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Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

During a revival in a church in Penn- sylvania, a snake was discovered by a lady worshiper crawl
 SNAKES ing over her shoes. Of
 IN HER course she did what any
 SHOES. other properly constdtut-
 ed lady would do-she screamed. grabbed her skirts and jumped up on the seat. All the other ladies in the congregation followed suit. Pandefnonium reigned. The pastor bit off a polysyllable, and with three-quar- ters of it still in his mouth, gazed aghast. His snakeship, frightened so it couldn't rum straight, tried its best to escape, every bad boy in the congre- gation running gleefully after him. In the course of time, at the expense of two broken benches, three broken bones and a much damaged morality, the snake was killed. It is nothing new, in this wicked world, to get snakes in your boots, but they never get there without creating a disturbance. Snakes always did seem to possess wonderful attractions for the weaker sex.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30
THE VALLEY BANK
 OF PHOENIX. ARIZONA

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 General Banking Business.
 Office Hours: a. m. to p. m.
 DIRECTORS. M. H. Sherman, Vim. Christy, E. J. Bennitt, J. c. Kirkpatrick, F. c.
 Hatch, w. D. Fulwiler,
 Lloyd D. Christy.
 CORRESPONDENTS I American Exchange National Bank. New Cork; American Exchange Ma tional Bank, Chicago; First National Bank, Los Angeles; Bank of Arizona, Prescott, Ariz.; The Anglo California Bank, San Francieco, Cal.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30
Oyer=WOrk WeakenS
 Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

Washington bureau, 800 Fourteenth street, N. w.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

Peter Kearney has bought one of Dom Paul's hats for e25. We'll take less than that for our whole batch.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30
kidney trouble.


 Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble. because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidney poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
 It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their begin ming in kidney trouble.
 If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of pr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits E
 by all druggists in fifty E: .::::Es cent and one-dollar sig s es. You may have a ==a-sasls 9s.sg :!ssssss.sse9 sample bottle by mail Home of swamp-Root free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. '.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

pense for advertising. SOME wedding outfit, etc. was THING $11. Within a year he FOR THE died, leaving a life in LADIES. surance policy of $11..
 900. And yet some pso- pie say ft does not pay to advertise.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

An Idaho girl advertised fer hus- band and landed him. The total eX
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30
BY CARRIER.

BY CARRIER. Daily, per month. ........ ....".....S 10
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Published by the Arizona Publishing
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

By mail, daily, one year ..........s9Oo Weekly, one year ......... ........ 2.O0
 Cash in advance.
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

During 8 revival in a church in Penn sylvania, a snake was discovered by a
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fifty cent and one-dollar sig es. You may have a
Arizona republican., 1900-11-30

PEOPLE
 ELECT { SENATORS
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
People Name the Candidates
When they Register.

'fThe Minnesota primary election
system marks new era in politics,
and is revolution not even second to
the Australian ballot
Thus said Senator Washburn of Min
nesota, after he had watched the re-
suits of the new direct, concurrent pri-
mary-election law, used for the first
time in Hennepin county, Minnesota,
on Sept. Is last.
Ever since the public has been oper-
ating under a convention system it
has always been urged that if the peo-
pie would only take an interest in the
primaries and the caucuses there
would not be so many mistakes in the
selection of candidates. II this is true,
then the most successful primary re-
form is one that will bring out the to-
tai vote. BY the plan of holding con-
current primary on registration day,
Hennepin county brought out more
votes at the primary election than it
did at the previous general election,
the percentage being 10 in favor of
the primary law. Therefore, from that
standpoint alone, it was success.
After the law was enacted by the
Minnesota legislature and before it's
actual test the principle found such
favor that it was made part of Wis
sconsin's Republican platform, entered
into the party operation of Oregon,
is being officially inquired into in In
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
How Slate PENCIL. Arc Made.

Slate pencils were formerly all cut
from slate just as it Is dug from the
earth. Pencils so made were objected
to on account OF the grit which they
contain, TO overcome this difficulty.
says the London Engineer, Col. ID. M.
Steward devised an ingenious process
by which the slate is ground to very
fine powder, all grit and foreign SUB
stances removed and the powder bolt
ed through silk cloth mu2h In the
same manner AS -four Is boltcd. Tho
powder Is tscn made into dough and
this dough Is subjected to very heavy
hydraulic pressure, which presses the
pencils out the required shape and dis
ameter, but in lengths OF about three
feet. While yet soft the pencils are
cut into the desired lengths and set
out to dry In the open air. After they
are thoroughly dry the pencils ara
placed in steam baking kilns, where
they receive the proper temper.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
mathematician In spite of nlm.ei.


An Augusta correspondent Of the At.
lanta Constitution writes: Augusts
has now living example that mathe-
maticians are born with the gift Of
quickly and accurately handling fig.
ures. He Is colored man and a la,
borer on the j. b. White building, by
the name of Robert Gardenheir, living
In Jones street, above Cumming. Rob-
ert is middle-aged. stalwart fellow.
having had very few. II any. education
al advantages during his life. but when
II comes to figures he is prompt and
quick In his mental calculations. and
rarely ever makes a mistake. Per-
haps his best gift Is In multiplying.
AS quick as you can set down figures,
say, for instance, like rs times 81, or
32l times SIS. Robert has the answer
FOR you. In several other tests ha
showed most remarkable aptitude for
the use OF figures, using nothing but
his mind, and proved to be accurate.
When asked as to the principles or
rules by which he accomplished these
mental answers, he proved by his an
swers that II he had any such to go by
they were beyond his explanation or
demonstration, In fact. 1t was evident
that he does not know how he does
the trick. lie has possessed the gift
from his boyhood days. He cannot re-
member when he discovered his gift.
| but 1t was evident that 1t was before
he had matured into man.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Author of the Law Talks.

Oscar F. G. Day, author of the con-
current primary law, is a newspaper
man by profession, being editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune. In an article
in that paper the day after the prima-
ries, Sept. 10, he said: Every man
who has been even remotely identified
with professional politics in the past
was defeated. Three of the best alder
manic candidates nominated avowed
that they never would have encoun-
tered the cumbersome processes and
devious strategy of convention, but
would go before the people under the
new primary law.
1T has brought out class of men
for candidates that would never run
before, and the success of these men
will bring out larger number of their
kind at the next primary.
There were polled on this one pri-
mary election 1890 votes, and without
any friction, some district voting al
most the limit of 400 votes allowed by
law to precinct.
"Out in the country, where they had
never turned out to caucuses, the farm
ers hitched up their teams and drove
to town and nearly the entire country
vote was polled.
by combining registration and pri-
mary the expense to the people is not
greatly increased and the $40 which
each candidate pays the county audit
or helps to meet the bills"
1.-TWO state senators have laws
framed to present to the next legisla-
ture which they claim are 'modifica-
tons and improvements upon the
Minnesota direct primary law. They
are copies of other laws, all of them
fake in their nature, which were
passed in different states to delude
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
PLEN TO BREAK lDEADLOCK.
United States Proposes New Com.
mission
TO SETTLE CHINESE MATTER.
Present ENJOYS Unable to Agree Upon
Settlement satisfactory to Ali--Jinited
states Refuses to Consent to whole
sa Q Executions Demanded.

Washington, ID. c., Nov, 2G.-Secre-
tary Hay has addressed an Identical
note to the powers, suggesting steps
leading to the appointment of an in
ternational commission to settle the
Chinese imbroglio. The commission,
according to the idea of President Nc,
D Ainley. with whom the idea originated,
is to be composed of one or perhaps
two representatives of each power in
terested in China. 1t is also President
McKinley's idea that the International
commission shall sit, not at Pekin, but
at Paris, London, Washington, or some
other capital which may be agreed
upon. 1t may be said that the powers
have already been sounded on the mat
ter, and that several have informally
indicated their approval of the pro-
posed international commission. 1t is
for the purpose of securing definite re-
plies that Secretary Hay dispatched the
identical note to-day.
For some time past the negotiations
at Pekin have been in such shape as
to threaten the failure of any agree
ment whatever being reached. Ger
many and some of the other European
nations insisted on making extraordi-
nary demands on China in regard to
the amount of indemnity demanded
and the punishment of those RESPONSE
ble for the uprising. This government
could not agree to these proposals, and
just at the moment when the negotia-
tons are about to end in failure, the
United States, as it has done more than
once, has stepped in with new propo-
sition which promises to be agreeable
to all interested and to result in a
settlement of the Chinese question,
which has been dragging along for
many months.
AS is well known, the ministers who
are now conducting the negotiations
went through the entire siege at Pekin,
and they are naturally embittered
against the Chinese, and are almost
| wholly responsible for the eXtraordi-
nary demand made--namely the de-
! capitation of eleven or more of those
who took part in administering the
government during the Boxer outbreak
and melted the Boxers to rising The
| United States will not agree to this
wholesale slaughter, and is willing to
accept the punishment which the
Chinese government has promised to
mete out to the offenders, provided
Prince Tuan, recognized as the ring
leader of the offenders, is put to death.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29

At the recent church congress in
England the bishop of Ripon congrat-
ulated his audience that, during the
century now ending, the adherents of
Christianity had increased from 200,-
100000 to 5OO,OOO,O0O, and that Chris
tian nations now WELD sovereign in
fluence over 100000 900 out of / 400, 900.
900 of the earth's population, but, says
the Episcopal Recorder, those who be-
lieve in the necessity of the new birth
of individual souls and their personal
union with Christ will find but little
ground for encouragement in the state
ment, as they ask how many of that
vast multitude of adherents are true
members of Christ.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
GOOD MEN In POLITICS

people into the belief that they were
direct primaries.
lone of these senators has pro-
posed act ready providing that each
party committee can order direct pri-
maries on any day, 20 be operated un-
der its personal supervision. That is
the way they will pretend to do away
with the EVIL OF the present law,
which permits any man to vote either
ticket"
There is no doubt. as Mr.. Day indi-
Gates, that many of the politicians are
quietly fighting the present law, but 50
well did the law take with the masses,
that while the politicians have striven
to secure an organization to repeal it,
the prospective legislators are afraid
of the public protest that would fol-
low, and instead of repeal, the law
will in all probability be extended over
the entire state.
In regard to the charge of cumber-
someness made against the law by ma
chine politicians, its author says: AT
first it was urged that the law was
cumbersome and its machinery impos-
sible of application. 1t would require
a ticket twelve feet long, not over
twenty votes could be polled in an
hour; the vote could not be counted in
a week. and he law was unconstitu-
ticnal. All these assertions have been
tested by actual trial and have been
shown to be totally without founda-
ton.
1.-The ticket was eighteen inches
long, the voters voted more rapidly
than at general elections and the count
was accomplished in few hours. Ger
tain alleged improvements have been
suggested.
1T has been suggested that voter
be forced to make affidavit as to his
PARTY and receive but one ballot. That
makes a public ballot and would keep
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
DEMOCRATIC SPECIMEN BALLOT.

diana and enlisted the services of earn
est men who are even now working
for it's adoption in New York. The
Minneapolis object lesson proved the
practical nature of the plan and its
friends from one end of the country to
the other are determined that its full
efficacy shall be brought to bear upon
the business of government.
Attraction for Voters.
The secret of the high merit of the
law is that it draws those men who
have hitherto held aloof from primar-
les, conventions and the polls, from
disgust at the time dishonored meth
DDS there obtaining, to take part in
the business of government Under
the law nominations are not made by
conventions, but by the people them
selves, direct. 1t destroys the power
of political machines and selfish en-
ployers to influence their dependents
through open threat or secret terror.
In the voting booth at the direct pri-
mary every voter can vote with secur-
ity. How he has voted can never be
known unless he should himself choose
to reveal it.
Both parties hold their primaries on
the same day, in the same place and
concurrently, where the citizens vote
at regular elections. The regular reg
istration officers are behind their ia
bles and men irrespective of party reg
lister. This double opportunity is one
of the magnets that draws. 1t is a
time-saver. To hold primaries and
registration at one time has been
found in other states an excellent way
of increasing the vote at primaries.
Having registered, the citizen-Repub-
1ican or Democrat-gets two tickets,
one containing Republican and the
other Democratic nominees who had
been placed on the tickets through v
titions of not less than per cent of
the voters casting ballots for the Office
in question at the last previous cleo
ton. There may be a dozen candi-
dates on the same party ticket for one
Office. The name of each aspirant for
the place appears at the top under des-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Yerixes as London Landlord.

London, Nov. 26.-Charles T. Yerkes
proposes to introduce an American sky
,raper into London along with Ameri-
can transportation ideas. 1t is an
nounced here by Henry c. Davis, vice
chairman of Mr.. Yerkes' new Charing
Cross railway, that on the site of each
of the roads stations there will be
reared a steel construction towering
20 as great height as the laws Of
london will permit. In the residence
districts the buildings will be equipped
as first-class apartment houses. Down
town they will be rented as offices.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Unmarried Raisins Are High,

Imported raisins will be high this
Christmas, owing to a considerable
shortage in the Malaga crop. A great
storm on September Is swept over the
famous Malaga raisin district doing
great damage not only to the grapes
still on the vines, but to those that had
been cut and dried. This heavy storm
was followed by a succession of cloudy
and rainy days, which made is i'm
possible for the grapes to dry properly,
and besides rendered worthless large
quantity of grapes that were still on
the vines. 1t is now estimated that
the raison crop is short fully so per
cent.-Washington letter Brooklyn
Eagle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Many Killed While Hunting.

Detroit. Mich, Nov. 26,--up to date
this season ten deer hunters have
been killed by accident in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan. Twelve were
badly wounded and two are missing
Among the killed are Floyd Shaddock
of Iron Mountain, Garfield Carr Of
Commonwealth, John Dauer of Green
Bay, Christian P,emback of Michigan
me. To-day two more hunters
were killed In lower Michigan.
Ralph Adams, aged is years, of Clay
ton, climbed tree and his gun was
discharged, blowing the top OF his head
off. Ralph Adams OF Dover township,
Lewanee county, was found dead under
a tree, his gun lying by his side. The
top OF his head was also blown off,
Tom lille: of McBain, while unload
ing his rifle, accidentally discharged 1t,
the bullet seriously wounding hts
mother and sister.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
The Minnesota Primary Law Increases
their Number,

ignation of Office, In proportional
number of ballots, the theory being
that no name should have the advan-
tage of appearing at the top on all the
ballots Should other parties enter the
contest the number of tickets would be
increased, one ticket for each party go
ing to every voter.
No "Cut-and-Dr;ei" system.
Each voter marks one ballot only,
returning both ballots pinned togeth-
er as he received them to the judge,
who places them in the box. Later
the crosses on the marked ballot are
credited to the respective candidates
and the unmarked ballot is returned
to the city clerk If a voter blunder-
ingly marks both ballots, only the one
containing the greater number CT
marks is counted. AS result of the
first primaries held in Minneapolis un-
der the law, much higher class of
men became the duly nominated can
didates than ever before. Men who
had refused steadily to be drawn into
the "leg-pulling .quagmire or old
style primaries and conventions now
came to the front and accepted can
didacy. A most significant develop
ment was the fact that every profess
sional office-seeker whose name ap-
peared on the ballot was rejected-a
consummation that never could have
been achieved under machine" rule.
In forty-eight hours everybody
knows who is nominated for every Of
flee in the county.
Affords Better Nominees.
Perhaps the most significant COM
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
REPUBLICAN SPECIMEN BALLOT.

away from the polls hundreds of men
who, while not absolutely afraid that
their employers would discharge them
for being of opposite politics, would
rather remain away from the polls and
not run any risks.
1T has been suggested that one reg
istration day be for democratic voters,
another day for republican.
"The same objection applies to that.
Both these plans would cut down the
vote and give the party bosses oppor-
tunity to get list Of the party voters
and whip employers into line"
JOHN TALMAN.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 24.-William J.
Bryan has accepted an invitation to
speak at a banquet. 1t will be his
.irst public appearance since his de-
feat for the presidency. The occasion
will be the annual banquet of the JEFF
fersonian Democratic Club of Lincoln,
where Mr.. Bryan will be the guest
of honor. Covers will be laid for five
hundred persons, and invitations is
sued to many of the immediate polt-
ical associates of the late Democratic
standard bearer in all sections of the
country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
THE CATTLE GROWING SITUATION

The approach of winter finds u
most encouraging situation among
the stock growers of Nebraska. Never
has there been more liberal supply
of fall pasture than exists at this
time, or a better conuition of flesh
and health among the grazing ami
mails of the flocks and herds. The
cattle stock of the state Ii in fine
condition TO stand the cold and freez-
ing weather which must be endured
for at least ninety days in average
Nebraska winters.
The open range plan Of wintering
stock has given way to better care
and more prepared feed In the buff
falo grass districts, where the feed
cures in the ground during the fall
months, the winter care of cattle and
horses rs an easy problem to solve,
MS little or no prepared feed is re-
quired in moderate weather and when
the grass is not covered with snow.
The large area of western Nebras-
ka called the "sand hills Is abund-
antly supplied with the sand variety
OF grasses that cure on the ground
and make good winter grazing for
stock. In those localities the expense
of wintering animals Is very light i'm
comparison with the prepared feed
districts. Nebraska has good crop
Of all kinds of rough feed for winter
ing cattle, and the farmers in the
grain growing districts, as well as in
the western grazing districts, have
been stocking up with the cheap
stock cattle coming into the markets
from thu less favored localities
World-Hcrald, Nov. 16, 1900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Prevent LynchIns In Iowa.

Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov. pa detail
of company G., Iowa national guard,
was called to Abba to-day to asst
in preventing the lynching of Alva
Booker, a negro charged with attack
ing Mrs. Sarah Hovel. The crime took
place the night of Oct. 80, and since
that time Booker had been confined
in the penitentiary at Fort Madison for
safe keeping. He was taken to Abba
for his preliminary hearing Abba res
idents had heard of his coming and
met him in force at the railway sta
ton. The presence of the Ottumwa
bluccoats with their bayoneted guns
kept the mob at a respectable distance
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Taxing oxford University.

For manyyea the municipal author
tiles of Oxford, England, have thought
the valuation put on their university
buildings for taxation purposes too
low. A new valuation has just been
made, by which the college properties
will be assessed on values raised by no
less a sum than G21,524 ($104,745).
The university will, of course, resist
this attempt to draw from their cof-
fers, and long and expensive litigation
may be expected. Joseph Fl. Warner,
in Chicago Record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Engine ralls from . rre.tls.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 24.-At
Rosedale, Kas., a suburb Of this city.
today, Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis switch engine left the track
on trestle, and, falling thirty feet
to the bottom of the ravine. exploded.
Four men In the cab Of the engine at
the time we're painfully hurt. They
are: John Eagan, engineer; will die.
James Fitzpatrick. foreman OF switch
ing crew. John Blankenship. Are
man. Peter Jensen, switchman. The
last three were seriously but not f.
tally injured, $500