Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-04-30

wages of mill hands went into effect in New England last week, 75,0OOI Workers being benefited.
 Mir. Babcock is again chairman of the republican congressional commit tee, and having piloted the party to victory four successive times, believes that he can do it again.
 When the people have chance to see the president with their own eyes and not through the distorting spec tacles :of the opposition press, they are impressed with the true worth of the man.
 For the first time in many years there is no man from Ohio in the presidents cabinet, and none holding high diplomatic office or on the bench of the supreme court. Iowa seems to have most plums at present.
 A prominent business man of Bir mingham, Alabama, has just donated $500 to Tuskegee Industrial institute for colored people, this being the lar gest contribution yet received from a southern white man.
 Keane St. Charles pays high com pliment to the people of Prescott, without apparently intending to, by referring to their loyalty to parties, who have been of great benefit to the town.
 The list of spring publications az gregates more than 750 titles. It would take twenty years to read the lot at the rate of ten hours a day. There is consolation in knowing that in the mass of "spring literature" there is not much of vital importance.
 According to the census, Boston is the fifth city in population in this country, St. Louis being fourth. The Massachusetts legislature is now con sidering bill allowing any town within ten miles of Boston state house to incorporate in the Greater Boston, which would restore that city to fourth place since St. Louis has practically no suburban population.
 Instead of using consular positions as plums for political henchmen, the system should be adjusted as planned, to secure good service for merit, and promotion as a reward of zeal and intelligence in discharge of duty.
 When Governor Murphy does re- tire to private life, what a Greary time the starveling, jim-crow demo- cratic press of the territory will have in figuring out something to talk about.-Republican. It will not be long until they will be attacking Governor Murphy's successor.
 Chicago manufacturers have or ganized the National Reciprocity league in order to develop reciprocal trade relations with foreign nations They hold that our manufacturing capacity is greater than the needs of the home market, and that d world market must be made by concessions to other nations.
 The New York supreme court last week affirmed the sentence of Most, the anarchist, imprisoning him for an article in his paper advocating mur- der. The decision hinged on the rights of a free press and it was held that liberty of action is permissible only in so far as it does not curtail or deprive the rights of others.
 The cut of the dress coat is de- rived from the old hunting coat whose tails were dived, the front cut away, and buttons sewed on the back to hold up the tails. The reason why the servant is dressed in the conven tional evening costume also, is be- cause in the old days it was his prerogative to wear out'the old hunt ing coats of his master.
 The President of the Illinois Steel Company says that the old rules by which poor boys worked their way up the ladder of success are obsolete, be- cause they applied to the time when things were worked out by the rule of thumb, whereas today applied science and technical skill are necessities. Specialization is the key that opens the door to high position iu the pres ent day.
 Helen Keller, the wonderful bind deaf-mute, visited the president in Washington last week, and they had quite long conversation. Although her enunciation is not distinct and her voice peculiarly untitled, the president, by his quick perception, could understand her readily. and | she knew what he said by touching his lips with the tips of her fingers. Mir. Roosevelt told her how his son, Archie, had just caught a wild rabbit in the White house grounds.
 Peanut Politician Ives was knocked out on Saturday in his suit in Phenix, against Governor Murphy. Judge Kent sustained the demurrer in the case against him. In the case against Dr. Vickers, the demurrer was over ruled and the case will go to trial Of the outcome of it no one has a doubt, not even Peanut Ives himself. The suits were instituted solely for poll tical purposes, and for brief period the man who instigated them may pose before the public on account of the notoriety that attaches to these suits and the public having sized up the political caliber of the man, he will retire into oblivion. It does not take man well versed in prophecy to foresee that Peanut Ives will nev-