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Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

There is a widespread misapprehen-
 of human life by law, WHY MEN and it seems to be ARE HANGED. shared by so thought
 full a newspaper as the Providence Journal, which, com menting upon a late tragedy, says:
 When one man kills another and then turns his weapon Intellectually upon himself. as happened at Webster, Mass on Saturday, it seems 2 great pity, even if suicide may he ordinarily regarded as indefensible. The state must now come of wka will naturally be the legal executio the murderer or his long incarceral lat public expense.
 The successful attempt of the mur- derer in this case would not have satis- fled the law. Men are not hanged or electrocuted to save expense, and neither are they killed by the state in a spirit of revenge or retaliation. Cap ital punishment is inflicted because 1t is believed that it will have a more de- terrent effect upon other possible mur- derers than any other form Of punish ment. It may be said that in those states in which hanging has been abolished. life Imprisonment was adopt ed not because it was believed to be q more merciful form of punishment but because it was a more dreaded form ana consequently more deterrent. We believe that if society were con- vinced that the number Of murders would be lessened by reasoning with and treating kindly those who have committed such crimes, there would be no punishment at all. i jority Of peo- pie believe, though, that a calm and disinterested extinction of one who takes human life is the best preventive of murder, and there is certainly some i thing more dreadful and awe inspiring in the machine-like annihilation Of . murderer than there is in his suicide. For suicide is an escape, not pleas ant one. but far more pleasant than hanging. It conveys To lesson to the lawless. A legal death is mere or less impressive.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, JUNE g, 1902.
We are apt to think of the people of the United States as an Anglo-SaXon

We are apt to think of the people of the United States as an Anglo-SaXon
 people, unaware that ABSORPTION the character of the OF THE population has been ANGLO-SAXON. changed within 9
 hundred years, and that within the last ten years the change has been so great and so rapid as to threaten the absorption of the Anglo-Saxon element.
 The New York Sun, finding an indi- cation of the ascendancy of the people of continental Europe in the school statistics of the metropolis, says:
 Out of about one thousand candi- date for admission to the normal col lege about six hundred have passed the ordeal of the examination for entrance As usual for many years past, the great majority of these proficient and successful girls are Of the Jewish race; and of the whole number of candidates admitted nearly five hundred came from the public schools, about eighty from the Roman Catholic parochial schools and thirty are classified as private students
 '.The names of the girls admitted from the public schools are usually Jewish and of those from the parochial schools almost wholly Irish. The lists from some of the public schools con- tain scarcely a name that is not Jewish. The infrequency of Irish names in the public school lists generally suggests how successful are the parochial schools in drawing to themselves girls of that race. Of distinctively English. so-called Anglo-Saxon names, there are actually few either from public or parochial schools. We also observe very few Italian names, great as the Italian population of New York has become.
 ..Nothing could show more strisingly | the oosmopontaA character Of the Dopula tion of New York than this list of six hundred studious girls who have passed the severe examinations for ad- mission to the normal college. It brushes away very efrectually the de- fusion which still remains in England more especially, that this is an Anglo Saxon country. For the most part these girls are not merely of a race and national traditions totally differ ent from the English, but they are also daughters of comparatively recent inn migrants, and from the continent of Europe chiefly.
 '.The same preponderance of other race elements than the Anglo-SaXon appears in the school population of this country generally, but most markedly in the greater towns; and in cities ot the western states it is often even more striking than in New York.
 '.The element thus contributed by races of continental Europe to oul population is also increasing in magni tude, steadily and greatly This yea immigration has been coming in at al unprecedented rate, and it is aIrnos
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

sulphur baths; IT and talIy-ho ridl1l The beautiful p1uT Separate plunge Every convenlenc store, long distan library. Strictly altitude 1000 ftt.
 week up; roons mineral water to M2tiIija Ei0t SprII
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Arizona republican., 1902-06-23
About this time Of the wear T,

About this time Of the year The Re- publican is asked by indignant tax payers, and others who are not tax payers, but are none the less indignant. to give publicity to the enormity of the drivers of the sprinkling carts, who, fired by zeal to earn their money, flood the crosswalks. If the drivers of the sprinkling wagons would only stop to think they would put no water on the crossWalks. It is too much, though, to expect them to think much. If they were to get into the thinking habit they would be trying to get a bigger salary at something else. But it must be ap- parent even to them, 9n reflection. >that the crosswalls would be better without the water. In the first place, they do not accumulate much dust if they are kept dry. but when they are flooded the dirt from the street carried upon them adheres and they become almost impossible.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

Unless they think better of it, or find themselves unable to get away from more pressing gements, Mir. Bailey of Texas and MT. Carmack of Ten nessee are to visit Boston next month Ohe 2fth) and bear their testimony against imperialism. But isn't this rather like carrying coals to New castle? The man who is getting up the meeting has hopes that Messrs
 Bryan or Nebraska and Shepard of New York Gas also MT. Olney Of Mas sachusetts) will be present to enjoy the eloquerce of Messrs. Bailey and Car mack. and to supplement it. If SO, what a great day it will be for Boston.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

wholly from those races. With the continuance of our national prosperity this rate will be maintained. even if it is not increased
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23
The Nadeaaa Cafe and Restaurant #

This magic resort is situated ii q natural park of some 400 acres, n tlle Santa Inez Noun tains, Ventura county. As a place tc pass a delightful sum nler vacation it offers facilities
 lnequaIet4. There is hunting; fishing; dry, bracing air; hot
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23
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M0neY Go Loaa d soW sEates

For building CT on improved city prop erty, or in gco6 cutsidc towns.
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 New plan Of payment. Interest t!e- creases as you p2r. Cur loans are r7a.e ami are pad Ci. same as Ni,n g 1,ll-@ only you pay mon5hly. You do nn- ln.- ture stock to pay of a loan as in c ."r building and loar associations. | Tor rover can pay off :, loan any time vi n- out notice. penalty or forfeiture. If v2l |. '. PASCOE. Phcen3x CT
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Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

The occultation of John R. Mclean by Tom Johnson continues, and it's one of the oldest phenomena recently seen in Ohio democratic politics.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-23

The people who were caught in town yesterday need not go away this sum mer to spend the heated season, or rather to avoid the heated season. There is no use of locking the stable door after the horse has ceen stolen.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
The Pennle Have Riuhts.

The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Birmingham may be like Caesars wife, above suspicion. Yet this Mayor and Board of Aldermen are Czarish in their acts. They consider not the con- fort nor convenience of the citizens They increase salaries of officials and add generously to the city's budget and Tammanyize the community as they see fit. Yet when the Commer- cial Club and the Board of Trade unanimously petition this body of City Fathers to act upon an outrageous nuisance, such as leasing the side walks to fruit vendors, the Board of Aldermen contemptuously turns down the petitions, and Aldermen, rather than go on record in an aye and nay vote, laugh at such petitions.
 Mayor Drennen and the Board of Aldermen, with the apparent excep- tion of Alderman Linnehan, have re- fused to consider the request of the citizens of Birmingham. A paltry two thousand dollars to the city's revenue from sidewalk fruit stands influences this strong and able Board of Alder men to turn down peremptorily the petition of the commercial bodies of this community. The Age-Herald is of the opinion that it is time for the business community of Birmingham to take a hand in its local politics.
 The people are entitled to consid- eration. The politicians must either respect the wishes of the citizens, consider such wishes judiciously, or they must retire from executive con- trol of affairs.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05

It is thought that the students and professors are thus brought in closer touch, and that the students in par ticular accumulate in this way great deal of college spirit.
 All went well with the Kommers until some ministers of Boston heard about them, and acting within their respective church organizations have denounced the new gatherings in un- measured terms. One church says they are "unseemly," and another that they are a "decadence."
 There are those who say the Kon- mers promote temperance among the students, because they are thus kept away from barrooms and hotels. It Is well known that beer drinking in Ger many does not as a rule lead to drunk enness, nor is it warranted to under 1.-The SOCleJy. lHe IIuIu ID, Iho 1AoAn mers conducted under the eyes of re- sponsible college officers are not to be dreaded at all. They may not fit the customs and methods of this country; they may not be needed, but there is really no reason why they should not be tried by college here and there in the East that has a yearning for them. The ministers should not de- nounce on the spot whatever does not happen to line up with their own prac- tice and ideas. The Kommers are en- titled to fair trial before resolutions are shot into them hot and heavy.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
Pittsburq Versus Birminuham.

The American Steel and Wire Com pany, which Is a part of the steel trust, has just started seven barges down the river each loaded with 10000 packages of nails and wire. These barges are to be unloaded at Mem phis or other river points. and thus Pittsburg products are fioated to the heart of the South, and almost to this district at rates that railroads cannot compete with. Nails and wire to the extent of 10000 packages, weighing all told 17,5O0,OO0 pounds. will be landed close to this district. and com petition with them will become i'm possible because nails and wire made in this district must pay railroad rates.
 This case alone should arouse the Gulf States to the need of an Open Warrior, for without 1t competition with Pittsburg cannot be maintained. Pittsburg has waterway from the
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Sunday Funerals.

"The funeral directors and clergymen in northern and eastern cities haVe' py continued agitation. greatly reduced the number of Sunday funerals, and while no concerted movement on this line has been started in Birmingham, we hope to see the day when Sunday burials Will be rare here" said q prominent under taker.
 Tt would be impossible to do away with Sunday funerals altogether, because Tn some instances the corpse will not Keep But four times out of five the last rites could take place on Saturday or Monday just as well as on Sunday.
 Sunday is the pastors busiest time, and 1t Is often extremely inconvenient for the clergy to have to officiate on that day; and as for the employees of un- dertakcrs and liverymen. they should have as far as possible Sunday for rest. Formerly in some eastern cities the re- mains of a person who died on Tuesday or Wednesday would be kept until Sun dey for the purpose of suiting the con- venience of relatives and friends who were expected to attend the funeral. This is rarely the case now. People have be- come considerate."
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
outlook of tho District.

the narrow confines Little Birmingham, and it certain that many more houses the Perhaps twice many buildings outside the limits the city, Two thousand buildings estimate of growth the county in buildings buildings chiefly built shelter people, and indicate growth at least 00o closely such a rate of growth maintained last
 very growth will be exceeded making will pressed to limit will be taken at pront able prices New industries coming this several aaon the district Steel rails and will certainly added the products or the district little dreamed will come m
 county that is capable of development witness an expansion that this possibly in the boom" doubt
 less will be will of speculation and disaster of the time ody welknown allt lacks will this within of time-whn sight mentally speaking
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
For the Coronation.

'It has been suggested by some of the Eastern papers that it would be a grace full and in every respect fitting thing on President Roosevelt's part were he to appoint former President Grover Cleve. land as his special ambassador, or ann bassa6or extraordinary, as it is called tc King Edward on the occasion of the coro- nation remarked personal friend of the sage of Princeton.
 MT. Cleveland has never crossed the Atlantic and he would doubtless enjoy a good sea voyage. But I do not think he would accept a diplomatic appointment. It would not be to his taste. If there Is anything he particularly dislikes 1t is fuss and feathers.
 While MT. Cleveland was President he observed the punctlilo of the office more than many of his predecessors, but that was from a sense of duty. If he ever goes to Europe it will be in a quiet way as a private citizen.
 "A jolly mixer, like General Fitzhugh Lee would be in his element in the coro- nation push. While he is a rollicky fel low he is also a diplomat and few men would grace the position of special am- bassador much better"
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
Ballot Box Experts Not Wanted.

The Selma Times is not anticipating a political millenium next fall. Per haps it's inegations are reasonable. But there is aaone thing the good people of the State have decreed, namely, the ballot-box expert must go. That kind of rascality must be stopped. It no longer has any sort of excuse for pro- longed existence except of course plain out-and-out dishonesty, for the negro will no longer be an impending factor in public affairs. White men will make upbthe electorate, and ballot box rascality wnl be surplus rascality.
 This sort of rascality was not con- fined to the Black Belt It may have been originated there, and it may have become great art under the pressure of black numbers, but it finally spread to all other parts of the State until all or nearly all lived in glass houses. Here in Jefferson County were as skilled ballot box manipulators as Dal- las or any other county possessed, and they cheated each other upon occasion in one county as in another. Neither Jefferson nor any other county is in a position to cast any great number of stones at the Black Belt, for all were harried with the same stick.
 But such vile work must be ended, and the chief task that good citizens have in hand next fall is to see that it is ended. The ballot box experts should be served with notice that their services are no longer needed-that their peculiar occupation is gone-that they are marked men whose acts will be closely watched. Every county has such men, but no county has more than this good county of Jefferson. Let them step down and out. This they may do gracefully, and they should be told in all counties, whether they like or not, that they must either reform totally and absolutely. or be bounced.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
Money by Mail.

Years ago the banks shipped currency only by express, but the bulk of it to- day goes through the mail" said Bir- minsham banker.
 By using the postoffice the banks save about 50 per cent in charges The money packages are registered and go as any other mail matter. The register stamp costs ten cents and the other postage usually costs from four to six cents, the variation being due to the size of the bills, which of course effects the weight of the package.
 ''The Marine Insurance Company of London insures us against loss, charging for this risk about 30 cents per $5000. The express company charges 75 cents for a S5OO0 package and insures its delivery. Very little money that goes in a register ed pouch is lost, consequently the Marine Insurance Company can afford to give us a cheap rate for their risk.
 "On account of the system of the regis try department there is some delay and the express company is practically day ahead of the registered mail between Birmingham and New York. With that exception the mail serves every purpose.
 By the way, it Is noteworthy fact that the postal employees are so honest that a package is seldom missing. Eff teen years ago. before the civil service law was in operation, money was not safe in passing through the mails. Many scrubs were then employed by Uncle Sam. Today honesty is the almost in- variable rule in the postoff1ce and a thousand dollar bill placed in an ordinary letter and posted unregistered is pretty sure to find the person to whom 1t is ad- dressed. Thus, in honesty in the mail service has this country progressed"
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
'An EnaIIsh Expert In ThIs pIstrIct.

When so distinguished and we'll equipped an umpire as J. Stephen Jeans. secretary of the British Iron Trade Association, unqualifiedly says this district offers the most advant- ageous terms and conditions" of all places in the world to the iron pro- ducer, the question may be considered settled. For Mir. Jeans speaks from actual observation. He came here, and he proceeds to compare this dis trict with the f<mous Cleveland dis trict of England, and then he advises capitalists who are looking to the flu ture to come here.
 He believes, too, that this district has not done it's level best. He be- lieves the new plants in course of con struction or projected will be likely to do much to demonstrate how much better the district may do than any thing it has yet achieved.
 MT. Jeans lays much stress upon the fact that this district is nearer tide water than any other important iron making fcenter of the United States, and he says the railroads are ready to help in building up an export trade. He overlooks the fact that the govern ment is building dams and docks, and that slackwater navigation all the year round Is to be furnished in the War rior. This fact alone doubles all that MT. Jeans has said, for it means that this districts products are to be placed at the sea at very low rates.
 MT. Jeans is optimistic as to the future course of the iron trade. Like : run. me Atkinson, he fears more a famine than a plethora of iron. The great commercial metal will be needed by the world in increasing quantities and if the government can be induced to open the Warrior this district will be able to supply all demands at prices that cannot be undercut by any other district in the world.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
Brilliant EInancier.

Mir William Halls of New York, who will reach Birmingham tonight, accom- panied by his wife, is no stranger here. and he is always assured of a cordial well come. He is one of the most successful finaneiers in this country. He rose from a clerkship to the position of bank cash fer at the age of twenty. As vice presi- dent of the Hanover National Bank, he is recognized as power in financial cir cles.
 MT. Halls Is the vice president and a large stockholder of the Birmingham m Re- atty Company, and while he is here will take a survey of the extensive improve ments that have been made during the last twelve months.
 In the matter of philanthropy MT. Halls is noted for his generosity. He is said to be a large contributor to the Methodist church. He is only 40 years of age.
The age-herald., 1902-01-05
eeoIoaIsts and Engineers.

"There are Geologists and geologlsts and engineers and engineers, but from my observation and experience I would say there are comparatively few of the former who are practical and comparatively few men calling themselves mining engineers who combine education, business sense and strict integrity" remarked mine operator whose home is in Ohio but who Is now visiting this district.
 "A majority of the geologists with whom I have had dealings proved to be impracticable They were professors who held their own all right in college, but when it came to active work in the coal fields they were not as satisfactory as the natural geologist who never looked in- side of text book.
 q do not mean to discredit the sci- ence of geology. Few sciences are more advanced. I only call attention to the necessity of professional geologists spending more time in the hills.
 "As for the mining engineer, he must, to be efficient combine more knowledge than almost any other man of science. He is required to know something of geology and good deal of minerology, and he must be a civil engineer. But in addition to scientific attachments he must understand bushes economy and know how to handle men; and above all he must be honest in his report to the peo- pie employing him.
 Many men high up in the profession of engineering have a way of making reports that will do the business and many who are strictly honest lack both professional and practical training. They are jacklegs. I take 1t for granted that with such vast mineral interests as the Birmingham district great care is exercis- ed in selecting engineers who are thor oughly equipped and thoroughly straight forward"