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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
MENAcEs TO PEACE OF EUROPE.
Suez Calal * Euphrates Valley Rail
way as Trouble Breeders.

The Suez canal has been a disturb
ing influence on trade, social relations
and politics" says Emily Crawford III
EVerybody's Magazine. 1T stimulated
the land hunger OF France by drawing
her nearer to Madagascar and Indo-
China The Hovas and the InGo- Chinese
nave as little reason to bless the name
of De Lesseps as the Egyptian fallahean
who dug the canal under lash OF task
masters. 1ndo-China, where the work.
ing classes are on a far higher plane
of thought and sentiment than those OF
Europe, mas been virtually enslaved by
the French conquerors. What remains
of Siam is threatened with foreign
DONNA ton. We may look forward to
the transSiberian giving rise to an
other universal trade disturbance
This will be the case, too, with the
EuEhrates valley railway The Ger
man emperor intended to be the sole
boss of this line. which was to transport
German cclonists. a densely peopled
empire, that has been increasing it's
population at the rate of 100000 a year.
car spare enough subjects TO bring the
whole of the Euphrates valley into Gull
tlvation. But. just now, it would be
impudent for Germany, single handed,
to attempt to stem the power of Russi l
in that part of the world. much less to
bar her way to the Persian gulf. Great
Britain. acting alone, could not safely
work 4 railway concession to that sea
from the Mediterranean. i(or could
France. The three powers will have to
pool the scheme; closely united, they
can succeed
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
CURRENT COMMENT
A Democratic "Issue. 3"

The New York World and many other
democratic journals think they have
found in the postal scandals and the
scandals in Indian territory a new is
sue for the democratic party. They de-
clare that next year the battle cry
should be: Turn the rascals out"
But it isn't much of an issue. With
republican president vigorously sift-
ing the charges or corruption and pros
ecuting the guilty. there wont be much
pith in that slogan by the time the
campaign opens. Turn the rascals
OUT" will not have just the right sound
after the rascals are in the penitenti-
airy. Every charge OF malfeasance has
been, or is being, carefully inveSti-
gated The Indian Territory scandals
are new yet, but already steps have
been taken TO sift them to the bottom,
and the work will not lag. If Secretary
Hitchcock doesn't push it. President
Roosevelt will There has been no at
tempt at concealment or conformation.
The grafter3, irrespective of politics,
are being hunted down. Influence or
pull no longer counts. The last rascal
is going to be run out of the govern
ment service and put into prison, if
possible. Many of these lascals held
office and stole under the democratic
administration of Grover Cleveland.
and many of them are democrats them
selves. 1t will be all the more to the
credit of the republican president that
these Eoary old frauds have been
brought to light and abolished under
his administration. The best possible
answer to Turn the rascals OUT" will
be, We have turned the rascals OUT"
The New York Herald sums up the
situation in this fashion: Whether
illegal and subject to criminal action
or not, enough has already been found
out to indicate that members of the
Dawes commission and other United
States officials in Indian Territory
made use of knowledge acquired as
government agents to increase their
private fortunes. The scandal has
! reached such stage that an important
official of the interior department is
responsible for the statement that near
ly every man now in the government
service in Indian Territory is under
suspicion. And it further develops from
statements made tonight by Clarence
Is. Douglas, discharged official, that
several members of the Indian COM
mittees of both houses of congress may
become indirectly involved.
Opportunities to make money in In
dian lands have been far greater than
the general public has any idea. When
the Dawes commission was created
more than 20.000,000 acres of land was
turned over to that body for allotment.
In classifying and appraising the lands
the members of the Dawes commission
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
HAPPINESS OF HIAWATHA.

In the morning EIiawatha
Used TO get up bright and early,
That is. if he felt like getting
Up cn mornings bright and early.
If he felt the need OF slunbcr.
II he felt the least reluctance
To arise, he simply lay there,
Lay there on his skin of buffalo.
Till he just got good and ready.
Not for MIN the cheap alarm clock
Noisy sounding on the mantel;
Not for him the chilly bathtub,
Not for him the blunted razor
Tearing cut his beard and painng
All his face and causing language.
Net for him the deadly health food.
Not for him the breakfast sawdust.
Not for MIN the notified coffee.
Nor the blackened wheaton pancake.
ret for him the early trolley,
Nor the sprint for the suburban.
He arose when he was tired
OF reclining on his skin bed.
Not for him the grisiy terrOrs
Of the crime of over sleeping.
When he rose ne simply reached up
To a thong of twisted buckskin
Which suspended from the lodge pole
Dark brown strips of smokedried deer
meat.
Or. perchance, hunk of bear meat.
Or side OF blackened salmon
1nat he'd caught the previous season,
Or that faithful Minnehaha
Had caught for her lord and master
And the mighty Hiawatha
Knew not what means Indigestion.
Never felt a pain terrific
In his vermiform appendix.
Never had a stomach trouble.
Never had to call a doctor,
Never had TO take Il tonic.
Happy. happy Hiowatha,
What the mighty Hiawatha
Never knew quite failed to hurt him.
Salt Lake Herald.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
PHOENIX. ARIZONA, SEPT. 5, 1908
Bring the Next Congress to Phoenix

The Arizona delegates to the national
irrigation congress to be held ct Ogden
this month should begin at once to lay
plans for bringing the next congress to
Phoenix. If proper effort is made this
city will carry off the honor. undoubt-
eddy. To assure success there should
be concert CT action. however-an or
Eanized campaign. No other duty of
like Importance lies before the Arizona
delegation.
When the next congress convenes the
construction of the Tonic reservoir by
the government will be under way.
This stupendous undertaking, toward
the success of which the national rri-
cation association has done so much,
may we'll be called the crowning
achievement of ten years of agitation
for federal aid in retaining the arid
west The irrigation congress next year
will, therefore. be largely in the nature
of a jubilation meeting. for at last
tangible evidences of the governments
purpose to annex arid America" will
be at hand in the Tonic Basin. Phoe-
nix is the only place for that congress
of jubilation to be held. And there will
be vast attendance if it is known
that, following the congress, the visitors
can visit the basin and see the actual
work OF building the greatest dam on
the American continent.
The Arizona representatives will have
powerful friends at Ogden. The Hon.
George H. Msxwell, executive chair
man of the national ASSOCIATION, and
the Hon. Arthur P. Davis, chief hrydo
grapher of the United States geological
survey, will be Therein. Davis, by
good fortune. as one of the delegates
from Phoenix. Although there has
been no discussion cf the subject, we
do. not doubt that Mr. Maxwell and
Mr. Davis will do everything possible
tc secure the next congress for Phoenix.
Let the congress be timed for any
date between October l, 1904, and April
1, 1905, and the weather will be ideal in
,hoenix. Most of the delegates, if they
do not become committed to some
other point before the claims of this
city are presented, will naturally pre-
fer to have the congress held here.
The advantages which will accure to
Phoenix. and all Arizona, in fact, on
occount of national irrigation con-
gress held here are, of course, SO OBJ
vious that it is not necessary to press
them upon the attention of our dele
gates.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
BIBLE WITH 4 CURSE.
After Forty Years Restored to It's
Owners.

a curious little Bible with curse in
its pages, which for nearly forty years
has been lost by its 1ightful owners,
has at last been restored to the
family from which it was taken at the
time CT Sherman's march to the sea.
The Journal published p story con-
corning this Bible which was then in
the possession of Mrs. L. K. Malott, OF
No. 100 West Twelfth street. On the
first blank page of the book was an in
sc~iption telling how it was stolen from
n Southern mansion while "a little girl
with tears in her eyes begged me not
to take it as it was the last relic of Il
beloved aunt who had died. insane. The
inscription was signed James Brown.
That is the extent Of the knowledge
concerning him. 1t fell into a number
of hands afterward. and several in
scriptions were put in it, the most
curious Of all being the curse, as fol-
lows
You inhuman wretch, if you do not
seek to restore this book to its proper
owners the grass shall wither from your
feet. the woods deny you shelter. the
sun its light and Heaven its God. 1t
should prove Il serpent III Your BOSOM
a hell frcm which you could never be
separated The only clue to the orig
inal owner of the little book WAS the
name. Annie Rumph," which appear
ell on the last page.
The Journals story was copied in a
number Of places, finally in Grange
burg, n. c. There it fell under the no
tiCe of one L. H. Little, whose family
had at one time been very intimate
with the Rumph family. His father was
minister and presided at the marriage
of the daughter of the house. the one
who had owned the Bible. He was i'm
mediately interested and wrote Mrs.
Malott about the matter, saying that if
she would send him the book he would
take steps to restore it to its owners if
they could be found Before Mrs. Ma
lott had time to reply, however, came q
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05

The revelations of frauds in the pos
tai service. and the discovery that GER
tain federal ohicials-republican and
democratic-in the Indian territory
have ben taking advantage of their
positions to make money by specula-
tions in Indian lands, have created a
remarkable amount of satisfaction in
democrtic circles. Certain democratic
newspapers and politicians are gleeful-
iy predicting that these Irregularities
will result in the defeat of the republi-
can party next year, and already they
are sounding g new keynote" for 1904
Turn the rascals out" But the trou-
BILE with this keynote" is that it will
not last. The administration is busily
spotting the rascals, and all of them
will be turned out of office long before
the next national campaign.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05

letter from William c. Wolfe. the son
of DIR. William C. Wolfe DR.. Wolfe's
wife before marriage was Miss Julia
Rumph, who was the original owner of
the little book
Dr. Wolfe's claim was so we'll proved.
and his desire to posses the family
relic SO sincere thai Mrs Ma!ctt i'm
medately forwarded it TO him. So that.
finally, after a lapse of nearly FORTY
years the queer little Bible has finally
been restored to the people from whom
1t was stolen under such strange cir
cunlstaEces.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
Making the Most Of a Canard.

Let us hope that later information"
will not befeave us utterly i'll the mat
ter of the Beirut sensation. We should
like to emerge from the discounting
process with at least one shred of au-
thority for our present alarm and in
disnation. OF course. it now seems I'M
deniable that somebody fired pistol
while our vice consul was in TIE neigh
borhood, and of course that circum-
stance, properly manipulated, can be
turned to excellent account. Under
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05

The letters carriers in national con-
vention assem- bled have decided. after
investigation that their president,
the Hon. ]. c. Keller, of Cleveland, had
nc part in defeating Congressman Loud
Roosevelt will please take notice and
consider the incident closed.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05

Sam Parks has been released from
the penitentiary under bail, and is
bossing his deluded followers more
arbitrarily than ever. When people
like that sort of thing. that's the sort
of thing they like"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
What Rate

Does your invested capital
yield? Would it be worth
your while to sit down and
estimate the return you have
received on your money since
you first began saving?
Is the return as large as it
would have been on S Per
Cent. 2o-Year Gold Bonds
bought on the instalnent
plan, becoming your property
if you live, your family's if
you die?
For terms, address
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF New York,
RICHARD A. McCUEDY, President
NEW YORK, N. Y.
SHIRLEY CHRISTY, Manager.
Phoenix. Ariz.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
At . IN THE MORNING.

Seen the oomet?"
Nope. No use to me. My wife revel
asks me for any excuse"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05

The mosquito never takes a vacation
Record.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
The coIored Patriots of Boston.

The Suffrage League of Boston, IL
negro organization, has INDUCED in
some long whereases and resolutions in
criticism of Booker T. Washington.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
James Jones Co. Brass Works

Telephone Main 938. Los Angeles, Oil
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valves, irrigation valves. Office and bank
ratings, plumbers specialties- Prompt
attention given to all special brass work
Brass and bronze castings. BUYERS OF
SCRAP BRASS and COPPER
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-09-05
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ADVERTISEMENT

y the Arizona public with the n ames
$ Angeles establishments. The lis win
sting the Coast. Jr uealing with Re-
Where you saw the advertisement They
lean. -
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
lendina Money.

Years ago | read that young man
should be satisfied with low and safe
rate of interest and take the advice of
those more experienced-to not know
1t all. | have been very fortunate in
not losing money lent to friends. FIRE.
quently give small sums to old
friends who are now deadbeats and
wish to borrow for few hours or
days. never get such sums back and
never expect to when let II go. But
whenever have lent $50. more or less,
to friend and expected 1t back It has
come. | think this Is due to my use
of discriminating Judgment before
lending. Once it cost me good deal
over thousand dollars cash to dis
obey my better Judgment and go into
a side-line business with friend.
did not get the counsel Of those to
whom I should have gone, and re-
fused to follow my own feelings.
was 'roped" in by talk.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15

"Ho! the brig ahoy! What brig
are your"
We're the pirate brig Gypsy OF
and from London, cruising for ship"
Pope bawled, in answer to the hail.
What schooner is that?"
I'VE are the pirate schooner Julia
Morton of Liverpool. but now from
Cadiz. like yourselves cruising for q
ship" was the reply, In good English
whose articulation carried a foreign
accent.
VIII you come aboard of me and
have yarn, and taste. OF my briggs
hospitality" shouted Pope, "or shall
go on board of you?"
The tall man raised his hand as
though asking for moment to con-
slider. he then addressed man dark
as a mulatto, probably the mate Of the
schooner; a minute later he called
out Brig, ahoy! I will go on board
of you" on which Pope lifted his nat
and fourished 1t.
"Cadiz!" said Pope to Crystal. while
they stood together in the gangway
waiting for the arrival Of the captain
of the schooner, ION a cruise for a
ship! Smite me, John, IL l like it,"
Bring half the crew aboard under
pretense of entertaining them, clap
EN- under. then foul the schooner and
take her." said Crystal.
Pope scowled in thought with fold
ed arms, but made no answer.
The schooner lowered handsome
boat. Twelve men entered her, and
then the captain, he OF the beard and
the boots, sprang from the reel of the
gangway into her sternsheets. In a
few flashes of oar the boat was along
side the Gypsy.
The captain Of the schooner climbed
over the briggs side. and a number Of
his men followed him. All were
armed. Pope extended his hand to
the bearded pirate, and Inquired his
name.
Captain Bland" be answered. with
countenance of religious repose and
in the voice Of one who reads at q
grave-slde.
Are you straight from London7"
said he, after looking hard at Crys.
tai. and then round at the little ship
whose character was abundantly pro
claimed to his satisfaction by the
readiness with which the briggs crew
and his own men had fraternized, one
or two of them indeed having been
old shipmates, 50 that it was why.
damn me. Toni" and why, blast
me, William"
Straight" answered Pope. And
you're from Cadiz!"
Hal" replied Captain Bland. In sol
emn delivery.
Was there ever ship left that
port" inquired Captain Pope, before
you sailed. named the Madre de
Dios?"
ITO be continued.)
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
Law Of Treasure Trove."

Not long ago e,775 English silver
pennies, which some man had boarded
up for his own benft in times when
pennies were silver. we're sold to the
public al auction In London, real
izing $500 for the national treasury.
This money was dug up by some
laborers at Colchester while laying
the foundations of building. The
crown stepped in and seized the find,
but II rewarded the finders. and o
few rare coins In the collection were
sent TO the British museum. When
the hoard was found the price of these
silver pennies went down in all the
coin collectors markets. This strange
and not particularly reasonable law
of treasure troye' has extended
from England to France, Germany,
Spain and Denmark. If any one finds
hidden treasure and conceals it for
his own use he is liable to fine and
imprisonment. 1t used to be hang
ing matter.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
HeaIth heIps Money MAKING.

! began talking with man soon
after We left the morning train, and
some remark brought up the subject
of his health.
He said: Il have not been feeling
well for three weeks"
Your health is generally good, isn't
it,"
Yes, am usually as strong as an
OK. but have been working too hard
and wish my vacation came to-day
In place of month from to-day"
How to take care of yourself while
you overwork is a pretty good subject
to study"
Yes. should say it was. sleep
pretty well, although I dreamt last
night that was a cashier in a bank
and was taking en- inventory Of the
stock when the papers in the safe
caught fire.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
BY w. CLARK RUSSELL.

to cruise while he waited for the
Madre de Dios TO heave into sight. A
man was stationed throughout the day
and throughout the night. If the
weather was clear, on the fore.topgal-
liant yard. and reported every sail he
described. Whenever a sail was sight
ed course was shaped for her. but
the chase was promptly abandoned
when It was seen she was not the
ship the pirates waited for.
They had been cruising three days.
In these times they had trimmed sail
for few distant ships which did not
turn out TO be what they wanted. A
fourth morning broke. Crystal was
in charge and Pope walked the planks
by his side. On high. seated upon
the fore-topgallant yard, with
ships glass slung on his back was
the figure of seaman. His white
breeches shook with the fight OF the
wind. His left hand grasped the tie,
and with continuous slow motions OF
the head. hungry with the passions
of the expectant heart-sickened pirate,
he sunk his frowning gaze into the
distant sea-line.
Then he sung down loud and clear,
Sail ho!"
Where away?" instantly shouted
Pope.
Right asteru. SIR"
Shorten SAIL" said Pope TO Crys.
tai. LET her overhaul us"
Canvas was reduced, and the brig
washed slowly onward. A quality of
swiftness resembling steam was In the
vessel astern, for in less than an hour
she was shining steadily upon the far
blue throb.
Run the ensign aloft. balfmast
high" said Pope. She shall think MS
in distress"
No sooner had the flag been hoist.
ed than
mo Earl this time" roars Pope.
by the devil, she's in chase of u.s."
He had marked the flash at the
schooner's bow. He saw the white
smoke stream away like a veil of silk
to leeward; the gun may or may not
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
Men, Methods and Work.

Tho manager, for very successful
money maker, said that he worried
over the big things, while his employ
er worried over the little things.
The manager got along with the
employees and the details better than
the proprietor did, but the proprietor
got along with the whole business
much better than the manager could.
Some men can keep anything run
ming lovely II some one else will only
see that pay day is passed in good
shape. The man able to attend to
payday requirements might rattle
the whole concern II he were to see to
little things.
A man able to make hundred dol
lars an hour may be able to hire for
hundred dollars a month man who
can do some things better than the
employer can do them.
Few are able to get a living doing
just what they want to do, and very
few are willing to limit their efforts
to the things they can do the best.
One man told me that more men
failed in his line of work for lack of
ability to handle men than for any
other or all other reasons.
Few men know how to interest,
animate, educate, and keep on good
terms with other men. In some cases
the more you know the more in the
background you have to go, due 1t may
be to having more Knowledge than
skill.
In one case, of an unpopular fore
man going on a vacation and popu-
lar workman taking his place for the
day, the product was over twenty per
cent more than usual.
II ten thousand men of all kinds
should find themselves out of work.
one might create ideas, another exc
cute them, another organize and man
age the others.
Some could do some parts of the de-
tail work twice as well as some of
the others could. One would be a
good buyer of material ana another a
good collector of accounts.
Some would win honors and some
would get disgraced, but they would
finally drift or climb, fall or Jump, to
positions Just as we find them to-day.
Only this difference-the successful
might make better use Of their success
and the failures profit by their ex-
pensive experiences more than they
have been doing during this century.
IL this possibility were to be &C.
complished the next century would be
more than hundred years ahead, and
the common humdrum life would be
|. quite ideal.
If our best intelligence were to ac-
company our every action much would
be done. We all know why things are
not better than they are.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15
Questions.

SaGoAtSUSs
Can you report something which
was fine In theory but fizzle in prac
tice?
What is your remedy for serious
trouble due to foolish sport?
What have you learned by expensive
experience?
What do you want TO know which
you would be willing others should
know?
Are you willing to join us in build
ing lighthouse thoughts on life's dan.
gerous rocks?
Are little errors the sources of big
mistakes?
Can you recall laughable laugh.
last event?
3 Have you record Of fakir's funny
reasoning?
How could the accidents you know
about have been prevented?
Have you spoken to a stranger while
thinking him an acquaintance?
Have you been injured while watch
ing to see II some other person would
get injured?
Can you think Of good illustration
of profitable politeness?
Old or new or both. What are two
or three of the difficulties you have
to contend with in your work?