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Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

WANTED-Man who understands working on secondhand furniture.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

THE NEW DOMESTIC rents 75c per week. Supplies for all machines; repairing done. J. s. Elston, 4O7 E.. Washington St.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

FOR RENT Horse pasture near town Apply to F. H. Hutchins, at D. H. Burtis'.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

public to know that l. Ernest Walker has the largest list of real estate to select from. either to sell or rent, in the valley. If you want to puiid he can put you in a building and loan association where monthly payments about equal to rent will secure you a home Il will pay you to see him before buy ing, building or renting.
 FIRE INSURANCE a speciality. Some exceptional bargains and plenty of water in Buckeye valley. Money always on hand to LOAN or good security.
 J. ERNEST WALKER.
 The Real Estate Man. Remember the office-26 South Sec ond Avenue. Tel. Main 501.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

WANTED-Second-h furniture and household goods of all kinds; will pay good prices for good goods; will go and see goods anywhere in valley. Call at 23O West Jefferson or address 1927 P. O. Box. D. w. Spears.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

FOR SALE-The Valley Meat Market, next to the postoffice; first class, with all up-tO-date appurtenances; cold air storage, and everything neces- sary to make it one of the best mar kets in the west; can be bought for 75 per cent of its actual cost.
 s. J. TRIBOLET
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

FOUND A blue roan colt with bald face, about nine months old. Call at No. 40 South Center street for in formation.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

man to represent, in r. si- d5nt community. old established house, worth $25O.OOO; duties require hiring help. making collections and some office work: liberal salary and eXpenscs advanced 10 right party. Address Wm. J. UHL. Mgr. I22 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

LOST-A gold locke, set with four small diam nds in center. on one side: on other engraved with initials A. R. Finder will please return to Republi- can office and receive reward.
Arizona republican., 1900-08-24

FOR sALE-A twelve room lodging house, a bargain. FOR SALE-A neat cottage, $75O; this is cheap. FOR SALE-A fine alfalfa ranch with water. MONEY to loan, houses built to suit purchaser on monthly payments. HUGH M. CREIGHTON & CO,
 11O North Center St.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
The Shfrt.WafSt Man

The shirt waist man has not reached
Wilmington but he was very much in
evidence sunday at our popular resort.
the Seashore hotel, at Wrightsville
beach. The guests of the hotel were
lolling 0 the piazzas enjoying the
delightful 'breeZeS or gamboling in the
surf in front of the hotel, and every
one was glad he was living, when sud
denly three handsome young men APP
peared at the desk and inquired of
Chief Clerk Gardner if they could get
dinner.
MI. Gardner with his usually polite
manners said certainly, but upon look
ing up he came very nearly fainting
when he discovered that none of these
young men was the possessor of a
coat. They wore faultless fitting
white duck trousers n beautiful
negligee shirts strapped in with the
latest in belts. The shirts were per-
feet dreams and would have made any
of the fair sex green with envy.
Mr.. Gardner realized he was up
against it,. He has had long expert
ence in the hotels of the Old Dominion
and elsewhere, but this was a new
problem, one that is agitating hotel
men everywhere, and it came rather
Unexpectedly and somewhat in the
nature of a solar pluxus bow" Az
a m9Ller Oh 1acl ne was knocked out
and rushed to Manager Hinton for as
SiStance.
The manager hastily called his staff
together and announced to them that
it was a condition and not a theory
that confronted them, n demanded
to know What should be done about it.
After a general expression of views
Cashier Cronly suggested that as the
aides almost to a man had protested
against the shirt waist mar and there
fore he would not be a go" il would
be best to mildly but firmly refuse
these handsome young men the privi-
lege of the dining room in their lovely
shirt waists but to let them know that
with his usual foresight and race for
the welfare of his guests, that Mana
ger Hinton had prepared for just such
an emergency as this and had provid-
ed coats for all shirt waist men apply
ing.
This plan met with approval and
the H. G. M. were notified and immedi-
ately accepted the amendment and in
a few minutes was businly engaged in
RECALLING themselves with clam chow
der, soft she'll crabs and other sea deli
cacies entirely oblivious to the fact
that the beauties of their shirt waists
were hidden from view.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
THE ONLY


I want you to notice this fact, that
when a man gives up the straight up
and down religion OF the Bible for a
any new tangled religion, it is general
ly to suit his sins. You first hear Of
his change Of religion, and then you
hear of some swindle he has practiced
in a special mining stock, telling some
one if he will put in SO, 900 he can take
out 800 900; or he has sacrificed his
integrity or plunged into irremediable
worldliness. His sins are so broad he
has to broaden his religion, and he
becomes as broad as temptation. as
broad as the souls darkness, as broad
IS hell. They want a religion that
will allow them to keep their sins and
then at death say to them, We'll done,
good and faithful servant" and hat
tells them, "A1l is well, for there is
no hell" What a glorious heaven
they hold before us! Come, let US &c
in and see it. There are Herod and all
the babes ne maSsacred. There are
Charts Guiteau and R~obespierre, the
feeder of the French guillotine, and all
the liars, thieves, house burners, CARO-
tiers, pickpocketS and libertines Of all
the centuries. They have all got
crowns and thornes and harps and
scepters, and when they chant they
sing, THANKSGIVING and honor and
glory and power to the broad religion
that let's us all into heaven without
repentance and without faith in those
humiliating dogmas of ecclesiastical
old fogyism."
My text gives me a grand opportuni-
ty Of saying a useful word to all young
men who are now forming habits for
a lifetime. Of what use to a stone
mason or a bricklayer lis a plumb line?
Why not build the wall by the unaided
eye and hand? Because they are in
sufhcient, because if there be a deflec-
ton in h wall it cannot further on
be corrected. Because by the law of
gravitation a a must be straight
in order to be symmetrican and safe.
A young man is in danger of getting
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17

1t is a solemn time with this nation.
and whether we keep his Sabbaths or
dishonor them, whether righteousness
or iniquity dominate, whether We are
Christian or infdel, whether we fulfill
our mission or refuse, whether we are
for God or againest him, will decide
whethery we shall as a nation GO on in
higher and higher career or go down
in the same grave where Babylon and
Nineveh and Thebes are sepulchered.
But" say you, IF there be nothing
but a plumb line what can any of us
do. for there is an old proverb which
truthfully declares: If the best mans
faults were written on his forehead. IL
would make him pun his hat over his
eyes, What shall We do when. accord
ing TO Isaiah, God shall lay judgment
TO the line inc righteousness the
plummet?'" All. her. e where tho Cos
pei comes IN with a Saviour's righteous
ness to make up for our deficits. And
while i see hanging on the wall a
plumb line. i see also hanging there a
cross. And while theone condemns us
the other saves us, il only we will old
10 IL. And here and now o may be
set free with a more glorious liberty
than Hampden or Sidney or Kosciusko
ever fought for. Not out yonder or
down there or(up here, but lust where
You are you may get it.
The invalid proprietreSs OF a wealthy
estate III SColidnQ visited the continent
of Europe to get rid of her maladies,
and n went to Baden Baden and
tried those waters and went to Carls-
bad n tried those waters. and in
stead of getting better she got worse.
n in despair she said to a physician,
What shall 1 do?" His reply was:
Medicine can do nothing for you. Yo.
have only one chance and that is in
the waters of the Pit Keathly. Scot
land" rs it posible?" she repned.
Why, o waters are on my own es-
tate!" She returned and drank of the
fountain at her own gate and in two
months completely recovered. Oh. sick
n diseased and SHINING and dying.
why go trudging all the world over and
seeking here and there relief for your
discouraged spirit when close by and at
your very feet and at the door of your
heart, aye, within the very estate of
your own consciousness, the heating
waters Of eternal life may be had and
had this very hour, this very minute?
Blessed be God that over against the
plumb line that Amos saw is the cross.
through the emancipating power of
which you and 1 may live and live for
ever.
Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.)
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
waldersee,s Appointment Connrme,

Berlin, August I1.-Great Britain, the
United States and Japan have now ap-
proved the appointment of Field Mar
shal Count Won Waldersee as conn.,
mander-in-chief Of the allied forces IN
China, the United States and japan
unreservedly, and Great Britain condi-
tionaIly ON all the other powers agree
ing to the appointment This condition
has practically been fulfilled.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
Convention OF Democratic Clubs

New York, August 1o.-The quad
rennfal convention Of democratic
clubs. originally set for September 8th
at Indianapolis. has been postponed
until October 3rC. Mr.. Bryan urged
that the date be changed and the sug-
gestion was approved by Adlai Steven
son. Delegates to the number of 4 1000
are expected to attend.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
Held for ReQuisftfon

New York, August 13.-John Butler
alias Frisco Slim, was remanded foday
in the Center street police court n
await requisition papers from Virginia
where ne is wanted 70 answer a charge
of blowing open a safe in S-traghnre
last April.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17

Judge LaCombe refuses to sign the
eXtradition papers for G. T. w. Nicely.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-17
GODS PLUMB LINE.

Oh, this plumb line of the everlast-
our lives to show us our moral def1ec-
tons. God will throw it over all
churches to show whether they are do
ing useful work or are instances Of
idleness and %pretense. He will throw
that plumb line rel all nations to de-
monStrate whether their laws are just
or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their
ambitions holy or infamous. He threw
that plumb line over the Spanish mon
archy OF other days, and what became
or her? Ask the splintered hulks OF
her overthrown armada. He threw
that plumb line over French imperial
ism, and what vas the result? Ask
the lii Of the Tuileries and the fall
len column Of the Place vendome and
the grave trenches Of Sedan and the
olood Of revolutions at different times
rolling throughout the Champs Elysees.
He threw that plumb line over ancient
Rome, and what became Of the realm
Of the ancient Caesars? Ask her war
eagles, with beak dulled and wings
broken, flung helpless into he I
He threw it owe the Assyrian empire
Of a thousand years, the thrones of
Shalmaneser, of 81 victorious expedi.
lions, the cities of Phoenicia kneedinr
TO the scepter and all the world he.
came of all the grandeur? Ask the fall
len palaces of Khorsabad and the
corpses of her 1S5, 900 soldiery slain bv
the angel Of the Lord in one night and
b Assyrian sculptures OF the worlds
museums, all that now remains of that
splendor before which nations staggered
and crouched. God is now
that plumb line over this republic, and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
The Caps OF Holland.

Among things in the wardrobe was
d bushel of white caps, as learned
when, in response to some question Of
mine, my hostess exhumed them with
housewifely vanity. l think they had
never destroyed one in all their lives,
for those they had worn as young
girls were there with the rest. The
general pattern of all was the same,
but the youthful caps were Of lace,
while those they wore now in their
soberer years were Of plain cloth.
They were St.-Lunaire caps, and 1t
would not do to vary them. A cap is
n kind of village trademark, and
women of each little Breton commu-
nity have style all their own. They
take great pride in the dainty neat
ness of these articles Of apparel, and
no matter how elaborate the frilling,
with is necessity for laborious iron
ing, they are always beautifully done
up.--Clifton Johnson, in Harpers
Bazar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
In the pcnths of tho Sea.

While the larger animals Of the deep
sea are not well known the conditions
in which they live are well under
stood. The ocean bed has been
reached with net in about six miles
of water, and that there are valleys
and depressions Of greater depth may
well be imagined. The situation i'll
these enormous depths is not condu-
Give to strongly built, heavy and solid
boned animals; the enormous pressure
would shatter such an animal, crush
it to death, the pressure being ut I'VE
miles below the surface five tons to
the square inch in contrast to the ID
pounds to the square inch at the sur
face. The objects lowered into thls
region come up fraycd and worn;
wood is twisted out Of shape, the cop
per frames of thermometers bent, and
the glass itself reduced to powder.
The temperature is low; it is either
about freezing or below it; one record
at a mile showing less than % de-
grees, while others at three OF four
miles range from 80 degrees to 81 de-
grees. Animals to exist here must DE
virtual sponges through which the
water may circulate and meet, offset
ting the pressure. Nearly all the
fishes so far found in the deep sea
are. when taken from the water,
found to be very fragile and so loose
ly connected that many drop apart,
while the bones are mere tissue filled
with mucus. Yet though the fish IS
n literal sponge in the deep sea, it may
be a ferocious creature with strength
to rend large and powerful animals.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
The Automobile.

A vehicle that goes 20 miles an
hour on the highway is Of course
pretty serious proposition to every
thing else that uses the road. The
great centers of wealth, and particu-
larIy the summer centers of wealth,
like Newport, are pretty sure to be
embarrassed by the automobile craze,
so long as it is a craze. We are told
that the machines have pretty mulch
driven out of Paris all other kinds of
pleasure locomotion. AS long as II
q. rot abound too much, or too
fast. It is possible to drive horse
amcrg them; but they can crowd
horses out, and in some places, for
a time at any rate, they doubtless
will Still, the automobile rs Il means
of sport is craze and will pass, and
the horse is not craze and is pretty
sure to last; so we must not judge Of
the final result Of the automobiles
invention by the transient develop
ments of the next year or two.--E. S.
Martin, in Harper's Weekly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
Ned looked up at her, smiled and

Ned looked up at her, smiled and
seemed to come back to earth again.
"Sit down here beside me, little girl,
and let me tell yoh something" he re-
piled.
Flora obediently sat down and e1-
pressed a hope that the collar would
last until he got back to Chicago.
"Never mind the collar, Flora" said
Ned, looking down at the little stream
beneath them. There's something
more than linen collar bothering me
now. Flora. I have found out some
thing. have found that I love you.
I have found that 1 cannot live any
longer without the assurance from
you that you will come up to this
beautiful little spot with Inc soon
again, but in the capacity of wife in
stead Of friend. Now look me in the
eye and tell me your answer little girl
will you?'
"No, Ned, will not, and that's final"
'sWhy do you say that, sweetheart"
Because it's the truth, that's ALL"
''Don't you love me?"
"Not little bit"
"Well, I'm sorry. hoped you did,
but if you are sure you don't, I'm sure
1 don't want to marry YOU. Is the love
talk off, them"
"All off, Neddy."
''Then let's go find the folks and go
flshing.'-T. NJ, in Chicago Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
|PARlS HAS A
B0ER FARM A|RI
ehia Fsasurs Of the TransvaalS E
hibit at the Exposition.

One OF the most interesting features
Of the Transvaal exhibit at the Paris
Exposition, writes the Correspondent
OF the Philadelphia Record, is the Boer
farm, a modest structure copied With
scrupulous exactitude from the erigs
inal near Pretoria. s3 )
The rooffis of turf, the wind gsaTe
narrnw q a1af1 54l,n : na,.o 2 herd &c
no flooring the INTERIOR no { 10
threshing floor is OF soft earth, into
which the foot Of the visitor sinks at
every step. There Is no ceiling. The
slantlng roof is supported BY the ezte-
Flor walls, and all the rooms hare
bare rafters where the ceiling is usu-
ally found.
The entrance door opens into the sit.
tlng-room, or common hall, furnished
with q table covered in gray linen,
chaits stools ana sofa covered With
Crossed strips of leather harmonium,
J. cukoo clock and dresser On the
table is an o.d Bible, the Bible of the:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
rooms, is adorned with cotton print

fOOllS, Is duOIueu WILL COlLOu pIluL
curtains.
Close to the door of the farm house
is placed, evidently by deliberate de-
sign, lofty pyramid Of gilded plaster,
which represents the quantity Of gold
extracted from the mines Of the Trans
yaal from 1884 until the outbreak Of
the present war with England. At the
foot Of this pyramid is little gilded
cube, representing the volume of
i 1,000,0 900 francs in pure gold.
Passing before the yellow and bril-
liant pyramid, whose apex is hidden In
the branches Of the trees, we come to
another pavilion Of the Transvaal ex-
hibition-that Of the gold mines. Here
great noisy wheel is turning all the
while, and steam hammers rise and
fall, amid the trickling of water and
the running of rough sand. In room
gent smoke arising from white-hot
crucjbles. All the operations Of gold
mining and refining take place before
at the side we see rose-colored pm
our eyes, and each stage of the process
is explained to us by men experienced
in the work.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
nrn1nAin Palrin.

The policemen Of Pellin are, or at
least were, armed chiefly with small
drums, which they beat loudly, in or.
der, it is presumed, to let burglars
know that they are coming. All'night
long the watchmen beat their way
around the streets, and as a natural
consequence, are said to make few ar
rests. The pigeons Of Pekin have each
a light whistle tied to their tails, which
give forth q loud sound as they fly.
The blind also use drums to announce
their coming and warn other people
to get out Of their way.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12

States General brought from EurQe
at the time OF the emigration, boundln
calf, with ornaments of brass. Mar
to the Holy Book is a loaf of blak
bread.
Fastened to the wall, among soae
chromos, and with bow of crcpeat
the corner of the frame is n portrtt,
cut from q French illustrated paper2f
Colonel yillebois -Mareuil, who diedIn
battle near Boshof while fighting pr
the Beers. Does his portrait adfn
many Boer farmhouses? One MY
doubt it, but it was touching ad
gracefulact to put 1t in the sitting rom
Of the Boer farm at the Expositin,
above the old harmonium.
Behind the sitting room is le
kitchen, where q heap Of cold asss
marks the entrance to the doors OF le
furnace. We look for the inhabitas,
for the careful housekeeper, for le
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
ORIGIN OF THE BOXERS.
Said to Have Been Established Last Year
by Robber Chic.

Said to Have Been Established Last Year
by Robber Chier.
The following account Of the origin
Of the B8Xefs is taken from the Chinese
newspaper SEefi Pho:
"The robber chief Tschu Ling Teng
founded in May, 1890, in the province
of En-hsien and r.ng-4uen-hsien,
sect which originally went by the
names Hung Tong Tschan (Red I'anr
Shade), Tschin Tschung Scaang wen
of the Golden BelD, Lie Pu Sthau
(Shirt of Iron) and Tatanhni (Sect OF
the Great Water. Soon the orgar1iz-
atioh extended obetations to the prov
inee 6f Knan-Hsien ahd chaGged its
name to Lin Hi Schuer tWil.oR For=
est Fist. Government troops weie
sent to stop the mlsdeeds Of It's mem
bers and to extinguish them, and they
fed back to their first fields Of work,
the provinces Of En-Husien and Ping
Ynen-Hsieti; and again changed their
name to J-Ho-Tschuen tThe Fist d1
Patriotism and Peace.
'The Chinese are persuaded to join
this sect by being told that the So
ciety controls many powerful and Won
derful magic formulas, which make
the owner proof against sword or bu!-
let. Tn a ver5 short lime the sect had
grown immensely lad spread over
many provinces: The leaders even
gave out that the members need not
fear the shot from cannon.
1.-THE first murders were committed
on Roman Catholic Christians, but by
the middle of September no distlnc-
tion was made between these and Pro-
testant Christians. After the mission
raies had telegraphed to the American
consul id tTiel-Tsin for help and Gov
Yu of Shang-Tung had sent 100 govern.
ineilt soldiers out against the Boxers,
they suddenly vanished: But on Oc-
tober II the leader asain gathered
nearly 1000 Of the sect around him and
issued q proclamatloni signed with his.
foul name, in which he says; THE
Fist Of Patriotism and Peace in tue
Empire will elevate the Manchu dyn,,
asty and extinguish all foreigners"
Government troops sent out against
them suffered defeat constantly and
the misdeeds of the rebels multiplied
from day to day A battle was fought
near Len-Lo-Tien between the soldiers
and the Boxers, in which the govern
ment troops lost 300 men and the rebels
200. But many of the wounded of the
latter pretended not to have been mehl-
bers of the sect, but peaceful country
people who were shot by the govern
ment soldiers. The result of this de-
feat was the dismissal Of the govern
or of the district, Tschwang, which
caused great satisfaction to the Boxers,
who arranged special jubilee days to
celebrate this event.
"Since the Boxers have become more
and more daring in their attacks upon
missionaries, and the sect is spreading
constantly tesall nearby districts, and
very interesting news -frftJ DcfvVise>--
for in the next dispatches from the
united action of the European powers
and the United States to undertake the
punishment Of the rebels themselves
on account of either the inability OF
the Chinese government to deal with
the Boxers or the cooperation Of part
of the Chinese government officials
with the rebels"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-09-12
Some Freak Plants.

There is Il plant in Jamaica called
the life plant. because it seems almost
impossible to kill it. When 4 leaf is
cut off and hung up by string is sends
out white. thread-like roots, gathers
moisture from the air and begins to
grow new leaves. In South America
there is flower which can only be
seen when the wind is blowing. The
plant belongs to the cactus family
mid when the wind blows q number Of
beautiful flowers protrude from little
Jumps on the stalk New York World,