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Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
Rachelorhood a Crime.

One day last week the world woke up to read that bachelors arc degen- crates. F.. Benjamin Andrews had said it in Chicago The ne2-t day the world woke up to read that all lewd women in Chicago should be segre- gated on islands (which some waC de- clares would be pleasing to the steam ship companies). r.. Benja min An drews had said that, too. A day has gone by without any new theories com ing from pr. Andrews. Perhaps it is intended that these interesting Ques- tions should be studied before new ones are presented to a sinful country. Per haps the reporters are at fault.
 Dr. Andrews stated that if men do not marry they are a blight on so- ciety and that ii they do net form legal connections with women they will form illegal ones. Thus with one dash of his cocksUre pen he declared confirmed bachelors to be sinners and he cried
 Pooh, to all the vows of celibates made since the world began. So too. he snap ppcd his fingers at men who are unmarried by choice or by disappoint-
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
That Violated Election Law

The first primary election in this city under law governing, or one supposed to govern elections, took place yester- close observer, would not have noticed that it was different from any other primary ever held in Phoenix. The law with all it's penalties was nowhere persons who had no right to vote. Some of them were cast in the interest of one side and some in the interest of the other. Neither of the democratic factions entertained any scruples re- garding the doing of things necessary to win, so that many votes were cast by persons who put themselves in the way of going to the penitentiary.
 We can feel no interest in the results of the primaries, but every good cit izen should feel an interest in seeing that the election laws of the territory be not violated It becomes the duty of the good citizens, then, whatever their politics may be, to look after the punishment Of those who have broken the law at the first opportunity that was offered them. There is said to be proof that boys under the age of twenty-one voted, and that others who had never been naturalized participat- ed in the primaries. It would be an easy matter to lay all the facts before the court, and the arrest of all who have offended should follow as soon as possible.
 If the guilty at this time are put in peril of the penitentiary an impression will be conveyed that the law was en- acted to be observed, and the fear of it will prevent it's wholesale violation in the future. It may seem hard to punish ignorant boys and equally ig- norant men, but if their ignorance is allowed to shield them the law for the purification of election methods might as well be repealed. We hope that if it is true that the law has been broken and members of each of the demo- cratic factions say it is true and they can prove it, that as early as tomorrow the business of making arrests may be begun. We should like to see the county jail filled with the offenders.
 Judge Kent last summer took occa- sion to express his views regarding the sacredness of elections, so that the friends of the law may be assured that it will be sustained in any action which comes before him for trial.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
LITTLE JAMES
(The Advantages of a Firm and Rigid
 Elecksbun Law)

Las mite when tn Returns fun tn Primmeries begun Comin in. Kurnel Wilson kep' "a readin' 'em an Fillin up on Joy. He turns to Tommus Far ish an Tommus Smith an Samwell F. Webb an he sez to 'em, seZ he. "They's 8 Wun Passidge in Holy Rit which is evidently Kong. It's where it sez Tn Earth is tn Lords an tn Fitness Thereof I spose it was Rote carless or mebbe it had only a Figgerative Meenin' like menny of tn Passidges of Scripter has. but enny wun kin see by tn Returns who Owns tn Earth, an it ain't my Fren Charles Shenan- igan."
 No" sez Tommus Smith; "they's a good menny Inacceracies in tn Word of Gawd We've foun' so menny Conter- dictory an Onreli'bIe Misstatements in it at we've discarded it in tn Young Peoples Democrat Society. Frinstunce it sez 'Luv yer Naber as yerse'f. Now Josef Ellicksanders an Brady O'Neal is both my Nabers.''
 While this Thelogicle Discushion was goin' on tn frens of Mister Shenani- gan was holdin' Jollyficashun meetin' an they wunk an laft an sez to
 
 about 75 Dellycates to tn Tempe Con- venshun. We won't Despare yet awhile. We remember two yeers ago at Will son had tn Contrack fer tn County. but tn Goods wasn't delivered in tn Convenshun. It looks to us as if His try was goin' to be a Repeeter
 Tn Feenix Democrat Primmeries was conducted under tn Rigid Arizony law nrnNpr1inf E,laclrchtInc x.-hi Vio olre a voter fun votin' offener an Wunst every ten minits. sos at somebody else Kin fite his way to tn Poles while tn first voter goes out to git some Fresh Air an be reddy fer anuther Assalt
 Tn Law requires lat Voter must live in Arizony long enuff to vote, which takes about two minits. an it don't allow any wun to vote what ain't Old enuff. That's a wise pervishun of tn Statoot to pervent injery to Sucken Babes at might git hurt if they was brot into tn Croud around tn Poles. Tn lifes of a Crate Menny little helpless Mexicans was no Doubt saved yisterday.
 Somebody must'a Breathed tn Breth of Life into tn Young Peoples Demo- crat Society agin. accordin to tn fig gers in tn Returns las mite. It was reported at tn society was dead am was layin' round to be Berried yister- day, but tn Funerle Obsques has been posponed. When tn Fite was over tn fren's of MT. Shenanigan they sez, This is tn Mos Miraculous case of a Reserreckshun at ever come under our Notis"
 Tn Shenanigan fokes got to lookin' over tn Pole Lis las nite an see tn names on it. an they sez, Les see, It's about fifty years sence tn Gadsden purchis. It's about time at our Gov erment was gittin posseshun or else asst Mexico to give tn Purchis price back" LITTLE JAMES.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

ment, by devotion to lost loves or to prejudices. Burke, who could not in dict whole nation. lacked the courage of Andrews. Phillips Brooks (whose reputation is damaged by this sweep ing condemnation, for he was a bach elor) once preached a magnificent ser mon about celibatarians who gave up the world. the flesh and the devil rather than forget loved ones whom they could not marry. But the most beloved of bishops was broader in his sympathies than Dr. Andrews and would not censure all unmarried men, although ii is Gods word that it is not right for man to be alone.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

l hereby announce myself candidate for the office of district attorney of MaricOpa county, subject to the action of the republican county convention.
 H. B. WILKINSON.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
Protecting the Base.

There is a growing tendency to sacri- flee depth to breadth in the public schools of the country with the result that many of those who have been graduated from grammar schools and even from the high schools find them selves more badly equipped for prac- tical life than the boy whose education was acquired in the winter months of a district school.
 A correspondent of The Republican writing on this subject says:
 Ut has been a fault of many am- bilious educators to pay too little at tention to the foundation in their haste to complete and ornament the super structure. The three Rs' and gram mar have been neglected. that more time might be given to the "ologies' and "the languages" Geology should be studied, but not before the scholar has mastered the multiplication table. Latin and Spanish have their proper place in the curriculum, but before en- tering upon such studies the student correctly. Mark Twain holds that it is better not to know so much than to know so many things that are not so.'
 "The more our courses of study are overloaded, the less the student gains of exact knowledge, and exact knowl- edge alone gives real intellectual power. In revising courses of study it is so easy to add just one thing more, when it seems that nothing can be left out. Superintendents and principals cannot be too careful at this point. Better not push too hard, better not rush too fast. The scholars will do better work and make more rapid advance if not loaded down with the traditional feather which broke the camers back.
 Ut is to be remembered also that courses of study are to be arranged not for the brightest but for the aver age scholar, not for the one who has rugged health, home advantages and
 
 boy who has headache twice a month, has only Encouragement at home, and never expects to be president of the United States. The motto should be thoroughness and not through how much. The scholar who is well ground ed in arithmetic and English can easily pass on to higher attainments. It is unfortunately a fact that we find high school and even college graduates whose writing and spelling are dis graceful and whose attainments in English composition would scarcely be creditable to a scholar in the eighth grade.
 Ut is all right for an army, under certain conditions, to advance into the enemy's country, but as rule it needs
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24


 Hon. J. A. Simpson, Secretary of the Board of Education of San Francisco, Cal, writes:
 "I have found Peruna an ideal tonic. Some months ago suffered win neu- rasfhenia (systemic cafarrh), caused by too close application 10 office work. My system seemed worn ouf and feIf far from we'll found Peruna bene- flied me very much. IT buif Up the entire system and made me feel like q new man. believe # is we'll worthy the high praise bestowed upon h. "--- J. A. SIMPSON.
 Systemic catarrh always gives fair warning of its approach, and can be easily warded off by the proper treat ment. Floating brown specks before the eyes, mental confusion, fits of ner- vous headache, sleeplessness, flashes of heat, chilly sensations, palpitation, irri- liability, dependency; any of these symptoms or all of them should be promptly met by the use of Peruna.
 Congressman E. V. Brookshire, from Indiana, in a recent letter from Wash ington, D. C., says:
 "From what my friends say, Peruna Is a good tonic and safe catarrh cure."- E. V. Brookshire.
 Summer Catarrh," book written by Dr. Hartman, President The Hartman Sanitarium, on the subject of tho ner- vous disturbances peculiar to summer, sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co.,, Columbus, O.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

The powder puff may help to hide the ravages of time but 1t avails little to hide the ravages of disease. When the face is dishgured by eruptions, the treatment must go below the surface to the blood, which is corrupt and impure.
 Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures disfgunng eruptions which are caused by impure blood. It cures scro- fujous sores, erysipelas, boils, pimples, eczema, salt-rheum and other eruptive diseases which impure blood breeds and feeds.
 rI troubled with eczema from the crown Of my head to the soles of my feet- wyites Mrs. "Couh not walk at times my shoes. Thought there was no help for meat least the doctor said there was none. I went to see friends at Christmas time and there heard of the good that Dr Pieree's Golden Medical Dis covery had done for them, and was advised to try it at once. For fear that I might neglect it my friend sent to the village and got bottle and made me promise that would take it. I had been getting worse all the time. I took thirteen bottles Of the Golden Medical DiScov- cry and ten viels of D.. Pierce's Pleasant Pel- lets, and used 'All-Healing Salve' which made a complete cure. It slow. but SHJe. I was taking the medicine about eight months.
 uI would say to all who read this; try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery before vast ing time and mohey."
 The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to make the little more profit paid by the sale of less meritorious medicines. He gains; you lose. There fore accept no substitute for cGolden Medical Discovery"
 's Dr. Pierce's Pellets cleanse the clogped eystem from accumulated impurities.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
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 The Mad Dog Tradition.

Commissioner Lederle is indeed d bold iconoclast. He is laying irreve- rent hands upon one of the dearest fetiches of popular delusion. We long ago stopped drowning witches, and we believe it is no longer considered quite comme il faut to skin a black cat alive for the cure of Herpes zoster. But to the dear, dear legend of the rabid dog men cling as to the last hope of faith. The moment a dog resents brutal treatment. or shows impatience at be- ing teased and tormented. or becomes thirsty in an arid land, it is incumbent upon all right thinking men that they shall raise the cry Mad dogi" and chase him furiouslY about. and beat him to death with clubs and stones. Indeed, it has long been law, and not merely crowners quest law either, in these enlightened parts, that the so
 called mad dog shall be incontinently slain. But now this temerarious com missioner proposes that on being called mad by some street arab or beery hobo a dog. shall not be killed off hand. but shall be put into quarantine for d time, to be put to death decently if rabies shall indeed be developed, and to be restored to his owner if he shall be found to be in proper health.
 A long and lurid and most lament able chapter must one day be added to the history of popular delusions upon the sbuject of mad dog. Upon few other topics have men shown them selves so irritaional. We remember when it was a cardinal article of belief that in the so-called dog days any and every dog was likely to go mad spontaneously. It was esteemed as one of the eternal verities that if d perfectly healthy dog should at any time, by accident or intent, bite per son, and then should at any future time go mad, the bitten person would infallibly at the same time go mad. wherefore every dog that bit d person must instantly be slaughtered lest he should go mad years afterward and doom the bitten person to dreadful death. As for the beliefs that the mad dog invariably ran in a mathemati- cally straight line and could not be swerved therefrom, that he summed water as the jungle folk fled from the Red Flower, that persons afflicted with rabies assumed the attitude. voice and actions of dOg-these and other like implicit beliefs, are they not all writ ten in the book of mans superstitions?
 Without further recalling all the va riegated details of this widespread and barbarous delusion, it may be said ad- visedly that probably not one mad dog in a hundred is really mad, that the popular conception of the causes. nature and symptoms of rabies in dog and in man is as widely erroneous as that the moon is made of green cheese.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
INDIGESTION

Dyspepsia, Flatulency, Constipation or any other ailment arising from a weak or disordered stomach can be quickly and permanently cured by the use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It has a record of fifty years of such cures back of it. and we therefore urge every suf- ferer to try it. It will cure you. The genuine has our Private Stamp over the neck of the bottle.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
HEDGED IN.

A colored brother sums up the whole matter as follows: " 'Twixt de devil and de deep sea Oats whar de sinner stick; En he mighty 'fraid of fire, En he des can't swim licki"
 -Atlanta Constitution.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24
ANNOUNCEMENT

l hereby announce myself as can didate for the office of district attorney of Maricopa county, subject to the ac- ton of the republican county conven- tion. ARTHUR J. EDWARDS.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

''I wonder why donkeys eat thistles-" said the man who is always finding something peculiar in life.
 oh answered the person who likes plain food" there is no accounting for taste. If the donkey were to give the matter a thought, I suppose he would wonder why human beings eat olives Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

The Solomonville Bulletin very ap- propriately anticipates November cleo tion returns by publishing the recently selected democratic county ticket with in a black border of funeral appear ance.
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

to have a strong hold on its base of supplies; it's columns may march too fast and too far"
Arizona republican., 1902-08-24

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New-York tribune., 1902-01-17

other countries inimical to this one The semi
protectorate which has been maintained over
the island for three-quarters of century is
not to be relinquished now that 1t is needed,
perhaps more than ever. But that relationship
does not Justify us in starving Cuba TO death
or in requiring her to make bricks without
straw We have closed against Cuba the special
Spanish markets she once enjoyed. In return
we are morally obligated TO give her special
markets in the United States. We have swept
away the only government Cuba ever had. We
are under the strongest obligations to give her
another and better one, and to do so in circum-
stances which will make its stability and eff
ficency possible.
The choice is between a Cuba dscOntented
disorderly and impoverished. of no value to us
as a neghbOr but a source of continual anxiety
and vexation. and a Cuba contented. orderly
and prosperous. affording us a valuable market
and being herself an agreeable neighbOr. The
choice OF the latter rather than the former is
to he made through the establishment of re-
ciprocal trade relations between Cuba and the
United States
New-York tribune., 1902-01-17
THE FTTFRE OF THE TUNNEL.

while rho recently announced plans for the
;n,nrovernent Of the railway terminal facilities
above Forty-second-st.- are still under discus
sion there should be a distinct understanding
on one important point between those VINO
make use of the same and those who control
them So long as electric traction Is hmlted 10
the suburban service, only partial relIet VIII De
afforded from the evils now existing III the
tunneI and ward That arrangement, therefore,
must be considered temporary, and not hhal.
Every train which runs south of the Harlem
must be operated by the same motive power
before the travelling public will think the sit
ua,ion unite safe and satisfactory President
Newman. In talking about the introduction OF a
now motive mower refers to il as an experiment
.vhich II is desirable 10 try before applying II to
.he axrress trains This is not unreasonable
nronosition. The cOmmuter may rest assured
that this preliminary yenture-if ii may ne so
called-will throw a good deal of light on the
prob.em of handling the expresses. Moreover
by the time the new system is in operation
the Pennsylvania company will doubtless be III
a position to supply further information OF great
value.
At the outset in all probability special electric
engines will be used to haul trains southward
from Mott Haven only. If the new programme
were not developed any further, of course 1t
would be easy 10 DflIlS lHe eAI)TtSSes uVN ii HS
the locals by such means. There is good reason,
however for believing the railroad people have
been looking much further ahead. Sooner or
later. without doubt, provision will be made
for operating suburban trains with electricity
for the full length of their runs Ii is almost
equally certain that through trains wnl event
uaIly he propelled over one whole division, like
that between New-York and Albany, by the
same agency. Up TO date. though, such feat
bss been performed nowhere in the whole
world The undertaking is not so simple as the
use of electricity for trips of twenty or thirty
miles. For time therefore. the Central COM
many has an adequate excuse for delaying the
application OF electricity 10 its expresses
BY the proposition TO use steam and cleo
tricity simultaneously, even for limited period
a new question concerning the tunnel Is raised
The Board OF Health issued an order last year
the execution of which has made little progress
thus far requiring the removal of the walls be
tween the central and side passages. Better
ventilation In the latter the object in view
The smoke and steam emitted there by loco
motives could get out only by drifting through
openings ia the walls into the central part OF the
New-York tribune., 1902-01-17
BRIDGES TO THE RESCUE.

The charter provision, no longer in force,
which created a municipal assembly of two
branches was advocated by the trainers on the
ground that ii was one of the devices by which
they hoped to increase the dignity and raise the
character of the legislative department. Their
intention was excellent, but the result did not
vindcate their judgment 1t is no abuse of con-
fdence 10 say that throughout the four years
Of its continuance the arrangement continually
supplied fresh proofs of its futilty. 1t was in
fact A public nuisance which the people were
heartily glad to get rid of on the theory that
nothing could be worse and almost anything
was likely to be better Taking that view of
the matter, the charter revisers restored the old
system of aldermen, increasing their number,
however, and adding to their Importance the
object being the same that the original makers
of the instrument had failed TO attain-namely,
to put a premium on self-respect and good con-
duct.
We earnestly hope that so laudable purpose
may be fulfilled, and it is certainly too early for
despOndent predictions, though thus far the
board has not set up noticeably higher stand
ard than the defunct Assembly was pleased to
maintain. At Wednesdays meeting, however,
a thing did occur which ii would be unfair 10
overlook Alderman Bridges, who has hereto
! fore done more talking and less thinking than
almost any of his colleagues, having positively
! declined TO serve as a member Of the commit
tee on education 81 don't propose" said Bridges,
"to be made monkey of. What right has n
man like me got on the committee of educa-
'ton? It's out of my line. I'd be just as good
ION committee to revise the Code OF Civil
procedure This board is no joke, and the at
tempt TO make il one is beneath the dignity OF
"any member of it,"
We trust it is not an exaggeration to say that
there spoke potential statesman. We never
suspected before that Mr.. Bridges was aware
OF his limitations, but obviously we have done
him an injustice. He not merely declined TO be
personally cast for smian role, but bestowed
a timely admonition on his brethren. If the
aldermen should and all resolve not to be
made monkeys of, or, still better. not TO make
monkeys of themselves this great and glorious
metropolis would thank God and take courage.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-17
POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES.

While Murphy and Devery ruled the roost in
Mulberry-st. the lists of detective sergeants
were greatly swollen. How those payrolls were
puffed out! Detective sergeants are paid Law
ishly. Their salaries are larger than those of
the meek and lOwly patrolman. But so many
promotions were made from the ranks to the
chosen legiOns of the Sherlock Holmeses that
there were a dozen detectives 10 everything de-
tectabe.
A great city of the class of NewYork needs,
it is true a large number of detectives; but
there has been no convincing evidence in recent
years that the Police Department here has not
been sufficiently provided with keen. alert men.
We have suffered from no deficiency IN numbers.