Arizona republican., 1901-12-15
NOTE AND COMMENT

The New York Age wants to see Hon. Benjamin F. Tillman expelled from the senate on general principles.
 Perhaps the president will comfort Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico presently with a special message. Who knows?
 The Dominion Coal company has con tracted to deliver so.ooo tons of its com modity to American railway companies. beginning immediately.
 The zinc trust has bought nearly 5oo acres near South Bethlehem. Pa. and the people think it's going to consali- date all it's plants" there.
 There are now between 10000 and 80, 900 sheep in Florida. They are free from diseases that kill off the sheep of other states. but a good many of them fall a. prey to the Florida wildcats.
 Rev. c. H. Brent of Boston. who will go out to Manila presently as mission ary bishop, is now a doctor in divinity. Trinity University. Toronto. his alma mater. conferred the degree yesterday
 The congressman didn't get all the bouquets. the first day of the session Doorkeeper Glenn of the house got one On the card attached to it were the words: Prom a fellow who wants an office."
 This week the conductors of that gen. tie prohibition paper out at Chicago di- vide their time between vituperating Elihu Rooot. Seth Low. Dr. J.. M. Buck ley and others, and pelting the grave of William Mckinley.
 The Newberger Cotton company Grenada, Miss.) estimates this years cotton crop at about 10, 720 900 bales. It estimates the Texas cotton crop at B. 100, GOO. That's more than twice as much as any other cotton state can show.
 One is sorry to hear that this years festival of music at Worcester Mass. left the association "in the hole to the tune of a. (nearly) s2.159 deficit. That's a pity-and a shame. too. The mana gers think that the Buffalo exposition is partly responsible.
 That opening in Japan for a skilled, middle-aged American mechanic is open no longer. Fibre and Fabric an nounces this week that 1T. A. Stevens of Lowell. Mass, is on his way across the Pacific to take up his new work as instructor in the mechanical depart ment of the Tokyo Technical institute.
 The fifth Earl of Sefton (Charles Will liam Hylton Molyneux) has bidder IdTeWeil to ana Ine cdru-tdDle at the early age of 34. It was his mis- fortune to inherit huge blocks of irn- proved real estate in Liverpool that yielded him an enormous income and enabled him to gratify his passion of gambling without actually impoverisn- ing himself His father was a famou gambler before him.
 Unpleasantness has broken out In | Nova Scotia "L'Acadie.' a paper pub lished at Weymouth Bridge Digby county, has been batting the Boers on the back. and the Halifax Chronicle warns the French contemporary to stop it. Common decency if not common sense.' says the Halifax paper. should prompt the traitorous holders of such sentiments to go to Paris to give ex- pression to them. There they would be sure to evoke applause. which we could | appreciate at its true worth, from the open enemies of the British empire. | who, however. dare only fight that em- pire with their mouths. We will not have the 'tri-color' Haunted in Nova | Scotia: nor will we tolerate the utter ances of false and reasonable asser- tions. even in the French language.
 In the tug of war between Norfolk and Richmond for the Virginia exposi- tion, Norfolk seems to be outpulling the city on the James.
 Joliet mas a penitentairy, quarries T canal. a big and interesting Indian mound. steel mills. other manufactur- ing establishments. 26 Chicago trains q day, and a consuming ambition. Joliet means to make itself the second city of Illinois.
 Minister Wu says he once tried some cases as a magistrate in Hong Kong, but never did he take the oath of ale | glance and become a British subject. There is not word of truth in that | statement" he says. Some day. he 1 thinks 1t possible he may write the sto- ry of his life. If he does, it will be sure of a big sale in the United States of l America.
 Dr. H. M. Field makes public in this weeks Evangelist the following letter. received by him in the spring of 1892 | and soon after his seventieth birth | day:
 My Dear Dr. Field-I am heartily | obliged to you for copy of your salu- tatory to three score and ten. As I am only two years behind you I can adopt your words as mine and hope only to cross the line as unconsciously as you. | When Longfellow was seventy he wrote me that it was like turning the slate over and beginning a new record on the | other side, and as I told you Holmes says that the difference he finds at eighty three is only that he is a little | longer getting under way. I had a sell fish pleasure In meeting you the other day. for as I looked at you I was able to congratulate myself upon the age that I am rapidly approaching and to I say as I left you "who would not be seventy years old." May you leap as | lightly over "the four barred gate." | George William Curtis. | BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.