peninsula
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

turret like a squirrel in cage. One instant you would see him far out on the deck, where shattered pieces oi glass and woodwork eddied like leaves
 in a hurricane, and the next pushing the turret with his shoulder as though
 he meant to shove it overheard, and then he would wave his hand to his crew inside and there would be rack ing rear, a parting of air and sea and sky, flash of flame vomiting black smoke, and he would be swallowed up in it like a wicked fairy in a panto- mime. And instantly from the depths below, like a voice of lost soul. would rise the protesting shriek of Dick Mulligan asking frantically, .Oh, will you take your damned smoke out of my way!"-From 3sThe First Bom- bardment," by Richard Harding Davis in the July Scribner's.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
AUSTRALIAN ERUPTION.

Here are some curious answers culled from an Australian school exam ination paper:
 John Wesley joined the navy in l719, and by degrees rose to be duke of Wellington
 "Charles the First imprisoned nine members. Among them was George Eliot''
 'Montford was the chief man in get ting the constitution of Clarendon passed, 115S; fought battles of Lewes. 1264 and was killed in 1265.''
 ''We have no summer in this coun- try when the north pole is turned to- ward the equator.''
 While the ancients thought the world was round, we know now that the sun never stands still"
 "Carbonny Cassid'' and "Iack-tail ducks" were given as variants of .scar- bon1c acid" and "lacteal duets"
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.1

From the Atchison Globe
 Every man has probably spent a dol
 lar trying to collect fifty cents.
 Every one thinks he could startl,
 people if he wrote for newspaper. When a man wants doctor in tn
 middle of the night, he wants him bad One of the regrets of every old mait probably is that she isn't making som. I man miserable.
 When women get so old that the, are no longer attractive, they begin to sit around with their shoes off. If a woman is made a widow wh, was always interested in church work She doesn't miss her husband so much
 After man and woman have once loved each other, they can come pretty near guessing on each ether for all fu- ture time.
 All we ask of the Atchison women going to the seashore is that they don't send back any pictures taken in their bathing suits.
 You can often see in the country these days young calves the color of a blue maltese cat. The farmers are be- coming so rich they are indulging in all kinds of fads.
 Why does a mother always uphold the worthless members of her family? In nine cases out of ten, the fathers will appreciate the hardworkiug ones, while the mothers praise only the loaf CTS.
 An Atchison man is supposed to nave had a raise in his salary. In no other way can the neighbors account for his wires increase of haughtiness; she has no kin who were killed in the war to make her proud.
 These are the kind of moonlight nights that will make a man propose. -nough in his cooler moments he knows that he doesn't earn enough to support himself, and likes dozen other girls as we'll, anyway.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

Firing was heard again at Mole St. Nicholas on the 4th. There was one period of two or three weeks when the folk at Mole St. Nicholas heard fir ing every day, but no one else ever heard it. The ears of the inhabitants there must be very acute. The only advices that ever come from there nave reference to mysterious firing somewhere else. Probably this time then oise heard was not the shooting Of frecrackers up in Boston.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

Germany has five warships at Manila to look after one hundred Germans in the town. Admiral Dewey can look after those Germans all right. He is qualified to manage affairs over there without German interference.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

The six-inch shot thrown by Fort Moro at Santiago into the side of the battleship Texas made a big hole and shattered some heavy pieces of iron. The tremendous force of those projec- tiles cannot be eomprehended by one who does not see them hit. The Texas had a narrow escape.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

The bureau of engraving and print ang at Washington one day last week stamps. The sale and use of these stamps is an illustration of the little drops of water" and little grains of sand" idea
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
THE NEW YORK" IN ACTION.

The ship seemed to work and to hght by herself; you heard no human voice of command, only the grieyed tones Of Lieutenant Mulligan rising from his smoke-choked deck below
 where ne could not see to aim his six men gun, and from where he begged Lieutenant Marble again and again to Take your damned smoke out of my way Lieutenant Marble was Vault1ng in and out of his forward
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

The cruiser St. Paul appears to be pretty much of a warship. It crippled torpedo boat, drove two warships Into cover and sank another ship loaded with Spanish supplies
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

It is far more comfortable to pay for a few revenue stamps at home than it is to evade the stamps by fighting in the field at Cuba The soldiers are do- ing their share of the work under en- ervating conditions, and those who re- main at home ought to pay their share of the war taxes without murmur.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

The Spaniards have been fighting desperately at Santiago because they do not know that there is good eating ahead of them in American prisons They have been taught that they would be slaughtered a la Espanol immediately upon capture.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

Don't forget to stamp your checks and don't forget to stamp your tele- graph messages. Don't forget to put stamps on the things that are to be stamped. The law is imperative and ignorance is no excuse for a violation of the provisions of the war measure.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

The Spaniards have made a brave and stubborn resistance at Santiago The fact only adds to the heroism and glory of the assaulting columns that swept the defenders back into the city We have learned that the Spaniards will fight, and they in turn have doubt less had their eyes opened as to the desperate valor of Yankee pigs"
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

When the Spaniards pick out a foe next time they will prefer meeting wildcats to American pigs
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

It is more probable that the battle of Santiago will have to be added to the list of decisive battles of history. l"
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

There is this to say for Csrvera-he couldn't have selected safer bottle In which to escape from the Ameri- can fie5t.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08
PHOENIX, JULY 8. 1908.

Americas roll of honor is growing rapidly.
Arizona republican., 1898-07-08

Entered at the postsface at Phoenix, Arizona, az mail matter Of the second class.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
,KETARY DAY.


From the Philadelphia Press.
Secretary Days formal resignation OF
the post from which he announced his
retirement six weeks ago ends an unique
career. Eighteen months ago he was {
shrewd country lawyer of nearly thirty
years practice, who was known to q
limited circle in his own profession III
various cities who had come in contact
with him as a lawyer of great acumer
and keen judgment, though of limited
practice Today he is recognized the worc
over as "A man who has conducted tht
diplomatic affairs of great nation at {
critical period with dignity, judgment anc
success. Much is said of diplomatic train
ing in international affairs, but they re
quire the same qualities as all other nego
tiation, and native ability, integrity anc
elevation of character count for more ir
them than mere technical dexterity. Mr.
Day had these qualities, and his success
will be gratefully remembered by Ameri.
cans as a proof of our national resources
equal to any developed in the war. 1t i,
scarcely an eXaGgeration to say that not
a mistake has been made by him in ;hC
conduct of affairs, and his moderation Is
not his least title to national approval.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
HARD FACTS.

Since the Dineley tariff went into effect
thousands of steel gun barrels in tht
| rough state have been exported from lei,
sium to the United States, to he finished
in America, thus increasing the demand
| for skilled labor at home.
The British Columbian provincial lesis-
lature, which adjourned recently. granted
charters for twenty-one distinct railways
many Of then! headed for the gold fields
| on the northwestern boundary. Many OF
these roads are subsidized at the rate Of
200 a mile. The Legislature expects tc
get the money back In royalties on gold
dust,
South Africa imported Sl427,53 worth O.
bicycles in 1897, of which the UniteC
States furnished sl74,692. The United
States increase for this year is estimatCG
at III per cent. In that country Malay
as well as whites Use wheels. In the min.
ing city of Kimberley there are 1900 biCN
cles, or one for every seven Of the popu
idtion.
In an effort to reduce weight European
military authorities are endeaVoring t.
substitute aluminium for iron, copper and
steel In the manufacture of all articles OF
equipment carried by infantry. With tho
same object the Russian minister of wal
has ordered aluminium horseshoes for the
cavalry. The aluminium wears out les!
rapidly and 1t is less affected by heat ana
moisture than the old shoe. The differ
ence In weight is about two and e-hali
ounces on each shoe. The cost is no
greater.
Tho Russian birth rate is so far IN ex-
cess of the death rate that the increase OF
population has been prodisious In IL
there We're 5000, 900 Russians; there Wei
20, 100000 in 1852; IN 1885, owing TO con.
quests by Catherine H., the popul9tiDl
jumped TO S7,OO0,o 900; conquests I'm Finland
aud Poland account for the gain of 9,0te,
600 shown by the census OF 1903. The pro.
digious increase, due simply to the excess
OF births over deaths, began after this
date. With no important change in tn,
frontiers. the Inhabitants in lS47 mum
hered $1,000, ,000 an increase of 2l000 900 f.
less than forty years. In 1885 Russia ha(
I4,oOO,O0O. In 1885, 1851 900; the census OF
January, 1857, COZ nted 123, 900, 600 and 1t j.
estimated that the present population Il
more than l3O 900 900. The Russian people
have more than seXtupled since the day
when Chappe prophesied its approaching
end.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
The Effective Remedy.

1t is a poor defense which the Office
seeking scandal -mongers led by the Rev.
DIR. Silas G. Swallow set up when they
point to the fact that if the victims
of their defamation feel agrieved they
can enter into litigation. On this score
they could equally excuse theft by
holding that the man whose property is
stolen from him has the right of suit
for recovery.
Litigation offers no redress for the
anguish which is caused in the family
circle by the wanton circulation of
slander. Public opinion rightly con-
demns as the most contemplate of
men him who scurries through the
back alleys and listens at key holes
for scraps and shreds of gossip and
surmise from which to construct the
weapons of character r-assassination.
Yet in this state campaign we have
before us as an avowed champion of
those despicable weapons a man who
descended to his unsavory task from
the sacred station of Christian min
lister and is now trying with the man
tie of the pulpit to lend dignity to
mud-throwing.
Viewed practically, what would it pro-
fit victim of this mans unruly ton
que to sue in the courts and obtain
verdict? Already the law has once
stamped his uttcrances with the seal
of untruth, yet the flow of false accus-
alton and abuse continues in undim-
inished volume. From high to low he
spares none, but paints the public life
of his state as altogether bad, yet
In the face of such intemperance of
speech that defeats itself among intelli-
gent men, his victims are taunted to
sue, as If suit would halt a purpose
so obvious or chastsement be other
than welcome opportunity to enact
the martyr and bid for the sympathy
OF the omnipresent gullible.
THERE'S just one way to remove from
public affairs the clerical scandal
mongering of the Rev. Dr. Swallow
and that is to vote upon it the en-
phatic condemnation of the common
wealth's self-respecting electors. This
great state cannot possibly have use
for a candidate whose sole claim to
public notice his industry in throwing
dirt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
Good Advice.

Shortly before he departed from
Porto Rico Major General Wilson was
entertained at the residence of a
wealthy native about whose board were
gathered many prominent residents OF
the island. Replying to toast the
general gave these people some first
rate advice, of which the following Is
a specimen:
"A menace to the future of the Porto
Rican people is the danger of an out
break of violence and intolerance on
the part of one section of your people
against another; the danger of insular
turning against peninsular; of Porto
Rican turning against Spaniard, with
the torch and dagger to avengc him
self for the wrongs and oppression, real
or imaginary, which have so long char
acterized the Spanish domination in
this beautiful island. 1t needs no ar
gument to show that such an outbreak,
If it becomes general. cannot fail to
bring dscredit on your countrymen as
turbulent and lawbreaking people
who cannot be intrustcd with the
precious privilege of government,
and must therefore be ruled by mill
tary commander. Your wrongs, what
ever they were, have been avenged by
the expulsion of the Spanish flag and
the Spanish dominion, without exer-
tion or cost on your part, and the least
you can do in return is to repress the
spirit of revenge. and resolve to live
in peace and quietude with your Span
ish neighbors. respecting their rights of
person and property, as you desire to
have your own respected. In this way
and in this way only. can you show
yourselves to be worthy of the great
destiny which has overtaken you, and
which. let lis hope is to speedily clothe
your island with sovereignty as a MEM
ber of the great continental republic"
With very little change these words
also fit with eXactness the conditions
of the Cuban people. In Cuba the ma
tives have eXerted themselves and
made sacrifice beyond parallel in hope
of freedom, and it is their right. if they
so elect, to have an Independent gov
ernment of their own just as soon as
they can form one which will be just,
enlightened and stable: but meanwhile,
in return for American help they
should set an example of justice, elem
ency and patience.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
An Example.

dispatch from Perry. O. T., to the
Sun, called forth by the fifth anniver-
sary of the opening to settlement Of the
Cherokee Strip, tract of 1900 square
miles in the richest part of Oklahoma,
presents a picture of swift growth
which is fair to look upon.
Where five years ago." the dispatch
says, were vast prairies inhabited
only by few rowing cattle are today
farms. farmhouses. large towns and
nearly 100000 prosperous people. Perry,
a city of 5000 people, is the largest
town. The railroad receipts for the
past year were $500,000 Water works.
electric lights, Touring mills, cotton
gins. and 200 business houses are here.
In one county alone in the Cherokee
Strip. this and last season, 5000 OO)
bushels of wheat were harvested each
season. Every township has it's full
quota of school buildings and self-sus-
tanning schools run ten months in the
year. The schools and school buildings
are sustained from public lands set
apart for that purpose. Twenty good,
prosperous towns are located in the
strip. The strip has one fine 500, 900
normal school building. which will be
paid for from public lands set apart.
The city has $4,000 in public school
buildings. The total amount of tax
able property for this new country,
leaving out the farms, is SIS. 500, OOO."
This object lesson in American ex-
pansion will be repeated in the coming
decade in Porto Rico, Cuba and I.uzon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19
Inc Issue Boiled Down.

I'VE are so situated in this country
that laws are passed and repealed
through the instrumentality of politi-
cal parties. No man can rise higher
than the party with which he affiliates.
or can individually work out his ideas
of reform legislation except through
the instrumentalty of that party. The
ambitions Of individuals, politically,
must be subordinate to party action,
no matter how estmable and worthy
candidate may be, no matter how
many personal admirers he may have.
1t is never question with the people
of his hopes or ambitions; it always
is and should be, question of party
principles which places him in nomina-
ton. We must necessarily look to the
purposes, to the principles and to the
creeds of the two great political parties
that influence and control legislation
in this country. We can only Judge
of the course which the party is to pur-
sue in the future by the course which
it has pursued in the past.
I'VE stand today in the presence of
have placed candidates in the field,
and we will affiliate with and support
either one political organization or the
other. Our inquiry, then, should be
directed to the two political parties.
What does the Republican party stand
for? What does the Democratic party
stand for? We are about to vote for
the state ticket, for legislative tickets
and for congressional tickets. The
candidates of the Democratic party or
the candidates of the Republican
party will receive the majority of
votes, We have a right to inquire of
the past history of the parties the
same as Of the past history of indlvjd-
uals.
What is the purpose, what is the
plan, what is the creed of the Repub-
liCan party? Its purpose is easily told
and well understood by all. First. 1t
will stand by our present wise Dingley
tariff bill Second, 1t will stand for
sound money. Third. 1t will support
the president of the United States in
his adjustment OF the grave national
issues that grow out of our late war
with Spain. This is the purpose, this
is the creed of the Republican party.
What is the purpose, what is the
creed of the Democratic party? First.
1t will, if it comes into power, seek to
repeal our present Dingley tariff law
and supplant ii with another Wilson
bill, or worse. Second. 1t will support
the free coinage of silver and attempt
by legislation to bring that about.
Third. 1t will oppose President Nc
Kinley in his policy of settlement of
questions growing out of our late war
with Spain. These are it's purposes,
this is its creed, and this is what it
will do If 1t gets into power.
THE issue is very simple. No man
need be in doubt as to the issue be-
tween the two parties. All attempts TO
divert this issue are ridiculous. They
may influence the ignorant or the
prejudiced, or those who have been
disappointed in their political amb-
tions, but the voter who is not ignor-
ant, who is not prejudced, and who
is not influenced by his disappointed
political ambitions will not be mislsl
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19

Mr. Wanamaker's Honesdale speech
was an ingenious Indictment of the last
legislature delivered with a good deal
of force, vet it was not made clear
by anything he said how he proposes
to effect an improvement in the next
one. His remedy seems to be fusion
OF Independents and Democrats, but
political history shows nothing more
Conspicuously than that this almost
uniformly has resulted worse than the
original disease. The Republicanism
of Pennsylvania must do its own doc
toring inside it's own lines, and that it
is doing this is shown in the fact that
large proportion of the Objectionable
members of the last Legislature have.
not been renOminated.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-19

The stonlng of the Spanish General
Toral by mob because OF the sorry
appearance of his repatrlated soldiers
offers an opportune object -lesson of
Spanish inability to properly connect
cause with effect. This spasm of pas
sion, by no means without provocation
in the shoeless and almost naked con-
dition of the returning conscripts whose
departure for Cuba three years before
had been so glorious" vents its fury
on an innocent and an honorable man,
whose regret at the collapse of Spanish
authority is equal to the mob's own,
and leaves free in their opportunities
for mischief the pot-house politicians
at Madrid to whom alone Spain's mis-
fortunes have been due. These men,
unlike the mob were not ignorant of
the consequences they were inviting,
but they lacked both the principle and
the courage which should have made
them choose the path of national
safety. If complete justice were done
there would be good many sensational
hangings in the vicinity of the Spanish
capital.