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Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
MAGNIFICENT GENEROSITY.

Some interesting facts about the pen
 sion system of this nation are given in
 the annual report of the commissioner
 of pensions, just issued, to which a
 special interest attaches just now be- cause of the recent attacks upon that
 official by the pension sharks of Wash | ington, who hate him for his recen: sharp raps on their itching fingers. The report shows that the total num- Der of pensioners of all classes on the
 roll at the end of the fiscal year was 991,5 being a net decrease for the year of 2,195. The additions to the roll
 during the year were 40,991, and the
 names dropped for death and ether
 causes numbered 34,345. Henceforth,
 had it not been fer the Spanish war,
 'Wo might have looked for a steady
 decrease in the enormous sum paid
 out by a generous government to make
 partial amends for the loss of life, ants for pensions on account of the war
 with Spain are coming forward in con- siderable numbers. Up to the close of the fiscal year there had boen filed un-
 der this head 17,56O claims, of which only 303 had been allcwed up to that time. This great difference between the claims and allowances seems to indicate a policy on the part of the pension department to exercise a par ticular care in the disposition of cases that come up for its judgment, and in that course it will have the support of the country. During the year the pen sion attorneys received in fees $476,- 960 against $730,000 for the previous year. This decrease in their earnings probably accounts in large measure for the campaign which they have in augurated against the present manage ment of the pension office. The mag nificent generosity of this nation to- ward it's heroes is shown in the fact that the total payments for army and navy pensions since 1866 foot up to the enormous sum of s2,3s9, ,910,074.
 The details of the commissioners re- port present some interesting facts. | There are still on the rolls eleven pen | sioners on account of the war of the | of them being widows | and seven daughters. The widows range in age from eighty-three to years. The ages of two Of the daughters do not appear in the The others range from sev- to ninetynine years. The tendency of old soldiers to marry young women is shown by the fact that there are still on the pension rolls, 1898 widows of the war of 1912. There are 1856 survivors and 3,899 widows of the old Indian wars, and ,204 survivors and S,175 widows of the Mexican war. The. pension roll con- .ains in all 753, ,451 survivors of all wars, 237, ,415 widows and dependent -e;atives and 653 army nurses.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

The initial number cf the Arizona Graphic made its appearance yester- day Mir Paul Hull well known in Phoenix newspaper circles, is the ed ftor The Graphic is to be a weekly publication. The contents and the il- lustrations are good; also the paper and the general makeup. The mis- sion of the Graphic will be to build up Arizona, a most laudable mission, surely. Politically, it's editcr says:
 ''The Graphic represents no social faction nor political clique. It an- ticipates no participation in local, par tisan politics, but it prays for the continuation of the present national political policy and the expansion of the Angfo-Saxon race and the Chris tan religion over the entire earth.''
 A publication adhering to such doc trines is certainly deserving of the glad hand.''
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Graham county will probably hold an agricultural fair this autumn which will be a big advertisement for the Upper Gila valley. The largest pump kins, yams and apples grown in that fertile region are to be placed on ex- hibition. The biggest steer and fast est horse will divide honors with the products of the soil, and general good time will complete the pro- gramme The Bulletin says that the most of the money to defray the ex- penses of the enterprise has been raised. A project so worthy should not be permitted to fall by the way side. A successful fair in Graham accunty would be a tolerably good
 \pch" to Mariccpa county Here
 only talk about it.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

The Mexican independence day ex- ercises yesterday were the mos5 inn posing yet held in Phoenix by the Mexican people. Americans have an interest in the 16th of September. It is the counterpart of our Fourth of July. It was tk.9 same great cause liberty-that made these days dear to the citizens Of two great republics ''Viva la Mexicol"
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

The Dewey hone fund now amounts would think he was being treated pretty generously if given a house no mere costly than that amount As the sum represents good many thousand persons, the great majority of contrib tutors having given small amounts, the fund cannot be called a failure as a popular tribute
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Chicago t- at the trusts are a curse. If this be true and his remarks have the same effect on the matter at issue that his opposition to sound money did in the last campaign, the Amer ican people must grit their teeth and prepare for the worst
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

It is pretty hard to see a republic, or anything that bears the name of a republic, carted off to the graveyard of nations, but if Dom Paul does not send for a doctor, and that very quickly, he will have dead one on his hands
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Very little is heard from the Philip pines the last few days General Otis is too busy saving wood for Aguin- aldo's funeral pyre to write any long letters, and the press agents are out in the jungle trying to put salt on the tail of another round robin
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

By November 1 the long distance telephone between Tucson and Phoenix is promised to be in operation. Such a system should prove an important factor to the business interests of both cities. The newspapers will all welcome it.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Judge Sloan has wisely decided that Yavapai county must pay the defaulted and current interest on the P. & A. c. railroad bonds. We earnestly hope that the Courier will sse nothing per sonal in this
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

One thing to be said in favor of the Boers is. that right or wrong, they stand together pretty well. There seems to be no Atkinsons among them. It is also a pretty well established fact that they will fight as well as talk, and there is some respect due to bravery, even if misguided.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Secretary Akers, District Attorney Flannigan and the Tamale Man made splendid appearance in tt:e pa rade yesterday.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

The city council has taken one step in the direction of street paving. We trust that Mayor Gang and his asso- ciates will not ask any enc to hold his breath until the next enc is taken.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
THE ONE REQUIREMENT.

Some practical minds in Ohio say they don't mind how cicse Millionaire CandiGsite Mclean gcts to Bryan's sil- yer ideas if he isn't clcse in other financial wnys.-PEiladelpn Times.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Will the republicans in the next con- gress listen to Arizona's prayer for statehood d?-SoTcmonville Bulletin.
 No, nor will any other congress that has to listen to 'fP H." Wilson's prayer in behalf of Arizona
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
STILL EXPANDING.

Murat Halstead has just turned his seventieth birthday. but he seems to be pretty gocd specimen of robust man. hood yet.-Boston Herald
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

It is understood that a petition was started yesterday for the ultimate re- demption of cne of the additions to the city. The ice is breaking.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

The Transvaal may not have any live towards, but she is getting ready to place on exhibition the biggest crop of dead heroes that ever played to the galleries in South Africa.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
HIS ONLY OPPORTUNITY.

Aguinaldo is said to walk in his sleep. Possibly that is the only time he has to walk. He is engaged in run ming all the time he is awake.-Wash- in gtOn Post.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Globe has many things to be proud of, but the rejuvenated Silver Belt is easily entitled to head the list.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
THE NEXT QUESTION.

Who Is Jonos?" is the title Cf a pamphlet that is circulating in Ohio In about two months a saquel entitled Where Is Jones?" will be timely Chicago Record.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Washington bureau. 800 Fourteenth street, N. W.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Entered at the postoflce at Phoenix, Arizona, as mail matter of the second class.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Publication office: 36-3S East Adams street. Telephone No. 47.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

PHGNIx. SEPTEMBER R17. 1899.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
THE FAULT FINDER

Residents on North Second street l between Adams and Monroe, awoke
 yesterday morning and found them
 selves in possession of riparian rights
 which, however, were worse than worthless. The street was filled from property line to property line with
 water which was too deep rt- wade and
 not deep enough for navigation. Be- side, the inhabita nts were not provided
 with boats. They, therefore, had to
 make their escape by rear exits. The
 same aqueous conditions prevailed in
 ether parts of the town. This is the time of year when many persons ar
 rive in Phoenix who have been induced
 to come on the representation that the
 atmosphere is dry and pure, con
 ducive to the healing of diseased lungs and throats. If any of these persons saw that inundation yesterday morn ing and the waste of foul smelling and impossible mud which lay in the wake cf it yesterday a51ernc0n, they would
 have been justified in thinking that tE>ey had been lied to about the oondi-
 tions here, for the air o3nLlcis be dry and pure in the vicinity Of a bog.
 I do not know who immediately caused the f1ccd. No doubt some neg ligent or hoggish property owner di- rected the irrigation of his property without reference to the rest of the community, for that is often done. But the city council is primarily and more particularly to blame for allow ing the streets to lie in a condition to be flooded. If that street and all the streets had been properly graded the overflow would have run along the gutter and disappeared from view and nothing worse would have resulted than the reckless waste of water, of which everybody is complaining there is not enough to go round. It is this neglect to grade the streets which makes them puddier than the country roads in the wet ssascn, dustier in the dry, and furnishes the Outlander his chief argument against an exten- sion of the city limits.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

There ought to be, and there will some time, be a revision of the rela- tion between the producer and the
 consumer by which so much of the
 product may net be wasted in the
 passing. Trusts have effected an inn proved relation in the matter of coal
 oil, crackers and other articles largely controlled by combines. This occurred
 to me yesterday while I was exam
 ming the new fire apparatus which had just been received. It consists of magnificent hook and ladder truck and chemical reservoir combined, and a combination hose wagon. They were badly needed, the city did well to buy them and no doubt bought them as cheaply as possible, for the deal was preceded by much negotiation. The two wagons cost s3,000 exclusive of the freight, amounting to $400. The raw material in the wagons at the most liberal estimate could not have cost $500. The cost of preparing and putting it together could not at the widest caicutJtiCl have reached S1 ,0O0. But admitting these ezti- mates to be accurate. the profit on this transaction could not have been $1,700, as it would appear, for the reason that such a profit would attract more men and capital into the manufacture of fire apparatus. It is safe to con clude that the manufacturers have not cleared more than a fair profit. But what became of the rest of the mar gin?
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

I can account for large part of it. The manufacturers after some prelim- mary negotiation with the city coun- cil sent a man here to close the deal. He remained in the city altogether about six weeks and resided at the most expensive hotel. His travelling expenses were not less than S200 and his residence in Phoenix cost him not less than s100. Perhaps a larger sum than either was spent in friendly and perfectly legitimate way with persons who might assist in one way or an- other in promoting the deal. This would naturally be charged to the ex- pense account. Here we may say was $500 spent in effecting the sale, and not a cent of it dishonesty, but that $500 did not in any way contribute to the excellence of the apparatus.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

EMIL GANZ, President
 VOL LEWIS. Vice-PremldeMN
 C. OBERFELDER. C&ahloR
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
BY CARRIER

Daily, per month";. ..... .....$ .75
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

That $500, by the way, is but an in finitesmal thing compared with the whole expense of meeting competition in the manufacture of fire apparatus, for there is no combine or trust in this business. If there were, that $500 would net have been spent. That agent would not have come to Phoenix at all. The apparatus might not have been sold, but if it had been, it would have been done at that much less ex- pense. Not only at that much less, but less a pro rata of all the expense re- quired to meet the present costly com petition. Many think thad all the trusts, save in eXpeE-a, is profit, which is not 50. Trusts are wise enough to divide their savings liberally with the public, for if thsy did not, com petitive trusts would rise up and the fight would become hotter and more ruinous than ever.
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17

Directors: Emil Ganx, Sol Lewis, J. 2 T.. Smith, Charles Goldman, 6. Ob0R fielder. G 1 Doris. J. D. M0nih0M
Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
The Arizona Republican.

CHARLES (. RANDOLPH.
 cdI1or and pr0Drlefor
The age-herald., 1899-09-06
Yellow lack on the Mainland.

There is plenty of yellow fever at Key West, but Key West is not a part of the mainland It is as disconnected as Cuba or Porto Rico. Cuba is threatened by 1t, and Havana proposes with a straight face to quarantine and in very truth that city should take precautions, because the traffic between the two towns is ordinarily con- siderable.
 The reported case at Vincennes, Indiana. is just.a case. that is all. No more cases will grow out of it, for the fall air in h. diana will chill the germs in their nesting places to inactivity.
 The cases in New Orleans are beyond reasonable doubt sporadic. Two cases only have arisen there The Adolph case arose at 4j2O Camp street, corner of Jena street. Adolph died, supposedly of the fever. He had not been out of New Orleans in over a years time, and no cause beyond the re- ceipt of letter from Central America has been discovered. The doctors do not &C., cept the letter theory, and the only theory left rests upon germs left over from last syear. The other case arose at the corner
The age-herald., 1899-09-06
DANGEROUS AGE
OfMen and Women as to Entanglements
 Matrimonial

From the St. Louis Republic.
 The most dangerous age for bachelor is under 261b, to be accurate, 26,35, as the registrar general dryly puts it in his sta tistical return just issued. The most joy ous and delightful age for woman is something over 241k-25.5o. That is to say, that it was at those precise ages that the average bachelor of last year and the average maid became One.
 The bachelor, however, grows more wary year by year. He was older in 1898 than in 1897, when he fell into the tolls. The average bachelor was married in 1897 at 263O years of age, quite .05 less. The girl too, has to wait longer than she used to. She was .O5 of a year younger in 1897 when she became wife than in 1898. As for the people who marry as minors, they are rap luly becoming a vanishing number, among men, at least; S4 out of every 1000 hus- bands in 1874 were married under the age of N and so were 227 out of every 1000 women. The boy husbands have come down to 51 per 1000 now; the girl wives have dropped to TO per 1000. There lave not been so few boy and girl marriages at any time since 1851.
 Of the total marriages in 1898, 2.751 per sons were minors. Of these there were ? girls IA 10 15; 15s, 16; 5 boys, Is; 664 boys, IT; 1,196 girls, IT; and 3303 boys and 6,294 girls IS; over IS the girl wives ran into tens of thousands, and actually nearly 19,- 900 youths of % were married.
 There has been a decided slump in wid- overs and widows of late. In 1871 13S hus- bands and 100 wives in every 1000 were widowers and widows. respectively. Things have changed since then; there were but 9S widowers and 69 widows in every ,O0U marriages in 1898 The widower, by the way, is obviously more dangerous to the susceptible heart of the opposite sex than the widow. It is to be noted, however, that when the widow selects a bachelor as a husband she takes man nearly two years her junior; when she chooses a widowe,r her husband is nearly five years older than herself
The age-herald., 1899-09-06
Iron Boom Will Not Soon subside.

When "beams' and s"channels" sell In Pittsburg at from $45 to $47 ton, against $2O at the beginning of the present year; when ordinary Bessemer steel at the Pitts burg mill is snapped up at $3S a ton when a short time ago it went a-begging at $15 a ton; when open hearth steel sells up to $50 ton; when No. 1 foundry Is worth in this city ST. a gain of over 100 per cent. in a single year; when Bessemer pig in Plttsburg has risen in eight months from s11 to $2s-when one considers all these ad- vances, he is apt to think that the top has surely been reached, because such prices should naturally chock consumption.
 But there are no signs that such is the sase On the other hand new enterprises hultiply. New buildings are started, new bridges planned, new cars ordered by the thousands, new ships sadly wanted, and new railroads projected. Furnaces and mills cannot fill the orders that are con- stantly coming in. And a similar state of things exists in the other great iron-pro- ducing countries, England and Germany.
 There is but one way to ascertain when the iron boom will culminate, and that way consists in ascertaining when pr perity will reach it's height. As long as prosperity in q general sense becomes wider and deeper, that long will the furnaces aud mills be overtaxed. As the prosperity of the country Is not based upon anything Of a temporary nature, such as the failure of crops in Russia or elsewhere, but Is based upon general substantial conditions, it Is useless to attempt to name limit of the period of the iron loom. All now Know that it's continuance until midsummer Of next year Is assured and the best experts begin to think that 1t will be many years before production can seriously overtake consumption.
The age-herald., 1899-09-06
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Early Conventions Not Necessary.

The country has long been accustomed to national conventions held in June or July, and it will not be apt to accept po- litical activity at an earlier date. Busi- ness is booming and men are busy, and there is no reason to believe that they can be induced to give more attention or earlier attention to politics than they heretofore have. They may be inclined to give even less. They may prefer shorter to a longer campaign. Nominations can, It is true. be made at any time, but nomina- tlons and platforms, call for organization and activity, and these will not be forth coming in greater volume or at an earlier period in the year.
 In all the history of American politics the action of the national conventions has never before been so definitely forestalled as 1t is now. The republican nominee is to be William Mckinley. and he is to run on gold, robber tariff and imperialist platform. with a few buncombe thrusts at the trusts thrown in that no one will be- lieve for a moment, and that the trusts will not fear in the least MT. Bryan will carry the democratic standard, and he will stand on the Chicago platform, reinforced by antitrust and anti-imperialist blanks. Neither MT. Mckinley nor MT. Bryan has a really live competitor. Neither has an opposition boom to encounter. The Roose- welt boom on the one hand faded away as readily and completely as the Van Wyck boom did on the other. The candi- dates are practically before the people, and there does not seem to be any press ing reasons in favor of early conventions, and yet such conventions would be wholly harmless.
The age-herald., 1899-09-06

of Euterpe and Coliseum streets last Fri- day. The patient was never seriously i'll. and Is now rapidly convalescing. All who have investigated the two cases agree in saying that they are probably sporadic, and that other cases need not be expected. A few more days will suffice to define the situation to the satisfaction of all. The greater probabilities point to a crushing out of the fever at New Orleans, if it needs any crushing out at all. and that this sec- ton of the country will soon be able to congratulate itself upon an escape that should be rendered permanent It has be- come so on the Atlantic coast, and there is really no reason why it should not be so on the gulf coast after New Orleans is sewer ed and placed on a good sanitary footing.
The age-herald., 1899-09-06
ORIENTAL LAFEADIO LEARN
An American Writer Who Lives in Ja-
 pan and is Much Beloved

From the St. Louis Republic.
 A traveller who has just returned to New York from Japan tells about one of the most singular as well as one of the ablest men that America has produced-a man fit in originality of taste and life to rank with those singular though diverse gen fuses, Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Rich ard Realf. Says the writer Gin the Verdict, July 2D:
 Just a month ago today I was strol;ng along the Bund in Tokio, Japan, watching the strange huddle of humanity passing through that fascinating thoroughfare.
 Among the throng in the Bund I ob- served a tiny figure of a man in a curious mixture of Japanese and American dress. He was scarcely more than five feet tail and his clothing hung over his shrunken figure with the grace Of blanket on a horse rack. Huge spectacles straddled his nose, and under his arm he carried half a dozen books. As the natives passed him they bowed most respectfully. l asked my rickshaw man who the little chap was. He told me he was an American, 'Misr Hearn'
 ''That night at the hotel the manager told me that the American was Lafeadio Hearn, the most distinguished man of letters in Japan. He is professor of foreign litera- ture in the university and the only for egner left in any educational institution in the whole empire The university and all the noted schools ten years ago had full staffs of European and American teachers, but since the war with China the Japan csc have become so chauvinistic that they have turned out all the foreign teachers from their schools, and all the foreign of ficers from their army. Hearn was the only American or European who survived the ax of reform in the university He Is, however, as much a Japanese as the Mar quis Ito himself, and is so steeped in Orien- talism that he has almost forgotten his English speaking friends It was rather in teresting to see this man so revered by the Japanese and to know that he was an American. Hearn has done more in literary way to give Occidental readers glimpse of the real intellectual life of mod ern Japan than any other living writer, native Japanese or visiting student. He is the only writer of English who has pierced the veil of mysticism that has for so many decades separated Japan from the eyes of the Occident. Hearn, indeed, is no longer American save in his command of English In. all other respects he Is as much of a Jap as if he had been born and reared in a Buddhist temple under the shadows of Fujiyama.