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Arizona republican., 1903-10-01

by the use of a new invention, recent ly patented by Horace c. Martin. It is about the size of the Morse relay and is known as the ''autopleX." l. has one lever, which works from the side. there being q contact point at each side. As long as the lever is held at ono side the automatic mechanism is get in motion and the dots are sent out one after the other. Upon shifting the lever to the other side, the dash mocha nism is set in motion. and the dashC3 will be repeated indefinitely if desired. With this device q word which requires thirty-two movements is sent with twelve, and it is estimated that the operators work is reduced by two thirds.-Scientific American.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
An Aid to Telegraphy.

The wear and tear on the telegraph operators nerves are said to be partic- ularly severe on account of the num- Der of signals which he must send in the course of few hours work, and also because of the great rapidity with which he must work. As is well known, the various signals are made by q Combina ton of the dot and dash, the letter 'p'' for instance. requiring five dots. and the letter "b'' q dash and three dots. With the telegraph key now in use in sending the five dots indicating q ''p'' the operator must de- press and release his key five times and thus ic is estimated that in the course of sending messages in the or dinary pursuit Of his work. the opera tor is compelled to make 1S0G00 de pressions and the same number of re- laXations in the course of eight hour':; work, during which time he would send about 15.0G0 words. It will be readily seen that the work is exceed ingly trying on the nerves.
 Much of this labor has been avoided
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
PRESCOTT BUSINESS FIRMS.
Hotel Btu
AMERICAN PLAN.

PRESCOTT, ARIZONA lG5 rooms. All modern conve1iiencez- X strictly hrst-clase and modern hotei. Sample rooms for comercial men.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
Learning to Write.

IL is consolinG to learn that one col lcge professor, and that Yale college. has taken q decided position against the old and absurd idea that all school children must be taught to write in a certain way, hold the pen at q cer- tain angle, sit in q certain position, and all form their letters after a certain prescribed and unvarying form. He reasons that hardly any two children are precisely alike, mentally or physic ally. What would be an easy and ma tural position for one would be unnat- ural and painful for another, and to force all to follow an exact method would be absurd.
 The professor is right, as all Obser want persons must have noticed. The truth is that educators are getting away from mary of the iron-clad re- quiremcnts of former days. While We do not agree with some features of our modern educational system we do agree with any movement looking to- wards more rational methods of teach ing. The main object to be gained in teaching penmanship is that the pupil should learn to write easy and legibly. If enc can do this by holding q pen at a different angle from that assumed by others let it be so. If one can write with less eXertion and more facility by giving the letters a different angie from that used by another, let it fol- low that form. It would be just as reasonable to try to force all children to speak in exactly the same tone as to try to force them to assume the same position, hold their pens at the same angle and give their letters the same form.
 The mythical Procrustus had a bed on which all prisoners had to ha laid. If one was too short he was stretched. and if one was too long he was cut off.
 Each had to he exactly the length of i the bed. In some respects WIG have a | PrOCTustean system of education, and each child must be stretched or lopped
 to a certain length. It is irrational, obstructive and often cruel. The Yale ! professor is Cn the right line and his reasonings should be hccded.-Mont- | gomery Advertiser.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
Cannon's Startling Metaphor.

At club dinner in Chicago the other day prospective Speaker Cannon con- fessed his inability to write formal speech. and then proceeded to prove it by saying that he envied the man who can sit down in cold blood and achieve a thought. then dress it-put clothes on it, pants, coat, vest, shoes and col lar. and tUIn it out in full attire. as Minerva sproutcd from the brain Of Jupiter" The conception of the wise goddess 'sprouting" instead of spring ing from JCVe's head would be irregu- lar enough. But what shall we say of the state Of mind of the speaker who represents her attired in pants, coat, vest. shoes and collar?''
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01

It has been found that impure vac
 cine virus is probably capa ble of pro
 ducing the foot and mouth disease which made so much trouble in New England last winter. according to the Providence Journal. Experiments wilt be made in Washington to learn more about the connection between one rem edy and another disease and scientific men hope to be able to explain better the mystery of many isolated cases among herds. After the foot and mouth disease had apparently been stamped out in Massachusetts it sud denly reappeared in Wakefield. When an invcstiga tion was made it was found that the recent discovery of the small
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01

A South Carolina correspondent of Public Opinion comes back rather neat ly at the Northern critics ot Senator Tillman. He says: You have pub lished many criticisms (to call them by no harsher names) of Senator Till man. mostly from northern papers. But I notice it is only northern organi- zations like Chautauquas which pay this man to go north and talk to them. We listen to a lot of Tillman's talk because we have to do it. but l never have heard anyone down here paying for the privilege. It's bad enough to hear him when it costs nothing; if we had to pay for the sort of talk that comes from his mouth I believe we would rise up and lay him away in the mire of obscurity he came from" Which prompts the Indianapolis Jour nal to say: All of which, so far as the north is concerned. is very true. The societies that invite him to lecture before them deserve the sharpest of rebukes."
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01

pox germ had led to experiments there with vaccine virus, and that this prob ably caused the disease in the cattle. Chelsea has T laboratory for the manu- facture of virus, and this was one Of the first places where the foot and mouth disease appeared.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01

character. There is, however, a furth- CT suggestion that the promoters of such large plans overchot the mark in taking it for granted that industrial operations of the largest scope could be successfully carried through with in sufficient ne..nS
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
A WORN OUT WELCOME.

I.ooky here. Miss Summer! Ain't you got no home? You's paid yo' little visit An it's time foh you to roam. Was mighty glad to see you When yoh frs come roun' dis way, But ych manners ought to tell yoh When you's due to say good day You's given us de daiscs An de wild birds tender song But dar SCarely ain no Twin Wifi some friends yoh bring along Dat locust bug is fiddlin'
 An de sun is all aglow-- LO0ky here, Miss Summer. Amt yer got no place ter go?
 -Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1903-10-01
New York City Bonds

return the investor about 3b per cent. and must be paid for at once.
 A Five Per Cent. Twenty Year Gold Bond, equally safe as an investment, can be bought on the instalmcnt plan, on terms that may interest you. In case of your death in the meantime, they become at once the property of your wife or other beneficiary.
 In writing state your age and the amount on which you would like terms. TIE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
 RICHARD A. MccuRpy, President,
 NEW YORK, N. Y.
 SHIRLEY CHRISTY. Manager
 Phoenix Ariz.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06

In recent times, Queen Margharita
of Italy and Queen Victoria of Eng
ma nave been the two greatest royal
} 'atronesSes of the art of lace making
The former established lace schools
in Italy and revived the almost lost
art OF making rare lace designs, per-
ionally superintending and encourag-
ng the work, The latter fostered the
ace industry in England Queen
Margharita is probably the only SOW
9relgn who has written a book upon
the subject of lace.
1t has beenssaid that Queen Victoria
and Queen Alexandra learned how to
make honiton lace. At all events.
queen Victoria personally superin-
tended the teaching of lace patterns
IN stitches, an art which had fallen
into decadence, to the peasantry in
Deyonshire and the surrounding coun-
ueS. Under her care the lace making
industry began to flourish in those
counties. Celebrated patterns of old
lace were revived, and Devonshire lace
IS one of the most exquisite varieties
known to modern times. The we'd
ding wells OF most of the Queens
daughters were made in Devonshire.
ana that worn by Queen Alexandra
was Il CREATED by the deft workers in
honttanO lace az that county.
Tne world Of fashion owes a debt of
gratitude to Queen Victoria and Queen
Margharita for saying to it old pat
terms OF lace that no modern centuries
nave ever equa1led for beauty.
1t. is under no less of an obligation
TO the Duchess of Cadogan, who gath
cred, at much pains, samples of IA
nous old Irish point lace and a few
people who knew how to make il, and
had the almost lost art of a past age
taught wherever she could establish
schools. She subsequently held exhibit
tons of the lace made under her pa
uonage and placed a permanent ex-
hlblt OF it in London. In this way she
created vogue for Irish point. a
Nogue Which sweeps America to-day
although it is mostly Irish crochet lace
or its limitations, which Americans
wear, and limitations of the points of
Venice, which have been made fa-
nous in every age
Cluny Lille, Antwerp and Brussels
would scarcely recognize in the laces
which bear their names to-day those
threads and patterns of lace which
made them celebrated throughout the
known world centuries ago although
the lace makers every season try to
get better limitations of the rare laces
of the past.
An American woman. the Countess
di Brazza, not only revived the max
ing of fine lace among her tenantry
IN Italy, but exhibited lace of their
manufacture in America and made il
popular here.
Fcw are now willing to manufacture
the wonderful lace OF Flanders when
such work Is done az the expense Of
sight before the age Of 80 is reached.
so that real Brussels and MechHn and
me venetian points are now but vi
sions OF past age when patient toll
ets. CROPPING their way into endless
darkness, wove dreams Of lowering
nelds and singing birds and coral
Gains nom ocean Groves into "a
ln'-h whose ilm was stronger than
thc slender nerves 81 sleht. and whose
hoWcfs and birds endured when sight
had gone.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06

had rallied the flag to the mast, and
he for one would not interfere with
their work. One by one all the men
raised the same objection. AS Sims
we're passing almost daily, it was m
possible to leave the piratical embler,
there long, so next night it disap-
peared it being supposed that the Sec
ond mate Skinned up to remove it.
Next the steering grew bad, and
the tremen hardly kept up enough
steam to keep the engines running.
The captain almost went insane with
rage. tut that was no solution to his
u Dies. Finally he gave in and sup
pned the men with rations from the
cabin stores, and the ships troubles
ceased forthwith.
Standing Remedy.
Many shippers, who have had a
mania for trimming sails and pulling
ropes when not necessary have been
cured or that failing most effectively.
Seamen have one standing remedy.
mysterious rents appear in sails that
the wind could not have torn. Most I'M
seaman-like knots, that Alexander him
seit could not have cut, are found in
ropes that should have no knots in
them. This sort of thing will bring
any skipper to terms.
Then there are captains who are
cranky on the subject of steering. One.
old skipper l once knew was particu-
larly Objectionable to his men on this
point. When down in his cabin he
would watch the clouds through port
hole and if they jerked back and forth
ever so little ne would come roaring
up on deck, demanding the blood of
the man at the wheel, To steer for q
two hours trick on that ship when
the skipper was awake was no joke.
one day the men conceived Il plan
that. should teach this old sea dog a
lesson.
He had been down in his cabin.
when sudden lurch brought him
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06

woman was pointed out at re-
cent fashionable gathering as having
"a queens ransom in lace upon her
person" The habit of associating. lace
with royalty has an ancient founda-
ton, for the queens of all ages have
set the fashions in laces.
II is within the province of royalty
to set fashions, but few queens in re-
cent generations have actually made
the materials from which fashions are
created.
The world owes a debt of gratitude
to Matilda. the Norman queen, who
made tapestries which afterwards be-
came the most famous in the. world,
but no modern queen has initiated her
example. Modern queens have. how
ever, lent their royal influence in fos-
tering and busted their royal fingers
in making lace in imitation of the ex-
quisite patterns created by some of
their most celebrated predecessors.
All the leading fashionable laces of
to-day initiate as closely as possible
designs of surprising beauty which
were traced in ancient Greece, Italy
and Spain by the greatest artists Of
bygone ages, and wrought in threads
or fax, gold or silver by queens and
princesses.
European queens We'd with one an
oIhOA lpt several centuries in the
beauty of their lace patterns, and in
this art Catherine If Aragon excellcd
TO such an extent that when she be-
came Queen of England, wife of
Henry VIII. she introduced the IA
NOUS Spanish stitch into England and
created a vogue for il that has re-
manned ever since among makers of
English lace.
In 1851, Katherine Parr, sixth wife of
henry VIII, queen noted for her
TACT, learning. personal charm and
ABILITY as lace maker, applied the
spanish stitch to French lace. creating
marked Improvement in it's beauty.
80 highly hOnored was the art of
making lace among the English no
bllity at this period that In 1920 the
leeehd craven upon the tomb of Cath
crime Sloper in Westminster Abbey
was Exquisite at her needle"
Lace made BY English women was
hlghiy priced by papaI legates. and
english kings never forgot 10 Include
u ~ their gifts 10 the pope
fliet brode and guipure dart which
W. wear to-day are limitations OF the
vl,lH hlatorum' Of the thirteenth
.nu sixteenth centuries. and lace sur-
talhh recently imported bear ln thelr
afslsn an imitation of some An~io-
lAon lH,e made in 1896 a. ID. 10 mn
mff. order ~ Pope Innocent NJ
hiNli patron 80 Pace
4As Demands Tor lace designs on che
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06
THEY WERE SWINDLED,
sad Experience for Three Well
known Citizens.
From the Bingville Bugle

From the Bingville Bugle
Last Tuesday forenoon a slick look
ing stranger drove into Bingville and
asked for Deacon Leavengood. The
deacon's house was pointed out to him
and the stranger called on the deacon
and remained over an hour. After his
departure several of our most respect
ed citizens went to the deacon's house
to find out the strangers business.
which the deacon related to them as
follows:
The strangers name was j. B. Els
worth, a lawyer from the city. He
said that a few days ago a tramp
came to his Office and had the law
yer make will for him in which he
left all his wealth, consisting of 500
600, to Deacon Leavengood of Blngville
who. the tramp said, had on a wet
night several years ago let him sleep
In his barn. Naturally the deacon. who
mates tramps worse than snakes.
Couldn't recall the circumstance. but
the lawyer insisted that 1t was cor
rect, and showed the will left by the
tramp, though man of wealth, pre-
lefred 10 wander about the country
afoot instead of riding on railway
trains.
After making the viii it appears that
the tramp, who had been in i'll health
TOOK very sick and was sent to
hospital, where he died after lingering
TWO days. The lawyer said he was
present when the end came and that
the last words Of the tramp We're: "Be
sure 10 give Deacon Leavengood ali
my money"
The lawyer stated that he would be
wiling to attend to all the legal work
connected with handing over the $40
w. which would require a week or ten
Iay' II the deacon would pay him $500.
Deacon Leavengood went right nm
stairs and got the money, which he
gave 10 the lawyer and took "a recent
TOT IL. The lawyer said he would re-
s .li IA about two weeks and would
bring the deacon the $4,000. Then he
drove Off.
Deacon Leavengood was naturally A
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06

twelfth century had become so great
In the sixteenth century that lace came
TO have standard commercial value
In this period Catherine de Medic
one of the most celebrated queens who
ever ruled France, became noted as a
patroness of lace. She not only i'm
proved it's designs with Origina
stitches, but introduced the famous
Medici collar in 1885, for which women
have blessed her ever since.
Stormy as was her reign, she found
time to encourage all the greatest
artists within the scope of her. broad
influence to rival each other ina the
production of lace patterns of such
surprising beauty that none in subse-
quent centuries has equalled them.
In the close of the fifteenth and the
early part of the sixteenth century,
Raphael and his pupils, notably Clio
Vanni of Udini, designed at the order
of the reigning Pope and the queens
of the several Kingdoms of Italy some
of the most superb lace patterns ever
produced. These royal ladies. and the
aristocratic wives and daughters of
the DogeS of Venice not only were
famous for the lace patterns they made.
but each reigning house had its own
mark made in the lace. This was, in
the case of a queen or princess, the
BILE ladies had, for the most part. a
marrow border above or around their
lace pattern, which proclaimed them
of the house of Savoy, of Piedmont,
or like illustrious family. -..~ ...
According to a fashion of the day
when bedspreads and wall draperies
were made of souvenir squares of lace
noble womeR made collections of
squares whose borders or central in
SIGMA jpn1fxT n ~,
quilt. Some of these wonderful
works of art are still in existence.
In 1894, when Blanche of Montser-
rat reigned in Piedmont and the noted
Anne de Beaujeu in France. both were
celebrated for their richness of dress
and their encoura cement of the art of
lace making.
Catherine of Bra@anza, the Portu-
gueSe Wife of Charles II. of England
carried her knowledge of the fine lace
patterns of Portugal and Spain to add
to English laces already enriched by
stitches from Scandinavia, France
Spain. Italy and Ireland.
Italy claims the honor of originating
point lace, but il is more likely to
have been of Byzantine origin. How
ever. superb point lace patterns of
Venice and Italy, produced under roy
al patronage and initiated as far as
ppSSible All over EUROPE, were man
Woctured In the quantities in 1869 and
1898 and these laCes have never been
surpassed i'm beautv. Venetian point.
the most beautiful in the world, owes
its origin to stitch invented by a
Gcnoese peasant girl who initiated in
her wedding veil the branching OF a
coral brought TO her By her sailor
lover.
In tho sixteenth century the King
OF Siam negotiated for AN English
wife who could make lace. The match
was broken or. and 60 this dag Siam
bad 20 content Itself with embroidery.
ono cannot fancy The ~ny Mary Tu-
DOR denurel- Wc9ylr- the nlmy
threads ~ l1ce such as busted fha nm
f''a of Ho MARI royal igd'os about
hcr. hut rerhopa she followed the fnsh.
BON ~ htr day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06
HE FLEW INTO AVIoLENT
AND UNIDENTIFIED RAGE "


them overheard. or hit them with be-
laying pins.
So the men had to return ford with
no mere satisfaction than that. But
that night. on the still night Watches
they laid a plot against the skipper
thai should bring him around to their
Views
The next day the men captured a
number of cockroaches and carefully
wrapped them up alive in a small scrap
Of paper In the afternoon the man
who relieved the wheel took this paper
with him in his pocket. and when no
body saw him, carefully emptied 1t
through one of the windows of the cap
tair's cabin.
Next day all hands did not have to
wait long before they saw the captain
come on deck with stormy face, The
bugs had done their work. That even
ing everybody was called aft.
Men" said the skipper Il have de-
cided that you shall have the paint
after all. I'll give you a whole tin,
but be careful to leave enough to paint
my cabin afterwards"
This ship was never again bothered
by cockroaches during the voyage.
A Flag That Snbdued Captain,
Another case in point happened
aboard an English tramp steamer just
starting on a long voyage. ~The cap
tain had bought a lot of inferior
stores to substitute those of better
quality that he should have bought
and pocketed the difference in price.
OF course, the men growIed and came
aft to protest in a body, but the skip
per insisted that they We're getting
what the laws, of England allowed
them. AS the men saw that COM.
plants had nosgeffect, they decided
upon another course. '.-''
The next morning the Skipper came
on deck, and on the white paint work
of the cabin found painted in black
huge skull and crossbones. and I'M
derneath in big letters the word
Hunger" OF course, he flew into
a rage and demanded that the offender
present himself, but the sailors only
chucNled to themselves.
The following day the captain came
on deck to find a still more aggra-
waiting sign of disapproval on his
crew. From the mainmast, nailed to
the eare pole, futtered the same EN-,
blem that had decorated his cabin-a
pirate flag, the jolly roger. He or
Gered man to remove il at once
but The sailor protested that spirits
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06
WHAT DYE MEAN BY DlSGRACING
TIE SHIP IN THOSE RAGS ~

romping on deck with his customary
profanity. With a yell he made u
dash for the steering compass. The
card was as steady on its course as
though nailed there. The old man
looked surprised and then hurt. This
happened several times, and each time
the captain found that the clouds had
lied. He examined the compass stand
carefully, then vert thoughtfuily
away, shaking his head. Finally after
some days, he became more subdued
and troubled the man at the wheel no
more. Had he examined one of the
scroll work designs of the cabin sky
light just opposite the compass he
would have found othere, we'll con-
cealed, a large piece of steel. That
would have solved the problem that
both bothered him and incidentally
accounted for thes wonderfully fine
steering that was being done.
Nothing so excites a sailors resent
ment as a captains refusal to advance
spending money in port. When a ship
is alongside a dock the men naturally
want to go ashore of evenings after
knock-off and see the town or city
or whatever the place may be. Jacks
idea of seeing a place. differs some
what from that of the ordinary tour
list. He does not want to see historic
halls, or public Libraries, or historic
monuments. That isn't his idea of
sightseeing. What he wants to do is
to find the lower end of the main
street and then, with various boon
companions picked up on the route,
visit every saloon along one side of
the street and then on the other OF
course this style of amusement is not
cheap one, and if the price is not
forthcoming the 'barkeepers refuse to
have their goods tasted
There is one disadvantage to Jacks
method of touring, and that is princi-
pally felt by the. skipper. When the
men fail to turn. up in the morning
to turn to, and he has to fit out relief