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Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
AN ARIZONA CRUSOE
Emil MaFquardf inc Goat Owner in
 Trouble Again.

An Indian came to town yesterday to make complaint against Emil Mar
 quardt, an old recluse, who lives a
 Robinson Crusoe life amid a large herd of goats a few miles down the river. The old man is believed to be crazy, as he has been in trouble be- fore on account of a theory that he is the prior appropriator of all the drift wood that comes down the river. Peo- pie who have been brought in contact with him believe that he would not hesitate to kill a man in support of that theory.
 The Indian was dragging out drift wood near Marquardt's place on Sat urday afternoon, when the old man assailed him with rocks. The Indian hurriEdly got into his wagon and drove away But in starting a double-barrel- ed gun fell from the wagon. The old man took possession of it and added to the Indians haste to leave the vicinity.
 An officer went down to serve the warrant yesterday The old man said that he had put a couple of bombs in the gun expecting that when the In dian got over hls fright he would come back after the gun, iE which event he would get blown up. What to do with Marquardt is a problem. It is almost certain, that unless he is restrained, he will kill or get killed. If he should be locked up in jail his goat estate would be dissipated by thieves. He was re leased on his own reC0gniZance to ap- pear for trial today.
 The old man is known by compara- lively few people, though he has lived in that vicinity for years. Nobody knows anything of his past life and he is seldom seen away from his i ranch His association with goats l is not the only point of re- semblance between his existence ! and that of Crusoe Marquardt's | home, like one of those of the | other famous goatherd, is built on | high stilts so that he has view of the | country.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
AT THE M. E. CHURCH.
Dr. McCreary Breaches an Able Ser mon on the Conditions Requi-
 site for SOul Growth.

At the First M E. church yesterday the pastor, the Rev. D. D. McCreary, preached powerful sermon to a large congregation from these words, found in the eleventh verse of the eighth chapter of Job: Gan the rush grow without mire? Can the flag grow
 without water?" The sermon was an
 earnest plea for q closer walk with
 God, for a clearer realization of the
 divine presence and help. He said in Dpart:
 'In this world there is a great di-
 versity of forms of life and a great
 diversity of environments-each form
 Of life must have it's own peculiar en-
 vironmeTt or it will wither and die.
 All life, both physical and spiritual, are subject to the same law; there is
 but one law given.
 ''The vegetable must have the soil, the bird the air. the fish the sea. The
 higher life the better must be the en- vironment be. Tn US the divine nature must have divine environments. With out God the soul, in man nearly van ishes, becomes merely a spark, and the man is more a brute than @ man He compared the lives of Paul, John Bunyan and Wesley, before and after the spirit of God came upon them. He entrusted the life of Robert c. Ingersoll with that of Phillips Brooks, Of Gladstone with Bra llei&n, Of Martin Luther with Voltaire, of Alfred the Great of England with Frederick the Great of Prussia, and said: ''Who were the giants? who the dwarfs? Which one of them would you rather be like?
 Social environments can't hold a man down. It's what's in a mans heart that makes him The abundance of mans life consistent not of the things he pOssesseth.' Let your citi- zenship be in heaven. The three things necessary to life are light, warmth, sOil-the light of Gods pres ence, the warmth of divine love, the soil, Eat my flesh and drink my b.COd The tests of gre with: Increase in ! faith. If faith fails, your roots are be- | ing transplanted. Trust-yOu1l be an Optimist. Only dwarfed souls think ! the world is, growing worse, the coun- try going to the dogs, etc. Strength | increases for doing, enduring, achiev- | ing. When the bCdy fails if we are | growing in soul, nothing can make that stop growing. Can the reed grow | without mire? No. Can the lag grow without water? No. Can the soul | grow without God? NoI No.. No!!!"
 The singing was especially fine and appropriate, particularly the rendering )f Like as a Father" by the quartette, composed of Mrs. Embree, Miss Basset, Professor and Cyrus Meskimmons
 Palm Sunday will be observed next There will be appropriate decorations and special music.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
LIKE HIS PARTY, ALWAYS WRONG

Mir. Bailey's leadership has not been a shlnlng success, and he retires from it by no means top-heavy with his lau- rels. It may be said for him hat with better material to lead. he might have made better leader, but even that is not certain. His party is always going wrong, and he has not failed in the display of apititudes to follow it; even if weighed in the balances he has been found wanting as 9 leader. He will ornament it's ranks and be punct- ually found on the wrong side of every question, displaying unblemished party orthodoxy every time.-New York Tribune
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

borhood that he has committed suicide,
 but perhaps not by drowning, as was at first supposed MT. Ware said that
 he visited Munson's room and found
 that he had taken his razor with him. though the rest of his shaving utensils were left behind. He also left $5.60 in money, a due bill for $60, beside nearly all the wages earned in his employ ment by MT Ware since February.
 Yesterday was the date on which Munson said he was to be baptized into the Christian church, to which ceremony he had invited all his ac- quaintanceS.
 The Rev. J. L. Ferguson of day and said that Munson had actually consulted him on the subject of baptism. He made con fession to the pastor, which is not fully given cut. In it Munson said that he came here from northern Michigan, nine years ago and that his life there had been darkened by crimes which weighed upon him. He was asked II any one knew of the crimes he related. He said that no living person knew He was then asked if any one now dead knew. Munson refused to reply MT Ferguson said that Munson impressed him as being a sane man laborlng un- der great mental trouble. There was one part of his confession, though, which leads to a suspicion that his crimes are imaginary. That related to his life in Arizona. He has cer- tainly never been guilty of any crim- inal act here. He is unknown by dep uty sheriffs, constables and policemen, and though nobody could be found who knew him beyond a few months, those who had known him, gave him good
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
SPAIN'S PARTING SHOT
Phoenix Doctors Theory Regarding
 Small POx Officially Supported.

Phoenix physician some time ago advanced theory regarding the prev
 alence of small pox throughout the United Sta-7s. NO contagious disease in the history of the world had cover ed at the same time so wide 9 range of territory No considerable area in he whole country was exempt from it. His theory was that it was one of the consequences, and the most fatal one, of the war with Spain; that it was
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

mine superintendent, acted well and shared with Mir Goodwin the honors Of the evening. There are three typi- cal cowboys in the cast, played re spectiVely by Burr Mcintosh. Neill O'Brien and g. NJ. Hall Gertrude FL liOtt appeared as g wild western flower, and Estelle Mortimer was the pianiste in the dance hall. Laura Burt played the part Of the dance hall proprietress, and Tom Oberle that Of a half-breed
 
 Residents of Phoenix will have to wait for at least another year before they will have the pleasure of seeing CyranO de Berger2c, as Mansfield is meeting with such unqualified success in the east that he is not likely to leave for trip to the coast before the season of 1900-1. The play could have been booked here this season with an other company, but Mansfield is Cyrano and Cyrano is Mansfield. and any one else in the character would be most unsatisfactory
 ###*
 Manager Patton has returned from Los Angeles where he booked a long list of the leading attractions for next season, including the famous Bos- tOniGnS.
 #*%
 The Andrews Opera company, which was so well received here two weeks ago, has made 8 big hit in Los An geles, where it has been playing all the past week at the Burbank and will continue for another week. Jay E. Taylor, the tenC..; Maud Leek,ey. the contraltO. and Ada Palmer Walker, the l sOpIar0, have been especially com mended by the Los Angeles papers.
 GES ]
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
WISH.

"Do you think plagiarism is unfor- givable?" asked the young woman.
 By no means" answered the man who poses as a severe critic. T only wish some of our modern writers would do more of it."
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
HIS ONLY HOPE.

If MT Bryan can make use of his position on the public-kissing mania as 9, campaign issue he will have a ve~y | strong following without counting on | the silver question.-Chicag0 News.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
OUT OF HIS I NE.

Shelf it were necessary, and were your wife, would you go through fife and water for neN'
 He-"Do you thin1 4 itwould be nee essary?"
 She--'It might"
 He-'Then 1 think you had better marry fireman. Good evening""
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
THE CASE or NUNS ON
His Confession HiniIng at Many
 Mysterious Grimes.

The Republican yesterday morning published an account of the mysterious disappearance of B. H. Munson, a farm hand, employed by J. c. Ware MT. Ware was in town yesterday and said that no trace had been obtained of Munson It is believed in his neigh
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
$3.25.

This is well seasoned and made es- pecially to use in Salt River valley water This is an opportunity which may never present itself to you again. cheaper than any other.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
STUCKON SOAP.

That's what's the matter with a big soap company in Los Angeles. They shipped a carload of it to a Phoenix grocery house and this house refused it on account of a mistake being made in the label So the factory has turned it over to us at prices below the cost of manufacture and instructed us to turn it loose. So here goes:
 100 bars in one case, and one case goes at
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
MARCH OF CIVILIZATION.

Here's your London Daily Telegraph, SunCay edition! It leads all it's con- temporaries by appearing seven days in the week. and they will shortly foI- low suit. English journalism is rapid ly waking up and getting Ameri- caniZed.-BOstcn Herald.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
FRIENDLY BADINAGE.

Mike-''Well. anyway, I kin fatter nesilf that 1 was niYver so dToonk th2:. ! didn't know what 1 was dOin.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

The sale of seats for The Pay Train" opens at the Patton Grand at 9 c clock this morning. Indications are that the sale will be very large.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
PICTURE TAKING


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Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

Tickets on sale at the Phoenix Piano and Music House for the Mad anne BishCp concert Tuesday night.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

Owing to the extraordinary quantity of advertising now running in the Ari- zOna Republican it will be impossible to allow regular advertisers to in crease their standing advertising in the extra spring edition. All advertis- ing for that edition must be inserted in the supplementary portion of the paper independently of regular advertise ments and must be paid for at the special edition rates, which will he supplied upon application at this office
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
NUTTER & GILES

House Movers, RaiserS and Rggers
 All kinds of heavy machinery han dled and placed. Structural worK a speciality. We furnish our own outfits
 Address in care Hotel Hardwick, Phoenix.
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20
NAVAJO INDIAN RUGS.

 thoroughly designs
  Be now tn on select
Arizona republican., 1899-03-20

Nat GooGwin's new play, "The Cow boy and the Lady," by Clyde Fitch, was given it's initial performance at the Chestnut theater, Philadelphia
 last Monday night and met with the unqualified appreciation of the critics The scene Of the play, which is in three acts, is a western mining camp Mir Goodwin, as a ccllege-bred, dandi- fled mine superintendent with strong qualities of heart and head underlying dudish exterior, has a part that gives him better opportunities than anything he has been seen in in recent years. Maxine Elliott, as, a neglected wife, who is secretly loved by the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
Hewroc,or.D iner.

Fer ten solid years." said a New
Orleans broker, 81 lived in perpetual
apprehension of sudden death. A doc
for in Texas told me-confound his pic
ture-that / had yalvular heart disease,
and if / wanted to stay on earth / must
avoid every species of excitement. 1
did my best to follow his advice, but
that miserable specter was at my elbow
day and night and embittered my whole
existence. don't believe 1 am a cow
ard, but the thought preyed on me IN
til began to fear for my sanity.
''At last, after all these years of in
finite precautiou, went to first class
specialist to find out how much longer
I'd last and was assured that hadn't
one single symptom of the malady. Talk
about removing a mountain from a
mani That assurance knocked off an en-
tire range. 1t changed the color of the
universe in twinkling, and I was SO
happy I wanted to just throw up my
hat and yell.
"That was couple Of years ago, and
have enjoyed myself tiptop ever since
up to one day last week, when / hap
pened to be chatting with the specialist
and remarked that I'd like TO murder
that saw bones in Texas. L don't blame
you,' he said. That man had no right
to tell you that you had heart disease
If had found You right at death g door.
/ certainly would never have let you
know it, Now, by Jove, don't know
who or what to believe and am drifting
back to the old state of uncertainty. l
wish I lived in cannibal island and
had never heard of doctors. New Or
leans Times Democrat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
a Shining Mark.

A lady, grievously tormented with a
corn on her toe, was advised by one of
her friends to anoint it with phosphorus,
which in n weak moment she did, but
forgot to tell her husband before retir-
ing at night. 1t had just turned IL
when the husband awoke, and was star
tied to see something sparkling at the
foot of the~bed.
He had never heard of freely in the
locality, nor did he ever remember see
ing such a terrible looking object as
the toe presented. Reaching carefully
out of bed till he found one of his slip
pers he raised it high in the air and
brought it down with great force upon
the mysterious light.
A shrek and an avalanche of bed
clothes, and all was over. When at last
he released himself from the bedclothes,
he discovered his wife groaning in a
corner of the bedroom, but she had not
got that phosphorated corn.-London
Answers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
Athletic NIixsiGnaries.

Two English home missionary work
ers were recently introduced by the
Rev. A. j. Robinson to a Birmingham
audience in these words:
lyon Birmingham chaps have lot
of athletics, and quite right too. The
two missionaries are both old athletes,
you will be interested to learn. One,
an old churn of mine, was in the Cam
bridge eight, and the other was famous
among his fellows as a jumper. He
could jump as high as his head. Lily
erpool Mercury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
WHAT A WORK is MAN!
The Human Body the Most Wonder
full Thing In the World.

The Human Body the Most Wonder
full Thing In the World.
Human beings are of all sizes, but the
tall man is less common than the short.
Only one in every 20S exceeds the
height of six feet. For every foot of
stature a man should weigh from &c to
% pounds, proportion that is not the
lot of all in these hurrying, scurrying
days. An average sized man weighs 140
pounds; a woman 1875 pounds. Curious
ly enough, the mean weight and height
of lunatics are below those of sane peo-
pie. Another unexpected thing in this
respect is that a negroes skeleton weighs
more than that of an Englishman.
The vitalizing power is the blood, q
drop of which takes but % seconds to
60 the round of the body. There passes
through the heart once every three min.
utes an amount of this precious fluid
equal to all that is contained in the
body. The mileage of the. blood circula
ton reveals some astonishing and un-
dreamed of truths. 1t is estimated that,
assuming the average speed of the heart
to be 90 beats a minute, the blood
travels 207 yards in GO seconds. In 9TH
er words, 9 miles an hour, l6S day.
or 6, 800 per year.
If man of "a could have one single
blood corpuscle floating in his blood all
his life, it would have traversed in that
period no less than o, $50, sos miles.
The average weight of the brain of an
adult male is pounds ounces.
of a female 2 pounds ounces. The
woman's brain begins to decline in
weight after the. age of 80, the man IS
not till ten years later. According to
high authorities the nerves, with their
branches and minute ramifications con-
Meeting with the brain, exceed 10, 000. -
900 in number.
The palms of the hands and soles of
the feet are composed of cushions of fat,
in order that sudden jolts and violent
blows may be successfully resisted and
no injury done to the muscles and bones
underneath. The musoles-of which
the tongue monopolizes land bones
of the human structure in combination
are capable of more than !, 200 different
motions.
The teaching of experience indicates
that accidents are far more likely to &C.
cur to the right leg and arm than to
the left. Further evidence of this fact
is supplied by the makers of artificial
limbs They dispose of many more ap-
pendages to the right side of the body
than to the other. Statistics show that
in 81 cases out of 100 the left leg is
stronger than the right.
If q man could move his legs proper
tionally as fast as an ant, he would
travel not far from 500 miles an hour.
London Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17

Many Londoners have visited the
Italian district, which lies in the neigh
borhood of Theobald's road and Hatton
Garden, and some with inquiring minds
have strolIed up Leather lane and
watched the Italian ice cream vendors
and fortune telling women with pretty
love birds, jntermingled with the dirty,
noisy, street hawkers, common to al
London slums. 1t is amazing to learn
how these Italians crowd together in
the poky little houses of the courts and
alleys. Generally house is hired by an
old padrone, who subjects to as many of
his countrymen as he can respectfully
squeeze in. The cellars are utilized as
sleeping apartments, and in the morn
ing as many as 20, even 30, men will
emerge from the bowels of the earth,
blinking and winking in the daylight
after night spent in the cellars under
one small dwelling house. A whole
family. consisting of a husband and
wife and eight or nine fanciulli of vari-
Gus ages, often sleep in one small gar
ret or cellar.-Ludgate Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
MILK md Mathematics.

When Thomas drove up to deliver
the usual quart of white mixture, the
gentleman of the house kindly inquired,
Thomas, how many quarts of milk do
you deliver daily to your CUSTOMERS"
"Ninety-one, sir. .
And how many COWS have your"
mine, sir. %
The gentleman made some remarks
about an early winter and the state of
the roads, and then asked, Thomas.
how much milk per day do your COWS
average?''
Seven quarts. sir. -
"Ah, uni" said the gentleman, as
he moved off.
Thomas looked after him, scratched
his head, and all at once grew pale as
he pulled out short pencil and began
to figure on the wagon cover: Mine
cows is nine, and I set down seven
quarts under the cows and multiply.
That's Go quarts of milk. l told him l
sold 81 quarts per day. Sixty-tbree
from 81 leaves % and none to carry.
Now, where dol get the rest of the
milk? I'll be hanged if 1 haven't given
myself away to one of my best custom
ers by leaving a big cavity in these fig
ures to be filed with water !''-London
Sketch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
A Crusher.

Legge, bishop of Oxford, who bad
not youth as his excuse for his vanity.
asked his friend Canning to come and
hear his first episcopal sermon. They
dined together afterward. and from the
politicians silence the other ought to
have known better than to push him,
but being rather nettled he exclaimed,
Canning, you have said nothing to me
about my sermon" "Well, it was
short" "Oh," said the bishop, sit is
better to be short than tedious"
But" replied Canning, you were
that too -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
weather Forecasts.

The first attempt at scientific fore
casting of the weather was the result of
a storm which during the Crimean war,
Nov. IA, 1854. almost destroyed the
fleets of France and England AS a
storm had ragged several days earlier in
France valiant, the French minister of
war, directed that investigations be
made to see if the two storms were the
same and if the progress of the disturb
ances could have been foretold. 1t was
demonstrated that the two were IN real
ity one storm and that its path could
have been ascertained and the feet fore
warned in ample time TO reach safety.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
THE PRICE OF PEPPER.
1t Helped to Change the History of
the Old World.

1t Helped to Change the History of
the Old World.
In the sixteenth century all the pep
per consumed in England was bought
by the English merchants from the
Dutch, who brought it from India.
Owing to racial jealousy, the Dutch
traders in 1899 raised the cost from 3
shillings to 6 shillinSs per pound. This
petty display of i'll feeling caused con-
siderable annoyance to the English mer-
chants and aroused in them that feeling
of independence which has always been
SO characteristic of our race.
They determined to import their pep
per direct from India in their own
ships, and for this purpose formed a
company, called the Governor and
Company of Merchants of London Trad
ing to the East Indies, and which in
latter days became eventually known
as the East India company.
Their first voyages embroiled them
in almost innumerable quarrels with
the Dutch and Portuguese, and for a
time the venture proved financial fail
ure. 1t was not until 1915 that the
company became successful and obtained
lucrative treaties, owing to their de-
cisively defeating the Portuguese.
From this time on their possessions
gradually increased, slowly at first, and
then very rapidly, until, by the wise
and beneficial management of such men
as Give, Warren Hastings and Corn
wallis, they exercised sovereignty over
the greater portion of India.
In this manner it happened that an
increase in the price of pepper momen-
tously affected the history of mankind.
London Standard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
\ MISTAKE IN THE BIRD MARKET.

A Persian in the market place
Longed for and so took home a wren
Yes, his was but n common case;
Such always are the ways of men
Once his, the brown bird please him not:
Almost he wished 1t would take wing.
He loosed the cage door and forgot
The dark. unsinging. lonely thing.
Night came and touched with wind and dew
(Alone there in the dim INCONSISTENCY
A rose that at the window grew
And. oh. that sudden song divine!
His children started from their sleep.
Their orient eyes with rapture lit
Their pale young mother hid to weep:
Their father did not care n whit.
He only heard the impassioned wall
From that small prison overhead.
my wren is but nightingale
III wiring its noisy throatl" he said.
Sarah Piatt In Century
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-17
Qualified to Do II.

Ibid you know" said the tooth car
penter, looking up from his paper, "that
the Indians practiced dentistry in the
earliest times?'
II didn't know it, F" replied the man
who had once sat in a dentists chair,
"but am not at all surprised The In
dians have always been brutal and
cruel race.
Then he laughed gleefully, forgetful
of the fact that there was still time for
the dentist to add $l5 or $40 to his bill.
Chicago Post