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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
Dwindling of the Public Domain.

Half a century ago the United States
had about 1900. O00 900 acres of public
lands Less than one-fourth of this
vast estate is row in the possession OF
the government. According to the re-
port of Z senate committee. the entire
public domain suitable for settlement
will be exhausted and there will be no
land left for our people who desire 20
make homes on it if our present system
of land acts continues five years
longer" 1t appears from the investiga-
tons of this committee that while the
land laws served a beneficent purpose
at first. they are now utilized to pro-
mote fraud. We are making all pos
sible haste under our present land
acts says the committee, Ito turn over
to wealthy men and corporations this
rich heritage of the people. The popu-
lation of the United States. today So
600 600 will doubtless reach 100. 900, 900
in the next twenty-five years. Where
will this rapidly increasing population
find homes on the land if we permit the
public domain to pass into the possess
sion of men seeking to own and control
vast landed estates?''
That there have been fragrant viola
tons of the law is very clear from the
reports of special agents of the interior
department. Immense tracts have been
absorbed by powerful interests and used
for grazing cattle. Their influence has
been so strong that it has been impos-
sible to secure legisla ton which would
limit their holdings. In states in which
the grants of public land have aggre-
gated an enormous acreage in the last
decade there has been no increase of
population. as there would have been
if the land had been allotted to actual
settlers. This fact alone is conclusive
proof that the public domain is passing
into the hands of few individuals or
corporations. In opening these lands
to settlement it was the intention of
the government that they should be al
lotted to persons intending to make
homes for themselves and cultivate the
soil. That purpose has been thwarted
in late years, If remedial legislation is
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
The DISCUSSES of Nature.

BY a decree of nature one-half the
world flourishes al the expense of the
other half. The sparrow chases the
butterfly. but the hawk chases the spar
row. For the problem of life is twofold.
1t is not enough merely to eat; it IS
necessary to avoid being eaten. Yet
nature detests killing for killings sake.
Massacre forms no part of her great
plan. So we see that every creature is
provided with some more or less effect
i've quality of defense by means of
which the attacks of it's natural enc
mics are rendered less frequent or less
deadly. .
Thus the antelope, by means of its
superior speed, at times escapes from
the lion. The armadillo. rolled in its
among a score of hungry, gnawing foes,
while the white hare. scarcely distin
guishable from the snow on which ii
crouches, is often overlooked by mis- foe.
the fox. But of all creatures none have
received more ample protection than
the insects. Some of them possess
stings, others bite and a few puff out
clouds of poisonous vapor to stupefy
or blind their pursuers. Again, there
are insects covered with sharp spines
and prickles and others whose means
of defense consist in nothing but like
ness to the objects which surround
them.-The Royal Magazine
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
In Reply to President Roosevelt.

can Old Maid" commenting on Pres
ldent Roosevelt's recent remark that
the man or woman who deliberately
avoids marriage is in effect a
criminal against the race and should
be an object of contemptuous abhcr-
letter to the Argonaut: THE man
professional, clerk, employee or other
who on a small salary or income mar
ries and raises a family in genteel
MISERY'S a fool. The old man who,
after acquiring a fortune, marries
young girl-usually the case-is 4
knave. The man who marries q woman
for her money is a scoundrel. The man
who nlarries to have cook and a SER
want is level-headed. but uninteresting.
The girl who marries clerk or en-
ploye with a small salary is ignorant,
and to be pitied. The rich old woman
who marries a young man is foo.
The woman who sells herself for money
is despicable. The workingwoman who
marries the workingman to be his SER
want deserves her fate. Marriage is
only desirable when the man and the
woman are intelligent. devoted one to
the other. ready to bear in common the
ures; when the man is valiant and
money-maker and the woman a good
housekeeper. Unfortunately, such con-
ditions are rare.'-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
The Elusive Secret of Long Life.

Pope Leo Kill who is again reported
TO be seriously i'll, is remarkable not
only for his great age, but for having
attained it while bearing the burdens of
rulership. AS a rule kings and poten
tates have been short lived. Queen
Victoria,s eignty-one years of life had
only one precedent in over thousand
years of British monarchs. George III
lived to be So. but he was senile for
nine years before he died. Only four
British sovereigns in ten centuries lived
to be 30, and the great ma jority of them
died before they were 60.
1t is outside the circle of sovereigns
and statesmen that we find the most
evidence of increasing length of human
life. The few distinguished examples
to the contrary are misleading. Leo
XIII, a Queen Victoria. a Gladstone Or
e Bismarck does not upset the rule that
to stand in the highest places of public
honor and duty is unfavorable to length
of days. This is assured by the over
whelrling evidence that women, not
men, furnish the largest number Of
human century plants. Out of 203 CEN
tenarians found in Massachusetts few
years ago 153 were women. The British
registrar general of England, analyz-
, ing the mortality returns of that coun-
try, found four female to three male
centenarians. Mrs. Gladstone still sur
wives her Grand Old Man" and IS
nearly 90; Lady Burdett-Couts. in her
S9th wear, outlives the queen who made
/ her a baroness.
A high average of life has always
been observed too among scientific and
studious men. Among the oldest people
now living are Legouve, 49, the nestor
of the French academy; Samuel Smiles.
the biogra pher, and Bishop Clark OF
Rhode Island, both above 80: Professor
Mommsen, the historian; Sir Joseph
Hooker. the botanist, and George f.
Watts. the artist, all past 50. 1t is q
curious fact that while the Oldest living
actor of eminence is j. H. Stoddard,
| the comedian. IS. many actresses Of
distinction are living at greater ages.
Nine. Ristori is living at 81. and our
own Mrs. Gilbert at the same age is
reigning stage favorite.
| There is an elusive element in all pre-
scriptions for longevity. The people
who live longest cannot agree upon 4
| formula. Pope Leo XIII gave one q
| few years ago, in which he recon-
mended a sparing use of meat, pleTti-
| full consumption of milk. eggs. honey,
fresh vegetables and ripe fruits. mod
crate use of pure. light wine we'll di-'
luted with water. and a little coffee.
/ On this semi vegetarian diet the pope
has lived long and with great freedom
from bodily ailments. Nevertheless,
| the conditions of his life are not uni
versal, and no always-applicable rule
for the making of "old bones" can be
given.-New York World.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

"a days, which establishes a new record
for steamships over this route. The
trip through the Straits of Magellan,
distance of 31S miles, was made in 30
hours. The Korea broke all previous
recoi DIS in her first round trip on the
China run, and is now away on her
second trip. On her trial trip the ST.
IBERIA made % knots, which is about
two knots better than the Korea did, so
she is expected to make an even better
showing when placed on the regular
run. While the Siberia is the largest
vessel that has yet entered this port,
the large modern liners are becoming
more and more common in these
waters, and it will not be many years
before the Korea and the Siberia will
not be conspicuous on account of their
size. In order that these larger vessels
may be handled with quickness and
economy. the haI Dor facilities must be
considerably increased, and there is
certainly no time to be lost in adjust
ing the harbor to the newer conditions.
San Francisco Argonaut.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
German Professors on the American
Policy.

About the most unpopular thing in
trine- THE Monroe doctrine is an
empty pretension,. behind which is
neither energetic will nor actual
power" Thus Professor Adolf Wag-
ner, the celebrated political economist
of Berlin university, begins his reply
to two questions submitted by a cor
Observation-Disclosures the Monroe doc
trine was in a moral sense as binding
as International law, and what action
seems dictated first in the interest of
the German people and then in the in
terest of the European nations.
Scarcely could such a doctrine be
forced upon a conquered people after
extraordinary Victories continues the
professor. mo people and no great
ruler ever proclaimed such a doctrine.
Neither England nor Russia, nor Ma
poleon at the height of his power ever
made a similar pretension. But not
even the United States predominant in
terests are behind this unheard of as
sumption. South America is neither
geographically nor historically so allied
with North America and the United
States as to justify such a pretension.
even from q, North American point of
view
Answering the second question, Pro-
fessor Wagner says:
''It is only the divisions of European
politics and lack of insight and recog-
milton of the solidarity of the interests
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
The. Hartford Courant thus happily

The Hartford Courant thus happily
sums W the whole question of COM
pulsory arbitration: The young Cic-
eros of two Indiana colleges are going
to debate about compulsory arbitration
and a debater-elect asks us to send
him the articles on the subject that
have appeared in The Courant" and
in other newspapers, handsomely offer
ing to foot the bills. The shortness of
lie is one of the considerable that
forbid compliance with his request, but
we will give him Tor else the boys of
the other Indiana college, a pointer
gratis. Under compulsory arbitration
it might be feasible to enforc the
judgment of the arbitral board upon
the wage-payer, but how are you go
ing to enforce it upon the wage-earner?
How are you going to compel workmen
to go back to work at the wages fixed
by the arbiiral board if those work
men say I'VE WON'T" Let the affirma-
tive chaps put that question in their
pipes and smoke it,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
Lincoln's Social Conquests.

The civil war must surely be over
when, ct a banquet Of eX-confederates
il New ork City, a toast can be drunk
in silence and respect to the memory of
Jefferson Davis. and when at the same
banquet Mr.. Henry Watterson, the in
fluential Kentucky editor, can deliver
one of the. finest eulogies of Lincoln
ever heard, and receive the hearty APP
pause of all those assembled. This in
dicates the elimination OF the last trace
of sectional feeling in this country, and
we are glad of it.
When. a few weeks ago, Mississippi,
the home of the president of the con-
federacy of 1876, placed Lincoln's
portrait in her state capitol, striking
evidence was furnished of the conquest
which the great emancipa tors memory
is making over the affections of the
people of the south. That regions
change of sentiment toward Lincoln
is due TO many causes, some Of which
will be outlined here
Through its stupendous industrial de-
velopment and financial expansion the
south is learning that it has gained
more through the overthrow of slavery
than did the rest of the country When
the south remembers the record of the
reconstruction era it sees that Lin
coins assassination hit it harder
blow than it did the north In the in
telligent study. made possible by the
historic research of the last few wears.
of the cataclysmic period from South
Carolina's secession in the closing days
of 1860 to the removal of the last of the
federal troops from the polls in the
south by President Hayes in 1877, the
old confederate region has discovered
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
Women at Washington.

1t is not exactly clear why, within
the last year or two, the department
and bureau chiefs at Washington
should have concluded that women are
not desirable as government employees.
The general impression has been that
for routine clerical work women have
proved themselves to be the equals, if
not the Supporters. of the average male
clerk. 1t is fact, however, that there
Is decided preference for men in most
of the departments. In the pension
bureau, especially, women are unpop-
ular, and recent dispatch from Wash
ington announces that if Commissioner
Ware and his successors continue the
policy of Henry Clay Evans, the pen
sion office will soon be an Eveles5
Eden. For six years, not a woman has
been selected from the civil service list
of eligibles for a position in the pen
constantly made acquisitions on the
civil service commissioner for certifica-
tions of men. Deaths, designations and
discharges have made places for maiIy
stenographers and copyists, but women
have not been considered for the va
cancies.
Three hundred and fifty women are
now employed in the pension office.
Twenty of these are charwomen. The
number of male employees is 1885. The
civil service commissioners are COM
PEELED by law to certify men to appoint
ing officers in case they make such d
request. Consequently, the commits
sioner of pensions or the chief of any
other bureau may bar women regard
less of what their standing in examina-
tons may have been. 1t is explained
that frequently women who have
higher grades than men cannot be Ger
titled 20 a chief on account of the notice
that only men are desired. Not long
ago the commissioners called the atten-
ton of the chiefs of bureaus to the fact
that men whose grades were down in
the 70s were securing appointments as
stenographers while the eligible lists
of the commissioners bore the names of
women who had secured marks of 80
or more in the stenographic examina-
tons.
The geological survey and the gen.
eral land office share the pension office
aversion to women. Only a few have
secured appointments in these bureaus
as stenographers. But there are ex-
ceptions to the prevailing rule, and this
dislike of women does not extend to all
branches of the department of the in
terror. The patent office prefers women
typewriters and seldom employs men
for work which is suited to women.
Women, it is stated, persist in TAX
ing the civil service examinations, de-
spite the fact that they are not sue
cessful in securing places. In 1902.
twenty-seven women typewriters and
stenographers were appointed, while ia
men secured similar positions The
grand total of women appointed
through the civil service commission
was large, but most of the women were
employed as printers assistants, with
salaries of s1.25 a day.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09
Big Steamers in the Pacific.

Last week the Siberia arrived in this
port. The Siberia is the second of the
Paclhc Mail company is having built
1of the oriental trade, and the largest
vessel that has ever entered the port CT
San FRANCISCO. She is 572 feet in length,
and measures three tons more than the
Korea, which is a sister vessel, and is
pullt upon practically the same lines.
The Siberia came from New York in
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

not enacted by the next congress
comparatively few man will control
what now remains of the 1000 OO0,000
acres of public lands once owned by
the nation. President after president
mas emphasized the necessity for sucn
legislation, but their recommendation
have fallen on deaf ears.-Baitimore
Sun
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

A Chigao hospital surgeon who per-
formed a surgical operation without
the consent of the patient or of her
husband, has beer condemned to pay
$4,000 damages. No accusation OF want
of SKILL malpractice or malice was
brought against him. The absence of
malice" said the court does not ex-
cuse an unauthorized trespass on the
body of the plaintiff"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

John Mitchell says there isn't word
of truth in the tory that he's trying to
combine all the labor unions in a uni
versal boycott of products made by
non-union men, of the men themselves
and of their employers or patrons. Il
have never been and am not now en-
gagged in any such scheme" he says,
land 1 know nothing about it,
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

AS was to be expected, the newspa-
pers of the country have taken up and
are discussing more than its import
ance calls for, the idiotic speech made
by Bishop ]. w. Hamilton at San
Francisco last week in favor of m:sce-
genation. Every proiession-not ex-
cepting the clergy-has its due per-
centage of fools.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

Senator John J. ingalls, to be placed in
the national capitol and a number of
small politicians in the Legislature have
objected. With most men personal
grudges end at the grave.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-03-09

Every legislature has some very
small men. For several weeks a reso-
luton has been pending in the Kansas
house, providing for bust of the late
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-24
NO HOGS NOW.
Dewoody & Co.

President Tucker, Of Dartmouth col
lege is telling one on himself IN
fact. he avows the entire story is a
little too personal to be enjoyed.
Last summer he went to Maine
town for a short rest and boarded with
a farmer who was in the habit Of TAX
ing a few summer guests into his
mouse TO help lift the mortgage
Some time ago the president received
a letter from his former landlady ask
ing fer his patronage during the com
ing summer
There are several little matters
that I desire changed should my fam
iIy decide to pass the coming summee
at YOUR house, wrote President Tuck
er. in ceaIy We don't like the maid,
Mar Moreover. we 10 not think a
Sry % near The house is sanitary.
Aa8 AS Is uhar ae received in reply:
Mary has went We ham, he'd
no hogs sense yoa ver, away last
September
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-24
THE EARTH INSIDE AND OUT
Some Remarkable Facts We Are Sure oil
and Others We Are Guessing AT.

cartu is actually tweAty-seFen miles
Iess than its diameter at the equator.
But It is as yet net absolutely ascer-
tained whether the hattening IS SINH
ar at both poles Some Arctic ex-
5ierers appear TO be OF the opinion
ghat tie nattening is greater at the
nGth than al the south pole.
Another rather startling fact whien
has recently been demonstra Cd Is
5aat the equator is not perfect CIR
lie. II yeu could ,lrop piatA4-tine
fr9m ireland 10 New Zealand It would
be somewhat longer tbah another
which cut the earth a. right angles 10
it. Tila difference has net yet been
aseertained with absolute accuracy.
We are accustomed to talk OF sea.
Level as an inyariable quantity. It IS
positively starting TO find how very
far from level the sea is. Not, of
course, merely from the passing intiu-
enee of tides ana winds, bat there are
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-24
Cures Eczema, Itching, Humors, PIN
Pies and Carbuncies.-CosN
Nothing to Try.

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ing skin, humors, scabs, scales, watery
blisters, pimples, aching bones or
joints, boilS. carbuncles prickling
pain in the skin, old, eating sores. ul-
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The worst and most deep.seated cases
by enriching, purifying and vitalizing
the blood thereby giving a healthy
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sore and gives the rich glow Of
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broken down body and makes the blood
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fail TO cure Druggists. s. with COM
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letter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-24

A month. The work has inspired
me with much more interest than |
expected it would and I have ex-
tended it much farther than I had III.
tended . said Mozart.
In that case il is necessary to aug
ment Your complement. There are
fifty dueats more said the stranger
Sir. said Mozart. still more aston.
ished who are you them
That has nothing to dc with the
business: will return in a month.
and he again retired
Mozart sent one OF his servants
after the stranger. to discover where
g went but he returned only to Inform
IS ma ter that he had lost sight of
be man and could not find him again.
Mozart then felt sure that this stran-
,er was no ordinary being that he
ertainly had some connection with
he other world and that he was sent
o inform him of his approaching END.
He now labored with more aruor
1T his requiem. which he regarded as
the most dura BILE monument of his
alent. He tainted several times, and
vas With difficulty restored. At length
the work was finished: before the end
Of the next month. The stranger re-
turned at the time agreed, but-Mozarr
was gone to his rest!
All Germany regards this requiem
rs the chef 'oeuvre of this great
OmpOser
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-24

great and permanent elevations in the
sea-positive mountains, in fact. 1t is
calculated that in the bay of Bengal
the water lies at level exceeding
that of the Indian ocean by fully 300
feet. and that Of TIE Pacific ocean
along the coast of South America may
ne heaped up as much as 20Q feet high
er than the water III the opposite At
lantic These water mountains de
pend upon the attraction of great
mountain masses. the Bay of Bensa
upon the Himalayas, and the South
Pacific upon the American Andes.
The height OF our highest mountains
Las been measured to within an inch
or Two. and We have accurate intorma
ton on the subject OF the great depths
Of The sea. But We do not yet know
with any certainty how deep is the
atmospheric envelope of the earth.
At one time twenty miles vas
given as the limit This was lncfeas.
"a 10 fartF ana soon even this est5-
mate was extended to 100.
orr =otty h,eans Of measurement Is
by the meteors which spring into an
incaudeseent blaze through friction
when they strike our atmosphere. As
man can not live at a much greater
height than five miles up. it may be
that we shall never learn exactly ho~
thick is the atmospheric ocean al the
bottom of which We crawl about.